[gentoo-user] Xorg confusion and no glxinfo

2009-07-06 Thread Mick
Hi All, I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the radeon driver. It now seems I can no longer find glxgears/info. What have I removed that I shouldn't have? I remember unmerging xorg-x11

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg confusion and no glxinfo

2009-07-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 July 2009, Mick wrote: Hi All, I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the radeon driver. It now seems I can no longer find glxgears/info. What have I removed that I shouldn't

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg confusion and no glxinfo

2009-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the radeon driver. Hm. There is no reason to unload any driver or module just to shut down. Are you sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg confusion and no glxinfo

2009-07-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote: I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the radeon driver. Hm. There is no reason to unload any driver or module

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-06 Thread Roland Puntaier
Return Receipt Your Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails document: for all printers

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 to ext4 safest and elaborate guide

2009-07-06 Thread Stroller
On 5 Jul 2009, at 16:50, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: There are few ext3 to ext4 migration notes/guides. Can anybody advice the most elaborate safe one? The *safest* one is to backup your data reformat the partition, then restore your data from the backup. I wasn't under the impression that

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-06 Thread Grant
I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data? $ eix ^ntop [I] net-analyzer/ntop Available versions: 3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6 ssl tcpd} Installed versions: 3.3.9-r2(14:11:46

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-06 Thread Grant
I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an external one? Has

[gentoo-user] Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-06 Thread Grant
I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if

Re: [gentoo-user]Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Grant schrieb: I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? - Grant You

Re: [gentoo-user]Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-06 Thread Brahim LARCHET
adblock plus element hiding helper could help too if you work much with the same sites. https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/4364 2009/7/6 Sebastian Beßler webmas...@darkmetatron.de Grant schrieb: I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-user]Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-06 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Grant schrieb: I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-06 Thread Jens Herrmann
Grant schrieb: I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? If bandwidth is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:07:23PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: from Cacti forums): | grep -v NaN | grep 'row' | tr e ' ' \ | awk {'print Q$2qcq$3qcq$9Q'} \ | tr Q '' | tr c ',' | tr q '' Haven't tested it, but looks like it should work. Hmm, I don't think it gets anywhere:

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-06 Thread Tapio Raevaara
On Monday 06 July 2009, Grant wrote: I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can

[gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Simon
Hi there! I'm getting this issue where even very small transfers through ssh will cause this error message: Corrupted MAC on input. I've done my homework and found out this is not necessarily related to the network hardware as TCP would retransmit such corrupted packets, moreover the error

[gentoo-user] Re: SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Simon
A quick troubleshooting i've done was to setup apache and simply wget a very large file over plain HTTP. Transfer worked, i did it a second time and diff'ed the two downloads, they were the same. I then did the same test over HTTPS and got an error (SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad

[gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Jarry
Hi, I just tried to update gcc (actually, it is just recompiling with new nptl flag), but it failed with this messages: __ Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3/temp/build.log' * Messages for package sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3: *

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 06 Juli 2009, Jarry wrote: Hi, I just tried to update gcc (actually, it is just recompiling with new nptl flag), but it failed with this messages: __ Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3/temp/build.log' *

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 06 Juli 2009, Jarry wrote: Hi, I just tried to update gcc (actually, it is just recompiling with new nptl flag), but it failed with this messages: __ Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3, Log file:

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Jarry
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 06 Juli 2009, Jarry wrote: I just tried to update gcc (actually, it is just recompiling with new nptl flag), but it failed with this messages: __ Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3, Log file:

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 06 Juli 2009, Jarry wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 06 Juli 2009, Jarry wrote: I just tried to update gcc (actually, it is just recompiling with new nptl flag), but it failed with this messages: __ Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3, Log file:

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Jarry
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 06 Juli 2009, Jarry wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 06 Juli 2009, Jarry wrote: I just tried to update gcc (actually, it is just recompiling with new nptl flag), but it failed with this messages: __ Failed to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote: -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3/work/gcc-4.3.2/gcc/../libdecnu mber/bid -I../libdecnumber insn-recog.c -o insn-recog.o {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:36051: Warning: end of file not at end of a line; newline inserted {standard

[gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. What is the gentoo way to do that? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. What is the gentoo way to do that? Gentoo or not, make your changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout from your

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-06 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems pretty high.  Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data? $ eix ^ntop [I] net-analyzer/ntop       Available versions:  3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6

[gentoo-user] ncurses is gone

2009-07-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Jarry
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote: -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3/work/gcc-4.3.2/gcc/../libdecnu mber/bid -I../libdecnumber insn-recog.c -o insn-recog.o {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:36051: Warning: end of file not at end of a line;

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses is gone

2009-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 06 July 2009 22:21:39 Alan E. Davis wrote: Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Alexander
On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. What is the gentoo way to do that? Gentoo or not, make

[gentoo-user] Need advice in selecting a mail server

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have three boxes (baby, camille, and catherine) in my LAN, and for some reason (this was years ago) I set up an exim server on each of them. camille and catherine were supposed to forward their mail to baby, which has a working dovecot server. Now, nothing from catherine is going through, and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2009, Stroller wrote: On 5 Jul 2009, at 11:33, Grant wrote: I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data? $

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2009, Stroller wrote: On 5 Jul 2009, at 11:33, Grant wrote: I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. What is the gentoo way to do that? It depends on how you started X in the first place. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/6/2009 4:23 PM, Jarry wrote: Mike Edenfield wrote: On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j2 Can you try this again without -j2 in the make opts? The gcc build process is enough of a pain to debug when you can see output sequentially, running parallel makes makes it worse.

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg confusion and no glxinfo

2009-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/06/2009 04:39 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote: I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the radeon driver. Hm. There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. What is the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin

[gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world It's

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Jacob Todd
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Alexanderb3n...@yandex.ru wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Dale
Jacob Todd wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble configuring X,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg confusion and no glxinfo

2009-07-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 04:39 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote: I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 Jul 2009, at 22:10, Paul Hartman wrote: ... nethogs will show active network activity That is REALLY cool. I can't believe I never knew about this before. Stroller

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Jacob Todd
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:23:23PM -0500, Dale wrote: Jacob Todd wrote: This isn't RedHat. But it applies to Gentoo as well. From my xorg.conf.example on Gentoo. # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/06/2009 03:41 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 Jul 2009, at 23:41, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... You haven't told us how you start X, which I think would make it easier to determine how to stop it I haven't told you because I don't know. I do know that I was using KDE when I still had X. But I set that up over 5 years ago and I've

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Dale wrote: Jacob Todd wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Dale wrote: Jacob Todd wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg confusion and no glxinfo

2009-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/06/2009 04:23 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 04:39 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote: I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will not shutdown without a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 02:31:38 Simon wrote: Hi there! I'm getting this issue where even very small transfers through ssh will cause this error message: Corrupted MAC on input. I've done my homework and found out this is not necessarily related to the network hardware as TCP would retransmit

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:53 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 7/6/2009 4:23 PM, Jarry wrote: Mike Edenfield wrote: On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j2 Can you try this again without -j2 in the make opts? The gcc build process is enough of a pain to debug when you can see

[gentoo-user] Re: qt blocks, poppler, etc.

2009-07-06 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: First, unmask portage. The maintainer masked the 2.2_rc versions so that 2.1.6* could get more testing. portage-2.2 can automatically resolve those blockers so you don't have to. Actually, the latest 2.1.6.* versions contain

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Synopsis: This host is running kdm. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip snip ] Hi, You haven't told us how you start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or