[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-18 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com [17/08/09 00:24]: once I had a problem like this, and I solved it by adding the following section to xorg.conf: Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInputfalse EndSection it happened earlier this year when I upgraded x11-base/xorg-x11.

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2009-08-18 Thread Alex Schuster
On 2007-06-15, Dale wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: With big hard discs cheap and with ADSL connection, the advantages of the meta packages are diminished. If I understand your meaning correctly, not everyone can get broadband. I'm on dial-up and it is all that is available here where I live.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes

2009-08-18 Thread Walter Dnes
I have things set up to allow me to connect to dialup, and still keep connections going to my other machine (LAN = 2 machines). I think this is similar to your situation. The key is in my /etc/conf.d/net file as per the following excerpt... routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.123.254 metric 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes

2009-08-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:55:13 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I have things set up to allow me to connect to dialup, and still keep connections going to my other machine (LAN = 2 machines). I think this is similar to your situation. The key is in my /etc/conf.d/net file as

[gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Dependencies with Math Use Flag

2009-08-18 Thread Ryan Holt
Hello, I'm getting dependencies issues with mediawiki when trying to install with the math use flag: oscar ~ # emerge -pv mediawiki These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-lang/ocaml-3.10.2 USE=gdbm ncurses

Re: [gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Dependencies with Math Use Flag

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Ryan Holtr...@ryanholt.net wrote: dev-tex/latex-unicode Perhaps try to unmerge that and try again

Re: [gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Dependencies with Math Use Flag

2009-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 19:14:42 Ryan Holt wrote: Hello, I'm getting dependencies issues with mediawiki when trying to install with the math use flag: oscar ~ # emerge -pv mediawiki These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done!

RE: [gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Dependencies with Math Use Flag

2009-08-18 Thread Ryan Holt
Awesome. Thanks for the help... That did it. -Original Message- From: paul.hart...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.hart...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hartman Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:22 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again

2009-08-18 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Shawn Haggett writes: Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following happens: sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv [...] /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/environment:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again

2009-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Alex Schusterwo...@wonkology.org wrote: I wrote: Shawn Haggett writes: Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following happens: sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv

[gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Walter Dnes
IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of which I required only a small fraction of its functionality. And I'm really

Re: [gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 00:11:36 Walter Dnes wrote: IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of which I required only a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. I filed a bug for it:

Re: [gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:11:36 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 01:11:50 Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of trouble a few times. Wait until some bastard runs mv /bin/bash /bin/bash.gotcha then you try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 09:17:30 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of trouble a few times. Wait until some

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. I filed a bug

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While