[gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any X11-application (including your browser to look at the URL above) Such an update should be DOUBLY MASKED !!! And the messages

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 Sep, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any X11-application (including your browser to look at the URL above) Such an update

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:38:41 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: The above URL doesn't help either, so any help to 'survive' is appreciated. Did you read the elog message when you emerged the new version? libxcb-xlib.so is no longer shipped by ${PN} but was kept on your system While your

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:38:41 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 15 Sep, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any X11-application

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:38:41 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: The above URL doesn't help either, so any help to 'survive' is appreciated. Did you read the elog message when you emerged the new version? Yes, I did ... but libxcb-xlib.so is no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml Since my browser got broken, too, this took some time.

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected by this upgrade :-) I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything was wrong because emerge @preserved-rebuild failed on most packages, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected by this upgrade :-) I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything was wrong because emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Jorma Airola
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml Since my browser

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51, Jorma Airola juggernaut...@gmail.com wrote: Same here, no breakage on my laptop or desktop.  I have used  dev-util/lafilefixer few time with --justfixit option few times,could that be the reason for smooth upgrade? Did you remove the lib libxcb-xlib.so or is it

[gentoo-user] Re: *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any X11-application (including your browser to look at the URL above) Such an

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected by this upgrade :-) I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Boris Fersing
I didn't have any big problem neither. After uprading to libxcb-1.4 a lot of packages failed to compile. I searched for warning messages with elogv, followed the upgrade guide and now all is fine. regards, Boris On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:31, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 11:01:11 Ward Poelmans wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51, Jorma Airola juggernaut...@gmail.com wrote: Same here, no breakage on my laptop or desktop. I have used dev-util/lafilefixer few time with --justfixit option few times,could that be the reason for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Jorma Airola
Ward Poelmans wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51, Jorma Airola juggernaut...@gmail.com wrote: Same here, no breakage on my laptop or desktop. I have used dev-util/lafilefixer few time with --justfixit option few times,could that be the reason for smooth upgrade? Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:34:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm following the recipe on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml which results in emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xcb-proto x11-libs/libxcb emerge -v1 -j4

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read :

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:34:32 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything was wrong because emerge @preserved-rebuild failed on most packages, so I then RTFMed, ran the commands from that web page and all was fine. Konqueror

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Krzysztof Poc
HelloI found that "emerge --depclean" removes the packages that are necessary for my system:gcc-4.1.2font-cursor-miscfont-misc-miscI have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2.After unmerging gcc-4.1.2 I cannot compile anything of course.After unmerging font-misc-misc I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread KH
Krzysztof Poc schrieb: Hello I found that emerge --depclean removes the packages that are necessary for my system: gcc-4.1.2 font-cursor-misc font-misc-misc I have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2. After unmerging gcc-4.1.2 I cannot compile anything of course.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Boris Fersing
2009/9/15 Krzysztof Poc fajfu...@wp.pl: Hello Hi, I found that emerge --depclean removes the packages that are necessary for my system: gcc-4.1.2 font-cursor-misc font-misc-misc I have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2. After unmerging gcc-4.1.2 I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 13:00:41 Krzysztof Poc wrote: Hello I found that emerge --depclean removes the packages that are necessary for my system: gcc-4.1.2 font-cursor-misc font-misc-misc I have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2. After unmerging

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 12:22:59 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Massimo Gengarelli
Please, *do not* send HTML emails in the list, as they looks like below. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:00:41PM +0200, Krzysztof Poc wrote: divHellobr /br /I found that emerge --depclean removes the packages that are necessary for my system:br /gcc-4.1.2br /font-cursor-miscbr /font-misc-miscbr

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 #1024x768 800x600 640x480 Virtual 2048 1536 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection [...] Sure, but we're talking about setting modelines and what

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Krzysztof Poc
Great thanks to all of you for immediate help. emenrge -n solved the problem. By the way gcc-config -l shows: [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [5]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread KH
Krzysztof Poc schrieb: Great thanks to all of you for immediate help. emenrge -n solved the problem. By the way gcc-config -l shows: [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [5]

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from another machine (BINSERVER), emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world doesn't update packages which are upto-date on BINSERVER but not upto-date on the local machine. What's the role of the file

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 15. September 2009 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from another machine (BINSERVER), emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world doesn't update packages which are upto-date on BINSERVER but not upto-date

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:21:50 +0200 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Here it stores alotta info about the binary packages - for instance with what useflags they were compiled. This info is not in the archives, which only contain the files. No, informations about environment are included in tbz2

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:19:01 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from another machine (BINSERVER), emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world doesn't update packages which are upto-date on BINSERVER but not

[gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. Would appreciate someone's view on the following: I want to configure SVN access via apache. This requires some modifications to /etc/apache2/modules.d/47_mod_dav_svn.conf (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/svn-book.html#svn-ch-6-sect-4.2) Since the file is owned by dev-util/subversion,

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:16 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Is there an alternative mechanism to modifying a package-owned file? It's in a CONFIG_PROTECTed directory (/etc) so it won't be overwritten by a package update. It's safe to modify it. -- Neil Bothwick Sometimes too much to drink is

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Still it would incur an etc-update event, wouldn't it? Then, an absent-minded user (e.g. myself) could overwrite configuration when subversion gets upgraded. I was thinking of maybe creating an /etc/apache2/modules.d/471_mod_dav_svn.conf, which I could then freely modify. Amit Neil

[gentoo-user] python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread James
Python and Java have taken me days to clean up on an old, mostly unattended system. I'm almost done, but have an issue, I've not seen before. emerge -p @preserved-rebuild [ebuild R ] dev-db/libpq-8.1.11 [ebuild R ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.8 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:05:30 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Still it would incur an etc-update event, wouldn't it? Then, an absent-minded user (e.g. myself) could overwrite configuration when subversion gets upgraded. Yes, Gentoo gives you the gun, it's up to you to make sure it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread Dale
James wrote: Python and Java have taken me days to clean up on an old, mostly unattended system. SNIP So what's pulling in python 2.5? equery depends dev-lang/pythondev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 Searching for packages depending on dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2... Nothing (?) So is it

Re: [gentoo-user] python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:29:42 + (UTC), James wrote: Installed versions: 2.5.4-r2(2.5) 2.6.2-r1(2.6) So what's pulling in python 2.5? World? emerge -Pa python should get rid of it if it's not in world. Otherwise you'll need emerge -Ca python:2.5. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome default file associations broken

2009-09-15 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Hi, Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 23:26:45 schrieb walt: On 09/13/2009 12:32 PM, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Where are the global defaults anyway, if you want to change the order, maybe? Where could you globally prefer acroread over evince and gedit over xemacs? Try running

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:19:01 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from another machine (BINSERVER), emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world doesn't update packages which are

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-15 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In cd21cc1d-79ef-431e-94bd-9374fcca1...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk (Stroller) writes: On 14 Sep 2009, at 16:27, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: ... AMD64, reiser, sata (3ware)... strange I have had some weirdness recently with a 3ware 9500-S 2.6.30- gentoo-r4, but

[gentoo-user] Re: python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: You wouldn't happen to have that slot of python in your world file would you? nope, world file only contains this entry relate to python: dev-python/sip James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is not able to display the former

Re: [gentoo-user] python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:29:42 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: So is it OK to unmerge python 2.5? Or do I still need it? I still get old garbage wanting python 2.5 with emerge -p @preserved-rebuild How to proceed is most welcome news to me. Put it to package.mask and

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's what it is. I too have USE=-xcb for libX11 I have xcb use flag enabled and haven't encountered any problems (and nothing had to be rebuilt). libX11-1.2.2

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:54 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 14 September 2009 09:20:08 schrieb Matthias Langer: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware,

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 00:04 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:20, Matthias Langer wrote: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:04:23 Fabrice Delliaux wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:21:50 +0200 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Here it stores alotta info about the binary packages - for instance with what useflags they were compiled. This info is not in the archives, which only contain the

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's what it is. I too have USE=-xcb for libX11 I have xcb use flag enabled and haven't encountered any problems (and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 September 2009, Thomas Kahle wrote: Hey, Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for a replacement which should -- be widely configurable via ascii files -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard -- be also useable with the mouse --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009, Thomas Kahle wrote: Hey,  Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for  a replacement which should  -- be widely configurable via ascii files  -- be as far as

[gentoo-user] update-desktop-database gives ... lacks MimeType

2009-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My system is running fine as far as I can tell, but reading a msg in this group raised my curiosity about update-desktop-database. When I do I get dozens of lines of applications lacking a MimeType key. Here are the first few. allan gottlieb # update-desktop-database --verbose Search path is

[gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Crístian Viana
hi, I have a Gentoo amd64 and I noticed portage doesn't ignore comments totally on the file /etc/portage/package.keywords (don't know about the other portage config files). if I have the following line on portage.keywords: www-client/mozilla-firefox portage unmasks the Firefox ebuild for my

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Crístian Viana
thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they were. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Neil Walker n...@ep.mine.nu wrote: Crístian Viana wrote: www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world For it to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Walker
Crístian Viana wrote: www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world For it to be a valid comment, the '#' MUST be the first character on the line. That's always been the convention. A FEW programs will recognise the '#' elsewhere in the line as the start of the comment but you should NEVER EVER rely

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:51 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they were. Title=### Look at me! ### Is there a comment in there? The general convention is that if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 #1024x768 800x600 640x480 Virtual 2048 1536 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection [...]

[gentoo-user] Can I do this remotely?

2009-09-15 Thread Grant
I recently had the problem described here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70884 The solution worked. Now I'm being told the same system is having the same problem, but I'm away from there. Is there a way to fix it remotely? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do this remotely?

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 23:36:17 Grant wrote: I recently had the problem described here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70884 The solution worked. Now I'm being told the same system is having the same problem, but I'm away from there. Is there a way to fix it remotely?

Re: [gentoo-user] update-desktop-database gives ... lacks MimeType

2009-09-15 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When I do I get dozens of lines of applications lacking a MimeType key. Here are the first few. allan gottlieb # update-desktop-database --verbose Search path is now: [/usr/local/share/applications, /usr/share/ applications] Could not

Re: [gentoo-user] update-desktop-database gives ... lacks MimeType

2009-09-15 Thread Dale
Roy Wright wrote: On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When I do I get dozens of lines of applications lacking a MimeType key. Here are the first few. allan gottlieb # update-desktop-database --verbose Search path is now: [/usr/local/share/applications,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, ... -- NOT tiling May I ask why not tiling? unless you're doing office work (spreadsheats, powerpointers, money laundering and the like), the WIMP paradigm isn't efficient. -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, ...  -- NOT tiling May I ask why not tiling? unless you're doing office work (spreadsheats, powerpointers, money laundering and the like), the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do this remotely?

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:36:17 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I recently had the problem described here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70884 The solution worked. Now I'm being told the same system is having the same problem, but I'm away from there. Is there a way to

[gentoo-user] Re: python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: emerge -Pa python should get rid of it if it's not in world. Otherwise you'll need emerge -Ca python:2.5. Hello Neil, I'm still working this angle. It seems to clean up more, but, it's like I'm having to make several more attempts that one would

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread meino . cramer
Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com [09-09-16 03:55]: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, ... -- NOT tiling May I ask why not tiling? Simply answer: I dont like it. :) mcc unless you're doing office work (spreadsheats, powerpointers, money

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Crístian Viana
but in that case the # character is inside a string, so it wuldn't be considered a comment. I was thinking like // in Java: it can be anywhere in the line, but if it's inside a string it's not considered a comment marker. but thanks again for the information :) On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [09-09-12 20:42]: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management. One thing, which is a must-have

[gentoo-user] Server standby

2009-09-15 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I try to set up my server such that it can go to standby state if it has not been used for a while and can be wake up when there are some events such as that come keyboard, mouse, or it is great if it can wake up from LAN request. I try to google for a while and have not found any useful