Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot

[gentoo-user] hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread felix
Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have something else fail. Here are the versions: sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Pupino
2009/9/19 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: cleaner shutdown.  This is taken from a email that was sent to me during that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest to have a look at which services are started at boot, but aren't shutted down.

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread pk
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down *without* actually shutting down ther system? I'm sure there's a simple way of finding that out but I was wondering if this might be your problem?: http://bugs.gentoo.org/253535 MfG Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 19. September 2009 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, I am updateing my Gentoo on a dialy basis. Since two days the shutdown process of the systems hangs around Bringing down net.lo. Booting the PC is not a problem -- except the replaying transactions (resierfs). [...] How

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
pk pete...@coolmail.se [09-09-19 13:49]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down *without* actually shutting down ther system? I'm sure there's a simple way of finding that out but I was wondering if this might be your problem?:

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
I also thought of the alsa problem pk mentioned. But it might also be another kernel module. Search your /var/log/messages or dmesg for kernel oopses. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. I scanned

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread covici
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Pupino
2009/9/19 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest to have a look at which services are started at boot,

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Kelly Hirai ke...@met.fsu.edu writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't notice that mplayer wasn't working in firefox right away but I think it may have started with a recent update. (All updated packages are listed at the bottom) [...] i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update

[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread Jonathan Callen (ABCD)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Iscan

2009-09-19 Thread Roger Cahn
I googled for isane and found nothing, so I'm wondering if that's just a typo for 'iscan'. I dunno, but it's easy to check if you have libusb installed. Yes, I have libusb-0.1.12-r5 and my scanner is recognized: lsusb Bus 008 Device 004: ID 04b8:0116 Seiko Epson Corp. Thank you for your

Re: [gentoo-user] Iscan-2

2009-09-19 Thread Roger Cahn
It appears that you are not running a English version. However, google did return this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensource=hpq=make%5B2%5D%3A+***+%5Blibimage_stream_la-imgstream.lo%5D+Erreur+1aq=foq=aqi= See if one of those links helps any. Most of those are in your native

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:49:39 -0700 kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: kash...@www01 ~ $ emerge -pvt bugzilla These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 19 September 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... (devolution to IRC chat being yet

[gentoo-user] audacious 2.1.0 - CD Play plugin excruciatingly slow

2009-09-19 Thread Denis
Fellow Penguins, I must say I'm not exactly crazy about Audacious version 2 upgrade... My gripes are about the CD Audio plugin only, but this is what I use all the time, so it is somewhat of a nuisance. 1) The CD Audio plugin (cdda flag) takes a very long time to load and would hang Audacious

[gentoo-user] Re: trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Torsten Veller
* Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org: Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... (devolution to IRC chat being yet another systemic

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread kashani
deps. Hard mask that crap next time. 4. Add the needed packages in portage.keywords and make it pretty and organized. # bugzilla and deps for bugzilla-3.4.1-r1, added 20090919 www-apps/bugzilla dev-perl/Daemon-Generic dev-perl/DateTime-TimeZone dev-perl/Data-ObjectDriver dev-perl/File-Flock dev

[gentoo-user] can't connect to shoutcast

2009-09-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, My connection times out whenever I try to get to shoutcast after entering in the browser: http://localhost:8000 I configured it accrording to the gentoo-wiki. I notice when I run #/etc/init.d/shoutcast start, I get 'SHOUTCAST starting' but that's it, no banner. the log: ...

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update as mplayer was built against another version of /usr/lib/libx264.so revdep-rebuild fixed that. Thanks... revdep-rebuild here, turns up several pkgs needing rebuild but all are related to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. All this works for a long long time...and it bits me about three days ago. I did not update alsa*, since I use the kernels alsa-stuff and

[gentoo-user] Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-19 Thread dhk
I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk

[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have something else fail. Here are

[gentoo-user] Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I did try downloading the sources from:

[gentoo-user] Address Label and Envelop Printing

2009-09-19 Thread James
Hello, I need a program to print Address labels that come in on an 8 1/2 x 11 (letter) blank. The are pre-arrange 3 to a row. Googling just turned up this sunrise solution for labelnation: http://bugs.gentoo.org/176639 anybody else know of anything in portage? some other way to effect

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I

[gentoo-user] Re: Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
dhk dhk...@optonline.net writes: I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen.

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2009 12:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. You will have

[gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda. I can see the large partition, and it seems to be

[gentoo-user] Re: Iscan

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/18/2009 12:34 PM, Roger Cahn wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/iscan-2.11.0 * Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild. Of course, revdep-rebuild iscan failes again! Isn't anything to do about libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15

[gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Address Label and Envelop Printing

2009-09-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:51:33PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: I need a program to print Address labels that come in on an 8 1/2 x 11 (letter) blank. The are pre-arrange 3 to a row. Googling just turned up this sunrise solution for labelnation: http://bugs.gentoo.org/176639

[gentoo-user] Re: Iscan

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 03:34 PM, walt wrote: Add the line 'media-gfx/iscan ~x86' to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file. (If you don't have that file just make a new one.) Well, don't bother. iscan doesn't build, period. But you should really try xsane in the meantime. You need to make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV

[gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me

[gentoo-user] Re: trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Torsten Veller
* kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net: 3. Doctored up portage.mask to mask the errant virtuals =virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.47 =virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17 Thought grumpy thoughts at developers who let packages into ~x86 with completely broken deps. Hard mask that crap next time. There are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread felix
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:36:40PM -0700, walt wrote: On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, walt wrote: On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com  wrote: Hi,   I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP seriously, I think you should try to get off everything you want to keep - and then replace the disk with a new one. If a disk starts throwing block errors it will only become worse. Don't worry about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
walt w41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop This gave me errors,

[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 04:20 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: at least I have more sleep now than I had at o-dark-thirty when I got back from a trip ... Ah, that explains everything. Never fire up your machine when you've just come home from a trip! (I think Nostradamus said that -- but I could be

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
walt w41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 04:13]: On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you