To James and James (was Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once)

2009-10-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 22:42:46 schrieb James: Thanks for the response, Alan. I haven't posted on this alias in many months, so it wasn't me who asked 2 days ago. ;) Yes, there are indeed two James on the list. Could you please both be so kind and use your full names when posting to

Re: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories

2009-10-30 Thread Florian Philipp
James schrieb: All, I'm trying to find a good way to compare two complex directory structures to see what files differ. I've looked at a few different options: - rsync dry run (someone said this should work, but I'm having trouble getting good information out of this) - diff -rq (this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux Magazine tests Gentoo performance

2009-10-30 Thread Justin
Mike Edenfield schrieb: On 10/29/2009 5:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/29/2009 10:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I suppose this is interesting to most Gentoo users. Linux Magazine performed a detailed benchmark of Gentoo, comparing it to Ubuntu 9.04:

Re: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories

2009-10-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: James schrieb: All, I'm trying to find a good way to compare two complex directory structures to see what files differ. I've looked at a few different options: - rsync dry run (someone said this should work, but I'm having

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Albert Hopkins schrieb: I'm going to guess that the keyboard driver or something is interfering with the evdev driver? Or you don't have proper evdev support in the kernel? Or is your xorg.conf telling X to use a different driver? I don't have access to a Gentoo machine right now, but when

[gentoo-user] Emerging app-text/spellutils-0.7 fails

2009-10-30 Thread dhk
Below is the output from the failed emerge of app-text/spellutils-0.7 . The error is an access violation, but I don't know why. It seems to be the /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo file but that file doesn't exist. # ls -l /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo ls: cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging app-text/spellutils-0.7 fails

2009-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 30 October 2009 12:23:45 dhk wrote: Below is the output from the failed emerge of app-text/spellutils-0.7 . The error is an access violation, but I don't know why. It seems to be the /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo file but that file doesn't exist. It's failing on

Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once

2009-10-30 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:52:31 + Neil Bothwick wrote: Hi Neil, There's also tentakel, just as you were ready to make a choice :) I'm taking a look on it, but are few examples... how does tentakel behaves when passing | , $, etc.. ? Cheers -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging app-text/spellutils-0.7 fails

2009-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:34:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's failing on the install step, not the merge step. So it doesn't help looking in /usr/share/ because the build is not working there yet. the trouble is that it is trying to work there ACCESS DENIED open_wr:

Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once

2009-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:42:39 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: There's also tentakel, just as you were ready to make a choice :) I'm taking a look on it, but are few examples... how does tentakel behaves when passing | , $, etc.. ? The commands are executed in a remote shell, but interpreted by

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

2009-10-30 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I haven't snipped - the output might be useful later in the thread. First, the slow system message always means something, but it's a bit generic. It means that mplayer can't process the audio fast enough and like the message says is often buggy driver or wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:21 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Not that it is XINPUT that is driving my keyboard, not Keyboard1. So I'm guessing it's the X config. Might be. Do you have any keyboard section in xorg.conf? I assume I could get rid of xorg.conf at all but whenever I tried

[gentoo-user] Whose bug is it? [was: hal greps my USB printer - help !]

2009-10-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
After a long search on the net I've found out that the permissions of the usb device are set wrong (root.usb) It looks like an UDEV rule installed by sane-backends sets the user to root and the group to usb. With these settings CUPS won't recognize/use the printer. I had to add the following rule

Re: [gentoo-user] Whose bug is it? [was: hal greps my USB printer - help !]

2009-10-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 30 Oct, Helmut Jarausch wrote: After a long search on the net I've found out that the permissions of the usb device are set wrong (root.usb) It looks like an UDEV rule installed by sane-backends sets the user to root and the group to usb. With these settings CUPS won't recognize/use the

[gentoo-user] xen and ext4

2009-10-30 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i am using gentoo x64. i want to try xen, but my file system is ext4, and i cannot fine ext4 support while compiling xen-source. have i missed something, or ext4 is not supported by xen for now? when will it be available? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] xen and ext4

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 20:50 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i am using gentoo x64. i want to try xen, but my file system is ext4, and i cannot fine ext4 support while compiling xen-source. have i missed something, or ext4 is not supported by xen for now? when will it be available? You've by now

[gentoo-user] Replacement for hal maybe?

2009-10-30 Thread Dale
Hi, I know there are a few people having issues with hal and the new xorg-server. Well, lookie what I found. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/devicekit-disks http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/devicekit-power http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit It's a start

Re: [gentoo-user] EeePC network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Oct 2009, at 02:41, Philip Webb wrote: I'm stuck in trying to install Gentoo on my new EeePC 1005HA . There seems to be no easily accessible driver for the Ethernet controller, which is 'Atheros AR8132' (shown via 'lspci'). A very casual Google suggests that this card uses the the

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:01 -0400, Duncan Smith wrote: The company I work for is using gentoo on all its machines. We just got a license to a commercial tool which does not support gentoo. The closest thing it supports is RHEL v4. Running any command provided by the tool results in an

[gentoo-user] firefox-3.5.4 xulrunner version

2009-10-30 Thread Graham Murray
The ebuild for mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 has been changed to force ~xulrunner-1.9.1.3. As xulrunner-1.9.1.4 was put into the tree at the same time as firefox-3.5.4 and is shown as a security fix, is it right that mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 is forcing the downgrade to xulrunner-1.9.1.3-r1 (which is dated

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: 3. If it is glibc, is there some way to install glibc slotted? Could I install an old version of glibc to some other lib folder (like /opt/lib64), and then use LD_LIBRARY_PATH somehow to get the tool to look there first? How? You

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-3.5.4 xulrunner version

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 05:26 PM, Graham Murray wrote: The ebuild for mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 has been changed to force ~xulrunner-1.9.1.3. As xulrunner-1.9.1.4 was put into the tree at the same time as firefox-3.5.4 and is shown as a security fix, is it right that mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 is forcing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage strangeness with imagemagick

2009-10-30 Thread Dan Johansson
On Thursday 29 October 2009 20.16:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 29 October 2009 21:08:27 Dan Johansson wrote: On Thursday 29 October 2009 19.52:52 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 19:39:27 schrieb Dan Johansson: Today when I do an update world on one of my serves

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

2009-10-30 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:17:51 -0500, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I haven't snipped - the output might be useful later in the thread. First, the slow system message always means something, but it's a bit generic. It means that mplayer can't process the audio fast

Re: [gentoo-user] EeePC network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Philip Webb
091030 Stroller wrote: On 30 Oct 2009, at 02:41, Philip Webb wrote: I'm stuck in trying to install Gentoo on my new EeePC 1005HA . There seems to be no easily accessible driver for the Ethernet controller, which is 'Atheros AR8132' (shown via 'lspci'). A very casual Google suggests that this

Re: [gentoo-user] EeePC network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 14:48, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 091030 Stroller wrote: On 30 Oct 2009, at 02:41, Philip Webb wrote: I'm stuck in trying to install Gentoo on my new EeePC 1005HA . There seems to be no easily accessible driver for the Ethernet controller, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
I'm not sure why your system needed to be checked for each boot. Perhaps you can post the exact error message? I'm pretty sure it wasn't fragmentation. What it *might* be saying (but again we can't verify without an error message) is that your filesystem contains errors that cannot be

Re: [gentoo-user] EeePC network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
I sort of just did a networkless install on my desktop. I only have very slow dialup at home, but access to wifi once mobile. My netbook is fairly up-to-date so I used it to download the latest install-iso, stage3, portage-latest. These I installed on the desktop then copied over all the

Re: [gentoo-user] EeePC network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Oct 2009, at 16:48, Philip Webb wrote: 091030 Stroller wrote: On 30 Oct 2009, at 02:41, Philip Webb wrote: I'm stuck in trying to install Gentoo on my new EeePC 1005HA . There seems to be no easily accessible driver for the Ethernet controller, which is 'Atheros AR8132' (shown via

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was persuaded to use it by reading the forums and now it's a lot simpler just to run tune2fs rather thman scrap the system and start again. I know you can convert an ext3 filesystem to ext4. Can you not

Re: [gentoo-user] Whose bug is it? [was: hal greps my USB printer - help !]

2009-10-30 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: After a long search on the net I've found out that the permissions of the usb device are set wrong (root.usb) It looks like an UDEV rule installed by sane-backends sets the user to root and the group to

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Albert Hopkins schrieb: I'm using evdev with hal. I'm told if you use this combination you shouldn't have any input devices in xorg.conf. In fact I don't even have an xorg.conf in either my Gentoo or Fedora machines and they both work fine. YMMV. Nice for you. I just gave that a try and

[gentoo-user] Mplayer multi-thread/multi-core ( FFmpeg-mt branch) upgrade

2009-10-30 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Speed up the playback of 1080 H.264 files in MPlayer, on multi-core cpus. Thank You, Nikos Chantziaras http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154

[gentoo-user] Re: removing kde4(sets)

2009-10-30 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Remove the offending lines from /var/lib/portage/world_sets, then merge the -meta packages you want, finally --depclean to take away those you don't want. I'm sure glad, the '3 wisemen' (wiseguys?) all agree. Planets now converging; World

[gentoo-user] Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when scrolling in some pages. Example: http://www.simplemachines.org (Try to scroll up/down). Anyone else noticing this or is it just me? I'm on AMD64. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Duncan Smith
Thank you both for your quick response. I'll probably end up taking the virtual machine approach. I may also try some sort of chroot solution... I'll see how much of a hassle vmware is. 2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when scrolling in some pages. Example: http://www.simplemachines.org (Try to scroll up/down). Anyone

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 09:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when scrolling in some pages. Example:

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 09:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when scrolling in some pages. Example:

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Duncan Smith wrote: Thank you both for your quick response. I'll probably end up taking the virtual machine approach. I may also try some sort of chroot solution... I'll see how much of a hassle vmware is. chroot can work nicely, but you have to create a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: do you have a bigger page with more scrolling showing the problem? because it seems to be fine here. http://www.kamenos.gr scrolls without any lag. Instant response. No lag at all. Even with effects turned on there is no lag.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/30/2009 09:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when

[gentoo-user] Re: memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread walt
On 10/30/2009 10:26 AM, Stroller wrote: On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was persuaded to use it by reading the forums and now it's a lot simpler just to run tune2fs rather thman scrap the system and start again. I know you can

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 09:39 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: do you have a bigger page with more scrolling showing the problem? because it seems to be fine here. http://www.kamenos.gr scrolls without any lag. Instant response. No lag at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 30 October 2009 21:16:56 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when scrolling in some pages. Example: http://www.simplemachines.org (Try to scroll up/down).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removing kde4(sets)

2009-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 30 October 2009 20:53:24 James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Remove the offending lines from /var/lib/portage/world_sets, then merge the -meta packages you want, finally --depclean to take away those you don't want. I'm sure glad, the '3 wisemen'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 10/30/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/30/2009 10:26 AM, Stroller wrote: On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was persuaded to use it by reading the forums and now it's a lot simpler just to run tune2fs rather thman scrap the

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 update meets kernel update and crashes-FIXED

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 10/29/09, Kyle Adams kad...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, this issue. I ran into a similar issue before when I was doing the 2.6.29 to 2.6.30 change. Make sure that you have emerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev For some odd reason, I

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 update meets kernel update and crashes-FIXED

2009-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 30 October 2009 23:18:06 Maxim Wexler wrote: On 10/29/09, Kyle Adams kad...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, this issue. I ran into a similar issue before when I was doing the 2.6.29 to 2.6.30 change. Make sure that you have emerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Kyle Bader
And iirc you can got ext3 - ext2. The same does not hold true for ext4 - ext3. On 10/30/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/30/2009 10:26 AM, Stroller wrote: On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was persuaded to use it by reading the

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Kyle Bader
Avoiding 1, 2, and 3 but thought I'd propose a 4 other than a virtual machine. Ask the vendor if they can provide a statically compiled version, that way you don't have to worry about libc. I dunno how flexible the vendor is but its worth asking :) On 10/30/09, Duncan Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 30 October 2009 23:52:10 Kyle Bader wrote: Avoiding 1, 2, and 3 but thought I'd propose a 4 other than a virtual machine. Ask the vendor if they can provide a statically compiled version, that way you don't have to worry about libc. I dunno how flexible the vendor is but its worth

[gentoo-user] Re: memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread walt
On 10/30/2009 02:12 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: On 10/30/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/30/2009 10:26 AM, Stroller wrote: I know you can convert an ext3 filesystem to ext4. Can you not do the same ext2 - ext3? Yes, with the -j flag to tune2fs And it doesn't destroy the files? If so,

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 14:52 -0700, Kyle Bader wrote: I dunno how flexible the vendor is but its worth asking :) They only support RHEL4. RHEL4 was released nearly 5 years ago and uses the 2.6.9 kernel. I think that shows how flexible they are. :)

[gentoo-user] [OT[ How do I unautomate an OOO slideshow?

2009-10-30 Thread felix
People send me slideshows, some of which are interesting enough to watch. With OOO-3.0, I had to click or use NextPage for each picture and I got no sound, and that was fine with me. Now OOO 3.1 automates these slideshows and they really aggravate me -- I use Linux because it's my computer and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removing kde4(sets)

2009-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:33:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: tomorrow I shall take myself off to see my special good friend Peter who is giving me a fantastic deal on a brand new mother of a motorcycle. And in the afternoon I shall watch the Blue Bulls thrash the living daylights out of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

2009-10-30 Thread Dale
Jesús Guerrero wrote: kmplayer can get in the middle, can you -please- test regular mplayer from command line? I've had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago, and we were able to track it down on the mplayer mailing lists. If it's the same bug, I was able to consistently reproduce it in