Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood wrote: On Thursday 29 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] emerge -a @preserved-rebuild suggests to rebuild two packages, but continues to do so after emerging them. [...] r...@tanja src -- emerge -a @preserved-rebuild These are the packages that would be merged, in

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

2009-11-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:08:01 -0600, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jesús Guerrero wrote: As far as I know that version of mplayer is bugged. I can't guarantee that your problem is the same one I had, but if I am not mistaken the bug is present in that release. Please, try

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

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: @preserved-rebuild never worked for me, maybe it's just that it doesn't like ~arch. I am just too lazy to work on how to fix a thing when there's an alternative that always worked reliably, revdep-rebuild. If it didn't work on ~arch,

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

2009-11-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: @preserved-rebuild never worked for me, maybe it's just that it doesn't like ~arch. I am just too lazy to work on how to fix a thing when there's an alternative that always worked reliably, revdep-rebuild.

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

2009-11-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: @preserved-rebuild never worked for me, maybe it's just that it doesn't like ~arch. I am just too lazy to work on how to fix a thing when there's an

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

2009-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: @preserved-rebuild never worked for me, maybe it's just that it doesn't like ~arch. I am just too

[gentoo-user] how to set to tor bridge relay?

2009-11-02 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i am using gentoo x64. i want to setup a tor bridge relay. but i cannot get it to work. in the log file, i can only see notices like this: [notice] No current certificate known for authority moria1; launching request. Nov 02 22:21:32.598 [notice] No current certificate known for authority

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

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:58:57 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I can't understand that. You CAN'T recompile your packages against the new ABI's until the new ABI is in your system, and hence your system is already broken. There's no preemptive measure against this. Both methods fix the system

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: @preserved-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Murray
Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: Thanks for the feedback. However there's one thing I can't understand: whether the libraries are kept of removed is decided at the merge time, isn't it? So, whatever breaks, breaks when using emerge to update the offending library, the one that will

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 November 2009 17:01:17 Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 02

[gentoo-user] Re: When masked pkg not in [...]profiles/package.mask, where is it

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: failing that, look in /etc/portage/package.mask* Sure enough... I masked it.. but like Dick Cheney, I don't recall it. Ahh the joys of senility

[gentoo-user] Re: libsxlt and aclocal/autoconf failing during emerge

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de writes: Wait, but those are small 'm's. That means they must have been masked manually. As Alan McKinnon mentioned in your other thread (When masked pkg not in [...]profiles/package.mask, where is it), you might have an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask. My

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Jesús Guerrero writes: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: You read the message, run @preserved-rebuild and x now links to the new y library. When everything in @preserved-rebuild has been rebuilt, portage knows that now nothing links to the old y library, and removes it. Alan, I haven't followed the

[gentoo-user] KDE4 Solid a bit wobbly

2009-11-02 Thread Robin Atwood
I have been playing with the solid command since various KCM modules don't show anything. solid-hardware list shows no processor information and solid-network listdevices just hangs. My processor and NIC are bog-standard and should present no problems. Is this a Gentoo distro thing? None of the

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
Thanks everyone for the input, it's being quite informative and valuable. I guess I'll have to research on this at some point. Still I'd like to keep responses coming if anyone can bring some light into the issue. :) I am responding only to one post, but I've read Alan's one as well, as said,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 November 2009 18:31:50 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: You read the message, run @preserved-rebuild and x now links to the new y library. When everything in @preserved-rebuild has been rebuilt, portage knows that now nothing links to the old y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When masked pkg not in [...]profiles/package.mask, where is it

2009-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 November 2009 17:43:49 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: failing that, look in /etc/portage/package.mask* Sure enough... I masked it.. but like Dick Cheney, I don't recall it. Ahh the joys of senility Don't feel too bad about it. At least you

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being (afaict) very invasive to the rest of the system. Thanks! Marcus P.S. Mozilla

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/02/2009 07:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being (afaict) very invasive to the rest of the

[gentoo-user] mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I have to admit that I touched a running system again ;-) My thinkpad runs gentoo linux x86, some unstable packages as well, I upgraded to Gnome 2.28 a few days ago. Yes, this could as well got to the mythtv-users-list but I assume the problem isn't with mythtv ... The symptoms: When I start

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Marcus Wanner writes: Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being (afaict) very invasive to the rest of the system. Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/2/2009 12:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being (afaict) very invasive to the rest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 1:26 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/02/2009 07:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require

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

2009-11-02 Thread Duncan Smith
2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: Virtualbox on the other hand is pretty much hassle free in my experience. Can't talk about vmware - haven't used that in years ;) Thanks for the pointer to Virtualbox... I hadn't heard of it. Looks like the wiki has some help, though.

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

2009-11-02 Thread Duncan Smith
2009/10/31 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: I was in a similar position some years ago - grab a copy of the needed libs from somewhere and use ldpreload to load them into memory before running the application.  Google will help. In some cases, you can symlink the needed lib names to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
Black screen, instant total system crash. Well, that suggests a kernel panic, I think. What happens if you use an older kernel? There is no older kernel. I knew there was something I forgot to save. But I saved xorg.conf and it's identical. The sysrecusecd finds the card and X starts fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 1:40 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 11/2/2009 12:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require

[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2009 10:55 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Black screen, instant total system crash. Well, that suggests a kernel panic, I think. What happens if you use an older kernel? There is no older kernel. I knew there was something I forgot to save. But I saved xorg.conf and it's identical. You

[gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2009 10:29 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I have to admit that I touched a running system again ;-) My thinkpad runs gentoo linux x86, some unstable packages as well, I upgraded to Gnome 2.28 a few days ago. Yes, this could as well got to the mythtv-users-list but I assume the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: SNIP Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that did the trick. Marcus You might want to periodically run eix-test-obsolete -d to see if the two packages get marked stable before some other new

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 3:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: SNIP Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that did the trick. Marcus You might want to periodically run eix-test-obsolete -d to see if the two

[gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Erik
Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = 700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m = 2, n = 0. An additional condition could be that he

[gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

2009-11-02 Thread James
All, Trying to set up a PXE boot solution in a lab environment instead of rebuilding *nix systems repeatedly. I have a few questions, below. - are there any good PXE servers out there? I'm looking for something with an easy-to-use front-end that I can use to easily deploy and build new Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
walt schrieb: Alas, I forget the details, but there was something in my ~./gconf that caused problems when I upgraded to 2.28. I created a new user and started with a clean home directory and all worked properly, so I knew something in my home directory was broken. May not help you, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I will simply give it a try now, create another fresh user and testdrive mythtv and OO.org there. update: good information! the new user is able to start mythfrontend and openoffice correctly. Now I have to figure out which files in ~ to remove or recreate my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
You can compile one from an older source package and see if it helps. Just use the same kernel config you have now and do make oldconfig to remove any new config items. Using linux-2.6.29. Changed symlink, re-emerged nvidia-drivers, ran #modprobe nvidia: FATAL: error inserting nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

2009-11-02 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 11/02, James wrote: === - are there any good PXE servers out there? I'm looking for something with an easy-to-use front-end that I can use to easily deploy and build new Linux deployment I want to boot via PXE === I use dnsmasq, which can also handle PXE booting (it's just a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: SNIP Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that did the trick. You might want to periodically run eix-test-obsolete -d to see if the two packages get marked stable

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 3:49 PM, Erik wrote: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = 700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m = 2, n = 0. An

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:48 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/2/2009 3:49 PM, Erik wrote: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n *

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:35 +, Graham Murray wrote: The difference is that with the new @preserved-rebuild the 'old' library is not deleted until all of the dependent packages have been successfully rebuilt to use the 'new' library. This also means that if you don't run emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:49:06 +0100, Erik wrote: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = 700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m

Re: [gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:52:05 -0800, Keith Dart wrote: I use dnsmasq, which can also handle PXE booting (it's just a particular setup of DHCP and TFTP). +1 -- Neil Bothwick Work is the curse of the partying class! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2009 01:45 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: You can compile one from an older source package and see if it helps. Just use the same kernel config you have now and do make oldconfig to remove any new config items. Using linux-2.6.29. Changed symlink, re-emerged nvidia-drivers, ran #modprobe

[gentoo-user] new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have forgotten why I had it masked. I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could expect in the way of problems. Would I need to re-emerge just

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:49 +0100, Erik wrote: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = 700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m =

[gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2009 01:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I will simply give it a try now, create another fresh user and testdrive mythtv and OO.org there. update: good information! the new user is able to start mythfrontend and openoffice correctly. Now I have

Re: [gentoo-user] new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 03 November 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have forgotten why I had it masked. I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could expect

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: Harry asked: Would I need to re-emerge just about everything? Volker answered: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gentoo+gcc+upgrade+guidel=1 Quoted from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml , | To be completely safe that your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: Harry asked: Would I need to re-emerge just about everything? Volker answered: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gentoo+gcc+upgrade+guidel=1 Quoted from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:49:06PM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = 700. (A solution

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2009 03:20 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have forgotten why I had it masked. I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could expect in

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:49:06PM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n *

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of letting a computer do it for him. Maybe the assignment is to write a program to solve the equation. -- Neil Bothwick What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): No such device ???lspci begs to differ groan I've never seen that error from nvidia, and I've seen lots of errors :o( Are you sure the nvidia module that was actually merged is the same version you thought you were

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 5:59 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:48 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/2/2009 3:49 PM, Erik wrote: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of letting a computer do it for him. Maybe the assignment is to write a program to solve the equation. That's a idea too. Didn't think of

Re: [gentoo-user] new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have forgotten why I had it masked. I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could expect in the