Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge = crash

2009-11-18 Thread Loupy
Hi all, 2009/11/16 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org: My advice would have been to do periodic backups. But I guess it's too late for that. Ek, backups: She needs backup because she can't hang with the big dogs. Well now I learned a lesson. For the encoding error, that character

Re: [gentoo-user] USB auto mounting

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager in place and that plugin is enabled. For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged in. I am not sure when this stopped working. My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine.

[gentoo-user] xconsole started appearing after update

2009-11-18 Thread fajfusio
HelloAfter world upgrade (3 weeks ago) I found that xconsole starts along with xdmstartup. It appears along with logging windows in xdm.I don't use neither kde nor gnome. I use fluxbox but I think that it does notmatter because xconsole appears before starting fluxbox."ps" shows me the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-11-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 18 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:16:04 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: Namespaces - you don't need it? Kick 'em out. hmm, interesting ... ;-) for sure I also want to decrapify my kernel-config ... To

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 18 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:09:35 walt wrote: On 11/17/2009 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: So this is one of those times where why words come back to haunt me?? :-) In another thread you just claimed that you plan to paint *one*

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/18 Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com: Hi group, I ran  emerge -avuDN world and came up with blocked packages which I eliminated by  un-merging device-mapper and e2fsprogs-libs. When I rebooted was greeted by a maintenance console and the message libblkid.so.1 cannot open shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
Back on topic now :-) Apparently upstream is aware of this silly behaviour/bug, maybe I should wait a bit and see if they provide a knob to go back to the old behaviour This sounds like a reasonable plan. glibc downgrades aren't supported not only because they are a pain in the rear, but they

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full ~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't it? If possible at all. I just wanted to throw my two-cents in here, although much has

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:09:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: eix comes with some useful utilities like eix-test-obsolete which scans all your portage files and tells you which settings are redundant, duplicated and so on. And flagedit warns if you have set any obsolete flags in make.conf. --

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:09:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: eix comes with some useful utilities like eix-test-obsolete which scans all your portage files and tells you which settings are redundant, duplicated and so on. And flagedit warns if you have set any

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-18 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:49:52AM +0100, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 17.11.2009 09:09, schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: 2009/11/17 José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com: With both commands, the resulting image is 99.9% identical to the original one. Is there anything I can do to get an

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-18 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:02:12PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009/11/17 Sebastian Beßler webmas...@darkmetatron.de: What about mounting the iso and create it again from the mountpoint. That he has deleted the iso? Well, he then can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-18 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:15:08AM -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/17/2009 10:40 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-11-17, Jos? Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-18 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:54:20PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-11-17, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: My guess is that he has a slow internet connection, he downloaded a large iso, burned it, deleted it, and now wants to get the iso back without downloading it again, but he

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 23:00:23 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 17 November 2009 23:56:00 Philip Webb wrote: Are you using Nvidia ? -- someone else mentioned that as a possible cause. Yes, nvidia-190.42-r3 I've noticed recently that kdm takes looong to start - more than 30

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Daid, Thanks for your reply. daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: # emerge alsa-util alsa oss ...and alsa-utils I should go to sleep... After my post I knuckled down and worked systematically through the model= options for ALC883/888 and ALC882/885, having gleaned from the internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: I have mounted the disc using the udf filesystem and then I have recreated the iso from the mounted disc using mkisofs with the same arguments. This time at least the new iso has the same size as the original one (while with dd and readcd the

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
After my post I knuckled down and worked systematically through the model= options for ALC883/888 and ALC882/885, having gleaned from the internet that these are most similar to the 889A.  The possible choices are listed in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt. Several

[gentoo-user] nm-applet / vpnc / pptp / openvpn

2009-11-18 Thread SpaceCake
Hi, I've succesfullly installed Networkmanager and nm-applet with all the plugins under Gnome / Kde-4-3 using the instructions can be found at gentoo-wiki. It is working perfectly for wired and wireless LAN but not for any VPN (this part of the applet is grey I was searching the archive and

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/18 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com: Hello, After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and undesirable behavior.  It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode. It appears that the problem is some unholy alliance between hal-0.5.13-r2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
To disable namespaces I would have to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y ... correct? This is rather counterintuitive to me, as my main workstation is far from an embedded or small system (ok, not compared to the 4096-cpu-clusters in http://xkcd.com/619/ , but compared to, for example, my embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. Install and run wicd instead. I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so should there not be an update if it has fallen out of favour? Should the bugs in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Hartman
2009/11/18 José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:54:20PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-11-17, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: My guess is that he has a slow internet connection, he downloaded a large iso, burned it, deleted it, and now wants to

[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-11-18, Jos? Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:54:20PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-11-17, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: My guess is that he has a slow internet connection, he downloaded a large iso, burned it, deleted it, and now

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:00:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: I can attest to xorg-server-1.7.1 working just fine here with latest nvidia- drivers in the tree on amd64 Here I have xorg-server-1.7.1 on an all-~amd64 system and I get long delays, no matter whether I use nv or

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 15:11:05 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. Install and run wicd instead. I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so should there not be

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help-D'UH!

2009-11-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 11/17/09, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:46 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: Any one see a way past this impasse? I'm using ext2 with the journal option. Why didn't you mount/fsck all the filesystems from outside the chroot? Yeah, that's what I ended up

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

2009-11-18 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: To find the reason for the following Impossible because illegal error situation: Executing 'test unit ready' command on Bus 0 Target 6, Lun 0 timeout 40s CDB: 00 00 00 00 00

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Space Cakex
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. Install and run wicd instead. I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so should there not be an update if it has fallen out of

Re: [gentoo-user] nm-applet / vpnc / pptp / openvpn

2009-11-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
I've succesfullly installed Networkmanager and nm-applet with all the plugins under Gnome / Kde-4-3 using the instructions can be found at gentoo-wiki. It is working perfectly for wired and wireless LAN but not for any VPN (this part of the applet is grey I was searching the archive and

[gentoo-user] Re: xconsole started appearing after update

2009-11-18 Thread walt
On 11/18/2009 01:33 AM, fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hello After world upgrade (3 weeks ago) I found that xconsole starts along with xdm startup. It appears along with logging windows in xdm. I don't use neither kde nor gnome. I use fluxbox but I think that it does not matter because xconsole appears

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xconsole started appearing after update

2009-11-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 11:41 -0800, walt wrote: On 11/18/2009 01:33 AM, fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hello After world upgrade (3 weeks ago) I found that xconsole starts along with xdm startup. It appears along with logging windows in xdm. I don't use neither kde nor gnome. I use fluxbox but

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/11/09 Mick said: I don't think that there bugs in conf.d/net just a matter of preference. Alan suggested that wicd is a simpler way to have your wireless configured and it does not need /etc/init.d/*net scripts to function. I am running wpa_supplicant: modules=( wpa_supplicant

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/11/09 Space Cakex said: for me the best solution is to use networkmanager, delete net scripts and everything plus install nm-applet, so I have a real user friendly look and feel :) my only issue now is vpnc (see my other mail) I'm not a fan of networkmanager. On my ubuntu laptop I

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but startx works

2009-11-18 Thread Francisco Ares
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Gmail hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post your xdm and kdm log file. Hung Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, All After

[gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
I can't think of a specific place to look for this, so will try the eclectics at gentoo-user. A student handed me a USB flash drive with a video file on it he wanted to offer to me to watch. It mounted automatically, I copied the file, then I took the disk out of the drive and gave it to him. I

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-18 Thread Jesús Guerrero
Hello, first, the disclaimer: take everything I'll say here as a starting point, not as an universal truth. I am by no means specialist in this kind of toys. On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:46:36 +, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: I can't think of a specific place to look for this, so will

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-18 Thread Philip Webb
091119 Alan E. Davis wrote: A student handed me a USB flash drive with a video file on it he wanted to offer to me to watch. It mounted automatically, I copied the file, then I took the disk out and gave it to him. I cannot say with 100% certainty that I unmounted it. The file was completely

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-18 Thread Philip Webb
091118 Peter Humphrey wrote: I've tried switching to the nv kernel driver and it made no difference. I'm pretty sure it's an X problem. Extensive Googling found 1 useful hint of where the problem might lie:

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but startx works

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:44:43 Francisco Ares wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Gmail hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post your xdm and kdm log file.

[gentoo-user] Strange X behaviour

2009-11-18 Thread Dirk Uys
I'm experiencing some interesting things when X starts. I have a dual-screen setup I recently upgraded to KDE4.3.1. When X starts, KDM is showed on the side of the screen. It seems like it's cut off in the middel and my desktop can scroll to the side (like having a virtual desktop). When KDE