Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:46:05 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Was the expectation that running `lafilefixer --justfixit' would stop revdep-rebuild from continuously finding a broken binutils? That sometimes happens as lafilefixer fixes some problems that revdep-rebuild want to re-emerge to fix. --

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

2010-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:11:49 -0600, Dale wrote: eix-test-obsolete Be prepared for a LONG list tho. It prints a LOT on mine. That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P -- Neil Bothwick I wonder how much deeper would the ocean be without sponges. signature.asc Description:

[gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
Greetings, This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. FWIW, my usual update world was done yesterday (and emerged the packages listed at the end

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most likely something else broke on your system. On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: ssh into box gives: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? ### recently

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? W -- Willie W. Wong

[gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6

2010-02-06 Thread Grant
I can get the Sipix Pocket Printer A6 installed in CUPS and it will get about 20% through a CUPS test page, but it always stops in the same spot and the LED just blinks. Has anyone gotten one of these going? I've tried two of them and I'm using a USB-serial converter.

[gentoo-user] Re: Sipix Pocket Printer A6

2010-02-06 Thread Grant
I can get the Sipix Pocket Printer A6 installed in CUPS and it will get about 20% through a CUPS test page, but it always stops in the same spot and the LED just blinks.  Has anyone gotten one of these going?  I've tried two of them and I'm using a USB-serial converter.

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

2010-02-06 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:11:49 -0600, Dale wrote: eix-test-obsolete Be prepared for a LONG list tho. It prints a LOT on mine. That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P True but if the OP hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6

2010-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:25:11 -0800, Grant wrote: I can get the Sipix Pocket Printer A6 installed in CUPS and it will get about 20% through a CUPS test page, but it always stops in the same spot and the LED just blinks. Does it do the same with standard printing jobs? I ask because I have an

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

2010-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:01:47 -0600, Dale wrote: That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a lot of cleaning to do as well. I clean mine every few months and it still has some size to the output. That's why

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
H'lo Willie, The output of ls /dev/pt* is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: udev was emerged twice quite recently: 1/26 upgrade from 141-r1 to 146-r2 1/32 downgrade from 146-r2 to 146-r1 My computer was last rebooted 21 days ago. As you

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

2010-02-06 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:01:47 -0600, Dale wrote: That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a lot of cleaning to do as well. I

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:13:02 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:11:07 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: The output of ls /dev/pt* is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you have terminals running in X? On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: The output of ls /dev/pt* is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about which I'm poorly informed. Output (below) of rc-status sysinit indicated devfs stopped, so I started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then restarted udev

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Leon Feng rainofch...@gmail.com writes: [...] I'm running ~x86 on everything and latest version of gentoolkit (I don't have gentoolkit-dev installed) I've emerged lafilefixer (thanks Steve) and ran lafilefixer --justfixit Then ran revdep-rebuild again it still finds broken

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about which I'm poorly informed. Output (below) of rc-status sysinit indicated devfs stopped, so I started

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-06 Thread Konstantinos Bekiaris
... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu configure: autobuild project... libgpg-error configure: autobuild revision... 1.7 configure: autobuild hostname... Gentoo configure: autobuild timestamp... 20100206-195611 checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux