[gentoo-user] RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS=3.* - what's that?

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the recent dev-python/matplotlib-0.99.1.1-r1 contains the statement RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS=3.* Does anybody know what that means? Does it indicate that this package needs Python-3.x ? (Reason, it fails here to install. I have masked Python-3.x here) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. --

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: 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:

Re: [gentoo-user] RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS=3.* - what's that?

2010-02-08 Thread Justin
On 08/02/10 09:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the recent dev-python/matplotlib-0.99.1.1-r1 contains the statement RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS=3.* Does anybody know what that means? Does it indicate that this package needs Python-3.x ? (Reason, it fails here to install. I have masked

Re: [gentoo-user] RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS=3.* - what's that?

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Feb, Justin wrote: On 08/02/10 09:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the recent dev-python/matplotlib-0.99.1.1-r1 contains the statement RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS=3.* Does anybody know what that means? Does it indicate that this package needs Python-3.x ? (Reason, it fails here to

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-08 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker? [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 12:58:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/mdstat ) Is there a way that will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 02:11:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and what happens if you don't use crap - aka sudo but do it the right way - aka su to root? Exactly the same, of course. -- Rgds Peter.

[gentoo-user] Request of emerge --info =CAT/PKG-VERSION

2010-02-08 Thread Justin
Hi all, if you are filling a bug or if you will be asked to provide emerge --info =CAT/PKG-VERSION then please provide not only the output of emerge --info but the output including the =CAT/PKG-VERSION. One the one hand this shows which *FLAGS etc. are actually used for building this package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: a) cfdisk might work while fdisk does not. I get the same from cfdisk: FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair with the testdisk tool Good idea. I'll have a go at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:25:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You said that Google didn't help, but still, I've found some info about it. In short, I've found two things: a) cfdisk might work while fdisk does not. Interesting. My personal experience has been the opposite: cfdisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-08 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/7/10, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Can someone who knows more Java than I do see what's missing? I claim no knowledge over java on Gentoo (they changed it again when I just thought I had it figured out). But you could try running a small sanity check for java:

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Montag 08 Februar 2010 01:27:59 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at the moment. Google doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: sorry to have forgotten is but simply do df and see what it says is mounted $ df Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs            

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: 3) A long time ago, there was a bios option for bootsector-protection, I've never tried this, and I also don't have any idea whether linux sees that in any way. If there is such an option, disable it.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 01:42:18PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using default values it

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Stroller
When is a disk not a disk? According to Dell: when you source it from a 3rd-party. http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-February/041274.html http://tinyurl.com/yer7n9o Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better results also. [snip] These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older computers. For instance, my laptop BIOS would not boot from the toshiba drive I mentioned earlier. However when used

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 13:05:25 Arttu V. wrote: But you could try running a small sanity check for java: java-check-environment It reports sanity and offers me congratulations. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 15:02:51 Mark Knecht wrote: Did you intend to have 3 100MB partitions at the start of your drive and then everything else inside of an extended partition? It's not wrong - it was just unexpected for me. I did, but I think I'll revert to just a single boot partition.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 07 February 2010 18:12:58 Mark Knecht wrote: What do you see with java-config -l ? $ java-config -L The following VMs are available for generation-2: *)      IcedTea6-bin 1.7 [icedtea6-bin] 2)      Sun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair with the testdisk tool (after you make a full backup of your disk.) That seems to have been it. Testdisk did indeed write a new partition table, minus one of the

[gentoo-user] OT?: Gentoo hosted web services

2010-02-08 Thread James
Hello, Kind of a strange request here. I'm looking for somebody to hire to create a sports (basketball) web site, host it for a few months, until I get my new network ( location) all set up and then transfer the website to my servers. I'll be running apache and both prim/sec DNS servers,

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Feb 2010, at 05:25, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: [snip] OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better results also. [snip] These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older computers. For instance, my

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

2010-02-08 Thread walt
On 02/07/2010 10:19 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz mailto:ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Sun, 02/07, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: === Ok, nice approach. The problem is that no package can be installed because

Re: [gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6

2010-02-08 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. Does it do the same with standard printing jobs? I ask because I have an Epson printer that failed on the CUPS test page,

Re: [gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6

2010-02-08 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. Does it do the same with standard printing jobs? I ask because I have an Epson printer that failed on the CUPS test page,

[gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel in a trial run. :-) However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. The X Server Configuration HOWTO, section 3. Configuring Xorg says:

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:20 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! OH HAI! [snip to the crux:] Can this new-style fragmented XML configuration do anything that a good old-fashioned, human-readable and compact xorg.conf can't? If so, what? What am I missing here? presumably you're missing

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my head in shame and apologise for the noise! ;-) I believe you'll be hearing from Dale in

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Tom Hendrikx
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel in a trial run. :-) However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. The X Server Configuration HOWTO,

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC.  It only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel in a trial run.  :-) However, I'm now trying to get X up and running.  

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi Willie, OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using default values it had the starting sector was 63 Same here. - probably about the worst value

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my head in

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:02:51 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Is this some sort of LVM thing creeping in? I don't use it but I see signs of it starting to show up on my systems like something is making it come in with new profiles or something. I don't know how LVM works but I assume that rootfs

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts of my RAID5) are starting on sector 63 and I don't have sufficient free space (or free time) to

Re: [gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6

2010-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:03:19 -0800, Grant wrote: 2. I'm using a USB-serial converter and I get a permissions error when trying to print unless I chmod /dev/ttyUSB0. The file shows up before chmod as: crw-rw 1 root uucp The problem with chmod is it resets after unplug/plug. My user

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi Willie,    OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using default values it had

[gentoo-user] Am I an Erasee ?

2010-02-08 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I wanted to unsubscribe from this list, but the mlmmj said, that I cannot unsubscribe since I am not subscribed. Which isn't quite right as you can see here. I fear if I would subscribe now a second time and unsubscribe than, I will become two erasees... What can I do to become real

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:05, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: ... - probably about the worst value it could be. Hm what about those first 62 sectors? If I'm understanding correctly, then the drive will *always* have to start at the 63rd sector, then swing back round and start reading a 1st

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 19:36:49 Mark Knecht wrote: I actually meant to try the lower case L. Mine shows some ant stuff which I think you were having trouble with, at least in the compile messages? Hmm. That gave me the clue; yes, freemind was throwing an ant error during compilation (but

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenziea...@muc.de wrote: Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my head in shame and

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:05:11AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi Willie, OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using default values it had

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:20:47PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. The X Server Configuration HOWTO, section 3. Configuring Xorg says: Hal comes with many premade device rules, also called policies. These policy files are available in

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: 4) Everything I've done so far leave me with messages about partition 1 not ending on a cylinder boundary. Googling on that one says don't worry about it. I don't know... Would that be when there’s a + sign behind the end sector? I believe to

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

2010-02-08 Thread Konstantinos Bekiaris
What do you have in /etc/env.d/gcc/? I have this: #ls -l /etc/env.d/gcc/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 2010-02-08 11:53 config-i686-pc-linux-gnu -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2009-01-29 12:33 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2009-07-04 09:02 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2

[gentoo-user] severe tearing and system lockup

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I've had this problem with various nvidia-drivers and never been able to track it down. AFAIR it only happens during certain (one?) xscreensaver hack. One of the 3d ones, but not necessarily one named GL* When the hack starts, I see multiple tears every 1-2cm (10-15 in all), each one