Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi crashes

2010-07-14 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 21:25:10 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 14 July 2010 18:29:58 Mick wrote: > akonadi is attempting to update your database structure when it starts. > This accounts for any long start-up times you are experiencing. You should > try access the db manually (with akonadi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Any centralized documentation on qemu-kvm?

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:15 -0700, walt wrote: > On 07/13/2010 08:54 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > >Before anybody asks... > > 1) VirtualBox manages to do a hard locup on my Intel I3 > > 2) qemu depends on softmmu, which requires gcc 3.x > > > >So I installed qemu-kvm (different from qemu). The

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Any centralized documentation on qemu-kvm?

2010-07-14 Thread walt
On 07/13/2010 08:54 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Before anybody asks... 1) VirtualBox manages to do a hard locup on my Intel I3 2) qemu depends on softmmu, which requires gcc 3.x So I installed qemu-kvm (different from qemu). The documentation that I've found via Google is out-of-date/irrelavan

[gentoo-user] sys-power/nut-2.4.3-r2 fails to compile driver

2010-07-14 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I'm trying to upgrade nut to the latest stable version. I have the driver set in make.conf and according to the website, it is the correct driver. I also while searching around noticed I need to make sure I have the driver in /lib/nut and sure enough, it is there. In make.conf I

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 20:35:43 Jorge Almeida wrote: > How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a > directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is > really unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. I > didn't manage to google my way around this

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make "emerge --sync" less verbose?

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 19:45:46 Florian Philipp wrote: > Portage relies on rsync for it's emerge --sync. You can add extra > command line parameters to the rsync call by specifying them in the > variable > PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS > in your /etc/make.conf > > Take a look at `man rsync` for a l

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: >> In case anyone is listening, I did plug in an external keyboard (it's >> a >> laptop) and the extra keys on the external seem to work fine.  So this >> evidence also leads me to bel

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > In case anyone is listening, I did plug in an external keyboard (it's > a > laptop) and the extra keys on the external seem to work fine. So this > evidence also leads me to believe that something happened > hardware-wise, > though I have

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:04:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 14 July 2010 23:52:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a > > > directory with broken links? The thing gets in

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo (diet) && Ceph ?

2010-07-14 Thread James
Kyle Bader gmail.com> writes: > The two main things you'll have to do is build a kernel with ceph > support and then create an ebuild for ceph's userland utilities and > put it in your own overlay. If you have any ceph specific questions > on implementation or bugs then your best bet is either

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is not switching mirror when one is down

2010-07-14 Thread Jake Moe
On 15/07/10 02:16, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i have multiple mirrors configured in GENTOO_MIRRORS, /etc/make.conf. > i noticed that if the 1st mirror is down, emerge will continuously try > the 1st mirror. i remember it should switch to the 2nd server after > the try failed 3 times. how can i config

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 23:52:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a directory > > with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really > > unbearable if a directory contains lot

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo (diet) && Ceph ?

2010-07-14 Thread Kyle Bader
> Googling sometimes produces hilarious results. > > Seriously, I'm looking for any  information/brave > hack on using CEPH fs with Gentoo The two main things you'll have to do is build a kernel with ceph support and then create an ebuild for ceph's userland utilities and put it in your own ov

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a directory > with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really > unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. Isn't that rather like fixing low oil press

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100 Jorge Almeida > wrote: > >> How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a directory >> with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really >> unbearable if a directory contains lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev-related (?) problem

2010-07-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.07.2010 21:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Maybe this one: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322711 Yep, it was. Waiting for the boot took too long, chrooting and downgrading mdadm did solve it. Sorry for the noise

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi crashes

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 18:29:58 Mick wrote: > Over the last two days I have noticed a lot of crashes every time I > start kmail. The popup says: > > Details: Executable: akonadi_maildir_resource PID:27916 Signal: 6 > (Aborted) > > This pop up keeps repeating itself with different PIDs. Even

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its synt

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > >> I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules > >> (without relation to udev). > >> > >> But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user ! Dale, here's your chance to jump

[gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. I didn't manage to google my way around this problem. Maybe some other package has to be reconfigured... Th

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100 Jorge Almeida wrote: > How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a directory > with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really > unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. I didn't > manage to google my way around th

[gentoo-user] gentoo (diet) && Ceph ?

2010-07-14 Thread James
Googling sometimes produces hilarious results. Seriously, I'm looking for any information/brave hack on using CEPH fs with Gentoo Just for kicks: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ylxq12m04vbwag0a/ James

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-vnc build failure

2010-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Blackdream W writes: > HmmmSorry,U don't need to disable the "ccache".just type MAKEOPTS="-j1" > emerge -1av =net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1 Works. Thank you. I promise to (try real hard to) remember in the future to try -j1 *before* bothering the list. thanks again, allan

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-related (?) problem

2010-07-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.07.2010 21:02, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Found no udev-related bugs at bugs.gentoo.org ... > > Any idea, someone? Maybe this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322711 ? Will follow ... S

[gentoo-user] udev-related (?) problem

2010-07-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, I run ~amd64 here, at least I try ;-) So far everything up-to-date, kernel tuxonice-sources-2.6.34-r1, udev-160 I had to reboot before (something with KVM stuck and I decided to clear up things with init 6), clean reboot, and now I get the following: quite long wait at "Waiting for uev

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.07.2010 03:04, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into > gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to > "Unknown". For a long time it has always been set to "Evdev managed > keyboard" but that isn't even o

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make "emerge --sync" less verbose?

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.07.2010 18:48, schrieb Jarry: > Hi, > subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, > and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast > it saturates my connection. How can I make "emerge --sync" > somehow less verbose? > > I know, I can use "--quiet", but then I d

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-vnc build failure

2010-07-14 Thread Blackdream W
HmmmSorry,U don't need to disable the "ccache".just type MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerge -1av =net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1 2010/7/15 Blackdream W > MAKEOPTS="-j1" FEATURES="-ccache" emerge -1av =net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-vnc build failure

2010-07-14 Thread Blackdream W
MAKEOPTS="-j1" FEATURES="-ccache" emerge -1av =net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1

[gentoo-user] Re: Alpine-2.00-r3 undelete fails to perform implied function. Email eventually becomes expunged regardless of undelete command.

2010-07-14 Thread ubiquitous1980
On 15/07/10 00:34, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Hello Team, > > I am running Alpine-2.00-r3. In any folder, undelete fails to prevent > an email marked for deletion from being deleted. The delete mark > remains regardless of the output: > > [Deletion mark removed, message won't be deleted] > >

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-14 Thread Stroller
On 13 Jul 2010, at 23:06, Mick wrote: ... The larger "Y"-shaped keyboard/mouse-to-USB adapters usually support non-USB-compatible PS/2 mice, though. I have one like this and it works for me: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9291 Does this Y-shaped dongle contain any electronics in it

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-14 Thread Stroller
Hi Allan, Glad to have been some help. I can't answer any of your other questions, so it might be worth checking out the Totelm mailing list. The mplayer developers have a public ftp upload you can use to send them problematic files, maybe Totem devs have the same? Comments continue below

[gentoo-user] gtk-vnc build failure

2010-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
This morning (GMT-4) gtk-vnc failed to build. The first error I see is /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1/work/gtk-vnc-0.4.1/src/.libs/libgtk-vnc-1.0.so: file not recognized: File truncated collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The previous command is libtool: install: (cd /var/tmp/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] Camera App

2010-07-14 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Wednesday 14 July 2010 02:03:14, sean a écrit : > Is anyone able to recommend an application that can snap a picture using > a webcam? > > I would prefer one not really tied to Gnome or KDE, but if it is a must, > I would choose KDE. > > Being in portage is a nice plus as well. > >

[gentoo-user] Alpine-2.00-r3 undelete fails to perform implied function. Email eventually becomes expunged regardless of undelete command.

2010-07-14 Thread ubiquitous1980
Hello Team, I am running Alpine-2.00-r3. In any folder, undelete fails to prevent an email marked for deletion from being deleted. The delete mark remains regardless of the output: [Deletion mark removed, message won't be deleted] Steps to replicate problem: Access a folder, for examp

[gentoo-user] Akonadi crashes

2010-07-14 Thread Mick
Over the last two days I have noticed a lot of crashes every time I start kmail. The popup says: Details: Executable: akonadi_maildir_resource PID:27916 Signal: 6 (Aborted) This pop up keeps repeating itself with different PIDs. Eventually, all settles and I can use kmail. The problem has sta

[gentoo-user] emerge is not switching mirror when one is down

2010-07-14 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have multiple mirrors configured in GENTOO_MIRRORS, /etc/make.conf. i noticed that if the 1st mirror is down, emerge will continuously try the 1st mirror. i remember it should switch to the 2nd server after the try failed 3 times. how can i configure it to switch mirrors automatically? --

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-14 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Wednesday 14 July 2010 05:49:48 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 05:49:48 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for > >>> kicks and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 06:39:51 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for > >>> kicks and

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules > (without relation to udev). > > But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user ! Dale, here's your chance to jump in and comment. This user

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-13, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Good. Life will be better now that you have xft support. :-) I'm looking forward to it. :) While messing around with this issue, I played with fontconfig a little bit (which didn't help, since I hadn't enabled xft support in emacs yet). However, I did m

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:03 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into > > > gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my k

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-14 Thread Rod
On 14/07/2010 3:01 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer I found that the problem (on mine at least) was th

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le lundi 12 juillet 2010 10:31:34, Neil Bothwick a écrit : > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:19:25 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you > > > tell it to use a particular keyboard layout? > > > > 19:18:09 steph...@luciole:/etc/udev/rules.d $