Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:44:23 +0800, sam new wrote: As we know, HAL is not used by Xorg for output devices or any other devices,so I want to remove it completely,I set USE=-hal in /etc/make.conf ,and recompile the packages, and also modify /etc/conf.d/xdm with NEED_HALD=no ,exec

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 25.07.2010 15:57, schrieb Mick: On Sunday 25 July 2010 09:18:33 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2010 06:57:43 KH wrote: You said you ran e2fsck and it was OK. What was the command? Normally with an e2fsck on a journalled fs, the app will replay the journal and make

[gentoo-user] my /etc/conf.d/clock file is missing

2010-07-28 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i just installed a new gentoo amd64 system, and i cannot find the /etc/conf.d/clock file. do i miss some package? i cannot remember there's a package to install the /etc/conf.d/clock file. -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] my /etc/conf.d/clock file is missing

2010-07-28 Thread Xi Shen
sorry. it is renamed to /etc/conf.d/hwclock...my bad :P On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i just installed a new gentoo amd64 system, and i cannot find the /etc/conf.d/clock file. do i miss some package? i cannot remember there's a package to

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread sam new
I use emerge -avuNDt world ,find out that is gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 ,and also check the ebuild that depends hal .but I mask it in the package.mask why still emerge gnome-mount and hal ,maybe gnome-mount depends hal,and others depends gnome-mount ,how can I do? On 28 July 2010 13:01, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-28 Thread BRM
I was updating my AMD64 system last night - which has an nVidia card and uses the nVidia binary stack - and ran into problems. jasper won't compile with nVidia's provide opengl implementation. But bug report[1] notes suggest the problem is in nVidia's binary layer and all the crap the replace.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it but ... There is no /dev/hd* . Running

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 07:04 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything.

[gentoo-user] USB SDHC Card Reader works, but only if mounted first in WinXP virtual machine

2010-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a USB SDHC card reader whose partition table is not read, and device node not created, when plugged into my Gentoo Linux computer. I posted about this a year or two ago but was never able to get it working, until I recently made an accidental discovery: If I let a VMWare WinXP take

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 01:50 AM, KH wrote: Hi, I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it but ... There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
On 28 July 2010 15:27, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 07:04 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
I can't understand what you have typed. Please run emerge -avuNDt world and post the entire output here. On Wednesday 28 July 2010 15:34:23 sam new wrote: I use emerge -avuNDt world ,find out that is gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 ,and also check the ebuild that depends hal .but I mask it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 16:04, schrieb Mick: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 15:53, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 07:56 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 01:50 AM, KH wrote: Hi, I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 16:04, schrieb Mick: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 17:30, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Hi Mick, but typing ls /dev/hd* or ls /dev/sd* should show up something. Shouldn't it? df -h shows /dev/hda3 is mounted on / For me this is strange. How is /dev mounted right now? What does udevadm --version

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 17:27, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 07:56 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: Konstantin, please post what your kernel has for IDE support. If you have /proc/config.gz, then please post the results from zgrep IDE /proc/config.gz so we can get an idea

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 28 Juli 2010, sam new wrote: I use emerge -avuNDt world ,find out that is gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 ,and also check the ebuild that depends hal .but I mask it in the package.mask why still emerge gnome-mount and hal ,maybe gnome-mount depends hal,and others depends gnome-mount

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 05:44 AM, sam new wrote: Hi All, As we know, HAL is not used by Xorg for output devices or any other devices,so I want to remove it completely,I set USE=-hal in /etc/make.conf ,and recompile the packages, and also modify /etc/conf.d/xdm with NEED_HALD=no ,exec rc-update

[gentoo-user] Re: USB SDHC Card Reader works, but only if mounted first in WinXP virtual machine

2010-07-28 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I have a USB SDHC card reader whose partition table is not read, and device node not created, when plugged into my Gentoo Linux computer. Here's a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital Also there is mini-SD and

[gentoo-user] Re: USB SDHC Card Reader works, but only if mounted first in WinXP virtual machine

2010-07-28 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: Hi, I have a USB SDHC card reader OOPs, I forgot a really important link: http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdcard/ Look in the simplified specification first. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna eat your cat. Although it may kill your crew. -- Neil Bothwick I'm not closed minded, you're just wrong. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 09:37 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 17:27, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 07:56 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: Konstantin, please post what your kernel has for IDE support. If you have /proc/config.gz, then please post the results from zgrep IDE

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey 2.0.5 crashes on print

2010-07-28 Thread James
Hello, Seamonkey 1.18 worked and printed just fine to my HP HP_Officejet_Pro_8500_A909g HP Officejet Pro 8500 . Now recently cups, hplip and many packages where updated. I can print using 'lp' commands from the command line to this printer. The printer test page, via 631:localhost print is

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna eat your cat. Although it may kill your crew. I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. They think

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 17:35:44 KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 17:30, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Hi Mick, but typing ls /dev/hd* or ls /dev/sd* should show up something. Shouldn't it? df -h shows /dev/hda3 is mounted on / For me this is strange. How is

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 11:54 AM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2010 17:35:44 KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 17:30, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Hi Mick, but typing ls /dev/hd* or ls /dev/sd* should show up something. Shouldn't it? df -h shows /dev/hda3 is mounted on / For me

Re: [gentoo-user] panic:: octave: magick/semaphore.c:525: [...] failed

2010-07-28 Thread pk
On 2010-07-26 18:16, Valmor de Almeida wrote: - ./test.m octave: magick/semaphore.c:525: LockSemaphoreInfo: Assertion `semaphore_info != (SemaphoreInfo *) ((void *)0)' failed. panic: Aborted -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... save to `octave-core'

[gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file

2010-07-28 Thread Andrey Vul
Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch /tmp/foo = strerror(ENOENT)). However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. df -i shows only 2% inode usage. Any explanation as to why a rwx-ed dir can't be written to? This is breaking quite a few of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why do you want to remove it in the first place?  It's not gonna eat your cat. Although it may kill your

Re: [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file

2010-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 22:20:17 Andrey Vul wrote: Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch /tmp/foo = strerror(ENOENT)). However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. df -i shows only 2% inode usage. Any explanation as to why a rwx-ed dir

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 23:08:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why

Re: [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 01:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2010 22:20:17 Andrey Vul wrote: Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch /tmp/foo = strerror(ENOENT)). However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. df -i shows only 2% inode

[gentoo-user] hdparm, CONFIG_ATA_SFF and KDE-4.4.4

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
The title may not make immediately sense, but this is what I have observed. I switched to CONFIG_ATA_SFF instead of the deprecated CONFIG_IDE. Up until that point I had passed -M 128 to hdparm once and my drive retained the settings between reboots and kept quiet. With the new kernel I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-28 Thread pk
If anyone else encounters this, I've found a solution to my problems: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst#Catalyst_10.6.2F10.7_:_black.2Fgrey.2Fwhite_boxes.2Fartifacts_in_firefox.2Fthunderbird http://phoronix.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-24323.html Apparently it's the new 2D

[gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file

2010-07-28 Thread Andrey Vul
If / was mounted ro, touch would output strerror(EROFS), not strerror(ENOENT) On 2010-07-28, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 01:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2010 22:20:17 Andrey Vul wrote: Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Andrey Vul
Ugh. Now i'll actually have to config policykit.conf. For some reason, match group=wheel return yes fails so much. Somehow the mount-ro defaults to no every time On 2010-07-28, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Andrey Vul
Ugh. Now i'll actually have to config policykit.conf. For some reason, match group=wheel return yes fails so much. Somehow the mount-ro defaults to no every time On 2010-07-28, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50,

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Btw, I think now the package is polkit, not policykit; I think the first replaced the second. If you enable the policykit USE flag for kdelibs and consolekit, only sys-auth/polkit gets installed, not sys-auth/policykit. However, if you enable that USE flag globally in make.conf, then I think

[gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

2010-07-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
Hello, For a while I have been assembling methods for myself to be able to easily create Gentoo-based virtual appliances. I have worked with Ubuntu's vmbuilder scripts and basically wanted the same or similar ease of use with Linux. To make a long story short, I threw together a Makefile which

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Just after posting this, I realized that KDE 4.4 uses policykit, but 4.5 uses the new polkit. I guess that's why I never needed to mess with any configuration files. On 07/29/2010 03:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Btw, I think now the package is polkit, not policykit; I think the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread sam new
They think that they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB hotplugging/automounting working,in Xorg 1.8, udev will replace HAL . we can use devicekit-disks package to mount USB stick or CD,USE polkit-gnome or ntfs3g to mount NTFS filesystem. so HAL is not needed.may be modify gnome-mount

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread sam new
I use emerge -avuNDt world ,just find out that is gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 is depend HAL On 28 July 2010 23:08, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I can't understand what you have typed. Please run emerge -avuNDt world and post the entire output here. On Wednesday 28 July

Re: [gentoo-user] timed out rsync error:

2010-07-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Dale wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mick wrote: On 26 July 2010 17:24, Valmor de Almeidaval.gen...@gmail.com wrote: I am still running into the same problem since a couple of days ago. I tried both SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage

Re: [gentoo-user] panic:: octave: magick/semaphore.c:525: [...] failed

2010-07-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
pk wrote: [snip] Hi, I tested your code (and variations of it) and I get the same result as you. Googling seems to indicate that lots of other people are having similar problems with imwrite/imread function. The functions are not part of the octave package but is an add-on. However, from

Re: [gentoo-user] timed out rsync error:

2010-07-28 Thread Dale
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Dale wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mick wrote: On 26 July 2010 17:24, Valmor de Almeidaval.gen...@gmail.com wrote: I am still running into the same problem since a couple of days ago. I tried both