[gentoo-user] Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to become the next person after U.S. Senator Ernie Chambers to sue God

2010-09-22 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 o f Singapore
I want to sue God for being too busy and unresponsive. How can I file a lawsuit against Him at the United States Supreme Court? -- Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Alma Maters: [

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-22 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Thanks Mick. My host is big with multiple data centers of their own. They did exactly as I asked and I'm running on new RAM. There was a problem bringing my system back online and the cause was purported to be an unseated ethernet cable. I handed over my root password as I was re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-22 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 ( Assume gui-admin is an X program ) But (gk|kde)su(do)? works. This is somewhat confusing.

Re: [gentoo-user] usb-storage errors in dmesg

2010-09-22 Thread me
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Bill Longman wrote: >  I have a new workstation running 64 bits 2.6.34 gentoo sources. It's an > HP p6520y (AthlonIIX4) with 6GB and lsusb reports an Alcor Micro 21-in-1 > Flash Card Reader. > > I have no usb storage devices plugged in and I see in my dmesg many of

[gentoo-user] usb-storage errors in dmesg

2010-09-22 Thread Bill Longman
I have a new workstation running 64 bits 2.6.34 gentoo sources. It's an HP p6520y (AthlonIIX4) with 6GB and lsusb reports an Alcor Micro 21-in-1 Flash Card Reader. I have no usb storage devices plugged in and I see in my dmesg many of the following messages: usb-storage: queuecommand called usb-

Re: [gentoo-user] Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread David Relson
Or, as a script ... --- begin bin/belly --- RANGE=$1 shift sed -n ${RANGE}p $* --- end -- On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:04:43 +0200 Maciej Grela wrote: > 2010/9/22 Al : > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should > > display a given range of lines or take a line and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Checking an HD for problems

2010-09-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:00 on Wednesday 22 September 2010, walt did opine thusly: > On 09/22/2010 01:26 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 22 Sep 2010, at 17:46, Grant wrote: > >> ... I noticed some errors when I was cp -ax'ing everything > >> from my old drive to the new drive which were acco

[gentoo-user] Re: Checking an HD for problems

2010-09-22 Thread walt
On 09/22/2010 01:26 PM, Stroller wrote: On 22 Sep 2010, at 17:46, Grant wrote: ... I noticed some errors when I was cp -ax'ing everything from my old drive to the new drive which were accompanied by loud clicks. Is there a way to do a comprehensive test/check of the old drive to see if it has

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking an HD for problems

2010-09-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Sep 2010, at 17:46, Grant wrote: > ... I noticed some errors when I was cp -ax'ing everything > from my old drive to the new drive which were accompanied by loud > clicks. Is there a way to do a comprehensive test/check of the old > drive to see if it has any problems? You don't need to do

[gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 ( Assume gui-admin is an X program ) But (gk|kde)su(do)? works. This is somewhat confusing. sudo doesn't keep the $

Re: [gentoo-user] X programs as root

2010-09-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 22 September 2010, Andrey Vul wrote: > When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: > > $sudo gui-admin > No protocol specified > gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 > > ( Assume gui-admin is an X program ) > > But (gk|kde)su(do)? works. This is somewhat confusing. >

[gentoo-user] X programs as root

2010-09-22 Thread Andrey Vul
When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 ( Assume gui-admin is an X program ) But (gk|kde)su(do)? works. This is somewhat confusing. -- Andrey "m05hbear" Vul

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking an HD for problems

2010-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Grant wrote: > I just switched to a new WD Caviar Black hard drive (really fast and > quiet!) and I noticed some errors when I was cp -ax'ing everything > from my old drive to the new drive which were accompanied by loud > clicks.  Is there a way to do a comprehens

[gentoo-user] Checking an HD for problems

2010-09-22 Thread Grant
I just switched to a new WD Caviar Black hard drive (really fast and quiet!) and I noticed some errors when I was cp -ax'ing everything from my old drive to the new drive which were accompanied by loud clicks. Is there a way to do a comprehensive test/check of the old drive to see if it has any pr

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-22 Thread Grant
>> >> I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my >> >> hosted server.  Running mcelog I get: >> >> ... >> >> > >> >> > They offered to take my machine down and do a memory test which they >> >> > said would take a number of hours.  Is a memory test likely to h

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't connect to new router

2010-09-22 Thread Grant
>> >> >> I just got a new TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wireless router but I can't seem >> >> >> connect to it.  I've tried the Gentoo initscript as well as wicd. >> >> >> With the initscript, I get: >> >> >> >> >> >> wlan3: carrier lost >> >> >> wlan3: timed out >> >> >> >> >> >> I see a lot of this in dme

[gentoo-user] Re: Qt 4.7.0: where's the documentation?

2010-09-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/22/2010 06:49 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I noticed that Qt 4.7.0 does not have a doc USE flag and does not install any html docs in /usr/share/doc for offline use. What's happening? I have not installed Qt 4.7.0 but looking at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:47 on Wednesday 22 September 2010, Al did opine thusly: > >> gr...@pazuzu ~ $ cat /etc/passwd | sed -n -e '4,10 p' > > > > Best solution so far, but useless use of cat, and the subshell overhead > > of the pipe. > > Thank you. Nice solutions and they reveal th

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt 4.7.0: where's the documentation?

2010-09-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I noticed that Qt 4.7.0 does not have a doc USE flag and does not install > any html docs in /usr/share/doc for offline use.  What's happening? I have not installed Qt 4.7.0 but looking at the ebuilds it looks like perhaps the documentat

Re: [gentoo-user] Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread Al
>> gr...@pazuzu ~ $ cat /etc/passwd | sed -n -e '4,10 p' > > > Best solution so far, but useless use of cat, and the subshell overhead of > the pipe. > Thank you. Nice solutions and they reveal that there is no "belly" like program in coreutils. I find it interesting, that the two bordercases ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Al wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display > a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. sed -n 5,8p filename where 5 is first line in the range and 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread Florian CROUZAT
On 22 sept. 2010, at 17:04, Maciej Grela wrote: > 2010/9/22 Al : >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display >> a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. >> >> Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. >> > > gr...@pazuzu ~ $ cat /e

Re: [gentoo-user] Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/9/22 Al : > Hi, > > I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display > a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. > gr...@pazuzu ~ $ cat /etc/passwd | sed -n -e '4,10 p' adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/bin/false l

[gentoo-user] Re: Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread Remy Blank
Al wrote: > I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display > a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. How about combining both? Show 10 lines starting with line 20: tail -n +20 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread Al
Hi, I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt 4.7.0: where's the documentation?

2010-09-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:08 on Wednesday 22 September 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > I noticed that Qt 4.7.0 does not have a doc USE flag and does not > install any html docs in /usr/share/doc for offline use. What's happening? Lazy dev? Didn't get round to it yet? --

[gentoo-user] Qt 4.7.0: where's the documentation?

2010-09-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I noticed that Qt 4.7.0 does not have a doc USE flag and does not install any html docs in /usr/share/doc for offline use. What's happening?

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't connect to new router

2010-09-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 02:26:40 Grant wrote: > >> >> I just got a new TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wireless router but I can't seem > >> >> connect to it. I've tried the Gentoo initscript as well as wicd. > >> >> With the initscript, I get: > >> >> > >> >> wlan3: carrier lost > >> >> wlan3: timed

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:13:01 Jake Moe wrote: > On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > > > > > > > >> Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that > >> I can't seem to get the disk label working r

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 02:24:39 Grant wrote: > >> I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my > >> hosted server. Running mcelog I get: > >> ... > >> > > >> > They offered to take my machine down and do a memory test which they > >> > said would take

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread Jake Moe
On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > > > >> Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that >> I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, >> if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread Jake Moe
On 09/22/10 17:02, Al wrote: >> And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I >> found these in the Gentoo Wiki: >> USB Portable Install - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install >> Portable USB Gentoo - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that > I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, > if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not > found, but sda1 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread Al
> > And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I > found these in the Gentoo Wiki: > USB Portable Install - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install > Portable USB Gentoo - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo > > Unfortunately, both use genkernel