Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Stroller
On 12/4/2011, at 5:49am, Carlos Sura wrote: ... When I try to run LibreOffice as normal user, I can see the splash (of libreoffice) but nothing more... Cannot use any libreoffice application, it just don't work, fas as I can see is the libreoffice splash. No errors (as normal user), after

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Carlos Sura
On 12 April 2011 00:00, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 12/4/2011, at 5:49am, Carlos Sura wrote: ... When I try to run LibreOffice as normal user, I can see the splash (of libreoffice) but nothing more... Cannot use any libreoffice application, it just don't work, fas as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-12 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.comwrote: On 04/06/2011 07:45 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: When I run qemu -no-kvm things work as expected under hardened kernel. Using regular kernel (none hardened) qemu works ok. So, the problem is running qemu under hardened

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:49:24 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: When I try to run LibreOffice as normal user, I can see the splash (of libreoffice) but nothing more... Cannot use any libreoffice application, it just don't work, fas as I can see is the libreoffice splash. No errors (as normal user),

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:09:17 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using find /grub/stage1 If the symlink is there for boot - /boot -- and it is by default -- both work. I've found GRUB's handling of symlinks to be variable at best. Try searching

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
110412 Carlos Sura wrote: On 12 April 2011 00:00, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Is this when you click on the libreoffice icon, or are you opening terminal window and running `/path/to/bin/libreoffice`? The latter should (hopefully) output some error messages. I agree : make

[gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread James
Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4. Mick, that's what I was wondering. No evidence either way, that I could find

[gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using It is. find /grub/stage1 grub find /grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found grub find /boot/grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found If the symlink is there for boot - /boot -- and it is by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: There's no need for extents on such a small partition, nor journalling (because you write to /boot so rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're doing so is minuscule). Yea,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: Strollerstrollerat stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: There's no need for extents on such a small partition, nor journalling (because you write to /boot so rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 09:57:26 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: Strollerstrollerat stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: There's no need for extents on such a small partition, nor journalling (because you write to /boot so rarely, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:57:26 Dale wrote: As for making things the same, that my not always be a good idea either. I might add a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: a foolish preoccupation with consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Printing phpmyadmin output

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've a weird one here. I'm rebuilding my local server on an Atom N270 box and I've reached the point of installing phpmyadmin on it to manage a MySQL database I'm developing. Three different browsers have no trouble displaying table structures, data, the database design and the

[gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I've found GRUB's handling of symlinks to be variable at best. Try searching for the real file. All the files are in /boot/grub: (chroot) slam grub # ls defaultgrub.conf minix_stage1_5 stage2.old device.map grub.conf.bak

[gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. If you know it's going to run, then you can do one of two things: 1) I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread felix
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:50:56AM -0700, BRM wrote: Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. That misses the point.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. That misses the point.  I have rebooted sometimes just for a quick change,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well -  and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data  corruption on disk. That misses the point.  I have rebooted  sometimes just for a quick

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 3:29:35 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted? Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time.  Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? Not once it has started, but there are some ways to avoid it running in the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: If it's an ext[123] you can use tune2fs -i 0 to set the auto-check interval to never. oops, I of course meant 234 not 123 :)

[gentoo-user] configure wlan0 route metric

2011-04-12 Thread deadeyes
Hi all, For my home network I am generally using wireless to get connected to the network and the internet. However for copying some large files I use the wire. That means I get 2 IPs in the same range. And both interfaces get the same metric : 0. I found out I can modify the metric for the

[gentoo-user] Re: Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Paul Hartman: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Paul Hartman If it's an ext[123] you can use tune2fs -i 0 to set the auto-check interval to never. oops, I of course meant 234 not 123 :) ;) But i prefer setting the interval to 1000 with 'tune2fs -c'. | It is strongly recommended that

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Carlos Sura
On 12 April 2011 04:09, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 110412 Carlos Sura wrote: On 12 April 2011 00:00, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Is this when you click on the libreoffice icon, or are you opening terminal window and running `/path/to/bin/libreoffice`? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? Not once it has started,

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Longman
As I try to run as (normal) user -terminal-, does not show me any output, no errors, no message. What happens when you run X as the root user? Do you get the same error? That is, log into a regular system terminal, start X, and run LO.