[gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

2011-05-17 Thread Mick
I had no problem building it on another gentoo box, but this one is giving me a headache. All packages build fine until the last package enlightenment and then it fails complaining about ... hal! # emerge -1aDv x11-wm/enlightenment These are

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 16 May 2011 20:55:39 Dale wrote: root@smoker / # du -shc /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/ 7.6M/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/ 7.6Mtotal root@smoker / # It's not much but it could help. Imagine a system that's been kept updated for over 10 years and a new kernel comes out

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 08:23 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: I had no problem building it on another gentoo box, but this one is giving me a headache. All packages build fine until the last package enlightenment and then it fails complaining about ... hal! [snip

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: should be referred to using the neuter form of pronouns, i.e. it, as befitting their overall contribution to humanity. You see what I did there? You see how I recovered with a witty reposte without even blinking an eye? It takes

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more effective than that awk does pattern matching, o you can

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:16 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: While we are nitpicking: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, That should be greatest writer, the other fellow was not the greatest - he merely wrote soap operas. -- alan dot

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote: ... Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition only, ... So how do i proceed? Is it; 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer Who do you class as the greatest English writer then? , so that should be telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) [nipick] even form me? :P [/nitpick] -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

2011-05-17 Thread Yohan Pereira
i generally kill knotify and kded when they misbehave and haven't encountered any noticeable problems after doing so. I hate it when i forget to check for these two before starting an overnight portage update. also heres a blog post related to the kded problem i seen on planet kde recently.

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer Who do you class as the greatest English writer then? Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:58:20 +0100, Mick wrote: I'm beginning to think that openrc goes back to the old Linux way. In other words, it uses the init levels instead of softlevels. Yes, this seems to be the case, although not in a clear way (otherwise why is softlevel=nonetwork working?)

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 09:29:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, That should be greatest writer, the other fellow was not the greatest - he merely wrote soap operas. I don't know what you mean, unless you mistakenly assumed I was referring

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:22:35 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) [nipick] even form me? :P [/nitpick] I think we should both be more careful with our typing when nit-picking :( -- Neil Bothwick COMMAND: A suggestion made to a

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:35:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer Who do you class as the

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:19:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:22:35 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) [nipick] even form me? :P [/nitpick] I think we should both be more careful with our typing when nit-picking :(

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:21 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:35:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and a Mobile Phone

2011-05-17 Thread dhk
On 05/17/2011 06:10 AM, Dave Kuhl wrote: I had mail forwarding turned on, so my replies to gentoo-user were getting kicked. Hopefully adding myself and then replying will keep this the same thread. From: Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net To:

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Indi
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:40:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 09:16 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: While we are nitpicking: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, That should be greatest writer, the other

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-05-17, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk Okay - that's not entirely KDE's problem; though it would have helped a long way with the KDE4 transition if they kept a few people working on those issues. How would you feel if you were a KDE dev told we're all

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-17 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 16 May 2011 20:55:39 Dale wrote: root@smoker / # du -shc /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/ 7.6M/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/ 7.6Mtotal root@smoker / # It's not much but it could help. Imagine a system that's been kept updated for over 10 years

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On 2011-05-17, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc In

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Juan Diego Tascón writes: I have always wondered if there is a way to do awk '{ print $1}' using only builtin bash functions when you only have a one line string str=one two five # remove all from the first blank on, but will not work with # other whitespace echo ${str%% *} or # set $1, $2,

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild?

2011-05-17 Thread Alex Schuster
fe...@crowfix.com writes: At any rate, it seems kind of odd. What is the proper way of using module_rebuild?It seems to me there are two cases, and maybe that is why this script has this odd code. If you have just built a brand new kernel, you might want to rebuild the module list from

[gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. On the other machine there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Juan Diego Tascón writes: I have always wondered if there is a way to do awk '{ print $1}' using only builtin bash functions when you only have a one line string str=one two five # remove all from the first blank on,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:58:20 +0100, Mick wrote: I'm beginning to think that openrc goes back to the old Linux way. In other words, it uses the init levels instead of softlevels. Yes, this seems to be the case, although not in a clear way (otherwise why is

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-05-17, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Juan Diego Tascón writes: I have always wondered if there is a way to do awk '{ print $1}' using only builtin bash functions when you only have a one line string str=one two five # remove all from the first blank on, but will not work

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Imagine a system that's been kept updated for over 10 years and a new kernel comes out every month (on average) You could end up with 120 of these, and then it would be 912MB... Have you been looking at my computer?? ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 17 May 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc useless use of ... awk '/GET \/Tmp\/Linux\/G/{ips[$1]++;}END{print length(ips);}' \ /var/log/apache2/access_log I add each access to

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 09:49:52 Paul Hartman wrote: Have you been looking at my computer?? ;) As if I'd admit that over an open forum? ;) -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Good day, Helmut! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Nearly identical is a bit like slightly pregnant. How about making

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit-

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Blakawk
On Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines

[gentoo-user] Re: Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread James
Helmut Jarausch jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations. Tricky problem. Maybe set up the good machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
Leonardo 2011/5/17 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message

2011-05-17 Thread walt
On 05/16/2011 02:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. Would somebody please help me. In every program in Gnome, there is a help menu. When I click on any of them, I get the wierd error message: Couldn't display help The specified location is not supported Does this just

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread Stroller
On 17/5/2011, at 11:43am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On 2011-05-17, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc ... awk does pattern

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Stroller
On 17/5/2011, at 4:52pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... What you want to do is: find the bug. Or, y'know: just `emerge -e world` and see if it goes away. I know this is a bit of brute force ignorance, but: 1) if the bug goes away when you recompile everything then it was a difficult bug

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-17 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and available to the user

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

2011-05-17 Thread Mick
On 17 May 2011 08:01, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 08:23 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly:   eukit = 1.0.999   ehal ) were not met: No package 'ehal' found e17 from svn works fine here. What version are you trying to install?

[gentoo-user] Re: ldd -r /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 = undefined symbol:

2011-05-17 Thread walt
On 05/16/2011 02:06 PM, Pau Peris wrote: Hi, does anyone knows how to solve it? Reemerging did nothing ldd -r /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 (snippage) undefined symbol: _ZN5QHashIi15QHashDummyValueE13detach_helperEv (/usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2) undefined symbol:

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 17:57:42 Blakawk wrote: As far as i remember, i don't see why modification times will enter in the md5sum computation process, as they are not part of the file but of the filesystem's inode... it's definitely possible to compare two binaries on two different system

[gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Mick
It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to explain: In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Walt. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:07:38AM -0700, walt wrote: On 05/16/2011 02:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. Would somebody please help me. In every program in Gnome, there is a help menu. When I click on any of them, I get the wierd error message: Couldn't display

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:34 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On 17 May 2011 08:01, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 08:23 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: eukit = 1.0.999 ehal ) were not met:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

2011-05-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 09:17:45 Yohan Pereira wrote: i generally kill knotify and kded when they misbehave and haven't encountered any noticeable problems after doing so. Yes, same here. Once I kill them, no problem thereafter. They don't seem to me to be related to some process running

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 21:22:56 +0100, Mick wrote: In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy all of the real estate in the left monitor only. If the application was in the right monitor, it would

Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

2011-05-17 Thread James Cloos
I == Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com writes: Leafnode works fine here. I Output of xinetd -d Looks fine. In addition to the other reply's suggestions, does running /usr/sbin/leafnode from a root shell work? Have you run fetchnews at least once? -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to explain: In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

2011-05-17 Thread Mick
of 'emerge -pqv =x11-wm/enlightenmen 999'. * This ebuild is from an overlay named 'enlightenment': '/var/lib/layman/enl tenment/' * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/x11-wm:enlightenmen 999:20110517-220701.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.05.2011 22:22, schrieb Mick: It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to explain: In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was positioned say in the

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:22 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 21:32:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:34 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On 17 May 2011 08:01, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 22:09:41 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 21:22:56 +0100, Mick wrote: In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy all of the real estate in the left monitor only. If

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:35:30 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 17.05.2011 22:22, schrieb Mick: It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to explain: In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-17 Thread Dale
William Hubbs wrote: Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-17 Thread Dale
William Hubbs wrote: Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
2011/5/17 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net Am 17.05.2011 22:22, schrieb Mick: It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to explain: In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an

[gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X server running? Before a recent update the output would just automatically go to an external monitor when one is connected. Now it does not; not sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X server running? Before a recent update the output would just

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/17/2011 11:20 PM, Mark Shields wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com mailto:val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Bill Longman
I don't know if this is considered hijacking this thread or not but I have a similar issue getting my kde to remember its screen layout. Two screens with different resolutions and kde just will NOT remember what I tell it to do. Is there some secret X mojo I have to do to the X configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.comwrote: On 05/17/2011 11:20 PM, Mark Shields wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com mailto:val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What controls the screen output to an

Re: [gentoo-user] Double mount entry?

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
-- 8 -- lots of snippage -- 8 -- Thanks everyone for the answers! I had thought my system had gone mad. Apparently not. :-) Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/17/2011 11:51 PM, Mark Shields wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com mailto:val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a

[gentoo-user] open-vm-tools FATAL: Module vmblock not found

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
I've emerged open-vm-tools, but why does startup now showing FATAL: Module vmblock not found. ? That said, system boots okay. It's a virtualized (cloud) server on top of VMware vSphere Cloud. When I created the VM, I specified using PV-SCSI instead of LSI Logic. Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 06:18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:01 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them