[gentoo-user] e17 - changes in USE flags

2011-07-31 Thread Mick
I noticed that the latest enlightenment overlay (revision 723) brought with it a number of changes in the USE flags (a lot of e_modules_everything are now disabled). One of them 'e_modules_fileman-opinfo' is both enabled and disabled ... o_O Why is this? [ebuild R *]

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 01:53:39 Peter Humphrey wrote: I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a partition! Never heard anything like it. Not unheard of. If you have too small/large bs and the disk is relatively large it will take quite some hours to get it

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2011 15:50:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: One thing's certain: it's a good test of the USB disk! I just hope your power incident doesn't happen to me too. :-) That would suck. I sure did hate to lose my videos. I bet ATT

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 01:53:39 Peter Humphrey wrote: I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a partition! Never heard anything like it. Not unheard of. If you have too small/large bs and the disk is relatively large it will take quite some

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 31 at 05:44 (+0100), Stroller said: Hi there, I kinda feel I'm opening myself up for ridicule in asking this, but I'm on x86 stable (i.e. not ~x86) and this behaviour seems to have changed recently. During a recent `emerge --sync` I received the an update to portage

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 31.07.2011 06:44, schrieb Stroller: Hi there, I kinda feel I'm opening myself up for ridicule in asking this, but I'm on x86 stable (i.e. not ~x86) and this behaviour seems to have changed recently. During a recent `emerge --sync` I received the an update to portage is available -

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck and mount by label

2011-07-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.07.2011 16:01, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Hello list! I've noticed the following in my rc.log file: [file system mounting ...] opt: clean, 3127/6496 files, 108510/209920 blocks fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fsck and mount by label

2011-07-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.07.2011 21:37, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 07/30/2011 12:42 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hello list! I've noticed the following in my rc.log file: [file system mounting ...] opt: clean, 3127/6496 files, 108510/209920 blocks fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve »LABEL=backup« * Operational

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 - changes in USE flags

2011-07-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 31 July 2011 09:27:09 Mick did opine thusly: I noticed that the latest enlightenment overlay (revision 723) brought with it a number of changes in the USE flags (a lot of e_modules_everything are now disabled). One of them 'e_modules_fileman-opinfo' is both enabled and disabled ...

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 - changes in USE flags

2011-07-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 11:51:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun 31 July 2011 09:27:09 Mick did opine thusly: I noticed that the latest enlightenment overlay (revision 723) brought with it a number of changes in the USE flags (a lot of e_modules_everything are now disabled). One of them

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 July 2011 09:54:07 Albert Hopkins wrote: Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem. He's asking why upgrading world or system doesn't include upgrading portage. Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem. :-) -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 09:49:33 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 01:53:39 Peter Humphrey wrote: I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a partition! Never heard anything like it. Not unheard of. If you have too small/large bs and the disk is

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 - changes in USE flags

2011-07-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 31 July 2011 11:59:46 Mick did opine thusly: On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 11:51:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun 31 July 2011 09:27:09 Mick did opine thusly: I noticed that the latest enlightenment overlay (revision 723) brought with it a number of changes in the USE flags (a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 31 July 2011 12:08:01 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Sunday 31 July 2011 09:54:07 Albert Hopkins wrote: Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem. He's asking why upgrading world or system doesn't include upgrading portage. Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 31 at 12:08 (+0100), Peter Humphrey said: On Sunday 31 July 2011 09:54:07 Albert Hopkins wrote: Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem. He's asking why upgrading world or system doesn't include upgrading portage. Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Stroller
On 31 July 2011, at 10:02, Florian Philipp wrote: ... @system used to contain portage. It doesn't by default, anymore. If you do `emerge -pv --depclean`, portage should try to remove itself. Just add it to @world by doing `emerge --noreplace portage` Many thanks! Perfect answer. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Stroller
On 31 July 2011, at 13:15, Albert Hopkins wrote: Yeah, sorry about that. I think my understanding was clouded by all the peripheral discussion regarding stable/unstable and different versions of portage. That and the fact that I had just gotten out of bed when I read it :P They OP could

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-07-31 Thread Stroller
On 31 July 2011, at 00:56, Sebastian Pipping wrote: ... I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3 engines are there. My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme for GTK 3 (and the default is dead ugly). If it is file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 31 at 13:31 (+0100), Stroller said: Yeah, I specifically wanted to stave off suggestions of you should unmask the ~86 versions of portage, anyway, as I think I saw that view aired fairly robustly in another thread recently and it's really not for me. I was also quite

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck and mount by label

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 30.07.2011 16:01, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Hello list! I've noticed the following in my rc.log file: [file system mounting ...] opt:

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2011 15:50:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: One thing's certain: it's a good test of the USB disk! I just hope your power incident doesn't happen to me too.   :-) That would suck.  I

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 09:49:33 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 01:53:39 Peter Humphrey wrote: I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a partition! Never heard anything like it.

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 July 2011 14:15:20 Joshua Murphy wrote: Well, GParted, if I recall, does a couple checks to guess 'best' block size when cloning or moving a partition, but I'm really not sure how it does things when shrinking and shifting it sideways to a spot that overlaps with where it

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-07-31 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 31 July 2011, at 00:56, Sebastian Pipping wrote: ... I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3 engines are there.  My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme for GTK 3

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 29 July 2011 14:18:41 Michael Mol wrote: Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and you guys are probably the right ones to ask. I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about uses for them beyond using them for / or /home. 1) What

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 31 July 2011 14:15:20 Joshua Murphy wrote: Well, GParted, if I recall, does a couple checks to guess 'best' block size when cloning or moving a partition, but I'm really not sure how it does things when

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 29 July 2011 14:18:41 Michael Mol wrote: Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and you guys are probably the right ones to ask. I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet),

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-07-31 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, /var/tmp is very not important from a performance point of view - with the exception of /var/tmp/portage - and that is a candidate for tempfs. Actually I recently tested that theory and it was faster when /var/tmp/portage was on a hard drive instead of

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 July 2011 15:17:16 Joshua Murphy wrote: There probably is a fair chunk of difference in maximum speed the disk can work at on each end (I've even seen around a 20MB/s difference on several 160GB drives I've dealt with), but outside of some older drives that've been heavily abused

[gentoo-user] glew/glewmx or what?

2011-07-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, to compile the Mitsuba renderer I need glewmx (whatever this means). Postings on the net let me believe, that glewmx is a part of glew, which in turn is a gentoo package. But I found no USE-flags telling the package to build glew with glewmx...or I misunderstood the whole thing ... Can

[gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, My little Atom box's hard disk spins up every minute or so, and watching iotop I see it's jbd2 that does it. This is a kernel component, and the menuconfig help text says it's set automatically by having the block layer included (and who hasn't?) together with ext4. Google shows

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list, My little Atom box's hard disk spins up every minute or so, and watching iotop I see it's jbd2 that does it. This is a kernel component, and the menuconfig help text says it's set automatically by

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 01:53:39 Peter Humphrey wrote: All I have to do now is to persuade Win-XP to find the disk. No luck so far... I don't know what's your partition topology, but you may want to use: fixboot (to rewrite the partition boot record on the WinXP partition) fixmbr (to rewrite

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 July 2011 17:05:39 Michael Mol wrote: However, if it's doing that, then it probably has something it needs to write to disk. That might be metadata updates. What, at least once a minute? While the system's idling, waiting for something to do? Doesn't sound likely to me. Have

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 July 2011 18:20:02 Mick wrote: If the partition of the WinXP installation is intact then the position of the partition on the disk may be causing you trouble, in which case play around with the GRUB hide and chainload options to hide other disks/partitions, so that WinXP thinks

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-31 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: In fact it is so, by design. I don't know what I did, but after enough reboots Win-XP was happy. Thanks anyway. That sounds like winders. lol Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 31 July 2011 18:39:21 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Sunday 31 July 2011 17:05:39 Michael Mol wrote: However, if it's doing that, then it probably has something it needs to write to disk. That might be metadata updates. What, at least once a minute? While the system's idling,

Re: [gentoo-user] glew/glewmx or what?

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Sonntag, 31. Juli 2011, 17:09:08 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, to compile the Mitsuba renderer I need glewmx (whatever this means). Postings on the net let me believe, that glewmx is a part of glew, which in turn is a gentoo package. But I found no USE-flags telling the package

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-07-31 Thread Grant
That fixed it.  Thank you very much.  I'm a little puzzled because I don't get the unable to apply firmware patch messages on my desktop which also uses the r8169 driver and doesn't have linux-firmware installed. Maybe you have an older firmware installed from a different package? Run

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 31 July 2011 17:05:39 Michael Mol wrote: However, if it's doing that, then it probably has something it needs to write to disk. That might be metadata updates. What, at least once a minute? While the

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 31.07.2011 17:50, schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My little Atom box's hard disk spins up every minute or so, and watching iotop I see it's jbd2 that does it. This is a kernel component, and the menuconfig help text says it's set automatically by having the block layer included

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 10:44:28 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 29 July 2011 14:18:41 Michael Mol wrote: Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and you guys are probably the

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 10:44:28 schrieb Michael Mol: While I take your point about write-cycle limitations, and I would *assume* you're familiar with the various improvements on wear-leveling technique

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-07-31 Thread Adam Carter
Maybe you have an older firmware installed from a different package? Run emerge -p linux-firmware on that box to see if there's a blocker. linux-firmware is blocked by radeon-ucode and rt61-firmware, I'm guessing that radeon-ucode and rt61-firmware and all the others are being deprecated in

Re: [gentoo-user] Error on freemind execution

2011-07-31 Thread akio.tam...@gmail.com
Open java replaced with Sun java and now it is working fine. Tks, On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:41 PM, akio.tam...@gmail.com akio.tam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Srdjan, Thank you, but *user.**properties* has all lines commented so I believe it is not the cause of this issue... USE=-gtk does not

[gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-07-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go directly to `make menuconfig`? Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website:

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-07-31 Thread Jeremy McSpadden
Better to run make oldconfig. It merges the changes. -- Jeremy McSpadden def...@uberpenguin.net On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). Is

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-07-31 Thread Dale
Jeremy McSpadden wrote: Better to run make oldconfig. It merges the changes. -- Jeremy McSpadden def...@uberpenguin.net Yep. I always run make oldconfig then just run make make modules_install. Once oldconfig is done, the kernel should be configured and ready to build. Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go directly to `make

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-07-31 Thread Bill Longman
On Jul 31, 2011 7:06 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go directly to `make