Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it will never be able to do the other stuff PA handles. This seems like a dumb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:45:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: QUESTION: As for ensuring that every package actually has a corresponding tbz2 file in the packages directory, would emerge -ek @world install everything from packages except in the case of something not existing in which case it

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? Because KDE is so weird all over the place. I can't see any material difference between the two links. Yes, there is none. This doesn't happen here,

[gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread trevor donahue
Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am left without disk space...

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 + trevor donahue donahue.tre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 trevor donahue wrote: Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed

[gentoo-user] Re: Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 13:37, trevor donahue wrote: Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed software (emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:37:44AM +, trevor donahue wrote: Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread trevor donahue
wow that was fast thanks a lot guys! done some research, turns out in home there is a .cache and the folder chromium there takes nearly 600mb, cleared chromium browsing / download history, cleared the cache. that freed it. Nikos Chantziaras, thanks, will test it tonight YoYo Siska, thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
trevor donahue writes: So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am left without disk space... In situations like this I start deleting /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:50:02 +, trevor donahue wrote: YoYo Siska, thanks for the good idea, put -doc in make.conf and nodoc in FEATURES You may want to reconsider the latter. The doc USE flag controls extra documentation, such as API stuff, while still installing man ages etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. Why

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell behavior

2012-02-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.02.2012 21:23, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2012-02-20 19:29, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: What does ~/.xsession-errors says? checked that already, I didn't see anything obvious in there (at least for ME) ... will check back tomorrow, I am not at the particular machine right

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 13:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 + trevor donahue donahue.tre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:45:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: QUESTION: As for ensuring that every package actually has a corresponding tbz2 file in the packages directory, would emerge -ek @world install everything from

[gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, does anyone have experience with cyrus-imapd on gentoo? I have to migrate an ancient suse-10.1-server, it runs: # rpm -qa | grep cyrus cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3 cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3 cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13 portage gives me cyrus-imapd-2.4.12 which is fine but I don't know if upgrading

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-28 Thread James Broadhead
On 28 February 2012 00:39, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 27 February 2012 23:29:35 Robin Atwood wrote: Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,  Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst  from Mandalay by

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-28 Thread James Broadhead
On 27 February 2012 23:29, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo, it looks like it got reorganised some time after version 3.0.0 and lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 11:23:40 Alex Schuster wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? Because KDE is so weird all over the place. Well I just hope the team get it sorted out

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread James Broadhead
On 28 February 2012 11:37, trevor donahue donahue.tre...@gmail.com wrote: In situations like this I start deleting /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even a revdep-rebuild to fix something, but even then I'm left with no more then 100 mb, which obviously is not enough ...

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:06:16 +0100 schrieb YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it will

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06:16AM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: This seems like a dumb question (for I was a strict PA denier until recently and have been using alsa-only since always), but does PA handle OSS applications better than alsa/dmix? Whenever I want to use sidplay, which only

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-28 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012, James Broadhead wrote: On 27 February 2012 23:29, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo, it looks like it got

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-28 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Wow. Thanks for all this knowledge.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread Willie Matthews
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:14:25 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the need for fragmentation. I routinely use 0 on non-system filesystems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. I have a question on this. I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. I have a question

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the need for fragmentation. I routinely use 0 on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

2012-02-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 04:49:40PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote I suggest splitting this step into two: 3a) Create /sbin/linuxrc containing at least ... chmod ... 3b) Append init=/sbin/linuxrc to bootloader line Slightly less confusing :-) OK. I'll modify it as suggested. There is

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I have a question on this. I have a drive that I use for movies and such. There is nothing OS related on that drive. Would it be safe to set this to say 1% or even 0? I'd say 1% is okay. For 0% I'm not sure, I avoid that, but maybe there will be no

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. It does. -- Neil Bothwick The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:05:41 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: But if you set m 0, the filesystem will become full sooner, so fragmentation will begin sooner (for non-root processes). Uh, really? I wouldn't think so. With m 0, there is much space left, in large contiguous chunks, even

[gentoo-user] firefox shows as Aurora

2012-02-28 Thread Thanasis
Installed www-client/firefox-10.0.1-r1 and it shows as Aurora in Help-About screen.

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox shows as Aurora

2012-02-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/02/12 08:42, Thanasis wrote: Installed www-client/firefox-10.0.1-r1 and it shows as Aurora in Help-About screen. Yeah, I had that problem too. It was an error in the mozconfig-3 eclass. This has been fixed, so simply resync your portage tree and rebuild firefox.

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. It does. Apparently I am missing something then. I

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, February 28, 2012 4:34 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, does anyone have experience with cyrus-imapd on gentoo? I have to migrate an ancient suse-10.1-server, it runs: # rpm -qa | grep cyrus cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3 cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3 cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13 portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 2:01 am, Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: snipped Also, it is already set up with LVM and ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? Sure! Cool, isn't it. Just call lvresize -L +1G /dev/mapper/whatever or something, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 8:10 am, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. It does.