Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:33:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: If I don't have £100 to spare, it's probably because I've already spent it on shiny for me :) You don't have an 'undred quid to buy shiny for your missus? Well, I buy lady-shiny for her, but that's completely different. And

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:13:02 +0800, wdk@moriah wrote: Have two here - disk less atoms as mythtv front ends - seems a common use case in the mythtv world. And another advantage is they sidestep the whole /user mess :) I've tried that in the past. Now I use the internal disk on the Acer Aspire

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:28:20 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: A manual initramfs is not that easy, no. And it becomes outdated more easily than an initramfs-creator-based approach. If you keep a separate directory for your initramfs files, this is true. But if your initramfs config is a list

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread YoYo Siska
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:33:27AM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Just got back from gentoo land. Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits there spinning. So I'll have to make do with pastebin. http://paste.ubuntu.com/890854/ hmm, pppd seems to bring the connection up ok and

[gentoo-user] Anybody having trouble with eix-remote?

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
I haven't been able to run eix-remote for a few days. I thought it might be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408567 but the maintainer says it's not, and indeed, the remote cache file that gets downloaded here appears to be more or less empty. (46 bytes...) Just want to see if

[gentoo-user] udev-182 already

2012-03-20 Thread walt
Yesterday udev-181, today udev-182. The devs are busy :) The update has some interesting changes worth noting, I think. First, udev-182 conflicts with hplip, but only if you have the 'acl' useflag set. The new gentoo-sources-3.3.0 introduces a kernel config item that you need to set according

Re: [gentoo-user] precompiled 32bit wxgtk

2012-03-20 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012 09:37:00 Andrey Moshbear wrote: Is there an ebuild for a precompiled 32-bit wxgtk? The xlink kai client needs it and none of the app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* have x11-libs/wxGTK. -- 001100 Andrey m05hbear 010010 00 andrey at moshbear dot net 11 andrey

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-182 already

2012-03-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/03/12 16:35, walt wrote: There is another useflag I've never noticed before, the 'openrc' useflag, which is used by udev to install the openrc init scripts. I just noticed and set that useflag today when updating udev because I'm still using openrc. I don't know what would have happened

Re: [gentoo-user] latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar

2012-03-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it leaves the session name on my screen status bar like: $eix-sync: Finished does anyone know anything about that? Is there perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-182 already

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:35:12 -0700, walt wrote: The new gentoo-sources-3.3.0 introduces a kernel config item that you need to set according to whether you use openrc or systemd. Which option is this? Searching in menuconfig for openrc or systemd returns nothing. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it leaves the session name on my screen status bar like: $eix-sync: Finished does anyone know anything about that? Is there perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar

2012-03-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 20, 2012 10:28 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it leaves the session name on my screen status bar like: $eix-sync:

[gentoo-user] Re: latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar

2012-03-20 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it leaves the session name on my screen status bar like: $eix-sync: Finished does anyone know anything about that? Is there perhaps something I can add to my shell

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-182 already

2012-03-20 Thread walt
On 03/20/2012 08:29 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:35:12 -0700, walt wrote: The new gentoo-sources-3.3.0 introduces a kernel config item that you need to set according to whether you use openrc or systemd. Which option is this? Searching in menuconfig for openrc or systemd

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-182 already

2012-03-20 Thread walt
On 03/20/2012 09:09 AM, walt wrote: I can't remember now why I even have syscall auditing support enabled, but I know that something important asked for it at the time. Do you happen to know? Ah, consolekit wants it. Trouble is, I still don't know why I want consolekit :)

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-182 already

2012-03-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:35 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday udev-181, today udev-182.  The devs are busy :) The update has some interesting changes worth noting, I think. First, udev-182 conflicts with hplip, but only if you have the 'acl' useflag set. The new

[gentoo-user] Re: Anybody having trouble with eix-remote?

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't been able to run eix-remote for a few days. I thought it might be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408567 but the maintainer says it's not, and indeed, the remote cache file that gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar

2012-03-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf mar...@trippelsdorf.de wrote: On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it leaves the session name on my screen status bar like: $eix-sync: Finished does anyone

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar

2012-03-20 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2012.03.20 at 12:09 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf mar...@trippelsdorf.de wrote: On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it leaves the session name on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-20 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/20/2012 09:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: If you keep a separate directory for your initramfs files, this is true. But if your initramfs config is a list of files to include, the current versions of everything will always be included. Fair point. Best, Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.03.2012 00:02, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a DB somewhere ... have it on the desktop and the thinkpad and just press the shortkey gotta check how it works with

Re: [gentoo-user] A systemd-only Gentoo system

2012-03-20 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:19:35PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Hi; I've been running systemd in Gentoo since September from 2010, and it works great for me: all my machines run it at this point. Right now, we are getting really close to the point where we will be able to uninstall

Re: [gentoo-user] A systemd-only Gentoo system

2012-03-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:11 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:19:35PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Hi; I've been running systemd in Gentoo since September from 2010, and it works great for me: all my machines run it at this point. Right now, we are

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-20 Thread covici
Daddy da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 11, 2012 at 5:09 AM Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: This revision makes 2 changes... A) The removal of udev is now standard instead of optional. udev-181 and higher will be pulling in kmod, and anything else that kmod

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.03.2012 18:47, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Restarted gnome-shell, activated extension ... but it only works partially. I can track an activity but Show Overview does not work. just to extract my hamster.db to be able to write invoices: exported the db via a working hamster applet

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-20 Thread pk
On 2012-03-20 20:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, I am not seeing mdev in the portage tree -- I would like to learn more about this before I take the plunge. So where do I get it and does it create the appropriate device nodes, etc? mdev is part of sys-apps/busybox. See:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar

2012-03-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf mar...@trippelsdorf.de wrote: On 2012.03.20 at 12:09 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf mar...@trippelsdorf.de wrote: On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Following a

[gentoo-user] mdev: sound is only working some of the time.

2012-03-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, all. Got a problem with my system running under mdev. When I try to play CDs (with aqualung feeding into PulseAudio), no sound comes out. However, when I listen to an audio section from a newspaper page such as www.tagesschau.de (no idea what audio format) it works. Clearly this is

[gentoo-user] Re: mdev: sound is only working some of the time.

2012-03-20 Thread walt
On 03/20/2012 03:31 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, all. Got a problem with my system running under mdev. When I try to play CDs (with aqualung feeding into PulseAudio), no sound comes out. However, when I listen to an audio section from a newspaper page such as www.tagesschau.de (no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
yoyo Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from the boot console and ran pon isp without touching anything else, and

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: yoyo Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. Just for the heck of it I made myself root

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: yoyo Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from the boot console and ran pon isp without

Re: [gentoo-user] mdev: sound is only working some of the time.

2012-03-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 21, 2012 5:36 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, all. Got a problem with my system running under mdev. When I try to play CDs (with aqualung feeding into PulseAudio), no sound comes out. However, when I listen to an audio section from a newspaper page such as

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 21, 2012 2:52 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Daddy da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 11, 2012 at 5:09 AM Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: This revision makes 2 changes... A) The removal of udev is now standard instead of optional. udev-181 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-20 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: On 03/18/2012 06:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: snip On that note - is it possible, and if so, does anyone have any decent detailed How-to's on how I might be able to convert a separate /user to one on directly on / on a

[gentoo-user] PPP Tunnel using iproute2/tun interface

2012-03-20 Thread Michael J. Hill
Hello, In testing, I have gotten this setup to work by manually completing the necessary steps; however, I am now looking to have everything completed automatically so as to ensure my setup persists over a reboot. Firstly, an outline of what I am doing: * I have a Gentoo VM running at home,