Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:04:35 -0400 Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. AFAIK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:17:53 -0500, Dale wrote: Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the rescue system and chroot to it, rerun grub and reboot. Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me. It would be for me. I have my system partitioned out pretty well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:15 -0500, Dale wrote: I been reading up on this beast too. The commands and such appear to be specific to Gentoo OR at least different from Kubuntu. My money is on Kubuntu being weird. On my bro's Kubuntu I run grub-update but on Gentoo it is grub-mkconfig or

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. That's how I'd do it, except by using emerge -n instead of editing the file by hand. emerge -cp emerge -n any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:17:53 -0500, Dale wrote: Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the rescue system and chroot to it, rerun grub and reboot. Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me. It would be for me. I have my system partitioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:15 -0500, Dale wrote: I been reading up on this beast too. The commands and such appear to be specific to Gentoo OR at least different from Kubuntu. My money is on Kubuntu being weird. On my bro's Kubuntu I run grub-update but on Gentoo it is

[gentoo-user] Remove

2012-07-06 Thread Robert Herr
On 7/6/12 2:05 AM, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Topics (messages 139628 through 139677): [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed 139628 - Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed 139629 - Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. Good luck, Mark Answering from computer now. A couple of ideas: 1) Copy one of my world files

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Doug Hunley
AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the world file and other associated files. This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and friends), so it just makes sense to have 'world' in there ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 07/06/2012 09:00 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:41 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but os. Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything disappeared in portage's world list.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux and the Higgs

2012-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.07.2012 23:22, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2012-07-05, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: Linux was used to find the Higgs: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/w2ly6/new_boson_found_by_linux/ I am not really surprised, but what does disturb me is that the distros used in

[gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] New udev-186 breaks pulseaudio[FIXED]

2012-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/05/2012 08:48 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:40:15 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that did build against libudev.so.1 and now had to be rebuilt a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] New udev-186 breaks pulseaudio[FIXED]

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:44:56 -0700, walt wrote: Sync again, this has been fixed, at least for lvm2 and system-config-printer-common, I don't use pulseaudio. All better now, including pulse. I suppose if I'd updated later in the same day I wouldn't have hit this bug. I clearly need to

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Wiki test page?

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Dnes
I've got USB devices automounting on mdev and I'd like to set up a page on wiki.gentoo.org, describing the steps, and link to it from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev Is there a way to play around on a test page and import it to the final destination? Another option might be to simply work

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:35:23 -0400, Robert Herr wrote: On 7/6/12 2:05 AM, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Topics (messages 139628 through 139677): [massive snip] This list is for two type of people: Those who can read documentation well enough to be able to enjoy Gentoo. Those who

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove

2012-07-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 Jul 2012 21:28:08 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:35:23 -0400, Robert Herr wrote: On 7/6/12 2:05 AM, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Topics (messages 139628 through 139677): [massive snip] This list is for two type of people: Those who can read

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 Jul 2012 05:09:08 Christopher Lemire wrote: **This is what my laptop's screen with a newly installed Gentoo system running twm to test X looks like (attached image). It's distorted with overlapping and mirrored image. I have a Dell Latitude C800 with the video card.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Wiki test page?

2012-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: I've got USB devices automounting on mdev and I'd like to set up a page on wiki.gentoo.org, describing the steps, and link to it from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev Is there a way to play around on a test page and import it to the final destination? Another option

[gentoo-user] network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems

2012-07-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have one network (a linksys) to which all my devices are attached. I have two laptops running ~amd64 and one desktop running amd64. I have one scanner, an hp officejet 7310 that is (wired) ethernet attached. When I try xsane from either laptop I receive the popup saying that no devices are

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Lemire
I tried disabling r128 and building the raedon driver into the kernel. However, I am getting the message raedon module not found. It's not a module. It's built into the kernel. Xorg.0.log. I mistakenly typed raedom, but then fixed it to raedon, so if you see that in log, I corrected it and tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Christopher Lemire writes: I tried disabling r128 and building the raedon driver into the kernel. However, I am getting the message raedon module not found. It's not a module. It's built into the kernel. Xorg.0.log. I mistakenly typed raedom, but then fixed it to raedon, so if you see that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Lemire
After using a modified version of this: http://www.baltimoremick.com/blog/2008/08/25/dell-latitude-c800-display-problems-with-ubuntu/ For some reason, it says Driver ati. I changed that to r128 and a few other things in there. Then, I emerged emerge -av x11-drivers/xf86-video-r128 And the