Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 08:07:10AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Install gnome-base/gvfs with USE=gphoto2 mtp and then use gvfs-mount to mount the device, because gvfs-mount will make use of your PolicyKit with ConsoleKit or systemd-logind authorization that allows mounting as a *local* and

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/25/2014 12:52:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:23:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE. My excellent adventure started yesterday when I got a clearout 7 tablet, and took a sample photo, and tried mounting the tablet... no /dev/sdb to be

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

2014-07-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 25 July 2014 06:45:35 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 23 Jul 2014 10:00:00 Peter Humphrey wrote: I can't use any of the other packages because I use the BBC's radio streaming service every day, and none of them work with it (as far as I know). Have you looked at the get_iplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] wxGTK compilation fails missing thread.h

2014-07-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 23 July 2014 15:38:42 Adam Carter wrote: Here's what i get; /var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.12.1-r1/work/wxPython-src-2.8.12.1/src/u nix/threadpsx.cpp:51:24: fatal error: thread.h: No such file or directory make: *** [basedll_threadpsx.o] Error 1 Any ideas? Would thread.h

Re: [gentoo-user] acroread woes

2014-07-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 23 July 2014 14:48:08 James wrote: I also run noscript on my browsers now (very cool!). I do not consider it a problem, when I have to click a button or 2 to allow something that noscript has identified and filtered as a possilbe point of caution. I like noscript and have little

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

2014-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:32:23 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I can't use any of the other packages because I use the BBC's radio streaming service every day, and none of them work with it (as far as I know). Have you looked at the get_iplayer script? No, I hadn't heard of it.

Re: [gentoo-user] triggered by backtracking - what does that mean?

2014-07-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/07/2014 13:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, would anybody please explain what the following means: emerge -vp net-libs/libpcap Calculating dependencies * waiting for lock on /var/db/.pkg.portage_lockfile ... [ ok ] ... done! [ebuild R] net-libs/libpcap-1.5.3

Re: [gentoo-user] acroread woes

2014-07-25 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2014 15:48:08 James wrote: Howdy, I have acroread 9.5.5 installed. It is set as the default pdf reader for both seamoney and firefox. I mostly use seamonkey, because it allows for page/font sizing on the fly, via the mouse wheel (middle button on my logitech mouse). I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-25 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 25/07/14 09:36, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 08:07:10AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Install gnome-base/gvfs with USE=gphoto2 mtp and then use gvfs-mount to mount the device, because gvfs-mount will make use of your PolicyKit with ConsoleKit or systemd-logind authorization

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 Jul 2014 00:29:42 Walter Dnes wrote: I notice that mtpfs doesn't see the My Documents folder on the tablet. I assume it doesn't like spaces in directory (and possibly file) names. In a terminal you will need to escape spaces when copying with scp, like so: scp

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-25 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 25/07/14 12:35, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 25/07/14 09:36, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 08:07:10AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Install gnome-base/gvfs with USE=gphoto2 mtp and then use gvfs-mount to mount the device, because gvfs-mount will make use of your PolicyKit with

Re: [gentoo-user] triggered by backtracking - what does that mean?

2014-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:12:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: !!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies !!! triggered by backtracking: net-libs/libpcap:0 It means you got tripped up by portage's New! Improved! Awesome! internal invisible magic.

Re: [gentoo-user] triggered by backtracking - what does that mean?

2014-07-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/07/2014 11:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:12:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: !!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies !!! triggered by backtracking: net-libs/libpcap:0 It means you got tripped up by portage's New! Improved!

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-25 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
It looks like your MAKEOPTS that you set before the command isn't respected; I see 'make -j8' all through the build log, resulting in make trying to run something that's still being built. Regardless of whether or not this has been a problem in the past, can you try setting MAKEOPTS in make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

2014-07-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 25 July 2014 09:30:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:32:23 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I can't use any of the other packages because I use the BBC's radio streaming service every day, and none of them work with it (as far as I know). Have you looked at

Re: [gentoo-user] updating ALL packages

2014-07-25 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 25 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/07/2014 03:51, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 24 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:24:44 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I had mistakenly thought this would update all packages not at the latest version (subject to

Re: [gentoo-user] updating ALL packages

2014-07-25 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 25 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 23/07/2014 15:24, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My normal updating procedure is EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5 emerge --update --changed-use --keep-going @world I had mistakenly thought this would update

[gentoo-user] Re: acroread woes

2014-07-25 Thread James
Jc GarcĂ­a jyo.garcia at gmail.com writes: I have acroread 9.5.5 installed. I'm still young but zooming in browsers and terminals is as important for me :), Firefox does all you mention to need for me, I can prewiew pdfs(set prewiew for opening pdfs by default), Ctrl+mouse-wheel zoom in

Re: [gentoo-user] wxGTK compilation fails missing thread.h

2014-07-25 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: I sometimes find this error coming from multi-thread compilation. I fix it by prepending the emerge command with MAKEOPTS=-j1. You could try that. Indeed, this is probably parallelism gone wrong. However, you

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-25 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: Regardless of whether or not this has been a problem in the past, can you try setting MAKEOPTS in make.conf to either or -j1? Bit of a sledgehammer, that. Use package.env to override MAKEOPTS for this one

Re: [gentoo-user] wxGTK compilation fails missing thread.h

2014-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:38:50 -0700, Douglas J Hunley wrote: I sometimes find this error coming from multi-thread compilation. I fix it by prepending the emerge command with MAKEOPTS=-j1. You could try that. Indeed, this is probably parallelism gone wrong. However, you should really

Re: [gentoo-user] wxGTK compilation fails missing thread.h

2014-07-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 25 July 2014 09:38:50 Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: I sometimes find this error coming from multi-thread compilation. I fix it by prepending the emerge command with MAKEOPTS=-j1. You could try that.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Badblocks on my harddisk

2014-07-25 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, After running smartctl for an extended offline test I got a badblock (information extracted from the report): SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted:

[gentoo-user] Re: acroread woes

2014-07-25 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: Ctrl+scroll works here with Firefox for zooming in or out. Yes, it did not occur to me that this function is under 'hotkeys' (duh). I found a master listing for FF so it is fine now. I have set FF to ask whether to open or save. I can open with

[gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-25 Thread walt
In this case, the brain dead sysadmin would be moi :) For years I've been using NFS to share /usr/portage with all of the gentoo machines on my LAN. Problem: occasionally it stops working for no apparent reason. Example: two days ago I updated two ~amd64 gentoo machines, both of which have

Re: [gentoo-user] acroread woes

2014-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 02:48:08PM +, James wrote I've tried MuPDF, but it is a bit spartan and does not (at least from what I've experienced) allow for simple downloading of the pdf. If you right-click on a link in most browsers, you should get a download option in the context menu.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Badblocks on my harddisk

2014-07-25 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, After running smartctl for an extended offline test I got a badblock (information extracted from the report): SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1