[gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

2015-01-04 Thread Hartmut Figge
Helmut Jarausch: I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files before. On my mostly stable Gentoo using portage 2.1.14 I have at the moment hafi@i5_64 ~ $ wc -l /var/lib/portage/world 167 /var/lib/portage/world Hartmut

[gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

2015-01-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files before. Has the information previously kept in this file been moved to some other place (database?)? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2-mkconfig vs. xen

2015-01-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 10:44:52 + (UTC), Konstantinos Agouros wrote: How do I achieve this? Also I only want entries with xen and I need to pass some params to xen as well as the linux kernel. Which entries in /etc/default/grub do that? chmod -x /etc/grub.d/10_linux to prevent the creation of

[gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

2015-01-04 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: On my mostly stable Gentoo using portage 2.1.14 I have at the moment 2.2.14 Hartmut

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

2015-01-04 Thread Sid S
I was wondering if there was any harm in disabling the NSA SELinux support in my gentoo-sources based kernel. There is no harm, but if you were interested a lot of packages come with policies by default. Currently there is no support for SELinux in Gentoo for the vast majority of desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : solved

2015-01-04 Thread Philip Webb
150102 Philip Webb wrote: 150101 walt wrote: On 12/31/2014 04:40 AM, Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation. Apostrophes extended dashes are mangled, even when I enter a completely new

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewer

2015-01-04 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2015-01-03, the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: On 03/01/15 08:15, lee wrote: Hi, what do you as PDF viewer? Most of the time, I use zathura with libmupdf; sometimes I will use evince when I need to view documents with libpoppler, but evince is not my main document viewer ever since GNOME

[gentoo-user] Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

2015-01-04 Thread Urs Schütz
Hi list While hunting down slow startx times (12-16s instead the usual 2-5s) I found that hostname -f tries to resolve the hostname. This is a slow process (timeout?): urs@cadd ~ $ time hostname -v gethostname()=`cadd' cadd real0m0.001s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s urs@cadd ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

2015-01-04 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 01/04/2015 09:47 AM, Sid S wrote: SELinux is the only one I've had a bit of experience with - I run CentOS (SELinux is enabled by default) for some personal-use-only services that I want to run without dealing with Gentoo. My first step in a CentOS install is to disable SELinux (and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

2015-01-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Jan 2015 16:06:50 Urs Schütz wrote: Hi list While hunting down slow startx times (12-16s instead the usual 2-5s) I found that hostname -f tries to resolve the hostname. This is a slow process (timeout?): urs@cadd ~ $ time hostname -v gethostname()=`cadd' cadd real

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

2015-01-04 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 04.01.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Urs Schütz u.sch...@bluewin.ch: Hi list While hunting down slow startx times (12-16s instead the usual 2-5s) I found that hostname -f tries to resolve the hostname. This is a slow process (timeout?): Normally this is a fast process. See my results

[gentoo-user] grub2-mkconfig vs. xen

2015-01-04 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I have a box running a xen-domu. If I want to use grub2-mkconfig, I learned that I have to put the kernel-.config into /etc/kernels. However this does not create an entry which includes the initrd (it creates one without xen though). How do I achieve this? Also I only want entries with xen

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

2015-01-04 Thread Urs Schütz
On 01/04/15 15:20, Mick wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2015 16:06:50 Urs Schütz wrote: Hi list While hunting down slow startx times (12-16s instead the usual 2-5s) I found that hostname -f tries to resolve the hostname. This is a slow process (timeout?): urs@cadd ~ $ time hostname -v

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

2015-01-04 Thread Urs Schütz
On 01/04/15 15:27, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 04.01.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Urs Schütz u.sch...@bluewin.ch: Hi list While hunting down slow startx times (12-16s instead the usual 2-5s) I found that hostname -f tries to resolve the hostname. This is a slow process (timeout?):

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

2015-01-04 Thread Erik Mackdanz
Sid S r03...@gmail.com writes: your distribution probably comes with policies for everything you want to install, anyway... ...until it doesn't, and then what? I attempted a full conversion a few months back, and was ready to make some commitment to getting SELinux to work on my personal

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2-mkconfig vs. xen

2015-01-04 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-04 11:44, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I have a box running a xen-domu. If I want to use grub2-mkconfig, I learned that I have to put the kernel-.config into /etc/kernels. However this does not create an entry which includes the initrd (it creates one without xen though). How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

2015-01-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 01:19:03PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files before. As far as I’m aware, if you say `emerge foo`, then foo is added to that file. But a long time ago I

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

2015-01-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Jan 2015 18:45:38 Urs Schütz wrote: On 01/04/15 15:20, Mick wrote: In my /etc/hosts I have something like this: # IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases 127.0.0.1 cad.homeLAN localhost cad ::1 cad.homeLAN localhost cad See if this solves your problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

2015-01-04 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-04 13:19, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files before. Has the information previously kept in this file been moved to some other place (database?)? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

[gentoo-user] lxc.network.flags

2015-01-04 Thread lee
Hi, what does 'lxc.network.flags=up' actually do/mean? 1.) makes the interface available in the container 2.) does 1.) and also configures the containers' interface 3.) something else (what?) In case of 2.), how do I set the gateway address, nameserver and domain in the containers' config? I

[gentoo-user] setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

2015-01-04 Thread lee
Hi, I'm trying to use the CapsLock key as control key. With 'setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps' that works --- until I use 'xmodmap' to load my keymap. Once the keymap is loaded, the CapsLock key again works as CapsLock and not as control. This worked fine with other distributions. Is there

[gentoo-user] PYTHON_CFLAGS is invalid for python-r1 suite

2015-01-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
When installing app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2, I got: Messages generated by process 3014 on 2015-01-04 22:21:49 EET for package app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2: ERROR: setup ERROR: app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2::gentoo failed (setup phase): PYTHON_CFLAGS is invalid for python-r1 suite,

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_CFLAGS is invalid for python-r1 suite

2015-01-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2015, 21:46:41 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: When installing app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2, I got: Messages generated by process 3014 on 2015-01-04 22:21:49 EET for package app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2: ERROR: setup ERROR: app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2::gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_CFLAGS is invalid for python-r1 suite

2015-01-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2015, 22:30:54 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2015, 21:46:41 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: When installing app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2, I got: Messages generated by process 3014 on 2015-01-04 22:21:49 EET for package

[gentoo-user] printer problem solved by new flag

2015-01-04 Thread Philip Webb
I've just successfully got my HP DJ-2510 printer to work after a struggle. I updated Hplip recently there's a new flag : USE=hpcups ; in the printer dialog at Port 631, this needs to be chosen : when I used the 'hpijs' filter, it refused to print with filter failed, but when I chose 'hpcups' it

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_CFLAGS is invalid for python-r1 suite

2015-01-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2015, 21:46:41 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: When installing app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2, I got: Messages generated by process 3014 on 2015-01-04 22:21:49 EET for package app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2: ERROR: setup ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_CFLAGS is invalid for python-r1 suite

2015-01-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2015, 21:46:41 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: When installing app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2, I got: Messages generated by process 3014 on 2015-01-04 22:21:49 EET for package

Re: [gentoo-user] setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

2015-01-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Jan 2015 19:53:37 lee wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the CapsLock key as control key. With 'setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps' that works --- until I use 'xmodmap' to load my keymap. Once the keymap is loaded, the CapsLock key again works as CapsLock and not as control. This