Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unable to emerge kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5

2010-06-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/16/2010 05:33 PM, walt wrote: On 06/16/2010 02:29 PM, Thomas Revell wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a bit of a problem with a new Gentoo install that I'm currently trying to install KDE on. The installation of kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5 is failing, apparently due to a missing header file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unable to emerge kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/17/2010 05:23 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:02:25AM -0700, Bill Longman wrote On 06/16/2010 05:33 PM, walt wrote: On 06/16/2010 02:29 PM, Thomas Revell wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a bit of a problem with a new Gentoo install that I'm currently trying to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to expunge virtualbox

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/17/2010 06:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Just recently switched to a backup machine and I notice the following. Some time ago, I had tried Virtualbox, and uninstalled it. I still get the following as the final 2 lines of the bootup process... * Starting VirtualBox kernel module ... *

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/18/2010 08:17 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm running grub 2 it seems. I don't know when that started, or what difference it makes compared to legacy grub. I guess I don't need to know. But a recent post had me looking at use-flags, and I was a bit surprised to find (ncurses -static).

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with Multiple Networks in Gentoo...

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/18/2010 11:29 AM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: I am sure this is simple but I can't figure this out. I added a network card to an existing Gentoo installation to have two in total. *ETH1* is my new network card which is a Gigabit connection and *ETH0* is my old network card with just

Re: [gentoo-user] what should I restart after changing /etc/resolv.conf?

2010-06-19 Thread Bill Longman
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I modified /etc/resolv.conf (added opendns-servers in addition to my own), but I do not know what I should restart for these changes to come into effect... I could restart the whole system, but there sure must be some

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Longman
snip This is funny. I have NEVER got a genkernel to work on my system. Actually, on any system. I'm not sure the OP would know that kernel is any better then the one he makes. Dale, If you've never gotten genkernel to work, you should try this little script that I've used for the past few

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 12:01 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 01:23 PM, Dale wrote: The only thing that genkernel would add is your initrd. The kernel is exactly the same, whether you compile it with make or through genkernel. Do a test and you'll see. (I'm assuming we're both talking about gentoo-sources, not vanilla-sources. Either way,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 10:20 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: I notice you are using ext4 for the root partition file system. Do you have support for ext4 compiled in the kernel? Not as a module but built into the kernel? Using modules is OK but things that it has

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 03:37 PM, Dale wrote: I'm not saying you can't use it just that it doesn't always work. Thing is, when someone uses genkernel to make the kernel, when someone asks 'did you include some driver', the usual answer is 'I don't know, I used genkernel' and then nobody knows whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 12:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, walt wrote: On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 02:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: again ... I consider buying a new box for work. currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4 ... Will it be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 05:35 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: Yes, it's built-in. I have attached a copy of my kernel config file in the original post. I'll bet you don't have HUGETLBFS turned on in your kernel. It's required for ext4. I checked and both HUGETLBFS and HUGETLB_PAGE are enabled. Actually I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 09:37 PM, kashani wrote: For the record only Sun servers have ever made me utter, Let me get this straight. I have to update the firware on the POWER SUPPLY too?!? E6500s circa '99. :-) And the hotswap E250 power supply. You know, the one that you have to tell the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/25/2010 12:17 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. VFS: Cannot open root device sda5 or unknown-block(2,0) Please append ac correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic -

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/29/2010 05:54 PM, Hasan SAHIN wrote: Hello all, I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? P.S. : I am using x86 stable box. Depends more on the version of gcc you're using.

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/29/2010 05:54 PM, Hasan SAHIN wrote: Hello all, I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? Sorry, Hasan, I dropped my 3s. -msse3 and -march=k8-sse3

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/29/2010 06:08 PM, Hasan SAHIN wrote: I have read the safe flags document and it says that : /GCC 4.2 introduces a new -march option, -march=*native*, which automatically detects the features your CPU supports and sets the options appropriately. If you have an Intel or AMD CPU and are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 08:03 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-06-30, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I need is - X11 and a Window Manager - Mozilla Firefox - Lighttpd I use Gnome at this time. Gnome?!?! That's like saying all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 09:20 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:17:00 -0700, Bill Longman wrote: I agree with Grant and others. XFCE is the other WM on my machines. On my old PIII with 256MB RAM, it's really the only option. KDE for the ones with the power, but that's far from light

Re: [gentoo-user] CD for testing laptops

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 09:44 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: You forget about Intel Atoms which are still partly i686 flavored. Of course, this point is mostly mood because these systems don't usually come with an optical drive. What do you mean here, Florian? The Atom can do either 32 or 64 bits. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] CD for testing laptops

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 10:57 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: What do you mean here, Florian? The Atom can do either 32 or 64 bits. I don't understand what you mean by partly i686. Quick lookup on Wikipedia for Intel64 instruction set support: Atom Z6xx Lincroft aka Moorestown: no support Atom Z5xx

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 02:17 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote: Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/01/2010 08:44 AM, SpaceCake wrote: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? Also I'm thinking how can I instruct udev to turn off swap when the device is removed, but this is another story

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/01/2010 08:59 AM, SpaceCake wrote: that's good if I want to mount at a specific location, but for swap I need the device name, but this is changes depending on how many other usb drives are connected. Looks lik this is a tricky question :) No, you don't *NEED* the device name to mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation error: pygtk

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/01/2010 06:35 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile * environment, line 5365: Called python_src_compile * environment, line 5150: Called python_execute_function '-d' '-s' '--' * environment, line 4058: Called die *

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/07/2010 10:37 AM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I would like to see in console current network transfer rate for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] with top command. Just single overall value in [bytes/second] or similar unit would be enough for me, averaged over certain

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-09 Thread Bill Longman
As for libpng I've straightened it out on 3 other machines to date, all 64-bit, but this last machine is causing me fits. Fortunately I have two of these machines with the same motherboard, processor, VGA. Only sound is different. The other one worked out OK with libpng so I'll likely just

Re: [gentoo-user] fate of nmh

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/11/2010 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 July 2010 20:42:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: # unless a new maintainer can be found, this package is # slated for removal. # # Removal on 2010-08-23 This is what I use for my mail reader -- with the emacs interface -- so I am

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.4 system settings - fonts never display

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
Have I just misconfigured several of my KDE boxes or is there a problem with KDE 4.4.4's system settings? The font installer worked fine in 4.3, but whenever I go into system settings and try to get a list of the fonts, it's just a blank box, whether I choose personal or system fonts. No amount

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? That's probably what the kernel thinks. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.4 system settings - fonts never display

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/12/2010 01:52 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 12 July 2010 19:28:46 Bill Longman wrote: Have I just misconfigured several of my KDE boxes or is there a problem with KDE 4.4.4's system settings? The font installer worked fine in 4.3, but whenever I go into system settings and try to get a list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. -Andy For what it's worth, Andy, here's my setup: /etc/locale.gen has: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR ISO-8859-7 and in /etc/env.d/02locale I have: LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make emerge --sync less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/13/2010 09:48 AM, Jarry wrote: Hi, subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast it saturates my connection. How can I make emerge --sync somehow less verbose? I know, I can use --quiet, but then I do not see

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/21/2010 03:22 AM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:53:19 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't want to rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled with new version.

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/23/2010 01:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 23.06.2010 00:27, schrieb Bill Longman: - core i7 @ 1.6GHz gives me eight threads. The RAM is really fast, too, so the overall system is very responsive. Great power savings stuff. quite a plus with the box running for 10 hrs a day

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4 GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I recompiled all my packages after I upgraded to 4.4

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling media-libs/netpbm-10.49.00

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 7/22/10, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:53:54 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:04:46 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, long time since last update. I was trying to update my system and it failed at netpbm with this error: Yes, I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/22/2010 01:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Looks like a quad cpu, each one dual core. I've got one of those in the Data Centre next door and each core is running that new fancy hyper-threading that actually works: It's quad CPU TWELVE core. Just putting four CPUs into the thing will cost a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/22/2010 12:49 PM, walt wrote: On 07/21/2010 03:18 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm Hey, where's the parallel port for my Epson MX-80 printer? You're aging yourself, Walt

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Bill Longman
. I'm pretty sure the menu is the same for both. Then again, I have updated KDE a couple times since then too. Dale :-) :-) I see it on the new version (KDE 4). -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 07:04 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 07:56 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 01:50 AM, KH wrote: Hi, I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 16:04, schrieb Mick: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 09:37 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 17:27, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 07:56 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: Konstantin, please post what your kernel has for IDE support. If you have /proc/config.gz, then please post the results from zgrep IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 11:54 AM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2010 17:35:44 KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 17:30, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Hi Mick, but typing ls /dev/hd* or ls /dev/sd* should show up something. Shouldn't it? df -h shows /dev/hda3 is mounted on / For me

Re: [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 01:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2010 22:20:17 Andrey Vul wrote: Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch /tmp/foo = strerror(ENOENT)). However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. df -i shows only 2% inode

Re: [gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/29/2010 08:58 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: 2) If you really really need the X-integration features, you can use the xhost command to enable all users on your machine to run X apps on your X session. E.g. my machine is 192.168.123.249 so I ran... xhost +192.168.123.249 ...to allow a

Re: [gentoo-user] eix shows keyworded packages on home PC, but not on server

2010-07-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/30/2010 04:57 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: diff between the eix --dump of my PC and the server === madum...@trixie ~ $ diff -Naur PC server --- PC2010-07-30 19:54:38.0 +0800 +++ server2010-07-30 19:55:05.0 +0800 @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ # STRING # The

Re: [gentoo-user] eix shows keyworded packages on home PC, but not on server

2010-07-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/30/2010 07:46 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: What does eselect profile list show you on both hosts? home PC madum...@trixie ~ $ eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] eix shows keyworded packages on home PC, but not on server

2010-07-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/30/2010 09:26 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: The profile affects the default USE settings. This is a very important Gentoo concept. emerge --info eix on both machines: PC: app-portage/eix-0.20.5 was built

[gentoo-user] KDE Right Control key sending Ctrl and then linefeed in terminal/xterm

2010-08-01 Thread Bill Longman
and then unregistering the whole set again. I can kill kglobalaccel and it stops the printout, but I still get the weird linefeed when I use the right control key in a terminal. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI conflict while loading it87 module

2010-08-02 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/01/2010 07:51 AM, Xi Shen wrote: thanks a lot. i am using asus mb, and asus_atk0110 works for me too. :) On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:52 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2010-08-01 11:01, Xi Shen wrote: Aug 1 16:56:03 david-gentoo kernel: [ 715.671669] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI conflict while loading it87 module

2010-08-02 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/02/2010 01:02 PM, pk wrote: On 2010-08-02 17:49, Bill Longman wrote: I just saw, this weekend in fact, that the newer Phenoms, in fact most of the recent K10 CPUs, do not work accurately with the atk0110 so when the driver starts to load, it flatly refuses. I have a 9750 Phenom

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

2010-08-03 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/03/2010 09:20 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, After a recent sync and new kernel built, I get these messages from fdisk -l that did not use to get before. Searching the web, it appears that fdisk is listing my LVM partitions. Why is it doing now? It has never done it before.

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

2010-08-03 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/03/2010 02:16 PM, pk wrote: On 2010-08-03 18:20, Valmor de Almeida wrote: fdisk -l Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Why are you using fdisk on a logical volume? To my knowledge (which of course may be outdated/wrong) an LV doesn't contain a partition table so

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI conflict while loading it87 module

2010-08-03 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/02/2010 01:02 PM, pk wrote: On 2010-08-02 17:49, Bill Longman wrote: I just saw, this weekend in fact, that the newer Phenoms, in fact most of the recent K10 CPUs, do not work accurately with the atk0110 so when the driver starts to load, it flatly refuses. I have a 9750 Phenom

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem about rc-update

2010-08-04 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/04/2010 12:15 AM, Chen Huan wrote: Hi,everybody, I got a very very strange problems. I have install gnome, and when I try to add xdm to default runlevel, use command rc-update add xdm default, it is normal and output of rc-update show is right but when I restart computer, the xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb KDE Question

2010-08-08 Thread Bill Longman
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Manuel Klemenz m.klem...@gmx.at wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2010 20:21:13 CJoeB wrote: Hi, I'm getting better recently updated to KDE 4.4 - 200+ packages that needed to be updated (including those that weren't KDE apps) and I had a bit of jumping

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/09/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running everything as root, right? sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I create dynamic link?

2010-08-10 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/10/2010 02:06 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I am facing this problem: I have subdirectory, let's say /some/dir. I would like to create some kind of dynamic and preliminary link, so that any future subdirectories, created later in /some will in fact be links, pointing to /some/dir. So if

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

2010-08-11 Thread Bill Longman
snip What's different between my root environment and the one in which cron runs (with respect to ruby and its gems)? Where should I start looking? No direct answer, sorry, Michael. You might want to use: /bin/bash -l -x -c /root/src/mailshears/bin/mailshears to at least help debug it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice - AKA passwords

2010-08-11 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/11/2010 01:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I refuse to implement password expiration policies and have a vast array of literature to back me up when some dimwit damager gets on his expiration high horse. My users pick their own passwords - I present a list of 5 from apg and let them

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice - AKA passwords

2010-08-11 Thread Bill Longman
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday 12 August 2010 00:11:12 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/11/2010 01:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I refuse to implement password expiration policies and have a vast array of literature to back me up when

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/11/2010 07:37 PM, James wrote: Baseline- I'm lazy and not very smart: So my console output upon booting berated me about continuing to use sysfs. OK. So I removed it and built a new kernel (AMD 64). Everything works but the DVD. Ok, so I need a udev rule to fix it? Googling has

Re: [gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1

2010-08-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/13/2010 07:09 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I am in front of a disaster updating my gentoo system. Now the system is shot, and I am not capable starting the gnome-manager: at the end it says only: checking Pango flags... configure: error: *** Pango not found. Pango built with

Re: [gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1

2010-08-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/13/2010 08:22 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: As you told me I merged lafilefixer and ran lafilefixer --justfixit then I executed revdep-rebuild which wants to remerge a huge amout of packages who because libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 was missing, or couldn't be linked at the end, revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/13/2010 10:58 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message On 13 August 2010 09:08, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's not much of a solution. Put

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/14/2010 12:32 PM, Jarry wrote: On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. well, these solutions are way bigger (iow: more resource intensive), since they run a

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 01:11 AM, Adam Carter wrote: why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore of the mbr. And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the new harddisk has a different size? Just tar up

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 schrieb Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org: Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig command? I can work around the issue by

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 08:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super light,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 09:07 PM, James wrote: Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sr0 I will try all types mentioned in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/16/2010 02:57 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: lots of good stuff snipped Which all goes to say you should resist the creation of any such lookup tool with every fibre of your being :-) Alan, if I ever get near your part of your continent, I'm going to buy you a beer

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/16/2010 09:07 AM, Jarry wrote: On 16. 8. 2010 17:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com: That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/16/2010 12:47 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: nspluginwrapper currently doesn't allow flash player to work, don't know why... You could look at swfdec-gnome too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/16/2010 02:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB Sorry: Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to do. What are you trying to speed up? Booting?

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard. Each

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 06:43 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 8/16/2010 2:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox)

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 02:44 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:34:05 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [10-08-17 20:16]: On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 04:38 PM, walt wrote: Well, not quite true. I did change my /etc/fstab, but I'm now using disk labels in fstab instead of device names. If you still use device names you'll need to change /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* in fstab when using the new disk drivers. I'm an old-timer with *nix

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/18/2010 04:53 AM, Nganon wrote: I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a notebook with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup destination. So if RAID got corruped, the backups, made since then, would be useless? How would you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote: Clear now, thanks. If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS. AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong? Not really. ZFS is only available on Solaris right now. I seem to remember it was running on one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/18/2010 11:49 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote: Clear now, thanks. If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS. AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong? Why do you

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2010-08-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/19/2010 05:37 AM, Florian CROUZAT wrote: On 19 août 2010, at 14:27, Graham Murray wrote: Elmar Hinz oss.el...@googlemail.com writes: 2010/8/18 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:25 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Elmar Hinz did opine thusly:

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2010-08-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/19/2010 06:53 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: 2010/8/19 Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net: On the other hand LINGUAS is still a general variable AFAIK and not portage specific. LINGUAS is strictly portage-specific. Really? Researching the web I understand it origins from gettext and portage has

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/19/2010 04:37 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:55:04PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote I had a similar message, it was there because of the fact that i specified the wrong (or failed to specify?) mtrr method in my kernel boot parameters for the framebuffer. I'm using uvesafb

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media-

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions

2010-08-20 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/19/2010 08:44 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 18.08.2010 21:30, schrieb Elmar Hinz: 1.) Is there a Map: modules to configration parameters? lspci -k lists me all modules of the running genkernel. Unfortunately the configuration parameters of the kernel have different names. 2.) Which

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/20/2010 07:58 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 20 August 2010 14:20:35 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions

2010-08-20 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/20/2010 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:43:40 -0700 schrieb Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com: [...] I find it amazing, though, that even if I copy my old .config, it still takes me so much time to make sure all the settings are correct for a given machine

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Bill Longman
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to xorg logs because of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/24/2010 03:17 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: On 8/24/2010 5:45 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: A good idea might be to install the package app-portage/eix. It allows you to, amongst other things, to search for packages in case you're uncertain about a package name. The search will

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to control the display manager. My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d and commanding ./xdm stop seems to work, but has no effect on KDE. Manually killing kde (ps -ef | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-26 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/25/2010 01:40 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, but that has several bits of misinformation. xdm is not a generic term, or at least I didn't mean it that way. It's the package x11-apps/xdm. Gentoo uses the term

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Support for Netbook

2010-08-26 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/26/2010 06:07 AM, Aaron Bauman wrote: All, I bought a new Toshiba T215D-S1150 with a AMD Athlon II Neo Processor. I am currently having issues with the livecd not booting. Everything seems to get stuck on an NeT RPC error while the kernel is booting. I was able to successfully

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