[gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-14 Thread David Relson
As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't quite work :- The ebuild's src_compile function is: src_compile() { ./build.sh || die build.sh failed } When I run emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-14 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:21:50 +0100 Xavier Parizet wrote: David Relson a écrit : As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't quite work :- The ebuild's src_compile function

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-14 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:34:46 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: David Relson schrieb am 14.11.2009 21:33: As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't quite work :- The ebuild's src_compile function

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-15 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:29:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole 'nother subject and I'm in communication with the developer about it. Is this the very famous watcom compiler that's

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-15 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:06:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:44:16 David Relson wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:29:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick quesition regarding linux-2.6.31.x and gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx

2009-11-19 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:49:19 -0500 Marcus Wanner wrote: I was just wondering if a package such as gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out. Thanks, and sorry for my

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-26 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:14:39 -0500 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/25/2009 12:20 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ eix eclipse * dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj Available versions: (3.3) 3.3.0-r1 (3.4) 3.4 (3.5) ~3.5.1

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:06:59 -0800 (PST) BRM wrote: ...[snip]... Either way, I need to figure out how to get read-access to the root partition again. Any advice on either of the above (or other options), and more importantly (since any options depend on it) how to get read-write access to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:41 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. sys-apps/lshw Good call Neil, I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-02 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. Good God. I hope you

[gentoo-user] Looking for x86 or AMD64 disassembler

2009-12-05 Thread David Relson
G'day, I'm looking for a disassembler so that I can see the underlying assembly code in a variety of files, for example elf executables, DOS executables, binary files (such as the master boot record (MBR)), etc. Portage doesn't seem to include any, leastways eix hasn't revealed any to me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for x86 or AMD64 disassembler

2009-12-05 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:29:50 -0700 Brandon Vargo wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 19:33 -0500, David Relson wrote: I'm looking for a disassembler so that I can see the underlying assembly code in a variety of files, for example elf executables, DOS executables, binary files (such as the master

[gentoo-user] serial port identification question

2009-12-25 Thread David Relson
My mobo has two serial ports. As reported by hwinfo they are: Serial Port 0: 0x3f8 Serial Port 1: 0x2f8 After booting the machine, dmesg indicates that tty0 is the console with message: console [tty0] enabled /dev names a multitude of tty devices, i.e. /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1, ... How

Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question

2009-12-25 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:10:46 -0600 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: My mobo has two serial ports. As reported by hwinfo they are: Serial Port 0: 0x3f8 Serial Port 1: 0x2f8 After booting the machine, dmesg indicates that tty0 is the console with message: console [tty0

Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question

2009-12-25 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:56:00 -0600 Dale wrote: ...[snip]... Are you sure you enabled this in the kernel? It is under Device Drivers Character devices Serial Drivers then enable these: * 8250/16550 and compatible serial support (4) Maximum number of 8250/16550 serial ports (4) Number

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: serial port identification question

2009-12-27 Thread David Relson
Hello James, Thanks for writing. Lots of good information in your post! I've working on porting some DOS code to Linux and (as you likely know) the code needed for serial communications differs greatly between the 2 environments. The initial problem was trying to identify COM1, COM2, etc from

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-31 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:34:42 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:02:56PM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: you can make it even easier: create: /etc/portage/env/PKG_CATEGORY put patch in

[gentoo-user] MARK

2010-01-16 Thread David Relson
From /var/log/messages: Jan 16 01:35:27 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 01:55:37 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 02:15:44 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 02:35:52 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 02:55:58 osage -- MARK -- This morning my computer was foobar'd (after 200+ days uptime). Initially the screen was black

Re: [gentoo-user] MARK

2010-01-16 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:11:54 -0500 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 17:08 -0500, David Relson wrote: From /var/log/messages: Jan 16 01:35:27 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 01:55:37 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 02:15:44 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 02:35:52 osage -- MARK -- Jan

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-19 Thread David Relson
I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see below). Can these extra device mounts be avoided? Regards, David osage relson # df -h

[gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-01 Thread David Relson
G'day, I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and it's been working fine AFAICT. Over the weekend I noticed that my USB thumb drive is no longer automounting. This evening I ran /etc/init.d/udev status which reported: * status: stopped. Running /etc/init.d/udev start reported:

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:08:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 06:03:10 David Relson wrote: G'day, I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and it's been working fine AFAICT. Over the weekend I noticed that my USB thumb drive is no longer automounting

[gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
Greetings, This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. FWIW, my usual update world was done yesterday (and emerged the packages listed at the end

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
. On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: ssh into box gives: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? ### recently emerged packages ### How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:13:02 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:11:07 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: The output of ls /dev/pt* is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about which I'm poorly informed. Output (below) of rc-status sysinit indicated devfs stopped, so I started

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated

[gentoo-user] problem with firefox-bin

2010-03-20 Thread David Relson
firefox seems to have a problem with pricewatch pages. For example, if I navigate to http://www.pricewatch.com/gallery/monitors/lcd_24in, I have a header panel, and a brands/stores panel, but no list of 24 LCD monitors. Right clicking and selecting save page as lets me save the page as

[gentoo-user] SOLVED ( problem with firefox-bin )

2010-03-20 Thread David Relson
For no particular reason, I decided to remove all my firefox addons. Problem solved! On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:36:30 -0400 David Relson wrote: firefox seems to have a problem with pricewatch pages. For example, if I navigate to http://www.pricewatch.com/gallery/monitors/lcd_24in, I have

[gentoo-user] gconf errors

2010-03-27 Thread David Relson
Recently noticed: error popup when starting firefox, gnumeric, archive manager, etc: An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for {program}. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. The details window says (in all cases): Failed to contact

[gentoo-user] backups [was: Boot speedup]

2010-04-13 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:44:31 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote: Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. How do you take backups? I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd. I create

[gentoo-user] monitor identification question (Gnome)

2010-04-15 Thread David Relson
I just retired my Viewsonic 19 CRT in favor of a Viewsonic VX2433WM. Looking in Xorg.0.log it's obviously recognized (as the following lines indicate): (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: R4F100901594 (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 24 H max: 82 kHz, PixClock max 210 MHz (II)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor identification question (Gnome)

2010-04-16 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:08:55 -0700 walt wrote: On 04/15/2010 05:38 PM, David Relson wrote: I just retired my Viewsonic 19 CRT in favor of a Viewsonic VX2433WM. Looking in Xorg.0.log it's obviously recognized (as the following lines indicate): (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: R4F100901594

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:59:09 +1000 Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? One

[gentoo-user] Java problem

2010-05-22 Thread David Relson
Greetings, I'd like to install eclipse, to experiment with it. Emerging eclipse-sdk wants to pull in a whole lot of packages which is not a bad thing except that about 12 or 15 of the emerges fail, apparently for the same reason: * CPV: dev-java/ant-core-1.8.1 * REPO: gentoo * USE: amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem

2010-05-22 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 22 May 2010 17:35:24 -0400 Kenneth Prugh wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 16:10:39 -0400 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: [...] What does `eselect java-vm list` say? Also, You might need to manually emerge dev-java/ant-junit. r...@osage ~ # eselect java-vm list

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem

2010-05-22 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 22 May 2010 20:51:35 -0400 Kenneth Prugh wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 20:43:54 -0400 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: [...] r...@osage ~ # eselect java-vm list Available Java Virtual Machines: [1] emul-linux-x86-java-1.6 [2] sun-jdk-1.6 system-vm [3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java problem

2010-05-23 Thread David Relson
, David Relson wrote: * Unable to determine VM for building from dependencies: * Failed to determine VM for building. Well, I've seen those error messages more than once. If I were half-a-bottle more sober, I'm sure I could remember how I fixed the problem. Gentoo offers two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java problem

2010-05-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 May 2010 17:32:50 +0300 Arttu V. wrote: On 5/23/10, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: emerge -qv ant-junit fails because ant-junit isn't found Is your portage tree or the underlying filesystem broken? You use eix, so what does eix ant-junit output? Are there really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java problem

2010-05-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 May 2010 18:16:53 +0300 Arttu V. wrote: On 5/23/10, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: Hi Arttu, The portage tree is fine, AFAICT. emerge finds the ebuild, but the emerge fails. Removing --jobs 4 doesn't change the result. Ok, then that could be discarded

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java problem

2010-05-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 May 2010 11:01:53 -0700 walt wrote: On 05/23/2010 09:56 AM, David Relson wrote: Output of emerge -d ant-junit is attached, though I don't understand what the additional info means. The 'build.log' should contain the actual error message following the test for the system-vm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java problem

2010-05-24 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 24 May 2010 04:11:45 -0700 walt wrote: On 05/23/2010 06:26 PM, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 11:01:53 -0700 walt wrote: On 05/23/2010 09:56 AM, David Relson wrote: Output of emerge -d ant-junit is attached, though I don't understand what the additional info means

[gentoo-user] SOLVED Java problem

2010-05-25 Thread David Relson
Problem solved! caster at b.g.o. suggested running Must be some orphan file. Try grep ant-junit /usr/share/*/package.env which found CLASSPATH and DEPEND lines in .../ant-tasks/package.env. After removing the ant-junit references, emerge gave a different error message. I then disabled all

Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps

2010-05-27 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 5 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 Grant wrote: I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like cannot open display and cannot connect to X server when I try to run X apps as the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? -

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-29 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 29 May 2010 10:01:39 +0100 Mick wrote: Hi All, I run: rsync -a -l --delete -v /mnt/Business_dir /media/sdf1 to back up a directory from a PC to a USB stick. However, from a cursory look this *seems* to copy the complete directory (every time I run it) and overwrites the USB

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:48:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. Assuming a life of 1,000 writes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:20:36 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-05-30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's in the thousands of writes

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to expunge virtualbox

2010-06-17 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:03:45 -0400 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

[gentoo-user] dying hard drive

2010-07-21 Thread David Relson
/var/log/messages has indicated a slew of XFS problems on an external USB hard drive (see attachment). These look pretty fatal. Anybody think the file system is recoverable? Also, palimpsest is reporting (graphically) that my external hard drive is about to die. Can I save it's report to a

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

2010-09-01 Thread David Relson
My udev rules use a combination of KERNEL, ATTRS(serial), and SYMLINK to create named entries in /dev for my 2 USB hard drives. With the following rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules: KERNEL==sd*, ATTRS{serial}==FD...7264507, SYMLINK+=WD1 KERNEL==sd*, ATTRS{serial}==FD...7285643,

[gentoo-user] problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-03 Thread David Relson
I'm trying to setup mailing of emerge logs, but it's failing for reasons I don't grasp. In /etc/make.conf I have the following: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=use...@mydomain.com Running emerge, for example emerge -1 uptimed give the following message: !!! A network error occured while trying to send

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-03 Thread David Relson
Needed to use: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=use...@mydomain.com mymailserver.com On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:01:24 -0400 David Relson wrote: I'm trying to setup mailing of emerge logs, but it's failing for reasons I don't grasp. In /etc/make.conf I have the following: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=use

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:14:18 +0100 Stroller wrote: On 4 Sep 2010, at 15:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:15:01 +0100, Stroller wrote: Needed to use: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=use...@mydomain.com mymailserver.com I've got it without that, Portage 2.1.8.3. $ grep ELOG

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-06 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:32:16 +0100 Stroller wrote: On 5 Sep 2010, at 17:54, David Relson wrote: ... I've got it without that, Portage 2.1.8.3. $ grep ELOG /etc/make.conf PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=warn error log PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save mail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=root

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-19 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:05:51 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in mirrorg). Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html To find out where to

Re: [gentoo-user] Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread David Relson
Or, as a script ... --- begin bin/belly --- RANGE=$1 shift sed -n ${RANGE}p $* --- end -- On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:04:43 +0200 Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/22 Al oss.el...@googlemail.com: Hi, I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display a given range of lines or

Re: [gentoo-user] oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-02 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:00:33 -0600 Darren Kirby wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Al wrote: Hello, I want to find out by which file and line the */temp/environment script is run or sourced. As a am always interested in a general way to solve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

2010-10-07 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:55:18 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/06/2010 09:58 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: The list of spell-check languages offered by Firefox and Thunderbird looks like this: English (AU) English (CA) English (GB) English (GB-oed) English (NZ)

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:13:16 +0200 Michael Hampicke wrote: Any caveats with openrc we should be aware of? # genlop -l | grep openrc Thu Apr 24 14:05:53 2008 sys-apps/openrc-0.2.2 I've been running baselayout2/openrc oder 2.5 years now without any problems. Of course this does not

[gentoo-user] usb write delay

2010-11-22 Thread David Relson
I'd like to reduce the time delay between a command or program's writing to a file on a flash drive and when ext2 actually writes the data to the drive. How can I do this?

Re: [gentoo-user] usb write delay

2010-11-26 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:31:48 +0100 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.11.2010 04:52, schrieb David Relson: I'd like to reduce the time delay between a command or program's writing to a file on a flash drive and when ext2 actually writes the data to the drive. How can I do this? Mount

Re: [gentoo-user] usb write delay

2010-11-26 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:04:54 -0600 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: I'd like to reduce the time delay between a command or program's writing to a file on a flash drive and when ext2 actually writes the data to the drive

[gentoo-user] modprobe warnings

2011-01-15 Thread David Relson
My /etc/modprobe.d directory is under configuration management using subversion. Whenever modprobe runs, it reads the files in the .svn directory and complains about all the stuff it doesn't understand, for example: Jan 15 08:57:22 osage modprobe: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/.svn/entries line 266:

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

2011-01-15 Thread David Relson
With my AMD Phenom, v-4.0.0 doesn't work at all. After clicking on the icon (or running /usr/bin/VirtualBox - a link to /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh), nothing happens -- specifically VBox's window doesn't appear. After reverting to v-3.2.12-r2, all is fine. FWIW, I'm using virtualbox-bin. On Sat,

[gentoo-user] emacs iso-8859-1

2011-02-18 Thread David Relson
G'day, ISO-8859-1 uses byte values 0xC0 to 0xFF for European accented characters (amongst otherss). I have a binary file whose bytes have values 0xC0 to 0xFF. Emacs is presently displaying them as octal, i.e. \300\301\302\303 etc. How do I get emacs to display them as accented characters?

[gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but df didn't show it mounted until 3 minutes later at 10:21:05. As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY,

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:03:24 + Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 February 2011 17:44:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote: As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:44:58 + Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote: As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY, RUN+=/bin/mount -a and in /etc/fstab

[gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-21 Thread David Relson
G'day, My USB subsystem is working much better now (than it was this weekend). /etc/fstab had a reference to /dev/hdb which no my current kernel no longer supports. Removing this has improved flash drive mounting a whole lot! I've also modified /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules to use pmount

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-22 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:37:06 + Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:01:25 -0500, David Relson wrote: pmount is supposed to be run as a user and it mounts the filesystem owned by the user running it. If you only have a single user, you could call pmount with su. If you have

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-31 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 30 May 2011 22:34:46 +0200 Nils Larsson wrote: Eh... Right, so ... The echo example might have been a bit blunt. I've found myself using echo examples as a general you need to add this setting here device, like you learn to do when you start using Gentoo, might have been a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks for all the fish!

2011-06-06 Thread David Relson
Long live emacs ! emacs is an essential part of my personal toolkit. I've been using it since 1996. For 11 yrs before that I used epsilon - an editor with much the same keymappings. I started using epsilon ( On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:32:11 + Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. Just to

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox 4.1.2 problem

2011-09-08 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:58:21 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:08:21 -0400 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: G'day, I'm having a problem with VirtualBox and am looking for ideas. As background, I'm running virtualbox-bin-4.1.2 on a 2.6.39-gentoo-r2

[gentoo-user] vmware-player problem

2011-09-14 Thread David Relson
G'day, Using files pointed to from BGO, I have successfully installed vmware-player and vmware-modules-238-r1 on my 64-bit gentoo system running kernel 2.6.39-gentoo-r2 However, vmware-player won't start. Checking in /var/tmp/vmware-relson, I found the following message: Could not open

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-player problem

2011-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:45:58 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/14/2011 03:00 PM, David Relson wrote: Using files pointed to from BGO, I have successfully installed vmware-player and vmware-modules-238-r1 on my 64-bit gentoo system running kernel 2.6.39-gentoo-r2 However, vmware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-player problem

2011-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:32:59 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/15/2011 01:28 AM, David Relson wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:45:58 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/14/2011 03:00 PM, David Relson wrote: Using files pointed to from BGO, I have successfully installed vmware-player

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-player problem

2011-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:11:35 -0400 David Relson wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:32:59 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/15/2011 01:28 AM, David Relson wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:45:58 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/14/2011 03:00 PM, David Relson wrote: Using files

Re: [gentoo-user] crossdev avr compile failing on crtm328p.o

2011-12-29 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:40:58 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: ...snip... oh, and I should add that the above make.conf entries exist and are correct - but if I copy crtm328p.o from /usr/avr/lib/avr5 to /usr/avr/lib it all works fine. So while it now works, its ot fixed :) I have decided

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread David Relson
My earliest new and shiny then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal all-steel box, with a Turbo switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment LED) display between 4.77 and 8.00 And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25)... And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and

[gentoo-user] emacs - problem rendering pdf files

2012-04-01 Thread David Relson
G'day, A few weeks ago I discovered that emacs is no longer rendering pdf files. Before, I could open a pdf file and read it using emacs, but no longer. When I open a pdf I get the following messages: ### message #1 ### in buffer that used to show the rendered pdf ### Welcome to DocView!

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:08:39 +0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've just kicked off an emerge -NuD world and will now head out for a while. My emerge has to do, amongst others, gcc, libreoffice, Firefox Thunderbird. Now when I get back I'll want to know where the emerge is up to so, in

[gentoo-user] eix needs GLIBCXX_3.4.xxx

2012-07-22 Thread David Relson
G'day, I've got a problem with eix on my 32-bit system (but not on my 64-bit system). Some GLIBCXX_3.4.?? symbols are not being found. emerge -e world didn't correct the problem. Any suggestions? Details are below. Regards, David *** details *** On my 64-bit workstation (x86_64 AMD

Re: [gentoo-user] eix needs GLIBCXX_3.4.xxx

2012-07-22 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:23:47 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 22. Juli 2012, 09:52:06 schrieb David Relson: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 how about moving that stuff away and creating a symlink to the correct version? Such a simple fix... /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 was linked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix needs GLIBCXX_3.4.xxx

2012-07-22 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:33:18 -0700 walt wrote: On 07/22/2012 10:41 AM, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:23:47 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 22. Juli 2012, 09:52:06 schrieb David Relson: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 how about moving that stuff away and creating

[gentoo-user] SSH question

2012-08-19 Thread David Relson
G'day, I've volunteered to do some data entry for my local bike club. This involves a java application (jar file) and a tunnel to a mysql server. I have detailed PuTTY configuration instructions but haven't yet succeeded in converting them to ssh options. The configuration options include:

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH question

2012-08-20 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:50:29 +0100 Mick wrote: On Monday 20 Aug 2012 04:48:40 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:31 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: G'day, I've volunteered to do some data entry for my local bike club. This involves a java

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH question

2012-08-22 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:04:38 +0100 Mick wrote: ...[snip]... You're welcome. BTW, port 22 in your example above does not *have* to be port 22. As a matter of fact if it isn't, it would avoid zillions of connection attempts by stupid botnets that could drive up your bandwidth consumption. It

[gentoo-user] udev rules

2012-09-30 Thread David Relson
Good morning! I have a Rosewill 75 in 1 card reader with slots for USB, SATA, SD, microSD, etc. udev recognizes USB devices and mounts them as /media/whatever. However, when SD and microSD cards are inserted, /var/log/messages doesn't report anything and the cards aren't mounted. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules

2012-09-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:58:42 -0500 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: Good morning! I have a Rosewill 75 in 1 card reader with slots for USB, SATA, SD, microSD, etc. udev recognizes USB devices and mounts them as /media/whatever. However, when SD and microSD cards are inserted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Questions about building from source tarball

2012-11-01 Thread David Relson
In the past when I wanted/needed a newer version of a package than is in portage, I'd create an entry in /usr/local/portage. For example for app-example/some-package/some-package.x.y.z.ebuild, I'd 1) create directory /usr/local/portage/app-example/some-package 2) copy some-package.x.y.z.ebuild

[gentoo-user] Xorg - RADEON vs VESA

2012-11-24 Thread David Relson
Greetings, Last night I had to reboot my box because the screen had gone all wonky. The reboot has resulted in an obviously different font being used in terminal windows, emacs, etc, etc. Comparing Xorg logs from Oct (the previous reboot) to now, Xorg has been upgraded from 1.12.2 to 1.13.0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bus error during compilation of gcc

2013-04-22 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:44:46 +0400 the guard wrote: Суббота, 20 апреля 2013, 19:56 UTC от Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: On 2013-04-20, the guard the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: The package i decided to install required a gcc rebuild so I started rebuilding it and got a bus

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc compiling, is this normal?

2013-05-12 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 12 May 2013 23:27:48 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/05/2013 23:16, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been noticing something weird when I upgrade gcc. Is this normal? root@fireball / # genlop -c Currently merging 2 out of 5 * sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7 current merge

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:11:35 -0700 Grant wrote: Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system is compromised? app-backup/backuppc

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:20 -0600 Joseph wrote: I installed xscavenger and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in games group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission denied

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