[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1572 (83778-83827)

2008-09-12 Thread Erik Hahn

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Erik Hahn
You could get a bit more memory with compcache, but I doubt it would be sufficent. -Erik

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-14 Thread Erik Hahn
If only 4.1.1 was there... :') You know, there's an overlay...

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to force python-updater to remerge python modules?

2008-09-14 Thread Erik Hahn
I'm trying to upgrade phpmyadmin and it fails saying it can't find a module called 'WebappConfig.config'. I googled this and found a Gentoo bug saying that it was because the OP didn't rebuild his python modules after upgrading python. I run python-updater and it dumps me back at the prompt

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany flash

2008-09-25 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:12:27AM -0700, Grant wrote: Firefox is crashing on me all the time. I searched for an alternative and came up with epiphany. I like it but I can't get flash to work. Chances are Epiphany is more stable *because* you don't have Flash in it - it often causes Firefix to

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany flash

2008-09-25 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:54:52AM -0700, Grant wrote: Do you mean open-source alternatives to netscape-flash? If so, can you recommend one? I personally use netscape-flash because the open source don't support flash completely. There are two alternatives: * gnash * swfdec (swfdec-mozilla for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: epiphany flash

2008-09-25 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:34:47PM +, James wrote: Seamonkey seems to be working fine with flash I do not use it tons, but a few times a day and it seems to be just fine with Seamonkey. This has not always been the case though Whether flash works or not seems to be pretty random. I once

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem building statically linked e2fsprogs

2008-09-25 Thread Erik Hahn
I don't know much about servers so this might be rather stupid, but: What about dismounting the driver and fsck'ing it in another computer? -Erik -- hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Erik Hahn
I think Suse would be suitable. AFAIK they have a updates-only policy (you might even be able to choose only to use security updates but I'm not sure - I used it only a short time) and use delta packages. -Erik --

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany flash

2008-09-30 Thread Erik Hahn
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:42:14AM -0700, Grant wrote: I've got flashblock installed and it works with youtube.com as far as being able to click and play the video, but not cnn.com. Do you find it works pretty well in general? I've never had any problem with it. Does it work without

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-compatible wifi GUI?

2008-10-02 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:46:07PM +0100, Stroller wrote: Hi there, The DHL man has just been taken my MacBook away to have its ego stroked by professionally-trained Apple engineers. I thought in the meantime I might try living the Linux lifestyle for a few days have (literally)

[gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-05 Thread Erik Hahn
I'm using start-stop-daemon for making sure rc.wmii runs only once (If you don't know wmii's way of handling configs: it doesn't matter). Although I run it as user, it sets USER=root and HOME=/root. Is this behaviour expected or should I file a bug? -Erik --

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-05 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:54:25PM +0200, Jil Larner wrote: You may wish to specify the --user parameter. As this tool is for system daemons (therefore located in /sbin), it seems obvious it starts daemons as root by default. I checked on my system and I don't have a setuid bit on this

[gentoo-user] media-sound/moc-2.5.0_alpha3-r2 fails to build

2008-10-06 Thread Erik Hahn
I have to rebuild moc to fix linkage. The build fails every time, independent of CFLAGS and USE flags: btool: compile: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -pthread -O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -W -I/usr/include/alsa -MT

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-06 Thread Erik Hahn
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:41:58AM +0200, Jil Larner wrote: Hi, Erik Hahn a écrit : It doesn't run the command as root but as normal user (it isn't setuid either. All it does is setting the *variables* $USER and $HOME to the wrong values. Oh, I read too quickly :x And by the way

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-06 Thread Erik Hahn
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:27:11PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2008/10/6 Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, it simply shouldn't change them, there's no reason to do that (to my knowledge). I think it is a big security issue if a normal user could start arbitrary daemons with root

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-07 Thread Erik Hahn
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:13:33PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: I have found another KDE app which is important sufficiently to delay switching to KDE4 - the app is k3b, which still isn't ported. If I understand well, there isn't any minimal apps list (and k3b, would be in the list, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Прод ажа квартир.Скидки стано вятся меньше...

2008-10-08 Thread Erik Hahn
There are language-specific mailing lists, see http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml -- hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR

Re: [gentoo-user] kein Profile

2008-10-08 Thread Erik Hahn
Poste bitte entweder auf English oder in gentoo-user-de. -- hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR

Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers

2008-10-09 Thread Erik Hahn
Please, disable HTML in your client or at least tell it to send a plain text version as well. I see hardly readable raw HTML code in mutt. -Erik -- hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR

Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers

2008-10-09 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:04:00PM -0200, Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please, disable HTML in your client or at least tell it to send a plain text version as well. I see hardly readable raw HTML code in mutt. Then change your MUA :) Sure, but that's the one

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

2008-10-11 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:24:03PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm looking into ivman and pmount for automounting amongst other things while using e17. ivman was last updated Feb 2007 according to the official sourceforge page, and the maintainer is listed as . 18 months is a long

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

2008-10-11 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 05:24:27PM -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does software rot when it's unmaintained or why is that a problem? No, but it develops incompatibilities over time... So far, it works fine. -- hackerkey

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-15 Thread Erik Hahn
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:14:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the root console instead of getting a new login

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-16 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:38:26PM +0200, Geralt wrote: Although it would be possible to include this respawning into slim (and I suppose that gdm and kdm have this feature?) it is much more work than checking in xdm is slim is still up and if not restarting it (since xdm is slim's parent

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-16 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 02:52:40PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Benjamin Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:29:31 +0200 Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:14:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-17 Thread Erik Hahn
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:23:55PM +0200, Geralt wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:38:26PM +0200, Geralt wrote: Although it would be possible to include this respawning into slim (and I suppose that gdm and kdm have

Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-20 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: For probably the first time ever, I just had a look at that. And I'm asking myself - why does OOo have nsplugins support at all? It's an office suite - I use it mostly to read documents other people send me, and because

Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-20 Thread Erik Hahn
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:35:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008 12:26:11 Erik Hahn wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: For probably the first time ever, I just had a look at that. And I'm asking myself - why does OOo have

[gentoo-user] Another Abiword build failure

2008-10-21 Thread Erik Hahn
I'm unsuccesfully trying to compile app-office/abiword-2.6.4. The error is a different one than in the other thread, though. I hope somebody of you has a clue what's wrong and how I can fix it. Thanks in advance, -Erik Relevant output: -ed -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-22 Thread Erik Hahn
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:52:04PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can I do besides waiting forever for compozer to be added to the portage or complaining in this list? P. S. I am also willing to start tutorial and mange to contribute ebuilds to gentoo project, e.g. for ThinkingRock,

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Abiword build failure

2008-10-22 Thread Erik Hahn
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:50:55AM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello Erik, First two questions that come to me: - did you already emerge -DNu abiword and - did you try with the -gnome USE flag? gnome USE flag has never been enabled, I'm now doing complete update (it's high time anyway),

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!

2008-10-23 Thread Erik Hahn
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:26:36PM -0500, deface wrote: I am reaching out to the community in search of someone, or someone who may know someone at either TEL-X (http://www.telx.com) or 56Marietta (http://www.56marietta.com). I'm sure everyone on this ML is aware that wiki is down. It

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashes

2008-10-23 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Simon wrote: Hi, recently (dunno why or when exactly) firefox has started crashing when loading certain pages. Two pages I'm used to access often that are causing the problem are my banking site (once logged in) and linode.com/members... the

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Abiword build failure

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Hahn
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:41:18PM +0200, Erik Hahn wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:50:55AM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello Erik, First two questions that come to me: - did you already emerge -DNu abiword and - did you try with the -gnome USE flag? gnome USE flag has never been

Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-26 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:41:09PM -0200, Norberto Bensa wrote: On Saturday October 25 2008 12:21:01 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2008 15:32:50 schrieb Norberto Bensa: WTF is playman!? The paludis equivalent of layman. If development has moved to paludis, I guess

[gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?

2008-10-31 Thread Erik Hahn
Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? --

[gentoo-user] Subversion broken

2008-11-04 Thread Erik Hahn
Suddenly (at least I don't know since when it doesn't work) I get this error whenever I use svn: svn: Failed to find label 'NULL' for URL '/svnroot/arcon/trunk/overlay' svn: Failed to find label 'NULL' for URL '/svnroot/arcon/trunk/overlay' Subversion (1.5.4) is build with USE:-apache2

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives

2008-11-05 Thread Erik Hahn
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:38:44PM +0700, Nickolay Hodyunya wrote: How to extract lzma archives? emerge lzma-utils man lzma -- v4sw5RUYhw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7Lw3+2Xm0l6/7Gi2e2t3b6AKMen5+7a16s0Sr1p-5.62/-6.56g6OR

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Erik Hahn
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:16:02PM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: or, simpler with paludis: paludis -i --dl-blocks discard e2fsprogs If the block still exists after you unmerged com_err and ss, use emerge with - t to find out which package still wants them end re-emerge this first. It might

[gentoo-user] /usr/lib/perl5: file not recognized: Is a directory

2008-11-18 Thread Erik Hahn
Many packages (example: rxvt-unicode) fail like this: --- i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include/freetype2 -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -w -DDEBUG_STRICT -c ev_cpp.C i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common

[gentoo-user] Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Erik Hahn
I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X - gpm, qingy and virtual terminals work fine however. Rebuilding the drivers didn't help I attach emerge --info output, this is my package.use entry for xorg-server: x11-base/xorg-server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Erik Hahn
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:14:27PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Erik Hahn wrote: I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X Pay attention to what the xorg-server ebuild tells you. It even beeps like crazy to get your

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Erik Hahn
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:15:48PM +0100, Uwe wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2008 18:02:37 Erik Hahn wrote: I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X - gpm, qingy and virtual terminals work fine however. Rebuilding the drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-22 Thread Erik Hahn
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:05:46PM +, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to e.g. use xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to open .odt and .doc files? All

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about the Live CD

2009-01-03 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:51:58PM +0100, Christian wrote: Hi all, The 2008 Live CD, does that include Gnome 2.24? Or is KDE being used? Many thanks for any info! XFCE, I think. Before it was Gnome. pgpmPVrcJmiZ0.pgp Description: PGP signature