Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild creation (python-2.7) - please help

2010-12-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/12/10 14:52:28, walt wrote: On 12/12/2010 03:33 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after switching to Python-2.7 an ebuild of myself fails. I'm trying to write an ebuild for dev-python/pyparsing- My attemp fails with 'setup.py' not found. Have you tried using the -d flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/14/10 17:42:40, Dale wrote: Hi, I got one more hard drive to move over and it is SATA. Question one, can the new mobo's do hot plugging for SATA drives? I have a plug on the front of the case and was wondering since it is on the front if they If this is an eSATA connection then

[gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have to power down one of my machines each day. Booting it the other day fails from time to time. On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by its own. It looks as if mounting /usr fails sometimes (silently). The first unusual message is that it cannot find the file

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:03:58, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:26:16, Dale wrote: Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit. I'd try to boot by SystemRescueCD and let it start X11 to rule out some hardware problems. (Version 1.6.4 is using xorg-server-1.9.2) Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:32:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de [10-12-15 10:00]: Hi, I have to power down one of my machines each day. Booting it the other day fails from time to time. On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by its

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about the card. It was using

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 11:03:43, Adam Carter wrote: I'll search for such a configuration problem, otherwise I'll create a bug report. Are you using rc_parallel=NO ? (in /etc/rc.conf) No, why disable fast booting. If it turns out to be necessary it would be a pity! But I'll try it for a while

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) run just fine with the lastest kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/21/10 11:46:21, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/12/21 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/21/10 15:41:20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I It is already unmasked in ~amd64 (It's running just fine here) Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/23/10 02:41:44, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:28:09 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: SNIP Can anyone see

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/23/10 11:51:32, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I guess all of you having this problem use baseayout-2/openrc with parallel service start. Try if rc_parallel=NO in /etc/rc.conf fixes the problem. I had a similar problem with sshd [1] which disappeared after disabling parallel start. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/nvidia-settings-256.52 is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29

2010-12-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/28/10 20:01:19, Daniel D Jones wrote: Getting the following error: [blocks B ] media-video/nvidia-settings-256.52 (media-video/nvidia- settings-256.52 is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29) Total: 150 packages (148 upgrades, 1 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads:

[gentoo-user] Extend a script in /etc/init.d - how to?

2011-01-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the package sys-power/powernowd comes with an init script which would allow /etc/init.d/powernowd high or /etc/init.d/powernowd low (in addition to the standard parameters start/stop/restart) Unfortunately, that's not implemented when powernowd is installed by portage (emerge). Does

[gentoo-user] dynamic libraries - tree view ?

2011-01-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, on one of my machines, googleearth crashes. An ldd /opt/googleearth/googleearth.bin | grep crypto shows that it tries to load both /usr/lib32/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and /usr/lib32/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 On a different machine it only loads /usr/lib32/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 and does not crash. So,

[gentoo-user] BIOS flash safe with dosemu ?

2011-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody if it's safe to flash the BIOS using a DOS emulator like app-emulation/dosemu ? Thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut.

[gentoo-user] python wide-unicode problem

2011-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, using Python3.1, if I say import site I get File /usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py, line 472, in setencoding sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build ! ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8 But emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3 shows USE=doc gdbm ipv6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python wide-unicode problem

2011-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote: On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, using Python3.1, if I say import site I get File /usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py, line 472, in setencoding sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python wide-unicode problem

2011-01-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/21/2011 10:14:33 PM, walt wrote: On 01/21/2011 07:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote: On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, using Python3.1, if I say import site I get File /usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py, line 472

[gentoo-user] USB stick recognition problem

2011-01-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since a few weeks I have a strange effect with my USB stick. According to fdisk there is one partition on it /dev/sde1 38 7839719 3919841b W95 FAT32 which I haven't changed for a long time. Whenever I insert this stick, the kernel log shows /dev/sde but not

Re: [gentoo-user] USB stick recognition problem

2011-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/02/2011 04:48:40 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, since a few weeks I have a strange effect with my USB stick. According to fdisk there is one partition on it /dev/sde1              38     7839719

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
starting writing something. It's hundreds of lines long in 1 file and I just messed up a brace somewhere which I haven't been able to figure out in vi. Let me suggest another alternative. I am enthusiastic about CodeLite, see www.codelite.org Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
.html -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] cups hplib - how to divorce

2011-02-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I think cups-1.4.6 and my HP printer via USB can't live in harmony. Often, it gets stuck. Then it tries to use feed 1 (manual feed) although I have configured cups to use feed 2. Can I just remove hlip from my system, delete and add my printer again in cups. Has anybody made similar

Re: [gentoo-user] cups hplib - how to divorce

2011-02-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/09/2011 12:58:07 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2011/2/9 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I think  cups-1.4.6 and my HP printer via USB can't live in harmony. Often, it gets stuck. Then it tries to use feed 1 (manual feed) although I have configured cups to use

Re: [gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/09/2011 12:56:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:38:37 +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: Another way to do it is with find: find /home/mark/Builder -type f -iname '*csv' -exec cp {} ~mark/CorrelationTests \; Replace \; with + for a faster process, as Mark said there are

[gentoo-user] non-root user switch gcc version ?

2011-02-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler. Is there something similar in GenToo? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

[gentoo-user] strange library dependencies

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've just emerged app-text/djview4 which went through without any errors. But invoking djview4 fails due to missing libraries libdjvulibre.so.15 and libtiff.so.3 On my system there the more recent versions libdjvulibre.so.21libtiff.so.5 I don't understand how something that's just

Re: [gentoo-user] strange library dependencies

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Please ignore! There were an older binary somewhere in my PATHs. Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/25/2011 04:33:20 PM, Dale wrote: Well, I think my machine is possessed or something. I'm getting random reboots here. When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button. It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this. I noticed the first time the other day and this

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?

2011-03-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/01/2011 07:56:40 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, is there any way to move running (already started) process to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? Sometimes I start updating my server, but it keeps running for long time,

[gentoo-user] *** Warning - beware of sys-apps/coretuils-8.10

2011-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, as I've been just be bitten by this, I'd like to warn you. My root partition has an ext4 FS while other partitions use BTRFS. But the bug shown below seems to be related to the ext4 FS on my root partition. I've just tried to install the 12.6.37-gentoo-r2 kernel. make modules_installed told

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
? But beware of the bug I've reported last Saturday which is revealed by /bin/cp if you have = coreutils-8.10 installed. Only the 2.6.38 kernel (from today) has fixed this for btrfs but AFAIK not for ext4, yet. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen

[gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32 Probably, the function get_libdir (defined in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 11:13:36 AM, walt wrote: On 03/21/2011 02:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead

Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 10:19:07 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32 Probably

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 08:32:22 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) journaling

[gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? It assume it's connected to

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/31/2011 01:26:05 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/31/2011 01:32:30 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2011/3/31 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/10/2011 03:50:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: I read about again and again is a RAID user who loses 1 drive and then, while in the process of fixing the RAID, loses a second drive. Most of us (myself

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/02/2011 05:38:03 PM, Davide Carnovale wrote: Hi all! i was going through a world update today and during --depclean emerge throw an error complaining about possible corrupted binaries or hw failure. since then it has stopped working, no matter what i try to emerge, the command simply

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/02/2011 06:05:08 PM, Davide Carnovale wrote: @alan, no error are printed, where and what should i look for in the logs? @helmut python just returns to the console, without error or effect of any sort, does it means python has get unmerged and that's why emerge doesn't work

[gentoo-user] pkg-config new ebuild - howto

2011-05-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I need webkitgtk-3.0.pc I've used net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.4.0-r200 from the gnome overlay. Unfortunately it installs only webkitgtk-1.0.pc (in /usr/lib64/ pkgconfig) How to specify the name of the pkg-config file in an ebuild? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

[gentoo-user] How to use a slotted library

2011-05-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have 3 versions of x11-libs/gtk+ in slots 1, 2 and 3. Some applications cannot be compiled with gtk+:3 . Is there a way to temporarily switch to gtk+:2 (which probably needs to switch related packages like atk and pango, as well) ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
performance drops. I guess I could just use mencoder and watch framerates or I could code something myself but maybe someone knows a better tool for this. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/10/2011 02:36:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2011 12:59:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/08/2011 11:21:06 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: sys-process/atop shows current CPU freqency I use it to check the effect of sys-power/powernowd why are you using powernowd

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/10/2011 02:44:26 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2011 08:27:42 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/10/2011 02:36:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2011 12:59:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/08/2011 11:21:06 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/10/2011 04:42:52 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 10.05.2011 16:34, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Am I missing something? Look at 'grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo' to see if your CPU is throttling correctly. And that tells me that the CPU is running at full speed (3 GHz in my case) although all

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/10/2011 04:57:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 10.05.2011 16:49, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: And that tells me that the CPU is running at full speed (3 GHz in my case) although all CPUs are idle. What does cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor userspace

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/10/2011 04:57:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 10.05.2011 16:49, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: And that tells me that the CPU is running at full speed (3 GHz in my case) although all CPUs are idle. What does cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor and cat /sys

[gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. On the other machine there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/19/2011 04:12:24 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. It even offers a beta version which has been working for me ever since. Currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks to all of you who have tried to help me. As it turned out, comparing MD5 sum is intractable, /usr/lib64 alone contained more than 500,000 files ! The /etc tree didn't show significant differences. So, I resorted to keep my 4 cores busy over the weekend to re-emerge the whole machine.

[gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel

2011-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 Does anybody know a work around? Thanks, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel

2011-05-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/19/2011 11:20:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 19.05.2011 22:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 Does anybody know a work around? Hi, there are always

[gentoo-user] firefox Could not find compatible GRE

2011-05-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd appreciate if somebody could help me to solve this mystery. I've just bit-copied the root and usr partition to another machine with identical hardware. So, both contain firefox-4.0.1-r1 and xulrunner-2.0.1-r1 . On the original machine, firefox starts without any problems while on the

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox Could not find compatible GRE

2011-05-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Just re-emerging firefox fixed this - but why (tar preserves file times) ? Still interested in the why Helmut. On 05/24/2011 11:15:49 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd appreciate if somebody could help me to solve this mystery. I've just bit-copied the root and usr partition to another

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox Could not find compatible GRE

2011-05-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/24/2011 11:55:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: Permission problems? Is id of user the same on both machines? id username I've tried it even as 'root'. Helmut.

[gentoo-user] net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.4.5 hangs during build

2011-06-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have just tried to emerge net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.4.5 (1.4.4 is currently installed), but it hangs This last messages are Resolve Portability Issues checking if msync with MS_ASYNC updates the files mtime... It doesn't use any CPU time, so it's probably waiting forever. Has anybody

[gentoo-user] udisks wants to downgrade udev and parted - but why?

2011-06-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm puzzled again by portage's logic. When trying to emerge sys-fs/udisks-1.0.2-r4 it wants to downgrade sys-fs/udev from 171 to 168-r2 and sys-block/parted from 3.0 to 2.4 The udisks' ebuild contains =sys-fs/udev-147[extras] =sys-block/parted-1.8.8[device-mapper] sys-fs/udev hasn't an

[gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have an annoying problem which I'd like to fix. Something (probably some Gnome application) repeatedly creates the folder .gvfs with permissions dr-x-- 2 jarausch users When I run tar (as root!) I get tar: ./jarausch/.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied which sets an error return

Re: [gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks Thanasis and Matthias. I didn't recognize that .gvfs is a mount point for an sshfs file system. Helmut.

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/R installation : a hard nut

2011-06-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm looking for advice on the following hard nut. On one of my machines emerging dev-lang/R fails while on a very similar one it succeeds! On the 'bad one' I get lots of Warning in lazyLoadDBinsertVariable(vars[i], from, datafile, ascii, compress, : internal error 8 in R_compress3 and

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/R installation : a hard nut

2011-06-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/29/2011 07:23:19 PM, pk wrote: On 2011-06-29 11:32, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I'm looking for advice on the following hard nut. On one of my machines emerging dev-lang/R fails while on a very similar one it succeeds! I don't have much to offer, unfortunately, but what

[gentoo-user] /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache - how to manange it?

2011-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I don't know how the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is built. But I don't like some ``priorities'' in there, e.g. I'd like to change the sequence of applications for html. Currently I have text/html=seamonkey.desktop;opera-

Re: [gentoo-user] How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?

2011-07-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/14/2011 02:56:46 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Another question: How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge? I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added (if necessary) emerge

[gentoo-user] How to trace the origin of a use-flag setting

2011-07-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, emerge -vp app-office/libreoffice shows that the USE flag -java is in effect. How to find out where this comes from? I've checked /etc/portage/package.use /usr/portage/profiles and / etc/make.conf Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to trace the origin of a use-flag setting

2011-07-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/25/2011 01:34:39 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: euse -a part of gentoolkit, I believe. Ref: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Gentoolkit Rgds, On 2011-07-25, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, emerge -vp app-office/libreoffice shows that the USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/28/2011 11:40:40 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: My guess is that -msse4.2 imply also -msse1..4.1 Can someone confirm this? I don't think so. It's part of the war Intel - AMD Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/28/2011 11:51:29 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 07/28/2011 11:40:40 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: My guess is that -msse4.2 imply also -msse1..4.1 Can someone confirm this? I don't think so. It's part

[gentoo-user] cups configuration for dummies

2011-08-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've installed a GenToo system on the PC of a friend which doesn't know the internals of Linux (GenToo). At home he has a local network with a printer (probably managed by a Window system). Is there an easy means to configure CUPS on his system to find that printer? Many thanks for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cblas libraries

2011-08-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/26/2011 02:12:35 PM, denis cohen wrote: Hello, I recently removed some packages like blas-reference, cblas- reference, and lapack-reference to get emerge to run (some blocking issues). Not sure that was a good idea because now, even if I've reinstalled these packages, I cannot say

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers for xorg-server-11.0 ?

2011-08-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know about an ati-driver for the new xorg-server-11.0 system. Is there an experimental drivers as it used to be. Many thanks, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] automount USB

2011-10-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/11/2011 03:01:48 PM, Michal Halenka wrote: ...The answer may have a lot to do with what GUI you use. Do you use KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox or something else? Once that is known, then help will come along. Dale :-) :-) Hi, I am using awesome WM, /usr/bin/startx. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?

2011-10-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
), sending the file via ftp. Kyocera is known for very low operating costs. Helmut -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote: On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: ... I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of

Re: [gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/16/2011 12:11:34 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm trying to make an older PC display high-def streaming video. It's a Dell Inspiron Desktop 530, with 2 gigs of ram, assembled and shipped August 2007. It has an Intel dual core (*NOT* a Core Duo) cpu like so (from /proc/cpuinfo).

[gentoo-user] [OT] adding another terminal

2011-12-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to add another terminal to my machine (there is no need for a separate full blown work station). I see two possibilities: - add another graphics card and attach a second screen, keyboard and mouse. I'd have to figure out how to tell X11 that configuration - built something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/18/2012 01:18:03 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: While I program a lot on my Linux machines, I haven't actually found an IDE that doesn't make me wish VS ran on Linux. Did you have a look at CodeLite (www.codelite.org) ? If you like, I can send you an ebuild for it (but you can install it

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE - Was: Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/18/2012 10:22:51 AM, Chris Walters wrote: On 1/18/2012 03:59 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/18/2012 01:18:03 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: While I program a lot on my Linux machines, I haven't actually found an IDE that doesn't make me wish VS ran on Linux. Did you have a look

[gentoo-user] which packages requires a given package with a specific use flag

2012-01-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I, again, I have a question on reverse dependency search: How can I find out which (installed) package requires a given package (sci-libs/hdf5 in my case) with a specific use flag (cxx in my case)? I can't see how specifiy the use flag when using qdepends. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Lightweight commandline flatfile database

2012-01-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/27/2012 06:23:32 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Rather than keep music on my hard drive, I'm going the cloud route by keeping a list of my favourite Youtube clips. Ideally, I'd like something that I can activate from the command line, and even launch Firefox. sqlite is overkill in terms of

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiseat -- LTSP?

2012-01-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
to go but I'd love to hear anyone else's opinion on that. Has anyone here ever set up multiseat in Xorg? - Grant -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.11.4 runs havoc

2012-01-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, having updated xorg-server from 1.11.3 to 1.11.4 my machine runs havoc. xdm or slim start as usual, but having entered my password I get a blank screen or some colored strips and the only escape is via the famous SysRq sequence. But, disabling xdm, logging in via a console and using

[gentoo-user] static nano - how to?

2012-01-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, from time to time I need to boot in 'single' mode. I'd like to use the nano editor in this case. But unfortunately it doesn't run since it cannot resolve the dynamic library libmagic.so.1 How can I build a static version of nano? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

[gentoo-user] How to remove the clear screen just before login

2012-02-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm using openrc (0.9.8.4) and I don't use any (graphical) login manager. After some upgrade of openrc (not too long ago), something clears the screen just before I'm offered to log in. But I'd like to see the last messages of openrc. What gets executed just before I can login? Or, where can

[gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, beware of installing postfix-2.9.0 When started it tries to access /usr/lib/postfix but files have been installed into /usr/libexec/postfix And after re-emerging postfix-2.8.8 I couldn't do /etc/init.d/postfix restart since openrc was thinking it's still running. Since it was urgent I

[gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati- drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x) Third, smplayer does

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/08/2012 03:04:50 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have

[gentoo-user] wireless newbee needs help

2012-02-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, it's the first time I have to set up a wireless network on a notebook. How can I find out whether the connection is encrypted or not. wpa_gui tells me Authentication WPA2-PSK Encryption TKIP but iwconfig wlan0 says Encryption key:off and on the server (hot spot) I have

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/08/2012 03:04:50 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/10/2012 10:22:42 AM, Carlos Hendson wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:31 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Many thanks, the workaround mentioned in this link fixes the segment fault. Still, audio doesn't work, yet. It seems mplayer doesn't have the codec required for the WMV format

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/11/2012 11:12:38 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Helmut Jarausch writes: Sorry, but now I'm completely confused. I've emerge mplayer2 and it DOES play video and SOUND ! But smplayer2 doesn't play sound - no idea why since it invokes mplayer2, doesn't it? Not as default. You have

[gentoo-user] RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

2012-02-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, when copying a whole directory tree with standard tools, e.g. tar cf - . | ( cd $DEST tar xf - ) or cpio -p ... the source disk is busy seeking. That's noisy and particularly slow. I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in i-node order. If this is fed into tar or

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Proxytunnel through nginx

2012-02-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/19/2012 07:15:46 PM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to set up a reverse-proxy at my home to be able to by- pass restrictive firewalls that only allow http/https traffic. If you only want to get through your firewall by using the open port 80, I'd use ssh's port forwarding

[gentoo-user] Help! HP625 WLAN is driving me nuts

2012-02-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to get WLAN working on my HP625 laptop. I've checked several web pages but I'm lost. I'm using a recent kernel (3.3-rc5+). I configured CONFIG_BRCMUTIL=m CONFIG_BRCMSMAC=m CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m and I installed the coresponding firmware in /lib/firmware/brcm Now, lspci -k shows

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