Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-stop daemon complains of not being able to stat /usr/bin/xdm which doesn't exist. And no I didn't mispell it. I've never seen this before an I'm baffled. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
] in the right margin, and all that. If you tell me how to find out, I'll answer any questions. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Alexanderb3n...@yandex.ru wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Synopsis: This host is running kdm. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip snip ] Hi, You haven't told us how you start

[gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
error: no screens found giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. treat X11 # exit Script done on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:46:21 AM PDT -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
or directory)  * ERROR: could not start the Display Manager                             [ ok ] treat ~ # exit Script done on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:53 AM PDT -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD So is xdm emerged? Seems strange. xdm comes from xinit, which is emerged. Are you using gnome by chance

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:09:18 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory You don't have xdm installed, have you checked /etc/conf.d/xdm? I do have xinit, which

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:09:18 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory You don't have xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:24:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory You don't have xdm installed, have you checked /etc/conf.d/xdm? I do have xinit, which

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Synopsis: great progress made -- further progress will be in a different thread related to keyboard and mouse On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dirk Heinrichsdirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 19:15:29 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions

[gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection === end snippage === -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. Have you rebuilt HAL? It might help I have rebuilt version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
not sure how that works out in detail, because hald is still running and the hal use flag is in use everywhere but xorg-server. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Keith Dartke...@dartworks.biz wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:03:36 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at least one package got past my version limits and X broke.  Rather than to try

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
had been thinking that the buildpkg was going to make reversion a lot easier, except that I've never actually installed one of these puppies. Mind, I only tried once. I've got about 4 GB of packages at the moment. :o) ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Keith Dartke...@dartworks.biz wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:03:20 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: The elog message from the xorg-server emerge also warns

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webbpurs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: If all else fails: x11-base/xorg-server  -hal Is there any other advice? A new HAL made no difference.  Sigh. I ran

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
on a 32 bits machine) Helmut. Please also describe your keyboard and mouse. I suspect mine are different, and I am not at all sure how to adjust the setup for my hardware. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/10/2009 01:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On  9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at least one package got past my version limits and X broke.  Rather than to try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Keith Dartke...@dartworks.biz wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, folks. Works for me. ;-) But its true that Xorg is making some rapid

[gentoo-user] mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/mod_perl-2.0.4-r1/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/www-apache/mod_perl-2.0.4-r1/temp/environment'. * -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
what I have to do to regenerate it. I'll try a few things, but I could really use some expert help at this point. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-generated, and has this old 2.4 kernel string built-in. Too bad there's no hint what I have to do to regenerate it.  I'll try a few things, but I could really use some expert help at this point. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Oops: make that a 2.6.24 kernel string. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Torsten Vellerml...@veller.net wrote: * Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com: Errno architecture (i686-linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-kosmanor) does not match executable architecture (i686-linux-thread-multi-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8

[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge libgksu: lacks XML::Parser

2009-07-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
: '/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/libgksu-2.0.9/temp/build.log' -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cannot emerge libgksu: lacks XML::Parser

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:51 PM, ABCDen.a...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got portage's dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36, but nevertheless several packages have started to fail during emerge for lack of Perl's XML::Parser. Even the simple script fails to run under perl: #!/usr/bin

[gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
temporary files, please run: * rm /var/cache/revdep-rebuild/*.rr treat ~ # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been trying to get a few recalcitrant packages to build (evolution-data-server, openoffice) but they seem to require things that my system does not have

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Kenneth Prughken69...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:19:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Are the packages looking for a .la file? I had a problem on my system that it wanted a nonexistant opengl.la or something similar. I ended

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Kenneth Prughken69...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:19:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Are the packages looking for a .la file? I had a problem on my

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 02 August 2009 01:31:14 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been trying to get

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Arttu V.arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/2/09, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: checking for GL/glu.h... yes checking for glVertex3d in -lGLcore... no Starting from here, libGLcore.so on my current desktop system belongs to nvidia-drivers: lrwxrwxrwx 1

[gentoo-user] Mach64 and opengl (was: portage and library troubles with GL)

2009-08-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Arttu V.arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/2/09, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: checking for GL/glu.h... yes checking for glVertex3d in -lGLcore... no Starting from here

[gentoo-user] glxinfo not found

2009-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] When will the ~ go from Firefox 3.0.12?

2009-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
updates). Or 3.5.2... Maybe, but 3.0.11 is the latest stable on x86. The OP's question is a good one, still awaiting an answer. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0d) The 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel does not bring them up, and a manual attempt to do so in /etc/init.d errors out with a claim the interfaces do not exist. Anybody else seen this or can give guidance? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just trying kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 and having the same trouble I had with 2.56.30-r4, so now I need to ask if I'm alone in this. I copied my .config from my 2.6.28-gentoo-r5, did make oldconfig and took

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.dewrote: Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 13:04:37 schrieb Arttu V.: On 9/13/09, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 09/13/2009 01:48 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor

Re: [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess

2009-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. How should I add this safely? ++ kevin For me, X started to work again after removing ~/.Xauthority. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Large update blocked

2009-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Large update blocked

2009-10-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
over by eselect itself. I had the same thing a while back. The above is correct. Remove eselect-news as the functionality is now in eselect. The sleep deprivation must have been worse than I thought. I was interpreting 'world' as if it were 'system'. My bad. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
a close box, for instance. My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no modeline. I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1024 resolution. Do I need to go back to the days of modlines? Xorg.conf is attached. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.dewrote: Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 19:21:46 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no modeline. I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1024

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Samstag 17 Oktober 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I normally stay logged in forever, even after updates. I'm both busy and lazy. However, the Xorg flurry seemed to have died down, so I took

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Richard Marza richardmar...@optonline.net wrote: - Original Message - *From:* Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:42 PM *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 17 October 2009 20:58:00 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Modifying the monitor section made no noticeable change. There's still a 24-pixel bleed off the right edge to begin with. I can fool with settings

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Richard Marza richardmar...@optonline.net wrote: - Original Message - *From:* Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:58 PM *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 17 October 2009 21:26:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 17 October 2009 20:58:00 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Modifying

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Richard Marza richardmar...@optonline.net wrote: - Original Message - *From:* Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 3:26 PM *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Richard Marza richardmar...@optonline.net wrote: Original Message - *From:* Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 3:42 PM *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines

SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
SOLVED On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Sat, 10/17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: === It's a flat panel. === In that case I'd first try the monitor's own auto-adjust feature. Usually this is available by pressing some menu key on your monitor. Okay

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
SOLVED On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Sat, 10/17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: === It's a flat panel. === In that case I'd first try the monitor's own auto-adjust feature. Usually this is available by pressing some menu key on your monitor

[gentoo-user] OT? How to capture error messages from glibc

2009-10-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and ironically script(1) does not seem to play nice with scripts. I also know that this is about to tip me into the abyss of session leaders and controlling terminals, but I'll try to be brave. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
localhost.kosmanor.com -- which does not exist -- causing a bounce from my email provider. It's better than nothing, because the headers tell me which package is at issue, and I can look up the elog entry. But it could be better. Anybody have a fix? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE 3.5. Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5, no 4*. The only change I noticed was in the background of the login dialog. One guess is that the flood of

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure where it's happening, but localhost is being glued onto the real sender domain to form

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 25 October 2009 18:13:19 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure where it's happening

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-11-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. I have no idea how they are being sent. This just started

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
have on a source-based distro... For which reason I'm quite happy to be running stable except for specific package releases that I put in package.unmask. Patch-2.6 has been ~x86 all along, so I've been running 2.5.9 continuously since March of 2008. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] What's happening to six-0.5.3?

2010-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
an upgrade in a few years, but it was still entered in the Computer Olympiad in 2009. It didn't win, but made a fair showing. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just imagine it, or has something else happened? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:53:21 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 24 Jan 2010, at 03:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just imagine

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
considering the environment? What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ? I am stupid enough. Wonko ++me The only open question seems to be whether we can do much about it. -- Kevin O'Gorman

[gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
kdelibs because I like a few of their games. Similarly for gnome. But I wonder what I should do about the rest. Ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. I use gnome happily at work

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:41 PM, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.dewrote: On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
problem on my end. Can you confirm that this happens on your system too? Happens here too. My error file is 38M -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com I wanted to make sure first that this isn't some sort of configuration Me++ -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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[gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
there's any work to do, and revdep-rebuild reports health. Still no mouse. Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I can work with it, but it's still essentially headless. Anybody run into this state recently? If there's a quick fix, I'd rather not make another bug. -- Kevin O'Gorman

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Kaddeh kad...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried emergeing x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse on their own without xorg? Cheers Kad I'm not quite sure what that means. If you mean emerging them while X is down, I had to do that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Kaddeh kad...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried emergeing x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse on their own without xorg? Cheers Kad I'm not quite sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there were some packages that would not install, so I was carefully emerging what I could and filed a bug about one in particular that I could

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 21:21:25 Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried this: emerge -1a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the line tho. I have INPUT_DEVICES=evdev, and adding either of the others makes X go back to not starting at all. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto: michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 21:21:25 Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: snippage

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mine has xf86-* drivers as well. OP, do you have your setting in make.conf correctly? Mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mine has xf86-* drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 16:43:48 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: major snippage Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: major

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:45:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/16/2010 08:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.commailto: michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: major

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
) Is there a connection between NX and SSH? Could you point me at some setup docs (if they don't come automatically). -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/2010)(ncurses -custom-cflags -netboot -static) Homepage:http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description: GNU GRUB 2 boot loader -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
For some reason, the latest x86 stable p7zip wants to force me to remove 'odbc' from wxGTK. This seems wrong, and I'm masking it out for the moment, but I'm wondering what justification there is. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
at all can be seen. Wonko -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Renat Golubchyk ragerm...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:44:41 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason, the latest x86 stable p7zip wants to force me to remove 'odbc' from wxGTK. This seems wrong, and I'm masking it out

[gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
else until the scrolling is finished, and the scrolling for a very tall page can take a couple of minutes. I keep trying to remember that dragging the thumb still works as expected, but clicking is an old habit that's hard to drop. Am I the only one seeing this? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
around 1985. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] vim(1) barks at root, and no other

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
any pattern to what I'm doing when it happens. Anybody have a clue where it's coming from? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
- unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator), and something similar if I attempt to use /etc/issue. Looking at /bin/login with strings(1), I find a format string that would produce this output. Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and the greeting? -- Kevin O'Gorman

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