Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version

2010-02-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 08:39:45PM +0100, Laurent Kappler wrote: I'm using Haxe/Neko and we have a wrapper for ImageMagick, but as no one did really use it often the last version is made for IM 6.4.7. So I might download the ebuild 6.4.5 in a hurry, then we will update the Haxe library. I

[gentoo-user] Two problems with xdg-open

2010-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: What exactly is xdg-open and how to I configure it to do what I want? The question came up because I am using jabref, a Java based bibtex management system. On my home machine, when I tried to open a PDF file, java throws a file-not-found error on xdg-open. But I have xdg-utils

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:15:59PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: as browser - or file manager. And to load the right kpart. Oh - and that loading of kparts? The messages are sent by dbus. I don't have konqueror nor do I use KDE/Gnome. And never will. then why do you even care

Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems with xdg-open

2010-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:25:07PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: It's a simple bash script. There's no magic. Take a peek at it. Heh, somehow it didn't occur to me that might be the case. Thanks. So after reading the script, xdg-open is not for me since I do not use a well known DE. Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote: I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) tools. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding dependencies in init scripts

2010-02-14 Thread Willie Wong
Damian: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:56:14PM +0100, Damian wrote: I understand, but that isn't what I want, because when I boot up, I don't always start up mpd. Maybe a combination of both rc_after=mpdscrible rc_need=mpdscrible in /etc/conf.d/mpd could also work. That's the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding dependencies in init scripts

2010-02-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:54:10PM +0100, Damian wrote: (d) What versions of openrc and baselayout are you using? openrc is not installed, and the baselayout version is 1.12.13. I am thinking that Dirk's advice maybe OpenRC/baselayout2 specific. Which is perhaps why those configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Error

2010-02-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 08:20:52PM +0100, hp_sebastian wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:45:49 -0500 German Lopez Cortina glo...@estudiantes.uci.cu wrote: What can be this / bin / sh: lzma: command not found make [2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lzma] Error 1 make [1]:

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Sorry if I reheat a topic that some already consider closed. I used the weekend to experiment on that stuff and need to report my results. Because they startle me a little. I first tried different start sectors around

Re: [gentoo-user] copy-paste no longer works with (g)vim + OpenOffice

2010-02-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:45:30PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I have updated to the latest stable (G)vim 7.2.303 suddenly can no longer copy+paste from Vim into Open Office: it doesn't work at all with Gvim unpredictably with Vim in a Konsole. I can copy+paste from Most in a Konsole to Open

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:58:16AM +, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote: If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main

Re: [gentoo-user] copy-paste no longer works with (g)vim + OpenOffice

2010-02-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:42:40AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Which copy+paste? high-light with mouse and middle click to paste? Yes: are there other methods ? -- it also doesn't work if I high-light with 'v' the (left-)arrow key(s). In Gnome at least you can high-light with mouse, right

Re: [gentoo-user] copy-paste no longer works with (g)vim + OpenOffice

2010-02-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:18:21PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I didn't know that one (smile), but only the 1st half works here; when I R-click in the OO file, there's no 'paste' option using the 'paste' button on the toolbar gives Requested clipboard format is not available. Okay, so OO does

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and time consuming. I

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:44:21PM -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When I run emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update --with-bdeps=y world snip !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: virtual/jdk:1.5 !!! All ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:38:06AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? (This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org) There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either of those ends in a gui. Heh,

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmonad, beagle-search, and mime types

2010-02-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:45:14PM +0100, Damian wrote: So I tried to see how xdg-open works, but the man page didn't give me any useful information. The related command, xdg-mime, doesn't work as I expected. I asked a similar question a week or so back. But xdg-open (and therefore

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:50:09PM +, Mick wrote: Yesterday I updated my system and after a series of: revdep-rebuild --library libjpeg.so.7 and revdep-rebuild -v -i I thought all was good to go. Unfortunately, I now noticed that I cannot open encrypted messages anymore

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:32:00PM +, Mick wrote: On Sunday 21 February 2010 15:08:28 Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:50:09PM +, Mick wrote: Yesterday I updated my system and after a series of: revdep-rebuild --library libjpeg.so.7 and revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:31:34AM +, Mick wrote: Since invoking gpg on the CLI does not ask for a passphrase and it returns: gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry I assume that the problem is with pinentry. Is there some other application involved here that I should look into?

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:31:34AM +, Mick wrote: Since invoking gpg on the CLI does not ask for a passphrase and it returns: gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry I assume that the problem is with pinentry. Is there some other application involved here that I should look into?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making notes in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that allowed that. If anyone has any suggestions as to what pdf readers (other

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:01:37AM +0900, daid kahl wrote: I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread. I want something fast for big files, prints well, and has an interface that doesn't remind me of pure and natural X. I don't mind the little page overview as a side-tool, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote: I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick gentoo mupdf google had a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what they were talking about.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:51:38PM +, Mick wrote: eval $(gpg-agent --daemon --no-detach --debug-level guru --log-file gpg- agent.log) gpg-agent[7276]: enabled debug flags: command mpi crypto memory cache memstat hashing assuan The log file shows:

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:01:12AM +, Mick wrote: 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] starting a new PIN Entry gpg-agent[6741]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec `/usr/bin/pinentry-qt': No such file or directory' 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] can't connect to the PIN

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:15:47AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: MacMini home # tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/ tar: /home/evelyn: Not found in archive You need the -C flag. See man tar. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:45:27PM +, Mick wrote: So maybe file a bug? I don't know whether this is a configuration/USE issue or something hardcoded in the distribution. I will file a bug, but I am not entirely sure what I should file it under, so that it does not get rejected:

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-02-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:54:13AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need portage on its own, maybe /var as well?) /var if you are worried about log files piling up. I don't put portage on its own, but I use reiserfs for / - some kind

[gentoo-user] eGalax Touchscreen

2010-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: My netbook has a eGalax Touchscreen. Does anyone have experience with them? (a) I first tried their driver at http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eGalaxTouchDriver/linuxDriver.htm but it crashes the computer when logging out from X. I may play with it a bit more to see if I am doing something

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:51:21PM +, Mick wrote: Please do write a page on the Wiki (or at least a summary of what you did to this mailing list). This will be some handy information to have. I have now succeeded at achieving what I wanted: to use the Windows 7 boot manager

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small cluster size maybe. I think reiserfs with the notail option is

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +, Stroller wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging in the server cupboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:28:11PM +, Stroller wrote: from the output it looks like you are mounting by label? What if you edit fstab to point to the device name /dev/hd?? instead of LABEL=root? Check the filesystem label to make sure it is ok? Many thanks for this suggestion, however

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:26:46PM +, Stroller wrote: I don't think this is a problem. I would love to know what others think of the `smartctl` output: r...@sysresccd /root % smartctl -H /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [i486-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:29:43AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have you tried smartctl to see what it says about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky? http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Is it upgraded recently? Any config files in

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the move perl-5.10 involved here

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:21:35AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: snip Unpacking source... Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.013.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work Compiling source in

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:59:32PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime 17:58:52 up 51 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.09 You call it Agrajag and talk about stability? You big tempter of fate you. :) W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:07:22PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2010 20:23:01 Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:59:32PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime 17:58:52 up 51 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.09

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +, Stroller wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky? http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:41:04AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: One thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system? atom is not amd64. Building stuff on my netbook is slow(er). My netbook has an N270 at 1.6GHz, with 1G ram. Most build

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:21:06AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i kanda thought about that for the usb stuff. but i have not resolve it. may be i also need the pmout package to allow me to mount the usb disk? the big problem now is the battery information. i really have no idea where to look for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:23:14AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:58:48 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: One thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system? atom is not amd64. Some are. My Acer nettop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:17:48PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil. Apparently skencil is not compatible with tk 8.5. -sigh- now I am unmerging skencil. I used to use it years ago. But now I am getting the same problem you described. W -- Willie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:54:35PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: After attempting to use sk1 for a few minutes, I've given up on it. It crashes regularly. Exporting to a .eps file just plain doesn't work (it writes 'sk1' format data to the file). The user interface is full of breakage: if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:59:34PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: Now this is interesting, inkscape apparently depends on skencil for postscript support? Looks that way, though I'm not sure exactly what it uses skencil for. I would have sworn I had inkscape installed without skencil and could

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is that surprising? My laptop does not have an always-on internet connection, nevermind it sits silently and off for most of the day. I sync by hand when I have time, roughly twice each

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:08:06PM +, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:44:06PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Have you tried Mutt (smile) ? Not if it uses HAL :) Hells to the no. I use mutt. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:05:12PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: I don't see any need for excuses, it sounds like fine common English to me, with the possible exception of a run-on if. The full sentence was I usually always look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if HAL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:57:59PM -0700, walt wrote: On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too forgiving and fuzzy! By George, I think you've got it. From now on, all political campaign speeches should be written in

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:22:03PM -0500, Dale wrote: Ohh. Please permit me to add one more needed feature then. GUI. Some of my pics are nested pretty deep, because of my organizing skills or lack thereof. LOL How'bout google picasa? W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:20:32PM -0500, Dale wrote: How'bout google picasa? Isn't that pretty large too? r...@smoker ~ # equery size kview * kde-base/kview-3.5.10 Total files : 110 Total size : 1.09 MiB r...@smoker ~ # Yes, it is large, but it has loads of

Re: [gentoo-user] xlsfonts shows only a few fonts

2010-03-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58:27AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I believe XFS is deprecated and has been removed from Gentoo recently (at least in ~unstable). See the comments in this bug for info maybe something

[gentoo-user] X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-04-03 Thread Willie Wong
Recently X has spontaneously crashed on me several times. Each time it is triggered by opening up a new webpage in a new tab in Firefox. The URL of the webpages are random, so I don't think it has to do with any particular site (and those url often open fine on subsequent visits). The message

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-04-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:57:32AM -0400, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: This is a late reply and you might have already solved the issue, however, I was running into this problem as well, and it was resolved for my by backing my X packages back down to stable as I was running a stable kernel. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-04-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:21:01AM +0700, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: Seems that you also suffer problem with Intel driver and kernel 2.6.32. Upgrade your xf86-video-intel to v2.11.0 may help. Actually, I am still on kernel 2.6.30; with .32 something's not quite right with the KMS and on boot my

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:45:27AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: /dev/fd/0 is /dev/stdin I learned something new, thanks :) To complete your education :) fd stands for file descriptor. fd/0 = stdin fd/1 = stdout fd/2 = stderr You can create your own file descriptors and use them to

Re: [gentoo-user] xypic wants ruby?

2010-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I need dev-texlive/texlive-pictures because it seems that's what provides xy-pic. Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? I currently have no use for it. I can't begin to imagine why this particular programming language should

Re: [gentoo-user] acroread-9.3.2 produces invalid postscript?

2010-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:19:13AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I have very bad experience with acroread-9.3.2. Some printers (claiming to support postscript level 3) just hang. When I first 'print' to a file, gv only shows some part of each page and evince just hangs. Has anybody similar

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. Press e Move cursor to the kernel line Press e Move cursor to the end

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 07:39:01PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: what exactly is this reserved block count? is it about the number of inodes? does that mean that, by default, regular users can only use 95% of the inodes? and why did I use all these inodes? I don't think I have that many small

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:25:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The 5% is historical from days when disks are much smaller. If you have a sensible partition scheme you only really need to reserve the blocks on the $ROOT filesystem. If the partition in question (IIRC) is only for /home, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: These are the only lines with the word mouse in them. Kevin, what I would try first is to set INPUT_DEVICES=evdev mouse in your /etc/make.conf, then emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and finally reboot. Unless your

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel KMS LVDS; was X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-05-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:37:16AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:21:01AM +0700, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: Seems that you also suffer problem with Intel driver and kernel 2.6.32. Upgrade your xf86-video-intel to v2.11.0 may help. Actually, I am still on kernel 2.6.30

[gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-19 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting output that I haven't seen before: The folowing Deprecated installed packages were found media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: Hi list, I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting output that I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to those packages is that their ebuilds are no-longer in the tree. Each one of those packages

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 03:05:03PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: And how often would you impose refresher tests? Anyone's memory is fallible, as no-one knows better than I do. You just don't remember someone knowing it better. :) W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] turn on wifi enables also bluetooth

2010-06-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:43:15PM +0200, pat wrote: I have Dell Latitude E4300 notebook where the wifi and bluetooth (BT) is turned on by one HW switch. So, on windows if the switch is turned on there is possible to turn off one of these devices (from windows try stop the device). Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Mick wrote: However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree. X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig, like so... * Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --- This

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot errors by watching the disk and peripheral device activity, I wouldn't like to make a

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:38PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: What, you mean after going blank? Not that I would have noticed. If you mean after the xserver crash, see three sentences below ;) Oh, my bad. So I assumed that you also checked the kernel logs then. Are you sure there's no kernel

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

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: He has this uncanny ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking about. It's like saying Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability of almost

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:52:09PM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I don't know if this is the proper list to post this request to. I've been using linux for a dozen years, and am capable of reading and following instructions. But, after a lot of dicking around, I still haven't been

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

2010-07-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:54:33AM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: Hi all, I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address. Most mailing lists I use don't do that. It is usually better and prefer the answer to all

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:47:44PM +0800, Blackdream W wrote: 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开 For someone whose signature asks all posts to be in txt, what are you doing sending so many GIFs to the mailing list? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the depth of what's

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? --- Comment #4 from vap...@gentoo.org 2010-07-05 19:39 --- lemme clarify further: dont bother submitting ebuilds for any package in OSS-QM. we arent interested.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output

2010-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:52:35AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me via email. Usually is there an option... questions are well-answered by man program name. And in

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. How do I get the mouse and

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way after trying to emerge openoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash player

2010-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:40:18PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: As shown, I have Flash Player 10 installed. (I unmasked and upgraded to the installed version in an effort to fix this issue.) On multiple sites, however, using Firefox, I get the following message or similar: Sorry, the

[gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? In particular, media-gfx/ipe has an RDEPEND on !seamonkey? ( || ( www-client/mozilla-firefox www-client/firefox-bin ) ) which is broken by the recent move of www-client/mozilla-firefox to www-client/firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:56:43PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? i would either write directly to the maintainer of the ebuild or send a note to irc channel dedicated to sunrise. ... and of course

[gentoo-user] inkscape fails, cannot find boost

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
Dear list, Just want a sanity check. I try to emerge the most recent version of inkscape (media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.0), and the build fails in the configuration stage -snip build.log checking for IMAGEMAGICK... yes checking for CAIRO_USER_FONTS... yes checking for INKSCAPE... yes

Re: [gentoo-user] ~40 new perl-related ebuilds, why???

2010-09-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:20:54PM +0200, Jarry wrote: # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world snip [ebuild N] perl-core/Module-Build-0.36.07 [ebuild N] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.36.07 [ebuild N] dev-perl/Error-0.17.016 USE=-test [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/autotoolset

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 04:01:14AM -0400, dhk wrote: I thought all the auto tools were in the autotoolset, that's not the case. It looks like the only tool I use in autotoolset is acmkdir. If I remove autotoolset, how can I get acmkdir back? Even though it's not necessary, it's a nice

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:45:49PM +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote: I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A to server B. I'd like to do that via ssh and with no user assistance, completely automated. Setting up a public key, would do the job, but then, all

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:14:47PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:45:49PM +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote: I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A to server B. I'd like to do that via ssh and with no user assistance, completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:40:31PM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote: Is there a way to allow only one single command from a single cronjob to operate passwordless, while keeping all the other connections secured by a password? You can't do that on a per-command basis. You'd be trying to control

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote: Now, the remote sshd is never sent any information about what is connected to the local end of the pipe (which is not even known to ssh!), so there is no way to alter its behavior depending on that. IOW, nothing in the setup you

Re: [gentoo-user] text in xterm

2010-10-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:29:36PM +, James wrote: Using various different hardware configurations -- my laptop has a Intel 915GM. The same thing happens on my iMac which has an nVidia card. I tried to take a screenshot of the issue, but the artifacts do NOT appear in the screenshot.

Re: DNS Issues [Was: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow Login, Sudo, etc.]

2010-10-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:59:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Seriously, just use wicd, dump the rest. +1 Call me old-fashioned, I use wpa_supplicant. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails

2010-10-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed * with exit value -1. * * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www- *

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:43:34PM -0500, Dale wrote: I'm guessing it is a command line thing. I like a GUI. I could have used Lynx to access my email and not even have fluxbox. ^_^ Gmail has web access so I could do it that way I guess. You can, in fact, also read G-mail with Mutt

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