Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 02 April 2013 19:51:17 Davide Carnovale wrote: Hi all gentoo people! I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it today. While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 03 January 2013 18:22:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I do not know who shat into the brains of the kdepim devs that they fucked up kmail in this unbelievable broken way. Most people do not need akonadi - or nepomuk. Everything worked GREAT. Now most shit only works half way, a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On 4.9.3 you are still experiencing something similar. Hmmm. Indicates to me a high probability of a systemic problem with the projects approach, something that is unlikely to ever get really fixed. In my opinion kdepim2 is vastly over-engineered and an attempt to solve a problem that does

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 06 January 2013 19:22:16 Mick wrote: WOW! The fact that any KDEPIM devs consider this migration torture even remotely acceptable must be a clear sign of advanced insanity! O_O Thank you very much for your detailed instructions. It seems that kmail2 requires the full KDE

[gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat

2012-10-29 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' bunyip ~ # mount.exfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp FUSE exfat

[gentoo-user] Re: Resurrecting a Gentoo install

2012-01-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 21 January 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/20/2012 09:42 PM, Grant wrote: # emerge -avDuN system [snip] !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-auth/pambase-20081028 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: -

[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is highly-partitioned, like this: - 8

[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 20:53, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is highly-partitioned, like this: / /boot /usr /tmp /usr/portage == via NFS /var /var/lib/postgresql

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

2011-10-11 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 11 October 2011, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2011 19:43:53 Michael Orlitzky wrote: I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

2011-10-11 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 15:09, Francesco Talamona wrote: I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. Comment here? The devs

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

2011-10-11 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 09 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/09/11 13:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: For rxvt, a suitable flag name would be plugins Or if there were some package-specific documentation that said, perl: enable the following plugins (written in perl): tabs, transparency, etc. In

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

2011-10-11 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 15:09, Francesco Talamona wrote: I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. Comment here? The devs

[gentoo-user] tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

2011-10-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable perl USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

2011-10-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk will stop

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when it doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 19 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/18/2011 10:08 PM, András Csányi wrote: On 18 August 2011 18:59,fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel.

[gentoo-user] Re: Kde-meta

2011-08-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 07 August 2011, john wrote: Hello, I am trying to emerge kde-meta but getting the following error message Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 43, in module retval = emerge_main() File

[gentoo-user] Re: Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 20 June 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? I

[gentoo-user] Re: to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion

2011-06-15 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 14 June 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Why are the versions oscillate that way? Did you add loop-aes globally in /etc/make.conf, or per package in /etc/portage/package.use? In the latter case did you specify the packet version? Can you see why I'm asking these questions? Cheers

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't find b43 in kernel config

2011-06-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 09 June 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've satisfied these requirements: Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] WLAN [=y] SSB_POSSIBLE [=y] MAC80211 [=n] HAS_DMA [=y] but I don't see the option here: Location:

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to a hardened profile and back again

2011-03-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 17 March 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: cp /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage/sets/my_world emerge @my_world Neil, this is simply wonderful :) Thanks FT -- Linux Version 2.6.38-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 16 20:03:24 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 06 March 2011, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 06.03.2011 18:07, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 When I came back 10 hours later, it

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like emerge --sync? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 30 January 2011, BRM wrote: A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a new copy of portage like a new install since it was just

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Vaeth wrote: Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn From the ChangeLog: *eix-0.22.1 [...] - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete. If

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if you don't run any synchronization

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point where it doesn't have to sync so often. I read on the

[gentoo-user] Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
What I'm trying to accomplish: For some packages, when a new version is available, to be able to merge them without adding them to /etc/portage/package.keyword, and when/if the installed version is marked as stable I wish eix-test-obsolete won't tell me that this particular package is

[gentoo-user] Re: UPS driver error

2011-01-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 01 January 2011, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a iDowell UPS with a USB connection which I'm trying to configure with Gentoo. This UPS works fine with the default settings in WinXP and apparently with AppleMac boxen which it is marketed for:

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-14 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 13 November 2010, Grant wrote: I don't need encouragement, I need advice. :) In the end it isn't a technical problem, it is a question of trust. The questions are: 1) The relative sizes of the problems? No problems really. It's just kind of a never-ending project that

[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-03 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 03 November 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 HTH Francesco I'll look forward to that going stable x86. Right now that means sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 Actually 2.2_rc67 was removed recently. ciao Francesco -- Linux Version

[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world Will portage

[gentoo-user] Re: Bugzilla search

2010-10-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 30 October 2010, Thanasis wrote: I was searching Bugzilla for a bug namely #342845, which I found via google (http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-vcs/git/ git-1.7.3.2-r1.ebuild?view=markup), because when I put git-1.7.3.2-r1 in the Find field of Bugzilla

[gentoo-user] Re: Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN

2010-10-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 08 October 2010, Adam Carter wrote: So Wireshark is a GUI tool? Yes. But net-analyzer/wireshark installs a CLI tool too: tshark Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r9, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 28 20:02:12 CEST 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors,

[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault sometimes. I've got

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ajai Khattri wrote: OK, Ive managed to proceed a little further, but now Im encountering this: # emerge -uDtpvk world When it's time to upgrade a large number of programs, it's better to take the task one step at a time, for example the following command:

[gentoo-user] Re: autodepclean script (was how to remove HAL)

2010-08-22 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 22 August 2010, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote I'm unclear about the aim of your script, what does different from emerge -a --depclean followed by revdep-rebuild -- -a? The autodepclean script automatically generates

[gentoo-user] Re: autodepclean script (was how to remove HAL)

2010-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 19 August 2010, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote I've just experimented a bit with that and it turned out that --depclean doesn't clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't get

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

2010-04-16 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why,

[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together beforehand? md: looking for a shared spare drive md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode md: recovery thread finished ...

[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 20 February 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:46 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together beforehand? md: looking for a shared

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

2010-01-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

2010-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin? Ciao Francesco -- Linux

[gentoo-user] Services order/hierarchy

2010-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
Is it there a tool or command in gentoo to see a la emerge --tree the inter-dependencies and boot order of services? I know about cinit [1] but I never used it, because I'm looking for a way to see at a glance without rebooting. Imagine a tool for confronting two different servers without

[gentoo-user] Re: strange dmesg output

2009-10-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 26 October 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what. Maybe you pulled in too much :-) It could be some debug flag switched on in the USB storage subsystem. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP

[gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? Anyone before felt the need to fulfil this curiosity? Ciao Francesco -- Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?

2009-09-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 September 2009, David Juhl wrote: I want to block as many dating sites as possible, but I am having to luck. The url_regex can't catch a lot. Either I need to find a regular expression in the url or find something that will look at the sites web page... Not all urls use date in

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?

2009-09-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 September 2009, Stroller wrote: The dansguardian website states that it does not include blacklists http://dansguardian.org/?page=blacklist and instead links to http://urlblacklist.com/?sec=download. That has a category for dating, and can surely be referenced directly by Squid,

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 September 2009, James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Portage deletes these after emerge @preserved-rebuild has successfully re-emerged packages depending on it. OK, so now I just have to root it out manually.? qfile -o $(find /lib*

[gentoo-user] Re: Jinja2 sphinx deadly embrace

2009-09-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 26 September 2009, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Any attempt of updating my system is locked by this problem: [ebuild N]dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1 USE=doc examples -i18n -test [ebuild N] dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1 USE=doc -test * Error: circular

[gentoo-user] Re: How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

2009-09-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote: How to hotplug IDE hard drive? I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan IDE cable. How tell kernel to rescan ? No hot-plug with IDE, it simply isn't supported. Maybe you need /usr/sbin/partprobe (from parted) Ciao

[gentoo-user] Re: Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

2009-08-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:21:27 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 08/26/2009 09:04 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hi all, the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get

[gentoo-user] Re: Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio

2009-08-24 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 24 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 24 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there an application, which is able to physically decrease the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of sound quality. (Background: I am merging video

[gentoo-user] [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

2009-06-23 Thread Francesco Talamona
I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and www-apps/polarblog, but are both in the needloving [1], don't know if it worth trying. I need something

[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

2009-06-23 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:25 +0200 Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu wrote: I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it doesn't run

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 13 June 2009, AG wrote: Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

2009-05-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote: I was talking about with just a plain file system.  I read in a install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security practice.  That way no one could alter the kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 10 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Once you sort that out, there's a whole host of other stuff to fix as well - expat, latest xorg and many more - all stuff that everyone else fixed a while ago and since forgot. Yes, beware of mktemp/coreutils too. I don't remember of other dangers,

[gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-05-01 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 01 May 2009, Grant wrote: $ ssh -Y 192.168.10.1 The authenticity of host '192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts

[gentoo-user] Re: conflict in update

2009-04-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 26 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: It should be easy enough to write a program that examines world and displays all packages it finds that are dependencies of something else in world, but I

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 03 April 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So I was

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

2009-03-22 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:13 -0700, BRM wrote: With all the words of LVM2 going on, I feel it is only appropriate to also mention the risk. On a desktop I had installed LVM2 considering that I did need to upgrade partitions every now and

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

2009-03-22 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 21 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's correct, and it also highlights just what a PITA it is to manipulate traditional disk partitions. With lvm, this becomes a breeze. With ZFS (we might see it one day) this becomes invisible. I thought it was already there: sys-fs/zfs-fuse

[gentoo-user] Re: Time to move on?

2009-03-22 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Mike Diehl wrote: Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made sense. When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told: sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1) So I do: emerge -C mktemp Now I've gotten

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] splitting and printing big image

2009-03-22 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! I have a PDF document. One of documet's page is a (scalable) schematics. Printing the page via my A4 Kyocera isn't suitable - I can see a schematics with a lens only :-) Is there a way to split the page (into 2 or 4 parts) and ptint parts

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

2009-03-22 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: [...] The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity. I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand. You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

2009-02-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed me :-) I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, sometimes is eth0

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

2009-02-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed me :-) I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1. eth0 and ath0 are connected to the

[gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

2009-02-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote: [...] I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.  My el-cheapo webcam (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles:

[gentoo-user] Re: lsof-4.81 working for anybody?

2008-10-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 26 October 2008, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: I just tried the latest lsof-4.81 in ~x86 an dit doesn't seem to do anything - no output, it just silently returns. 4.80-r1 works just fine and always has. Does anybody else see this behaviour? Just making sure it's not something on my end

[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list

2008-09-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and

[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list

2008-09-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Francesco Talamona ha scritto: On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with a slow rsync server

2008-09-12 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 11 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: 180 seconds is 5 minutes ??? 60*3 = 180 5 minutes are 300 seconds :-) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r1, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Fri Aug 15 09:40:53 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.87

[gentoo-user] test

2008-08-18 Thread Francesco Talamona
test

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 15 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:38 -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote: Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning. Anyway to clean out unneeded files in /etc? I'm thinking

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \; that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's completely

[gentoo-user] Re: df and du difference

2008-08-16 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 16 August 2008, Dale wrote: Sebastian may have more and better ideas but if a reboot gave you some space back, then you should check the tmp directories that are usually cleared when rebooting.  I notice that in your list /tmp takes up 3.8Gb which is a good bit. May want to see

[gentoo-user] Re: unicode losting

2008-08-14 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 14 August 2008, Rev. Ferris wrote: Hi, I update last month to new profile (using eselect) and since that time I nitice that my unicode doesn't work properly. I configured my gentoo-box using unicode wiki on gentoo website, but it seems that new profile disactives my unicode

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use

2008-07-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Alex Schuster wrote: emerge -C slocate emerge mlocate time updatedb time updatedb mlocate is supposed to be compatible with slocate, but the updatedb command runs much faster. Your test doesn't proof anything!! Many information are cached and available for some

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't complete emerge world.

2008-07-22 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Mike Diehl wrote: What do I need to do to get past this? TIA, -- Mike Diehl Try this command, what gives you? emerge -av =sys-libs/ss-1.40.9 =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9 =sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9 Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo, Compiled #1

[gentoo-user] Re: problems building php

2008-07-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Michael George wrote: Has anyone else had this problem? Can you compile without the imap flag? Maybe some underlying lib is missing... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r6, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 5 18:06:28 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64

[gentoo-user] Re: Detecting printers at a remote site

2008-06-15 Thread Francesco Talamona
I don't have nc and so far cannot find what package might contain it. nc is in net-analyzer/netcat Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 18 08:04:58 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.92 Bogomips Total aemaeth --

[gentoo-user] Re: pear hangs no FUTEX_WAIT

2008-05-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Frank Gruellich wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20. May 08: Even the simple pear command from the command line hangs, strace show that it hangs at futex(0x2ac88d5093a0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL I had this problem with rpm waiting for a lock in its DB.

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

2008-05-16 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 17 May 2008, Bob Young wrote: Can anybody explain what's going on here, and tell me how I can fix it?   BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at the console works okay as well. Just a guess... Did you run etc-update? Ciao Francesco --

[gentoo-user] Re: Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. Why? What features are you expecting? The comment is, Gentoo home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is alive becomes tricky because the final is months late

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about gstreamer

2008-05-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 08 May 2008, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: Here is the relavent output from eix gstreamer: [UD] media-libs/gstreamer      Available versions:  (0.10)  0.10.14 (~)0.10.17 (~)0.10.19 {debug nls test}      Installed versions:  0.8.11(0.8)(18:40:46 04/24/07)(-debug -doc)

[gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? On my 2003 machine (AMD 2500+) 5 hours ; on my 2007 machine (Intel Core-2 Duo 6700) 2 hours . Those are the timings of openoffice, openoffice-bin doesn't get compiled, it is

[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

2008-04-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, out of curiosity, I ran rkhunter: it gave me a warning about GasKit. It's because there's a /dev/dev folder Have you run rkhunter --update? I used to see this

[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

2008-04-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: Why do I have duplicated md devices? It sounds like a udev rule may be causing this, possibly an incorrectly written one, because the /dev part of node names is implicit in udev, so if you set a name or symlink to dev/foo, you'll get

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 20 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Never do this unless you're using xfs. Why? never fsck at boot time - Because bad things can happen if you don't fsck at boot time. The only exception to this is xfs, which you are not using, as I see below. You stated this (xfs doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE=acl nls (-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr 3,670 kB [blocks B     ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B     ] =sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Gyuszk wrote: I can unmount my /boot and /home partitions but I just can't remount my root device to be readonly. (Linux says it is busy.) What should I do with this? 1.) Should I edit my Grub menu.lst to make a new entry with single ro kernel parameteres? 2.) Of

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Thanks a lot! I'll give a deep look at the mentioned files. Anyway I think I'll set my fstab. Now all my partitions are set to never fsck at boot time. :) Supposing it's a ext2/3 partition you may also want to use tune2fs to set the check

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot

2008-04-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no attempts to start the array until I manually try. Any hints on what I'm missing? Personal experience: 1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use only the latter (I'm not

[gentoo-user] Re: ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

2008-04-16 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 17 April 2008, maxim wexler wrote: I noted also a broken runlevel with regard to net.eth0 which I deleted. Hopefully that's the fix. Should know next boot. But doesn't explain(at least to me) why eth0 is now defunct. If all I have is one ethernet port, doesn't that default to

[gentoo-user] Re: installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 04 April 2008, Thierry de Coulon wrote: The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses NAT, while VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of understanding how to set up NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but I use fixed IP's VirtualBox can be

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote: Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage   seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more   forthcoming. It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few pages. There are a couple of

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