Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to full multilib

2015-04-06 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: You can win, by running it reasonably often and actually doing something about the output. Ignore a few lines and they soon become a few more, and then a few more still... One thing I have noticed in its output is where it lists installed packages with

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-25 Thread Graham Murray
Andrés Becerra Sandoval andres.bece...@gmail.com writes: If you put the kernels in /boot with proper names and launch: ​ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Grub will set up the kernels for you. How do you then choose which one to boot by default? I normally run hardened-sources but also

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-05 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: that's expected, BFQ isn't in mainline Nor is it in Gentoo hardened-sources.

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-29 Thread Graham Murray
Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at writes: Just found this note from Pacho on planet.gentoo.org: http://my.opera.com/pacho/blog/2013/08/27/how-to-write-proper-systemd-unit-files I will have to review some of my files then ;-) What I did not understand from reading that is why he (or gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Graham Murray
Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org writes: Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a single valid bug filed about them. Stop spreading FUD. In what way are network interface names predictable? A new system arrives on your desk, what is the name of the first (or

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Some possibly (?) helpful hints re the big gnome-3.8 update

2013-07-31 Thread Graham Murray
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com writes: The wiki is wrong. The script /etc/init.d/udev is part of sys-fs/udev, which you need to uninstall before installing systemd. Perhaps it's CONFIG_PROTECT'd, but anyway sys-fs/udev and sys-apps/systemd install the udev binary in different

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-config of new gentoo-sources?

2013-03-09 Thread Graham Murray
Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org writes: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: So my question is: how is this possible? Is maybe .config file from the old sources-tree copied to new sources-tree? Or is the actual configuration of running kernel somehow detected and

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com writes: The 'conntrack' module is supposed to be a superset of 'state', so most things should be compatible. You really have two warnings there; the first is for the state - conntrack switch, and the second is because you're missing the --state flag in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-12-01 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: --keep-going does not help you, if the emerge does not start because of missing dep/slot conflict/blocking/masking whatever... Though it would be nice if there was some flag, probably mainly of use with either ' -u @world' or --resume,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-15 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: and for a simple reason: ml have always been. So 'old timers' and 'people knowing their crap' hang around those. Then came AOL, eternal September and forums for this new crop of lol users. And since like minded people love to

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent ulimit for daemons

2012-08-02 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com writes: Is there a blessed method these days for setting the ulimit per-daemon? The best I've been able to do is a global setting in /etc/rc.conf: rc_ulimit=-s 1048576 The entries under /etc/security seem to be ignored when using `/etc/init.d/foo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Anybody know of a 'Genius' type service or site for TV shows/Movies/Music that is not owned by Apple?

2012-07-09 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz writes: For movies and series you might try trakt[2]. It basically works the same like last.fm and also integrates great with my media center pc (based on XBMC). It is a pity that this does not seem to support any of the 'standard' Linux video players -

Re: [gentoo-user] start X - Segmentation fault

2012-07-08 Thread Graham Murray
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes: This was a box in remote location, so the upgrade was done via ssh and I was able to login via NX but when I tried to login locally (at the box I get: Segmentation fault What should I try next? As you can log in remotely but get a segfault when logging in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why sources 3.2.21 in emerge -vuDp world

2012-07-05 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world Lists gentoo-sources in output like this: , | [ebuild NS] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE=-build | -deblob -symlink 452 kB `

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Graham Murray
nap...@squareownz.org writes: Postgres doesn't have a home directory and if I create one and chown it postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss here. Postgres should have a home directory - /var/lib/postgresql If you run su - postgres, this is the directory you should

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-22 Thread Graham Murray
kwk...@hkbn.net writes: Bless those who keeps on telling people there is no need to rebuild packages after glibc upgrade, for they must have not used pam or any other packages that uses dlopen(). So which packages need to be rebuilt? Owing to the initial non-availability of the patch file,

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-21 Thread Graham Murray
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes: On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote: It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX the manual says : Hm... the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI. Sorry... If it is an ICH which does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Graham Murray
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com writes: * Really simple service unit files: The service unit files are really small, really simple, really easy to understand/modify. Compare the 9 lines of sshd.service: $ cat /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service [Unit] Description=SSH Secure Shell Service

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-17 Thread Graham Murray
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: Ok, so my system has 2 network cards. Maybe I only use one of them, or maybe they need to be physically connected in a certain way (one to LAN, the other WAN). In this particular case, it is pity that it is not more deterministic in the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Graham Murray
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: In any case, if you need -zlib in one package and zlib in another you can set/unset the needed flag for just one package in /etc/portage/package.use. The real problems come when you find that one package depends on foo[bar] and another on foo[-bar]

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Graham Murray
James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com writes: I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty unique; no standard set of fonts, for example. So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it might not be able to track you - thinking that you are actually multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Graham Murray
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org writes: On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file once a quarter or so and remove anything that

[gentoo-user] Unable to access bugs.gentoo.org

2011-11-06 Thread Graham Murray
For the last day or so, every time I try to access b.g.o I get an OCSP error (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_bad_http_response) in firefox. I have seen this error before but it is normally transient and only lasts a few minutes. Are others seeing this or is it a problem at my end? Other https sites

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to access bugs.gentoo.org

2011-11-06 Thread Graham Murray
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 08:48:45 Graham Murray wrote: For the last day or so, every time I try to access b.g.o I get an OCSP error (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_bad_http_response) in firefox. I have seen this error before but it is normally transient

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue

2011-10-10 Thread Graham Murray
CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com writes: I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can

[gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Graham Murray
Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then there was an -r1 release and

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

2011-08-18 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com writes: Also, check your BIOS to see if it's running your SATA controller in some kind of IDE emulation mode. If it is, disable that. (Some motherboards let you choose between IDE and RAID, where RAID is AHCI mode. Others call IDE mode 'legacy', and still others

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread Graham Murray
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10 (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.32::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.32 required by (media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.32::gentoo, installed)

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-30 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or with etc-update or similar). Do any of the config tools, etc-update, dispatch-conf, cfg-update etc, ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-30 Thread Graham Murray
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: There are times that if portage removed a config file, I would not be happy. Sometimes I unmerge a package then remerge but want to keep the config files. Would I like there to be the option, yep, I sure would. There are also times when I want to get rid

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-15 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user mode and rebuild my video drivers. Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. I do not know about the

[gentoo-user] Packages needing masked 'introspection' keyword

2011-04-24 Thread Graham Murray
After syncing a few minutes ago, emerge -puDv --reinstall changed-use --autounmask=y @world @system These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/libpng-1.4.7 [1.4.5] USE=-static-libs 535 kB [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding more than one static IP

2011-01-24 Thread Graham Murray
Amar Cosic amar.co...@gmail.com writes: Hello list My mind is just locked at the moment and I am trying to figure out what am I doing wrong here. I have 4 static IP's on server machine and I have something like this in /etc/conf.d/net : config_eth0=( 77.xxx.104.14/24 ) routes_eth0=(

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes: So now system boots but I can not seem to the network card going. On the lspci -k I think you mean lspci -nn (there is no switch -k) No, he does mean 'lspci -k'. The -k switch lists the kernel driver which is handling each item. If you do this from the CD

Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ??

2010-10-28 Thread Graham Murray
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes: The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting some strange errors when using 'sql-ledger' eg. Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at SL/IS.pm line 582. The 'XXX is depreciated messages are not normally errors. They are just to inform you that the script

Re: [gentoo-user] Up-/Down-grade of KDE

2010-09-12 Thread Graham Murray
Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu writes: On Sunday 12 September 2010 12.11:14 Dan Johansson wrote: Yesterday my ~x86 Gentoo box got KDE upgraded to 4.5.1 and today portage want to downgrade it again to 4.4.5 and I can not figure out why. My emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-11 Thread Graham Murray
Ajai Khattri a...@bway.net writes: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines, others dont work at all. The worst case is one where Ive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Why should I do all the work of pinning packages to known good versions when the RHEL devs have already done all the heavy lifting for me? The problem with that is when you are starting a new project now, but the packages were pinned down quite a

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2010-08-19 Thread Graham Murray
Elmar Hinz oss.el...@googlemail.com writes: 2010/8/18 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:25 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Elmar Hinz did opine thusly: The gentoo wiki suggests in different places to set the LINGUAS environment variable in make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Graham Murray
I have glibc-2.12.1 running on two ~x86 systems with no problems so far. Hi, Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find at this early

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?

2010-08-03 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers differences, not whole files. But is uses a *lot* more disk space on the systems as each system contains the full history.

Re: [gentoo-user] SPF sendmail: howto?

2010-07-22 Thread Graham Murray
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I would like to integrate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) with my MTA (sendmail), but can not find any documentation for dealing with SPF, Sendmail Gentoo. I could install mail-filter/libspf2, but how can I make sendmail use it? There are milters for

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-03 Thread Graham Murray
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: This appears to be the opposite of a upgrade. He has a package that wants the OLD slotted version of libpng not the NEW slotted version. If I understand that correctly, he has already done the upgrade but now something needs the old package installed in

[gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-02 Thread Graham Murray
After an emerge --sync on an ~x86 system, the upgrade to opera-10.60 wants to install libpng-1.2.44 in a new slot. Considering all of the problems surrounding the upgrade to libpng-1.4.3, is it safe to let portage install libpng-1.2.44?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: There's an API break between the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] (not completely sure about the versions) Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm Hopefully it will be *very* temporary It is. 2.6.34 (which is in ~arch) fixes the API break

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Graham Murray
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com writes: Google says the error can be due to disabling dri in xorg.conf, but I don't have anything like that. Should CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y include the dri or dri2 module? The dri and dri2 modules should be installed by x11-base/xorg-server.

Re: [gentoo-user] no mouse nor keyboard on X

2010-05-08 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: xorg-drivers is just a meta package and won't remerge individual drivers unless the version number changes. It look to me like you have an evdev driver built against an earlier X server Does anyone else think it would be useful for emerge to

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
Kraus Philipp philipp.kr...@flashpixx.de writes: Hello, I must test a software with a older version of the glibc. I run the 2.11.1 now but for one tool I need a previous version (2.6.1). How can I compile the glibc without changing my system glibc. I would like to set the previous glibc

[gentoo-user] Multiple serial ports

2010-04-28 Thread Graham Murray
What is the current recommendation for handling multiple serial ports on a Gentoo server? In $dayjob we used to use Perl SX cards but recent kernels have marked the driver for these as 'broken'[1]. We have tried Digi Etherlite with the dgrp driver, but have had problems with write(2) blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server/nvidia/x86-driver updated: No kbd, no mouse

2010-04-25 Thread Graham Murray
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: That was also my first thought, but evdev was recompiled -- as I wrote in my initial mail... What next? Do you have an InputClass section in your xorg.conf? This is needed for xorg to use udev to detect input devices.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Graham Murray
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8 specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions, so we should all start looking beyond hal. Don't spend a lot of effort now learning about hal because it's on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables - do I need the nat table?

2010-04-11 Thread Graham Murray
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org writes: I'm a bit clueless when it comes to firewalls, and have no idea what these numbers mean/do: *raw :PREROUTING ACCEPT [4911:886011] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [4546:2818732] COMMIT The numbers are [packets:bytes] which match the rule or table concerned.

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma conflicting man?

2010-04-09 Thread Graham Murray
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi, this morning an update wants to install coreutils with coreutils-patches, which are compressed via the lzma-tool, which is not found on my system. install app-arch/xz-utils

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa-update not in sync with kernel version

2010-04-05 Thread Graham Murray
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: walt w41...@gmail.com [10-04-05 05:02]: On 04/04/2010 11:42 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Do you have media-sound/alsa-driver installed? If so, that is the cause of your problem -- just emerge -C alsa-driver. That package is only for people who are

Re: [gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users

2010-03-12 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be updated or else you won't be able to login to your system. If you have: AuthorizedKeysFile

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Graham Murray
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: Hi, I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. Is there something easier than Try emerge -u $(qlist -IC kde-base/)

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it will pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. What is unsafe about a

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

2010-02-12 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser or mail app that they are offline? Why does the app need

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

2010-02-12 Thread Graham Murray
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: - I run Firefox - I go to live365.com and log in - I click on an icon, and Firefox starts up an audio player, and passes it the appropriate URL. - I start reading/writing emails, whilst enjoying music in my headphones The audio player needs to

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

2010-02-11 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser or mail app that they are offline? Why does the app need to know? Browsers normally have an online/offline menu selection and if you try to browse to a site when

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Graham Murray
Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: Zaphod style? What is that? Two headed

Re: [gentoo-user] Native vs Core2

2009-12-16 Thread Graham Murray
Jason Carson ja...@jasoncarson.ca writes: Hey everyone, This guy (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-806844.html#6097354) says that -march=native and -march=core2 differ. Which one do I choose for my Core i5 CPU? As long as you are only building binaries for the system you are building

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-06 Thread Graham Murray
Drew drew@gmail.com writes: Isn't the memory hole above 3GB present even in the 64bit systems? Something about the MMIO reservations for the PCI bus taking up the top gig of the first four Gigs? I do not know. What I do know is that the system I am using here at home has 6GB RAM, the one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-04 Thread Graham Murray
Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com writes: If you want your processes to use more than 3GB of memory, then yes, boot up with a 64bit OS (again correct me if i'm wrong) ;) Or configure your 32bit kernel with HIGHMEM = 64GB

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Eray Aslan eray.as...@caf.com.tr writes: - No need to logrotate with time based filenames. Hence, no need to kill -HUP the syslog daemon. No missed logs. But you still need some system (eg tmpwatch) to delete old log files otherwise the disk will (eventually) fill with log files.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 fails

2009-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Erik esi...@gmail.com writes: Installing (2 of 4) dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 [snip] * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib/kde4/kdevdocumentview.so

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild of Postgres-8.3.8 almost a catastrophe

2009-11-09 Thread Graham Murray
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 9 Nov 2009, at 10:25, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: I assume this is an upstream decision, and may be expected to apply to 8.3.9, 8.3.10, ... also? I have no reason to wait and see if this is resolved, I should be careful to do a dump and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to be incorporated so no I didn't If I had put .confg into the new sources, then plain make menuconfig is what I would have used. That is the wrong way round! make oldconfig uses

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Murray
Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: Thanks for the feedback. However there's one thing I can't understand: whether the libraries are kept of removed is decided at the merge time, isn't it? So, whatever breaks, breaks when using emerge to update the offending library, the one that will

Re: [gentoo-user] new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have forgotten why I had it masked. I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could expect in the

[gentoo-user] firefox-3.5.4 xulrunner version

2009-10-30 Thread Graham Murray
The ebuild for mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 has been changed to force ~xulrunner-1.9.1.3. As xulrunner-1.9.1.4 was put into the tree at the same time as firefox-3.5.4 and is shown as a security fix, is it right that mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 is forcing the downgrade to xulrunner-1.9.1.3-r1 (which is dated

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Graham Murray
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago. I'm trying to watch it but it is really dark. I am using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend. I found where it says you can adjust brightness and contrast but they don't do anything. The screen looks fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libssl3.so.12 not found, but why not? [SOLVED]

2009-09-17 Thread Graham Murray
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 09/17/2009 01:17 PM, Per-Erik Westerberg wrote: I'm using ~x86 and the following fixed the issue for me : revdep-rebuild --library libnss3.so.12 Interesting, thanks. Did you happen to try just plain revdep-rebuild before adding the --library flag? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What does it take to get debug symbols from /lib/ld-2.9.so?

2009-09-06 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: Don't emerge with debug -glibc-omitfp. Emerge with splitdebug in FEATURES. And make sure you include a -g option (eg -ggdb) in CFLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Graham Murray
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: I haven't really paid much attention to start-up times, but page loads in 3.5 feel a fair bit faster. I've also noticed that 3.5 doesn't pause repeatedly while I'm typing a URL like 3.0 used to. Page loads are faster, but page scrolling of some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-04 Thread Graham Murray
Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com writes: The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would think breaking Python for all ~x86 is a major offense... It did not break for all ~x86. I have 2 systems both running ~x86, both have emerged (but not made active) python-3.1,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Graham Murray
Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: OK, it's verified and ready now. Please try again. Will not install for me. It gives the following error ERROR: Error installing royw-qt-rebuild: royw-qt-rebuild requires commandline (= 0.7.10, runtime)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-29 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: revdep-rebuild only resolves link-time errors, not runtime errors. You need to observe yourself if something is broken and then rebuild it manually; revdep-rebuild ain't gonna help in this case. Though it would be nice if there was some process to

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-11 Thread Graham Murray
Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: What do you want to do with your accesspoint. You will need a bridge to a wired network if you want your ap attached to that wired network. This is quite usual though... Without a bridge to a wired network, only the wlan systems are connected and can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-07 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: The only reason it's masked is to force as many users as possible to use an earlier version so that it can receive more testing and get better bug reports, and that was done by Zac himself. There is not a single technical or code quality

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Graham Murray
Daniel Iliev daniel.il...@gmail.com writes: pwd /usr/src/linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 grep -i ext4 .config CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT4DEV_COMPAT is not set CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y Have you also got ext3 built in, and have you specified

[gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Graham Murray
Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually changed following initial installation, then on an upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-29 Thread Graham Murray
Timur Aydin t...@taydin.org writes: Hi, I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping hostname says unknown host name. It doesn't even contact the dns server, which is running on the same host. But dig

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-28 Thread Graham Murray
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: But, surely -march= also instructs gcc to support the additional instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying to. What's the difference between supporting the certain set of instructions with -march= and doing so with

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fake USE flag change

2009-05-25 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: emerge -auDN world [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-3.1.0 LINGUAS=-sv% This is ridiculous. I'm in no mood emerging Open Office just because a LINGUAS changed which I don't even use. Something I can do about it other than waiting one and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying patches without needing overlays and modifying ebuilds

2009-05-17 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: What if we could just specify patches to be applied in, say, /etc/portage/packages.patch with something like: media-video/smplayer j-random-hack.patch and portage would apply that patch automatically? That way, the hassle of updating the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-16 Thread Graham Murray
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Any progress with this guys? I am also trying to get something running between a router and my laptop (using kvnc) but I am failing with this error: Here are some samples. /etc/racoon/racoon.conf path pre_shared_key /etc/racoon/psk.txt; remote

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

2009-05-13 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: buildsyspkg in FEATURES (make.conf) can be a life saver too :) But it does not (IMHO) save binaries for enough packages. For example, it saves a binary for portage but not for python. I think it would be good if it saved a binary package for

Re: [gentoo-user] Window borders in gnome desktop when maximized hide behind panels

2009-05-11 Thread Graham Murray
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: After some recent update (~x86), windows in gnome desktop when maximized hide their borders/bars behind the desktop panels, which is really annoying. In the case of terminals, the prompt gets almost hidden, in the case of other applications, the file

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org writes: Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour with IPSEC? I do not know about a Gentoo document, but I have connected a Gentoo system and Windows PC using racoon on

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-26 Thread Graham Murray
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I know you can use eix-test-obsolete to find outdated/unneeded thing in /etc/portage but I wish it would also do something similiar for the world file. I just wonder if the person that wrote eix and friends could add that in as a feature? It would be neat.

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-05 Thread Graham Murray
Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: There was a lib update, that broke sancho a while ago. A new version of sancho fixed this. But i had to use this new version from the developers site, because even ~arch package was several versions lower. Some weeks ago the oscar protocol or something

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-04 Thread Graham Murray
Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net writes: -mtune=native can be dropped if -march=native is there already. It is still worthwhile keeping it in CFLAGS as some packages remove or replace the '-march' flag.

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

2009-03-25 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the Microsoft Outlook style -- putting a one-line divider between the reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. This makes it harder to reply to

Re: [gentoo-user] netcard interface with alias

2009-03-02 Thread Graham Murray
Zhu Sha Zang zhushaz...@yahoo.com.br writes: Yeah Yeah, i've already seen this net.example. But before change to appropriate setting, don't appear any interface with alias, anda occour some errors when try to initialize devices. And the routes used by alias don't worked. Someone had this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Graham Murray
ABCD en.a...@gmail.com writes: Unfortunately, they cannot yet be distributed with the gentoo-x86 tree (that's $PORTDIR, or /usr/portage, for you playing along at home). I don't remember the reasons given for that, I think that it is because the versions of portage (2.2_rcx) which support

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-08 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: Everyone's more or less agreeing here, that the info format is useful but the standard info reader sucks. Once you start reading info pages in a decent reader, like Konqueror, they are useful for more complex documents. Although I'd still prefer HTML,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Graham Murray
reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com writes: yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, it even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 root-filesystems? i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel. Grub is not incompatible with ext4 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage

2009-01-10 Thread Graham Murray
AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk writes: First of all, a tip: If a portage upgrade is available, do emerge portage first. New versions of portage often have new or improved features - in this case portage 2.1.6 includes, among other things, the ability to automatically handle most blockers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Graham Murray
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? It allows the affected packages to continue working until the rebuild is done. With the 'old' revdep-rebuild, a program using a library whose version

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