[gentoo-user] Re: oracle-jdk-bin-11

Hi James, On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:13:14 -0400 james wrote: > On 07/21/18 11:10, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is someone aware of the existence of an ebuild for Java 11 e.g. >> somewhere in the overlays? Or has someone already crafted one and is >> willing to

[gentoo-user] oracle-jdk-bin-11

Hi, is someone aware of the existence of an ebuild for Java 11 e.g. somewhere in the overlays? Or has someone already crafted one and is willing to share it? Cheers, Jörg

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

Hi Alan, Am Sat, 30 Dec 2017 02:18:12 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon: [snip] > It's probably a dodgy kernel point bersion, 4.14 is problematic. [snip] > If you want to fix the bugs, then by all means soldier on. But if your > intent is to have a working system that boots, probably drop using >

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

Hello Kai, Am Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:48:09 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow: [snip] > If I remember right (many months ago), I fixed it by changing one line > in /etc/sddm.conf: > > [X11] > ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp -keeptty > >This is where

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto unmask use flag

Found it. I have to create my own package.use.mask file in /etc/portage/profile that reverts the setting. Am Thu, 28 Dec 2017 02:10:36 + schrieb Jörg Schaible: > Hi, > > how can I unmask a use flag masked in profiles/base/package.use.mask? If > I set the flag for the pack

[gentoo-user] Howto unmask use flag

Hi, how can I unmask a use flag masked in profiles/base/package.use.mask? If I set the flag for the package in / etc/portage/package.use it is simply ignored. Concrete example: My /etc/portage/package.use contains the line: dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin:9 doc gentoo-vm source However the flag

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

Hi Raymond, Am Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:59:32 -0800 schrieb Raymond Jennings: > That sounds like a possible issue with your X configuration. > > Did you double check /etc/conf.d/xdm and the like to make sure that your > VT is indeed set to 7. Content of /etc/conf.d/xdm === %< ==

[gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:00:47 +0100 schrieb Marc Joliet: > Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017, 10:45:41 CET schrieb Jörg Schaible: >> Hi, >> >> Am Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:07:08 -0500 schrieb John Blinka: >> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards >> >

[gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

Hi, after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no longer switch to SDDM on VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usual. If I boot with the last stable kernel 4.12.12 anything is back to normal and the login

[gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

Hi, Am Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:07:08 -0500 schrieb John Blinka: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> How do I skip grub and continue? >> >> > emerge --skipfirst --resume This is unfortunately really dangerous, because "emerge --resume" will

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

Mick wrote: > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 16:56:21 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 13:21:56 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> > Yes, this seems to be the problem. Starting Kmail does not launch >> >> > kwalletd5 and as

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

Mick wrote: > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 13:21:56 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> > Yes, this seems to be the problem. Starting Kmail does not launch >> > kwalletd5 and as a consequence kmail starts asking for each email >> > account password separately. >> > &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

Hi Mick, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 02:04:44 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Tuesday 06 Jun 2017 16:35:40 you wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> I've updated a number of kde (plasma) packages, including kde- >>

[gentoo-user] Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 06 Jun 2017 16:35:40 you wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I've updated a number of kde (plasma) packages, including kde- >> frameworks/kwallet-5.34.0-r1. A depclean action wanted to remove >> kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1 and I let it do its tha'ng. >> >> Following a new login I

[gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

Hello Kai, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Mon, 22 May 2017 19:33:55 +0200 > schrieb Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de>: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: [snip] >> > >> > I can only suggest you read bug report 618922 if you haven't >> > already, including

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 22 May 2017 09:49:01 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Peter, >> >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> > Have you seen https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595618 ? It says >> &

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

Hi Peter, Peter Humphrey wrote: [snip] > Have you seen https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595618 ? It says > that "Qt plugins compiled with gcc-4 are incompatible with > expected to anticipate that. On the other hand, some kind of notice could > be issued, and bug 618922 is pursuing that.

[gentoo-user] Re: konqueror:5 - why couldn't it be more like konqueror:3 ?!!

Mick wrote: > OK, I know life moves on, but this move has been a retrograde step for me. > My konqueror:5 recently updated seems to have a number of problems and > > features I am not happy with. Grateful for any pointers to address these. > In no particular order. > > 1. The

[gentoo-user] Re: Mysterious encodig problem...

Hi, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > it seems, that I have an encoding problem...which is triggered > (only???) somewhere in the chain fetchmail=>procmail=>neomutt with vim. > > ...and it only effects single and double quotes. > > I am living in Non-Ascii-land (germany). Therefore I have >

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

tu...@posteo.de wrote: [snip] > Hi Kai (that's a rhyme! :) > > I have installed Virtualbox already and use the Linux Image I > installed there for banking purposes only. Feels more secure. > > I would prefer the WIndows-in-a-(virtual)box-solution) as you > do -- if I would own a Windows

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

Dale wrote: [snip] > Portage lock? Sometimes, my brain does that too. lol Hehe. > I thought about it after I hit send but figured you would get the > thought, maybe you had one or the other in a mask/unmask file or > something that resulted in a conflict? I was sort of thinking it but >

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

Marc Joliet wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2017 00:21:29 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... >> nothing. See yourself: >> - emerge tells me that boost is for whatever reason blo

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 02/01/2017 04:21 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... >> nothing. See yourself: >> - emerge tells me that boost is for whatever reason blocked >> - I

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

Hi Dale, Dale wrote: [snip] > If it helps any, this is what I have. > > > root@fireball / # equery l -p boost boost-build > * Searching for boost ... > [-P-] [ ] dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0 > [-P-] [ ] dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0 > [-P-] [ ~] dev-libs/boost-1.58.0-r1:0/1.58.0 >

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

Hi Neil, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:47:29 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> > now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked >> > by ... nothing. >> >> Same here. I don't know why, but the way I solved it is by unmerging >> boost and then trying the

[gentoo-user] boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

Hi, now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... nothing. See yourself: - emerge tells me that boost is for whatever reason blocked - I cannot find any entry for this in /etc/portage/** - eix does not show any kind of mask for 1.62.0-r1 - none of the installed packages

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

Mick wrote: > On Thursday 15 Dec 2016 14:02:39 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Wednesday 14 Dec 2016 09:08:11 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> Mick wrote: >> >> > On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 11:35:33 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> [snip] &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 14 Dec 2016 09:08:11 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 11:35:33 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> [snip] >> >> >> No, that's the point: If you enable it, all kwallet-4 based apps will >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 11:35:33 Jörg Schaible wrote: [snip] >> No, that's the point: If you enable it, all kwallet-4 based apps will >> fail. At least until 5.7. I've not tested 5.8 yet. >> >> Cheers, >> Jörg > > This is what works h

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:10:31 AM Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > Hello list, >> > >> > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for >> > quite a while, but something's ups

[gentoo-user] Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for quite > a while, but something's upset the wallet system so that my password is no > longer recognised when I start KMail-2. This is what I've tried: > > 1.Re-created a blank /home

[gentoo-user] Solved: KDE 5: Broken file protocol for KDE 4 apps caused by kwallet

> Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> after the update to Plasma 5/KF5, I can no longer open (HTML) files from >> my local disk with Konqueror. It claims it does no longer know the file >> protocol. I get a similar error in Amarok when I try to apply a cove

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: KDE 5: Broken file protocol for KDE 4 apps

Hi, P Levine wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> > wrote: >> Anyone? After upgrading a second machine to KDE/Plasma 5, I have the same >> behavior there. All KDE-4-based apps fail to interact with the file >> system. Using

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: KDE 5: Broken file protocol for KDE 4 apps

Michael Mol wrote: > On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:54:48 PM Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Anyone? After upgrading a second machine to KDE/Plasma 5, I have the same >> behavior there. All KDE-4-based apps fail to interact with the file >> system. Using KMail I can no long

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5: Broken file protocol for KDE 4 apps

Anyone? After upgrading a second machine to KDE/Plasma 5, I have the same behavior there. All KDE-4-based apps fail to interact with the file system. Using KMail I can no longer add any attachment to an email nor save an existing attachment to disk. Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > &

[gentoo-user] KDE 5: Broken file protocol for KDE 4 apps

Hi, after the update to Plasma 5/KF5, I can no longer open (HTML) files from my local disk with Konqueror. It claims it does no longer know the file protocol. I get a similar error in Amarok when I try to apply a cover to an album from the local disk. It seems all KDE4-based application are

[gentoo-user] Re: Dependency conflict

Dmitry Bogun wrote: > Hi. > > Perl packages family use extremely annoying dependency definition. > > See example below. > > The question is "what is the correct way to solve this dependency > conflict?". I don't like to add all "conflicts" into install list in cli. > Is there a way to force

[gentoo-user] kactivitymanagerd endless update loop

Hi, my system is still KDE 4 with the help of kde-sunset. However, I face an endless loop installing kactivitymanagerd. The package has been in group kde-base for KDE 4 and so it is in kde-sunset. However in central portage tree it has been moved to group kde-plasma. The annoying part is now,

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

Hi Mick Mick wrote: > On Sunday 31 Jul 2016 22:38:22 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Mick, >> >> Mick wrote: >> > On Sunday 31 Jul 2016 19:14:45 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> Hi Daniel, >> >> >> >> thanks for your response. >> &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

james wrote: > On 07/31/2016 12:56 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> thanks for your response. >>> >>> Daniel Frey wrote: >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>>> I

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

Hi Mick, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 31 Jul 2016 19:14:45 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> thanks for your response. >> >> Daniel Frey wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> > I can only think of two reasons, the kernel on the livecd do

[gentoo-user] Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > thanks for your response. > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > [snip] > >> I can only think of two reasons, the kernel on the livecd doesn't >> support GPT (which is unlikely) > > That would be really strange. However, h

[gentoo-user] Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

Hi James, james wrote: > On 07/31/2016 08:37 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> for my backups I use a 3TB USB drive (one big ext4 partition) without any >> problems. Just plug in the cable, mount it and perform the backup. The >> partition (sdi1) is detected

[gentoo-user] Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

Hi Daniel, thanks for your response. Daniel Frey wrote: [snip] > I can only think of two reasons, the kernel on the livecd doesn't > support GPT (which is unlikely) That would be really strange. However, how can I prove it? > or you're booting a 32-bit kernel live > USB. I am reasonably

[gentoo-user] Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

Hi, for my backups I use a 3TB USB drive (one big ext4 partition) without any problems. Just plug in the cable, mount it and perform the backup. The partition (sdi1) is detected an mountable without any problems: === %< == $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

Daniel Frey wrote: > On 07/09/2016 07:08 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Thanks Dan. I tried your package.mask and thought I was getting >> somewhere. But I had to add these to package.use (I have USE=-qt5 in >> make.conf): >> >> sys-auth/polkit-qt qt5 >> dev-libs/libdbusmenu-qt

[gentoo-user] Upgrade guide for ebuilds

Hi, is there somewhere an upgrade guide for ebuilds. I have a bunch of local ones with a no longer supported EAPI. Cheers, Jörg

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge is teh FAIL ! ! ! ! !

Alan Grimes wrote: > No, skipfirst only works when it actually tries to compile something. > Here it is failing in some strange pre-compile stage. I don't know why > it has to be so anal about this, The normal solution would be to log the > error, drop the two packages that were affected, and

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching current java-vm for a single application

Hi Leonardo, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > If all what script is doing is executing "java", just add the right > JRE to your PATH as first element. Try something along: PATH=`java-config --select-vm=oracle-jdk-bin-1.8 -o`/bin:$PATH SenchaCmd Cheers, Jörg

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching current java-vm for a single application

Hi James, James wrote: [snip] > I suggest you file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. Gentoo's java environment > has/is undergoing major surgery and stability is a transient experince > with java on gentoo, for the last decade. If you have ideas how to privide > a patch (even a miniscule bandaid) I'd

[gentoo-user] Re: java.awt.AWTError

Hi Helmut, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > when emerging sci-geosciences/josm- I get a Java error : > > > java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the > value of the DISPLAY variable. > > > This is on a local machine using DISPLAY :0 > > Would anybody please

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching current java-vm for a single application

Hi Leonard, Leonardo Guilherme wrote: > Hello. > > I'm using OpenJDK JVM regularly on my machine instead of Oracle's one, > primarily because of the infinality patches and because I prefer open > source software. > > There are some applications, though, that do not play ball with it > (namely,

[gentoo-user] Re: Bind stole my /

Jarry wrote: [snip] > vs5-dns ~ # df -a > Filesystem1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 - - -- / > proc 0 0 0- /proc > tmpfs308188 420307768 1% /run > dev 10240 0

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:48:48 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >>> > Hmmm. And how can you then ever use >> >> >> >> emerge --resume --skip-fist >> >> >> >> if not even the first build is deterministic? I s

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/11/2015 21:35, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Ongoing installation. I looked at 2 instances of >> "emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-server" and the order was somewhat different. >> Here are a couple of outputs, just a few seconds apart. Is this a bug >> or a feature? See

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/11/2015 10:29, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On 11/11/2015 21:35, Walter Dnes wrote: >>>> Ongoing installation. I looked at 2 instances of >>>> "emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-server" an

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/11/2015 10:48, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On 12/11/2015 10:29, Jörg Schaible wrote: >>>> Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] >>>> Hmmm. And how can you then ever use >>>> >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS issue

Hi Francisco, Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, all. > > My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many > applications now support native translations. > > And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT" > (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any

[gentoo-user] Re: Bind stole my /

Hi Jarry, Jarry wrote: > On 08-Nov-15 17:58, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jarry wrote: >>> Hi Gentoo-users, >>> >>> I noted one strange thing today: It seems one of my servers lost "/"! >>> >>> vs5-dns ~ # df >>> Filesystem1K-blocksUsed

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 05.02.2015 17:59, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 04/02/15 08:07, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often because some component starts dying. Sometimes

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

Hi Stefan, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.02.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: I've never had qtwebkit fail to build (at least not recently), what's the exact error? Can you post the output of `emerge --info dev-qt/qtwebkit` as well? hmmm, yes, I would like to ... but now it

[gentoo-user] Re: akonadi-server upgrade desaster

Hi, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 17 Dec 2014 19:13:03 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi folks, it seems there's no way for me to upgrade my akonadi-server 1.11.0 to 1.12.x or 1.13.x. I am using an external MySQL for years, but it fails to upgrade the tables nor will it recreate them without errors if I

[gentoo-user] akonadi-server upgrade desaster

Hi folks, it seems there's no way for me to upgrade my akonadi-server 1.11.0 to 1.12.x or 1.13.x. I am using an external MySQL for years, but it fails to upgrade the tables nor will it recreate them without errors if I drop them all. All I can do is to downgrade to 1.11.0 again and restore the

[gentoo-user] Re: Checking the reason for (-useflags) in brackets

man emerge would have been even faster ;-) meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-06-21 12:36]: On 21/06/2014 11:19, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for some applications I want to activate some USE flags, which are disabled by default. Some of those

[gentoo-user] Re: How to control SLOT?

Mick wrote: On Friday 16 May 2014 13:44:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 16/05/2014 14:38, Mick wrote: After all these years I still can't find my way around SLOT management needed for enlightenment. I want to emerge the latest available in the tree, which right now happens to be (~)

[gentoo-user] Re: HP scanner is no longer found

Hi Dale, the scanner part of my Brother DCP stopped suddenly also one month ago. My troubles were caused by the upgrade from sane-backends-1.0.23 to 1.0.24-r1. Downgrading immediately led to a working scanner again. [snip] Cheers, Jörg

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. I've just built libreoffice-3.6.6.2 and it took 2 hours 10 minutes on my 2.6 GHz quad core Athlon 2. It used to take about an hour. Watching the build, it became evident that the first 50 minutes or so was taken up by several hundred mkdir operations

[gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

Jarry wrote: On 06-Apr-13 19:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: STOP SPREADING THIS FUD It did not happen to pretty much everybody. It happened to people who blindly updated thignsd and walked away, who did not read the news announcement, who did not read the CLEARLY WORDED wiki article at

[gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.04.2013 21:33, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: After updating our systems we lost network

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:38:28 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Have you read the news item? Yes. I found it rather confusing. It refers to a new format for rules, but the examples use the exact same format as the old rules. Poor choice of terminology there, the

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

Hi, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-04-03, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Have you read the news item? Yes. I found it rather confusing. It refers to a new format for rules, but the examples use the exact same format as the old rules. It talks about how

[gentoo-user] Re: problem starting openvpn after recenet upgrade

Joseph wrote: I'm having problem starting openvpn after recent upgrade. When I try to start it I get a normal respond: openvpn.client_clinic_atom start * Starting openvpn.client_clinic_atom ...[ ok ] * WARNING: openvpn.client_clinic_atom has started, but is inactive

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: problem starting openvpn after recenet upgrade

Matthias Hanft wrote: Joseph wrote: Yes, you are correct. Rebuilding openvpn worked; thank you. As far as I have seen, you can set USE=iproute2 for OpenVPN which seems to use iproute2 instead of net-tools - should avoid your problem, too. If iprout2 is relocated, it will fail for openvpn

[gentoo-user] xserver update: tilde no longer dead key

Hi folks, it seems the latest xorg-server update also changed the German standard keyboard layout, since the tilde is no longer a dead key. I verified that the standard variant is still used, I have no ~/.Xkbmap or /etc/X11/Xkbmap or (Xmodmap or Xresources), so the standard must have changed.

[gentoo-user] Re: xserver update: tilde no longer dead key

Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi folks, it seems the latest xorg-server update also changed the German standard keyboard layout, since the tilde is no longer a dead key. I verified that the standard variant is still used, I have no ~/.Xkbmap or /etc/X11/Xkbmap or (Xmodmap or Xresources), so

[gentoo-user] Re: xserver update: tilde no longer dead key

Jörg Schaible wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi folks, it seems the latest xorg-server update also changed the German standard keyboard layout, since the tilde is no longer a dead key. I verified that the standard variant is still used, I have no ~/.Xkbmap or /etc/X11/Xkbmap or (Xmodmap

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother Scanner

Hi Silvio, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i have a Brother MFC 7320 Printer, Scanner and Fax. Printer is installed perfectly, scanner want not work. I try as user and as root, but xsane found not the scanner. gentoo-desk ~ # sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9,

[gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

Philip Webb wrote: 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, but there's no sign of 'control-k' or

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts in gitview

Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is hardly readable. I am normally working

[gentoo-user] Re: KMail

Mick wrote: On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 07:47:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the

[gentoo-user] fonts in gitview

Hi, can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is hardly readable. I am normally working in a KDE4 environment.

[gentoo-user] Re: Tcl in your system...

Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in TCL..

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts.

Stayvoid wrote: Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts That didn't work for me. /usr/local/share/fonts Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME} Could you be more specific?

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is

[gentoo-user] Re: what is /var/log/wtmp ?

Philip Webb wrote: 110325 Alex Schuster wrote: Philip Webb writes: In /var/log/ there is a file wtmp , which is 24 MB owned by utmp Can anyone explain what it's for whether it cb safely deleted ? It tracks logins, you can use the 'last' command to show its contents. If wou want to

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

Joerg Schilling wrote: Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: There is a set of red-book deviations that is called cactus datashield cdparanoia will not extract more than 40 seconds from such a CD regardless of the drive you are using. With cdda2wav you will be able

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

Hi Joe, Jake Moe wrote: On 01/13/11 20:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:33:09 Jake Moe wrote: On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: [snip] Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of garbage? As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

Hi Jörg, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, the wav file played fine. At least, it started out fine; I only listened to the first 15 - 30 seconds to make sure it sounded ok, and then assumed the rest was fine, since nothing else had even gotten that far.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

Jake Moe wrote: On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Andrea, Andrea Conti wrote: Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 Try disabling CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC (Asynchronous SCSI scanning under SCSI options). While it is not a solution, this might somewhat reduce the randomness you

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Dale, Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Dale, Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It seems there is also some timing involved regarding

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Neil, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:47:28 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: What really annoys me is, that I had no problems with this in kernels before 2.6.35 :-/ Have you tried diffing the configs to look for a potential cause? Yes, but I could not detect anything related

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Alex, Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Stroller, Stroller wrote: On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where /etc/fstab is located ? The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. I'm not saying this helps solve your problem, I'm just sayin'. BTW: Yes

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Alan, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg Schaible did opine thusly: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected

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