[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading old kernel

your system for you to compile outside of portage. In short: | Downloaded | Installed --+------+- gentoo-sources| source code | source code gentoo-kernel | source code | built kernel gentoo-kernel-bin | built kernel | built kernel -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: X won't start after xorg-server update

see if it is > created with the correct content. > > The file is created/modified by app-eselect/eselect-opengl. If you have USE=libglvnd enabled, eselect-opengl is no longer installed, but the files it generated may remain. In this case, it is safe to remove the file if USE=libglvnd is

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] What was it....?

om/search?q=readline+wrapper+application > suggests rlwrap: > > https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-rlwrap/ > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/rlwrap > Additionally, rlfe (readline front end) is included with sys-libs/readline[utils] and does about the same thing. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

nd IPs. Google hasn't helped either. > > Any ideas, anyone? > Generally, this would indicate a problem resolving DNS. This is normally caused by not having a correct /etc/resolv.conf inside the chroot (it generally will need to be the same as the file outside the chroot). Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE

s you figured out, the correct action is to install the file in your real ${DISTDIR}, but the ebuild no longer has access to determine what the name of that directory should be. This probably should be reported as a bug. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: after masking the X11-update due to nvidia-incompatibilities I got this...

; flag enabled 2) dev-qt/qtgui-5.9.4-r3 states that if the "accessibility" flag is enabled, then both the "dbus" and "xcb" flags must also be enabled on that package (and portage is saying that at least one of them is not currently enabled) Your fix would probab

[gentoo-user] Re: The uselessness of equery

6.439s sys 0m0.160s $ time portageq owners / /usr/bin/portageq sys-apps/portage-2.3.11 /usr/bin/portageq real0m1.391s user0m1.348s sys 0m0.044s $ time qfile /usr/bin/qfile app-portage/portage-utils (/usr/bin/qfile) real0m0.104s user 0m0.085s sys 0m0.019s I

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off text console screen in software?

. > > You can read /sys/module/kernel/parameters/consoleblank to see if your > changes applied properly. > > Additionally, "setterm --blank force" turns the console off immediately. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+-2.x, adwaita, gsettings and all that

On 05/01/2017 02:35 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I remember there was a thread about these topics, but I think it was > only in the context of resolving build conflicts. That is not my > problem: I can build and merge these packages just fine. > > My problem is that the adwaita theme, on which the

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

en call "append-flags -fgnu89-inline" in src_configure before the econf line. If you explicitly only want to set CFLAGS (and not CXXFLAGS), then call "append-cflags" (there is also a append-cppflags, append-cxxflags, append-ldflags, append-fflags). -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

tically generated by eselect-opengl, which means it does need to be in /etc. It is used to tell Xorg which OpenGL libraries to use, so that it doesn't have to make a bunch of symlinks in /usr anymore. If you aren't using proprietary xorg drivers, then it doesn't actually change any settings. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?

filesystem (which you probably aren't), in which case there is a fsck.minix applet that can be compiled into busybox, but is not included by default. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?

anks a lot in advance for any help! Cheers Meino The fsck applet provided by busybox is just the fsck(8) driver, which calls the fsck.${FSTYPE} command to actually check the filesystem. You still need fsck.ext4/e2fsck from e2fsprogs to actually do the check. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: Borked network connections on KDE apps (ftp, fish)

ev-libs/libev-4.23) > 1489518628: >>> unmerge success: dev-libs/libev-4.23 > 1489518628: *** exiting successfully. > 1489518629: *** terminating. > > On another box I did not notice this behaviour, but there are some > differences > between them in terms of applications installed. Both have the same portage > profile: > > default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma > > Is it a matter of waiting for a while for the new KDE apps to move into > stable, or should I be reinstalling some of the above packages? > Have you rebooted (or at least logged out of KDE) since you upgraded? Sometimes KDE has issues with network connections after an upgrade, as some parts are still running with the old code and other parts with the new, until you log out of your session. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

quot;-n 1" to tell xargs to only use 1 argument from the input per command run (instead of as many as possible), like so: ifconfig | grep [^A-Za-z] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n 1 ethtool -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

tory is in kinfocenter and is >>> configured via /etc/xdg/kcm-about-distrorc. >> >> Nope. Regular install. > > And this is the launcher icon: > > http://i.imgur.com/UyGlgLK.png > > AFAIK, this is the Gentoo logo. > That appears to be upstream's new icon for that: https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.9/plasma-5.9.png -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: locale : cannot generate it

and > POSIX). > > It is possible to create this on Gentoo (with some warnings) by creating a symlink /usr/share/i18n/locales/C that points to "POSIX", then adding "C.UTF-8" to locale.gen as normal. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: GTK+ circular dependency

ncies. > > > This is bug 597068[1]. The issue appears to have been caused by a misunderstanding of when the package manager can and cannot solve circular dependencies, and the fix is likely to be to move gtk-engines-adwaita from RDEPEND to PDEPEND in gtk+:2, as gtk-engines-adwaita has a build-time DEPEND on gtk+:2 (not just a runtime RDEPEND). [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597068 -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother scanner wants libusb-0.1.so.4

> > Thanks in advance. > > Bertram > To get libusb-0.1.so.4, you need to install dev-libs/libusb-compat (which uses the new libusb 1.0 to provide the old libusb 0.1 API). -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Being uypdated or not being updated ?

he oracle has spoken to me ... > > > Hmmm > > > Best regards, > Meino > > > > You explicitly told emerge not to update nvidia-drivers ("--exclude x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"), and emerge is doing exactly what you told it to -- not updating nvidia-drivers. If you were to remove the "--exclude" parts of your emerge command line, you might see different results. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: executing a command as a nologin user

On 07/14/2016 05:19 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On 07/13/2016 01:41 PM, wabe wrote: >> Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> On 07/13/2016 07:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/07/2016 03:47, jens w wrote: >

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --resume says "invalid resume list".

updated, newly installed, or rebuilt, when your normal @world update would show nothing, this may be part of the problem. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED]Re: [A bit off-topic] Bash alias and

ty, I'm doing this to make my life easier. As much as I tell >> them to do something, write up documents that tell them what to do and >> reiterate what they have to do, I still get the question "It's broken, >> it won't do as I want" >> >> Andrew >> >> p.s. Nico's point was a typo on my part in the email. >> > > Simple answer to this which a single google search found. You CAN'T > pass parameters to an alias under Bash. You need to do a function. A > simple function of: > > npp() > { > npp $1 & > } > > was all I needed. > > Andrew > > A better function for the same (that also doesn't loop forever because the function might be calling itself): npp() { command npp "$@" & } This allows any number of arguments to be passed, instead of "exactly one" and allows filenames containing spaces, etc. to be passed correctly. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Change from udev to eudev?

notify other applications of changes, somehow (but I'm not sure that it actually does that). If you don't actually need any of that (you are working on an embedded system where you only need root anyway, for instance), then you can just use a bare devtmpfs without a device manager changing permissions, adding links, etc. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Attic files (app-admin/rackview) removed?

iew, or read the output of `cvs log`). You can then do `cvs up -r1.X file`, replacing "1.X" with the CVS revision and "file" with the filename in question. Note that CVS tracked every file separately, so the revisions will differ between files. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On 05/23/2016 11:08 PM, Dale wrote: > Jonathan Callen wrote: >> On 05/23/2016 12:39 AM, Dale wrote: >>> Forwarded Message >>>> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot >>>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:45:

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

is to remove the line that is exactly "-- " (dash-dash-space) and everything following it -- or to ensure that that line is quoted somehow. Most text email clients treat that string as a signature indicator, and assume that everything following it isn't very important, just boilerplate. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

On 05/16/2016 12:34 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> [16-05-16 14:09]: >> On 05/13/2016 06:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2016-05-11, Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Looking further

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

On 05/13/2016 06:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-05-11, Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Looking further at the ebuilds in question, it appears that if you wish >> to have older versions of GCC installed with >=gcc-4.9, you need to have >

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

On 05/10/2016 10:59 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Jonathan Callen: > >> I haven't looked into why gcc 4.9 blocks older versions now, although >> I know it didn't always do so. > > I was bitten by that problem today. First I masked gcc-4.9 so I was able > to do an emerge @

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

to be). I haven't looked into why gcc 4.9 blocks older versions now, although I know it didn't always do so. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is CONFIG_MICROCODE gone in kernel 4.4.6-gentoo?

some of those features on some CPUs (because they are completely broken anyway). This means that loading the microcode before any userspace programs run will ensure that applications like /sbin/init won't crash just because a feature they thought they could use suddenly disappeared. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

SLOT; this meant that portage would not remove an older version of a package just because you installed a newer version. At that time, portage did not have any collision-protect mechanism (or so it appears). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCg

[gentoo-user] Re: blank (black) screen on kde 5

en you > need to add sddm to the video group. > Note that your own user account must *also* be in the video group if you are using the NVIDIA driver (and any other account used to run applications that link against libGL.so.1). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 i

[gentoo-user] Re: Has my PC been compromised?

d "pulse-shm-*" are created by pulseaudio for its own internal use; applications that may play sounds through pulseaudio will create those files automatically. The PostgreSQL.* file is likely also a false positive, but I do not have postgres installed

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

up needed? What does it do? > The sddm user only needs to be in the video group if using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, as it controls access to some low-level device nodes created by that driver for the use of the NVIDIA driver's userspace component. It may be possible to use those device

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

gfixes each month that there isn't a new version. Overall, there are plenty of updates coming. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: EAPI-6 dev-python ebuilds

just fine. sorry for being a bit brain-dead this > am... > > > thx, James > For future reference, this would be a bit more efficient: grep -r -l --include="*.ebuild" "EAPI=6" . This way, grep only looks at the files you want to search anyway. - -- Jonathan Callen -

[gentoo-user] Re: Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

et itself is declared to be exactly the three sets "@profile @selected @system" -- @system is the usual system set, @selected is the contents of the "world" and "world_sets" files, and @profile is certain packages that used to be defined as required in profiles without being

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE's confusing versions

ything being "15.12" for the December release, or "15.08" for the October release). Note that upstream split the old "KDE Software Compilation" (formerly "KDE Desktop Environment") into three separate parts: KDE Frameworks, Plasma, and KDE Applications. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/03/2016 04:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm sure I'm just being stupid, but I don't understand the lists of > affected and unaffected version numbers in Gentoo security > advisories. > > For example: > > Package dev-libs/openssl on

[gentoo-user] Re: QEMU/distcc combination question64-

ost that the packages will be used on, because slightly different versions would otherwise cause problems. So your problem with "arch-specific headers and libraries" *always* causes that part to run on the netbook, even if the remote distcc server is exactly the same arch, etc. - --

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd, libgudev and bug 552036

favor of dev-python/python-systemd), but dev-python/python-systemd is not yet stable. Therefore, portage is keeping the older version of systemd installed, as that is the only way it could find to keep all deps satisfied. If you want to keep fail2ban, the easiest method may be to keyword

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] What package provides gstreamer-app?

ch slotted (well, the ancient 0.8 release is gone from the tree as nothing uses it any more) specifically so that they can be installed in parallel, and upstream actually supports doing so (which is why the ABI version number is in the name of every library, plugin directory, and executable)

[gentoo-user] Re: Console fonts revisited

uires X11 packages if USE=X is enabled (adding deps on x11-apps/mkfontdir and media-fonts/encodings) or USE=pcf is enabled (adding a dep on x11-apps/bdftopcf). All these deps are compile-time only. USE=pcf installs the fonts used in X11, USE=psf installs the fonts used on the console. - -

[gentoo-user] Re: Weird "df" output

terminated with...) 7: the exact string "-" 8: filesystem type 9: filesystem device name (or string passed to mount(2) for virtual filesystems) 10: per-device options (always the same for multiple mounts of same device) (any number of optional per-device flags may follow) Note that

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

rs I stopped > wondering which package installs it, but it's not part of any app > that lets me print things. I think it's part of the > gnome/mate/xfce/lxde family of desktops because I use all of those > and the printer widget is always the same. Must be a gtk thing > because

[gentoo-user] Re: why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

). James Until Sven updates his code to not use GuideXML, I have linked to his snapshots in my own devspace, under http://dev.gentoo.org/~jcallen/snapshots/. The snapshots go back to 2008-01-20, and are current to 2015-07-20. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

[gentoo-user] Re: SDDM/KDE5: no sound card available?

devices under /dev, including all sound devices, certain input devices, any CD/DVD/BR devices you may have, and certain video devices. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVrvMEAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mgJi8QALktjDzO32+5G349HzOPE/nw aJ2wM8wue8/x2VdIK0q9d

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

simpler. The Gummiboot project is no longer maintained, it has been merged into systemd as systemd-boot (note that using any other part of Systemd should *not* be required to use systemd-boot, but I don't know for sure because I do not have any non-systemd systems). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN

[gentoo-user] Re: Profile listings

be listed in profiles.desc. Most profiles do not change much, if anything, in the @system set. The @system set contains much more than you would probably need for a dedicated, embedded device. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

) supports. If you set USE=x264 on gst-plugins-meta, you will get H.264 support via libx264 as well. One of those options should get you support for viewing H.264 videos on Firefox. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVPZYGAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mg0msP

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVDtluAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mgracQAJ6roGcBYpbaAjOQ4k3aStRM zYrv2Augc6JignSm0vZeTcz4h1P5t+WgOmXaKBG7ak6NMz7fIRFW6wpTdKU7uGAl mM6oYhM4jKapFrmmkgpn3UfHWx6BjdHuWSuifvPP9WNLdppKiWqHXEE1VTcb4aDk yU3Eu

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

util-linux installed with USE=tty-helpers, and you didn't tell portage it was allowed to set that flag, so it doesn't know what you want to do about the issue. The easiest solution is probably to add sys-apps/util-linux tty-helpers to your /etc/portage/package.use. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN

[gentoo-user] Re: Manipulating ext2 image without root access.

be done with mtools, is there anything like it of ext? It is possible to do this with debugfs(8), although you probably want to run e2fsck(8) on the filesystem after modifying it via debugfs. Keeping a backup copy of the image might not be a bad idea as well. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] dependancy xorg-server

=info warn error log Maybe I should skip: info and log; to have less trafic. The default is log warn error; info is normally used to describe what is going on in the middle of a build; the log/warn/error levels may be used to inform the user of actions required after a build. - -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: grub - gummiboot: good

you do that, everything should pretty much Just Work. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUyt+NAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mgolYP/1g9YlZ/IYaLlKNFOMiEKaIa KrsF+ne2vmITUXtLsVtwCDZNIQyHj6c/Ma7zHpm9Kbzn2OxpKt8dduDNdpA8QLwx E3TM3pV0AfCYRDazH6pZmHRpDc7gVTtz4yQA

[gentoo-user] Re: Working thru fresh install Gentoo as vbox guest

support (as well as the older AT keyboard, which used the same protocol, but a differently shaped connector), which I believe is what VBox emulates (as just about everything supports having a PS/2 keyboard). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.7.3 -- 4.8.3

with GCC 3.4 and later). So you were close, but the major change happened with 3.4, not 3.3 ;). Some old binary software still requires libstdc++.so.5, which can still be installed from sys-libs/libstdc++-v3, which actually builds part of GCC 3.3.6 to get the libstdc++.so.5 to install. - -- Jonathan

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo mirror list - where?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/12/2014 04:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, if an ebuild file has, e.g., mirror://github/... where do I find the list of mirrors Gentoo is using for that? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut The default list of all mirrors for the

[gentoo-user] Re: Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/15/2014 04:47 AM, Dale wrote: John Campbell wrote: On 06/14/2014 10:10 PM, Dale wrote: Well, I have 16Gbs here. I'm not lacking for memory. If memory prices were to drop a bit, I could upgrade some more. I'd have to swap out what I

[gentoo-user] Re: How to extend the tmux status 'title' for each pane or window

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/07/2014 06:33 AM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 03 Jun 2014 15:16:56 Stroller wrote: On Tue, 3 June 2014, at 6:59 am, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: … I have: … status-left #[fg=blue]#T … status-right #[fg=blue][#S] … Thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

. If you use Windows 8, in addition to the above, you have to disable Windows from ever writing the time to the BIOS clock, otherwise on shutdown it will reset the BIOS time to local time. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

[gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

. If you use Windows 8, in addition to the above, you have to disable Windows from ever writing the time to the BIOS clock, otherwise on shutdown it will reset the BIOS time to local time. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

[gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

(such as the vbox-* modules from VirtualBox), in which case you *would* need to explicitly load them. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

the module itself. - -- Jonathan Callen 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTeAdJAAoJELHSF2kinlg42aAP

[gentoo-user] Re: planned btrfs conversion: questions

on the largest drive in addition to being split among the other drives). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTaZt/AAoJELHSF2kinlg4geoP/Rz1Kn4Bu0c/hXr5kuPkP/wo

[gentoo-user] Re: libdvdnav is blocking libdvdread

by the fact that Portage lets you continue. The time you have to deal with an issue is if you get [blocks B] (note the capital 'B'), which means Portage *couldn't* fix the issue for you. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

[gentoo-user] Re: Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

/mountinfo if it detects that the final target of /etc/mtab (possibly /proc/self/mounts) is not writable. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTVzHvAAoJELHSF2kinlg41ssP

[gentoo-user] Re: Allow delay for booting from USB device?

simply waits until the root device is available, no matter how long that takes. (So you don't end up waiting longer than required just in case). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot

when my first partition started 2048 sectors (1MiB) into the disk). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTSqhYAAoJELHSF2kinlg4tnEQAJWEWwHhylqn3yrPfdtung3Z

[gentoo-user] Re: latest gentoo-sources and nvidia ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/30/2014 04:04 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:14:28 +0200 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at: Thanks a lot, very helpful. I followed your suggestions and run gnome now successfully with both the latest (stable)

[gentoo-user] Re: World update and dev-lang/python-exec weirdness...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/08/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 3/8/2014 10:12 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [140308 09:46]: If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among a few other

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple package instances ..... Help me understand this emerge error, please.

it would break those other packages. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTCmzBAAoJELHSF2kinlg4uJ4P/3bRC7UMRGWDrCFEYrlcKWAQ

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there any way out of this...?

-down systemd install that doesn't include systemd itself), but it is unsupported. most of the other errors will probably go away when that one is fixed. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

[gentoo-user] Re: Systemd as drop-in replacement for udev?

to switch to systemd as your udev provider without using the rest of systemd. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJSosOZAAoJELHSF2kinlg4+bkP/1xjvhDe+/8Dn7lqd9YnsUXY

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

- -Apreserve ACLs (implies -p) - -Xpreserve extended attributes - -xdon't cross filesystem boundaries - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd and LUKS

/kdm.service, and remove the line: Conflicts=getty@tty1.service - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJSKW2FAAoJELHSF2kinlg4f/YP+wZMh4CDv60ca3v8FA6UySnE UQ/HEcQFa5MIhwwF2PNzG1

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

- From $PORTDIR/profiles/base/package.use.mask: # GNOME gn...@gentoo.org (02 Oct 2012) # Mask USE=udisks and use USE=gdu as the default for gnome-base/gvfs-1.14; # older gvfs releases have problems with recent stable udisks:2 (bug #463792) gnome-base/gvfs-1.14 udisks - -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade renames eth-interfaces

). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRRHYFAAoJELHSF2kinlg4d0MQAJhJs73Nlja+TGoq77TaYMOz vrJmZmPDewp+1imFjfnddhC6c5ePn5+XCQ7vWmcB3LVVh8JAOqRq1pEV/u4F3HYO 8VE5VI/s0K2MO

[gentoo-user] Re: kde4 upgrading

, but the current implementation in portage 2.2_rc* does not currently do everything that is needed, so we are recommending the usage of the meta packages. - -- Jonathan Callen Gentoo KDE Developer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

Harry Putnam wrote: In fact what does `developer' buy you? Among other things, it enables I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING, which tells you the expected audience :). Seriously, the developer profiles are mainly for Gentoo Devs, people who are going to be doing a lot of debugging and testing of ebuilds.

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maxim Wexler wrote: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. Do

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maxim Wexler wrote: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. To

[gentoo-user] Re: Confusion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 econti wrote: Hi all I am a bit confused :-( I upgrade my box weekly. After the last upgrade the emerge -NDpvu gave me the output you can see in the attached up_20091010 file. As you can see there were a lot packages to upgrade with a lot of

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 3.5 and desktop links not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: Well, that started something. I'll post the output here. [snip lots of output] I have seen that ran before during a emerge and I have not seen WARNINGs like that before. Should I re-emerge some KDE 3.5 stuff and see if that fixes

[gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Reffett wrote: It could be manually downloaded from http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/package.keywords/kde-4.3.keywords;hb=master We actually have a package.mask file for KDE 4.3 at [1].

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: I would urge you to check into the q command and equery. I !think! the q command is part of portage. It may be part of gentoolkit tho. Just the q command has more than a dozen different things it does. equery can do a lot too but

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with backticks. You can nest commands with ``, it's just less intuitive; each of the following are equivalent: echo $(echo $(echo $(echo $(echo foo

[gentoo-user] Re: Guesstimates of KDE4 going stable?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Any guesses as to when that will happen (KDE 4 going stable) with Gentoo ebuilds so I can plan some new installations for my friends are greatly appreciated. The stabilization bug was filed earlier today as bug 287697 [1]. This is

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't build PyKDE4 on kde-4.4 or kde-live from kde-testing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject says, I can't build PyKDE4 from kde-4.4 or kde-live sets in the kde-testing overlay. I found various references to the same problem on lists and forums but no solutions. Does anyone use the bleeding-edge

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

Eric Martin wrote: Actually, /bin/bash is a symlink - /bin/dash on Ubuntu so dash (Debian ash) is the default shell on Ubuntu (and either dash or ash is on Debian). I found that out the hard way when I was scripting and some bash stuff wouldn't work properly. No, /bin/bash is *always* bash

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

the linker is looking in /lib64 before checking /usr/lib64, and finding the wrong file first. - -- Jonathan Callen (ABCD) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

. - -- Jonathan Callen (ABCD) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkq09QcACgkQOypDUo0oQOr4mgCgkOZGlBg4x3G0tXcnpt7LwVcy g1sAnRqykMcPTyxvnUyohjn3mPzBL2po =MCaV -END PGP SIGNATURE-

[gentoo-user] Re: udev and init.d. Should it be running now?

, don't worry about it. :) (this didn't appear to send the first time, so resending...) - -- Jonathan Callen (ABCD) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqpeCgACgkQOypDUo0oQOppywCfa3