Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-27 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 27 May 2009 01:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com wrote: I'd hope that if anyone else comes a cropper by this then at least this conv will help them! But I was EXPECTING portage to not let me do something that would stop the 'solution' (and that is what it is

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-27 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:50 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: One idea: you can can recompile python with a safe prefix (such as a subdir of your home), issue make install (not as root, for increased safety) and see where Python install its files relative to the prefix

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-27 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400 Wyatt Epp wyatt@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: I should mention that you should be careful about deleting any files - and qfile is not a 100% guarantee that the file does not come

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot install emacs/emacs-cvs with X use

2009-05-24 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sun, 24 May 2009 08:44:32 +0800 Kevin kevin.tia...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, after reinstall my system, I can emerge neither emacs nor emacs-cvs successfully on my gentoo. when proceeded to the working fork check, it stops and hangs over, never go ahead. build.log:

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-24 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:52:45 -0700 Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:50 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: Now, I do have concerns about your system having remains of multiple python installations. Any person with python knowledge

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-24 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:38:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:40:28 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: maybe you should just run a ~arch system. I want a reliable system. Isn't ~arch quite less reliable than arch ? Not in my experience. ~arch only means

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-23 Thread Jorge Morais
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I followed this http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for anyone 'that follows' get python from their site as the ftp link in this article is out of date.

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-23 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 23 May 2009 04:55:04 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: Couldn't he have emerged python by invoking ebuild /usr/port/usr/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2.ebuild merge ? This would do everyting correctly. And wouldn't it work without Python, since

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-23 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 23 May 2009 03:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com wrote: And finally, couldn't he have gotten a binary package from http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/ ? Have you not yet tried to get python from a binary package? See

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-22 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 22 May 2009 09:00:05 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:22 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: Or maybe I should just stick to all-stable, so as to not be different, and keep package.keywords for those packages where I really want a new feature

[gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-21 Thread Jorge Morais
Hi. I used to think it was safe to use ~arch packages (through package.keywords) on a stable system until I saw bug #257047 - GCC 4.3 didn't have a strict enough glibc dependency. And comment #15 in that bug report is: [...] we don't test or support half-stable half-testing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

2009-05-13 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 13 May 2009 17:13:23 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:50:47 -0700 waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

2009-05-10 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:50:47 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name

[gentoo-user] WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

2009-05-07 Thread Jorge Morais
When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name 3597 is evince's pid. Does anybody know what causes this? Should I worry

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --oneshot gcc-4.1.2

2009-05-03 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 02 May 2009 20:34:02 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Hung Dang wrote: Hi all I have to emerge gcc-4.1.2 to use with CUDA. However, I receive the following message. !!! 'gcc-4.1.2' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:23:24 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild unpack ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild prepare ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild configure ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does -Wl,--hash-style=gnu need a full world rebuild?

2009-04-17 Thread Jorge Morais
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:57:37 -0400 ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Morais wrote: I want these two flags (--as-needed and --hash-style=gnu) to be active before I adopt GCC 4.3 and recompile world. Just as an FYI, you do not need

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : the undead has been killed

2009-04-17 Thread Jorge Morais
On Monday 13 April 2009 20:49:44 Philip Webb wrote: 090413 Philip Webb wrote: I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma the hideous mask is removed -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- the handsome

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:43:35 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.keywords syntax

2009-04-15 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:47:29 +0200 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Thanasis schrieb: on 04/14/2009 11:09 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:01:23 +0300, Thanasis wrote: Suppose I want to set the series of kernel sources: gentoo-sources-2.6.28* with

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-15 Thread Jorge Morais
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:20 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on it'. Where have you got that from? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does -Wl,--hash-style=gnu need a full world rebuild?

2009-04-13 Thread Jorge Morais
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:22:39 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: Hi. According to discussion on gentoo-dev http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_50182554f851bedb82f8a349fbc90352.xml it seems the only reasons for -Wl,--hash-style=gnu not being default (yet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does -Wl,--hash-style=gnu need a full world rebuild?

2009-04-13 Thread Jorge Morais
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:57:37 -0400 ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: I want these two flags (--as-needed and --hash-style=gnu) to be active before I adopt GCC 4.3 and recompile world. Just as an FYI, you do not need to rebuild the world when you upgrade GCC - the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-12 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:43:46 -0700 Nick Fortino nfort...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-04-10, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds?

[gentoo-user] Does -Wl,--hash-style=gnu need a full world rebuild?

2009-04-12 Thread Jorge Morais
with this flag, or do I need to recompile the whole world? In other words, is there any incompatibility between binaries linked with this flag and binaries linked with the default hash-style (which in Gentoo is --hash-style=both, AFAIK)? Regards, Jorge Morais

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:45:57 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:33:06 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: This doesn't tell me anything as far as I can see.  Is there another way to turn

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we disable FORTIFY_SOURCE for packages where it is not default?

2009-04-10 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:55:36 +0200 Peter Alfredsen loki_...@gentoo.org wrote: I have seen some FORTIFY_SOURCE bugs in the bugzilla and in some cases, people claim the the bug lies in the FORTIFY_SOURCE feature itself (that is, people claim that FORTIFY_SOURCE misidentifies a buffer

[gentoo-user] Should we disable FORTIFY_SOURCE for packages where it is not default?

2009-04-08 Thread Jorge Morais
From the info page of GCC 4.3.3 NOTE: In Gentoo, `-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' is set by default, and is activated when `-O' is set to 2 or higher. This enables additional compile-time and run-time checks for several libc functions. To disable, specify either `-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE' or

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild quits at 21%

2009-04-07 Thread Jorge Morais
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:12:30 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I wish I could provide more information, the cursor just seats there, there is no error messages at the console. Which log revdep-rebuild writes to? I'm rebuilding the system with the old CFLAGS so I'll have

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-06 Thread Jorge Morais
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 00:02:21 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/03/09 10:34, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Has one of you guys already switched from gcc-4.1.2 to gcc-4.3.2 and performed emerge system ? What gives ? Any problem ? Is it worth it right now ? Please tell... --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda on running system

2009-04-02 Thread Jorge Morais
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:23:55 +0200 Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: I have since fsck'ed all relevant partitions in /dev/hda and they came up clean. Am I safe? Hmm, I'd say yes. I mean, in what way should using hdparm really mess up your partitions or Filesystems in such a way, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda on running system

2009-03-31 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:00:21 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: I then shut the computer down and I writing this from a liveCD. I do not even want to access the disk read only without knowing I have not messed up. So: does anybody

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] mask

2009-03-28 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:47:56 -0400 John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu wrote: Starting March 14, whenever I have tried doing emerge -D -uav system the response has included !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] have been masked. On my x86 box, the response

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] mask

2009-03-28 Thread Jorge Morais
Looking at /usr/portage/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild, I see that it depends unconditionally on app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo. You cannot eliminate this dependency by changing USE flags. The most natural solution is to tell Portage to accept the package

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-27 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:48:22 -0400 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Also, the kernel is the last place that you want to drag your feet for updates. If there's a bug in the kernel I want to have it fixed asap. Granted you can also argue that I'm injecting buggy code. It's two sides of

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:50:46 +0200 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? If you had upgraded because of a

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:36:41 +0500 Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:13:38 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: If you had upgraded because of a needed feature, I assume you would have read about the release, and thus would know

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update

2009-03-19 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:49:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: msoul...@anton:~$ equery belongs /usr/include/linux/quota.h [ Searching for file(s) /usr/include/linux/quota.h in *... ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3 (/usr/include/linux/quota.h) ul...@anton:~$ uname -a