On 9/4/2015 3:06 AM, Mick wrote:
You can increase its verbosity in /etc/init.d/dhcpcd, so that the logs show
more of what is happening to cause the crash.
Also, here at least, I have /run/dhcpcd/ with its subdirectories as well as
/run/dhcpcd-enp11s0.pid both owned by root:root, but this is a
On 9/3/2015 8:59 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Thursday, September 03, 2015 8:09:02 PM Mike Edenfield wrote:
What makes rc-status think something is crashed, and how can I fix this?
basement log # rc-status -v | grep crashed
dhcpd [ crashed ]
basement log # ps aux | grep dhcpd
root
For some reason, whenever I check the status of my startup scripts,
dhcpd registers as "crashed". However, dhcpd is up and running and
working fine. Normally I don't worry about it, but on those occasions
where dhcpd does stop working, it's hard to tell if it's "fixed" or not.
What makes
On 2/8/2015 10:35 AM, Dale wrote:
would build correctly, both compile and create the init thingy. So, I
now have a couple kernels that have a init thingy, testing with that,
Has anyone ever pointed out that init thingy actually takes more
effort to type than initramfs or initrd?
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:46 PM
On 16/12/2014 20:05, walt wrote:
On 12/15/2014 11:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
/tmp is still very much in use and very much needed, it isn't going
anywhere soon. The FHS has something interesting
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 11:59 AM
Am 22.08.2014 um 02:05 schrieb Mike Edenfield:
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:41 PM
you said you used 6 different
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:41 PM
you said you used 6 different kernel versions - which one? Did you use
vanilla or gentoo sources? And... maybe config?
I've used all gentoo-sources so far, but I can give vanilla a try.
(BTW: I'm terribly sorry for the horrid formatting and duplicate mails; I'm
stuck using Outlook until I get this resolved)
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:55 PM
Am 20.08.2014 um 02:28 schrieb Mike Edenfield:
From: Volker
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 8:01 PM
Am 17.08.2014 um 12:33 schrieb Mick:
On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 02:56:58 Mike Edenfield wrote:
When I `modprobe -r ochi_pci` while the system is operating normally,
I see all four modules
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 7:53 PM
Am 14.08.2014 um 03:52 schrieb Mike Edenfield:
I've recently taken an old Windows XP system and rebuilt it to run Gentoo.
Since
then, I've been having issues using any type of USB input
I've recently taken an old Windows XP system and rebuilt it to run Gentoo.
Since then, I've been having issues using any type of USB input device
(which is particularly bad, since it has no PS/2 input ports).
After some indeterminate period of time, the input device simply stops
responding.
-Original Message-
From: Peter Humphrey [mailto:pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:51 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys
On Sunday 27 January 2013 04:46:22 Mike Edenfield wrote:
At some point
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:49 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:46:22 -0500
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote:
I have the latest udev
At some point recently, one of my systems has begun having problems
allocating pseudo-terminals via the UNIX98 pty scheme. I am using the same
kernel configuration I've had for years, and running the latest ~amd64
version of all the relevant packages. The problem manifests itself on any
program
On 13 January 2013, at 06:53, Andrew Lowe wrote:
...
From all of the above, I think the important part is that I need to
install some glibc developement files. A google search doesn't point me
in
the direction of what these might be. According to eix glibc, I have
debug
turned OFF - is
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 6:08 PM
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:56:52 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
In case you haven't noticed, since Windows 7 (or Vista, forget which)
Microsoft has even went the distance of
I recently upgraded my courier setup (imap and authlib):
basement lib64 # eix -Ic courier
[I] net-libs/courier-authlib (0.65.0-r1@11/01/2012): Courier authentication
library.
[I] net-mail/courier-imap (4.8.0@11/01/2012): An IMAP daemon designed
specifically for maildirs.
After I was finished,
From: Silvio Siefke [mailto:siefke_lis...@web.de]
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:36:37 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Just don't use -march=native when cross-compiling. :)
Now i use native. Is there a problem, i know from FreeBSD, there on ML
have
say me i should use.
Using
On 5/1/2012 6:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Sort of painful to start maintaining a 32-bit chroot just to handle
this sort of thing. I suspect there's some freeware for the Windows
world that might allow me to do the conversion in a VM. I'll start
looking for that. The web site that advertised
From: Michael Mol [mailto:mike...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:54 PM
I can no longer ssh into either inara or kaylee.
Clearly they are busy fsck'ing /malcom and /simon
On 4/2/2012 11:12 PM, Dale wrote:
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Actually, the initramfs finished without a single error: between
[1.962007] dracut: + source_conf /etc/conf.d
and
[2.395576] dracut: Switching root
there is not a single error. The initramfs did what it needed to do;
the
From: Jason Weisberger [mailto:jbdu...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:11 PM
It would figure that some in the Linux community would
consider a sub 1.0 release as the birthday of a project :).
You were sub-1.0 when you were born, why not Gentoo?
Besides, the 1999 birthday
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Hi, Mike.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:24:14AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Hi, Alan.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:22 + Alan
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
I had to reboot so I made a new init thingy with the -H switch. It works in
Console but nothing root works in KDE. I get the same error.
Heck, Konsole won't even try to come up much less ask for my password.
Krusader asks for password and says that
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
OK, semantics. Let me re-phrase:
Why is a third party script, running in the context of the udev universe,
indiscriminately allowed to launch daemons at early boot time?
I don't think I agree with Neil in that this is a udev design
From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:04 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting
software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:35:36 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
From: Canek Peláez Valdés [mailto:can...@gmail.com]
I agree with most of what you say; however, I believe you are mistaken
about the static nature of the binaries in the initramfs created by dracut. I
use dracut with the whole bang (plymouth, systemd, udev, you name it), and
I don't have
From: Pandu Poluan [mailto:pa...@poluan.info]
On Mar 28, 2012 11:27 AM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote:
Well, for one, the initramfs solution is not generally considered ugly
except by a select vocal few who object to it on vague, unarticulated
grounds.
Check out the email from
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules. I
don't
know if it's true or not.
dracut wants you to have loadable module /support/ in your kernel so it can
scan for modules needed by the rootfs. The kernel-module support in
From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:50:04 -0500, Dale wrote:
So throw out my plans and just do it their way? In that case, I may
as well use Fedora since it sort of started there. Maybe that is what
they wanted and planned.
According to Greg K-H,
On 3/27/2012 6:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking for simple method to create a simple
initramfs to just mount the /usr partition.
I've found
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_initramfs_used_to_check_and_mount_/usr
If this is all you need, I recommend you use dracut. The
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting
software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way?
Nothing; in fact, this was the general solution to the problem of something
else in
If this is all you need, I recommend you use dracut. The default
installation (no use-flags or optional modules) will product an
initramfs that loads whatever you current rootfs and /usr partitions are.
I've been working on updating the wiki with more detailed
instructions; for your
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:27 AM
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
Mike Edenfield wrote:
I'm pretty sure that a stable Dracut is a prerequisite for a stable
udev-182+. Hopefully with more people taking interest in using an
initramfs it will stabilize quickly. It's working for me on all of the
systems I'm tried
From: c...@chrekh.se [mailto:c...@chrekh.se]
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:26:46 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
As you move more and more software off of /usr into / you start to
realize that the idea of tiny partition that contains just what I
From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
Yes it is, I now I used to waste my time like that. Now I have a config
file that
lists what needs to go into the initramfs and the kernel build
automatically
pulls everything in for me. The only other thing I need is the init
script. So I
get
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
Thing is, I can't get dracut to boot a system as I use it. See my other post.
Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either switch to another
distro, hope someone figures out why dracut isn't working or just move
everything to / and
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Hi, Alan.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:22 +
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
That is precisely what the question was NOT about. The idea was to
copy (not move) booting
From: Walter Dnes [mailto:waltd...@waltdnes.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:14 PM
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:35:55PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
What we're talking about with systemd vs openrc, and things like ssh'd
first-time initialization is all within the realm of responsibility
Walter Dnes wrote:
The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/ validator.w3.org complains about a couple
of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
Midori. Any comments from users of other browsers? The page will be
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
This has been one of my points too. I could go out and buy me a bluetooth
mouse/keyboard but I don't because it to complicates matters.
I had a long reply to Walt that I (probably wisely) decided not to send, but
the basic point of it is also relevant
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:14 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:54:58 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
The idea of
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:04 PM
Huh? What's that to do with udev? You're talking at far too high a level
of
abstraction. The new hardware will just work if there are the correct
drivers built in. That's as true of udev as it is of mdev as
From: Pandu Poluan [mailto:pa...@poluan.info]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:13 PM
BUT, in the same message, it is stated that Xorg *can* be compiled to *not*
try to communicate with udev.
I suspect a similar situation with Gnome.
IIRC, GNOME only needs udev for auto-mount support. gvfs
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:21 AM
As I've said a few times in the current threads, the only thing preventing
me
from moving fully onto mdev is not having a working keyboard and mouse
(evdev??) under X.
Has anybody else tried this, and if
From: Pandu Poluan [mailto:pa...@poluan.info]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:28 PM
This email [1] (and the correction email right afterwards) should give some
much-needed perspective on
why we're driving full-speed toward an overturned manure truck (which some of
us, e.g., Walter and
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:23 PM
I like that quote. I may not be dev material but I know this /usr mess
is not right. The only reason it is happening is because of one or two
distros that push it to make it easier for themselves.
If that's
On 2/18/2012 5:26 AM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and sure
enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-March-8-virus-concerns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Is
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:39 PM
Howdy,
I got a neighbour that has a computer issue. First, the hard drive went
out. We ordered a new one and installed it. Then he realized he didn't
have the restore discs. We ordered those from
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:06 PM
Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that
required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They
said it recognized the change in the serial numbers. When I ran
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:43 PM
Mike Edenfield wrote:
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:39 PM
Howdy,
I got a neighbour that has a computer issue. First, the hard drive
went
out. We
On 1/29/2012 1:14 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
2) On PC clones, floppies never had auto-insert detection. (Though
maybe you'd get something like that if you used a superfloppy or
LS-120 drive to read them)
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to
make it actually work:
From: Michael Hampicke [mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:10 AM
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
actually work:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
Quote
And you certainly don't want to
From: James Broadhead [mailto:jamesbroadh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:15 AM
On 30 January 2012 13:09, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote:
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
actually work:
From: Frank Steinmetzger [mailto:war...@gmx.de]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:05 AM
This backs me up in using noscript and flashblock. Sometimes I doubt
myself
when I get asked once more why I would use NoScript in times when most of
the web relies on JS. I then say that privacy and
On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote:
Hi,
I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross
compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I
downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a cross compile account,
with the
On 1/17/2012 6:41 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Chris Walterscjw20...@comcast.net wrote:
I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross
compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I
downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a
From: Chris Walters [mailto:cjw20...@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:27 AM
On 1/17/2012 08:39 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote:
that have make files for MS Visual Studio. I have no interest in
purchasing Visual Studio.
Just a point
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:31 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:40 -0500
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote:
I agree. Longer pass{words
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:48 PM
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly
increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a
On 12/11/2011 1:10 PM, James Broadhead wrote:
On 11 December 2011 10:41, Andrea Contia...@alyf.net wrote:
On 27/11/11 16.36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
sys-apps/openrc-0.9.6 is just... gone? Not even masked, but completely
gone from portage.
FYI, sys-apps/openrc-0.9.7 is out.
Apparently,
On 11/27/2011 1:10 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
On 11/26/2011 07:32 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
Can anyone explain what is going on ?
Different packages include different levels of support for filtering
their installed localization messages, typically one of install
everything, install what's
On 11/25/2011 10:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
26 Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 26.11.2011 01:28, schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages
not of any use to me: around 200MB in total.
Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware
On 11/9/2011 2:04 AM, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Nov 2011 02:43:43 Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 11/6/2011 8:54 PM, Dale wrote:
Mine is like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4547936 Aug 22 03:53
/boot/bzImage-3.0.3-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4548640 Sep 1 07:19
/boot/bzImage-3.0.4-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root
On 11/9/2011 8:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:47:07 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote:
Are you saying then that every time you download new source files you
have to create or cp new localversion* files in /usr/src/linux/ for
this auto-numbering to work?
Yeah, though I wouldn't
On 11/6/2011 8:54 PM, Dale wrote:
Mine is like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4547936 Aug 22 03:53
/boot/bzImage-3.0.3-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4548640 Sep 1 07:19
/boot/bzImage-3.0.4-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5162752 Oct 12 21:49
/boot/bzImage-3.0.4-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5167840 Oct 13 00:05
I'm trying to build XEmacs on my laptop (Hardened ~amd64), and it appears to
be stuck near the end trying to load and/or execute update-elc.el (it's
been on this step for approaching 6 hours now). This happens every time I
attempt to build xemacs (I've re-synched and restarted the build multiple
On 10/15/2011 4:42 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Which one? That /var is not going into /? It's not disinformation, it
is th true. If not, please be so kind of showin one single developer
reference that says so. One. Single. One.
Email, blog post, wiki, you choose it. But one single one.
I
On 9/22/2011 5:51 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
(klondike) wrote:
El 22/09/11 22:20, Michael Mol escribió:
My question is...what kinds?
Well mainly the PaX and the grsecurity patches. I also heard there is a
WIP in bringing RSBAC back again too.
Does gentoo-sources include the
On 9/15/2011 8:22 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
I don't show an ebuild for eclipse (I see dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj,
dev-java/eclipse-ecj and dev-util/eclipse-sdk). Last time I poked
eclipse, it was a royal pain using any *DT unless one downloaded it as
a packaged deal. Version dependencies were a
On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 01:36:56 PM Dale wrote:
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
But that's the thing: we (you and me) don't see the situation the same
way. To me, the proposed changes are for the better.
You are one of very few that feel this way.
You are probably correct that he's
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote:
I would estimate that the vast, vast, vast majority of users are those
such as myslelf, who have no opinion whatsoever, and either will not be
affected
On 9/12/2011 1:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Well, I'm a hacker. udev is free source, therefore fair game. I don't
intend to put up with this nonsense without a fight. As far as I can
make out, this is just one guy, Kay Sievers, who's on a power trip. Are
there any indications at all that he
On 9/13/2011 10:40 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:50:13PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
it works for you, because your udev-rules need nothing from /usr/*
It's *not* udev requiring /usr, it's the scripts triggered by the rules.
Ah. OK. Maybe I've misunderstood
On 9/13/2011 8:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:38:30 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
Well, I'm a hacker. udev is free source, therefore fair game. I
don't intend to put up with this nonsense without a fight. As far as
I can make out, this is just one guy, Kay Sievers, who's
On 9/11/2011 8:28 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
and /var
will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
Hmm, that doesn't smell right to me. What I think you
On 9/12/2011 3:12 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote:
If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon?
Is the Fedora dev aware of non-Fedora installations?
He is, because a Gentoo user/dev explicitly pointed out the
On 9/10/2011 5:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:19:10 -0400
Michael Molmike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Mick wrote:
From my understanding, the dev is not listening. That is another
thing that bothers me. When
On 7/22/2011 9:53 PM, CJoeB wrote:
Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the
warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about
leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7. However, I would
lose practically as much as losing my first born! I
On 7/23/2011 7:47 AM, Mick wrote:
On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 07:25:42 Mike Edenfield wrote:
I seem to recall a case where a user wiped their drive clean and installed
Ubuntu or some such. The laptop went faulty and the person asked for it to be
repaired/replaced under warranty, only to be told
On 7/23/2011 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing
I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo,
only to learn that the wireless card was faulty. And since I
could not run
On 7/10/2011 5:20 AM, john wrote:
Had a pesky invasion of little insects behind my screen. Of which a lot
have seemed to stop moving. Think I'll a get sealed tft next time.
I'll try sucking them out with a hoover. Damn things, tft was 350
pounds, you think it should have anti critters device.
I've just switched my laptop over to KDE4 to see how it
feels on the smaller screen, and I can't find the KDE
equivalent of nm-applet. KDE 3's knetworkmanager doesn't
compile for me, and when I run the GNOME nm-applet it adds
and then immediately removes itself from the notification area.
I
On 6/26/2011 4:01 PM, Dale wrote:
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Am Sonntag, 26. Juni 2011, 10:28:47 schrieb Dale:
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Try euse -I fortran.
If anything besides gcc pops up, you should have one.
That doesn't appear to work like it should then. I get this:
On 6/25/2011 8:04 AM, Dale wrote:
We restructured the dependency chain for fortran support,
which includes
a compile test now. The failure can be seen above.
The Problem was in short, USE=fortran was enabled by
default for linux
arches, but people tend to disable it. Depending on
gcc[fortran]
On 6/23/2011 8:31 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:14 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional
(USE=-R) that falls squarely into the if you aren't sure if you need it
then you probably don't category. So for most
On 6/24/2011 8:03 AM, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Mike Edenfieldkut...@kutulu.org [110623 18:34]:
It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional
(USE=-R) that falls squarely into the if you aren't sure if you need it
then you probably don't category. So for most users, no,
On 6/23/2011 1:04 AM, Dale wrote:
Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote:
You have decided to build cantor with no backend.
To have this application functional, please do one of below:
# emerge -va1 '='kde-base/cantor-4.6.4 with 'R' USE flag enabled
# emerge -vaDu
On 6/23/2011 6:22 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 16:50:10 Dale wrote:
If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put the thing back tho. Some KDE
packages depend on things that seem to need it enabled.
Looks like it's only packages that are pulled in by kdeedu-meta. Do
On 6/23/2011 6:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:06:00 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations.
Without
autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to
do. With autounmask it shows what needs to be done.
That
On 6/22/2011 9:33 AM, Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 06/22/2011 02:18 PM, Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Uninstall sci-libs/blas-reference I guess. And probably whatever
depends on it. Please do an emerge -pv --depclean blas-reference and
post the output so we can see what's
On 6/22/2011 11:35 AM, Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If
not, then emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R. Do you need the
package(s) that this brings up? If not, continue --depclean those
until you reach something that has no
On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote:
When I did that, it complained that cantor was built with no backend.
Did you get the same thing? It said this here:
WARN (postinst)
You have decided to build cantor with no backend.
To have this application functional, please do one of below:
#
On 6/2/2011 10:40 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:49 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Something strange happen here. I have seen few things in Linux world
but this is
On 6/1/2011 5:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, Indi did
opine thusly:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:01AM +0200, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Personally, I'd be livid if portage were to remove my carefully crafted
work from time
On 5/14/2011 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon
/etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in
$PORTDIR/profiles/ and that
Odd. Not on my system, it's not.
I bet it is:
kutulu@basement ~ $ ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
On 5/14/2011 12:01 PM, Indi wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:37 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
True, just be aware that if you enable gtk *globally* you will end up
building the gtk interface for
On 5/12/2011 5:21 AM, Dale wrote:
Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 5/11/2011 6:51 PM, Dale wrote:
Does this look more better?
root@fireball / # locale
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF8
On 5/12/2011 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:54 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Dale did opine
thusly:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
The pattern I see is that of selecting only changes that failed and
implying they are the norm.
Why not add other improvements that were
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