Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread Petric Frank
Am Freitag, 31. Dezember 2021, 15:31:43 CET schrieb Yixun Lan: > On 07:33 Fri 31 Dec , John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I am looking for some guidance on installing virtual machines > > under gentoo. I have a 5.10.82 kernel and I would like to use kvm if > > possible to do this. I have seen lots

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

2020-07-19 Thread Petric Frank
Am Sonntag, 19. Juli 2020, 16:18:32 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Afternoon all, > > I'd like to set up a little box to be a local mail server. It would receive > mails from other machines on the LAN, and it would fetch POP3 mail from my > ISP and IMAP mail from google mail. For me this was a

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Ralph, Am Freitag, 3. April 2020, 17:41:20 CEST schrieb Ralph Seichter: > * Petric Frank: > > Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user normally > > looks at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) see him not > > looking at t

[gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, this is not exactly a gentoo issue. But due i am using gentoo i am asking here. Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user normally looks at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) see him not looking at the camera. Idea: Use two cameras positioned left and

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl 5.30.1 Locale::Language missing

2020-01-05 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, Am Samstag, 4. Januar 2020, 22:02:35 CET schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:21:17 +0100, Petric Frank wrote: > > A short search seems to state the the used have to install the packages > > > > Locale::Language > > Locale::Codes > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl 5.30.1 Locale::Language missing

2020-01-04 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, Am Samstag, 4. Januar 2020, 18:49:19 CET schrieb Mick: > On Saturday, 4 January 2020 17:21:17 GMT Petric Frank wrote: > > Hello, > > > > after an perl upgrade (5.28 --> 5.30) my web application is no more > > working. It is missing Locale::Language. > >

[gentoo-user] Perl 5.30.1 Locale::Language missing

2020-01-04 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, after an perl upgrade (5.28 --> 5.30) my web application is no more working. It is missing Locale::Language. After a view to the perl source it indeed have been removed. A short search seems to state the the used have to install the packages Locale::Language Locale::Codes from CPAN

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging qtwebengine-5.12.5

2019-11-21 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, Am Donnerstag, 21. November 2019, 19:40:43 CET schrieb Mick: > On Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:35:30 GMT Raphael MD wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to update KDE, but the emerge is stopping at qtwebengine-5.12.5 > > compile process. > > I don't know if your error is related to the

Re: [gentoo-user] A bit O/T: Running android apps in QEMU

2019-08-19 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, not exactly. But in Android Studio (which uses Android SDK) is bundled an emulator using qemu. Android Studio allows you to download an Android image (Android 2.0 up to Android 9) compiled for x86 and run it. This is mainly used for testing apps developed under Android Studio. Maybe this

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem executing pgAdmin4

2018-11-07 Thread Petric Frank
Am Dienstag, 6. November 2018, 21:24:37 CET schrieb Jack: > On 2018.11.06 00:19, Petric Frank wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 6. November 2018, 01:00:04 CET schrieb Jack: > > > On 2018.11.05 14:21, Petric Frank wrote: > >>> pgadmin3 is masked now. So i installed pgadmin4 (c

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem executing pgAdmin4

2018-11-05 Thread Petric Frank
Am Dienstag, 6. November 2018, 01:00:04 CET schrieb Jack: > On 2018.11.05 14:21, Petric Frank wrote: > > Hello, > > > > pgadmin3 is masked now. So i installed pgadmin4 (current stable > > verion 3.0). > > Installed w/o problems. > > > > But w

[gentoo-user] Problem executing pgAdmin4

2018-11-05 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, pgadmin3 is masked now. So i installed pgadmin4 (current stable verion 3.0). Installed w/o problems. But when executing it (in a terminal window) i get a dialog box saying An error occurred initialising the application server: An error occurred initialising the application server:

[gentoo-user] Problem with emerging sane-backends

2018-05-24 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, when emerging sane-backends it tries to install most of the backends listed. Even if i set SANE_BACKENDS="hp" in make.conf it selects most of the other backends to be generated. Is that a bug or did i something wrong ? regards

[gentoo-user] Removal of media-plugins/npapi-vlc

2018-01-30 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, during an upgrade i got a message that media-plugins/npapi-vlc have been masked and being removed from portage. The reasoning is understandable (Firefox removes NPAPI interface). But what to use instead ? kind regards Petric

Re: [gentoo-user] ir receiver - mceusb

2017-03-22 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Dan, Am Mittwoch, 22. März 2017, 13:37:43 schrieb Daniel Frey: > On 03/22/2017 08:12 AM, Petric Frank wrote: > > maybe this is not exactly a gentoo problem. Please point me to correct > > location if i am wrong here. > > > > I've got a MCE-like ir remote t

[gentoo-user] ir receiver - mceusb

2017-03-22 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, maybe this is not exactly a gentoo problem. Please point me to correct location if i am wrong here. I've got a MCE-like ir remote together with a USB receiver. Looks like it is detected by the kernel and a input device was created. Most of the keys are working. But - for example - the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.4.2015.06 blockages

2016-01-02 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Andreas, Am Samstag, 2. Januar 2016, 12:17:18 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > Am Freitag, 1. Januar 2016, 15:30:37 schrieb Mick: > > I am updating an old machine which does not see much usage these days. I > > came across this blockage, which seems is caused by retaining the > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDEPIM-4.4.2015.06 blockages

2016-01-01 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, Am Freitag, 1. Januar 2016, 23:22:54 schrieb Mick: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 16:49:41 James wrote: > > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > I am updating an old machine which does not see much usage these days. > > > I came across this blockage, which seems is caused by retaining the > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager VPNC key timeout

2015-03-03 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Mick, Am Dienstag, 3. März 2015, 00:00:17 schrieb Mick: The homepage on vpnc in chapter TODO tells: phase2-rekeying is now supported as of svn revision 126! Changelog states for 0.5.2: Fix Phase 2 rekeying, by various authors I don't know whether this is along your

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager VPNC key timeout

2015-03-02 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, Am Montag, 2. März 2015, 21:01:48 schrieb Mick: On Monday 02 Mar 2015 18:07:45 Petric Frank wrote: Hello, this is not a Gentoo problem per se, but i'm getting it under Gentoo. Runninng KDE + Networkmanager (net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.10.1_pre20141101) together with vpnc

[gentoo-user] Networkmanager VPNC key timeout

2015-03-02 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, this is not a Gentoo problem per se, but i'm getting it under Gentoo. Runninng KDE + Networkmanager (net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.10.1_pre20141101) together with vpnc plugin (net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc-0.9.10.0). I have set up a VPN connection to a AVM FritzBox (which is using - as far

Re: [gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-25 Thread Petric Frank
. regards Petric Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2012, 10:37:02 schrieb Robert David: Hi Patric, what about iperf? Robert. On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 20:36:54 Petric Frank wrote: Hello, this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but i don't now where to ask otherwise

[gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-24 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but i don't now where to ask otherwise. Is there a tool for (Gentoo-)Linux to do network performance tests as defined in RFC 2544 ? This will run on an Gentoo host having at least 2 network interfaces to be connected to the device under test.

[gentoo-user] heartbeat problem

2012-10-16 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, i've tried to use heartbeat (v 3.0.5). It starts, but a bit later it kills himself. I complains that it can not access /var/run/heartbeat/*.pid which is true. The directory /var/run/heartbeat does not exist. Also - as far as i can see /var/run is cleaned at start of a system. So any

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-24 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Stefan, Am Freitag, 24. Juni 2011, 11:15:54 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Greets, I am looking for a nagios-type monitoring system which I can run on gentoo. The requirement is that the customer should be able to add/edit hosts and services via web-GUI ... there is no cli-motivation

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera and Konqueror won't print, but FF works fine

2010-09-14 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Mick, Am Montag, 13. September 2010, 23:09:03 schrieb Mick: Konqueror won't even go as far as that. It only shows: I [13/Sep/2010:22:04:57 +0100] [Job ???] Request file type is application/pdf. In case of priting with KDE applications you may be hit by this bug:

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-11 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 07:15:13 Stéphane Guedon wrote: i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86. After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-11 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 10:59:33 Alex Schuster wrote: Petric Frank writes: All hints are welcome. I had weird effects when I had forgotten to set the sticky bit on /tmp. That is a rather new direction. I never checked this. ls wo...@weird ~ $ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root

[gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-10 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5 or 6 icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and then comes clear (Disk, Tools,

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-10 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Tuesday, 10. August 2010 20:26:29 Petric Frank wrote: i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86. After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box

[gentoo-user] Layman, Git, ... and Http-Proxies

2010-05-20 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, i tried to use layman (current stable version). The problem ist that i sit behind a proxy server which covers the http(s) protocol only. All other ports are closed. In the config file of layman (/etc/layman/...) i entered the proxy server and the listening port. Then layman was able to

Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning

2010-05-02 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 08:56:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote: For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg : root:503 ~ emerge -Dup world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: best circuit drawing software

2008-03-01 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Maxim, On Samstag, 1. März 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-03-01, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology.

[gentoo-user] USB serial adapter not working

2007-06-08 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, i own a USB docking station which also contains a serial connector. The host will do USB 2.0 (kernel module ehci-hcd) and detects the PL2303 serial port properly. It loads the appropiate kernel module, but at the end it fails somehow with the following message: cut

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.21 and CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND

2007-05-19 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Alex, On Saturday 19 May 2007 12:21, Alex Fansky wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.21-gentoo % pwd /usr/src/linux-2.6.21-gentoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.21-gentoo % cat .config |grep CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.21-gentoo % Is it normal? I know that swsup2

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.21 and CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND

2007-05-19 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Neil, On Saturday 19 May 2007 16:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2007 13:16:56 +0200, Petric Frank wrote: Using gentoo-sources i got the same problem. You are using SMP, right ? Then you have to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU to get CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND selectable. It took

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

2006-11-12 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Sunday 12 November 2006 07:03, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:00:09AM +0100, Petric Frank wrote I made a test install on a VMware Server installation (Host: AMD64 + Gentoo 2006.1). I created a VM (OS type other). Then i exit the console, changed in the *.vmx file

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

2006-11-11 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Saturday 11 November 2006 01:26, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:25, Alan wrote: I'm not sure I tried to install OS/2 under VMWare a while back and at the time VMWare didn't support OS/2 (something about the memory management or something). Not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Server beta on Gentoo

2006-05-21 Thread Petric Frank
Hello James, On Sunday 21 May 2006 03:38, James Colby wrote: Does anyone on the list have any experience with installing vmware-server on a gentoo box. I followed the directions found at http://diaryproducts.net/about/operating_systems/unix/installing_vmware_ser ver_on_gentoo_linux_part_2 but