Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:41:21PM +, James wrote: Now, why can't the USE descriptions be like the kernel option descriptions and have something like what Pandu wrote included? I added this to root's .bashrc a long time ago: # USE flag settings hack by Ciaran McCreesh:

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't use print after installed CUPS ?

2011-11-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 04:17:11PM +0800, 俞强 wrote: thanks for you reply, yes, i compile cups just by hand, and i compared with the files you send, though you cups version is 1.4.8, but i think the compare result is also value. most of files are the same as mine, but my libs are installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 03:29:27PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: what does graphite add ? It makes gcc-4.5.3 use a newer method to detect parallelism, thus (potentially) makes programs compiled by gcc to have better multithreaded performance. Now, why can't the USE descriptions be like the

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:07:43PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: To find out why portage wants the JDK, run `emerge -pv --depclean virtual/jdk`. Repeat until you find @world or something looking familiar. I bet you have LibreOffice installed with USE=java. There is an old thread from earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:13:34AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: alias th='date -d @$1' was the first try, then adding '+' /or '\' to escape '+' or '@'. I also tried a function along similar lines. That is not how you use alias. What you want is to use a function. Replace the alias line by

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: (i) What is icedtea-web? If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point right at the start of the page that icedtea-web is mostly Java Web

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:00:51AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Well, while Willie picks himself up after being slammed like this (Had bad day, Alan?), I might add that the only reason why portage wants to emerge icedtea and icedtea-bin is that apparently virtual/jre:1.7 has been keyworded.

[gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and now am getting a bit confused. Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to [ebuild U ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.10.4 [1.10.4] [ebuild N

[gentoo-user] Combining multiple pointer devices into one

2011-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all other mouse devices. On the console I want to use gpm to get a pointer, but gpm can only take one MOUSEDEV entry at a time (as far as I know), so

Re: [gentoo-user] Combining multiple pointer devices into one

2011-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:57:10AM +, James Broadhead wrote: On 31 October 2011 09:13, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all other mouse devices

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote: Il 06/10/2011 23:09, David Abbott ha scritto: To see your default editor and pager; eselect editor list eselect pager list It's strange, there was no defaults editor and pager... laptop ~ # eselect editor list eselect pager

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem build gconf

2011-10-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:15:34PM +0200, 4k3nd0 wrote: i put the build log into pastbin: http://pastebin.com/CXEFY342 What is the version of pango you have installed? It may be related to this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384779 W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] pstree for modules ?

2011-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:42:09AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: You could still create a tree, but only by making most modules appear multiple times. Just like the '--tree' option for 'emerge' W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione

[gentoo-user] texlive-2011 upgrade headsup

2011-08-14 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, Just a minor glitch I ran into in upgrading texlive-2010 to texlive-2011, I am not sure how reproducible this is, so I am posting it here instead of filing a bug, just in case someone else runs into the same problem. It is likely that this problem won't occur at all for those not using

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:10:25AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Though it is silly IMHO that portage would want to remove itself with depclean. Could it not be hardcoded into portage that it should try to keep itself updated and not commit suicide? (Independently of the @system sets.)

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's sensible really - portage is not the only package manager out there and therefore should not be in @system. The user did not put portage in world, and did not use -D, so portage is not updating the package. The solution

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:37:24PM -0500, Dale wrote: Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That usually won't throw a kernel panic. That usually just gives an error. W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Dale wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: I guess it starts to download it to a temp file, than moves it to the file you choose (never looked into it)... so the problem would be most likely in that operation.. I just find it downright odd that a browser causes a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:52:12AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug. If this is a continuation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:46:08AM -0500, Dale wrote: Joshua Murphy wrote: gdb is the GNU Debugger. As for the usability of strace in your case, if you can see the last few calls before the lock-up occurs, it could help narrow things down a bit. Also, if you SSH into the machine and run

Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails

2011-06-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:40:06PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: +*hplip-3.11.5-r1 (19 Jun 2011) + + 19 Jun 2011; Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org +hplip-3.11.5-r1.ebuild, + +files/hplip-3.11.5-cups-1.5.patch: + Fix build with cups-1.5, thanks to Dale for the report on the gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:39:00PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. Which runs as sh when run from the symlink. I dont understand. runs as usually means runs under the user context to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode? Yes, from the bash man

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt: Tagging on the contents of mails

2011-06-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 08:01:00AM -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: Yes, Dale, I tried that before. T tage mail matching a pattern does not what I seems to be: It matches only against the subject line. This was the reason, why I asked here... Best regards, mcc Hi mcc, What are

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:33:39AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more effective than that You can replace sort | uniq

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die econf failed

2011-05-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:24:12AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Googling above or similar is getting me nothing useful: 70% non-English pages, and of the remainder, 90% questions without answers (from forums.gentoo.org), and of those with answers, answers specific to packages bearing no apparent

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die econf failed

2011-05-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 09:14:55PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:38:04AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Felix Miata composed: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy =media-libs/libcanberra-0.4[gtk]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - media-libs/libcanberra-0.26 (Change

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone

2011-05-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:41:37PM +0200, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote: As the subject line says, all variables pertaining to locale are gone (LANG LINGUAS not set, LC_* set to POSIX). In which file are they supposed to be set these days ? /etc/env.d/02locale W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:07:33AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Does [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 from 'eselect profile list' amount to a minimal install (no X)? If so, is there any reason not to switch to it instead of setting -vlc, and then later when actually ready to enable X, switching back to

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Indi wrote: Sounds like the old 6 of one, a half-dozen of the other to me... What makes the subtractive method better? This is how I interpret Alan's message: For certain flags when you enable it for a package you will have to also enable it for its

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze

2011-04-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:47:22PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Update: seems that only some keyboard input is affected. For example, arrow keys for scrolling, and typing things in text/input boxes on webpages are fine. But hotkeys interacting with Firefox, or typing in the Address bar or

[gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze

2011-04-14 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I'm running into some weird problem. Firefox was upgraded to version 4 a few days ago. And up until last night I have had no problems with it. Starting this morning, however, it seems that Firefox would freeze up whenever I touch the keyboard with the window in focus! I can open new

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze

2011-04-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:53:39PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: Hi list, I'm running into some weird problem. Firefox was upgraded to version 4 a few days ago. And up until last night I have had no problems with it. Starting this morning, however, it seems that Firefox would freeze up

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-04-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:44:14PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Thanks, I'll try that - though I have not much time to do so, since the machine starts swapping (though it has 8Gb memory). Furtheron I've found out, that sci-mathematics/dataplot had BROWSER=xdg-open in it's

Re: [gentoo-user] renumber pages in pdf files

2011-04-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:04:45PM -0300, luis jure wrote: i' currently using an application called jpdftweak to edit metadata in pdf files, like page numbers. jpdftweak is very useful, but being a gui app it's slow for repeatedly editing many files. look at app-text/pdfjam The first few

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:51:54AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with tab completion without problems. cd $WWW/httabphtab20110318 would expand in steps cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/ cd

[gentoo-user] Simplify finding the package?

2011-03-14 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, sorry for the nondescript title. Let me described what happened. I ran `emerge --update --deep world' over the weekend which updated app-text/poppler: Sat Mar 12 22:00:46 2011 app-text/poppler-0.16.3 Today I found out that a whole bunch of packages got broken, and so I ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:08:23PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any color when it has no color ink, but do grayscale printers apply some conversion internally, to make sure that e.g. plain cyan is still visible (instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:52:36AM +, Stroller wrote: AIUI using `find /my/folder -name foo*.txt` (i.e. unquoted) the shell will pass the * to find if it can't expand it itself. Not necessarily true. On bash if you set the 'nullglob' option, if the shell can't find the file the word will

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-terms/terminator and hide_window shortcut key

2011-02-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:12:57PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: Terminator claims it depends on python-keybinder for the show/hide function to work, but even after installing dev-libs/keybinder +python, pressing the show/hide window shortcut doesnt seem to do anything. Well, today's not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 06:43:32PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: The current ebuild is screen-4.0.3, and up to screen-4.0.3-r4 (with ~everything) shows up after an emerge --sync. I can ./configure --with-various-options make make install with the best of them (not that I know what I'm

[gentoo-user] [OT] find lines in text file by length

2011-01-29 Thread Willie Wong
This is way OT, but I hope someone here can give me a quick answer: I have a text-file. Individual lines of it run from 10 to several thousand characters in length. Is there a simple* command that allows me to only display the lines that are, say, at least 300 characters long? Thanks in advance,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] find lines in text file by length

2011-01-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 03:08:11PM +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Oh, and obviously grep '.\{300\}' file D'Oh! That's really obvious. Thanks! W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:27:27PM -0200, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: I think that this software, wicd, is just to ubuntu's users not to Gentoo. You are in the minority. Many on this list (including me) use wicd for desktop/laptop use. If work without gui,, why i need a gui? wicd doesn't require a

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

2010-12-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:02:55PM +, Mick wrote: Right, I thought as much, but Valmor's removal of /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.conf through me out. Can wicd write to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf? I don't know, but, then again, why would it need to? I know that wicd does write

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mutt+gnupg: how do you name the attached signature file ?

2010-12-11 Thread Willie Wong
Jean-Christophe: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:31:41PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: It would be great if this patch were added to the gentoo-patches when gpg flag is enabled for mutt. Thanks for the work! If you want the patch merged into the gentoo patch set, I think you should file a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:58:01PM +0800, fei huang wrote: I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a upgrade to version 9.09, it does not support transparency any more, but my Xresources had been always working for me. post a snippet of my config file here,

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:36:01AM +0800, fei huang wrote: ok, everything is back to normal again, I downgraded my rxvt-unicode to 9.07-r2 and it worked as before. shall I report a bug or maybe I still missed something? Go ahead and file a bug, but as pseudotransparency was never officially

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:04:10AM -0800, Keith Dart wrote: I had previously used method 3, with an entry in my ~/.Xdefaults for it, that worked fine. It stopped for some reason with this new version. I suspect they may have removed the hacks they talked about and now depend on a properly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 05:36:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Prevailing opinion on /. That is a strange sentence itself. To see Alan deferring to the higher authority of the collective wisdom of /. is... well... surprising. W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

2010-11-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:42:24PM -0800, Grant wrote: qfile -orphans ? That sounds promising but I get: # qfile --orphans Usage: qfile opts filename : list all pkgs owning files qfile --orphans needs to take input a filename. So to go through your system looking for all orphaned

Re: [gentoo-user] after update ssh with shared_keys don't work

2010-11-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:56:18PM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote: I updated yesterday my gentoo box. And now I can't login with SSH through shared keys on my clients Server what I did all the time. I am confused (as usually is the case when I see someone trying to describe a client/server setup):

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer able to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). Do you actually need a full blown mail server? If you just relay your mail to your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mutt attachment viewing

2010-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:15:39PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: With the entry: text/html; links %s; nametemplate=%s.html it does not work: [-- Autoview using

Re: [gentoo-user] Command-line wicd?

2010-11-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 07:06:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:55 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: I'm installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad laptop wicd is designed for laptops and mobile computers. Alan: time for new reading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:07:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Something I have not run into before. Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will not run on $HOME. By the time the command hits ls itself, the shell has already expanded the HOME

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:24:23PM +, Mick wrote: Thank you Graham for your very detailed reply! I understand now why the problem exists. I have used the registry change suggested by Nuno on Win7 and will see what gives next time DST changes. I just hope that it'll work without

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:43:34PM -0500, Dale wrote: I'm guessing it is a command line thing. I like a GUI. I could have used Lynx to access my email and not even have fluxbox. ^_^ Gmail has web access so I could do it that way I guess. You can, in fact, also read G-mail with Mutt

Re: DNS Issues [Was: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow Login, Sudo, etc.]

2010-10-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:59:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Seriously, just use wicd, dump the rest. +1 Call me old-fashioned, I use wpa_supplicant. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails

2010-10-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed * with exit value -1. * * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www- *

Re: [gentoo-user] text in xterm

2010-10-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:29:36PM +, James wrote: Using various different hardware configurations -- my laptop has a Intel 915GM. The same thing happens on my iMac which has an nVidia card. I tried to take a screenshot of the issue, but the artifacts do NOT appear in the screenshot.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote: Now, the remote sshd is never sent any information about what is connected to the local end of the pipe (which is not even known to ssh!), so there is no way to alter its behavior depending on that. IOW, nothing in the setup you

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/autotoolset

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 04:01:14AM -0400, dhk wrote: I thought all the auto tools were in the autotoolset, that's not the case. It looks like the only tool I use in autotoolset is acmkdir. If I remove autotoolset, how can I get acmkdir back? Even though it's not necessary, it's a nice

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:45:49PM +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote: I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A to server B. I'd like to do that via ssh and with no user assistance, completely automated. Setting up a public key, would do the job, but then, all

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:14:47PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:45:49PM +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote: I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A to server B. I'd like to do that via ssh and with no user assistance, completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:40:31PM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote: Is there a way to allow only one single command from a single cronjob to operate passwordless, while keeping all the other connections secured by a password? You can't do that on a per-command basis. You'd be trying to control

Re: [gentoo-user] ~40 new perl-related ebuilds, why???

2010-09-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:20:54PM +0200, Jarry wrote: # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world snip [ebuild N] perl-core/Module-Build-0.36.07 [ebuild N] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.36.07 [ebuild N] dev-perl/Error-0.17.016 USE=-test [ebuild N]

[gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? In particular, media-gfx/ipe has an RDEPEND on !seamonkey? ( || ( www-client/mozilla-firefox www-client/firefox-bin ) ) which is broken by the recent move of www-client/mozilla-firefox to www-client/firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:56:43PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? i would either write directly to the maintainer of the ebuild or send a note to irc channel dedicated to sunrise. ... and of course

[gentoo-user] inkscape fails, cannot find boost

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
Dear list, Just want a sanity check. I try to emerge the most recent version of inkscape (media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.0), and the build fails in the configuration stage -snip build.log checking for IMAGEMAGICK... yes checking for CAIRO_USER_FONTS... yes checking for INKSCAPE... yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash player

2010-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:40:18PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: As shown, I have Flash Player 10 installed. (I unmasked and upgraded to the installed version in an effort to fix this issue.) On multiple sites, however, using Firefox, I get the following message or similar: Sorry, the

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way after trying to emerge openoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. How do I get the mouse and

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output

2010-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:52:35AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me via email. Usually is there an option... questions are well-answered by man program name. And in

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? --- Comment #4 from vap...@gentoo.org 2010-07-05 19:39 --- lemme clarify further: dont bother submitting ebuilds for any package in OSS-QM. we arent interested.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:47:44PM +0800, Blackdream W wrote: 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开 For someone whose signature asks all posts to be in txt, what are you doing sending so many GIFs to the mailing list? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the depth of what's

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:54:33AM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: Hi all, I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address. Most mailing lists I use don't do that. It is usually better and prefer the answer to all

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:52:09PM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I don't know if this is the proper list to post this request to. I've been using linux for a dozen years, and am capable of reading and following instructions. But, after a lot of dicking around, I still haven't been

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot errors by watching the disk and peripheral device activity, I wouldn't like to make a

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:38PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: What, you mean after going blank? Not that I would have noticed. If you mean after the xserver crash, see three sentences below ;) Oh, my bad. So I assumed that you also checked the kernel logs then. Are you sure there's no kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: He has this uncanny ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking about. It's like saying Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability of almost

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Mick wrote: However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree. X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig, like so... * Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --- This

Re: [gentoo-user] turn on wifi enables also bluetooth

2010-06-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:43:15PM +0200, pat wrote: I have Dell Latitude E4300 notebook where the wifi and bluetooth (BT) is turned on by one HW switch. So, on windows if the switch is turned on there is possible to turn off one of these devices (from windows try stop the device). Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 03:05:03PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: And how often would you impose refresher tests? Anyone's memory is fallible, as no-one knows better than I do. You just don't remember someone knowing it better. :) W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: Hi list, I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting output that I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to those packages is that their ebuilds are no-longer in the tree. Each one of those packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel KMS LVDS; was X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-05-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:37:16AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:21:01AM +0700, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: Seems that you also suffer problem with Intel driver and kernel 2.6.32. Upgrade your xf86-video-intel to v2.11.0 may help. Actually, I am still on kernel 2.6.30

[gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-19 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting output that I haven't seen before: The folowing Deprecated installed packages were found media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: These are the only lines with the word mouse in them. Kevin, what I would try first is to set INPUT_DEVICES=evdev mouse in your /etc/make.conf, then emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and finally reboot. Unless your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:25:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The 5% is historical from days when disks are much smaller. If you have a sensible partition scheme you only really need to reserve the blocks on the $ROOT filesystem. If the partition in question (IIRC) is only for /home, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 07:39:01PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: what exactly is this reserved block count? is it about the number of inodes? does that mean that, by default, regular users can only use 95% of the inodes? and why did I use all these inodes? I don't think I have that many small

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. Press e Move cursor to the kernel line Press e Move cursor to the end

Re: [gentoo-user] acroread-9.3.2 produces invalid postscript?

2010-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:19:13AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I have very bad experience with acroread-9.3.2. Some printers (claiming to support postscript level 3) just hang. When I first 'print' to a file, gv only shows some part of each page and evince just hangs. Has anybody similar

Re: [gentoo-user] xypic wants ruby?

2010-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I need dev-texlive/texlive-pictures because it seems that's what provides xy-pic. Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? I currently have no use for it. I can't begin to imagine why this particular programming language should

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:45:27AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: /dev/fd/0 is /dev/stdin I learned something new, thanks :) To complete your education :) fd stands for file descriptor. fd/0 = stdin fd/1 = stdout fd/2 = stderr You can create your own file descriptors and use them to

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-04-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:57:32AM -0400, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: This is a late reply and you might have already solved the issue, however, I was running into this problem as well, and it was resolved for my by backing my X packages back down to stable as I was running a stable kernel. Another

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