Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-29 Thread daid kahl
Lots of HDD RPMs and company suggestions, but to the point... My two cents are: ESATA. I have multi TB external disks which I have physics data stored on and needs to be analyzed. USB might be as fast (in the best case), but it uses processor overhead. Not that a lot of machines support that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-29 Thread daid kahl
Thank you very much for any nice idea, story or of course comparison in advance!i :) Well, I still have a TI-86 calculator with a Z80 processor. Of course, even these are extremely mocked these days (eg http://xkcd.com/768/) My best friend in high school had programmer parents, and lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread daid kahl
On 30 May 2011 20:58, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, May 30 2011, David W. Noon wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale: måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev  Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ?

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-30 Thread daid kahl
I can't be of much more help to you, I don't use Gnome at all (see above) Can't say I blame you.  What's the choice, though?  I appreciate the spare uncluttered desktop of Gnome.  Last time I tried KDE (about 7 years ago) it was anything but uncluttered.  I tried XFCE briefly, but couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-30 Thread daid kahl
daid@titan ~ % cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules # external USB, Seagate FreeAgent GO aka cyclops  SUBSYSTEMS==usb, DRIVERS==usb, ATTRS{serial}== 5LZ2XQJ5, SYMLINK+=cyclops ACTION==add, RUN+=/etc/udev/scripts/mount_cyclops.sh Sorry, but make sure that the one entry (begins with

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-03 Thread daid kahl
I want to use LXDE as a Desktop on a fresh install of Gentoo on a laptop (amd64).  It seems to work, but when I logout it hangs.  It never returns to the command prompt and the keyboard doesn't work so I can switch to an alternate terminal. Strange. Never used LXDE, but KDE and Xfce I never

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnumeric USE options and .xlsx files?

2011-03-03 Thread daid kahl
On 3 March 2011 11:44, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  Is Gnumeric unable to handle Excel .xlsx files or am I missing a USE flag somewhere? emerge -pv libreoffice http://www.autoobserver.com/car-data-center/assets/2011-03%20Sales.xlsx Tried your file in OO.o 3.2.1. Let me get you

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-23 Thread daid kahl
On 22 October 2010 11:02, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Well here it seems that openrc is going ~arch http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-688090.html So has it been decided that openrc is the way forward? Any caveats with openrc we should be aware of? Just to put in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread daid kahl
Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if not just emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow then emerge -avuND world. No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from getting

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean gcc

2010-10-23 Thread daid kahl
2010/10/21 Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz: May I just unmerge my old gcc ? Is it save ? Yes it's save to unmerge your old gcc. You could also - using quickpkg - create a binary package of your old gcc before unmerging (for backup puropses). From the strictly Gentoo side of things,

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

2010-10-15 Thread daid kahl
The main correlation I've seen so far is with dhcpcd.  Sometimes at my work I get a 192. IP (which doesn't work), and other times I get a 133. IP (which is correct).  In fact, sometimes dhcp is giving me an IP address and resolv.conf related to a university I was visiting like a month

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

2010-10-13 Thread daid kahl
On 10/11/2010 11:38 PM, daid kahl wrote: However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding slowly.  This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration files, but this week it's acting up again.  Before it was just su and sudo that I noticed as slow (authentication

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

2010-10-13 Thread daid kahl
On 13 October 2010 22:38, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/11/2010 11:38 PM, daid kahl wrote: However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding slowly.  This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration files, but this week it's acting up again.  Before

[gentoo-user] Slow Login, Sudo, etc.

2010-10-12 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I did a large update a week or two ago (400 packages); system is ~x86. It took awhile and needed some cleaning, but in general everything went smoothly. However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding slowly. This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration

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

2010-10-12 Thread daid kahl
-r2 is x86 and and 1.1.2 is ~x86 at present) I ran an emerge --oneshot --verbose --ask openldap cyrus-sasl pambase bison Or it could be gremlins... If the problem comes back (seems possible) I'll try to see if I can pinpoint the solution. ~daid On 12 October 2010 15:38, daid kahl daid

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

2010-10-12 Thread daid kahl
Sorry, so I put pam back to ~x86 version without any further rebuilds, and I don't notice any trouble, so it doesn't seem related to pam at all (my email might imply that). ~daid On 12 October 2010 16:12, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, as usual, sending email to the user list makes

[gentoo-user] Re: sci-physics/root slotting?

2010-04-21 Thread daid kahl
Hello, For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting would be an extremely useful feature. It occurred to me tonight that adding slotting should be easy and very useful. Not true! The slotting

[gentoo-user] sci-physics/root slotting?

2010-04-20 Thread daid kahl
Hello, For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting would be an extremely useful feature. Anyone who doesn't use or know root, but has experience or opinions on how or when slots should be used, your

Re: [gentoo-user] zsh and sudo [SOLVED]

2010-03-02 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 01:33, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things worked out. Zsh is a wonderfull shell, but it does have a steep learning curve, due to its many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-26 Thread daid kahl
On 23 February 2010 02:06, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: well, cfg-update keeps a backup. It detects manual edits and try to resolve conflicts resulting from that automatically. Which works surprisingly well. If Volker gave me

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread daid kahl
On 26 February 2010 12:33, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck complained about 3 or 4 files

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-26 Thread daid kahl
On 26 February 2010 10:06, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:59, daid kahl wrote: ... As a side note, I tried dd piped through ssh and my router (with firewall) was resetting the connection after around 4GB, and I don't know of anyway to resume a dd

[gentoo-user] alsamixer transparent, should submit feature to bugzilla?

2010-02-26 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I've been converting myself over to console applications when possible now. I think it has a sleek look, and it ought to reduce my overhead. So on my mutlimedia workspace, I'd considered running a nearly full screen terminal of alsamixer with a command line music player in a smaller

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-26 Thread daid kahl
On 26 February 2010 22:23, Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 18:50, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: As a simple idea, cron task starts rsnapshot configured however.  When this is done, backup is tarballed, and tarball is given as like, say, 440 permissions

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread daid kahl
On 26 February 2010 12:33, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck complained about 3 or 4 files

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 - prints pdf file sideways

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 25 February 2010 15:19, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched one of my machine to KDE4.3 and when I try to print pdf document it prints it sideways. I've tried Okurla and xpdf same effect. The pdf shows correctly on the screen and prints correctly from kde-3.5 Is it a bug or

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 25 February 2010 11:40, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 26 February 2010 01:11, Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 16:49, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 - prints pdf file sideways

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 26 February 2010 05:01, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/25/10 16:18, daid kahl wrote: On 25 February 2010 15:19, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched one of my machine to KDE4.3 and when I try to print pdf document it prints it sideways. I've tried Okurla and xpdf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread daid kahl
On 25 February 2010 02:46, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making notes in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread daid kahl
[snips from daid / Willie Wong] evince will take an arbitrarily long time to print documents that are long or have big figures. That's odd. I use evince at work (though not on gentoo; work computer is a heavily customized version of scientific linux) and I don't have the printing problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 19 February 2010 20:43, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 00:49 -0500, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0 swap space, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
Other people are mentioning udev, and I wonder about this, too. Either before or after you check the kernel (whichever you decide is easier or seems better to you), can you chroot and rebuild udev through portage and also run a revdep-rebuild please? You said you updated, but it is not clear

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in /proc and /dev you don't want. This could avoid any problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 17 February 2010 06:27, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I thought SSDs were projected to last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much longer than MLC. It's the other way round: HD's last longer dan SSD's. [1] [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] building pdftk (needs gcj)

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 12:28, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: So, I need pdftk to build some documents, so I emerge it and it tells me that I need to update my USE flags and rebuild gcc with gcj support. So, I do. I added gcj to my global make.conf and ran the emerge, and gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the majority, won't be flaged at all. so does cfg-update Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usually you :) - and I give it

Re: [gentoo-user] building pdftk (needs gcj)

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 18:51, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 February 2010 12:28, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: So, I need pdftk to build some documents, so I emerge it and it tells me that I need to update my USE flags and rebuild gcc with gcj support. So, I do

Re: [gentoo-user] zsh and sudo

2010-02-21 Thread daid kahl
I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things worked out. The biggest problem that I can't find useful results googling is zsh interaction with sudo. I'm noticing some strange behavior with the PATH and

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-21 Thread daid kahl
 root:503 ~ equery d virtual/jdk  [ Searching for packages depending on virtual/jdk... ]  app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (java? =virtual/jdk-1.5*)                              (java? =virtual/jdk-1.6*)  dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10 (!java6? =virtual/jdk-1.5*)                         (java6?

[gentoo-user] zsh and sudo

2010-02-18 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things worked out. The biggest problem that I can't find useful results googling is zsh interaction with sudo. I'm noticing some strange behavior with the PATH

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-18 Thread daid kahl
On 19 February 2010 14:49, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it sees them just fine. Kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-18 Thread daid kahl
On 19 February 2010 10:44, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: When I run  emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update --with-bdeps=y world I get (after a DeprecationWarning about portage.dep.dep_getkey() that I believe I can ignore) Total: 0 packages, Size

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread daid kahl
2009/12/14 Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com: Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 19:17, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/13 Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com: I ran across this issue last night. At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, setting the XSESSION variable in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
To say that a person only needs to hear one sound at a time is like telling someone to close one eye. Hey man, you're display's only 2D.  What do you need that second eye for anyway? Regards, daid I say that because I have a bad eye.  I wish I could see good with both because things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
 2  pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. I kindly disagree. ~[arch] is testing for Gentoo ebuild.  It's considered stable upstream. This was an upstream bug, not a Gentoo bug. Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies.  I know Unicode has a different normalize meaning, but for my purposes, that has already been done.  Maybe I should call it standardization or make up a new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
I'm not 100% sure but I think eix-test-obsolete will find things like this.  It will also scan the /etc/portage/package.* files and a few other things as well. Be forewarned, the output can be pretty . . . . large.  lol  It mostly depends on how out of date things are.  Mine is usually huge.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote: Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up. Where I come from, we use | less :p Meh, just into /tmp and use anything you want to view it if you really want to be hardcore. Less is really crappy for emerges at console-login. It requires you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
@Yoav Luft, I don't know if this is the same problem, maybe it doesn't relate at all. You should start by checking that there's no pulseaudio or something like that monopolizing the alsa output, because maybe the problem is not alsa itself. But, if alsa is running alone, I'd start by checking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
alsasound is on boot runlevel, so it's running. Still, some apps, like flash movies in firefox, don't behave nicely. Can you give us a URL for a flash movie so I can test? Since I'm having trouble too, here is a youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoAbMfg9_Uk Maybe you'll like

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
Our handling is simple -- we don't yet. I don't know how to handle things like that, or the previous example of Copenhagen in different languages. Look at Naples -- that's not what Italins call it. Venice is really bad -- no idea how English got it so mangled. Speaking of Japanese, their

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
such as (I am guessing now) saw-umm-bee-yaw-koo.  To write Tokyo in the proper furigana is probably something like toh-o-kee-yoh-o. Oh, I should mention that this is in writing correct. But the yo is a subscript, so it's also a modifier, so the ki part isn't pronounced, it's modified into a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
I could take a whole day typing in exactly what I do, but I assumed the otherwise intelligent subscribers to the list would realise that I add '-1' to those pkgs which are not in 'world'. My 'world' file contains  112  entries, incl  28  'sys' +  35  'kde'. Really, does something like that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
 2  pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. I kindly disagree. ~[arch] is testing for Gentoo ebuild. It's considered stable upstream. This was an upstream bug, not a Gentoo bug. And,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound would play at a time, it was annoying as heck.  If I changed desktops, was playing a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy playing, I couldn't hear anything else.  I couldn't hear Kopete if someone was trying

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
When I figured out that I was using the wrong march, I switched it out, but forgot to look over the cflags, which still contained -msse3. Hence some improvement but not a total fix. I was thinking of giving my safe cflags a go, when, looking at them and at my regular cflags, I realized that

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread daid kahl
Roy Marples, who is a(the?) openrc developer, roped me into using git to do whatever git is supposed to do and now it's much worse. /dev/sd1 and 2 fail to mount as before PLUS many init services fail to start PLUS it no longer matters if the battery is being used or the ac cord: Chaos ensues,

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread daid kahl
Unless you are a developer or trying to get around bugs in portage where the ebuild isn't working, you should need to use git as a Gentoo user. *Shouldn't* need to use git.

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-12-01 Thread daid kahl
Somewhere in this thread was a mention of a failed patch. Where version of patch are you using? If it's 2.6, downgrade it as 2.6 is horribly broken http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-of- gnu-patch-2-6 There was some patching things that caught my

Re: [gentoo-user] kopete needs net-libs/ortp ??

2009-12-01 Thread daid kahl
Thanks for letting me know this was blank.  Gmail doesn't send me a copy back so I had no clue.  I thought I had stumped everyone with this one.  O_O I thought maybe you were testing some new super-concise method of asking for help by including all relevant info in the subject line. Hey...less

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
I've been getting the same silly OpenOffice compile error for a couple weeks now.  Nothing I can search up or think of seems to do the trick. Here's the end of the output during compile: 1 module(s):       unoxml need(s) to be rebuilt I had hoped to never ever see this error again, looks

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
I recently moved my local home directory to an nfs-mounted directory.  Now I'm having trouble with kmail.  It seems that the permissions on ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail/cur are being... changed... How are you mounting the drive? If it's in fstab, do you have the right options set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
[about LastPass] I have an alarm system in my head. It's called the Security by bullshit baffles brains Alert. It's ringing right now ;-) Hahahaha. Just make your doorknob turn the wrong way and you don't have to lock it.  Or you could remap all your system filestructure, remove all

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
Right. wrong Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll want to get them solved, but it's either a LiveCD chroot or disable fsck at boot. There's nothing wrong with the filesystem. It's ext2  and requires being checked at every boot. Wrong. There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
aarrrgh!! I'm the one with the netbook!! The default didn't work. Checking fs every boot does. Extra reboot time amounts to a few secs vs not booting at all, dammit! And I'm not sure about this fewseconds. I suppose a netbook drive is small. But if I'm toying around with kernel configs and

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
Success on compiling OOo! I'm quite certain it was the ebuild, and that making it use the internal redland and not the system redland was the issue in my case. However, I've undone my changes in the ebuild and began compiling again so that I can confirm it fails with only that change. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
What nfs options are in use, both client and server side? I used this fstab entry on the client: 10.0.1.1:/home  /home   nfs     defaults        0       0 Using defaults you are auto-mounting at boot. But usually from my experience items in fstab would be mounted before the network is

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
2009/12/1 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com: What nfs options are in use, both client and server side? I used this fstab entry on the client: 10.0.1.1:/home  /home   nfs     defaults        0       0 Using defaults you are auto-mounting at boot.  But usually from my experience items in fstab

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
That's a known issue - it saw a reference to it on b.g.o. last night. That bug report declared it to be a kde integration error. Logic tells me any number of faulty things could do it too). Shouldn't be kde. Unmerged that last month... I'm sure the OOo maintainer will appreciate the

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
Success on compiling OOo! I'm quite certain it was the ebuild, and that making it use the internal redland and not the system redland was the issue in my case. Bing! Now submitted a bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295268 Regards, daid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months

Re: [gentoo-user] OS inaccessable after brief uptime in X

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after running in X for a while.  I haven't noticed a time pattern yet but it doesn't take long sometimes. I see no problem when starting X and I see nothing in /var/log/messages that gives a clue about what is happening. I'm running

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
Hi group, When my netbook boots under battery power w/o the ac adapter connected I get this warning msg in the boot  window: 'Skipping fsck due to not being an ac adapter'. Chaos ensues. The warning appears in /etc/init.d/fsck. How do I fix this? Some option in /etc/conf.d/fsck? I did

[gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I've been getting the same silly OpenOffice compile error for a couple weeks now. Nothing I can search up or think of seems to do the trick. Since it takes about 2 hours + to crash out (the *exact* same way), it's also not trivial to try lots of different ideas. I'd read something that

[gentoo-user] Re: OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I had hoped to never ever see this error again, looks like my hopes were dashed. If my eyes needed a screen saver, this would be burned into my retinas. Long answer: The reason for the failure is in the build log, but it is never just above the error message. It is often many 1000s of lines

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
You say Chaos ensues ... in what way? Further errors, failure to boot, file system corruption, or...? The problem isn't likely rooted in the fact that it doesn't run an fsck when the system's booting on battery, but rather that you have some more pressing problem that should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
[about LastPass] I have an alarm system in my head. It's called the Security by bullshit baffles brains Alert. It's ringing right now ;-) Hahahaha. Just make your doorknob turn the wrong way and you don't have to lock it. Or you could remap all your system filestructure, remove all PATHS

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
Forgive the top-post, but I would like to say I was very impressed by the analysis of Joerg Schilling. Given the issue appears resolved, I can't help myself: When I bought this notebook in january and first installed gentoo, cdrecord used to work. Then at some point ago (probably after some

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
So I managed to fix the other wonkiness on my system (viz, gcc and emacs not emerging). Turns out, I had been sloppy in putting together my make.conf and used march=prescott when I should have been using march=pentium4. Fixed it, ran emerge -uDNe world. Things emerge now. Really late post on

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after suspend to ram + resume...

2009-11-26 Thread daid kahl
After suspending to ram (using hibernate-ram) and resuming, sound no longer  works. I checked out dmesg, and it says that (among other things): Check the various hybernation/acpi config files.  There should be the option somewhere in there to stop alsasound when it hybernates and start it

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-26 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/25 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, on one of several machines and only occasionally my X-server (/usr/bin/X) takes nearly 100% CPU. I have killed some applications but this didn't help unless I killed X itself and restarted it. Is there any way to find out what

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-26 Thread daid kahl
I'm running the 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 kernel, xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 and  x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.11 So, this is quite recent. Only killing X itself cures the problem. Of course, I have reemerged x11-base/xorg-server x11-drivers/ati-drivers and I have run revdep-rebuild. Probably I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-26 Thread daid kahl
This reminds me of a problem we had just recently. Have you got a multi-core CPU ? If yes, read on. If you all think it might be multi-core related, check out a recent post that was syndicated to planet.gentoo:

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2

2009-11-25 Thread daid kahl
This all happened because you didn't read this: pkg_preinst() {        if use make-symlinks [[ ! ${VERY_BRAVE_OR_VERY_DUMB} == yes ]] [[ ${ROOT} == / ]] ; then                ewarn setting USE=make-symlinks and emerging to / is very dangerous.                ewarn it WILL overwrite lots

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-25 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/25 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, on one of several machines and only occasionally my X-server (/usr/bin/X) takes nearly 100% CPU. I have killed some applications but this didn't help unless I killed X itself and restarted it. Is there any way to find out what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-25 Thread daid kahl
Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab to specify the proper layout. Easy - I do it often. A good idea. If for some reason you don't have disk image backups...grab something like system rescue cd, and partimage the whole drive and the restore from it...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread daid kahl
I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that was turned on that shouldn't be, and that udev might not work. I found it in /var/log/messages.  It said: Nov 23 15:37:07 camille kernel: udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable the kernel's

Re: [gentoo-user] USB auto mounting

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager in place and that plugin is enabled. For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged in. I am not sure when this stopped working. My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/18 Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com: Hi group, I ran  emerge -avuDN world and came up with blocked packages which I eliminated by  un-merging device-mapper and e2fsprogs-libs. When I rebooted was greeted by a maintenance console and the message libblkid.so.1 cannot open shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
Back on topic now :-) Apparently upstream is aware of this silly behaviour/bug, maybe I should wait a bit and see if they provide a knob to go back to the old behaviour This sounds like a reasonable plan. glibc downgrades aren't supported not only because they are a pain in the rear, but they

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full ~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't it? If possible at all. I just wanted to throw my two-cents in here, although much has

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
After my post I knuckled down and worked systematically through the model= options for ALC883/888 and ALC882/885, having gleaned from the internet that these are most similar to the 889A.  The possible choices are listed in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt. Several

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/18 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com: Hello, After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and undesirable behavior.  It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode. It appears that the problem is some unholy alliance between hal-0.5.13-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
To disable namespaces I would have to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y ... correct? This is rather counterintuitive to me, as my main workstation is far from an embedded or small system (ok, not compared to the 4096-cpu-clusters in http://xkcd.com/619/ , but compared to, for example, my embedded

[gentoo-user] Keyboard Mapping Issues

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
Hello, After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and undesirable behavior. It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode. Examples: During console login, the key-combination Shift+2 deletes the whole line, and Shift+3 is a backspace, rather than

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
Is there some simple tool in portage to report 1) The local build date of an installed package 2) Display the emerge history?  Such tools would assist me in locating the problem, which I assume resulted from an upgrade. Sorry, I am looking at /var/log/emerge.log now. ~daid

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
if has_version ''${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then  eerror Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:  eerror Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction  die aborting to save your system fi I want to do it anyway. I had a circumstance where I also had to downgrade

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