Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 November 2009 00:23:04 James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: device-mapper has been moved into lvm2 as only it and crypt really use it. Just bypass revdep-rebuild for this and install lvm2, then possibly reboot and remove device-mapper. Well

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

2009-11-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 November 2009 00:46:48 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/25/2009 5:10 PM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 19:29:43 Marcus Wanner wrote: I just set up suspend to ram on my old Dell Dimension 8200. It has a Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Chuck Robey schrieb: I was checking to see what version of eclipse seems to have a portage package, and I was kinda shocked that the package seems a bit outdated. 3.4 is the current portage package, but eclipse has been at 3.5 for a good while now. Seeing as the eclipse website has a linux

[gentoo-user] Gentoo in the enterprise

2009-11-26 Thread Philip Webb
I just read http://lwn.net/Articles/361695/ -- I don't subscribe -- noticed ... others who are using Linux in high-stakes situations - even a major stock exchange which has based its operation on Gentoo. JC goes on at length re the NYSE : does anyone know which one uses Gentoo ? --

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] Gentoo in the enterprise

2009-11-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 04:54 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I just read http://lwn.net/Articles/361695/ -- I don't subscribe -- noticed ... others who are using Linux in high-stakes situations - even a major stock exchange which has based its operation on Gentoo. JC goes on at length re

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] Gentoo in the enterprise

2009-11-26 Thread Redouane Boumghar
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 06:42:37AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 04:54 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I just read http://lwn.net/Articles/361695/ -- I don't subscribe -- noticed ... others who are using Linux in high-stakes situations - even a major stock

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

2009-11-26 Thread zhen
daid kahl wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Missing /tmp/.sockets or slow program start

2009-11-26 Thread Urs Schuetz
Hi My system went pretty slow this days, xemacs used about 5 seconds to startup. I remember that this startup time was much faster before. After a little tinkering i found that xemacs pauses during startup at acessing /tmp/.sockets, which did not exist on my box. After creating this file (touch

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

2009-11-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks David, thanks Zhen! 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. I've patched my xorg-server as described here http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-am...@lists.gentoo.org/msg11704.html I don't run KDE and most of

[gentoo-user] prune gentoo-sources vs rm gentoo-sources

2009-11-26 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, according to the docs the approved method of removing old gentoo-sources is emerge --prune. But I've already used rm -rf on them. Have I set myself up for a problem later? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] prune gentoo-sources vs rm gentoo-sources

2009-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 26 November 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, according to the docs the approved method of removing old gentoo-sources is emerge --prune. But I've already used rm -rf on them. Have I set myself up for a problem later? Maxim no. in fact, i always remove the sources

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-26 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:14:39 -0500 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/25/2009 12:20 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ eix eclipse * dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj Available versions: (3.3) 3.3.0-r1 (3.4) 3.4 (3.5) ~3.5.1

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo in the enterprise

2009-11-26 Thread James
Philip Webb purslow at ca.inter.net writes: ... others who are using Linux in high-stakes situations - even a major stock exchange which has based its operation on Gentoo. Gentoo, imho, lacks a singular, mature(stable) technology to really have a major impact on commercial unix systems.

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

2009-11-26 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/26/2009 2:21 AM, Mick wrote: I guess you may need to moprobe -r driver before you hibernate and see if that works? Yes, but only if not programs are using the module. Now, I have a script which shuts down alsasound, unloads and reloads the module, and then starts alsasound. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-26 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/26/2009 12:55 PM, David Relson wrote: Alternatively, one can use the autounmask command, for example: autounmask dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.5.1 On my AMD64 system, which has /etc/portage/package.keywords (as a directory, rather than a file) autounmask generated file:

Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote: kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packages. It had kde-meta-3.5.10. Is there some syntax or a better method to insure all the kde-3.5.x packages are removed, without a manual sweep? grep kde

Re: [gentoo-user] prune gentoo-sources vs rm gentoo-sources

2009-11-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:25:25 Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, according to the docs the approved method of removing old gentoo-sources is emerge --prune. But I've already used rm -rf on them. Have I set myself up for a problem later? No. Beware --prune. It removes all but the latest

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] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:20:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote: kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packages. It had kde-meta-3.5.10. Is there some syntax or a better method to insure all the kde-3.5.x

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:

[gentoo-user] Opera 10.10 says I've got Java?

2009-11-26 Thread Mick
Version information Version 10.10 Build 4742 Platform Linux System i686, 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 Qt library 4.5.3 Java Java Runtime Environment installed However, for all I know I do not have anything Java installed and about:plugins does not show Java either. Is this worth reporting as bug? --

Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-26 Thread Dale
That's a good point ... over the years I have accumulated all sorts of packages I am not sure I need (by forgetting to use --oneshot). Should these be in there? kde-base/akregator kde-base/ark kde-base/drkonqi kde-base/kaddressbook kde-base/kappfinder

[gentoo-user] remote distcc

2009-11-26 Thread Kirill Lipatov
I was wondering if anybody ever tried using distcc not over a LAN, but over the internet. Do you think it's possible / efficient / useful ? Might there be better alternatives?

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

2009-11-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
daid kahl schrieb: 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] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I will now disable compiz and see what happens. could have waited for that: first click on thunderbird crashed session, logged in again, next click opend thunderbird fine. hmm

Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:59:24 +, Mick wrote: That's a good point ... over the years I have accumulated all sorts of packages I am not sure I need (by forgetting to use --oneshot). Should these be in there? Do you use them, or does something else you use use them? In the former case, they

Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 November 2009 22:59:24 Mick wrote: On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:20:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote: kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packages. It had kde-meta-3.5.10. Is there some

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-26 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: grep kde /var/lib/portage/world only kde-meta in there emerge -a --depclean yep, just making sure as I thought there might be a very special syntax to remove all kde 3.5.* I used revdep-rebuild and emerge -uDNvp world to get the list of

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera 10.10 says I've got Java?

2009-11-26 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Mick skrev: Version information Version 10.10 Build 4742 Platform Linux System i686, 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 Qt library 4.5.3 Java Java Runtime Environment installed However, for all I know I do not have anything Java installed and about:plugins does not show Java either. Is this worth reporting as

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

2009-11-26 Thread Alan E. Davis
I bind mounted / then copied /dev to the new partition. This was advice given earlier, the first time it happened to me: I finally found an earlier replay to a similar request from me. All is now well. Thank you for the advice. Alan On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com

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

2009-11-26 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/26/2009 5:02 AM, daid kahl wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/09 Mick said: Does your router know this? I'm not being funny, but I had run into a problem sometime in the past where a change in the dhcpcd version caused the router to not read the NIC MAC address correctly. That created a clash with the IP address lease. If I configure

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 23/11/09 Mick said: I just noticed that the latest dhcpcd-4.0.15 is playing up when it comes up. It seems that on 3 out of 5 it will time out when my machine boots up. It works fine if I bring it up manually thereafter, or run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart. The previous version worked

Re: [gentoo-user] remote distcc

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Yes, via an openvpn WAN link. It worked but the benefits seemed minimal due to the odd mix of fast/slow hosts I was using (tip: remove any slow/high latency hosts as it will slow the whole lot down). However, I might try again sometime using pump mode which wasn't available at the time. distcc

[gentoo-user] OO thesaurus

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
How does the thesaurus work for gentoo's version of (compiled) openoffice? I use en_AU and have no thesaurus, and from what I can find out oo3.1 works differently from older versions. Ever since gentoo decided to overide the OO supplied dictionaries its been very flaky. Properly tee'd off,

Re: [gentoo-user] OO thesaurus

2009-11-26 Thread Kirill Lipatov
got the same thing with english spell-checking. Can't get it to work 2009/11/26 Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au How does the thesaurus work for gentoo's version of (compiled) openoffice? I use en_AU and have no thesaurus, and from what I can find out oo3.1 works differently from older

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera 10.10 says I've got Java?

2009-11-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 November 2009 23:25:56 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Mick skrev: Version information Version 10.10 Build 4742 Platform Linux System i686, 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 Qt library 4.5.3 Java Java Runtime Environment installed However, for all I know I do not have anything Java

[gentoo-user] [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-26 Thread Dale