Sorry about that going to the list. It was meant to be a direct reply.
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Oops, forgot to paste the link:
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/blog/entry/1112117933.9,14473
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See also bug #168750
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168750
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How could I have left out this one?:
IDLE
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Possibly
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272691
I usually use RIPLinux on a stick.
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
vgreduce --removemissing
However there's no gaurantee you'll be able to recover your data (LVM is
not redundancy).
-a
You could try sshguard or denyhosts.
I was not able to reproduce this but you may be able to get around it by
removing test from your FEATURES list.
-a
You're right... completely OT...
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.
Are you sure that the CD track is unmuted (look in alsamixer or
similar)?
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On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 15:26 -0700, Grant wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
system?
I pretty much back up everything that's not ubiquitous on the Internet
on a on an external drive. Disk space is so cheap these days so I figure
why not.
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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:34 -0800, James Ausmus wrote:
You could try gvim, if you're already familiar enough with vim (and
gvim only has optional dependancies on gnome et al.)
... and I'm a HUGE fan of [g]vim, but I question whether it would fit
the OPs requirement of easy-to-use.
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On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 09:59 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
How about your bank ? ; )
Agreed. My (major U.S.) bank's web site works fine in Epiphany. In
fact as late as 2003 I went to a (physical) branch and I was surprised
to find that they still used Netscape as a browser.
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On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 07:45 +1200, Jamie wrote:
[...]
for some reason Gnome does not appear to
be able to 'see' my DVD burner. I cannot right click in Nautilus and burn
to disc, nor does a DVD drive show up in Place - Computer.
/etc/make.conf:
Is the hal service running?
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On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 20:21 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
It's only if you force a
fsck (e.g. with -f or /forcefsck) that it will run fsck on a clean
filesystem.
I stand corrected, it also forces a fsck after the user-tunable maximum
time between fscks.
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On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 05:46 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
In a perfect, tidy world we'd all do that. This world, however does
not
exist. Even portage, by default does configure and make as root
(albeit
in a sandbox so it is safe(r).
I suppose one could compile the kernel sources as root
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:00 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote:
Hi Albert,
Can you paste your USE flags for qemu?
Thanks,
Kfir
USE=aio sdl vde -alsa -bluetooth -brltty -curl -esd -fdt -hardened
-jpeg -ncurses -png -pulseaudio -qemu-ifup -sasl -ssl -static
On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said:
Albert,
Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my
virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing
your work.
Cool, now I at least know it works with vmware and virtualbox.
I
On Tuesday, June 28 at 09:32 (-0500), James Wall said:
Albert,
it uses the AHCI driver for the sata controller.
You know it's odd, I was just talking with someone yesterday about why
don't the hypervisors default to AHCI since it's somewhat universal by
now.
Anyway, I will rebuild an image
On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
shortly.
Done, uploaded to the same place:
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2
I also made the image bigger (10GB). Oddly enough, it compresses
On Friday, July 1 at 11:55 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a
password so couldn't even start on it.
That should not be the case with it requiring a password, or else I
uploaded the wrong image. Nevertheless, I'll upload
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 08:48 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote:
Albert W. Hopkins, is that 64bit or 32bit ?
It si 64-bit. Though conceivably the build process could build 32-bit
appliances, I haven't yet tried it.
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:48 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:01 -0400, Denis wrote:
I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current
without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about
maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 06:09 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Have you completely powered down the machine and replugged the
keyboard? Sometimes hardware gets stuck
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:09 +0200, b.n. wrote:
where could I look to understand what's different between the two
systems?
The DVD drive?
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Well, I tried downgrading to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant but it
didn't help with the situation. The error logs show a time-out
communicating with the AP.
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[an explanation]
Thanks for that!
We (I) do appreciate the work you do!
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Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has plenty
of storage on it for kernels and drivers.
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:02 +0200, KH wrote:
Hi,
are you saying, that --prune is broken?
No. That was the OP's assertion.
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:26 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
[...]
great! what's the correct place to set this globally so that both
terminal and gnome will see it?
/etc/env.d
You didn't do something crazy like put -static in your CFLAGS did you?
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Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I
compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07.
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I forgot to mention. This seems to be compiz-specific. If I run
metacity, even with metacity's compositing manager enabled, I don't
experience this issue.
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I should also mention that I also can't, for example, press CTRL-C at
the shell prompt to exit a program (such as emerge). So somehow (some)
signals are not being sent/received.
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On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:25 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote:
I got gnome to fire with some problems:
[...]
Question: Is the dbus service running?
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If anyone plans to try running Gentoo on the Nokia Desklet 3G I'd be
interested in talking with you.
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Albert Hopkins wrote:
If it were
buggy the Gentoo devs would have masked it for you ;-)
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And they devs have done so. Python 3 is masked and even keyworded. It
is a hint at least.
Dale
:-) :-)
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:07 -0800, walt wrote:
I've also not heard of the NoSQL movement before
The NoSQL movement is long-lasting and continuous. It just changes
names every few years :-)
There is a simple solution for this:
* Enter a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org (It is a web site and
AFAIK has no usenet gateway).
* Follow the bug there.
* End the noise here.
Thank you.
Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a
wheel.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/su-invocation.html
Bottom section.
Perhaps a bit too public.
Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D
-a
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Then you missed the point of the thread.
Quite possibly.
On Thursday, June 23 at 08:16 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
I haven't any. I have no experience with XenServer appliances.
On Monday, June 27 at 19:52 (-0400), Daniel D Jones said:
Can anyone explain why it takes so long for Firefox-bin to be unmasked?
[etc.]
Have you gone to bugs.gentoo.org and submitted a stabilization request?
Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes:
This is just a minimal Gentoo install, I have specialized appliances as
well.
where?
On 01/20/2012 10:51 PM, Dale wrote:
Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
[...]
And sometimes those people are finding problems.
Please don't feed the troll.
: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with
isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab?
Use a pencil eraser instead.
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. I think i'm going to have to use gdb (yeck) and
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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:56 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
Well, I hate to sound like a ricer, but apparently it's my CFLAGS :|
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
I have an Athlon 64 X2,
Hmmm... I have one of those
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be a better guide
on the Wiki or somewhere.
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and everything else on LVM.
Agreed. My GNOME desktop system us using only about 140MB on root, but I
usually make the root filesystem at ~2GB for historical reasons.
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between groups.
AFAIK the same thing can (and should) be done using ACLs but,
unfortunately, this isn't enabled by default on most Linux distros, thus
the Red Hat hack.
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!!! 'sys-apps/portage' is part of your system profile.
!!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
I'd say that's fair enough.
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On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:18 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:31 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and
mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64).
Does [xcb=] means without the flag?
Tree bug
xdpyinfo
(or perhaps even xwininfo) should work.
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emerge system will complete but not emerge world.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172133
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libgdbm.so as opposed to gdbm.so.
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to have them all mount /usr, /home, etc. from a
centrally-managed file server.
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is
the above would fail if perl were not installed/updated first, therefore
they are P[OST]DEPENDs
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on Radeons.
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of it).
Vim, of course. Also:
* Anjuta
* SPE
* Komodo/Komodo Lite
* Eric3
* Boa Constructor
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the individual
subdirectories/files coz you're just counting everything twice. Add
8193*4096 bytes for the reiserfs journal and you've got 40055 (~40G).
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and not just the
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On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:05 +0100, Stroller wrote:
On 23 Aug 2009, at 14:02, Albert Hopkins wrote:
...
So if you believe there is a bug with the ebuild, you can submit a bug
report to bugs.gentoo.org. As always, patches are welcomed.
I assume that the RDEPEND was added because decode
Am 18.08.2010 01:44, schrieb Albert Hopkins:
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:41 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
Here is my edit of his Python script.
... which I actually forgot to attach :|
funny stuff.
Unfortunately I get
# ./keypress.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ./keypress.py
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:44 -0400, James wrote:
Albert,
Thanks for the response.
dd for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive
instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer
put on the drive.
But what I'm saying is... you wipe the partition table
Am 30.11.2011 12:57, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins:
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:11 +0100, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
(2) Mesa is built with gallium and it is enables using eselect.
AFAIK intel drivers didn't work (well) with gallium, at least I
checked[1].
Anyway you might want to try
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:56 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
[...]
I think i'm going to have to use gdb (yeck) and
step through the program.
Well, I hate to sound like a ricer, but apparently it's my CFLAGS :|
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
I have an Athlon
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 20:16 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
No, doesn't work. I'm going to try downgrading GCC (w/o any
optimizations), re-compiling shadow with my original CFLAGS and see
what
happens.
# grep ^CFLAGS /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:43 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
# rc-upate del xdm
# echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' /etc/conf.d/local.start
I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may
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You might want to stop XDM gracefully
some other editor?
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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 21:02 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Looking at the ebuild, I see nothing particularly outstanding about
it's dependencies relative to other GNOME apps, apart from gtksourceview.
there's lots of documentation stuff
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:44 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote:
You should probably use ACLs. They may also obviate the need to set
directory sticky bits to begin with.
I know, but learning ACL will not be a minor task (I think).
POSIX ACLs are simple
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 +0100, Mick wrote:
On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter:
===
/etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 15:50 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 21:38 +0200, pk wrote:
Albert Hopkins wrote:
I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect)
runtime dependency of xinit). This is a brand new machine that I'm
building.
Basically
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 12:03 -0800, Grant wrote:
Good points Albert. Is a daily 'emerge --sync emerge -avDuN world'
generally enough as far as tracking security vulnerabilities?
- Grant
That's not really for me to say. But I can tell you that although the
Gentoo developers take matters
Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes:
I've been using RIPLinux for 3 years and haven't had any issues with it.
Ok Albert,
I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl.
One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the
virgin drive with DD.
I'm looking
software developer is also a free software
user. Thank you all for making the free software community the
strongest, most dynamic and exciting virtual community to be a part
of.
But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-)
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on login? It seems to me like it should be started
automatically.
In CompizConfig go to /Effects/Window Decoration. Make sure it's enabled
and, if necessary, enter emerald for the command (mine is actually
blank which seems to indicate it's not necessary).
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Norberto Bensa skrev:
Quoting Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:56 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
Well, I hate to sound like a ricer, but apparently it's my CFLAGS :|
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
I have an Athlon 64 X2,
Hmmm
was the upgrade to GCC 4.2 (and
other software). The hardware and CFLAGS have been constant.
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the
opportunity
to learn something.
Moreover i would like to fine tune my kde desktop, that is
disappointing me,
as heavy kubuntu desktop user.
Any suggestions about available professionals or companies?
thank you
Pol
I would be happy to do it. Do you cover travel expenses?
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link and check your config.
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the command line before I start a desktop.
Or as a previous poster said.
# rc-upate del xdm
# echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' /etc/conf.d/local.start
I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may wanna
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for sure.
Search Google for if someone uses your property to commit a crime and,
somewhat surprisingly, the first hit you get is this:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060320/1636238.shtml
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installs that were CONFIG_PROTECTed.
Since font packages don't supply xorg.conf there's nothing to
CONFIG_PROTECT and therefore etc-update is futile. Actually the package
that actually uses xorg.conf, xorg-server, doesn't even supply
xorg.conf.
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-0.16.8 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2.4)
xfce-extra/exo-0.3.2 (python? dev-python/pygtk)
Perhaps you can mask pygtk-2.9 and see what's trying to pull it in.
You could also post the exact command you're typing and error message to
give us a better idea of what's going on.
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= /lib/libm.so.6 (0x42189000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x42052000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4100)
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On 6/4/09, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
You'll know if LVM has detected your PVs by running pvdisplay.
Check! Thanks Albert
Another please, from the doc:
Note: As Terje Kvernes commented, it is easier to increase the size
of a partition then to shrink it. You might therefore
On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 10:39 +0100, Mick wrote:
I am getting mixed up with update-ca-certificates. It reports that I
have duplicates:
=
# update-ca-certificates
Hello Albert,
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files
in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is
changed/added/removed. And not just text in files but also other kinds
of metadata. And when I click that file
that a lot of people who had problems with the
timezone change had not done #2.
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should also tell the OP that 'emaint --check world' will
also help point out any stale packages and other things in your world
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the need to set
directory sticky bits to begin with.
You did not explain why you want to do this, but you also want to
investigate whether g+s'ing the directory gives the effect you want.
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+coreutils-6.7-r1.ebuild:
Move binaries not really needed into /usr.
I don't have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis, but my /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis
says
exec nice makewhatis -u
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Subject: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such
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