Re: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such

2007-05-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
Sorry about that going to the list. It was meant to be a direct reply. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
Oops, forgot to paste the link: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/blog/entry/1112117933.9,14473 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encfs forgot passwd following update world

2007-03-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
See also bug #168750 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168750 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE

2007-06-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
How could I have left out this one?: IDLE -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv Segmentation fault

2009-08-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
Possibly http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272691

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to 2008.0 live-install CD

2009-06-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
I usually use RIPLinux on a stick. http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery....

2008-10-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
vgreduce --removemissing However there's no gaurantee you'll be able to recover your data (LVM is not redundancy). -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
You could try sshguard or denyhosts.

Re: [gentoo-user] glib-2.20.5 failed

2009-10-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
I was not able to reproduce this but you may be able to get around it by removing test from your FEATURES list. -a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
You're right... completely OT... -a

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
. Are you sure that the CD track is unmuted (look in alsamixer or similar)? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -- Albert W. Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies

2007-03-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -- Albert W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
enough? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM plans?

2007-03-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
/show_bug.cgi?id=157987 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

2007-03-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -- Albert W. Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome does not 'see' DVD RW drive

2007-06-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
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? -- Albert W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memory(gray matter) needs jog

2009-10-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -a

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ?

2010-09-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

2011-11-27 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [SOLVED]

2010-07-15 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd playback decryption trouble

2008-04-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
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? -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Naga
On Friday 10 August 2007 03:43:37 Albert W. Hopkins wrote: [an explanation] Thanks for that! We (I) do appreciate the work you do! -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting

2008-07-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] broken python howto [SOLVED]

2007-01-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
You didn't do something crazy like put -static in your CFLAGS did you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.8 and compiz - hard locks

2009-07-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -a

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
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? -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

2009-10-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
If anyone plans to try running Gentoo on the Nokia Desklet 3G I'd be interested in talking with you. -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 support

2009-12-07 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: If it were buggy the Gentoo devs would have masked it for you ;-) -a And they devs have done so. Python 3 is masked and even keyworded. It is a hint at least. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
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 :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

2011-04-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
Perhaps a bit too public. Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D -a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Then you missed the point of the thread. Quite possibly.

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2011-06-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
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?

[gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

2011-11-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: This is just a minimal Gentoo install, I have specialized appliances as well. where?

[gentoo-user] Re: For those who complain

2012-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

2007-09-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab? Use a pencil eraser instead. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

2007-09-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
. I think i'm going to have to use gdb (yeck) and step through the program. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]

2007-09-18 Thread Norberto Bensa
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... I have one of those

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]

2007-09-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
be a better guide on the Wiki or somewhere. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
: !!! 'sys-apps/portage' is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. I'd say that's fair enough. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] finding current X mode

2007-03-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
xdpyinfo (or perhaps even xwininfo) should work. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs.confd.old on manifest not found

2007-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
emerge system will complete but not emerge world. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172133 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lib w/o a package?

2007-04-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
libgdbm.so as opposed to gdbm.so. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
to have them all mount /usr, /home, etc. from a centrally-managed file server. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why PDEPEND ?

2007-05-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
is the above would fail if perl were not installed/updated first, therefore they are P[OST]DEPENDs -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use another x server for opengl apps

2007-05-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
on Radeons. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE

2007-06-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
of it). Vim, of course. Also: * Anjuta * SPE * Komodo/Komodo Lite * Eric3 * Boa Constructor -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

2007-06-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
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). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /etc/init.d/xdm in the xinit package ?!

2007-06-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
and not just the standard xdm. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.

2011-12-08 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
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

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]

2007-09-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]

2007-09-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

2007-09-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
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 wanna verify that. -- Albert W. Hopkins You might want to stop XDM gracefully

Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies

2007-03-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
some other editor? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies

2007-03-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-03-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
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

[gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
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? ;-) -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
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). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]

2007-09-18 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
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

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]

2007-09-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
was the upgrade to GCC 4.2 (and other software). The hardware and CFLAGS have been constant. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installation assistance

2007-09-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
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? -- Albert W. Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

2007-09-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
link and check your config. -a -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

2007-09-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
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 verify that. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
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 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

2007-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject

2007-11-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
-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. -- Albert W. Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
= /lib/libm.so.6 (0x42189000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x42052000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4100) -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Maxim Wexler
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs

2008-08-18 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

2007-03-01 Thread Roger Mason
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

Re: [gentoo-user] DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
that a lot of people who had problems with the timezone change had not done #2. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] non-existing/masked ebuilds during upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1

2007-03-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
should also tell the OP that 'emaint --check world' will also help point out any stale packages and other things in your world file. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-03-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
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. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] +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 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such

2007-05-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
: From: Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:36:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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