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

2007-10-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heliodor?

2007-04-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
keywords Either will work. If no arch is given in package.keywords, it defaults to ~yourcurrentarch. -- Neil Bothwick Overcome by jealousy, Data dismembers the Energizer Bunny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FEATURE: fixlafiles

2011-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
does the job itself. -- Neil Bothwick Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
s self-portraits. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in gmail.comskintight leather at an IRON MAIDEN concert?

Re: [gentoo-user] For what is emerge waiting for...?

2020-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
on a ramdisk? -- Neil Bothwick I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective? pgprLFMtYfKe6.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo handbook

2020-11-14 Thread Grant Edwards
mean above. What is a "distribution ISO"? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! WHO sees a BEACH BUNNY at sobbing on a SHAG RUG?! gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
covers this and explains how to delay the switch if you need to. -- Neil Bothwick Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :) pgpCAxTMzsnbM.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] fsck.fat 4.1 - File system couldn't be fixed [SOLVED]

2020-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
may need support in the future :) -- Neil Bothwick "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared... pgpUDcyPLAy14.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
thought had -l as the short option, but apparently not. Or has that changed in the last couple of years? -- Neil Bothwick I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Antoine
It it totally bug-free! ... There's no such thing as "bug-free software", and Santa Claus does not exist, neither does the Easter Bunny or Trolls (but I'm not really certain about the trolls). There are two kinds of programs, the ones with discovered bugs and the ones with b

[gentoo-user] Re: google

2015-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ld post if Google _were_ controlling you. Perhaps you're just not aware that they're controlling you? ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in gmail.c

Re: [gentoo-user] For what is emerge waiting for...?

2020-04-05 Thread tuxic
t all...no blinkenlights, > > nothing. > > Is $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on a ramdisk? > no...it is planned for the new system, when that one (or better the mount point) is on the SSD... > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective?

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
t;    for m in vbox{drv,netadp,netflt}; do modprobe $m; done Did you do this? Presence in your world file is not relevant and you are not changing versions so -u won't pick them up. -- Neil Bothwick "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared... pgpqIegM7LvEf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread Lee
dsYow! Yes, but will I > at see the EASTER BUNNY in > gmail.comskintight leather at an >IRON MAIDEN concert? > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Mouse pain

2023-05-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
t have the same dimensions.  It may be worth trying to de-dust and de-dust bunny them but it probably isn't the problem. I bought a mouse with optical switches, which are advertised to never develop this exact problem. I guess I'll have to wait for a couple years to see if the claims check out :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

2016-04-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
quiring revdep-rebuild to fix it. You'd have to be pretty dumb to prefer a system that allows breakage and require repair after the fact over one that does its best to avoid such breakage in the first place. -- Neil Bothwick "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny ap

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

2007-10-21 Thread Don Jerman
root > partition, 35% full, no /boot and everything else on LVM. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :) > > Since my smallest hard disk is a quarter terabyte :) 8G to 10G is plenty to keep portage and compile openoffice before you b

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 18:15 +0100, Antoine wrote: > >>It it totally bug-free! > ... > > There's no such thing as "bug-free software", and Santa Claus does not > > exist, neither does the Easter Bunny or Trolls (but I'm not really > > certain about

Re: [gentoo-user] udev or Gentoo issue?

2014-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
using ifplugd to monitor the presence > of a link, but seem to recall that there is/was a netifrc-way of > managing which network interface comes up at boot. I'm not saying you should use ifplugd, only that you should install it so that openrc can use it. -- Neil Bothwick &q

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1

2008-07-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
lly unmasking it. -- Neil Bothwick I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
a visitor asks you to turn on the light, and > you say 'Sure!', open the cupboard, reach behind the onions and > there will be light. Put another way, a visitor asks me to turn the light on, I walk out the room and he thinks "WTF? I only asked him to turn a light on!" --

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild error: multiple version parts

2005-09-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
' not specified: > !!!None Of course you are, because the ebuild in in /temp not in your overlay. You need to save it to $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/cate-gory/ktranslator/ktranslator-0.3.ebuild -- Neil Bothwick "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared... pgpEGANEzfyTg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
-t first to make sure it will do what you want. -- Neil Bothwick Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd versus fixed IP addresses

2020-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
i, with more configuration options. And the facility for Virgin to access and administer them remotely. -- Neil Bothwick Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :) pgpoWy3dGvyZ9.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-21 Thread gentoo_steve
blue for miles around... I was not a happy bunny. ;) Something is seriously wrong with your GRUB setup if it takes a day to select the previous kernel :( Nope... it's all pretty vanilla... I expect it to take a few minutes - but I'm not attempting it unless I've got a day to

Re: [gentoo-user] kwallet

2006-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
uld be possible to disable this behaviour. Maybe you should file a KDE bug if you can't find a way to turn it off. -- Neil Bothwick "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
owed me to do a proper job. It's x11-misc/gbdfed, which is simplicity itself to run. I wish I'd found it the first time! I'm a happy bunny now. Just an update in case anyone's interested. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
g but revdep-rebuild cleaned things up. It appears that revdep-rebuild is not ready for retirement yet, although this is the first time in ages that I've needed it. -- Neil Bothwick "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mouse pain

2023-05-15 Thread Wol
rack balls and I'll use better switches that have the same dimensions.  It may be worth trying to de-dust and de-dust bunny them but it probably isn't the problem. I bought a mouse with optical switches, which are advertised to never develop this exact problem. I guess I'll have t

Re: [gentoo-user] "xset dpms" not working

2024-02-18 Thread Dale
gt; dark for the next several minutes. > I haven't been following this thread as I'm not familiar with xset but this info made me think.  Could you have a bad cable?  Maybe the plug on the back of the monitor or video card is worn out and not making a good connection?  Maybe there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Daniel da Veiga
; model? What makes this different than other distro? > > It it totally bug-free! > There's no such thing as "bug-free software", and Santa Claus does not exist, neither does the Easter Bunny or Trolls (but I'm not really certain about the trolls). There are two ki

Re: [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
saw no errors, so they are certainly WFM compliant :) -- Neil Bothwick I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question

2018-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
ur illustration, rather than full photo-style output. -- Neil Bothwick I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective? pgpu9I01URB2X.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

2021-12-28 Thread Dale
0400040, connection status changed > [   24.708387] ata6: SError: { PHYRdyChg DevExch } > [   24.708390] ata6.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED > [   24.708391] ata6.00: cmd 60/08:00:78:08:c0/00:00:31:00:00/40 tag 0 > ncq dma 4096 in >                         res 40/00:00:78:08:c0/0

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
-- Neil Bothwick "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
box. I also have java and OOo installed. openoffice macro virus: http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/218 (proof of concept) http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/OpenOffice-macro-worm-exposes-bad-bunny/0,130061744,339277689,00.htm and finally, http://www.linux.com/feature/54824 (quoted:) L

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage mirrors difference???

2008-09-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
non-affected" machine says [A] or [U]. Could you have already applied an update? Perhaps the update was in a pre 2.5.5 version of postfix that you applied to one machine only? Thanks for answering! np! cya, -- Iain Buchanan There's something different about us -- different fr

Re: [gentoo-user] How do kernel modules load automatically during boot?

2015-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
autofs4, stuff like that). Everything else is loaded > automatically, by udevm, as-needed. > > My guess (but I could be wrong); you are using an initramfs, and > didn't included the modules in it. In that case, the modules are not > loaded because they are not available. >

[gentoo-user] Re: How to run 2.6.25 kernel (no DEVTMPFS)?

2014-02-14 Thread Grant Edwards
t having a static /dev with pre-created > device nodes, that would be the simplest solution. It would probably be asking for too much to try to toggle between udev and static /dev at boot time in a single installation... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
when recompiling stuff, though I can't think of with one. Recompiled everything in KDE that has the USE flag xcomposite plus kdelibs, although they don't don't listen to xcomposite. If I'll succeed somehow I'll report back here. If not, well, I'll give up on

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
" cya, -- Iain Buchanan "He don't know me vewy well, DO he?" -- Bugs Bunny

Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

2020-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
; > [Yes/No] > > which i guess means that docutils wants py2.7. > > > any idea how to handle this situation? Allow portage to add the changes to your config, then run etc-update or equivalent. When portage adds package.use changes, it also adds comments showing what requires those changes. With that information, you should be able to see which package is causing this. -- Neil Bothwick I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective? pgp_Bsr6Td5BP.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

2018-08-21 Thread Grant Edwards
s a good use case for containers, or is there some other way to do this? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-10-30 Thread Dale
hat will reach on sale for like 60% off and I couldn't pass it up. I just didn't realize that this card could run two displays with different content. I figured what was on one would be on the other. In the long run, this could be really nice. I gave that card a good dust bunny evictio

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
the editor had truncated > the font file. > Today I've revisited the problem and I've found a GTK font editor in the > portage tree which has allowed me to do a proper job. It's x11-misc/gbdfed, > which is simplicity itself to run. I wish I'd found it the first t

[gentoo-user] Re: Terminals that work with "compose" key?

2009-02-17 Thread Grant Edwards
unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod#My_Compose_Multi_key_key_is_no_longe Yea, I found that -- it wasn't really all that helpful. Note to FAQ editors: Saying "X is set wrong" isn't all that helpful if you don't bother to say what the right setting is... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! WHO sees a BEACH BUNNY at sobbing on a SHAG RUG?! visi.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
;> amount of physical ram in your system. > > actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using > lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have > enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. > > If you have too little swap

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-03 Thread wabenbau
per job. It's > > x11-misc/gbdfed, which is simplicity itself to run. I wish I'd > > found it the first time! I'm a happy bunny now. > > I found another way of editing these fonts: media-gfx/psf-tools. In > particular, it contains psf2txt, which converts a fon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Dale
ut think it was some sort of file server.  It's uptime was over 5 years.  He was proud of its uptime and the fact it still worked given it was a dust bunny.  To each his own.  For me tho, I actually use my system a LOT.  Dale :-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update problems

2015-09-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
to a > multi-arch setup with aarch64. I use sets like that too. I have one called base that I installed at the chroot stage of installation, containing various essential and useful packages - such as portage-utils, conf-update and eix. Then sets called desktop and laptop - sets can contain other

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

2023-05-14 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
The switches themselves do that when they start to wear out.  I've had it happen to a number of mice/track balls.  Indeed I'll soon be replacing those switches on several track balls and I'll use better switches that have the same dimensions.  It may be worth trying to de-dust an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

2017-04-09 Thread David Haller
A fancy graphic bar would be a bit more coding. Oh, and have a look at gkrellm and its plugins. It might have all you want already and then some :) Now, integration in the "big" DEs of KDE/Gnome3, you're screwed. Royally. But that comes with those DEs anyway. Like Gnome3 requirin

[gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to "full multilib"

2015-03-30 Thread Grant Edwards
ackage.use for about 80 packages. The other option would have re-built about 200 packages. Either way would have worked, but I wanted to see if emerge really was able to selectively rebuild the subset of packages required by acroread. AFAICT, it did just fine. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in gmail.comskintight leather at an IRON MAIDEN concert?

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread David Haller
warranty for bulk drives, unknown for the desktop I miss the days when you still had a real choice (WD, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, IBM, and smaller/specialized stuff (Excelstor, Toshiba for Laptop drives))... If Seagate would at least label their former Samsung drives in a recognizable manner (say, S

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-14 Thread Dale
ard how to process the sound.  >> I haven't posted much but I been busy. I also checked the serial >> numbers of the monitors. One ends in 231 while other ends in 240. They >> are 9 digits apart. About as identical as one can get. ;-) > You can compare the EDIDs in X

[gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

2017-04-09 Thread Kai Krakow
that all those Linux components need to learn to integrate better with each other, and systemd is one big player of this. And by this I don't mean to lock down hard dependencies to systemd. But systemd provides a long needed API definition that everyone could implement. Depending on such an API

Re: [gentoo-user] I am a "f*****g retard". Can you help me?

2008-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
othwick Overcome by jealousy, Data dismembers the Energizer Bunny Neil Bothwick Brain fried -- core dumped. Neil Bothwick "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." -- Robert Heinlein Neil Bothwick You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers. Neil Bothwi