Re: [gentoo-user] Information request: root directory not listed by df

2009-09-19 Thread Alan E. Davis
No this was not the full output from df. There was nowhere, however, any reference to /dev/sdc1, the filesystem where the root filesystem "/" is located. Only the lines in my earlier message: rootfs29694968 2877284 25309184 11% / /dev/root 29694968 2877284 253

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
walt [09-09-20 04:13]: > On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >walt [09-09-20 02:03]: > >>On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> > >>>Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound > >>>and we will see what happens. > >> > >>Did you try stopp

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsas

[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 04:20 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: at least I have more sleep now than I had at o-dark-thirty when I got back from a trip ... Ah, that explains everything. Never fire up your machine when you've just come home from a trip! (I think Nostradamus said that -- but I could be w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
walt [09-09-20 02:03]: > On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound > >and we will see what happens. > > Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? > > #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop > This gave me errors, sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > > seriously, I think you should try to get off everything you want to keep - and > then replace the disk with a new one. If a disk starts throwing block errors > it will only become worse. Don't worry about 'repairing' the file sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, walt wrote: > > On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my > >>> MythTV b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, walt wrote: > On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht  wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>   I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my >>> MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, walt wrote: > On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi, > >>I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my > >> MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread felix
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:36:40PM -0700, walt wrote: > On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but > > hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back > > even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru

[gentoo-user] Re: trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Torsten Veller
* kashani : > 3. Doctored up portage.mask to mask the errant virtuals > >=virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.47 > >=virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17 > > Thought grumpy thoughts at developers who let packages into ~x86 > with completely broken deps. Hard mask that crap next time. There are no broken deps and

[gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > Hi, >> >   I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my >> > MythTV backend server for video storage. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my > > MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to > > get it to wake up or at least show me wha

[gentoo-user] Re: Iscan

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 03:34 PM, walt wrote: Add the line 'media-gfx/iscan ~x86' to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file. (If you don't have that file just make a new one.) Well, don't bother. iscan doesn't build, period. But you should really try xsane in the meantime. You need to make sure you

Re: [gentoo-user] Address Label and Envelop Printing

2009-09-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:51:33PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > I need a program to print "Address labels" that come in > on an 8 1/2 x 11" (letter) blank. The are pre-arrange > 3 to a row. Googling just turned up this sunrise solution > for labelnation: > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/17

[gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my > MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to > get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? > The drive shows under fdisk /

[gentoo-user] Re: Iscan

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/18/2009 12:34 PM, Roger Cahn wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/iscan-2.11.0 * Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild. Of course, revdep-rebuild iscan failes again! Isn't anything to do about libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15 ?

[gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda. I can see the large partition, and it seems to be the

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2009 12:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. You will have t

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop

[gentoo-user] Re: Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
dhk writes: > I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something > happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I > can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again > or they are displayed but off the screen. Any ideas? > > Than

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: >media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 > > It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries > with > >emerge -vu mplayer > > Anyone know where it can be found. > > By the way I did try do

[gentoo-user] Address Label and Envelop Printing

2009-09-19 Thread James
Hello, I need a program to print "Address labels" that come in on an 8 1/2 x 11" (letter) blank. The are pre-arrange 3 to a row. Googling just turned up this sunrise solution for labelnation: http://bugs.gentoo.org/176639 anybody else know of anything in portage? some other way to effect la

[gentoo-user] Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I did try downloading the sources from: http://www

[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have something else fail. Here are t

[gentoo-user] Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-19 Thread dhk
I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound > and we will see what happens. > All this works for a long long time...and it bits me about three days > ago. I did not update alsa*, since I use the kernels alsa-stuff

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: >> i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update as mplayer was >> built against another version of /usr/lib/libx264.so revdep-rebuild >> fixed that. > > Thanks... > revdep-rebuild here, turns up several pkgs needing rebuild but all are > related to a jpeg library

[gentoo-user] can't connect to shoutcast

2009-09-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, My connection times out whenever I try to get to shoutcast after entering in the browser: http://localhost:8000 I configured it accrording to the gentoo-wiki. I notice when I run #/etc/init.d/shoutcast start, I get 'SHOUTCAST starting' but that's it, no banner. the log: <...> <09/19/

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread kashani
ht grumpy thoughts at developers who let packages into ~x86 with completely broken deps. Hard mask that crap next time. 4. Add the needed packages in portage.keywords and make it pretty and organized. # bugzilla and deps for bugzilla-3.4.1-r1, added 20090919 www-apps/bugzilla dev-perl/Daemon

[gentoo-user] Re: trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Torsten Veller
* Michael Higgins : > Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is > really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is > the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... > (devolution to IRC "chat" being yet another systemic failure, IMO,

[gentoo-user] audacious 2.1.0 - CD Play plugin excruciatingly slow

2009-09-19 Thread Denis
Fellow Penguins, I must say I'm not exactly crazy about Audacious version 2 upgrade... My gripes are about the CD Audio plugin only, but this is what I use all the time, so it is somewhat of a nuisance. 1) The CD Audio plugin (cdda flag) takes a very long time to load and would hang Audacious for

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 19 September 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: > > Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is > really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is > the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... > (devolution to IRC "chat" bein

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:49:39 -0700 kashani wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM, kashani > > wrote: > >> kash...@www01 ~ $ emerge -pvt bugzilla > >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > >> Calculating dependencies... done! > >> > >> emerge:

Re: [gentoo-user] Iscan-2

2009-09-19 Thread Roger Cahn
> It appears that you are not running a English version. However, google > did return this: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=make%5B2%5D%3A+***+%5Blibimage_stream_la-imgstream.lo%5D+Erreur+1&aq=f&oq=&aqi= > > See if one of those links helps any. Most of those are in your nati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Iscan

2009-09-19 Thread Roger Cahn
> I googled for isane and found nothing, so I'm wondering if that's just > a typo for 'iscan'. I dunno, but it's easy to check if you have libusb > installed. Yes, I have libusb-0.1.12-r5 and my scanner is recognized: lsusb Bus 008 Device 004: ID 04b8:0116 Seiko Epson Corp. Thank you for your

[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread Jonathan Callen (ABCD)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but > hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back > even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and > have som

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Kelly Hirai writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I didn't notice that mplayer wasn't working in firefox right away but >> I think it may have started with a recent update. >> (All updated packages are listed at the bottom) [...] > i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update as mplaye

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Pupino
2009/9/19 : >> Hi, >> I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system >> hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just >> after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest >> to have a look at which services are started at boot, but aren't

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread covici
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during > > > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. > > > > > > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The > > > > usual f

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
> I also thought of the alsa problem pk mentioned. But it might also be another > kernel module. Search your /var/log/messages or dmesg for kernel oopses. > -- > Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' > Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; > but as it isn’t, it ain’t. I sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
pk [09-09-19 13:49]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down > > *without* actually shutting down ther system? > > I'm sure there's a simple way of finding that out but I was wondering if > this might be your problem?: > > http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 19. September 2009 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > I am updateing my Gentoo on a dialy basis. > Since two days the shutdown process of the systems > hangs around "Bringing down net.lo". > Booting the PC is not a problem -- except the > "replaying transactions" (resierfs). >

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread pk
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down > *without* actually shutting down ther system? I'm sure there's a simple way of finding that out but I was wondering if this might be your problem?: http://bugs.gentoo.org/253535 MfG Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
> Hi, > I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system > hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just > after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest > to have a look at which services are started at boot, but aren't > shutted down. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Pupino
2009/9/19 Mick : > On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > cleaner shutdown.  This is taken from a email that was sent to me during >> > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. >> > >> > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The >> > > usual ful

[gentoo-user] hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread felix
Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have something else fail. Here are the versions: sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 x11-base/x

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during > > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. > > > > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The > > > usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-