Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-04 Thread pk
On 2011-07-04 22:32, Grant wrote: > That's the FM1 socket, right? I only see two FM1 CPUs on newegg.com Yep. > right now. They're quad-core and 100W. I guess the advantage there > is they have graphics on the CPU. A 65W CPU would be better but when > it comes out I suppose. Yes, since a htp

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Gregory Shearman wrote: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dale: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not q

[gentoo-user] nfsv4 file write and read "hangs"

2011-07-04 Thread James
I'm having some really strange issues with an NFSv4 mount on a few of my systems and am hoping someone can shed some light on what may be going on. Server is exporting v4 NFS. I can mount the export from any one of my clients. However, upon attempting to write to the directory using something simp

[gentoo-user] kdepimlibs and openldap compile failure. Shotgun please.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
p-2.4.24 failed (compile phase): * emake failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile * environment, line 3215: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake CC="${CC}" AR="${AR}" || die "emake failed"; * * If you need support, post the output

[gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/05/2011 03:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: [...] Harry wrote: So I'm a little confused. Nikos replied: The guide deals with how to make X.Org use KMS. That does not mean that KMS requires X. For your X-less machine, all you need to do is enable the driver for yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > >>> I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's >>> kernel and do anything useful there? This is more

[gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> So I'm a little confused. Nikos replied: > The guide deals with how to make X.Org use KMS. That does not mean > that KMS requires X. For your X-less machine, all you need to do is > enable the driver for your card in the kernel config, and make

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Gregory Shearman
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > 2011/7/4 Dale : >> I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings.  I may try >> my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something.  I did have a >> power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast >> enough.  I th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: >> I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's >> kernel and do anything useful there? This is more for learning and >> not about any practical need at this ti

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-04 Thread masterprometheus
Grant wrote: > My motherboard is getting flaky and it's time for a new one. I have > an AMD 6000+ CPU, 4GB DDR2/800 RAM, 2TB SATA2 HD, Blu-Ray burner, PCI > wireless card, 400W power supply, and ATX case. I could replace any > of these components if it's worthwhile for some new feature, but I ma

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dale: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast enough. I think the co

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Roman Zilka
Roman Zilka (Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:36:21 +0200): > Henry Gebhardt (Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:21:22 +0200): > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:59:23PM +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > > > Roman Zilka (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 23:34:01 +0200): > > > > Neil Bothwick (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:16:18 +0100): > > > > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Roman Zilka
Henry Gebhardt (Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:21:22 +0200): > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:59:23PM +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > > Roman Zilka (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 23:34:01 +0200): > > > Neil Bothwick (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:16:18 +0100): > > > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:48:44 +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > > > > > > > > > No

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:47:07 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Why not? I see no downside to it but I'm willing to be educated. > > Imagine this: A package is built by default with Gtk as well as with > Qt support. There is no USE flag which would omit building with one of > those. Then,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:34:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's > > kernel and do anything useful there? This is more for learning and > > not about any practical need at this time. > > From my understanding, this topic gets yucky. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:59:23PM +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > Roman Zilka (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 23:34:01 +0200): > > Neil Bothwick (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:16:18 +0100): > > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:48:44 +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > > > > > > > Not quite. This is how I'm thinking: if '-ep world' says virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Roman Zilka
> > Not quite. This is how I'm thinking: if '-ep world' says virtual/pam > > needs to be installed, then it either > > * is in the world file, or > > * is in the system set, or > > * is a buildtime or runtime dependency (immediate or deep) of one of > > the packages in the world set (i.e., world fi

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2011/7/4 Dale : > I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings.  I may try > my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something.  I did have a > power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast > enough.  I think the contacts may need some cleaning.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Roman Zilka
Roman Zilka (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 23:34:01 +0200): > Neil Bothwick (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:16:18 +0100): > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:48:44 +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > > > > > Not quite. This is how I'm thinking: if '-ep world' says virtual/pam > > > needs to be installed, then it either > > > * is in the wor

[gentoo-user] Re: What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/05/2011 12:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:57:55 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: use --changed-use to avoid a rebuild instead of --new-use like Neil suggested. This only works if you *permanently* switch to --changed-use, otherwise you'll just postpone things to next ti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon > >> so does bootsplash run using framebuffer or is it compl

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Roman Zilka
Neil Bothwick (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:16:18 +0100): > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:48:44 +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > > > Not quite. This is how I'm thinking: if '-ep world' says virtual/pam > > needs to be installed, then it either > > * is in the world file, or > > * is in the system set, or > > * is a bui

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:57:55 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> use --changed-use to avoid a rebuild > >> instead of --new-use like Neil suggested. > > > >This only works if you *permanently* switch to --changed-use, otherwise > >you'll just postpone things to next time you use --new-use. I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: >> >> > The way I've been doing this only required `ves

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:48:44 +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > Not quite. This is how I'm thinking: if '-ep world' says virtual/pam > needs to be installed, then it either > * is in the world file, or > * is in the system set, or > * is a buildtime or runtime dependency (immediate or deep) of one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 22:48:44 Roman Zilka did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon (Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:24:54 +0200): > > On Monday 04 July 2011 14:47:47 Roman Zilka did opine thusly: > > > Hi once again, > > > > > > am I missing something or are these bugs? If bugs, do you > > > think I should file th

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 19:12:50 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella did opine thusly: 2011/7/4 Dale: Hi, What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED's blink. The Num Lock k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > >> > The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or > >> > `uvesa' and some special kernel line stuff. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Roman Zilka
Alan McKinnon (Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:24:54 +0200): > On Monday 04 July 2011 14:47:47 Roman Zilka did opine thusly: > > Hi once again, > > > > am I missing something or are these bugs? If bugs, do you think I > > should file them through bugzilla? > > > > > > %%%

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 04 July 2011 11:48:51 Dale wrote: > Hi, > Has anyone else had any hard lock ups in KDE? I'm on kde 4.6.4 whichwas released about a month ago. For those not in the know, I'm on amd64and use kde-meta so it is has the kitchen sink installed here. > What mine does: It sort of varies but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: >> > The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or `uvesa' and >> > some special kernel line stuff.  None of the X related stuff is >> > necessary. >> > >> > From covici's po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > > The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or `uvesa' and > > some special kernel line stuff. None of the X related stuff is > > necessary. > > > > From covici's post... I think I may need to say uvesa where I've > > been sa

[gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:14:38PM -0700, Grant wrote: > > After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to > stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo > systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What > can be done to make the manag

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 19:12:50 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella did opine thusly: > 2011/7/4 Dale : > > Hi, > > > > What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it > > may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and > > Scroll Lock LED's blink. The Num Lock key is off i

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-04 Thread Grant
>> I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. > > For consumer oriented motherboards, I feel the same. > >> Yeah I'm a little worried about that with the motherboard.  If >> necessary I can keep limping along with my current motherboard while I >> wait for drivers for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, July 4 at 13:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > Are you saying it does not require `xorg-x11'. > > Step 2) says in large type: >`2. Installing Xorg' > > Then a big note in a green box later on says: > > , > | Note: You could install the xorg-x11 metapackage instead of the mo

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-04 Thread pk
On 2011-07-04 18:30, Grant wrote: > I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. For consumer oriented motherboards, I feel the same. > Yeah I'm a little worried about that with the motherboard. If > necessary I can keep limping along with my current motherboard while I

[gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/04/2011 09:10 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Albert Hopkins writes: On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you to be running xorg. KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the kernel h

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dale: Hi, What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED's blink. The Num Lock key is off if that means anything. I tried the SysReq keys but it doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread covici
Harry Putnam wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > > >> I've been able to do this for years using VESA. > >> > > I use uvesafb and it works without X -- I get 60x164, depending on the > > resolution your mileage may vary. > > If it done in the kernel line of grub.conf? I realize it must

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Albert Hopkins writes: > >> On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: >>> this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you >>> to be running xorg. >> >> KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it.  Basically

[gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Harry Putnam
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: >> I've been able to do this for years using VESA. >> > I use uvesafb and it works without X -- I get 60x164, depending on the > resolution your mileage may vary. If it done in the kernel line of grub.conf? I realize it must be enabled in kernel and I have done t

[gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins writes: > On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: >> this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you >> to be running xorg. > > KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the > kernel handle graphics mode setting and get

RE: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s) From: Grant Date: 2011-07-04 23:30 >> How do you know it's the motherboard and not the PSU for instance? > >You're right, but I want HDMI and USB 3.0 so I figure I may as well >switch the motherboard and then the PSU

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2011/7/4 Dale : > Hi, > > What mine does:  It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a > couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED's > blink.  The Num Lock key is off if that means anything.  I tried the SysReq > keys but it doesn't do anything at all.  Acco

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system)

2011-07-04 Thread Andre Lucas Falco
Do you have another editor installed? If yes, portage tell you a remotion of virtual/editor. Unless you won't take to remove nano, it's possible to put him in @world with this command: emerge --noreplace app-editors/nano. Andre Lucas 2011/7/4 Jarry > Hi, > I have this strange problem for a few

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system)

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > I have this strange problem for a few days: after normal > updates (I think glib has been updated) I tried to run > "emerge --depclean" (as recommended) but got these messages: > > --- > obelix ~ # emerge --depclean >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. - Grant I can brag about my Gigabyte. When I was doing research on my newest rig, Gigabyte seemed to be the highest rated. As we know, that changes. When I built a rig several years ago, it was Abit.

[gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Hi, Has anyone else had any hard lock ups in KDE? I'm on kde 4.6.4 which was released about a month ago. For those not in the know, I'm on amd64 and use kde-meta so it is has the kitchen sink installed here. What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-04 Thread Grant
>> My motherboard is getting flaky and it's time for a new one.  I have >> an AMD 6000+ CPU, 4GB DDR2/800 RAM, 2TB SATA2 HD, Blu-Ray burner, PCI >> wireless card, 400W power supply, and ATX case.  I could replace any >> of these components if it's worthwhile for some new feature, but I may >> as we

[gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system)

2011-07-04 Thread Jarry
Hi, I have this strange problem for a few days: after normal updates (I think glib has been updated) I tried to run "emerge --depclean" (as recommended) but got these messages: --- obelix ~ # emerge --depclean Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Calculating removal

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 14:47:47 Roman Zilka did opine thusly: > Hi once again, > > am I missing something or are these bugs? If bugs, do you think I > should file them through bugzilla? > > > > > > # emerge -uDN --with-bdeps y world

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

2011-07-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 04 Jul 2011 15:48:06 Joshua Murphy wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? >> >> > >> >> > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 21:57:39 Pandu Poluan did opine thusly: > Is there a way to determine the source URL of a package without > actually emerging ? SRC_URI in the ebuild -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

2011-07-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 Jul 2011 15:48:06 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? > >> > > >> > Only when you ask them to. > >> > >> I'm stupid. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

2011-07-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
2011/7/4 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella : > I think he wants emerge -pf > -- > Jesús Guerrero Botella > > Thank you! That's what I've been looking for :-) Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Google Talk:    pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live: 

Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

2011-07-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 22:12, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Is there a way to determine the source URL of a package without >> actually emerging ? >> >> Rgds, >> -- >> Pandu E Poluan > > Not sure what you mean by 'source URL' but you can get the homep

Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

2011-07-04 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
I think he wants emerge -pf -- Jesús Guerrero Botella

Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Is there a way to determine the source URL of a package without > actually emerging ? > > Rgds, > -- > Pandu E Poluan Not sure what you mean by 'source URL' but you can get the homepage of a package using eix. That almost always leads to some

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/7/4 Andrea Conti : > >>> That's IUSE, not USE. > >> IUSE~=USE [1] > > Um, yes. It's what I wrote. Just wanted to state that the use flags _have changed_ because of the IUSE="hardened" injection in the eclass. The whole changeset itself has not effect for non hardened users but forcing a rebui

[gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

2011-07-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
Is there a way to determine the source URL of a package without actually emerging ? Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Google Talk:    pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:  pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype:  

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

2011-07-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? >> >> > Only when you ask them to. >> >> I'm stupid.  Of _course_ a live CD can't mount HDD filesystems at boot. >> To do thi

[gentoo-user] Need help : Compiling xe-guest-utilities (xenstore) from Source

2011-07-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, I got the .rpm for Citrix's xe-guest-utilities from this thread: http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1468339 Granted, it's slightly older than the latest version, but that's not my main problem. The problem is: How do I run a "Config.mk" file? Or am I looking at this from a wr

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Andrea Conti
>> That's IUSE, not USE. > IUSE~=USE [1] Um, yes. It's what I wrote. [editing saved IUSE by hand] > Please do not use such hacks I know it's a hack, and I was not recommending it as a general-purpose solution. > use --changed-use to avoid a rebuild > instead of --new-use like Neil suggested.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon wrote: > My best suggestion is to create a maximal primary partition as /dev/sdd1 > and use that as your LUKS volume. That way, LVM will receive the > partition details from udev and *might* not bother re-reading the > partition table (but don't bet big bucks on it). OK, I tried tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

2011-07-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/03/2011 09:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I'm just wondering... > > I'm implementing an email gateway using postfix. The gateway lives as > a VM in my ISP, and it will deliver 'accepted' emails to the company's > email server which lives in the DMZ. The email server's port is > shifted to a no

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? > > > Only when you ask them to. > > I'm stupid. Of _course_ a live CD can't mount HDD filesystems at boot. > To do this it would need /etc/fstab, for which it would need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:15:41 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> If that is not possible, what solution would you recommend to > >> 'harden' the non-25 mail port? > > > > Postgrey. > > > > Mmmm... no thanks. I'm trying to save the puny bandwidth incoming to > my office :-) You run postgrey alongs

[gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-04 Thread Roman Zilka
Hi once again, am I missing something or are these bugs? If bugs, do you think I should file them through bugzilla? # emerge -uDN --with-bdeps y world Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated p

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/7/4 Andrea Conti : > Hello, > >> Everyone will get this. The culprit is a change in the >> pax-utils.eclass [1]. Which adds USE="hardened to every consumer" of >> the eclass. > > That's IUSE, not USE. USE flags are not touched (at least on > non-hardened systems), so the change is only picked

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

2011-07-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 01:17:33PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 11:31:14 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > There's been a cock and bull story on comp.os.linux.setup and I'm > > wondering about some of the details. Mainly, I'd like some education, > > please! > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > Everyone will get this. The culprit is a change in the > pax-utils.eclass [1]. Which adds USE="hardened to every consumer" of > the eclass. That's IUSE, not USE. USE flags are not touched (at least on non-hardened systems), so the change is only picked up by emerge if you use the --new-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

2011-07-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 Jul 2011 08:43:48 Alberto Luaces wrote: > Francisco Ares writes: > > # mplayer -msglevel all=6 sleeping\ suricates.wmv > > ^ > > That hash suggests that you are running the command as root. Type > `whoami' to make sure. Unless Francisco has changed his prompt to confuse us all?!

[gentoo-user] The definite --complete-graph

2011-07-04 Thread Roman Zilka
Hi everyone, the recent hint made around here by Neil Bothwick (thank you, Neil) about --changed-use, which I hadn't been aware of, made me re-read `man portage`. I came across --complete-graph, which is news to me too. The manpage makes it sound like it's something I want, but I fail to get its p

Re: [gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

2011-07-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 04 July 2011 10:12:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Nixon's Principal: If 2 wrongs don't make a right, try 3. If I were a pedantic old bastard (etc...) s/Principal/Principle/ -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:49:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I looked at that bug earlier this morning and thought "Nah, how can > that be related?" Throwing shit randomly at walls in the hope some of > it might stick isn't my usual troubleshooting technique so I left it > and looked in other mor

Re: [gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

2011-07-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 14:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:31:10 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> If that is not possible, what solution would you recommend to 'harden' >> the non-25 mail port? > > Postgrey. > Mmmm... no thanks. I'm trying to save the puny bandwidth incoming to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

2011-07-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 09:55, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 08:31:10AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > > > If that is not possible, what solution would you recommend to 'harden' > > the non-25 mail port? > >  portknocking sounds like doing things the hard way.  The gateway has > to ha

Re: [gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 10:12:14 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:28:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > portage-2.2.0_alpha43 wants to remerge gst-plugins-base over and > > over. > > > > [ebuild R] media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35 > > USE="orc (- introspection

Re: [gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:28:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > portage-2.2.0_alpha43 wants to remerge gst-plugins-base over and over. > [ebuild R] media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35 USE="orc (- > introspection) -nls" 0 kB Could it be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37

[gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
portage-2.2.0_alpha43 wants to remerge gst-plugins-base over and over. It gets correctly merged with a world update but still shows up with every world update thereafter. The package is not in world, has a long (20+) list of things that DEPEND on it, and no related USE flags have changed: [nom

[gentoo-user] Re: smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

2011-07-04 Thread Alberto Luaces
Francisco Ares writes: > # mplayer -msglevel all=6 sleeping\ suricates.wmv ^ That hash suggests that you are running the command as root. Type `whoami' to make sure. -- Alberto

Re: [gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:31:10 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > If that is not possible, what solution would you recommend to 'harden' > the non-25 mail port? Postgrey. -- Neil Bothwick Old hitchhikers never die-they just throw in the towel.

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:26:19 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > After syncing, some heavy packages wanted to rebuild because of the > "hardened" USE flag. (I don't use the hardened profile, but they > wanted to rebuild anyway.) Really heavy stuff including libreoffice > and firefox-5. It took a

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/7/4 Nikos Chantziaras : > After syncing, some heavy packages wanted to rebuild because of the > "hardened" USE flag.  (I don't use the hardened profile, but they wanted to > rebuild anyway.)  Really heavy stuff including libreoffice and firefox-5. >  It took a few hours.  Then, next resync, an