[gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/05/12 09:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I switched to 295.20-r1 and everything was fin

[gentoo-user] X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-02 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I switched to 295.20-r1 and everything was fine. But I forgot to mask 295.40 and during ye

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

2012-05-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:40 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > >> Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr > >> ~/.libreoffice? > >> > > ... > > > > always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then > > move it back if thats not the problem. > > mv ~/.libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

2012-05-02 Thread Adam Carter
>> Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr ~/.libreoffice? >> > ... > > always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then > move it back if thats not the problem. mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice-orig didnt help. Any other ideas?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I have both net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.1-r200 and net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.1-r300?

2012-05-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Hilco Wijbenga > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I ran equery depends on both but it gives me identical results: >> >> centaur ~ # equery depends net-libs/webkit-gtk >>  * These packages depend on net-libs/webki

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I have both net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.1-r200 and net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.1-r300?

2012-05-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > I ran equery depends on both but it gives me identical results: > > centaur ~ # equery depends net-libs/webkit-gtk >  * These packages depend on net-libs/webkit-gtk: > dev-java/swt-3.7.2 (webkit ? >=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.2:2) > gn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM, walt wrote: > On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote: > > > >> Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation > > That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely > not obvious to me.  Anyone know the technical details? > >> As for sec

[gentoo-user] Why do I have both net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.1-r200 and net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.1-r300?

2012-05-02 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, I ran equery depends on both but it gives me identical results: centaur ~ # equery depends net-libs/webkit-gtk * These packages depend on net-libs/webkit-gtk: dev-java/swt-3.7.2 (webkit ? >=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.2:2) gnome-extra/sushi-0.2.1 (net-libs/webkit-gtk:3[introspection]) gnome-ex

[gentoo-user] Re: Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread walt
On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote: > Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely not obvious to me. Anyone know the technical details? > As for security, having a swap is less > secure than having none: a

Re: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread Simon
I haven't used a swap partition on any of my systems (intel celeron, p3, amd64, intel xeon) for over... what... 10 years? Swapfiles only, and sometimes I don't even mount the swap. Although I have never removed support for any kind of swap from my kernel. dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile b

Re: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, walt wrote: >> I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use >> swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and >> substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's saf

Re: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, walt wrote: > I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use > swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and > substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe. > > Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap

[gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread walt
I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe. Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe depending on which filesystem you us

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache + mod_suphp

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
> You just have to look up on how the change the uid, I don't know, as I > don't have any experience with mod_suphp Just looked it up. The directive is suPHP_UserGroup

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache + mod_suphp

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 02.05.2012 19:42, schrieb Carlos Sura: > On 2 May 2012 05:35, Michael Hampicke wrote: > >> >> >> Am 02.05.2012 06:58, schrieb Carlos Sura: >>> I get the following error: >>> >>> Internal Server Error >>> >>> Mismatch between target UID (81) and UID (1000) of file >>> "/home/username/public_h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Apache + mod_suphp

2012-05-02 Thread Carlos Sura
On 2 May 2012 06:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/05/12 07:58, Carlos Sura wrote: > >> Hello Mates, >> >> Quick question: >> >> I've installed apache + mod_suphp (I am using on apache configuration: >> USERDIR), so, when I go to the path: http://localhost/~username/** >> anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache + mod_suphp

2012-05-02 Thread Carlos Sura
On 2 May 2012 05:35, Michael Hampicke wrote: > > > Am 02.05.2012 06:58, schrieb Carlos Sura: > > I get the following error: > > > > Internal Server Error > > > > Mismatch between target UID (81) and UID (1000) of file > > "/home/username/public_html/anything/index.php" > > Have you tried turning

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 2, 2012 7:55 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > >8 snip > Biggest issue for me is likely to be that I haven't done a 32-bit > install in at least 6 years. No idea what to watch out for but I doubt > it's any big deal. No idea how the 32-bit VM really does 32-bit when > it's running on a 64-b

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > [snip] > Maybe a 32-bit Gentoo chroot that doesn't maintain any desktop o

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-02 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 02/05/2012 03:51, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol wrote: I think I'll try it in a Virtualbox VM first I instead of a chroot. That's pretty easy to deal with. Easy to back up. Easy to move to a different system down the road. No disk partitions, etc. Biggest

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache + mod_suphp

2012-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/12 07:58, Carlos Sura wrote: Hello Mates, Quick question: I've installed apache + mod_suphp (I am using on apache configuration: USERDIR), so, when I go to the path: http://localhost/~username/anything I get the following error: Internal Server Error Mismatch between target UID (

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache + mod_suphp

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 02.05.2012 06:58, schrieb Carlos Sura: > I get the following error: > > Internal Server Error > > Mismatch between target UID (81) and UID (1000) of file > "/home/username/public_html/anything/index.php" Have you tried turning of safe_mode in the php.ini file?

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/02/2012 02:51:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012