Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-23 Thread Jc GarcĂ­a
2015-08-23 20:19 GMT-06:00 Harry Putnam : > My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. > Why so much overhead for compiling, and not doing it bare-metal? > It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. > > After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuN

[gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-23 Thread Harry Putnam
My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes up with so many blocks, use flag changes and a variety of other bad news in such proliferation... I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] using systemd timers as a cron replacement

2015-08-23 Thread allan gottlieb
On Sun, Aug 23 2015, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Sun, 23 Aug 2015 10:38:23 -0400 > schrieb allan gottlieb : > >> Thank you marc and fernando (fernando, I think your replies go only to >> marc and not to the group). >> >> So it seems the conclusion is timers can't achieve both >> 1. Run only once a da

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 2:25:47 PM walt wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 > bitlord wrote: > > > On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: > > > > I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just > > > emerged > > > it and (I think) made all the changes needed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Filthy oscilloscope picture! =P

2015-08-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:34:20 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 23/08/2015 22:24, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Sunday, August 23, 2015 12:14:58 PM Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 23 Aug 2015 01:11:03 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>> On Saturday, August 22, 2015 3:19:50 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > I

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-23 Thread walt
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 bitlord wrote: > On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: > > I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just > > emerged > > it and (I think) made all the changes needed to reconfigure Xorg to > > use > > it instead of fglrx. > > > > May

Re: [gentoo-user] Filthy oscilloscope picture! =P

2015-08-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/08/2015 22:24, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Sunday, August 23, 2015 12:14:58 PM Mick wrote: >> On Sunday 23 Aug 2015 01:11:03 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: >>> On Saturday, August 22, 2015 3:19:50 PM Alan Grimes wrote: Isn't this the filthiest oscilloscope u've seen recently? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Filthy oscilloscope picture! =P

2015-08-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 12:14:58 PM Mick wrote: > On Sunday 23 Aug 2015 01:11:03 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Saturday, August 22, 2015 3:19:50 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > > > Isn't this the filthiest oscilloscope u've seen recently? > > > > > > The only bare metal contact that I could safely u

Re: [gentoo-user] using systemd timers as a cron replacement

2015-08-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 23 Aug 2015 10:38:23 -0400 schrieb allan gottlieb : > Thank you marc and fernando (fernando, I think your replies go only to > marc and not to the group). > > So it seems the conclusion is timers can't achieve both > 1. Run only once a day even if you boot often. > 2. Not starting for at

Re: [gentoo-user] python problem trying to emerge systemd-cron

2015-08-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 23 Aug 2015 15:50:28 -0400 schrieb allan gottlieb : > Trying to emerge systemd-cron results in the following error > > !!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-process/systemd-cron > ... done! > > !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "systemd-cron" has unmet requirements. > - sys-proces

[gentoo-user] python problem trying to emerge systemd-cron

2015-08-23 Thread allan gottlieb
Trying to emerge systemd-cron results in the following error !!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-process/systemd-cron ... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "systemd-cron" has unmet requirements. - sys-process/systemd-cron-1.5.3::gentoo USE="-cron-boot -etc-crontab-systemd -minutel

Re: [gentoo-user] Snort compiling problems

2015-08-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 5:17:53 PM Rod wrote: > > On 08/23/2015 05:02 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Sunday, August 23, 2015 4:35:12 PM Rod wrote: > >> On 08/23/2015 03:59 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>> On Sunday, August 23, 2015 3:26:24 PM Rod wrote: > On 08/23/2015 08:59 AM, F

[gentoo-user] Re: 69.99 != 69.99

2015-08-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-22, Alan McKinnon wrote: [regarding floating point comparison.] > A good way to demonstrate just how problematic floats can be is to point > out that floats are banned in the linux kernel for exactly this reason. > Integers only. Really? The reason that I was given when I wanted to

Re: [gentoo-user] using systemd timers as a cron replacement

2015-08-23 Thread allan gottlieb
Thank you marc and fernando (fernando, I think your replies go only to marc and not to the group). So it seems the conclusion is timers can't achieve both 1. Run only once a day even if you boot often. 2. Not starting for at least 10 minutes after boot I realize that you can achieve 2 outside the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-23 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Peter Weilbacher wrote: > Dear all, > > after successfully using kernel 4.0.5 (vanilla-sources) for a while, I > upgraded to 4.1.5 last week and 4.1.6 today. I cannot boot either of > them. On the screen I see > >Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done. >

[gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-23 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Dear all, after successfully using kernel 4.0.5 (vanilla-sources) for a while, I upgraded to 4.1.5 last week and 4.1.6 today. I cannot boot either of them. On the screen I see Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done. Booting the kernel. as the last thing, then it just sits there. To up

Re: [gentoo-user] Filthy oscilloscope picture! =P

2015-08-23 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > PS. Noisy PSUs are nothing new. The noise is can be caused by the > capacitors, or the coils. Although annoying it does not necessarily > mean that there is an electrical problem with the components. If the > fan is rattling, then a drop of oil on its bearing should soon put a > stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Filthy oscilloscope picture! =P

2015-08-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 Aug 2015 01:11:03 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Saturday, August 22, 2015 3:19:50 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > > Isn't this the filthiest oscilloscope u've seen recently? > > > > The only bare metal contact that I could safely use to get a reading off > > was a +12v line on a spare PCI-E

[gentoo-user] kde-frameworks 5

2015-08-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
KDE 5 is in the tree, it's called KDE Frameworks 5. A quick heads-up to anyone who runs into what I just had. It all started with this incompatible USE error: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "sys-auth/polkit-qt[qt5]". !!! One of the following packages is required to c

Re: [gentoo-user] using systemd timers as a cron replacement

2015-08-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sat, 22 Aug 2015 22:56:47 -0400 schrieb Fernando Rodriguez : > On Saturday, August 22, 2015 10:17:04 PM allan gottlieb wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 22 2015, Marc Joliet wrote: > > > > > Am Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:15:38 -0400 > > > schrieb Fernando Rodriguez : > > > > > >> On Saturday, August 22, 2015 4:

Re: [gentoo-user] Snort compiling problems

2015-08-23 Thread Rod
On 08/23/2015 05:02 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Sunday, August 23, 2015 4:35:12 PM Rod wrote: On 08/23/2015 03:59 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Sunday, August 23, 2015 3:26:24 PM Rod wrote: On 08/23/2015 08:59 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Sunday, August 23, 2015 8:27:17 AM Rod wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Snort compiling problems

2015-08-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 4:35:12 PM Rod wrote: > > On 08/23/2015 03:59 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Sunday, August 23, 2015 3:26:24 PM Rod wrote: > >> On 08/23/2015 08:59 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>> On Sunday, August 23, 2015 8:27:17 AM Rod wrote: > Snipped out the pr