Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-19 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 16.07.2010 20:18, schrieb Neal Hogan: > I'd start a new thread ;-) Thank you, and that me now what to me? xD Greeting -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-16 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hello & Welcome :D Yeahr, some question. How good is Gentoo for a Samba AD environment? I want to install my Gentoo at the work, and for my Data i have to connect to AD. How good will work this with a Gentoo :> ? Greetings Alex

[gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-16 Thread alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-07-13 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote: > But still, pppd call does not work. The system seems to be > dialing, I see familiar messages, but that's it, no more messages at > all. > > When I just tried that again, the

Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) > > ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments > > Looking at this line it shows > if test $ax_python_header != no; then > > So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header. > > Putt

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Here's a list of my current KDE bugs. There are many, fortunately most > of them are really minor issues. [58 KDE bugs] I forgot two. kio_thumbnail does not seem to save the results, and scans folders again, causing loads of 20. And the password dialog when the screen was blanked do

Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote: > [...] > > Hello, > > > But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit > > activate': ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No > > such device o

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
SpaceCake writes: > So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I > tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? I think, you can's. But you can add SYMLINK="swap" to make the device appear as /dev/swap, too. > Also I'm thinking how can I instruct

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I did not want to use Chromium, but I tried it, and I must admit, > > it's fast, and it uses much less memory than konqueror. And it even > > has web shortcuts, which are a must

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
> terms of performance it is Opera, FF, Konqueror here, with Konqueror > not managing some Javascripts at all. Opera, this might also be an idea. I never used it much, only in some cases when Konqueror had problems with web pags. > Alex, have you tried turning off the Nepomuke service? I

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hasan SAHIN writes: > I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the > CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" option. > > Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? Sure, as long as you are not using distcc, in which case the distcc servers would compile according to _their_ nati

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Mateusz Mierzwiński writes: > I have KDE4. It work's perfect. Whooo, now at least this sounds good! > Try set "Custom-cxxflags" to off, > maybe this will help. From my opinion KDE and QT 4 don't like > customized C/CXX Flags, such as fomit-frame-pointer and similar. I have: CFLAGS="-march=k8-ss

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: > My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized > web browser with a page with pictures and text. > If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and > the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it > takes a moment. Is there disk activity when this happens? W

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem about my own overlay

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Chen Huan writes: > I had done some hack on jabberd2, and I make a new ebuild for it, To > avoid the new ebuild being overwrite when I execute "emerge --sync", I > make /var/lib/layman/myown for this ebuild > > when I emerged jabberd2, it's normal, but when I try to re-merge it, > the output is

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > As the OP, I'd like to know if anybody else has noticed how far OT this > thread has gone? > Somebody please give it a meaningful title, and maybe the right people > will notice your thread But I think the title is just perfect! Well, not really, because, despite my

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
mailinglist...@gmail.com writes: > My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized > web browser with a page with pictures and text. > If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and > the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it > takes a moment. > I tried ubuntu livecd, and this test was much > fa

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these > > things are related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move > > over to the video system Well, my KDE does so many weird things, this still might be unrelated. Similar problems a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels > or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this > in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that dire

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads At least I thought so, what else could be the cause. But I just emerged aterm, and the default is also to be not a login shell. There is a -ls option

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: > > I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain > > user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? > > > > I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user > > still shows all settings as "en_U

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Mick wrote > > > I'll repeat the advice I was given in this list sometime around last > > Christmas (but can't find the thread now): you're bound to find some > > pesky application which is only available in 32bit and then you'll > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Matthias Fechner writes: > I followed now the wiki page: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 Down again. > At the step to create the config file with: > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > and install grub2 with: > grub-install /dev/sda > > it needs several hours to complete each of th

Re: [gentoo-user] file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > Please remind me what we are supposed to do when we get: > > * Package 'net-libs/neon-0.29.3' NOT merged due to file collisions. If > * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the > * above message. You could force installation with FEATURES="-collision-

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
And again, I had already written an answer to your last posting, but then my dreaded mouse problem in KDE4 happened again, and I forgot to save the mail as draft before logging out and in again. Mick writes: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:34:19 you wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick

[gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am having big trouble setting up ISDN. I'm a long-time ISDN user, I need this for connecting to some remote systems that do not have an internet connection. I always used my server for this, but due to a sudden breakdown of phone+dsl on that machine (which is far away, I have no ph

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit > in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can > keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the > integrated Intel graphics chip has *BOTH VGA AND DIGITAL

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know > what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I > know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't > have a clue what it is since you don't know much if anything about t

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

2010-06-20 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Alex Schuster [10-06-20 15:16]: >> How about putting dev-python/setuptools into >> /etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13? > I tried to re-emerge setuptools 0.6.10 and it fails the same way. > So I believe (=not knowing)

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

2010-06-20 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Tried that...python3.1 compiles fine, setuptools failed. > > And now? How about putting dev-python/setuptools into /etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-19 Thread Alex Schuster
hare:/usr/local/share:/usr/share' > > Why is /usr/share in there twice? Could this mess things up? Seems to be normal, I also have this with a fresh setup. > On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster wrote: > [snip ...] > > > Mick wrote: > >> On Tuesday 09 March

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-19 Thread Alex Schuster
> > Why is /usr/share in there twice? Could this mess things up? > > On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster wrote: > [snip ...] > > > Mick wrote: > >> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote: > >>> - Kontact. The old address book I had importe

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > I don't remember why I unmasked the unstable version of libpng. > However, following your advice, I first attempted to reinstall kdm. > This had been an update 6 days ago when all this

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: > First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant - > could be my stupidity, but I did try! Fine :) > From my kdm log the last few lines are as follows: > > (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) Failed to load module "dri2"

Re: [gentoo-user] (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux

2010-06-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: > The machine seems to have two "hardware" states determined by whether > windows has been run since power on. I _think_ I read about such a problem ages ago, and there was a workaround. Either in the BIOS, or in Windows, some Wake-On-LAN option. If activated, Windows wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote: > > I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and > > > > strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get > > is: > >Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` > > > > root (hd0,1) > > > > Filesystem t

Re: [gentoo-user] User & password scanning on pop3

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Rod writes: > Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit > or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? I am using net-analyzer/fail2ban. That can block an IP after some unsuccessful login attempts. This helps a lot, but not against bot nets,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
board. I'm doing this with every longer mail now. I saved the mail as draft, and went to my Linxu machine where I resumed the edit. I wanted to try something and went into the import menu: Crash! Good thing the Windows Clipboard still had it. Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 09 March 2010

64 bits (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit)

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > J. Roeleveld writes: > > > > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. > > > > > > Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300 > > > onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will > > > have to do the migration to 64bit then. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

2010-06-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: > 4: mich...@camille ~ $ nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__ > querying __SAMBA__ on 192.168.1.255 > 192.168.1.2 __SAMBA__<00> > > 4: carter ~ # nmblookup -B camille * > querying xorg.conf.new on 192.168.1.3 > name_query failed to find name xorg.conf.new > > *I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome fail

2010-06-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Jose Juan Montiel writes: > yesterday i finally decide to try Gentoo (I came from debian). Welcome! > I follow all step of > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml but when i > finally go to install gnome... in the latests package (mailclient or > something similar) fail...

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.btrfs check for bad blocks - howto

2010-06-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > On 10 Jun, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > You could either first use mkfs for ext3 or 4 to check, or you could > > run "badblock" manually over the partition first to check. > > Thanks, Joost, > > but I don't know how to feed the output of badblocks to mkbtrfs. > It looks as

Re: [gentoo-user] Two gcc versions installed

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel D Jones writes: > eix gcc shows: > > Installed versions: > > 4.3.4(4.3)!s(10:56:18 AM 02/27/2010)(gtk mudflap nls nptl openmp > -altivec - bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -fortran -gcj -hardened > -libffi -multilib - multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc -objc++ > -objc-gc -test -va

Re: [gentoo-user] What settings for nVidia G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] video card?

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > I'm converting an older Dell E521 AMD K8 machine from XP to Gentoo. > I intend to use it with an HDHomerun ATSC tuner, for recording and > playback. I don't know if it supports AGP, but I am including... <*> > AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support > <*> NVIDIA nFor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: > So... for those of use who have already installed it (and thankfully I > did actually read the notes about not switching to it), should me > uninstall it then mask it? Or just leave it alone? For the sake of simplicity, I just leave it alone. > I'm guessing it > won't hurt an

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Jake Moe writes: > j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970 > Password: > Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0 > j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox > Error: no display specified > j...@jhb5970 ~ $ konqueror > konqueror: cannot connect to X server > j...@jhb5970 ~ $ Try "echo $DISPLA

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > I am getting worried now about fs corruption. I would be, too. > The fs is supposed to be checked at boot time But only if it was not shut down correctly. To force a complete fsck on reboot on a file system that looks sane, issue a 'touch /force_fsck'. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > For the record, hda and hdb are not even mounted. I am currently using > hdc for the OS. The drive used to be a lot faster than this. I used > it for my OS a good while back and recently used it for /var/portage > and /usr/portage. I'm not sure what has changed so I can't figure

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: > > > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. > > > > Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300 > > onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will > > have to do the migration to 64bit then. > Wonko, > > If your grap

[gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I have 4GB of RAM, but the system is swapping A LOT. I think I will have to go to 64 bit, but I need some time for that, and I need to use the system in the meantime. But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Johannes Kimmel writes: > On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use > > all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little > > more available? What is your output of free

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Alex Schuster
kitti jaisong writes: > I just install sparc machine. i found error "failed: No space left on > device (28)" when i check inode by df -i command [...] > /dev/sda4 2.0G 952M 963M 50% /mnt/gentoo/usr > /dev/sda5 2.0G 83M 1.8G 5% /mnt/gentoo/var > /dev/sda6

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question

2010-05-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Madhurya Kakati writes: > Philip, Thanks for the detailed answer. Yeah, that was a nice one. > On 5/25/2010 9:09 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 100525 Madhurya Kakati wrote: > >> I am currently using Archlinux and Windows 7 and want to try out > >> Gentoo. > > > > Welcome aboard ! -- Gentoo require

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: > Alex Schuster writes: > > After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries > > somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra > > slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emerge media-libs/libpng:1.2 , > > and I&#

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:56:23 Alex Schuster wrote: > > But my main problem is another one: How do I tell CUPS which device > > my printer is? I tried usb:/dev/usb/lp0 (found this notation when > > googling 'usb printer device uri'), but nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB printer and new cups

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
l dbus java jpeg ldap linguas_de pam perl php png python samba slp ssl tiff usb -debug -gnutls -kerberos -static -xinetd) > Alex: when I plug in my HP USB printer, I see this in dmesg: > > usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 > usb 2-2

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 15 May 2010 22:56:22 Alex Schuster wrote: > > I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and > > notice that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a > > printer, the only options for a local printer are SCSI-printer

[gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and notice that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a printer, the only options for a local printer are SCSI-printer and HAL printing backend. And on the next screen, I have to enter the device URI by hand. How s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Roy Wright writes: > Argh. Just have to vent a little. We feel with you :) > So on to my list a applications to be installed. Firefox check, > openoffice check, handbrake...crap. Handbrake is one of the > non-standard packages that includes their own version of support > libraries. You gues

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
John J. Foster writes: > > Hope you broke the record, > > Wonko > > fes...@localhost ~ $ last | grep "system boot" > reboot system boot 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 Thu May 13 16:39 - 17:30 > (00:51) > > OK, so after looking at "man last", I tried > > fes...@localhost ~ $ last reboot > reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
John J. Foster writes: > I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home > machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of > curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know > I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: > When the filesystem fills up, services can start failing left and > right because they cannot write logs, cannot write temp files, etc. At > this point human intervention is necessary: root has to log in and > clear out the disk. But if the $ROOT filesystem is completely full

[gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Still not on sourceforge, but here: > http://www.wonkology.org/utils/snackup Whoops, access denied. After a chmod o+r snackup, it is accessible now. In case anyone already wrote me about this issue, I had lost my domain for two days, and all the e-mails going to wonkology.org.

[gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I > pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup. I have an lvm which is > taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space -- > or would it. Would I need some free pes to put the sn

snackup (was: Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive)

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Iain Buchanan writes: > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in > > a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script > > itself is necessary. If anyone is interes

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Schuster
KH writes: > Am 04.05.2010 21:41, schrieb Dale: > > I have with-bdeps set in my make.conf so that it is enabled each > > time. I just ran the command given above and it found over 40 > > packages that need to be upgraded. I'm not even going to claim that > > I understand all the chicken scratch

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my > gmail account sent from my crontab. > > First, is related to the title which is: > > Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && > /usr/sbin/run-crons > > I am not sure what this "test -x" part represents? It means:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > My 'standard' way of updating is > emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree > @system @world > > but it didn't update anything. > > Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have > newer versions, and indeed, > emerge -auv

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Iain Buchanan writes: > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > [snip] > > > All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I > > make a LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while > > the backup is still in

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sd? devices. Udev problem?

2010-05-01 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > I just migrated a friend's machine to ~am64. Everything was updated, > but after a reboot some partitons are not found. No wonder, there are > no /dev/sd? devices, only /dev/sg?. I suspect the problem is udev, > because that was updated. Root is encrypted, so this machine makes use > of

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Iain Buchanan writes: > A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard > drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can > replace it with the external disk and continue straight away. I do the same, but with a 2nd internal drive. The drive is parti

[gentoo-user] No /dev/sd? devices. Udev problem?

2010-04-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I just migrated a friend's machine to ~am64. Everything was updated, but after a reboot some partitons are not found. No wonder, there are no /dev/sd? devices, only /dev/sg?. I suspect the problem is udev, because that was updated. Root is encrypted, so this machine makes use of an i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know > it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in > KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: [...] > > > solve this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being > > > very unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it > > > doing in

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Jarry writes: > >> Is there any way to find out in which order services are > >> started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up > >> screen and making notes)? > > > > I think the output of 'rc-sta

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > Is there any way to find out in which order services are > started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up > screen and making notes)? I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services in the right order. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: >One minor annoyance is that the task bar at the bottom is about 1/3 > black on the left. Resolution is 1920x1080 so I'd guess about the > first 800 pixels are painted the wrong color. The task bar still > works, it just doesn't look right. I think I have the same problem,

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote: > > Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. > > How do you take backups? I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd. I create an LVM snapshot of the partition, and backup with use rdiff-b

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: > Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: > > Can boot be sped up even more? > > The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use Suspend2Disk or > SuspendToRam. > > Take a look at TuxOnIce and hibernate-script. Unless something is > broken, I hardly ever rebo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > OK, let's start with xfce4-meta because there was only one failure. > eix-update was done this morning and emerge -DuN @system is clean > using ~arch in make.conf. I'll paste make.conf & emerge --info at the > end of this message [...] > >>> Source prepared. > >>> Configuring

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to unstable

2010-04-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Damian writes: > Thus, I'm thinking about switching all of my system to the unstable > branch. But first I want to be sure that this is reasonable given the > problems I described before. > > Can you provide me some useful advice according to your experience? I have asked a similar question here

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update gcc downgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Kraus Philipp writes: > I run in a virtual machine a gentoo (~x86) system. I synced the portage > tree at the weekend an run emerge --update > > The update runs without errors, but emerge installed the gcc 4.3.4, > but on the system is the 4.4.3 installed > > [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables: how can I include multiple hosts/IPs in "-s" and "-d"?

2010-04-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > I'd like to ask if there is some way to include multiple discrete > hosts/IP's in --source and --destination options of iptables. > > I'm trying to write firewall rules for my server, but it has > 12 IP's from different segments (and maybe it gets a few more > later), and the scri

Re: [gentoo-user] libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Kuster
ilds ... ¿ any hint about that? Alex ~ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > On 26 Mar, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I think you have to wait for ati-drivers-10.4 to work with xorg-1.7. > > I just want to report back, that xorg-server-1.7.6 (+ friends) is > running just fine with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.721 . > The only m

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: > > Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree? > > Helmut. > > I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it > will appear when it is ready) but I got myself into a pickle with > tryi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm > hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be > sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to > be a slideshow but if done in random order, they make no sense at all. > All I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon asks: > And Dale himself holds the record for starting the longest email thread > ever outside of UseNet. > > It started with ... wait for it ... Xorg and hal! > > It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the next version of Xorg > (ebuild sitting in some testing proving groun

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
o0o.atlantis@gmail.com writes: > Same thing here, nothing was highlighted and my .toprc looked like > yours I added Def, Job, Mem and usr in the file and it's fine now. > The question is why is the file not having the right syntax? > here: > top: procps version 3.2.8 on amd64 I tried with sy

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get: > >Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' Cool. Didn't know about this yet. > Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time I fire up top, > even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:26, Alex Schuster wrote: > > ... > > I want to add one thing: I suggest changing the defscrollback value > > in /etc/screenrc from 100 to something much larger, I have 10. > > If not, you can only scroll back 100 lines, whi

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > I'm going to assume that you're not being facetious, however I'm > amazed you don't know `screen`. Everyone should know `screen`! It's > amazing, and I can't believe that if you had tried it then you > wouldn't have it installed. I sure you'll wonder how you lived without > it.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > >> I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still > >> using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all > >> but I can't use it as root at all. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now? > I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still > using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all but > I can't use it as r

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: > I see 1 improvement & 2 regressions so far; > NB I don't use the desktop (that's Fluxbox), only some apps. > > Konsole has lost its 'fixed GNU' font, which now calls up something > nasty (yes, I know there's an entry in the list, but it's a different > font). I've switch

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster wrote: > Alex Schuster writes: > > Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. > > Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:) But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if you don't have KDE4 or

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/bin/post_sync - not found by `equery b`

2010-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > I have this /etc/portage/bin/post_sync file on a couple of systems, > and strangely `equery b /etc/portage/bin/post_sync` doesn't tell me > what package it belongs to. I might guess `eix`, but who knows? It's part of portage, and it's called after a sync of the portage tree. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
text console with Alt-F1 (the additional Ctrl key was also not needed) and back. Alex Schuster writes: > The next test gives 93 seconds, that's nice. What is not so nice is that emerge -a --depclean took over half an hour of CPU time, needing half a gigabyte of memory. WOW. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I > > > > use. > > > > > > I thought the small files of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I > > > > use. > > > > > > I thought the small files of th

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:) Wonko

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