Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread William Kenworthy
erge told me > > I had to "revdep-rebuild" something. I wasn't able to do this through > > not yet knowing what "revdep-rebuild" meant, and not having any file of > > that name on my system. Could this be the cause? > > > > Finally, is there a way of reloading/rebuilding ALL the executables > > onto/on my system without discarding all my painfully wrought config > > files and without portage getting confused? > > > > Thanks in advance for the help! > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-12 Thread William Kenworthy
here does portage keep it's list of installed packages? What do I have > to do to persuade portage it has _no_ installed packages before doing > 'rm -rf *' in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin? > > Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation? > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 wanted

2010-02-18 Thread William Kenworthy
individual files with no luck, so want try to emerge a binary package in the hope that its something Ive missed causing the failure. BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 wanted

2010-02-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:49 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/"; Brilliant! Thanks, BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] What is the proper fstab line for shm memory (tmpfs)

2010-02-26 Thread William Kenworthy
/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 shm /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 I suspect the middle line is correct. BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper fstab line for shm memory (tmpfs)

2010-02-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:28 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, William Kenworthy wrote: > > I have a number of systems with different shm lines in fstab - but which > > is correct? - I think they all work, but which is best (and why)? The &g

Re: [gentoo-user] about sys-fs/zfs-fuse and qmerge

2010-03-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 00:43 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I need a little coaching on qmerge usage. > qmerge is an argument to ebuild: "ebuild file.ebuild compile install qmerge" documented in "man ebuild" BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:11 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 10:52]: > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm > > > and source code docs...etc) on my disk. > > > This

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 14:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 14:08]: > > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: > > > > Sug

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing X.org video driver without xorg.config

2010-04-05 Thread William Kenworthy
h I haven't installed, and therefore fails. > Is there a way to force X to use a specific driver without using a > configuration file? I am not really familiar with HAL, but it seems as > though none of the provided policies have anything to do with video > cards. > > Thank you i

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

2010-04-12 Thread William Kenworthy
> I am however documenting my experiences for others than come after me > to this question of "to ~amd64 or not ~amd64". Nothing more. It worked > for Alan who is a __very__ experienced and capable person. It didn't > work for Mark (at this point) who is a 10 year Gentoo user but > __nothing__ mor

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

2010-04-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 09:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 12 April 2010 18:33:21 KH wrote: > > Am 12.04.2010 14:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > > So, in the rare case of a user who can discipline himself to say within the > limits you describe, your advice is fine. But that's a theore

[gentoo-user] Adding styles to lyx in gentoo

2010-04-23 Thread William Kenworthy
within lyx 4. restarted lyx Is there anything else needed? - I followed ubuntu instructions and he directories are a bit different but that seems ok after adjustment as texhash indexes them. Is there something gentoo specific that needs doing? BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread William Kenworthy
t SYNC-options in > the nvidia-settings dialog but did not found one > which cures the problem. > > How can I fix the problem ? > > Thank you very much for any help in advance! > Have a nice weekend! > Best regards > mcc > > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 10:57 +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: > > On 01.05.2010 um 10:32 wrote Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > On Samstag 01 Mai 2010, Graham Murray wrote: > > > Kraus Philipp writes: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I must test a software with a older version of the glibc. I run > > > > th

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 12:25 +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: > > Am 01.05.2010 um 11:48 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 10:57 +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: > > > > > > On 01.05.2010 um 10:32 wrote Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread William Kenworthy
FEATURES='-distcc -ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j1' emerge ... Worked for me on multiple systems BillK - Original message - > For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge > update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails.  I now have just > the following eb

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

2010-05-15 Thread William Kenworthy
rk: Does udev know about the printer? - this identifies a new usb device to the kernel as a usb printer instead of just an unknown usb device. Do you have sane installed? - if its a multifunction device sane may have grabbed it first (for the scanner) locking the printer out. Requires some manual tuning of the udev rules if this is the case (this is required by my epson multifunction) BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-15 Thread William Kenworthy
? How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find anything so far. BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: > > I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have > > an ... anomaly! > > > > It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-serve

Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:03 +0200, ich bins wrote: > Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy: > > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: > >>> I am trying to update a laptop after a break of

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-18 Thread William Kenworthy
on the LAN can operate in their own > devious ways. > The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if it isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one or more clients - rsync/FTP/wget/... can just share whats already there, not go get the file in the first place. BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 11:19:06 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if > > it isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one > > or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: spell checking using kile under gnome

2010-05-22 Thread William Kenworthy
ecker - it works and does the job > > except it cant "add to dictionary"... > > I know nothing about kile, and little about latex, but I notice that > gedit does have a LaTeX highlighting mode in the View::Highlighting:: > Markup:: menu. Would that work for you? > > > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Two gcc versions installed

2010-06-09 Thread William Kenworthy
gt; Adding lib providers to graph... > >>> > - > Calculating dependencies... done! > >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean > >>> To see reverse dependencies, use --verbose > Packages installed: 1678 > Packages in world:373 > Packages in system: 50 > Required packages:1678 > Number removed: 0 > > Wonko > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

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

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > 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 > You might want to read this and set up your locales properly. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/

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

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Mick writes: > > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/time is in what package?

2010-07-04 Thread William Kenworthy
ckage its in? For me its down to googling and seeing what other distros use and map that back to a gentoo package as far as I can see. BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 07:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: > > > >> Mick wrote: > >> > >>> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you > >>> should be searching. I understand they are working hard on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:43 +0100, Mick wrote: > On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > >> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which > >> you should be searching. > > > > Your question was "How to capture a sc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 15:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy : > > > > There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of > > asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. > > Its called "

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread William Kenworthy
ould I do that? What would I need to > set up on that server to allow my partner to reach my box? > > Cheers, > Hilco > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] firefox/xulrunner fails on "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.2.7 and 1.9.2.7.

2010-07-24 Thread William Kenworthy
s not working. Help! BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/xulrunner fails on "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.2.7 and 1.9.2.7.

2010-07-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 13:30 +0200, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > Dnia sobota 24 lipca 2010 o 12:10:52 William Kenworthy napisał(a): > > I am getting a "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.2.7 > > and 1.9.2.7. > > > > Firefox 3.6.7 and xulrunner 1.9.2.7 &

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/xulrunner fails on "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.2.7 and 1.9.2.7.

2010-07-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 14:09 +0200, netfab wrote: > Le Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:10:52 +0800, > William Kenworthy a écrit : > > Help! > > > > Just re-sync and re-emerge xulrunner and firefox. > See bugs #329563 and #329529. > Thanks, doing so now. As luck would have it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox/xulrunner fails on "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.2.7 and 1.9.2.7.

2010-07-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:30 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/24/2010 03:37 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 14:09 +0200, netfab wrote: > >> Le Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:10:52 +0800, > >> William Kenworthy a écrit : > >>> Help! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:05 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread William Kenworthy
There is an "Unable to open logs" in there ... are you doing some fancy remote logging that cant start? - I cant see anything that says its specifically port 80 thats causing the problem, just no listening sockets available. syslog is udp port 514, and then there is ssl on 443. BillK On Thu, 2

Re: [gentoo-user] boot log

2010-08-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 06:55 -0400, dhk wrote: > On 08/05/2010 03:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:19:29 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > >> Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt > >> show module load failures and they scroll off the screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Some corruption after gnome 2.30

2010-08-06 Thread William Kenworthy
on my desktop and not on my > laptop, which has an almost identical setup. > > > revdep-rebuild reported no issues, and re-emerging gtk+, thunar, > and gnome-icon-theme had no effect. Last night I went with the > nuclear option (emerge -eav --keep-going world), and it solved the > problem. -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 cannot start up

2010-08-06 Thread William Kenworthy
your interfaces and MAC numbers (as long as there is the > > appropriate driver in the kernel). > > > > If it is a hardware failure it may be worth trying to reseat the card > > if separate to the MoBo, or disable/enable in the BIOS to reset it. > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > > > > > > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.30 and laptop

2010-08-09 Thread William Kenworthy
out having to restart X (maybe a script/xrandr command if it exists?) i.e., its somewhat disastrous to discover this at the start of a presentation!) BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65

2010-08-12 Thread William Kenworthy
and tuxonice hibernate are problematic, others are fine with certain workarounds. Can you provide more info such as video card and what the crash is? The actual xorg version should be something like 7.4-r1 so I presume you quoted xorg-server? BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-13 Thread William Kenworthy
I had read about similar issues with .30 > (IIRC on this list) and figured it was probably a kernel bug > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 07:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:38 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: > > > G'day, > > > > > > I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which > > > provide font paths an

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:13 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows > about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this > interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to > 1600x1200 in xor

[gentoo-user] runlevels and service list

2009-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which runlevels? I am interested in hald and dbus in particular. Googling shows mostly people set them to the default runlevel, but I would like a reference or reason ... BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

2009-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 15:40 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/20/2009 03:34 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which > > runlevels? I am interested in hald and dbus in particular. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:50 -0400, Denis wrote: > > Let us know what blows up. ;-) > > > > Dale > > Nothing blew up ;-) I was successful removing X, downgrading, and > getting X working again with xorg-server-1.5.3 and libxcb-1.1 > Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies? B

Re: [gentoo-user] ">=net-libs/libsoup-2.25.1:2.4[gnome]" Huh?

2009-10-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2009 06:31:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 19 October 2009 04:42:43 Dale wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > My light bulb is not working tonight. I just synced and checked for > > > > > > updates and ran into this litt

[gentoo-user] Java and glsa-check

2009-10-19 Thread William Kenworthy
is supposed to be unaffected. Is this the slotting issue bug 106677 is talking about? I currently have java 1.5 and 1.6, jdk and jre's present on in various combinations - all versions look like they should be ok, all want to apply the glsa but say there is no upgrade path ... BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread William Kenworthy
> > from scratch, but maybe I'm wrong? > > I did the 30-r6 from scratch, then copied the .config over to the > 30-r7 slot and ran make oldconfig. No change. > > Least I still have the 29 kernel; it works fine ;) > > mw > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] firefox dies on setting master password

2009-10-24 Thread William Kenworthy
working for awhile - it is possibly related to trying to fix mimetypes (I am missing some icons in Evolution and few other apps) but cant see the connection. Deleting .mozilla allows firefox to run - until I try and set the master password again ... BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread William Kenworthy
/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 /etc/make.profile ? > > Or does it involve something like a major regrind of every package? > > A quick google with site:gentoo.org "change profile" shows dozens of > hits in forum messages, but I didn't notice a HOWTO or concise > walk-thru. > > > > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ?

2009-10-28 Thread William Kenworthy
se issues for quite some time > now (it's got different issues though ;) ). > > Another annoyance is that with older kernel vesa framebuffer worked > perfectly fine (... video=vesafb:ywrap,mttr,1280x800...@72 ...) and I > was able to have full-screen framebuffered text console with 1280x800 > resolution on external LCD. Now I get some "viewport"-like console where > content is stuck in the upper-left corner (I assume it's resolution is > 1280x800) but it didn't scale to full screen. > > So my real question is: are there any specific guides I should've > followed instead of playing "hit-n-miss"? Did I miss something along the > way that produces KDM issues? Do I really have to have an xorg.conf only > to disable certain things? How do I deal with my framebuffer so that my > console looks bit more sane and utilizes all given real estate of 26" > monitor and not a mere 50% or so. > > Sorry for bundling all those into one mail, but it kind of popped up > altogether so I felt bad about separating it :-D > > > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-31 Thread William Kenworthy
y only support RHEL4. RHEL4 was released nearly 5 years ago and uses > the 2.6.9 kernel. I think that shows how flexible they are. :) > > > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced"

2009-11-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > In the course of trying to get X to work on my ASUS 1005HA netbook, > I had to power the machine off several times. In the course of this, > some damage seems to have occurred to the file system. > There are files in /var /tmp which I can'

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-09 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 03:06 -0600, Dale wrote: > Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 01:13 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:46:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, > >>> which

Re: [gentoo-user] slotted package - how to switch

2009-11-12 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 12:39 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12 Nov, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 12 November 2009 13:05:29 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Sorry if this is FAQ but I couldn't find the answer. > >> E.g. I have to versions of dev-libs/libusb installed, one in slot 0 and > >> th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge hints needed

2009-11-20 Thread William Kenworthy
prevent the user from dealing with the same config > multiple times. This flag will cause the file > to always be merged. > > Keep in mind that it will replace whatever it emerges which may include > dependencies. I have never used that option before so be forewarned if > it does. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge hints needed

2009-11-21 Thread William Kenworthy
17 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Thanks, yes I am aware of the caveats - but they dont really apply when > > rescuing something as severely broken as this system was - I upgraded 3 > > machines without a problem, and this one died on reboot - badly :( > > Too badly to

Re: [gentoo-user] OO thesaurus

2009-11-27 Thread William Kenworthy
Can't get it to work > > What I find odd is that there is no English-UK dictionary available as > an extension? > > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/dictionary -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-28 Thread William Kenworthy
google apps and others. In fact, I know of some who have a separate, locked down a/c on their machines just for banking - no browsing (and no extraneous browser plugins) to other sites etc. - safer! (and relatively simple to do and manage under nix) BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] bluetooth headset

2009-11-29 Thread William Kenworthy
a freerunner (SHR using a2dp) but its not working on the laptop under gentoo :( Anyone got a usable bluez4 guide, or knows how to do this? BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Mothballing a ~arch gentoo system?

2009-12-27 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:45 -0600, Dale wrote: > Marcus Wanner wrote: > > When an old (circa 2001) desktop came out of retirement a few months > > ago, I shuffled across Linuxes trying to find something that worked > > well, and finally hit on gentoo. I eventually switched to ~x86 because > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mothballing a ~arch gentoo system?

2009-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 00:27 -0600, Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:45 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> Marcus Wanner wrote: ... trim ... > > > > The minimal system should be quicker and simpler to update than a crufty > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 12:58 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. > I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, > so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. > > I've come across CompFused which seems to b

[gentoo-user] evolution and exchange

2010-01-25 Thread William Kenworthy
TLSv1, however evolution tries to use SSLv3 (I found out the difference using wireshark). How can I get evolution to use TLS instead of SSL for this account? I have built with and without the SSL USE flag (and without the existing SSL IMAPS account fails of course :( BillK -- William Kenworthy

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution and exchange

2010-01-25 Thread William Kenworthy
cant connect to exchange", but no solutions. The strange thing is firefox can authenticate just fine, so how can I force evolution to do the same. BillK On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:01 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag 25 Januar 2010 09:25:15 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > I am using e

[gentoo-user] PXE and dhcp

2010-01-31 Thread William Kenworthy
- how to stop that happening? It would be better to have the normal dhcp working for auto setting of DNS and ntp servers - is that possible without killing the nfs root? BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] Started seeing this in the logs - where do I look?

2005-05-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Started seeing this in the logs - where do I look? May 15 20:18:53 [net.agent] Bad NET invocation: $INTERFACE is not set /etc/conf.d/net looks ok BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How can I make udev play nicely with my palm pilot

2005-05-17 Thread William Kenworthy
didnt work either (the nodes stayed, just didnt work - no sync). How can I make udev play nicely? BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread William Kenworthy
g my system > > & i rely on a home-made list of packages i've installed, > > What is the world file if not a home made list of the packages you have > installed? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I make udev play nicely with my palm pilot

2005-05-23 Thread William Kenworthy
modules. BillK On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 06:11 +0200, Necoro wrote: > Necoro schrieb: > > William Kenworthy schrieb: > > > >> I can sync my palm fine using jpilot by hitting sync on the palm, then > >> sync on jpilot. udev creates the nodes (I have set them > &

[gentoo-user] myrhtv minimums

2005-06-04 Thread William Kenworthy
twork if that can help What is a good, cheap video card with a good tv out for this purpose? BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] zire 31?

2005-06-12 Thread William Kenworthy
y the command... > > fdisk -l > > ...to get a listing of any possible drive-like devices. You may have to > su - or logon as root to run fdisk. > > -- > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-16 Thread William Kenworthy
sn't seem (to me) to > be much related to the gentoo how-to... '-) > > TIA, > > -- > |\ /| | | ~ ~ > | \/ | |---| `|` ? > ||ichael | |iggins\^ / > michael[dot]higgins[at]snet[dot]net -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-17 Thread William Kenworthy
tem > would then be subject to question, not something I'd like to see happen... > > > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive space low, buildpkg to blame?

2005-06-18 Thread William Kenworthy
the quick & dirty: 'du /|sort -rn|less' or to quickly confirm your suspicions: 'du -sh /usr/portage/packages' BillK On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 21:53 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Grant schreef: > > vmware is telling me I'm low on space for /tmp. My hard drive must be > > filling up and I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev

2005-06-19 Thread William Kenworthy
estored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory > which is re-populated by udev? > > Thx > Sven -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
across my network. > > make.conf: > MAKEOPTS="-j3" > FEATURES="distcc" > > /etc/conf.d/distccd: > DISTCCD_OPTS="${DISTCCD_OPTS} --allow 10.0.0.103" > > /etc/distcc/hosts > 10.0.0.103 10.0.0.101 > > 10.0.0.101 - is localhost >

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo "L 80" Boot Error

2005-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
wrong. > > genkernel originally simplified kernel building, up to around version > 1.6, but later versions made a seemingly complicated but actually > quite simple task into a seeming simple but actually complicated task. > > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
Which telnet package - theres a couple emerge telnet -s qpkg -l net-misc/netkit-telnetd will give the file locations for the netkit package What are the results of telnet gentoo to debian-box, telnet gentoo-localhost? BillK On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:56 -0500, Paul Varner wrote: > On Thu, 2005

[gentoo-user] tvcard tuner (for my bt848) no longer works

2005-07-08 Thread William Kenworthy
Has anyone seen a fix for this? The tuner is an old temic pal (for Oz) which works fine on kernels up to 2.6.11-r10, tho its always been a little "deaf" BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tvcard tuner (for my bt848) no longer works

2005-07-08 Thread William Kenworthy
Replying to myself: read the docs first! The way the tuner arg is used has changed ... BillK On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 21:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Ive just upgraded to 2.6.12-r3 from 2.6.11-r10 and find the tvcard tuner > (for my bt848) no longer works. It looks like the &

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Using TV

2005-07-09 Thread William Kenworthy
kill > > or the simplest: > > pkill kdetv > > RTFM pgrep, pkill -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

2005-07-10 Thread William Kenworthy
screen. > > > I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but > > > I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org. Can > > > anyone help me? > > > > They're not supported. :( > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread William Kenworthy
ble I would like to be able to edit > (relatively small) configuration files remotely in a text editor running > under windows. > > What would be the easiest way to somehow "map" a network drive on my > Gentoo server from Windows given that I need to tunnel over SSH? > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] OO icons in app have black background!

2005-07-16 Thread William Kenworthy
Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic Voices... > that's nothing - when you play it forward it installs Windows" > Are you fearing my mouse? <:3___) > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] most of /usr/portage gone--why? and what now}

2005-07-16 Thread William Kenworthy
> Total bytes written: 181 > Total bytes read: 538 > > wrote 181 bytes read 538 bytes 287.60 bytes/sec > total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 > >>> starting rsync with rsync://128.118.99.31/gentoo-portage... > >>> checking server timestamp ... > >>> retry ... > > > >>> Starting retry 1 of 3 with rsync://128.153.144.22/gentoo-portage > >>> checking server timestamp ... > > > * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended > * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated. > * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files. > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Throttling/Restricting download speeds

2005-07-17 Thread William Kenworthy
e of the offpeak > time. > I'm currently using gshield on top of iptables as my firewall. > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated. > Andrew -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del

2005-07-18 Thread William Kenworthy
> > > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM > > > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > > > Neuromancer 17:02:56 up 1 day, 4:28, 8 users, load average: 1.80, 1.56, > > > 1.37 > > > > > > > > > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 18:15:18 up 1 day, 1:22, 8 users, load average: 0.47, 0.36, > 0.28 > > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying timezone

2007-12-26 Thread William Kenworthy
t; crazy ideas...) > > > Many thanks in advance, > Norberto > > > > ---- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-03 Thread William Kenworthy
that if there is no ebuild? > > There is still the ebuild you have installed from > in /var/db/pkg//. You can copy it over to your local > overlay and keep it there forever. > > HTH... > > Dirk -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-07 Thread William Kenworthy
rmitted > [ ok ] > * Running hdparm on /dev/hdd ... > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > [ ok ] > > > I read on a forum somewhere that this could be caused by the HAL daemon > so I shut that down and no luck :-( > > Any ideas? > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread William Kenworthy
ight off the bat what the problem is and what > I need to enable and disable. > > I am using the latest gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r8 if memory serves. > > > Thanks again > > Wayn0 > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-28 Thread William Kenworthy
What you are looking at is a unix timestamp - seconds since 1/1/70 (from memory) A number of log analysers will convert it for you. I pipe squid logs and the like through "cat logfile|ccze -C" which will do the conversion on the fly. BillK On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:21 +, Peter Humphrey wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread William Kenworthy
ups-pdf This used to work well for me, though it was about 12 months ago. A bit clunky and the pdf files were dumped in a non-obvious place - hopefully fixed now. BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread William Kenworthy
ource_QM_Taskforce > Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: > http://patches.metux.de/ > ----- -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock issue

2008-02-11 Thread William Kenworthy
onf.d/clock I have "local" set up. Bios time > is also what it should be. Before I build something in kernel and > everything was fine. I just cant remember what was it :/ . Any help ? > Thanks > > > > -- > Amar Ćosić > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTE

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