[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/06/2010 10:05 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: ...i upgrade my system through emerge -uDN world and then i run emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild. After that when i tried gcc/g++ i get: gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc'. Additionally, i noticed that there is a problem with p

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-08 Thread walt
On 02/07/2010 10:19 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Keith Dart mailto:ke...@dartworks.biz>> wrote: === On Sun, 02/07, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: === > Ok, nice approach. The problem is that no package can be installed > because the compiler gcc is

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-09 Thread walt
On 02/08/2010 10:27 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: What do you have in /etc/env.d/gcc/? I have this: #ls -l /etc/env.d/gcc/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 2010-02-08 11:53 config-i686-pc-linux-gnu -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2009-01-29 12:33 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-09 Thread walt
On 02/09/2010 06:30 PM, Dale wrote: With all the things I have to deal with, hal is not even on the top 25 or so. > Heck, my puter doesn't even make that. You offer us a glimmer of hope, Dale. How did you push your computer problems below number 25? If it involves drugs, please publish a lis

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread walt
On 02/11/2010 12:06 PM, dhk wrote: Where's a good place to set J2EE_HOME (/opt/sun-j2ee-1.3.1/) and JAVA_HOME? Should it be in each user's profile? If I wanted to set them globally for all users should they go in /etc/profile ? Also when starting j2ee I get the following error. # /opt/sun-j2e

[gentoo-user] Re: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread walt
On 02/11/2010 03:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > ... And don't start with sockets. That will result in a nightmare. dbus is a clean solution to a huge problem. Apps have to talk to each other. The only way to keep it sane is a standardized IPC daemon like dbus. Aha! This is a question tha

[gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-11 Thread walt
On 02/11/2010 01:35 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: It just seems silly that if you want to use the newest version of kate, kmail etc. > that semantic-desktop is forced upon you, when you're not interested in having the > entire DE. By the authority vested in me by My-Wife-the-Windows-User, I welco

[gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread walt
Zeerak Waseem wrote: > I just started a degree, to accomplish -something akin to- that ;-) Ah, good. Let me give you some free advice, well in advance. When it comes time to pick people for your thesis committee -- pick ones who love to argue. I think it may save you some pain later.

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

2010-02-12 Thread walt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Maybe increasing voltages a bit (0.05 to 0.1V) will help you. It did for me > with one certain Asrock board. This is the first I've heard of adjustable voltages. Where/how do you make the adjustment?

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-13 Thread walt
Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, walt <mailto:w41...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 02/08/2010 10:27 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: > >What do you have in /etc/env.d/gcc/? I have this: > >#ls -l /

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-13 Thread walt
Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The > third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is > flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) > tools. > I am lead to believe that the se

[gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread walt
Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1? 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what options I give it, including no options. Strace shows that nfs.mount is passing a weird-looking IP address string to the 'mount' system call (man 2 mount), e

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread walt
On 02/15/2010 12:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 21:23:54 walt wrote: Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1? 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what options I give it, including no options. St

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-17 Thread walt
On 02/15/2010 10:51 PM, Keith Dart wrote: === On Mon, 02/15, walt wrote: === The next step is to build a new kernel with nfs4 support and unset the 'nonfsv4' flag... I had this problem. My solution was to have an fstab line like this: server:/mnt/vol1/home/home /a

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-17 Thread walt
On 02/16/2010 01:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Maybe it's ext4-related as well ... you know, many moving parts in a modern system Are you using ext4 on the hard drives also? For how long?

[gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread walt
On 02/18/2010 01:57 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:33:38 James wrote: Should I put the drive into udma4 mode? If so, wouldn't I use: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda According to the hitachi manual (who made this drive for IBM) the DJNA-3X series has a Ultra ATA Mode 2 (33

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-19 Thread walt
On 02/19/2010 05:44 AM, Philip Webb wrote: dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10 (!java6? =virtual/jdk-1.5*) (java6?>=virtual/jdk-1.6) ... My 'make.conf' has 'java', but not 'java6', I'm thinking that !java6 notation means if you *don't* have the java6 useflag enabled (but do wa

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-23 Thread walt
On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print to file and print to LPR. On the other hand O

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread walt
On 02/23/2010 09:39 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.11 # Written by cupsd on 2010-02-23 11:32 Info HP LaserJet M1522nf MFP Location Local Printer DeviceURI socket://192.168.1.5 State Idle StateTime 1266953458 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaP

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread walt
On 02/25/2010 07:05 AM, Neil Walker wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but... Are you using something else instead now?

[gentoo-user] Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-26 Thread walt
There's been some talk here recently about partitions versus cylinder boundaries, and when or even if they need to line up properly. I'm confused. For many years now I've ignored "cylinders" completely because I've read that modern disks are addressed by sector number only, and disks don't know

[gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mark Knecht On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? Who cares what cylinder it's on, and who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn'

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.33 and Nouveau

2010-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2010 09:22 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: Hey guys Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the nouveau > drivers. And it went pretty well (until) I had to start X. I've attatched my xorg log. I have next to no idea what to do with the error. Cool. I d

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2 fails to emerge on a multilib profile

2010-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2010 10:04 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install Gentoo on a i7 x86_64 arch machine and libgamin fails when I try to emerge syslog-ng (it's a dependency of it). This is my first 64bit machine, so I am not sure if I have made more mistakes than usual (LOL). This is the error:

[gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread walt
On 02/27/2010 08:32 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal user accounts or the root account through su. Wond

[gentoo-user] Re: segfault on startup scripts with new install

2010-02-28 Thread walt
On 02/28/2010 07:56 AM, Mick wrote: I am booting into a new system and this is what I'm getting: :-( * Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot This is on a multi-reiser4 partition installation. What has gone wrong with it? Just a guess, but have you installed sys-fs/reiser4progs or someth

[gentoo-user] [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-01 Thread walt
This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this stuff? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread walt
On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: On 3/2/10, walt wrote: This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this stuff? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 If you're expecting a discussion then perha

[gentoo-user] Re: how to "git-bisect" in a portage-compatible way ?

2010-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/10/2010 03:03 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote: Hello, ... So the general question is : if I want to use git-bisect (I have never done that before, but today is a good time to try), It's a great tool and easy to use once you've learned the basic steps. You can ask here if you need help with it.

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/10/2010 05:50 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello, I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, and 1.10.2). emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my question is, do I need all 3 versions? 'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages, all depend

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/10/2010 10:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/10/2010 06:17 PM, walt wrote: A few packages actually specify an exact version of the autotools, but most just want a certain minimum version. Portage doesn't allow ebuilds to specify minimum versions or ranges for automake, only

[gentoo-user] Re: how to "git-bisect" in a portage-compatible way ?

2010-03-11 Thread walt
On 03/11/2010 07:54 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote: Le 10/03/10 17:08, walt a écrit : On 03/10/2010 03:03 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote: So the general question is : if I want to use git-bisect (I have never done that before, but today is a good time to try), It's a great tool and easy to use

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread walt
On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too forgiving and fuzzy! By George, I think you've got it. From now on, all political campaign speeches should be written in C. Well, okay, maybe in COBOL for the older ones.

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread walt
On 03/19/2010 04:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I've been on openssh-5.4 for about a fortnight now... I recall some quip from my school days about units always appearing in technical journals in the most universal format, e.g. furlongs/fortnight.

[gentoo-user] Re: (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-21 Thread walt
On 03/21/2010 05:33 AM, Leandro Boscariol wrote: Well, I`ve got this: /etc/conf.d/xdm ... DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" ... /etc/rc.conf ... # Gnome - will start gnome-session # kde- - will start startkde (look in /etc/X11/Sessions/) # Xfce4 - will start a XFCE4 session # Xsession - will start a termina

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread walt
On 03/22/2010 04:21 PM, KH wrote: > ... There even is a tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - > like you once hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to > turn legal again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are > done without installing every

[gentoo-user] Re: wlan

2010-03-23 Thread walt
On 03/23/2010 11:42 AM, Thomas Bruns wrote: Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 19:39:32 schrieb Thomas Bruns: Hello NGs, when connect my usb-wlan-stick i get this message: usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-5: New USB device found, id

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome fails to install with error 2

2010-03-23 Thread walt
On 03/23/2010 02:13 PM, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I'm running gentoo and am trying to install gnome 2.26 i believe is the version. I get considerably far in to the process then the install dies with an error 2 at gnome-extras/gnome-user-docs-gnome-accessibility guide and as i say error 2. I'd li

[gentoo-user] Re: xlsfonts shows only a few fonts

2010-03-28 Thread walt
On 03/28/2010 08:33 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i have a lot fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts. and i even have all the fonts from m$ win7. but when i ran xlsfonts, i got only a few fonts listed. like this: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semiconden

[gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-01 Thread walt
On 04/01/2010 06:40 PM, Joseph wrote: On 04/01/10 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph wrote: I have two identical HD in the box and want to duplicate sda to sdb; sdb is not even partitioned. I think I could do:

[gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread walt
On 04/02/2010 07:59 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) Yes, you can RAID partitions of drives. That's what I'm doing. You can look at the Gentoo RAID/LVM Install guide to see an example of using RAID0 and RAID1 on a single drive. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml Very

[gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread walt
On 04/02/2010 08:46 AM, Joseph wrote: On 04/02/10 09:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:47:09 -0700, walt wrote: However, if you want to leave both cables connected and change your BIOS to boot from 'sdb', you will need to edit some of the files on 'sdb', C

[gentoo-user] Re: language

2010-04-02 Thread walt
On 04/02/2010 07:58 AM, Roger Cahn wrote: Hi all, Yesterday I gave a presentation with OOo-3.2 Impress with my laptop (xfce4, thunar). I used a video projector Dell, which worked fine. However, this made my language change from french to english in many of my packages. Right click on desktop an

[gentoo-user] Re: language

2010-04-02 Thread walt
On 04/02/2010 10:13 AM, Roger Cahn wrote: Hi Roger, Hi Walt, Thank you for your answer. Just to clarify, are you saying the language problem was caused by using the video projector, or by running the OO file on your laptop, or ...? By using the video projector. It was the first time I

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread walt
On 04/04/2010 07:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: keeper ~ # diff /usr/src/linux/.config /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux/.config 4c4 < # Mon Mar 29 01:02:31 2010 --- # Sun Apr 4 06:28:53 2010 893,912c893,906 < CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m < CONFIG_MD_RAID0=m Hi Mark, Interesting thread, and I'm learning a lo

[gentoo-user] Re: alsa-update not in sync with kernel version

2010-04-04 Thread walt
On 04/04/2010 11:42 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am running a vanilla kernel (linux-2.6.32.11), This kernel uses alsa-1.0.21. When doing the eix-sync-thingy, emerge always suggests to update to alsa-1.0.22. Do you have media-sound/alsa-driver installed? If so, that is the cause of y

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread walt
On 04/04/2010 01:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind mounts are present within "/mnt/oldrootfs" at the time. Use the -x option with rsync to stop it descending into other fi

[gentoo-user] Re: can't get accelerated opengl renderer ati radeon xpress 200M

2010-04-06 Thread walt
On 04/06/2010 01:12 PM, Tony Miller wrote: I've been trying for awhile now to get the accelerated opengl renderer working on my radeon xpress 200M card(which is supposedly an rv370 or rs4000 according to this wiki page: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon). I've been following this guide al

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-09 Thread walt
On 04/09/2010 08:19 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: This is not a question about cvs... its only used for example. I'm puzzled about a change in what I see when I run cvs -n update 2> /dev/null I've apparently lost the ability to remove stder from output. I used that command to trim out file desc

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-10 Thread walt
On 04/09/2010 10:41 PM, Dale wrote:> I searched the logs in /var/log and found this: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX m

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-10 Thread walt
On 04/10/2010 11:19 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/09/2010 10:41 PM, Dale wrote:> I searched the logs in /var/log and found this: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X (EE) NVI

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

2010-04-12 Thread walt
On 04/12/2010 05:35 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Between xfce4& gnome I've seen about a dozen packages fail to build this morning and haven't yet checked bug reports. Let's start with xfce4 then because it's much smaller than gnome. What fails to build, and with what errors? I actually use gnome,

[gentoo-user] Re: xine problem

2010-04-13 Thread walt
On 04/13/2010 07:53 AM, James wrote: Hello, Xine has worked for me in the past. It has been a few months since I used it. Now it give these popup error messages: - xine engine error There is no input plugin available to handle dvd:/ Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist

[gentoo-user] Re: Good news for the HAL haters

2010-04-13 Thread walt
On 04/13/2010 01:34 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: Saw this message from an emerge today: * Messages for package x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0: * Usage of hal is strongly discouraged. Please migrate to udev. * From next major release on the hal support will be fully disabled. * Both hal and udev

[gentoo-user] Re: no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread walt
On 04/15/2010 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: ...I decompiled the flash on that page... Wait a minute. Am I the only one here who wants to know how to decompile a flash app? I don't believe that, so please give us a hint :)

[gentoo-user] Re: xine problem

2010-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/15/2010 07:38 PM, James wrote: gmx.de> writes: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvd1 -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvdrw1 -> hda Looking at the files you listed I guess /dev/dvd doesn't exist on your system. You should probably try /dev/dvd1 or /de

[gentoo-user] Re: monitor identification question (Gnome)

2010-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/15/2010 05:38 PM, David Relson wrote: I just retired my Viewsonic 19" CRT in favor of a Viewsonic VX2433WM. Looking in Xorg.0.log it's obviously recognized (as the following lines indicate): (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: R4F100901594 (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 24 H

[gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/16/2010 03:13 PM, Jonathan wrote: I'm trying to work out how many ways there are to increase the permissions of a user. ... I'm very happy Gentoo user but I find that configuring things can get very messy.> I've been an amateur linux/*BSD user for about ten years or so, and I would l

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread walt
On 04/17/2010 11:12 AM, Mick wrote: I have however already installed both pciutils and usbutils. Are they meant to make entries in cron.daily when installed? I just discovered the network-cron useflag, thanks :)

[gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread walt
On 04/17/2010 06:02 PM, Jonathan wrote: What does the E in EUID stand for? I did a quick Google and found RUID and EUID but I did not find anything else. Did you really type what you meant? Doesn't make much sense as is, so I assume there is a typo in there somewhere. Have a leisurely browse

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread walt
On 04/20/2010 04:05 PM, john wrote: Linux/Gentoo appaers to be moving away from xorg.conf and towards hal/policices... That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8 specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions, so we s

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread walt
On 04/22/2010 09:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On my web and mail servers I have no swap at all, they do have lots and lots of RAM; my Sybase database servers have enormous amounts of swap... Hm. Does that mean your database servers are allowed to be slower than the web and mail servers?

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server/nvidia/x86-driver updated: No kbd, no mouse

2010-04-25 Thread walt
On 04/25/2010 06:28 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [ 2806.923] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" [ 2806.923] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [ 2806.973] (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 2806.973]compiled for 1.8.0, module version = 2.4.0 [ 2806.973]Module

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server/nvidia/x86-driver updated: No kbd, no mouse

2010-04-25 Thread walt
On 04/25/2010 10:05 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Graham Murray [10-04-25 18:28]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: That was also my first thought, but evdev was recompiled -- as I wrote in my initial mail... What next? Do you have an InputClass section in your xorg.conf? This is needed for xo

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

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gt

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

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/26/2010 10:59 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol

[gentoo-user] Re: Cheese crashes with output concerning libgnomebreakpad.so

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/26/2010 09:26 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Here is the stdout from running cheese at the cli: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory That file is from gnome-extra/bug-buddy. Do you have that package

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

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/26/2010 01:53 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec

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

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: 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 becomi

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

2010-04-30 Thread walt
On 04/30/2010 06:24 AM, Kraus Philipp wrote: Hello, I must test a software with a older version of the glibc. I run the 2.11.1 > now but for one tool I need a previous version (2.6.1). How can I compile the glibc without changing my system glibc. I would like > to set the previous glibc with

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread walt
On 05/04/2010 03:06 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I use an encrypted /home mounted by pam_mount, it reads the key from a file so there is no keyboard involved. When I login I don't get /home mounted. /var/log/messages says: pam_mount(mount.c): crypt_activate_by_passphrase: Operation not per

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread walt
On 05/04/2010 10:38 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.05.2010 18:54, schrieb walt: pam_mount(mount.c): crypt_activate_by_passphrase: Operation not permitted I don't have a pam_mount, where does it come from? Perhaps it needs a reference to pam_ssh.so? What do you mean with "

[gentoo-user] Re: no mouse nor keyboard on X

2010-05-08 Thread walt
On 05/08/2010 07:01 AM, Francisco Ares wrote: Yep, using evdev, and that seems to be the issue: there are log file lines complaining about different versions: (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 2.3.2 Module class: X.Org XInput Dr

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-09 Thread walt
On 05/09/2010 05:10 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. i just updated my portage, and updated the world. then i ran revdep-rebuild, and i got a error when building "notification-daemon-0.4.0-r1". the error found in the build log is: cannot find -lpng12 i have both libpng

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-09 Thread walt
On 05/09/2010 06:41 AM, Xi Shen wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:32 PM, walt wrote: On 05/09/2010 05:10 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. i just updated my portage, and updated the world. then i ran revdep-rebuild, and i got a error when building "notification-d

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-09 Thread walt
On 05/09/2010 10:37 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-09 Thread walt
On 05/09/2010 11:54 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and walt: preserved libs. Look into it. A long time ago, maybe one or two years ago, an occasional package would suggest that I should run emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages that are linked to obsolete libraries. This worked very

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-11 Thread walt
On 05/11/2010 04:39 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:15:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:47:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I still have huge breakage with gnomecanvas and other things, meaning that lots of gtk apps are broken right now for me. This worked for m

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.28

2010-05-11 Thread walt
On 05/11/2010 12:53 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > ... I am at a point with evolution where I want 2.28 or 2.30 for exchange access so do I upgrade gnome to ~x86 (and work out any kinks that will involve), do evolution only or wait?... I can predict that unmasking evolution alone is way too messy

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.28

2010-05-11 Thread walt
On 05/11/2010 06:28 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: ...however, running another operating system just to read exchange email/calendaring (work nonsense!) - might just as well give up and run windows and outlook in a vm... No! Resist those temptations The Devil(TM) puts in your way. Why would you c

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline

2010-05-12 Thread walt
On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so does the down arrow key on the numpad. 2. Seems like the "down" key generates a double sequence: both the "down" event

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-12 Thread walt
On 05/08/2010 07:16 AM, claude angéloz wrote: Hello, I installed a gentoo on a very recent system (efi support) . AT the reception of the laptop it was a disk label msdos, with a boot partition w** installer ... I changed that against a GPt disk label. I can install without problem the gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline

2010-05-13 Thread walt
On 05/13/2010 03:22 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: On 05/13/10 00:54, walt wrote: On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so does the down arrow key on the n

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-13 Thread walt
On 05/13/2010 03:12 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2010 22:08:44 Stroller wrote: On 12 May 2010, at 23:22, walt wrote: On 05/08/2010 07:16 AM, claude angéloz wrote: ... I installed a gentoo on a very recent system (efi support) ... I know that it is not required an efi partiton to boot

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-15 Thread walt
On 05/14/2010 07:45 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-05-14 8:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 07:34:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after installing all the bug f

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

2010-05-15 Thread walt
On 05/15/2010 04:01 PM, Dale wrote: Just for reference, this is my USE flags: USE="X avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf > -acl -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd" Good grief, Dale, you're almost stark nekkid! Where are all the rest of your us

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 08:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Mine has xf86-* drive

[gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 01:12 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Explicitly setting Driver to "evdev" (to both mouse and keyboard sections) doesn't > fix the unexplained messages in Xorg.0.log. At least X manages to start, though. I'm expecting that your newest Xorg log will be different from the earlier

[gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 04:14 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: 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 bre

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.8.1 random segfaults

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 12:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Does anyone else get random segfaults all the time with xorg-server-1.8.1? xorg-server-1.8.0 is working just fine. I'm on ~amd64 with x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 (also tried live ebuild from x11 overlay.) I just upgraded today to 1.8.1 so

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 10:56 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have a newish high-end machine here that's causing me some problems with RAID, but looking at log files and dmesg I don't think the problem is actually RAID and more likely udev. I'm looking for some ideas on how to debug this. The hardware: Asus Ramp

[gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/15/2010 09:42 PM, 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-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not appropriate

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 02:56 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM, walt wrote: On 05/16/2010 10:56 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have a newish high-end machine here that's causing me some problems with RAID, but looking at log files and dmesg I don't think the problem is act

[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Re: Re: Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 04:39 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, walt I just did the experiment of building xorg-server with the hal useflag *off*, and found that neither keyboard nor mouse worked until I restored the two InputDevice sections that I comm

[gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread walt
so I'd say just enable kdrive and go for it! On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 15:55 -0700, walt wrote: On 05/15/2010 09:42 PM, 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-server an

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI HD5450

2010-05-18 Thread walt
On 05/18/2010 11:26 AM, James wrote: Hello Everyone, Well it's time to upgrade the video card in a few systems. I love the fanless cards so I'm sticking with that and ATI brand I'm looking at the ATI HD5450. Anyone got one of these running under gentoo? Got the 7.1 audio working out of th

[gentoo-user] Re: corefonts being depcleaned?

2010-05-18 Thread walt
On 05/18/2010 07:10 PM, Dale wrote: Hi, I updated a bit ago, it updated a few packages and while I was sitting here I thought I would run --depclean and see if anything needed cleaning. I got this list of packages: >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: media-fonts/corefonts sel

[gentoo-user] Re: corefonts being depcleaned?

2010-05-19 Thread walt
On 05/19/2010 01:19 PM, Dale wrote: Yea, it has times, ariel and a few others that I use a lot so it has to stay. I was going to try without it but I use those a lot. Ariel is really good for me to read with these old glasses. At least I know it being removed was not a mistake or something.

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-19 Thread walt
On 05/19/2010 12:59 PM, Fabian Köster wrote: Hi *, I am currently trying to use Phonon and PulseAudio and have the following problem: When I play some Video with a Non-KDE application like VLC everything is perfectly directed to the local PulseAudio running on my machine and i have the expected

[gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-21 Thread walt
On 05/21/2010 10:26 AM, Grant wrote: Google says the error can be due to disabling dri in xorg.conf, but I don't have anything like that. Should CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y include the dri or dri2 module? The dri and dri2 modules should be installed by x11-base/xorg-server. I've got all of these:

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