Re: [gentoo-user] Two taskbar panels after upgrade to KDE 4

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 19:03:13 Thorsten Kampe wrote: Hi, I just upgraded from KDE 3.5.10 to KDE 4. The upgrade went fine and KDE 4 KDM shows still my old KDE 3.5, XFCE and GNOME sessions as well as the new KDE 4 session. The only problem is that when I login to the old KDE 3.5

[gentoo-user] how to find all executables with an inofficial group id

2009-10-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know a simple method to find all executables with a group id which is not mentioned in /etc/group? Once an executable with a group id which used to be 'fcron' but isn't anymore, broke one of my systems. Now, I suspect a similar problem on another machine. Otherwise I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] how to find all executables with an inofficial group id

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 10:53:45 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, does anybody know a simple method to find all executables with a group id which is not mentioned in /etc/group? Once an executable with a group id which used to be 'fcron' but isn't anymore, broke one of my systems. Now, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 00:29 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS. Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between the two. From looking at Google,

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Dale
Damien Sticklen wrote: Dale, If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. Thanks, Damien It never crashed on mine tho. OO Calc and OO Writer kept running until I closed them. Was you

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread ubiquitous1980
Dale, When you say vox, what do you mean? Thanks Damien Dale wrote: Damien Sticklen wrote: Dale, If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. Thanks, Damien It never crashed on

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Damien Sticklen
Dale, I tried the ctrl-c, ctrl-v method and writer freezes. Thanks Damien Dale wrote: Damien Sticklen wrote: Dale, If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. Thanks, Damien

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
2009/10/21 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org: On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:14 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:   I've enabled suspend-to-disk in the kernel.  When I issue the command echo disk /sys/power/state, it suspends but *IMMEDIATELY* reboots and comes back up again.  The session

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
2009/10/21 Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com: Dale, I tried the ctrl-c, ctrl-v method and writer freezes. Thanks Damien No consolation to your problem, but Oo-bin works fine. I cutted and pasted between calc and writer on a x86 and it works without problem. The cells had text and

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Damien Sticklen
Oo-bin is the vanilla openoffice as opposed to the source version gentoo uses, which comes from go-o. When you say the x86 version is working fine, do you mean the bin or source version. Even so, I think we need to keep this bug open so the 64-bit version gets fixed regardless. Thanks for your

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
2009/10/21 Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com: Oo-bin is the vanilla openoffice as opposed to the source version gentoo uses, which comes from go-o.  When you say the x86 version is working fine, do you mean the bin or source version. Yes, I mean the OpenOffice-bin version. Even so, I

[gentoo-user] HP ScanJet 7670

2009-10-21 Thread James
Hello, I've never set up a scanner on gentoo (or any other linux before). So here's what I've done. Looking at the sane website I see support for these models: http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-hp5590.5.html ScanJet 7650 is listed as basic support. I have a HP Scanjet 7670, so it should

[gentoo-user] Re: HP ScanJet 6300C

2009-10-21 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Well, monkeying around with all the cables It now registers as a: Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03f0:0601 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300c scanimage -L device `hp:libusb:002:005' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 63x0C flatbed scanner So I guess I need some advice

[gentoo-user] Re: HP ScanJet 6300C

2009-10-21 Thread walt
On 10/21/2009 09:23 AM, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Well, monkeying around with all the cables It now registers as a: Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03f0:0601 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300c scanimage -L device `hp:libusb:002:005' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 63x0C

[gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? Anyone before felt the need to fulfil this curiosity? Ciao Francesco -- Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? genlop -u -- Gruß |

[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to

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

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make make modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the new kernel and rebooted. The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: ... VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel

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

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
as a follow up go here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13560 Virtually identical problem. Check out the screen pic. Just like mine, save for the hardware and fs differences. mw On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, Did linux#make menuconfig followed

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

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maxim Wexler wrote: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. To

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

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:07:18 Jonathan Callen wrote: Maxim Wexler wrote: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? === Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz

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

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? This is on an Asus 900A. 4G SSD, / and /boot all on one partition, formatted ext2, to prevent journalling overhead, with e2fsck set to check the fs at every boot. An 8G card contains /home and /var. mw

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

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:22 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? This is on an Asus 900A. 4G SSD, / and /boot all on one partition, formatted ext2, to prevent journalling overhead, with e2fsck set to check the fs at every boot. An 8G

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

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as root=) doesn't contain any of the following: /sbin/init /etc/init /bin/init /bin/sh Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, that looks like it mounted your /boot as

[gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/21/2009 11:17 PM, Keith Dart wrote: === On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? === Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 18 October 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 18 Oktober 2009 18:54:54 schrieb econti: [ebuild N] app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1 USE=mysql -sqlite [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2 [ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1 [4.5.2] [ebuild UD]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:54:02PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote Ok the echo trick isn't the recommended way to suspend to disk. A better way is to use pm-hibernate --quirks (pm-hibernate is from the pm-utils packages). The --quirks option will try to handle any, well, quirks that are known

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it, I'll have to go into my backups and dig up a working xorg.conf. And save a text copy of the xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07: Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) No. It works fine with other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) === Oooh... you mean running Gentoo as a guest. Well, you do have to have built a kernel first (or at least a make config). The build

[gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh settings under the Network places to have been carried over into KDE4. How do I go about copying them over? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:01 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it, I'll have to go into my backups

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:53:54 +0100, Mick wrote: Hmm ... I seem to have these three in my world file (not sure about the OP): x11-libs/qt x11-libs/qt-core x11-libs/qt-gui Should I delete them? Do you run them yourself? If not, they don't belong in world. The first could be particularly

[gentoo-user] Re: Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread walt
On 10/21/2009 03:55 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: ...All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all... How do you deal with font paths? That's one of the few reasons I still have an xorg.conf.

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

2009-10-21 Thread walt
On 10/21/2009 01:45 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... The partitioning scheme and fs hasn't changed. Just the kernel. It wasn't a problem before... Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing from

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

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Ok, I went back and found what looks like a glaring error. The old config had the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100 under processor options, the new one was missing a zero. A ha! sez I and fixed it. Nope. I get the exact same panic. Setting CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y doesn't help either. On a related

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:11 -0700, walt wrote: On 10/21/2009 03:55 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: ...All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all... How do you deal with font paths? That's one of the few reasons I still have an xorg.conf. Font paths? You

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable YMMV. Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate Production and Experimental

[gentoo-user] SIT-file format (Mac?) on linux

2009-10-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, does anyone know an unpacker for the sit fileformat (I think, this one is Mac-based?!) ? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekende! Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:13 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable YMMV.

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

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing 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

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

2009-10-21 Thread William Kenworthy
Run diff on both config files and see what you missed ... BillK On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing from scratch, but maybe I'm

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

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
I missed? Read the OP again. On 10/21/09, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Run diff on both config files and see what you missed ... BillK On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Xi Shen
well, currently i am using the open-vm-tool, which is the open source version. but i want to know if they are the same in function. can someone tell me? thanks. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === Isn't that

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 October 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:53:54 +0100, Mick wrote: Hmm ... I seem to have these three in my world file (not sure about the OP): x11-libs/qt x11-libs/qt-core x11-libs/qt-gui Should I delete them? Do you run them yourself? If not,