Re: [gentoo-user] Fails to compile dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4

2010-07-12 Thread Blackdream W
cat /etc/locale.gen en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 2010/7/13 Zhu Sha Zang > I see this error when i'm trying to "compile" my python source codes in > eric4/eric5 and my system are with uncorrect locales. > > Your locale are corect? > > att > > Em Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:03:35 -0300, Blackdream

Re: [gentoo-user] Fails to compile dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4

2010-07-12 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
I see this error when i'm trying to "compile" my python source codes in eric4/eric5 and my system are with uncorrect locales. Your locale are corect? att Em Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:03:35 -0300, Blackdream W escreveu: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328047 I'm using ~amd64,and I syn

[gentoo-user] Fails to compile dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4

2010-07-12 Thread Blackdream W
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328047 I'm using ~amd64,and I sync my portage tree just now,but I couldn't upgrade to dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4. "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)" any help?thx

[gentoo-user] firefox crashes when printing (with workaround)

2010-07-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Firefox testing (3.3.6) reliably crashes when trying to print, print preview or "page setup" with cups-1.4.4. A workaround is to downgrade to cups-1.3.11-r1 (current stable). The details are in these two bugs http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325469 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
walt writes: > On 07/11/2010 07:42 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> ajglap video # file Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.* >> Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, ~30 >> fps, video: FFMpeg MPEG-4, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 1 or 2 (stereo, 44100 Hz) > > Okay, the above is the avi fi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:06 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m > file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured > on eth0? > Amit > I'm a bit slow in replying, but there's a Google SOC project to integrate

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 07/12/10 11:00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > do you have the process accounting deamon running ? > > No, and I've never done so. Thats why the logfile is missing ;-) If you dont have that daemon running (and so nobody write to that logfile), you could simply remov

[gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works

2010-07-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to "Unknown". For a long time it has always been set to "Evdev managed keyboard" but that isn't even on the list anymore. The keyboard shortcuts preferenc

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- solved

2010-07-12 Thread Philip Webb
100712 Mick wrote: > I must have installed at least 3 Ubuntus in the last 6 months, > all of them on reiserfs. No problem booting them. > > image=/boot/your_Ubuntu_image > label=Ubuntu > append="ramdisk_size=290" > vga=normal > initrd=/boot/your_ubuntu_initrd.gz > r

[gentoo-user] Re: viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-12 Thread walt
On 07/11/2010 07:42 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > ajglap video # file Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.* > Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, ~30 > fps, video: FFMpeg MPEG-4, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 1 or 2 (stereo, 44100 Hz) Okay, the above is the avi file you made by using ffm

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-12 Thread Kyle Bader
Maybe you need a powered adapter like the one you need for a classic model m? Can't think of the brand I've seen offhand :/ On 7/12/10, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this > adaptor: > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this adaptor: > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- > Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1278964492&sr=8

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: > For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. > > -Andy For what it's worth, Andy, here's my setup: /etc/locale.gen has: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR ISO-8859-7 and in /etc/env.d/02locale I have: LANG="en_US.UT

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 July 2010 21:58:35 Bill Longman wrote: > On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: > > On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > >> Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. > > > > That did it. Thanks! > > > > I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to "en_US.UTF-8" > > when loc

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.4 system settings - fonts never display

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/12/2010 01:52 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010 19:28:46 Bill Longman wrote: >> Have I just misconfigured several of my KDE boxes or is there a problem >> with KDE 4.4.4's system settings? The font installer worked fine in 4.3, >> but whenever I go into system settings and try to get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: > On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: >> Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. >> >> >> > That did it. Thanks! > > I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to "en_US.UTF-8" > when locale -a says "en_US.utf8"? That's probably what the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.4 system settings - fonts never display

2010-07-12 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 July 2010 19:28:46 Bill Longman wrote: > Have I just misconfigured several of my KDE boxes or is there a problem > with KDE 4.4.4's system settings? The font installer worked fine in 4.3, > but whenever I go into system settings and try to get a list of the > fonts, it's just a blank b

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 12 July 2010 10:18:48 zek...@gmail.com wrote: >> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: >> > On Saturday 10 July 2010 02:57:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> On 07/10/2010 04:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> >> > >> >> > I just updated the portage tre

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery

2010-07-12 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 July 2010 17:21:52 Philip Webb wrote: > Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / > & avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, > so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . > > Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conven

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Andy Wilkinson
On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get >> Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as >> well as its own, supports UTF-8 character

[gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-12 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this adaptor: http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1278964492&sr=8-6 Unfortunately, it is not recognised by the kernel:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 July 2010 10:18:48 zek...@gmail.com wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > > On Saturday 10 July 2010 02:57:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 07/10/2010 04:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I just updated the portage tree and gcc was upgraded. I have s

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get > Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as > well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special > characters are not displaye

[gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

2010-07-12 Thread Andy Wilkinson
Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to su

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.4 system settings - fonts never display

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
Have I just misconfigured several of my KDE boxes or is there a problem with KDE 4.4.4's system settings? The font installer worked fine in 4.3, but whenever I go into system settings and try to get a list of the fonts, it's just a blank box, whether I choose personal or system fonts. No amount of

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery

2010-07-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/12/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Philip Webb wrote: > >> Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / >> & avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, >> so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . >> >> Also, I checked the Ubuntu kerne

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> What does C-u C-x = give on your system >> >> character: b (98, #o142, #x62) >> preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) >>code point: 0x62 >>syntax: w which means: word >> category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Lati

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery

2010-07-12 Thread covici
Philip Webb wrote: > Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / > & avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, > so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . > > Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot , > which ha

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery

2010-07-12 Thread Philip Webb
Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / & avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot , which has ReiserFS configured as a module,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Grant Edwards writes: > On 2010-07-09, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Grant Edwards writes: > Recently emacs (running in X "window" mode) seems to have developed a > font problem. >> >> Perhaps it is a font issue. > > Yes, I think it probably is. > >> I just did emacs -q (-Q eliminat

[gentoo-user] Re: anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-12 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 07/12/10 01:52, Philip Webb wrote: [] Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ? Hard to believe that the filesystem is causing a problem. Here's my conf (I have two kernels on the same OS; one ha

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-12 Thread Philip Webb
100712 Mick wrote: > As was already suggested by John, Thanks to John too. > you can instead copy the kernel image & initrd from the Ubuntu installation > to your existing /boot partition, then point LILO to it. I tried that, Lilo runs ok, but I still get the kernel panic due to the line in lil

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-12 Thread Philip Webb
100712 Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski wrote: > Sure thing I use lilo on my lap. You want config for example? Please : that would help a lot ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Citie

Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

2010-07-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > What's the deal with: > > !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. > > Note the ".xz" extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using > something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

2010-07-12 Thread Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
It's Overlay - this is how it work's. It's buggy stack thats why it's called Overlay. Otherwise "the Code" from Overlay should be in main stream in regular portage. Please don't complain that Overlay don't work. Try emerge about 3-4 days after error occures. 2010/7/12 > And to answer the origina

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-09, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> Grant Edwards writes: >>> Recently emacs (running in X "window" mode) seems to have developed a font problem. > > Perhaps it is a font issue. Yes, I think it probably is. > I just did emacs -q (-Q eliminates the > splash screen) and then did C

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-12 Thread Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
Sure thing I use lilo on my lap. You want config for example? 2010/7/12 Mick > On 12 July 2010 08:37, Philip Webb wrote: > > 100712 Mick suggested : > >> install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs > >> and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR. > >> Then chainload it from your LILO boot

Re: [gentoo-user] fate of nmh

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/11/2010 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 11 July 2010 20:42:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >> # unless a new maintainer can be found, this package is >> # slated for removal. >> # >> # Removal on 2010-08-23 >> >> This is what I use for my mail reader -- with the emacs interface --

Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

2010-07-12 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:41 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the ".xz" extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't th

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-12 Thread Mick
On 12 July 2010 08:37, Philip Webb wrote: > 100712 Mick suggested : >> install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs >> and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR. >> Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu. > > Thanks for your very prompt response.  I'm not sure if I've got it right,

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

2010-07-12 Thread mellitussum
And to answer the original statement: the kde overlay often puts the ebuilds in before the sources themselves hit the mirrors. And the .xz compression format is the successor to the .lzma format, if I recall correctly...you should have xz-utils on your system.Chris ReffettOn Jul 12, 2010, Albert Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-12 Thread Crístian Viana
> > Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? well, I wanted to make some tests with libvirt and VirtualBox, but I guess I'll leave it for some other time. I removed the "virtualbox" USE flag. Else try emerging virtualbox-ose or virtualbox-bin befire libvirt. nothing's changed. But this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

2010-07-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:41 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > What's the deal with: > >!! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. > > Note the ".xz" extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using > something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I > d

[gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

2010-07-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the ".xz" extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded from my local KDE mirror work anymore? Why should I trust tarb

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/12/10 11:00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > since a few days logrotate is failing due to > > error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory > > do you have the process accounting deamon running ? No, and I've never done so. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-12 Thread covici
Philip Webb wrote: > My cousin in England wants to try out Linux & has an Ubuntu Live CD. > To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box. > The partition is /dev/sda8 & is formatted ReiserFS. > I use Lilo as boot manager & don't want to change to Grub > just to offer t

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > since a few days logrotate is failing due to > error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory do you have the process accounting deamon running ? did you instruct logrotate to create this logfile if missing ? cu --

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:19:25 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you > > tell it to use a particular keyboard layout? > > 19:18:09 steph...@luciole:/etc/udev/rules.d $ cat 61-x11-input.rules > SUBSYSTEM!="input", GOTO="x11_input_end"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-12 Thread ZekeyG
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Saturday 10 July 2010 02:57:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 07/10/2010 04:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I just updated the portage tree and gcc was upgraded. I have set gcc to >> > the newer version >> > >> > -> gcc-config -l >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-12 Thread Philip Webb
100712 Mick suggested : > install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs > and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR. > Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu. Thanks for your very prompt response. I'm not sure if I've got it right, but I can easily re-install Ubuntu with a /boot

[gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since a few days logrotate is failing due to error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory What has changed, what am I missing? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany