[gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. KDE System Settings has a menu for setting a compose key, but tests with 'left-control' 'pause' in

[gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86 laptop, wicd stopped working, and no wicd was not updated neither was any other network related packages. Today after a reboot my wireless network refused to start from wicd, starting it manually works. This is a part of the

[gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Thursday night, I emerged some packages Thu Feb 23 23:26:44 2012 net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.6.3-r300 Thu Feb 23 23:29:44 2012 www-client/midori-0.4.3 Thu Feb 23 23:45:36 2012 sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.49 Thu Feb 23 23:52:50 2012 media-libs/libpng-1.5.9 Thu Feb 23 23:53:45 2012

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100 Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: Hi, After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86 laptop, wicd stopped working, and no wicd was not updated neither was any other network related packages. Today after a reboot my wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:34:01AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100 Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86 laptop, wicd stopped working, and no wicd was not updated neither was

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. KDE System Settings has a menu for

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 26 February 2012 10.52:58 Willie WY Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:34:01AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100 Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 07:44:37 schrieb Philip Webb: 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly

[gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Jörg Schaible
Philip Webb wrote: 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, but there's no sign of 'control-k' or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I get Unrecognized command from savedefault in grub: grub savedefault --default=1 --once Error 27: Unrecognized command Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb understands this? The documentation does not mention the --default option I think. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
Willie WY Wong wrote: On Thursday night, I emerged some packages SNIP Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is needlessly calling dhcpcd? Cheers, W This may not be it but worth taking a look at. /etc/rc.conf From that file: # rc_hotplug is a

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread walt
On 02/26/2012 01:35 AM, Willie WY Wong wrote: Gee-Mi-Ni init.d # grep dhcpcd /etc/init.d/* /etc/init.d/dhcpcd:command=/sbin/dhcpcd /etc/init.d/dhcpcd:pidfile=/var/run/dhcpcd.pid /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant: before dns dhcpcd net uh, apparently none of them? The net.lo script does

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the resident old fart around here I beg your pardon. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:32:43AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: This may not be it but worth taking a look at. /etc/rc.conf From that file: # rc_hotplug is a list of services that we allow to be hotplugged. # By default we do not allow hotplugging. # A hotplugged service is one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:35:30AM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked: The value of ${IFACE} is set (I think) by looking at the .lo or .eth0 file extension of net.lo or net.eth0 (or whatever symlink you created when you installed gentoo). If you don't have a net.whatever symlink to net.lo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked: Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is needlessly calling dhcpcd? Apparently the culprit is /etc/init.d/netmount I am not sure how it got into the default run level, since I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Grant
I get Unrecognized command from savedefault in grub: grub savedefault --default=1 --once Error 27: Unrecognized command Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb understands this? The documentation does not mention the --default option I think. I re-emerged grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the resident old fart around here I beg your pardon. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a fast connection, I bet *I'll* be the new resident old fart at 50 years of age just

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote: On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote: On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
120226 Jörg Schaible wrote: Philip Webb wrote: In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. KDE System Settings has a menu for setting a compose

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2012, 21:14:21 schrieb Grant: [snip] I'm amazed but disconnecting and reconnecting the IDE and power cable fixed it. Which is your favorite tool for testing a HD's integrity with and without S.M.A.R.T. support? [I] gnome-extra/gsmartcontrol [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote: On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote: On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Have a look at 'info grub', 'Booting' - 'Making your system robust', especially section 4.3.2 'Booting fallback systems'. That's what I used in order to test new kernels remotely.        Wonko I like that better. Where do you execute 'grub-set-default 0'? I had it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 08:05:23 PM IST, Grant wrote: I get Unrecognized command from savedefault in grub: grub savedefault --default=1 --once Error 27: Unrecognized command Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb understands this? The documentation does not mention the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:19:54 +0100 Willie WY Wong wong...@member.ams.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked: Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is needlessly calling dhcpcd? Apparently the culprit

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:36:49 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the resident old fart around here I beg your pardon. ;-) Yes Dale, *I* am the resident old fart. *You* are the hal breaker and finder/destroyer of stupid software. We discussed all this

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:41:41 -0600 John irgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the resident old fart around here I beg your pardon. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a fast

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:33:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yes Dale, *I* am the resident old fart. I feel a Spartacus moment coming on... -- Neil Bothwick An expert is nothing more than an ordinary person away from home. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
Further investigation shows that both in Mandriva in Gentoo the file ~/.kde4/share/config/kxkbrc has a line 'Options=compose:lctrl', so for some reason Kwrite Kate are not recognising that setting. -- ,, SUPPORT

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread walt
On 02/26/2012 06:17 AM, Willie WY Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:35:30AM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked: The value of ${IFACE} is set (I think) by looking at the .lo or .eth0 file extension of net.lo or net.eth0 (or whatever symlink you created when you installed gentoo). If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 26 February 2012 15.19:54 Willie WY Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked: Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is needlessly calling dhcpcd? Apparently the culprit is

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 26 February 2012 17.52:13 Dan Johansson wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 15.19:54 Willie WY Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked: Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 26 February 2012 13.43:13 Dan Johansson wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 10.52:58 Willie WY Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:34:01AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100 Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: After

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: snip Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available methods, it's the most recent. But beware that you will still need to download almost all

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread James Broadhead
On 26 February 2012 17:10, John irgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote:  snip Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available methods, it's the most recent. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:10:50 -0600 John irgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: snip Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available methods, it's the

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dan Johansson squawked: Yes, that was it, killing the dhcpcd made it possible to bring the interface up and associate with the AP. As openrc was one of the packages upgraded yesterday (0.9.8.4 - 0.9.9.1) I assume (guess) that is why

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:31:23PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: Here's what I've found after much up down-grading and rebooting: First, I've had netmount in the default runlevel for ages and it's worked for ages even though it does nothing. Second, openrc has been launching

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:10:50 -0600 John irgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: snip Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to download the stage3 as these

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:36:49 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the resident old fart around here I beg your pardon. ;-) Yes Dale, *I* am the resident old fart. *You* are the hal breaker and finder/destroyer of stupid software.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
John wrote: On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the resident old fart around here I beg your pardon. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a fast connection, I bet *I'll* be the new resident old fart at 50 years of

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv compilation problems

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: I'm having trouble compiling mythtv-0.24.1. The build log is attached. Can anyone help me decipher what is going on? mythtv-0.23.1_p27077 compiles OK. Probably the same problem they are talking about here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Henson Sturgill writes: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Now I'd also like to use Midori, as a lightweight browser for using Google+. The reason is that when I open Google+ in Firefox, I am also logged in at Google when I using other tabs with

[gentoo-user] local layman repository missing files

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I haven't been able to emerge sci-libs/dcmtk from the science overlay for a while, due to a missing dcmtk-asneeded.patch in the files directory. In fact, the whole /var/portage/layman/science/files directory was missing. I fixed this by removing and adding the science overlay again:

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: In Firefox you can create multiple profiles. Each profile will have its own set of cookies, bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc. To open 2 firefox windows with 2 different profiles at once, launch it with: firefox -P -no-remote Thanks Paul, that's what I am doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
Dan Johansson wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 17.52:13 Dan Johansson wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 15.19:54 Willie WY Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked: Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-26 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/25/2012 06:05 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 25, 2012 10:34 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount during boot