Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Keith Dart
Re 4FD4CE41.70503@gmail.com4FD4CE41.70503@gmail.com20120610034758.501a2693@dartworks.biz20120604094008.ga2...@ca.inter.net, Alan McKinnon said: > syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices, > liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for > desktop use wh

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 : a nasty problem

2012-06-10 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > My favorite game is the KDE 3 version of Mahjongg : > no, the KDE 4 version is nowhere near as good (smile). > > Currently, users are being warned in big red letters > that 'mDNSResponder' is masked & soon wb removed: the alternative is 'avahi'. > I unmerged the former & emerge

[gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Background: I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This file is filled with all sorts of "personal preference customizations" of my system. This file does not contain "required system USE flags". A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag "ruby_targets_

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/10/2012 09:58 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > If you want to allow overrides in an htaccess, you'll need at least, > > > Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch > AllowOverride FileInfo Options > > > in the main config or your vhost config. > Ugh. If you want to allow *rewrites* in h

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/09/2012 05:59 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2012 22:01:08 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >>> $ cat .htaccess >>> RewriteEngine on >>> >>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://tideswellmvc.co.uk/.*$ >>> [NC] RewriteCond %{H

[gentoo-user] Re: dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread walt
On 06/10/2012 03:33 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> That has *got* to be the first time ever someone could validly call >> grub "simple" and "well-documented" >> >> Usually, grub is anything but :-) > > Well documentation is pretty good me thinks, or at l

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 : a nasty problem

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > My favorite game is the KDE 3 version of Mahjongg : > no, the KDE 4 version is nowhere near as good (smile). > > Currently, users are being warned in big red letters > that 'mDNSResponder' is masked & soon wb removed: the alternative is 'avahi'

[gentoo-user] KDE 3 : a nasty problem

2012-06-10 Thread Philip Webb
My favorite game is the KDE 3 version of Mahjongg : no, the KDE 4 version is nowhere near as good (smile). Currently, users are being warned in big red letters that 'mDNSResponder' is masked & soon wb removed: the alternative is 'avahi'. I unmerged the former & emerged the latter, then tried to re

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100 > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices, > > > liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices, > > liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for > > desktop use which explains why t

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices, > liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for > desktop use which explains why the Handbook makes no real effort to > document them. One of the mai

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:41:37 +0200 Jarry wrote: > On 10-Jun-12 12:47, Keith Dart wrote: > > > >> I use Lilo -- it's simple if you're not continually changing the > >> set-up -- > > > > LILO is ancient history. syslinux (extlinux) is a much better > > solution these days. > > Honestly, never hear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0 (SOLVED FOR ME)

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-06-10 19:49, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I still don't have an idea what I did wrong ... Solved so far. Had to add some lines to my package.env as I run the LTO-enabled gcc-setup suggested by Nikos lately (had to disable lto for the drivers and mesa). Re-compiled the graphics-driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
See these lines in Xorg.0.log: [ 1661.605] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 1661.605] (II) LoadModule: "intel" [ 1661.605] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [ 1661.606] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so: /usr/lib64/xorg/mod

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Jarry
On 10-Jun-12 12:47, Keith Dart wrote: I use Lilo -- it's simple if you're not continually changing the set-up -- LILO is ancient history. syslinux (extlinux) is a much better solution these days. Honestly, never heard of it. Gentoo Handbook lists only GRUB and LILO as bootloaders. Is syslin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-06-10 12:43, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I don't know, this thinkpad worked perfectly well with gnome-shell and > hw-acceleration. > > At least I can use it with Gnome3 in fallback-mode for now, but it would > be nice to get full Gnome3 again (yes, I already tried switching back to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-06-10 13:43, schrieb Keith Dart: > My quick and dirty solution was to change it's home directory to > /var/empty. > > > polkitd:x:122:987:added by portage for > polkit:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin > > Now it will start. That's probably not the best place since it is > actually used by an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Keith Dart
Re jqsvb2$3a0$1@dough.gmane.orgjqsvb2$3a0$1...@dough.gmane.org, walt said: > For reasons I don't know, the polkit daemon wasn't actually running. > Dunno if it failed to start or somebody forgot to start it. Either > way the system was broken, so I'll let the experts figure it out. > I had the

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Keith Dart
Re , Philip Webb said: > I recently reorganised my HDD to avoid having to use initramfs . > Having done so, I still have some spare space on the HDD, > which seemed a good place to have a couple of other distros installed > in case I want to use Flash (my Gentoo is 64-bit) or show Linux to > frien

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.06.2012 17:36, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > Thanks to you I ran > > emerge -1 =polkit-0.105 =udisks-1.97.0-r1 > > and it works. Did that on my main workstation, here it works. On my thinkpad it doesn't work, I don't know why ... Gnome3 starts into a "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." screen