Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 05:11:25 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: In a mono font the O looks bigger because it fills more of the tile, so just remember The Big O. So instead of a font with a line through the zero, you have one where the capital o wears dark glasses? -- Neil Bothwick PCMCIA:

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-09 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 06:05:44PM -0700, Joseph wrote: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of Linux on it. What are my alternatives?

[gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo! I've pretty much got my new system up and running. It took me less than a week (compared with the month it took me when I first installed Gentoo a few years ago). The most time consuming bit was getting my email server (qmail) going. I've still got to go through my old

[gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anyone know why I can't use the controller type='scsi' model=lsisas1068 / when I do a virsh edit myvm while there is a model lsisas1078 available? According to https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsControllers there should be both. I have to convert/migrate a VMware VM using

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 09.02.2015 16:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Does anyone know why I can't use the controller type='scsi' model=lsisas1068 / when I do a virsh edit myvm while there is a model lsisas1078 available? According to https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsControllers there

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 09.02.2015 16:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Does anyone know why I can't use the controller type='scsi' model=lsisas1068 / when I do a virsh edit myvm while there is a model lsisas1078 available? According to https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsControllers there

[gentoo-user] Manipulating ext2 image without root access.

2015-02-09 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
Hi, I need a way to manipulate a ext2 HD image as a regular user (without mounting it). All I need is to copy a file to the image (possibly overwritting an existing file). For FAT it can be done with mtools, is there anything like it of ext? -- Fernando Rodriguez

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-09 Thread Joseph
On 02/09/15 02:24, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter

[gentoo-user] Re: rebuild of graphviz failed

2015-02-09 Thread James
wabenbau at gmail.com writes: cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/libtool/config/install-sh': No such file or directory Just got the same result. Probably gotta sync tomorrow and try again. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx

2015-02-09 Thread Guillaume Poulin
When I was using it back in ~2008, it was working. However, freenx seems to be an abandoned project, no update since 2008 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenx.berlios/files/?source=navbar). ArchWiki suggests to use x2go instead (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FreeNX). 2015-02-10 10:49

[gentoo-user] Re: Manipulating ext2 image without root access.

2015-02-09 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/09/2015 10:23 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I need a way to manipulate a ext2 HD image as a regular user (without mounting it). All I need is to copy a file to the image (possibly overwritting an existing file). For FAT it can be

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook connects to Internet automatically, desktop doesn't

2015-02-09 Thread Philip Webb
150209 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 19:54:07 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I discovered that my ASUS EEE connects automatically to the Internet when the physical connection is plugged in, while my desktop machine (AMD + Gigabyte mobo) has to be told by 'dhcpcd'. I've checked

Re: [gentoo-user] QA notices during font install

2015-02-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/02/2015 00:03, Walter Dnes wrote: I've been itching for an excuse to do a re-install on my desktop. The original install some years ago was 32-bit because, back then, a few programs were not available in 64-bit mode. Right after an upgrade on Friday, Flash entirely stopped working on

[gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx

2015-02-09 Thread Joseph
Will nomachine talk to nxserver-freenx I've installed nxserver-freenx on Gentoo but on the other end I have nomachine running on ubuntu. I couldn't find/install freenx on ubuntu. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-09 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 07:06:15PM -0700, Joseph wrote: On 02/09/15 02:24, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread covici
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:26 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I wonder if the original poster is using systemd? He already said he isn't. He just was looking for the wrong filename. Also, I find journalctl very clumsy to find things about a

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2015-02-09 Thread alexandra vargas

[gentoo-user] eudev

2015-02-09 Thread James
Hello So, I've been wanting to test eudev for a while now. I found these instructions in many places, so I have it a whirl: # emerge -Ca udev # emerge -1a eudev # etc-update # emerge @preserved-rebuild Problem is I had the 'udev' flag set in the make.conf, so it just reinstalled udev (216).

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

2015-02-09 Thread Joseph
On 02/09/15 13:47, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 02/09/2015 01:42 PM, Joseph wrote: I've openvpn installed: ... amd I'm trying to generate server key but I don't have directory: /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/ does openvpn creates this directory or I do it manually? It moved to

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

2015-02-09 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
you can install app-crypt/easyrsa On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've openvpn installed: Installed versions: 2.3.6(11:44:47 PM 01/30/2015)(lzo pam plugins ssl -down-root -examples -iproute2 -passwordsave -pkcs11 -polarssl -selinux -static -systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/09/2015 01:42 PM, Joseph wrote: I've openvpn installed: ... amd I'm trying to generate server key but I don't have directory: /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/ does openvpn creates this directory or I do it manually? It moved to /usr/share/easy-rsa when the app-crypt/easy-rsa package

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

2015-02-09 Thread Joseph
On 02/09/15 11:42, Joseph wrote: I've openvpn installed: Installed versions: 2.3.6(11:44:47 PM 01/30/2015)(lzo pam plugins ssl -down-root -examples -iproute2 -passwordsave -pkcs11 -polarssl -selinux -static -systemd USERLAND=-BSD) amd I'm trying to generate server key but I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

2015-02-09 Thread Joseph
On 02/09/15 11:57, Joseph wrote: On 02/09/15 13:47, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 02/09/2015 01:42 PM, Joseph wrote: I've openvpn installed: ... amd I'm trying to generate server key but I don't have directory: /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/ does openvpn creates this directory or I do it

[gentoo-user] openvpn

2015-02-09 Thread Joseph
I've openvpn installed: Installed versions: 2.3.6(11:44:47 PM 01/30/2015)(lzo pam plugins ssl -down-root -examples -iproute2 -passwordsave -pkcs11 -polarssl -selinux -static -systemd USERLAND=-BSD) amd I'm trying to generate server key but I don't have directory: /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

2015-02-09 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/15 13:47, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 02/09/2015 01:42 PM, Joseph wrote: I've openvpn installed: ... amd I'm trying to generate server key but I don't have directory: /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/ does openvpn

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/09/2015 01:57 PM, Joseph wrote: It moved to /usr/share/easy-rsa when the app-crypt/easy-rsa package was split off. I've emerged easy-rsa but the /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/ directory wasn't created. That's because It moved to /usr/share/easy-rsa =)

[gentoo-user] Re: rebuild of graphviz failed

2015-02-09 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 01:10:42 +0100 bitlord bitlord0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:55:00 +0100 waben...@gmail.com wrote: after the last update, rebuild of graphviz failed with: Already reported https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537850 I did a trick, downgraded

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild of graphviz failed

2015-02-09 Thread wabenbau
build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r4::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/media-gfx:graphviz-2.26.3-r4:20150209-234745.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rebuild of graphviz failed

2015-02-09 Thread wabenbau
Am Montag, 09.02.2015 um 19:15 schrieb »Q« boxc...@gmx.net: On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 01:10:42 +0100 bitlord bitlord0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:55:00 +0100 waben...@gmail.com wrote: after the last update, rebuild of graphviz failed with: Already reported

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild of graphviz failed

2015-02-09 Thread wabenbau
Am Dienstag, 10.02.2015 um 11:06 schrieb Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com: cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/libtool/config/install-sh': No such file or directory $ qlist libtool | grep install /usr/share/libtool/build-aux/install-sh So that path is wrong, or maybe a link is missing.

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-09 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hello, On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 18:05:44 -0700 Joseph wrote: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of Linux on it. What are my alternatives?

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:06:42 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: Do I actually need to configure the name of a log file in /etc/conf.d/syslog-ng? The Gentoo installation guide didn't mention, or even hint at, such being necessary. The names of the log files (and much more) are configured in

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/02/2015 11:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo! I've pretty much got my new system up and running. It took me less than a week (compared with the month it took me when I first installed Gentoo a few years ago). The most time consuming bit was getting my email server (qmail)

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Adam Carter
One little corner case; if you're running systemd 216 and syslog-ng 3.6, you need to add ForwardToSyslog=yes to /etc/systemd/journald.conf. With systemd 215 and earlier, messages are forwarded to syslog by default, and syslog-ng 3.6 is journald aware.

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 Feb 2015 10:19:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/02/2015 11:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo! I've pretty much got my new system up and running. It took me less than a week (compared with the month it took me when I first installed Gentoo a few years ago). The most

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 Feb 2015 11:23:15 Rich Freeman wrote: You don't have to export them from anything unless you need their content in a text file. If you just run journalctl that is the equivalent of typing cat /var/log/messages. If you do want to parse them with an external tool then you get your

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:29:24 +, Mick wrote: I noticed the same on a recent installation. /var/log/syslog is not created by default any more, when installing syslog-ng. I've using syslog-ng on Gentoo for well over ten years and it's always defaulted to /var/log/messages in that time. Other

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:19:20PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/02/2015 11:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo! I've pretty much got my new system up and running. It took me less than a week (compared with the month it took me when I first installed Gentoo a few

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 02/09/2015 06:49 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 09 Feb 2015 11:23:15 Rich Freeman wrote: You don't have to export them from anything unless you need their content in a text file. If you just run journalctl that is the equivalent of typing cat /var/log/messages. If you do want to parse them

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Matthias Hanft m...@hanft.de wrote: And (from what I have heard) if you use systemd instead of openrc, there are no syslog files at all - you have to export them (from some binary database) manually to some human- readable format. But I don't know much about

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:23:52 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: No, I've never used systemd either. It's useful to be able to read /var/log/messages with less, probe it with grep/awk/perl, etc., without having to learn some special purpose script language. journalctl outputs to less (or whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread covici
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 02/09/2015 06:49 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 09 Feb 2015 11:23:15 Rich Freeman wrote: You don't have to export them from anything unless you need their content in a

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Matthias Hanft
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Do I actually need to configure the name of a log file in /etc/conf.d/syslog-ng? The Gentoo installation guide didn't mention, or even hint at, such being necessary. The names of the log files (and much more) are configured in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf - since I

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 09 February 2015 01:00:32 Dale wrote: Anyone besides me use the ctrl + shortcut to zoom in? Yes, often. I do that and I have bi-focals on. I also have a magnifying glass right in front of my monitor. I tried varifocals but had to give them up. I now have three single- focus

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Matthias. On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:06:42AM +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Do I actually need to configure the name of a log file in /etc/conf.d/syslog-ng? The Gentoo installation guide didn't mention, or even hint at, such being necessary. The names of the

[gentoo-user] QA notices during font install

2015-02-09 Thread Walter Dnes
I've been itching for an excuse to do a re-install on my desktop. The original install some years ago was 32-bit because, back then, a few programs were not available in 64-bit mode. Right after an upgrade on Friday, Flash entirely stopped working on my machine. No Youtube, no internet radio,

[gentoo-user] Re: Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-02-08, waben...@gmail.com waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 08/02/2015 13:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke.

[gentoo-web-user] Administrativa: List scheduled to be retired

2015-02-09 Thread Alex Legler
Hello, after reviewing the activity of our mailing lists, the Gentoo Infra team is considering retiring less active lists in order to keep the amount of different lists overseeable. This mailing list is currently scheduled for closure by next week. Subscribers of this are invited to instead

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 02/09/2015 08:02 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Keep in mind that if you're grepping logs, there is probably a better way to accomplish what you want to do with journalctl's options. Finding all output from a particular daemon is going to be more reliable if you filter by unit, versus getting

[gentoo-user] rebuild of graphviz failed

2015-02-09 Thread wabenbau
the output of `emerge --info '=media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r4::gentoo'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r4::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/media-gfx:graphviz-2.26.3-r4:20150209-234745.log'. * The ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild of graphviz failed

2015-02-09 Thread Adam Carter
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/libtool/config/install-sh': No such file or directory $ qlist libtool | grep install /usr/share/libtool/build-aux/install-sh So that path is wrong, or maybe a link is missing. Maybe rebuild libtool? FWIW im at 2.4.4

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild of graphviz failed

2015-02-09 Thread bitlord
is located at '/var/log/portage/media-gfx:graphviz-2.26.3-r4:20150209-234745.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r4/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r4/work/graphviz-2.26.3

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-09 Thread Joseph
On 02/09/15 23:54, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Hello, On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 18:05:44 -0700 Joseph wrote: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Matthias Hanft
Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:19:20PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: (it's also constantly tailed on vt12, just in case you need to see what's going on it right now) I didn't know that. Wow! Is this something relatively new, or has it always been there? I installed my

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 02/09/2015 06:49 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 09 Feb 2015 11:23:15 Rich Freeman wrote: You don't have to export them from anything unless you need their content in a text file. If you just run journalctl that is

[gentoo-user] Anyone familiar with virt-manager?

2015-02-09 Thread walt
I just installed virt-manager to experiment with and this is the first time I've used it. I think I've misconfigured something but I don't know what: I have an old WinXP qemu guest that has been working well when I run it directly with qemu from the command line. I imported the XP guest into

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:26 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I wonder if the original poster is using systemd? He already said he isn't. He just was looking for the wrong filename. Also, I find journalctl very clumsy to find things about a specific program, such as mail logs or whatever --

Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx

2015-02-09 Thread Joseph
On 02/10/15 11:01, Guillaume Poulin wrote: When I was using it back in ~2008, it was working. However, freenx seems to be an abandoned project, no update since 2008 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenx.berlios/files/?source=navbar). ArchWiki suggests to use x2go instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-09 Thread wabenbau
Am Montag, 09.02.2015 um 08:49 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 09/02/2015 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: I actively seek out and