Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
v...@ukr.net writes: On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:51:32 +0800 microcai micro...@fedoraproject.org wrote: You forgot to disable pgo when you compile some xfce-session . What is 'pgo'? Thanks, I just used this question to finally look up the man page of the euses command, which I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver - Connection with remote peer broken

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: After upgrade I enabled KMS in the kernel for my for my Radeon card and now I can not connect client to nxserver I'm getting an error message: Connection with the remote server was shut down. Please check the state with your remote connection. My remote ssh connection is

Re: [gentoo-user] better alternative to NX

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: Are there better alternative to NX? I don't know. The commercial original version from nomachine.org (net-misc/nxserver-freeedition) was said to be somewhat faster than FreeNX (net-misc/nxserver-freenx), not sure if this is still true, but as FreeNX is dead, it's probably right.

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver - Connection with remote peer broken

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: On 07/09/12 19:07, Alex Schuster wrote: Joseph writes: Here is the log from remote nxserver: [...] nxagentXkbGetRules: WARNING! Failed to stat file [/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xorg]: Unknown error -1. /usr/lib64/NX/bin/nxagent: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64

Re: [gentoo-user] better alternative to NX

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: Do you have a good link how to setup net-misc/neatx on Gentoo? No. I installed Beatx once, but that was on Fedora I think. The system got another distro soon after, so Neatx was abandoned. There is no development for it any more, so the next remote desktop service was FreeNX

Re: [gentoo-user] freenx - no /var/lib/nxserver/home/ drectory

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: I'm setting up again freenx and following the instructions from: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_FreeNX_Server but after running: emerge -av nxserver-freenx nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge the installation did not create

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Wiki test page?

2012-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: I've got USB devices automounting on mdev and I'd like to set up a page on wiki.gentoo.org, describing the steps, and link to it from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev Is there a way to play around on a test page and import it to the final destination? Another option

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Christopher Lemire writes: I tried disabling r128 and building the raedon driver into the kernel. However, I am getting the message raedon module not found. It's not a module. It's built into the kernel. Xorg.0.log. I mistakenly typed raedom, but then fixed it to raedon, so if you see that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
William Kenworthy writes: On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd? Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a Gentoo Expert in NYC?

2012-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
David Kuhl writes: I need a Gentoo Expert to take a look at this. Are there any in NYC around West 72nd? I've got to get this laptop working. After following the recomendations on building the latest kernel I don't have a system anymore. Everything on my LVM2 partitions are gone or at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: 120704 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: What's the best way to get this back without loosing the system? ... install Ubuntu (or one of its spin-offs). Ik ! Why does he need KSM ? -- Google found an article which advises : if

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend, hibernate and mount stopped working as a regular user.

2012-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Yohan Pereira writes: This happened after a recent world upgrade. I am currently using kde 4.8.4. I can however suspend, hibernate using the pm-utils as root. Google has lead me to believe this has something to do with consolekit. Or maybe sys-auth/polkit? There were issues lately with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version have put it at block 1. No, it's older versions that use 63, while the new fdisk uses 2048. This way the new 4K sectors of huge drives are aligned well. It does not need to be 2048, as long as it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Not receiving emails

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi David! I only recieved one email since signing up on this list yesterday. I expected to see more traffic. There's nothing going to spam, I'm not sure it I should repost or not. The forum doesn't seem to have it either. Your mails arrive just fine, I see six altogether. You can see them

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
David Kuhl writes: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting upgraded, the 3.3.8 gen kernel was suppose to be built with KSM. That failed due to mkfs_ext2.h. The a

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: Seriously though, why not use make install? That way you know the right files get copied and given the expected names. Because I name my kernel and config the same thing. I also don't like the way it does that link thingy it does. It seems to expect

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Helmut Jarausch writes: On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 from this disk: [...] which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. I cannot tell you if kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 from this disk: [...] which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. I was urged to use the sysreq-key to reboot and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 24/06/12 13:49, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, yesterday I run emerge and run into problem with Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8. It won't compile (also broadcom-sta driver won't rebuild) [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Samuraiii writes: yesterday I run emerge and run into problem with Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8. [...] Unpacking source... Unpacking NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.59.run to /tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.59/work Source unpacked in

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 requires SIP v4.13.3 or later

2012-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I'm doing my KDE4 upgrades and ran into this: [...] Error: This version of PyQt requires SIP v4.13.3 or later [...] I notice tho that portage seems to have failed to notice this was needed. Should I file a bug report or is this just me? File a bug. There is a DEPEND line in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: Just in case anyone missed it: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4I That URL cannot be found. This seems to work for me: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/StQB1ftUp8D Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Pandu Poluan writes: Just in case anyone missed it: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4I That URL cannot be found. This seems to work for me: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/StQB1ftUp8D Argh, but it's the wrong

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

2012-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting? Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E to edit, and remove the 'quiet' kernel parameter. The Grub menu still does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700 Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Today emerge is asking me to add =sys-fs/udev-171-r6 hwdb to package.use to appease udisk. Just as before, this looks fishy to me and I would like to get your opinion about how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Building a binary package without installing

2012-06-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:25:38 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I wish to build a binary package of glibc-2.14.1-r3. I don't want to actually install it on my system. Just build a tbz2 for it to use on another system. Is there a way to do that? emerge -B atom

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe writes: I've just kicked off an emerge -NuD world and will now head out for a while. My emerge has to do, amongst others, gcc, libreoffice, Firefox Thunderbird. Now when I get back I'll want to know where the emerge is up to so, in my ignorance of portage/emerge in great

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge any gcc

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Ezequiel Garcia writes: I found something strange. What should I have in /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu? Currently: $ ls bin binutils-bin gcc-bin lib Same here on ~amd64, except for an additional i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ directory, containing broken symlinks only, which belongs to no package.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Jarry wrote: On 26-May-12 22:01, Dale wrote: Jarry wrote: after updating baselayout from 2.0.3 to 2.1-r1 /run is mounted as tmpfs. But I can not find any mount-option for controlling how much memory is (or could be) used for it. Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Available

Re: [gentoo-user] Epiphany freezes

2012-05-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Jakub Daniel writes: every time i open facebook and enter anything into the search field and click any of the results epiphany freezes, then i can only force quit. I know this is not the best description but could anyone, please, suggest how to try to debug this? Does it also happen with

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: *Especially* for servers, there really, REALLY needs to be a way to see this kind of warning BEFORE updating... ie, the warning should be printed to the screen during an 'emerge -pvuDN world' or something, so I know that a reboot will be required for this update.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

2012-05-23 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of the fan noise, but I can't tell if the fan is beginning to fail (the noise sounds a bit harsh to me) or something is merely controlling the speed appropriately. The machines BIOS has no settings whatever concerning the

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Anything in there show network through-put per process? I've been looking for a way to monitor what's going to each of my VMs? net-analyzer/nethogs does that. Wonko

Suspend to {RAM,Disk] (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background)

2012-05-18 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 05/16/2012 01:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial services are being started I can barely remember when I was young enough to care about saving a few seconds. (But, good for you :) Isn't rebooting uncool

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to {RAM,Disk]

2012-05-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Ignas Anikevicius writes: On 18/05/12 20:59, Alex Schuster wrote: Suspend to ram (using the hibernate-ram command from sys-power/hibernate-script) seems to work better. What about pm-utils? Does it work better or worse than hibernate-script. I had 0 problems with it during entire usage

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: [about showing which processes use how much swap] Michael Mol writes: [...] sys-process/htop Huh? I only see the total amount of swap being used, but no entry per process. Hit F2, and go

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Scherer writes: 1) make output: CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h LD init/mounts.o ls -Al -m elf_x86_64 -r -o init/mounts.o init/do_mounts.o

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. This has never failed me. For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution: unset path. Libtool uses this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: I wrote: Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415241 I just found out it only happens when I start the video from within Dolphin, and as my user. From the command line, or as another user

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin? I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the same time you're

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes: On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. This has never failed me. For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to strange libtool errors

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition. How do you create your initramfs? The new udev (= 182, I believe) requires the use of an initramfs if you have a separated /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: 120513 Alex Schuster wrote: I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition ... after an unclean shutdown -- reading files in /proc/pid/ was not a good idea -- /usr wants to be fsck'ed. But it is already mounted at that stage. Maybe I should just enlarge my

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:11:55 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: # copy data over rsync -ax /usr /tmp/bindroot/ It would be wise to remount /usr read-only before doing this. Yes, as written a few lines above what you quoted :) No need for downtime except for the reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Norman Invasion writes: On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, Which was quite long ago :) but do you have any advanced power management features enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] less file.html

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: I want to view the html source of a webpage. When I run `less file.html` the rendered webpage is shown, not the source. It is as if lynx had been invoked, rather than less. `more file.html` and `most file.html` both work fine, but this is annoying - it takes an effort

Re: [gentoo-user] less file.html

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 12 May 2012, at 22:49, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] How do I disable less from parsing html source, please? You can set LESSIGNORE='*.htm*'. This environment variable is used by the lesspipe command, which is invoked by less and filters the input file before giving

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower than ram. I have always wondered how to find this out myself. Me too, so when I had this sudden swap problem for the first time, I

[gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition. It was encrypted, and it seems there is no solution yet for this, so I moved it over to an unencrypted volume - no problem, /usr is one partition where encryption does not make that much sense anyway. Works, but after an unclean

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Dale writes: Is there a way to find out what is using swap?  Maybe something related to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower than ram. I have always wondered

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 11/05/12 03:06, Alex Schuster wrote: Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415241 I just found out it only happens when I start the video from within Dolphin, and as my user. From

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in Dolphin, I get about 15 interruptions, some for

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. There

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: I realize this thread is bigger than an encyclopedia by now, so I apologize if this has already been suggested. :) Well, I'm happy for any input on this :) This problem is really annoying. I'm curious if you look at /proc/interrupts if the disk with I/O problems is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 09/05/12 14:31, Alex Schuster wrote: When you pause mplayer2 playing any kind of video, does its process also use 100% of one of your cores? Nope. Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: https

[gentoo-user] mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! When you pause mplayer2 playing any kind of video, does its process also use 100% of one of your cores? I think this is weird. I'm switching back to mplayer. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 09/05/12 14:31, Alex Schuster wrote: When you pause mplayer2 playing any kind of video, does its process also use 100% of one of your cores? Nope. Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Mark Knecht writes: OK, fire up two terminals. In one run top, hit 1 z so you see all your CPUs and then watch CPU usage. In the second terminal su to root and run iotop -o. Now, watch for a few minutes and get a feel for what's going on when video is not running. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one, including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I finally have to actually do some work. I recently experienced

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Some while ago, I wrote: [ mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M ] Urs Schutz writes: Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your disk... [...] I had a bad disk here, which resulted in slow IO, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Hampicke writes: Am 07.05.2012 18:26, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster: Some while ago, I wrote: [ mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: When I first built this rig, I ran into this issue as well. What I did was tell smplayer, in my case, to cache more of the video. I have mine set to cache 6Mbs and it plays fine even on HD videos. I have cache = 131072 and cache-min=20.0 in .mplayer/config. That's 128MB, this

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Some while ago, I wrote: [ mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M ] [...] OK, fire up two terminals. In one run top

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: Therefore I have created a plain text file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults [...] Yet when I log in, these environment variables are not set. The file is world-readable (mode 644), and I even tried setting the execute bit (`chmod +xxx`). It needs to be readable by your

Re: [gentoo-user] How to check what cause a use flag

2012-04-29 Thread Alex Schuster
AleiPhoenix (A.K.A Areverie) writes: Hi, all Recently when I'm trying sync and upgrade the whole system with emerge -DNnav --with-bdeps=y @system @world I've got erlang with wxwidgets use flag. On my another gentoo box, uprading erlang didn't build with this flag. emerge --info shows

Re: [gentoo-user] per-package CFLAGS?

2012-04-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Doug Hunley writes: Am I understanding the docs correctly in that I can use /etc/portage/package.env to set per-package CFLAGS? Yes, and it's quite easy. Here is mine: app-emulation/virtualboxsafecflags.conf j1.conf app-office/libreoffice notmpfs.conf dev-lang/R

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes: On 21.04.2012 17:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Fri, Apr 20 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:22:20 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: [...] What happened is it broke again, with no obvious signs of the cause. conf-update reported only trivial

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Thursday 19 April 2012 20:56:59 Michael Mol wrote: The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than ifconfig, once you get a handle on it. Which package is it in? sys-apps/iproute2 Wonko

[gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more. I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools, which brings back the old behaviour in order not to break old scripts, but I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: New output: eth0: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST  mtu 1500        inet 192.168.2.42  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.2.255 inet6 fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18  prefixlen 64

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:40:02 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: eth0: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) ~ here? Aaah! Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Orlitzky writes: On 04/19/12 15:40, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more. I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update...

2012-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: On 2012-04-17 12:21 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-04-17 1:41 AM, Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: So if it is the differing versions problem, the solution is to upgrade to the most recent (~x86) version of eix, currently

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Doug Hunley writes: I'm currently running ~amd64 and when I ran a world update, dev-libs/ppl-0.12 was pulled down, compiled and installed. At that point, gcc stops compiling. It doesn't matter what I try to compile, whether it's the dev-libs/cloog-ppl rebuild that dev-libs/ppl-0.12. says to

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Friday 13 April 2012 15:51:07 Dale wrote: Here is grub: title=Initramfs-new_drive root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage-3.3.1-1 root=/dev/sdb2 init=/sbin/init nox initrd /initramfs-3.3.1-1-tmp.img Your init= parameter points to (hd0,0)/sbin/init because of your root

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still work? Of course

[gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I wouldn't mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play movies,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, which needs alsa-plugins built

[gentoo-user] No ISDN CAPI with new udev

2012-04-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I can no longer connect to my ISDN peers. I think the reason is a recent change in the new udev. I have two rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-capi.conf: KERNEL==capi, NAME=capi20, SYMLINK+=isdn/capi20faxCAPI, GROUP=uucp, MODE=0666 KERNEL==capi*, NAME=capi/%n The first renames /dev/capi

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD hdaudio: why do I have two audio devices and two mixers?

2012-03-30 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3625 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: On Tue, Mar 27 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: Move partitions after / on the disk out of the way creating enough free space to contain current / and /usr. Question. /dev/sda7 is LVM and that is used for /usr, /local, et al. How do I move an LVM partition? I could

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING latest lvm2 breaks systems with older udev

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Stefan G. Weichinger writes: Am 28.03.2012 12:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 27.03.2012 22:53, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: My system wouldn't fully boot this morning after updating lvm (~amd64). Fortunately a mount -a followed by emerge -1 lvm2-previous version has be

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING latest lvm2 breaks systems with older udev

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Schuster
I just wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger writes: I subsequently found the bug below. Thanks for being so kind of doing so! Whoops, I misread 'found' for 'filed'. But anyway, thanks for the information :) Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Minor questions: binutils-apple upgrade; pango; geany; etc.

2012-03-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Ibn Zayd writes: 1) I installed portage according to the bootstrap instructions, setting binutils-apple to version 3.2 (now 3.2.6) according to my version of XCode. Nonetheless, doing a world update pretend run always gives me this: Code: [ebuild NS]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with printing

2012-03-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Алексей Мишустин writes: The printer is connected via USB. USB printers support is enabled in kernel. The HP PSC 1410 USB thread suggests to disable USB printer support in the kernel, and enable the usb USE flag for cups. But I think if this were the problem, you wouldn't even see the printer

[gentoo-user] Huh? udev-182 package collision with own files

2012-03-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! emerge --update --newuse @world wants to re-install sys-fs/udev-182 due to changed USE flags (static-libs), but this package just failed to compile because of file collisions. * package sys-fs/udev-182 NOT merged * * Detected file collision(s): * *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Eliezer Croitoru writes: i want to try this systemd thingy, where do is start at? http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-19 Thread Alex Schuster
William Kenworthy writes: On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:30 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: My laptop has used dracut since months ago, and suspends/resumes just fine, as it does my media center. Genkernel doesnt, bugs and work arounds on gentoo bugzilla, with angry comments from a dev that

Re: [gentoo-user] Assistance if possible

2012-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: Yes, I have activity manager in world, but I've unmasked all kde packages for version 4.8.1 and because of that, I can't get activitymanager installed because the latest verion for that is only 4.7.4 and I get told kactivities-4.8.1 blocks activitymanager.. I can get

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: On 2012-03-17 12:11 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: An initramfs which does this is created by =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or =sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be sure any initramfs you create

Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
José Romildo Malaquias writes: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:36:07PM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage The -f option from mke2fs is to specify a fragment size and expects an argument. Do you -F (which forces mke2fs to create a filesystem, even if the

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Recently, my sister could not log in to KDE after I had done some updates. X crashed when loggin into KDE. It turned out that x11-libs/qt-gui-4.7.4-r1 was the problem when compiled with explict CFLAGS, instead of just using -march=native. Her CPU is an AMD A6-3500 with three cores. As

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: On 03/12/2012 12:32:01 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: The command above does not tell about SSE stuff, so I used this one to find out about that: leela # echo | gcc -dME - -march=native | grep -Ei 'SSE|3DNOW|MMX' | Typo: The -E must be separate: gcc -dM -E - -march

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: and of course we all just use our crystal balls because it is so easy without the error message. Hmm, something about X shutting down in kdm.log. Can't check now because the system is down. But anyway, I don't think it matters, the problem is that the crash

Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
YoYo Siska writes: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:35:05PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: I use an ext2 filesystem for portage, it's still the fastest out there. Journals are unnecessary because its such a small filesystem, and if it does get damaged I can just reformat and sync again. Replaying

[gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Is there an advantage in putting the portage tree on an extra partition? Currently, I'm using reiserfs, because I read that it is efficient when using many small files. On the other hand I also heard that it tends to get slower with every emerge --sync. Space is no longer an argument

Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance

2012-03-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote: I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt container file where I need to store the data into. This is sort of working, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096 bytes per sector, but uses something that is called SmartAlign(TM) [*]. Seagate says

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: The performance is only impacted if the sector size is something other  than 512 bytes. The newer 4K sector size used by some higher density drives requires that you start partitions on a sector boundary or they will perform badly. There isn't an actually performance need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK? Yes, if it's divisible by 8, it's okay. That's because 512 * 8 = 4096, so every 8th 512-byte block starts on a 4096 block boundary. Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096

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