Re: [gentoo-user] Python update question

2012-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > root@fireball / # eselect python list > Available Python interpreters: > [1] python2.7 * > [2] python3.1 > [3] python3.2 > root@fireball / # > > I ran --depclean and it wants to remove python 3.1. I ran python > updater and recompiled the needed packages. Since python

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Tuesday 28 February 2012 11:23:40 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Peter Humphrey writes: > > > Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail > > > opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? > > > > Bec

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more > > > > fragmentation you will get. > > > > > > Why is that? I would have expected more usabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space > > for the superuser, which is 5% as default: > > tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fra

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space > > for the superuser, which is 5% as default: > > tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition > > Don't reduce it

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
trevor donahue writes: > So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without > updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am > left without disk space... In situations like this I start deleting > /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do ev

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail > opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? Because KDE is so weird all over the place. > I can't see any material difference between the two links. Yes, there is none. This doesn't happen here,

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

[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: l

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 > > 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 logg

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: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2011-October

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'?

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] do you USE="minimal" in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE > flag to /etc/make.conf. The only difference I've noticed so far is > the lack of color in vim. Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and > remove it as necessary in package.use or the other way around? I believ

[gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am using all kinds of web browsers. Firefox for sites I always want to have open. Konqueror when I start a browser from scratch to look something up. Chromium is also running, Mainly because I had trouble with Firefox opening one window on another desktop. Now I'd also like to use Mid

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Replace Kwin with something else

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Ignas Anikevicius writes: > I was wondering if anybody knows what USE flag should I enable in order > to have the option to change the default WM in KDE settings to something > else. I want to run Awesome WM on top of KDE and currently I can not do > it from the KDE System Settings. This has noth

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem?

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > I have a 1200 watt Corsair power supply and my temps are very low even > during the stress test so I'm thinking bad (Corsair) RAM. I should > remove modules one at a time and re-test to narrow it down? This sounds just like the right thing to do. Well, if you have four RAM chips,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile: [... big linking being done ...] > collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] > make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 [...] Do you have enough memory on that machine, is swap space activated? The linking phase will need a lot of memory

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

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Urs Schutz writes: > Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your > disk... > > smartctl -t short /dev/sda > > and after some minutes > > smartctl --all /dev/sda > > If all went OK then the status is «PASSED», and you could > try the extended or long tests with smartctl. I have sm

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > If you're already building KDE, KMail was decent. Yes. It was. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Alex Schuster [12-02-18 17:36]: > > meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > > > try (as root) > > > > > > fuser /dev/dsp > > > > > > to figure out, which task helds that device... > > > > I get no o

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

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
James Broadhead writes: > Please try: > ~/.mplayer/config > lavdopts=threads=2 > # Use 128MiB input cache by default. > cache = 131072 > # Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback. > cache-min = 20.0 > > Which should eliminate disk IO somewhat James, thanks for your input. I a

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Alex Schuster [12-02-18 16:52]: > > I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff > > (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not > > being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Alex Schuster [12-02-18 16:44]: > > What about trying the new ebuild for musesq-2.0 [2]? > > > > [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/206852 > > [2] > > http://www.mail-archive.com/proaudio@lists.tuxfamily.org

[gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run games-fps/quake3-bin instead. I have no sound. There are error messages: /dev/dsp

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > So, if QT3 is removed from protage, and museseq which still is in > portage seems only to build agains qt3, I see a contradiction here... No, it has already been removed from portage two years ago [1], because it still depends on Qt3. So your version probably comes f

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > As this line in my previous posting states, museseq needs Qt 4.*, > which is installed...: > >configure: error: need qt >= 3.2.0 Um, huh? If it would need Qt 4.*, it would say that you need qt >= 4.something. But it says you need qt >= 3.2.0, so qt-meta 3.3.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > meino.cra...@gmx.de [12-02-18 14:40]: > > Alex Schuster [12-02-18 14:12]: > > > meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > > > > > > > How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? > > > > > > QTDIR ist

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use it at all. Wonko

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

2012-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote > > > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one... > > I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case > it was a 4+ year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU that was havi

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

2012-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not > an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially > eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on. > :) Yes, this helps. As does copying the movie to another part

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

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > How can I find out in such a case which processes are waiting > > for I/O? top showed nothing. > > iotop is your friend. I had called it, but didn't spot the problem there. I do

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

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard > > drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of > > RAM. Running gentoo-sources-

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

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Strange things are going on here. I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running KDE4. Then my hardware broke, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in > portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support? Maybe you like www-client/midori: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28web_browser%29 Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
LK writes: > On 120214, at 20:29, Andrea Conti wrote: > >> PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you > >> say how? > > Remove or comment out any "splashimage" directives from the config > > file. > I meant in GRUB2. I have another box with linux mint using GRUB2, and > spla

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > Sorry, but now I'm completely confused. > I've emerge mplayer2 and it DOES play video and SOUND ! > But smplayer2 doesn't play sound - no idea why since it invokes > mplayer2, doesn't it? Not as default. You have to define the player in the settings dialog. Won

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging util-linux-2.20-r1 in chroot

2012-02-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: > In my case, it always fail during the following stage: > > chmod > g+s /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1/image//usr/bin/write Does this command work when you enter it manually in the chroot? Maybe FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sys-apps/util-linux works? Won

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging util-linux-2.20-r1 in chroot

2012-02-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: > Have anyone been having problems emerging sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1 > on a chroot-ed environment? > > In my case, it always fail during the following stage: > > chmod > g+s /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1/image//usr/bin/write Very strange. What is the exact

Re: [gentoo-user] List of recently installed/updated packages in chronological order?

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > My Eclipse (Indigo) has started crashing today. So I wanted to see > which packages I had installed/upgraded recently. > > I can, of course, go through emerge.log manually but I was wondering > if there was a tool that could simply provide me with a > chronologically orde

Re: [gentoo-user] Build librsvg-2.34.2 Error

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Schuster
高金培 writes: > In file included from :19:0: > /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/librsvg-2.34.2/work/librsvg-2.34.2/rsvg-cairo-render.h:32:19: > fatal error: cairo.h: No such file or directory My guess is that you need to emerge x11-libs/cairo which has the missing cairo.h. Probably a bug in the librsvg

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and X-Forwarding

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Schuster
William Kenworthy writes: > I am having problems setting up X-forwarding for libreoffice (gentoo) > over ssh to an ipad (iSSH client). > > X-forwarding is working fine for xterms, fluxbox and simple apps but > libreoffice fails even when using the -display localhost:10.0 argument. > The $DISPLAY

Re: [gentoo-user] static nano - how to?

2012-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > from time to time I need to boot in 'single' mode. > I'd like to use the nano editor in this case. > But unfortunately it doesn't run since it cannot resolve the dynamic > library libmagic.so.1 Probably because you have a separate /usr partition that is not mounted in s

Re: [gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

2012-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
victor romanchuk writes: > Alex Schuster wrote, at 01/29/2012 11:23 PM: > > What are your impressions on this? Is it fun? Will there be a > > noticeable speed difference? Do packages fail to build? We just had a > > 'Graphite causing trouble' thread here, the prob

[gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

2012-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Due to a MAJOR hardware problem I just got a new PC. It has an AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor which is a lot faster than my previous AMD 4850e dual core machine. I'd like to emerge -e @world with -march=native now, but I think about starting to use that graphite stuff. You know, ena

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: > On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale wrote: >> These things sure beat trying to remember a really strong password. My >> bank and credit card passwords are off the chart. > > Yeah, but what about those moron banks that only allow you to use > lowercase letters - and only a max of 6

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: > Am 10.01.2012 18:43, schrieb Michael Mol: > > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Hm. That sounds like your tz (-0500) is being applied twice. > > Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not > designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate > /etc

[gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance

2012-01-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! 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 speed is waa too slow. After about four hours, only 8 G

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe wrote: > I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: > > emerge -NuD world > > There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I > compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia > driver and also evdev drivers and then

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > ... or what the unbelievable lack of maturity of KDEPIM devs has landed us in: > > I have upgraded KDE on my old laptop to see what gives. Surprisingly, it was > not *too* bad; i.e. my old emails were not corrupted, deleted or otherwise > affected. I am doing the same on my sis

[solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-27 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin > /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are given along the libraries and library paths. I > have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Something must be > wrong on my system. But what? For libggi, emerging with USE=-aa

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote >> The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin >> /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are given along the libraries and library paths. I >> have no idea why this

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: > On Dec 27, 2011 6:01 AM, "Alex Schuster" <mailto:wo...@wonkology.org>> wrote: >> >> I wrote: >> >> > The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin >> > /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-26 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin > /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are given along the libraries and library paths. I > have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Something must be > wrong on my system. But what? For libggi, emerging with USE=-aa

[gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm currently upgrading my little sister's PC from an x86 Sempron to an x86_64 AMDS A6 processor. So Gentoo is being installed from scratch. But some packages fail to build. I filed a bug [1] for media-libs/libggi-2.2.2, but a similar problem is happening for pygtksourceview now, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

2011-12-22 Thread Alex Schuster
G.Wolfe Woodbury writes: > On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote: > > Reemerge all xf86* packages > > Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server > > version, driver version mismatch) > I looked right at it and missed the obvious! Thanks for the > clue-by-four. BTW, e

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > And by "other", this time I mean "Windows". > > Has anyone done something like "Gentoo on mscc+Win32" or "Gentoo on > mingw+Win32"? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package > management. Have a look at this thread: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_0c

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

2011-12-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works: > >> How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command? > > AFAIR there used to be an option for this, but it's not in the docs. > Have you tri

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: > On 12/12/11 12:15, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >Hello :) > > > >I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and > >/var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to > >move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" > >a

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Troeder writes: > I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and > /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to > move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" > again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, > Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related stuff. I wanted to take a look at > Octave, but this positively wants graphicsmagick, which is a fork of > imagemagick as far as I can tell and which conflicts with imagem

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Alex Schuster
James Broadhead writes: > On 8 December 2011 11:17, Jarry wrote: > > I just upgraded gcc and after switching to the new version > > I want to update system too. > > But it wants to emerge > > baselayout-2 as dependency of system: > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/baselayout" h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > No flames from me. I agree. I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to someone who > has no, or even very little, Linux experience. Looking back, I was one > heck of a noob when I installed Gentoo. It had to be fools luck that I > got it done. Then again, the docs were, and still are, r

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > I'll steal your 1.6 factor, and give: > >    MAKEOPTS=-j <2*N> -l <1.6*N) > >    PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average<1.6*N>" > > a try. > > Ah. Which file does PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS go in? It doesn't appear to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Róbert Čerňanský writes: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:07 +0100 > Alex Schuster wrote: > > > pvcreate /dev/sda5 > > vgcreate myvg /dev/sda5 > > lvcreate -n usr -L 10G myvg > > mke2fs -j /dev/myvg/usr > > > > Of course, just using /dev/sda5 fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty > complex. I really don't think so. pvcreate creates a physical volume, v

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/ 404, but http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/ seems to work. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: > OK. Everyone duck, I been thinking on this and Neils info above. lol > This is what I sort of figured out and tell me where I am off here. I > have to reduce the file system, change the partition in cfdisk (?), > resize the lv, then reduce the vg, then I can run pvmove? After

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > On 15-Nov-11 20:36, Andrey Moshbear wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 13:58, Jarry wrote: >>> today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version >>> But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged >>> and my "world" file is somehow larger. To my surprise, >>> it con

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in > 6-12 months. Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is > always kept up-to-date and works great. After rebooting, the keyboard > on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work. The keyboa

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot?

2011-11-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > just out of curiosity: is it possible to use ext4/ext3 > filesystem even for separate /boot partition? Yes. But a separate /boot partition is small, it is seldomly being written to, it is often unmounted anyway, and a fsck is very fast on such a small partition. So there is not mu

Re: [gentoo-user] No man page for traceroute?

2011-11-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: > Am 06.11.2011 14:13, schrieb Mick: > > Why would there be no traceroute(8) man page on my laptop? > > > > An older x86 box has it and displays it without fuss. > > It seems that the man page has been dropped from the package. Only the > old 2.0.3 version from sourceforg

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan Mackenzie writes: > On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed > out, the volume can't be said to be louder than "comfortable and > sensible". In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise > of the power supply. I know from plugging in my iPod that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > My point is that the numbers aren't what mattered here. My point is > that SAMSUNG sold me a shoddy product, replaced it with another > instance of the the same shoddy product, wouldn't replace it again, > and never addressed a detailed technical report of a systemic problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > On 28-Oct-11 17:24, Michael Mol wrote: > > lsmod -k > > > > Find the line for the Realtek device > > > > lsmod -vn > > I do not understand. lsmod does not have "-k" or "-vn" switches. lspci was meant. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
András Csányi writes: > I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I > decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile > Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me > what is needed more? No, I think the debug USE flag has another pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Mark Knecht writes: >>> I don't recall seeing any discussion about this.Was there?? >> >> There was a message on the gentoo-announce list on Sept. 30th: [...] > Interesting. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild > about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were > showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this > point in the life of a desktop PC so I added both flags to make.con

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp is not up to date yet: > I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants > to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for ~~~ ~~~ > the first time so I doubt he values

Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
luis jure writes: > on 2011-10-16 at 22:03 Alex Schuster wrote: > >>> [1] sorry if there are any girls out there, but i think i have never >>> seen any female names on this list... >> >> I see one :) > > yes, so do i, now, after sending my last message

Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
luis jure writes: > hello boys [1], [...] > [1] sorry if there are any girls out there, but i think i have never seen > any female names on this list... I see one :) Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health

2011-10-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: > That said... I am not aware that to be a Gentoo user, one has to be > celibate... :-P But it helps. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Niccolò Belli writes: > Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: > > !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. > > > !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. This is somewhat surprising, but intended and correct, it has been discussed here some months ag

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, > but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only > for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I > power disk off when not needed (and "on" again when needed) > in order to save a little power and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem build gconf

2011-10-04 Thread Alex Sla
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:15:34PM +0200, 4k3nd0 wrote: >> > i put the build log into pastbin: http://pastebin.com/CXEFY342 >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem build gconf

2011-10-04 Thread Alex Sla
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:15:34PM +0200, 4k3nd0 wrote: > > i put the build log into pastbin: http://pastebin.com/CXEFY342 > > > > What is the version of pango you have installed? It may be related to > this bug: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show

[gentoo-user] gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2011-10-04 Thread Alex Sla
Hi Guys, i got a problem build gconf. The problem is somehow emake again o.O * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile * environment, line 3235: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2496: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "comp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - krdc full screen view does not allow remote windows' task bar interaction

2011-09-29 Thread Alex Schuster
fra...@gmail.com writes: > When I move the mouse down to the task bar area, the mouse pointer > changes from the remote machine native shape to the local desktop shape, > showing visually the fact that I can not click on any task bar icons. Does the same happen when using rdesktop? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-29 Thread Alex Sla
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> > &

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: > >> * Florian Philipp [110928 16:05]: >> > Am 28.09.2011 21:39, schrieb Alex Sla: >> > > I can&

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: > >> * Florian Philipp [110928 16:05]: >> > Am 28.09.2011 21:39, schrieb Alex Sla: >> > > I can&

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: > * Florian Philipp [110928 16:05]: > > Am 28.09.2011 21:39, schrieb Alex Sla: > > > I can't just compile anything. Getting all the time: > > > > > > * Call stack: > > > * ebuild.sh, lin

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I can't just compile anything. Getting all the time: > > * Call stack: > > * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile > >

[gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
I can't just compile anything. Getting all the time: * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile * environment, line 3450: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2736: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "compile failure" don't have

[gentoo-user] Editing the "open with" dialog of PCMANFM

2011-09-24 Thread Alex Barrios
So i wanna fix that. How? ^_^ Thanks in advance. -- Alex Barrios - Piensa como una persona de acción, y actúa como una persona que piensa. - Twitter > http://twitter.com/alexbariv GPG Pub > 0D843DCB Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r3

2011-09-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Wednesday 21 Sep 2011 23:02:02 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to install Graphviz but I get: [...] > > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > > cannot find -lpng14 [...] > > Is there something I can do about this? Or is

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs "stable" enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > On 21-Sep-11 21:55, Doug Hunley wrote: > >>> I'd like to ask if anybody here has already some experience >>> with Btrfs? Is it usable (although not officialy stable)? >> >> I use it as my main fs here and have had no issues. Having said that, >> there is NO functional fsck at this

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing kernel config parameter

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > Having just upgraded gcc from 4/4/5 to 4.5.3-r1 I recompiled > binutils-2.21.1-r1. Then, while emerging -e system, I got this: > > * Messages for package sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1: > > * CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be. > > But: > > $ grep SU

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > And, as an Amarok user... searching my collection, finding song texts, > > rating songs, wikipedia information for artist, album or a specfic > > song, tagging, easy sorting of playlists, b

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > > > alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to > > > run a daemon or server. Just playing music. > > >

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