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. Or mpg321

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 wo...@wonkology.org 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, bookmarks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 09/18/2011 11:27 PM, walt wrote: On 09/18/2011 09:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I came across some ebuilds that result in: * QA Notice: command not found: * * /etc/portage/bashrc: line 3: epatch_user: command not found How do I solve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 09/18/2011 11:50 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Do these ebuilds also need to apply the patches, or do you just want to get rid of the error message? It's just the error message. Which means this isn't an issue for now. It will become one if one of them

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:03:20 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: A word of advice when starting from scratch, give your VG(s) unique names. I've seen what happens when someone takes a drive from one Fedora system and puts it in another, so there are two VGs

Re: [gentoo-user] TMux urxvt and Unicode

2011-09-16 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How can I make pstree make work in tmux with the above mentioned options? Open a screen sesson in tmux :) No, I don't know a real solution. Simply setting the TERM variable back to xterm does not help. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] TMux urxvt and Unicode

2011-09-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: On Sep 16, 2011 7:47 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How can I make pstree make work in tmux with the above mentioned options? Open a screen sesson in tmux :) No, I don't know a real solution. Simply setting

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: Thunderbird works fine, if you're ok to do things Thunderbird wants to do things. The last time I tried it, it decided it wants to have copy of all the email from my IMAP-server locally. I ran into this, too. I sort of like the feature, but it's better to do the

Re: [gentoo-user] kde login file ?

2011-09-13 Thread Alex Schuster
James writes: When you run kde-4 on gentoo and use the kde-login-manager app are the login sessions recorded into a permanent or temporary file? I looked in /etc/kde ; /var/log/kdm.log and xdm.log and have found nothing. I did find /var/log/wtmp, but it is not in a human readable

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4

2011-09-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Moritz Schlarb writes: /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 pyconfig.h /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4/image//usr/include/python2.5/pyconfig.h emake failed * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 failed (install phase): * emake altinstall maninstall failed [...] Doesn't make much sense to

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: What about the following as a gentoo-solution: As long as filesystem-support for /usr is in the kernel, why can't /usr be mounted right after /? Eg. instead of worrying with an init*, why not edit the boot-scripts to have /usr mounted before udev and colleagues

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only me? Whoops, which should be: I tend to confuse Alan _with_ Neil. But then, both may be right. No, it's not only you. Dale confuses

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: But what you guys don't seem to realize is that /lib and /bin and /sbin was the original hack: everything really should go into /usr, because now (with an initramfs) we can do what we were not able 30 years ago. We not need anything in /, really. You do have a

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Keith Dart writes: === On Sun, 09/11, Alex Schuster wrote: === Interesting. What are the advantages? Mainly that it's simpler, as a bootloader should be. However it does have some nice features, such as making nice looking, interactive menus. You can also edit the config file by hand

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Colquhoun writes: Looking at initramfs as a modern Linux replacement for the bootable / partition of traditional Unix systems does make some sense, even though I think it could be made simpler. Fot those opposed to initramfs, would you also object to /boot being 1) a manditory

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Francisco Ares writes: Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during boot? This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would be worse). But this might change - the upcoming

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I know one thing, BSD is secure as heck. I installed it once on a old rig and typed the password in wrong during setup. I never could get into that thing again. I had to start over. That's what you thought :) Normally, all you have to do is to boot in single user mode, this

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: pk wrote: On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I simply use genkernel. With CLEAN=no and MRPROPER=no, it uses my /usr/src/linux/.config and does not change the kernel options. Then comes genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: My update world today produced [nomerge ] dev-java/icedtea-6.1.10.3 USE=hs20 nsplugin nss webstart xrender -cacao -debug -doc -examples -jamvm -javascript -nio2 -pulseaudio -systemtap -zero [nomerge ] dev-java/ant-nodeps-1.8.1 [ebuild NS]

Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Schreckenbauer writes: On Saturday, 10. September 2011 16:50:30 Alex Schuster wrote: What you need to do is to tell portage you accept the license by putting the =dev-java/... line into /etc/portage/package.license. Or you could add the --autounmask-write switch to your emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Schreckenbauer writes: Thanks. The difference is, that package.license is per package. So one could set ACCEPT_LICENSE in make.conf and override this setting for some packages in package.license. Now I wonder, what the use-cases would be? Why would one accept a specific license for

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:54:58 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was about a year ago so it may have changed.

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only me? At least I know by now that you are the South Africa guy. Alan's girlfriend says that Alan and Neil are both male

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db gone: possible opportunity to switch profile

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Francisco Ares writes: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:41:39 -0300 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: I have managed to delete /var/db. I know this was a very stupid thing to be done, but now it is done and

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Keith Dart writes: === On Fri, 09/09, Alex Schuster wrote: === What I fear much more is when good old grub is no longer supported and I have to use grub2, which I tried to understand, but failed. Ya, it's horrid. But the {sys,ext}linux bootloader is still there and maintained and I like

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Wow, what a big thread. While I also do not really like udev requiring /usr at boot time, I also understand that there are some arguments pro doing so. But then, I wonder what the big deal is. If an initramfs is now required for people using a separate /usr, then let's all use an

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot partition is only

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I simply use genkernel. With CLEAN=no and MRPROPER=no, it uses my /usr/src/linux/.config and does not change the kernel options. Then comes genkernel --install

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:41:07 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very early in my system's lifetime. Huh? What does genkernel have to do with NVidia drivers? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan Mackenzie writes: Hi, Alex. Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print dialogs allow to set print features like the resolution

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 07.09.2011 00:39, schrieb Hartmut Figge: Sebastian Beßler: metatron@Shao ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0 Total files : 3779 Total size : 89.42 MiB hafi@i5 ~ $ equery s seamonkey *

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the error messages during boot?

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: I rebooted a Gentoo system, and as I watched the boot-up messages, some errors appeared when it's starting the services. However, the screen scrolled too damn fast for me to read them. Where can I find the logs on the services? If you set rc_logger=YES in /etc/rc.conf,

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:34:22 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so the cups USE flag has been removed. I would have preferred if the ebuild got a -r2 so I could simply mask it, as compiling it again

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant Edwards writes: On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: b) old school pc-speaker in your computer [...] I think it just made the generic beep (or a beep short enough and low

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with dump

2011-09-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: I noticed that the last two (daily) dumps have been bad (too short, unreadable by restore). I tried to remerge app-arch/dump both 0.4.44-r1 (which I had before) and o.4.44. Both failed in the compile phase (details below). This seem a little frightening to me. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Tue 23 August 2011 18:17:17 Stroller did opine thusly: On 23 August 2011, at 07:27, Joost Roeleveld wrote: [...] And I don't really see the point of D-BUS on a server either. All the services that need to talk to each other already have working communication

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Schreckenbauer writes: Hi, Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 13:56:44 schrieb Alex Schuster: Alan McKinnon writes: [...] What's your objection to dbus? It gives you a standard message bus, is small, light, consumes minimal resources and provides a nice standard way to do IPC

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cblas libraries

2011-08-30 Thread Alex Schuster
denis cohen writes: I've unmerged cblas* blas* gsl, synced, and emerge -uDN world also without success (also tried cblas-external USE flag but could not see it with eix). What's your problem with the world update? Adding --tree to the emerge command might show what pulls in what. I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage index?

2011-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Nowadays, if you mix vinegar and baking soda, you are accused of making a bomb. They called it fun 20 or 30 years ago. lol I still want to know what Spencer puts in the camera film thingys and makes it pop off. It was liquid and what looked like a pill or something. Erin

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-svcdir mount where from?

2011-08-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Konstantinos Agouros writes: I do not have rc-svcdir in /etc/fstab. I know it comes with openrc but I would need the mount line or an fstab entry for it. A grep in /etc/init.d didn't help. You need to look into /lib/rc/sh/init.sh, the mount_svcdir() function: /lib/rc/sh/init.sh: mount -n -t

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cblas libraries

2011-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
denis cohen writes: I recently removed some packages like blas-reference, cblas-reference, and lapack-reference to get emerge to run (some blocking issues). I unmerged eselect-cblas and eselect-blas when I had similar problems, and I think also {blas,cblas}-reference. The eselect packages got

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi losing mail

2011-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Wednesday 24 Aug 2011 23:30:16 Alan McKinnon wrote: I also discovered that kmail2 doesn't do changing of IMAP folders at all, it seems to be strictly read-only. I can create folders in that area to my heary's content, nothing shows on disk. This works fine here. Kmail2

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-6 thunderbird-6 compile issues

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Anyone else having issues building firefox-6 and thunderbird-6? I just built firefox-6 this night on ~amd64. These are my USE flags: Installed versions: 6.0{tbz2}(02:52:51 24.08.2011)(alsa crashreporter dbus ipc libnotify linguas_de linguas_en methodjit

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi loses mails

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: I am about to get on a damn plane to Germany, find me the entire collection of KDEPIM devs and shoot every last one of those fuckers dead. dead. dead. dead. Uh-oh. I hope writing this did not put you on some terror list already. Then blow up the repo so this POS will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 08/24/2011 01:05 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote: equery belongs /usr/include/plasma/service.h if you dont have the equery program install it by emerging app-portage/gentoolkit Seems there is always an alternate way of answering any portage question. I know qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
victor romanchuk writes: i had noticed that distcc is peevish about CFLAGS: these should be compatible on both client and server. in my case i made these similar on both machines (laptop is core2duo and desktop is core2quad; both are running amd64 arch) I don't think this is true -

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
victor romanchuk writes: Both machines contain distcc in FEATURES. It's not using -march=native. I've tried various -jN values with no real difference in performance. -jN in make.conf's MAPEOPTS variable I assume, not as argument to emerge, which does something different. It also hides

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed things. Would LVM somehow prevent these sort of things from happening? LVM doesn't affect inode usage, does it? AFAIK you will gain

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrea Conti writes: AFAIK you will gain more inodes when you increase the size. Only because by unless you specify a value mke2fs allocates a number of inodes proportional to the size of the filesystem, with the default being 1 inode every 16kB (see /etc/mke2fs.conf). But for ext[234]

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 04:50:40 PM Grant wrote: Can I reserve 0% for root on my USB hard drive which is only used for backups and does not contain an OS? Yes: mke2fs -m 0 /dev/usb-drive Although a value 0 helps against fragmentation. And when rdiff-backup

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Can I reserve 0% for root on my USB hard drive which is only used for backups and does not contain an OS? Yes: mke2fs -m 0 /dev/usb-drive Although a value 0 helps against fragmentation. And when rdiff-backup has failed because it ran out of space, regressing

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 emake failed configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-corefonts

2011-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Carlos Sura writes: I'm using Gentoo LVM2, ~AMD64, and I'm trying to install: media-gfx/imagemagick. [...] * ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 failed (install phase): * emake failed * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0', *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: And I could play the ancient spacewars game once again. Star Control? Wing Commander? hmm :) No, those came later. It's a clone of the probably very first computer action game: http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: But if you emerge something and it has to be fetched first, is that counted in the time genlop shows or not? That is the question. I don't think it is counted but I'm not sure. That's what I thought, too, but then I simply tried

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 30.07.2011 01:06, schrieb Dale: Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos? That is the biggest thing I use that drive for. I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other shows that are now gone.

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDE here. I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen. That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :) But even if it were, I guess it wouldn't be too

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 default theme at fresh install

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon: writes: I only know of 2 e17 users here. I was an Enlightenment user for years, before I finally gave KDE 3.something a try. I ran it under the Gnome environment, but only one of my 3x3 vortual desktops actually showed the Gnome desktop. Which I liked, I did my multimedia stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote: Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen. That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When asked why he did this he replied, Why? Does it matter? Hey, I'm also wearing mis-matched socks right now :) But of course I always wear a wrist-watch. A digital one. Well, I still can't answer his question...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? Easy. emerge --fetchonly blah first, then start the real work. I have acron job

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 07/28/2011 01:14 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'? Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this machine is a LOT faster, I had to come up with something good for it too. Fireball is it. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? Easy. emerge --fetchonlyblah first, then start the real work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: I wasn't thinking of systems with that much memory. Like you, I'd expect your system to be faster, even if not by much, using tmpfs. That's what I was expecting too. It is confusing for sure. Years ago, I used tmpfs, and it was slightly faster, but on

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe here. I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gbs, you got a lot running or something

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] NEW idea: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: OK. New theory here. This came about in another thread about the shiney new kernel, that isn't new by the way. Anyway, look at this crap: root@fireball / # ls -al /home/dale/ total 640 drwxr-xr-x 61 dale users 2672 Jul 23 10:14 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 208 Jun 17

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Here we go again. New thread, same problem. I'm compiling info over a period of time here so bear with me. Info alert: [...] Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash. Maybe some third

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk writes: A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. I was going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages with march native Firstly would you

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I'd also try other video drivers, like nouveau or nv. I think you did not do this yet, sorry if I just overlooked it. They may not work as well as the nvidia-drivers for you, but this way you can rule out the video drivers, or confirm it has something

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?

2011-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Francisco Ares writes: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Every time after you emerge xorg you're meant to remerge its drivers (evdev being one of them). Usually there is some elog message telling you to run qfile to find what is need to

Re: [gentoo-user] How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?

2011-07-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan asks: How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge? The list of files belonging to a package can be found in /var/db/pkg/category/package-version/CONTENTS. I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and I want to know how to tell emerge what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: [interrupted emerges] That's when I use ebuild instead of starting the emerge from scratch. Let's say I'm emerging libreoffice and the machine goes down (shudder). After fixing the problem I would try the following: #cd /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/ #ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a certain version in package.mask? I tired =package.name.version and tried = package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to ignore it and the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my old

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Anything in nsswitch.conf? It seems to be used by ssh, but not by the host command. Which is new to me. nsswitch.conf looks straighforward and should be default. I get a lot of output from those straces. Can you tell me what to look for? For 'strange' things :) Like

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Ruskin writes: What package provides host? I'm amazed I don't have it. net-dns/bind-tools Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I'm not able to ssh to any domain, although IPs work. I get: $ ssh example.com ssh: Could not resolve hostname example.com: Name or service not known I can ping domains no problem, and web browsing works. I've tried rebooting and re-emerging openssh. I am connected to an

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon wrote: My best suggestion is to create a maximal primary partition as /dev/sdd1 and use that as your LUKS volume. That way, LVM will receive the partition details from udev and *might* not bother re-reading the partition table (but don't bet big bucks on it). OK, I tried that

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:05:12 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about [gentoo-user] LVM filter question: [snip] filter = [ r|/dev/nbd.*|, r|/dev/sdd|, a/.*/ ] This should reject /dev/sdd from scanning. But it doesn't, pvscan spins it up. Any idea why

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier? In

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Sebastian Beßler writes: Am 01.07.2011 12:39, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Gentoo! After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part: [ebuild N] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] USE=introspection* [blocks b ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man make.conf). Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for

[gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am using LVM heavily, but I decided to not use it for some additional, smaller hard drives I use for backups and that I do not want to spin up every time I do LVM stuff, like pvscan, lvscan, vgchange. As all devices are scanned in this case, I edited the filter in

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: I'm having the devil's own time with kdepim after upgrading to 4.6.0. Me too. But I still did not have any time to investigate this, so I live without kmail for the moment. Thunderbird also sucks big time, but I just live with it. I thought about downgrading the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade

2011-06-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Monday 13 June 2011 21:01:58 Alex Schuster wrote: Anyway, KMail has a problem now. I get this error: KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection. look up the akonadi error log Test

Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade

2011-06-18 Thread Alex Schuster
I did not intend to send this mail yet, but I accidentally did. It happened when kwin started doing weird things again, like transparent window titles, window content being all black or grey and such. Happens after a few days of KDE4 sesstion uptime, the kwin proecess has grown to some hundred

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking conflicts in kde packages when updating world

2011-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
ifj. Stefán István writes: I want to make an update on my Gentoo system and get a lot of blocking packages. I use this command for upgarde: USE=semantic-desktop emerge -pv --update --newuse --deep world Add --tree, this may help to see what pulls in which packages. I had a similar blocker

Re: [gentoo-user] Reboot after kjournald starting

2011-06-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:57 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: A mother board died, so I put the hard drives into an old spare PC, rebuilt the kernel via chroot in order to include some necessary drivers, and all was well. Until I

[gentoo-user] Reboot after kjournald starting

2011-06-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! A mother board died, so I put the hard drives into an old spare PC, rebuilt the kernel via chroot in order to include some necessary drivers, and all was well. Until I plugged in the 2nd hard drive. Then, the thing reboots after these messages: [...] VFS: Mounted root (ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.4.5 hangs during build

2011-06-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: I have just tried to emerge net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.4.5 (1.4.4 is currently installed), but it hangs This last messages are Resolve Portability Issues checking if msync with MS_ASYNC updates the files mtime... It doesn't use any CPU time, so it's probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. I know how you feel :-) I've tried to get away

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 localization

2011-05-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Sunday 29 May 2011 18:16:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 28 May 2011 20:27:59 Alex Schuster wrote: Maxim Vorontsov writes: 27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org написал(а): I backup them up regularly. And I just had to restore some config

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: I asked this once before but I can't find it. I have a log file that has time stamps that look like this: lastrun = 1306574899 What do I use to get the human time for that? I thought it was the date command but I couldn't find it in the man page. I tried google but I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 localization

2011-05-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Maxim Vorontsov writes: 27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org написал(а): Maxim Vorontsov writes: No, for me all works fine. Probably another problem that only I have. BTW, German language is of course set in systemsettings, and it's also set via Help - Switch

Re: [gentoo-user] xserver does not work after upgrade

2011-05-27 Thread Alex Schuster
fajfu...@wp.pl writes: I've upgraded my system and xserver does not work after upgrade. I've installed new baselayout according to the official gentoo's procedure and it seems ok. I've done dispatch-conf, etc-update, revdep-rebuild successfully. All packages have been build successfully.

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