Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-11-11 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/11/11 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: The remote end cut you off. Try another mirror. Is this a know infrastructure issue. It seems to happening a lot lately. I'm wary of retrying lest I end up on a ban list. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/

[gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I had manually built (via my own local overlay) more recent versions of large chunks of X to get around some slugish performance on my Intel based setup. However I noticed by xf86-video-intel driver got downgraded today due to an updated package.mask with the message: R?mi Cardona

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/5/5 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Tue, 5 May 2009 11:50:18 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: I thought I may as well try the x11 overlay so added it to layman but obviously the package mask is still in effect. I assume the manually editing /usr/portage/profile/package.mask will cause

[gentoo-user] Compiz broke on latest portage update?

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Bennee
I updated compiz today which required me to unmask: dev-libs/iniparser ~amd64 And it promptly broke with: 18:44 a...@danny/x86_64 [~] ~/bin/start-compiz.sh compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcompizconfig.so.0: undefined symbol: iniparser_new However revdep-rebuild

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiz broke on latest portage update?

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/4/27 Alex Bennee kernel-hac...@bennee.com: I updated compiz today which required me to unmask: dev-libs/iniparser                     ~amd64 And it promptly broke with: 18:44 a...@danny/x86_64 [~] ~/bin/start-compiz.sh compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcompizconfig.so.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-17 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 14:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 11:29 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:49 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:01 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, When I logout of gnome it no longer asks me if I wish

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-15 Thread Alex Bennee
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:49 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:01 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, When I logout of gnome it no longer asks me if I wish to save the session and as a result I lose all my session data each time I logout. Anyone know where this went

[gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-14 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, When I logout of gnome it no longer asks me if I wish to save the session and as a result I lose all my session data each time I logout. Anyone know where this went? Is this an upstream Gnome issue or am I missing some magical USE flag? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/

[gentoo-user] Gnome Session not saving

2006-08-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Despite having Ask on Logout ticked in the Gnome Sessions Preference I'm not being prompted to Save Session when I log out. As a result none of my desktop changes are persistent over different logons. Any idea what could be happening? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ The way to a

[gentoo-user] Wine won't build

2006-07-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I can't get wine to build. The configure script complains that it can't find freetype (despite it being installed) but I'm not sure if thats the problem. I assume an exit status of 1 from the configure script is bad? malory alex # tail /var/tmp/portage/wine-0.9.16/work/wine-0.9.16/config.log

[gentoo-user] Rhythmbox and Audioscrobbler

2006-02-14 Thread Alex Bennee
I thought I'd give the latest Rhythmbox a try with the scocial music audoscrobbler system. When I emerged it it all ran fine but even with the username and password in the audioscrobbler box I'm not seeing my last.fm page update. I enebaled musicbrainz in my make.conf in case that was it but no

[gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-24 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I'm tracking the kernel by hand (following the git tree and doing some hacking of my own). However whenever I try and emerge a ebuild that involves a kernel module it usually fails to work out the correct kernel: * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source

[gentoo-user] Udev Permissions

2006-01-08 Thread Alex Bennee
I've been having trouble getting udev to create stuff with the right permissions. The latest is with my phone which has a USB Mass Storrage Interface. I've added this line to my 10-local.rules: # My Phone BUS=usb, SYSFS{interface}=Sony Erics Memory Stick, KERNEL=sd?1,NAME=%k, SYMLINK=phonemem,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:56 +, C. Beamer wrote: Hi, Alex Bennee wrote: Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable in the preferences dialog. I have aspell-en installed

[gentoo-user] How do I test gnome-spell?

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Bennee
I can't get spell checking in Evolution to work (it has no idea what dictionaries are available). The base aspell seems to be working but I don't know how to test the gnome-spell component. Any ideas? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ You have literary talent that you should take

[gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Bennee
Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable in the preferences dialog. I have aspell-en installed but that doesn't seem to be enough. Any ideas? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ If

[gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-19 Thread Alex Bennee
As my system has become more lived in I've noticed the time taken to update the cache at the end of an emerge --sync is getting slower and slower. The system will hang around 50% for a long time and thrash the crap out of the disks. Is this just usual behaviour for portage? Is there anyway to

[gentoo-user] Getting Bluetooth talking to phone

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Bennee
I think I have everything up. The gnome-bluetooth-manager does come up but it doesn't do much more than display my phone which it can find. I can't get any dialog's up (info/etc) but the messages in the console window seem to suggest it can't display something: 15:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [tmp]

[gentoo-user] Best way to build a debugging binary

2005-09-05 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I keep getting crashes when exiting evolution so I thought I'd have a go at generating a decent debugging build so I can submit a bug report. I thought the best thing to do would be re-emerge evolution with debugging enabled: CFLAGS=-g3 -O0 USE=debug emerge -v evolution However this

[gentoo-user] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Applogies for the cross-post. I'm unsure if this is and amd64 specific problem or a more general b0rkage. I've posted about my failing glibc emerges before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 I think I've narrowed it down to ldconfig running during the emerge. In fact

[gentoo-user] udev Strangeness

2005-06-12 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I've managed to get my usbdrive to appear in its own fixed /dev entry but I cannot get the same to happen for my camera. It seems the udev rule seems to get ignored. Any idea why? # My pendrive BUS=usb, SYSFS{product}=USB DISK Pro, KERNEL=sd?1, NAME=%k, SYMLINK=usbdrive # My Camera # #

[gentoo-user] GStreamer Pad error with Rhythmbox

2005-06-04 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Has anyone else been seeing problems with Gstreamer based apps not playing files due to Internal GStreamer error: pad problem? It seems to of broken on the last update. There is a bug filled (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86675) but I was wondering if its an isolated case? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: If you run the command again with strace: strace -e trace=open nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser You will probably be able to see what the failing file is interleaved among the ** (nautilus:13834): WARNING

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 18:19 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: If you run the command again with strace: strace -e trace=open nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser You will probably

Re: [gentoo-user] What mixes up line order of world file?

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 19:56 -0400, A. R. wrote: Yeah, I find this a little bit of an annoyance too ;-) I find myself doing cat /var/lib/portage/world | sort very often just to see the contents of the file. But then again it is just a very minor thing. Its the minor things that prompt you

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Bennee
Would you please provide more details about the actual error? One good way to do that is to launch nautilus from a terminal with the following command IIRC: nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser and take a look at the ouput when it crashes. here is the error output from the command

[gentoo-user] Evolution Data Server keeps reverting

2005-05-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I had a problem starting evolution: 14:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [alex] evolution-2.2 evolution-2.2: error while loading shared libraries: libecal-1.2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory When I checked I found that libecalc belonged to evolution-data-server. A quick

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Data Server keeps reverting

2005-05-08 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 16:03 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: Both versions are ~amd64 so I don't think that is the reason. Any idea what is causing emerge to think it wants to revert to a broken package? There could be a couple of reasons reasons: 1) you're running a amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work

2005-04-17 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:22 +0200, Erik wrote: Richard Fish wrote: What error results when you try to run one of those programs? Segmentation fault. I've seen this before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 Did you seem a similer error at the end of emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] nmap results: need help

2005-04-12 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:43 -0700, death rince wrote: hi, a) why does it show that the there is netbois ports b) why mysql is shown as unauthorised. c) why is it showiing tftp as filtered. why it is open in the first place I have attached the output of grep disable /etc/xinetd.d/*