Re: [gentoo-user] claws-mail HTML

2018-09-03 Thread David W Noon
Claws so that a newer HTML engine can be used. Until then, it's plain text only. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*  

Re: [gentoo-user] XATTR missing from ext4?

2017-07-01 Thread David W Noon
tribute support the mount options should include both acl and user_xattr, as these enable the security namespace and user namespace respectively. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@n

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread David W Noon
paid by the word. ... :-) -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] modules-load restart

2017-03-18 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 22:31:44 +, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] modules-load restart" (in <20170318223144.17e0e...@digimed.co.uk>): > On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:28:27 +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> Otherwise the second assignmen

Re: [gentoo-user] modules-load restart

2017-03-18 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:16:24 +, Peter Humphrey (pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] modules-load restart" (in <4385990.55jxZYQh37@peak>): > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 17:28:27 David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> To use multiple lines, you need to re-interpo

Re: [gentoo-user] modules-load restart

2017-03-17 Thread David W Noon
list from the first assignment. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-08 Thread David W Noon
gt; XftFontInfoFill: /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf: 0 (14 pixels) What does the Xfont debug trace say about your problem documents? -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-08 Thread David W Noon
that seems unlikely. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Tbird_msg.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-07 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-07 Thread David W Noon
/fltk without xfl but it did not make any > difference. The flag is named xft. It won't help unless flpsed is written in C++ and uses the fltk toolkit. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dw

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-07 Thread David W Noon
d in the respective fonts. This will help you recognize Helvetica when you get it working. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-07 Thread David W Noon
probably Arial. However, flpsed is definitely looking for Helvetica, not Arial. I would start by deleting the *.ttf files in that directory (or move them elsewhere) and refreshing the font cache again. -- Regards, Dave [RL

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-06 Thread David W Noon
fix for a C manifest constant. Unfortunately, it is only mnemonic to the developers of flpsed; it means nothing to the rest of us. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-06 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:50:33 -0700, Thelma (the...@sys-concept.com) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in <169d7ee4-a369-de54-3f4c-daafc5474...@sys-concept.com>): > On 03/06/2017 01:33 PM, David W Noon wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 12:27:23 -0700, Thelma (the.

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-06 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5 won't compile

2017-02-18 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 15:47:39 -0500, John Covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5 won't compile" (in <m3mvdj6xas.wl-cov...@ccs.covici.com>): > On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 15:09:28 -0500, > David W Noon wr

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5 won't compile

2017-02-18 Thread David W Noon
he old gstreamer plugins, so these need to be removed. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Not able to install ksh93

2016-09-11 Thread David W Noon
> David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> writes: [snip] >> The a look at <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587730> and see >> if it is the same as the symptoms you are seeing. > > I don't see a segmentation fault but I don't know how to recognize >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Not able to install ksh93

2016-09-10 Thread David W Noon
e seeing. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

2016-06-25 Thread David W Noon
25/2016 09:39:32 PM, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> I always statically link the driver that operates the controller >> that connects the root device and modprobe the drivers that >> operate the other disk controllers. This ensures that the >> controller for my /dev/sda d

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

2016-06-25 Thread David W Noon
the controller for my /dev/sda device is probed first and its drives get "a", "b" and "c" in /dev/sd?, and those letters are assigned in device address order on the controller. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a new kernel bug? Or not.

2015-04-14 Thread David W Noon
about /dev/fd0. Does your /etc/fstab have noauto on the line for the floppy? -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread David W Noon
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[gentoo-user] Message threading (Was: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-22 Thread David W Noon
bofh.it. This was affecting my message threading a couple of years ago, when I was posting replies from eternel-september.org, which is downstream from bofh.it. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W

[gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-01 Thread David W Noon
the data (i.e. digits) be read and a frequency table built. The only problem is that to read all the digits of Pi could take rather a long time. ... :-) - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:40 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work (in 5442aa74.8212980a.2836.7...@mx.google.com): On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] You're welcome. The Xfce

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:18:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work (in 20141018211836.63981...@digimed.co.uk): On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100, David W Noon wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-17 Thread David W Noon
added: src_prepare() { epatch_user } Don't forget to redo the manifest for the ebuild. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread David W Noon
to go back to eth0 and the like -- or worse still, udev's predictable names -- as these are not mnemonic in any way. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] NNTP access

2014-07-14 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-15 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-15 Thread David W Noon
:31PM +0100, David W Noon wrote If you specify -march=k8 in your CFLAGS, you should get pretty decent object code from GCC. I've used -march=native since it became available, because it's one less thing to worry about. That's why I didn't ask about CFLAGS. echo | gcc -### -E - -march

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-28 Thread David W Noon
was running that distro.] -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-27 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-10 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address

2012-12-13 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks

2012-12-12 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address

2012-12-11 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread David W Noon
/python2 -3 for your hash-bang line on all your old Python scripts. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:45:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears: 120917 David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:14:27 -0400, Philip Webb wrote re Python 2/3 : print ' ',eval(expression) The above line uses obsolete

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:17:47 -0400, Philip Webb wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears: 120917 Philip Webb wrote: 120917 David W Noon wrote: print(' {0}'.format(eval(expression))) That works properly with Python2 in this machine ; I'll check

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

2012-06-11 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread David W Noon
: mencoder ./input_file.wmv -o ./output_file.mpeg might do the job without further ado. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-24 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:41:19 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered: On Tuesday 24 April 2012 01:21:33 David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:59:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote Plain text is what I have always specified. Kmail seems to want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread David W Noon
typeface to the list. Any chance of you reconfiguring KMail not to send HTML messages? Please ... pretty please ... :-) -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:53:36 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: On 23/04/12 21:34, David W Noon wrote: [snip] Any chance of you reconfiguring KMail not to send HTML messages? Please ... pretty please ... :-) A mail-client worth its salt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:14:46 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:18:27 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Claws-mail also has that option, but it applies globally, and there are some email messages I receive (mostly marketing

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4

2012-04-08 Thread David W Noon
(s) where you want extended attribute support. If you do that before you reboot (as above) then you will have full extended attribute support. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

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

2012-03-30 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:26:43 +0800, wdk@moriah wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: On 29/03/2012, at 20:01, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] At present, the first thing I see when udev starts is a failed attempt to run /usr/sbin/alsactl to restore

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

2012-03-29 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is that many of the daemons

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else Ping-Ponging with fltk?

2012-03-29 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:33:50 +0200, Willie WY Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else Ping-Ponging with fltk?: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 05:43:00PM +0100, Penguin Lover David W Noon squawked: In that case, the source of the breakage is almost certainly Portage. If a slotted

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

2012-03-29 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:08:40 -0400, Doug Hunley wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 19:20, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that.  The reason is that many of the daemons that can

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else Ping-Ponging with fltk?

2012-03-28 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else Ping-Ponging with fltk?

2012-03-28 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:00:43 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else Ping-Ponging with fltk?: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:17:06 +0100, David W Noon wrote: [snip] The question I think Todd Goodman is trying to ask is why a package in world should be a candidate for depclean

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

2012-03-28 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:40:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:23 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

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

2012-03-28 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var -- and anything else -- before

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

2012-03-27 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread David W Noon
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[gentoo-user] Beers in Michigan (was: Full disk encryption

2011-12-02 Thread David W Noon
away than Texas, as I am in Luton, Bedfordshire, about 30 miles north of London. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-02 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:03:18 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:43:01 +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] I need to fsck / before I mount /usr, /var and everything else. Now it makes sense, but can't you use busybox fsck? AFAIAA

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-02 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:47:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:27:06 +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running inside an initramfs, one cannot load executable content from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:41:50 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:11 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: [snip

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread David W Noon
, and even install it to /boot, with a single command. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:47:33 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:28:28 +, David W Noon wrote: I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large (32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:26:56 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:07:35 +, David W Noon wrote: Why do you need e2fsprogs on an initramfs? One needs e2fsck to do a preen prior to mounting the required volume(s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread David W Noon
, the archiver *must* be cpio, not tar. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC with multiple targets

2011-11-18 Thread David W Noon
-4.6.2 [snip] Any suggestions? Try using the crossdev package. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc

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

2011-10-06 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange GCC behavior

2011-09-29 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Missing kernel config parameter

2011-09-21 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:18:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about [gentoo-user] Missing kernel config parameter: What am I supposed to do about this? Ignore it? Yes. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W

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

2011-09-19 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread David W Noon
messages about running revdep-rebuild --library libXXX seriously. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc

OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-16 Thread David W Noon
shafted by one of their traders. Of course, all of the directors are business geniuses, as all senior City folk are. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread David W Noon
. [Both vim and Emacs can run in a text console.] You might also start reading comp.os.linux.development.apps on Usenet, if you don't already do so. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:44:20 -0500, James Wall wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] I have some scripts that generate LVM rebuild scripts.  These scan the current logical volumes and generate

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-12 Thread David W Noon
on a stick. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?

2011-09-11 Thread David W Noon
HTML messages. Plain text is perfectly adequate to convey information, and is much lighter to transport and render.] -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?

2011-09-11 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:35:40 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [BTW, can you ditch the HTML please?  This is an Internet mailing list, and it has long been considered poor Netiquette

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

2011-09-11 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread David W Noon
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, the initramfs will be many times

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

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:33:35 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is.  As I wrote

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

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:56:44 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:44 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] I expect to switch my simpler systems away from udev to mdev.  This loses some functionality

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

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:13:55 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] I don't know if the kernel offers any particular blessing to any hotplug handler. udev

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

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:42:04 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] They work currently. So you want all the new functionality, but without needing to do anything

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

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:45:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:25:31 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: Well, then you already know what to do. Indeed I do. If your databases are not ASE or Oracle

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

2011-09-07 Thread David W Noon
/ read-only. Putting /etc on a read-only filesystem seems a really bad idea. To say the least. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

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

2011-09-06 Thread David W Noon
definitely huge. Compared to LibreOffice?? ROFLMAO! -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP

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

2011-08-20 Thread David W Noon
is only about 1.8 megs, and glibc alone makes that look really puny.] Welcome to progress. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

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

2011-08-20 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread David W Noon
that there is a national language code uk, but it is for Ukrainian.] -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-08-01 Thread David W Noon
was working. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig necessary?

2011-08-01 Thread David W Noon
the options that were in your old .config file, with newer features [i.e. not in the earlier kernel] set to defaults. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] Need for revdep-rebuild

2011-07-25 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around Argument list too long?

2011-07-19 Thread David W Noon
of page 11. You are better off using the more modern $(command ...) notation. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around Argument list too long?

2011-07-17 Thread David W Noon
long What would you do about this? Use find with the -delete option. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc

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