[gentoo-user] Re: HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stroller wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, at 21:55, Thomas Pedersen wrote: Was thinking of buying the Western Digital' My Book® Home Edition™, specially because of the eSATA connection... I heard they have an internal USB-hub for making the capacity gauge working.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 10 May 2008 08:07:25 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: At least I wouldn't store everything in the same directory. It would of course be a good idea to seperate things. sigh When did I ever mention using a single directory to mix up all backups

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:07:06 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: And last, but not least: Why should backup directories be shared in the first place? They shouldn't, and I never stated that they should. You stated that there might be such a need. In [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
backing up something like a My Pictures folder, or are we talking about system backups? Why should this be such a strange idea? Because you usually don't mix-and-match backups. A backup should be a storage of how the system was at a certain point in time. Michael Schmarck -- Knghtbrd Trust us

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-10 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:51 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. Why? Different OS. So. We can use the same web pages, read the same email, why not share hardware? Because it doesn't make

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-09 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:55:50 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: To a backup device? Why? Don't Windows users need to backup? No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. Why? Different OS. You could equally be saying that Linux users

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-09 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, sharing storage space makes a lot of sense. No, it does not· Not for such important and specialized things as backups. For general usage: Yes, it makes a whole lot of sense. But we're not talking general usage here. Michael --

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:16:01 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive? Because you need to access it from Windows too? To a backup device? Why? Don't Windows users need to backup

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:40:08 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and gzip compression and handle it automatically. That's only true for GNU tar. If you're also dealing with other

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and rsync to keep it updated. How do you

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: If you're using 'dd' does that mean you're copying the entire filesystem and not just the files? I believe that can run you into some issues if the FS isn't read-only... What kind of issues? If the fs

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing wrong with tar. In fact tar is great for this job. dd not. Depends. If you backup to tape, like you do, then the Tape Archiver commonly called tar is the tool to use. But if a backup to disk is done, tar is still a good tool for

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:57:02 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve permissions. Can you elaborate more on the latter,

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:41:17 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync relying on and which fs wouldn't meet the requirements. FAT on an external drive, Why not put ext* or reiserfs

[gentoo-user] Re: tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2 To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the j option. That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and gzip compression and handle

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Question re: UUID

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Schmarck
in? The /dev references may change but the UUID's in fstab wouldn't, would they? Correct. UUIDs are universally unique (as the name already suggests *g*) and thus, there cannot be a clash. Michael Schmarck -- Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Question re: UUID

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Schmarck
: much easier to read. Disadvantage: Not guaranteed to be unique. It could, theoretically at least, happen that there are two devices with the same names. The same disadvantage exists, if you use filesystem labels. Advantage of fs labels: No need for another layer like LVM. Michael Schmarck -- i

[gentoo-user] Versioning scheme (was: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises)

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, need for a rev bump. If one person has a problem and another person does not have the problem, it is helpfull to be able to determine the exact version of the packet installed. Not bumping revs makes that harder. Exactly. There should be a

[gentoo-user] [OT] Top-post with full quote (was: you have cruft in /proc remove it)

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: Don't top post! Big whoop! The two posts are tiny -- it's easy to see at a glance which is the original and which the reply. And since your post was so tiny, you really should have trimmed what you quoted. This could easily mean, that all the

[gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I would upgrade your extremely stupid opinion to something more like Ravenous Bluggbatter Beast of Traal level stupidity. Yup, it really is that bad and the flood of user support questions from this is going to be quite long. While I agree that this

[gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
upgraded. Armin has at least one machine and I've got 2 were this happened and there are reports in the forum discussion thread reg. disappearance of /etc/conf.d/net (or rather, that it was replaced with a basically blank default file). So, I think, that your system is a bit odd. Michael Schmarck

[gentoo-user] Re: Daft colours in knode

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed knode to see how Usenet has changed since I first used it 15 years ago, and I'm astonished to find that the default colours include white text on a white background for read threads and articles. That's not the default. The default

[gentoo-user] Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Since this morning, I find that I can no longer add SSH keys to the ssh key agent. I'm using Gnome 2.22, so I think seahorse would be used instead. [...] Is ssh-agent

[gentoo-user] Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of course I ran eix seahorse *after* hitting reply. Teaches me not to reply to a message 30 seconds after getting out of bed. Ok, now onto helpful stuff... does /tmp/keyring-L12w0n/ssh exist? Yes. HOWEVER: --($:~)-- sudo lsof | grep -i tmp/keyring

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
fix it :) It seems to me, as if some daemon or whatnot is not started. It would be interesting for me, if any other Gnome users have this problem as well. If not, it would be interesting to see what daemons you've got running. The lsof output would be very interesting! Michael Schmarck

[gentoo-user] Circular dependencies when USE=gnome and emerging world

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=nv nvidia vga none Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Michael Schmarck -- Distinctive, adj.: A different color or shape than our competitors. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular dependencies when USE=gnome and emerging world

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On AD 2008 April 16 Wednesday 09:28:48 PM +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. I'm installing a new machine and use 2008.0_beta1 i686 stage3. I use the 2008.0/desktop profile. When I do emerge -DuvatN world, I get an error to the effect

[gentoo-user] ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Since this morning, I find that I can no longer add SSH keys to the ssh key agent. I'm using Gnome 2.22, so I think seahorse would be used instead. --($:~)-- ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. No good :( Per man ssh-add(1): The authentication agent

[gentoo-user] Re: Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Schmarck
Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:51:29 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: In prose: I have kde-i18n-3.5.8 installed. In tree, there's an update available (kde-i18n-3.5.9). Why was that updatedable package not picked up, when I ran emerge -DuvatN world? I also

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:39:11 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: emerge --depclean thanks. 200 some packages, which would be removed. Quite a lot. If you've removed kde-meta, I'm not surprised. It's not (mainly) kde packages that show up there. It's

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:30:11 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: I think I removed kde-meta, because it installs too much stuff, that I don't need (like kppp). It would be nice, if the kde-meta ebuild would be more like the gst-plugins-meta package

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other option is to use the kde*meta ebuilds, which do directly depend on the sub-ordinate packages. This is what I do and I don't get the effect you observed. Thanks. I think I removed kde-meta, because it installs too much stuff, that I don't need

[gentoo-user] emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Maybe someone can explain this: $ sudo emerge -DuvatN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] $ emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Well, I disagree. I want to install almost all of the KDE stuff, but eg. not the PPP things, as I've got not use for that on that system. But I still would like my world file *NOT* to be cluttered

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed, because the dependent package got removed (as an example, I'd like to find

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Anthony Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. snip How do I make emerge update all the installed packages, if there's an update available? Thanks, Michael Hi, First question, was it installed directly, or as a dependency for something else

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe he does have multiple versions installed of those packages. What For gcc: Yes. It's about time to dump gcc-3.4.6. is the output of for example: emerge -avP gcc ? $ emerge -avP gcc superuser access is required... adding --pretend to options. Calculating

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:39:11 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: emerge --depclean thanks. 200 some packages, which would be removed. Quite a lot

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Maybe he does have multiple versions installed of those packages. What For gcc: Yes. It's about time to dump gcc-3.4.6. Yes, I see now. --depclean is removing old SLOTS and the original output

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:20:21 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Which majorly sucks, as there are good reasons why the packages should NOT be the way they are right now. Such as? Finer control, without cluttering the world file. Hint: uncluttering

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:36:45 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Which majorly sucks, as there are good reasons why the packages should NOT be the way they are right now. Such as? Finer control, without cluttering the world file. What could

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:27:59 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: It really depends on, from what side you're coming. If you want just a few packages, then all is well with the current approach. If you, however, want everything but a few packages

[gentoo-user] Re: Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi is this a correct documentation * http://howtoforge.com/mysql_master_master_replication* for Master Slave Replication and is there a test case to test this setup I'd advise to ask this question on the general mysql mailing list again; see

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:51:28 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: But nonetheless, there's still the risk that the KILL has destroyed the application database (sort of - more correctly: that the application and its database was in a non consistent state

[gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any potential harms to the hardware / system in case one tends to abuse (i.e. use more often than necessary) of this command? You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. Because of this, filesystem and/or applications might get corrupt

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? It's more like pulling the plug, isn't it? At least none of the shutdown

[gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. You're not? I thought that's the purpose

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Neil even proposed ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted. Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking about applications being

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Windows terminal to allow ssh into my Gentoo machine?

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Schmarck
*THE* terminal app for windows. It offers telnet, rsh, ssh, rlogin and also sftp and scp. Michael Schmarck -- Remember the... the... uhh. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:39:09 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: You have a problem to which you do not know the solution, so how are you supposed to know what is important and what is not? As it seems, I knew what was not important. Just have

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Schmarck
darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Michael Schmarck: My attitude? Well, maybe. But I rather think it has everything to do with Alan, who made a bad comment. Have you not noticed that you are the _only_ person upset by Alan's post? Yes, I have. Why don't you think about

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Schmarck
Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: ... In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I understand that right? ... Get real. When you're

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: So you found his post unhelpful, You disagree? You think that he was helpful with his KDE comment? I would be very surprised if he thought it was helpful. It wasn't written to be helpful

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:34:38 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: You were not supposed to post such a comment in the first place. Who dictates that? I don't know. Ask Alan, as he tries to dictate which post are allowed and which

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:39:07 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: I don't. I disagree with his most important point: It's no good to post as much information as possible. Instead, the amount of information posted should be condensed to only

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: ... In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I understand that right? ... Get real. When you're describing someone who has annoyed you on the Internet as an aggressor it probably means

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hal Martin hal.martin at gmail.com writes: Michael Schmarck wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com wrote: Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same problem before, as you have

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: Hi there, I, too, thought about saying something like this at the time. I'm glad you have done so and I agree with all your points. I don't. I disagree with his most important point: It's no good to post as much information as possible.

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: On Saturday 29 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: I, too, know what it's like to receive a reply to one of my questions which I find to be unhelpful and aggravating. However, two wrongs don't make a right and no-one benefits from

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 29 Mar 2008, at 20:39, Michael Schmarck wrote: Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: I, too, thought about saying something like this at the time. I'm glad you have done so and I agree with all your points. I don't. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox should DEPENDs on gst

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: On Thursday 27 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: The question now is why were the alsa, oss and other drivers removed from the -base ebuild? Because they belong to the meta package, I suppose. The real question rather is, why

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org writes: The GNOME 2.22 versions of Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer depend on gst-plugins-meta. Great to hear! So you should get over it. I will. I don't care much about the 2.20 version then. They'll be history soon anyway. Cheers, Michael --

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same problem before, as you have not provided any configuration at all and very little useful information. What would you

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox should DEPENDs on gst-plugins-base which should conditionally DEPEND on -alsa or -oss (or other sound systems). Isn't

[gentoo-user] Re: openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to keep the overlay. I deleted it and removed the source line in /etc/make.conf. I have the following line in make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=openchrome via Now I get this: uwix ~ # emerge

[gentoo-user] rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see the sound. But I hear nothing at all :/ Any ideas about why that's so? The volume slider in rb is all the way

[gentoo-user] Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found (was: rhythmbox plays silently)

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Andrey Falko ma3oxuct at gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de wrote: Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found (was: rhythmbox plays silently)

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
I wrote: Andrey Falko ma3oxuct at gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de wrote: There's another problem: When I start gnome-volume-control, I get: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found Hmm

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see

[gentoo-user] Re: Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hi. Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Would the type of filesystem encryption you guys are talking about be unsuitable for a high-traffic server because of performance considerations? Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that nobody has physical

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Schmarck
Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/3/19 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: How can i create .tbz2 file Now the real thing: man tar [...] I mean using quickpkg command What part of the documentation is unclear to you

[gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? Thanks, Michael --

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:45, Michael Schmarck wrote: Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? UK residents can buy from the iTunes store, as I would imagine can residents

[gentoo-user] sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Since recently (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: $ LC_ALL=C sudo ls -1 Last login: Mon Mar 17 07:12:40 CET 2008 from winnb000488 on pts/6 10001~ [...] Would

[gentoo-user] Re: sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Since recently (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: $ LC_ALL=C sudo ls -1 Last login: Mon Mar 17 07:12:40 CET 2008 from

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed. How would I do

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Willie Wong writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Henry Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: Put this in /etc/portage/package.use: sys-apps/man-pages -nls Does this work for other

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael

[gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed. How would I do that? Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Schmarck
Crayon Shin Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What supports what is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Schmarck
Jonathan Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this sort of stuff. The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Of course :) Hence I was using Ghost instead of

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there really no way to search http://packages.gentoo.org ?!

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Schmarck
Mike Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I get this when I go there: Looks like they might be experiencing some downtime at the moment. Try again later. They are down quite often, aren't they? :( Michael --

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Schmarck
#blocked How do you get around this blocker? Thanks, Michael - -- Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Portage-issue-tp15256634p15562413.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage issue

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Schmarck
Michael Schmarck michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de writes: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 [2.1.2.2] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl [ebuild U ] app-shells

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Schmarck
Good morning! Alan McKinnon-2 wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello! Alan McKinnon-2 wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) emerge --sync

[gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 443-653-1569 wrote: On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote: atop 3 filter by p WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've seen. Why haven't I heard more about it? Bill Roberts What package provides

[gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an OS from a CD which offers nothing more fancy than a

[gentoo-user] [OT] Trying to use xauth - Xlib: No protocol specified

2008-02-06 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello folks! I know that this question is offtopic for this list, but maybe someone has a clue nonetheless... I'm trying to access my local X display (on a Gentoo Linux machine, of course - am I now on topic? *G*) from a remote system (running Solaris 10U4 on Sparc). I cannot use ssh to login to

[gentoo-user] Re: openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Schmarck
Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to update my system (emerge world -vuDNp) and noticed a block by openexr (being updated) on ilmbase (new package). So, I was wondering what they are and which one I should be using. media-libs/openexr-1.6.1 [1.4.0a] Update!

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Schmarck
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage?  Is it dead upstream? It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal issues with AOL and their AIM product. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: SANDBOX - state of the art?

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.20_alpha2-r1 installed but still when I install a kernel module I need to disable the sandbox by using FEATURES='-sandbox' I am running kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 and gcc-4.2.2 as standard C-compiler. Am I missing

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:58:15 -0200, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I completely agree with Alan, Gentoo is a metadistro, and it provides (by Handbook) a LOT of ways to install, Ok, but I would like to see all those sabayon users taken into the fold. Uhm, why?

[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
, KCachegrind, Kompare, Umbrello,... License: GPL-2 Yep. There it says: kdesdk also offers Kompare. Hm, why would you want to install Kompare, if you already have it installed? Michael Schmarck -- Why would anyone want to be called Later? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Single click is interpreted as double click

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: What if you now change the InputDeviceUSB Maus SendCoreEvents to InputDeviceUSB Maus CorePointer ? YEAH! That solved it. I can now single click again. Most excellent. Thanks a lot! - -- Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo on the Sales block?

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only ask because Sun just paid a billion dollars for MySQL http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html How is it that Open Source is for sale? What do you mean with that? Sun bought MySQL AB, a company in Sweden (or that's where they

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone talking about grml here know where to download: From grml.org: `Release grml 1.1-rc1 - Codename Skunk' Unless you want to use the baloney bit torrent download What's baloney about a bittorrent download? It's a good way to save on

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