[gentoo-user] Re: [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users

2015-05-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/05/15 17:05, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:55 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just wasted some time figuring out this mess: I just updated google-chrome, which printed this confusing warning message: CONFIG_USED_NS not seen when it should be First, there's a typo:

[gentoo-user] Re: howto make github look nice

2015-05-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/05/15 03:47, James wrote: One of the things I find ugly about github is the first appearance of the main (base) page of a given project. One thing I really like about sourceforge is how some projects look much more professional. I do not need (nor want) a lecture on why this is. I only

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge bash-completion

2015-05-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/05/15 11:54, Behrouz Khosravi wrote: hello everyone. I have a problem with bash-completion with emerge command for packages. when I press tab-tab it only shows world and system but I was working OK before, I mean It was able to show the list of packages. Is anything changed? It does that

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge bash-completion

2015-05-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/05/15 12:17, Behrouz Khosravi wrote: On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 12:09:57 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It does that here, but it seems I need to press tab three times, not two. well three times did not change anything. The problem is that I cant remember since when this feature is broke

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple repos.conf layout please

2015-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/15 08:49, Philip Webb wrote: 150501 Alec Ten Harmsel recommended: [gentoo] location = /usr/portage sync-type = rsync sync-uri = rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage auto-sync = true I don't have the final line : what is it for ? It means that your local copy will be

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/15 14:19, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 02.05.2015 um 07:04 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 01/05/15 10:44, Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2015 05:09:51 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote: That's why kernel makes sure that no floating

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/15 15:10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 02.05.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 02/05/15 14:37, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 02.05.2015 um 13:25 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: The kernel uses -O2 and several -march variants (e.g. -march=core2). Several other options

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/15 14:37, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 02.05.2015 um 13:25 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: The kernel uses -O2 and several -march variants (e.g. -march=core2). Several other options are used to prevent GCC from generating unsuitable code. Specifying another -march variant does

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-05-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/05/15 10:44, Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2015 05:09:51 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote: That's why kernel makes sure that no floating point instructions sneaks in using CFLAGS, you may see a lot of -mno-${intrucion_set} flags when

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/04/15 16:35, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:18:23 +0200, Ralf wrote: Damn, you're absolutely right. I just tested it using make V=1. kernel make does override CFLAGs from the outside. But that's interesting: my processor supports -march=core-avx2 and none of the linux

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGs for kernel compilation

2015-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 30/04/15 02:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 29/04/15 16:35, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:18:23 +0200, Ralf wrote: Damn, you're absolutely right. I just tested it using make V=1. kernel make does override CFLAGs from the outside. But that's interesting: my processor

[gentoo-user] Re: qpdfview - asking for qt4 or qt5

2015-04-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/04/15 19:54, Joseph wrote: I've on my system qpdfview (without qt*) but the system wants to upgrade to qpdfview-0.4.13-r1 and it is asking for qt4 or qt5 [...] Why? Because it can now be build using Qt4 or Qt5. You have to choose one. If you're on KDE4, enable the qt4 USE flag

[gentoo-user] Re: qpdfview - asking for qt4 or qt5

2015-04-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/04/15 01:46, Joseph wrote: On 04/25/15 20:43, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 25/04/15 19:54, Joseph wrote: I've on my system qpdfview (without qt*) but the system wants to upgrade to qpdfview-0.4.13-r1 and it is asking for qt4 or qt5 [...] Why? Because it can now be build using Qt4 or Qt5

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/04/15 20:09, james wrote: [installing gcc 5 system-wide through portage] Now that 5.1 is in Portage (masked), you should keep in mind that emerging it will result in the 5.1 libraries being used, even if you keep 4.9 (or 4.8) as the default compiler. This is not really guaranteed to

[gentoo-user] Heads-up: dev-libs/isl-0.14 and dev-libs/cloog-0.18.3 updates can break your GCC

2015-04-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
This happens if you're using graphite optimizations in GCC (by having them in CFLAGS). If you're already affected, I posted here a way to repair your system: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547596

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads-up: dev-libs/isl-0.14 and dev-libs/cloog-0.18.3 updates can break your GCC

2015-04-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/04/15 23:00, Andrew Tselischev wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:19:57PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This happens if you're using graphite optimizations in GCC (by having them in CFLAGS). If you're already affected, I posted here a way to repair your system: https://bugs.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/04/15 21:14, james wrote: How do you tell if a ~ is actually based on the nightlies, 5.1 or is just old ebuild with the . extension somebody never got around to renaming or deleting? are live ebuilds. Not based on any release or nightlies. They download the code from a

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/04/15 17:58, james wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: On 21/04/15 21:14, james wrote: How do you tell if a ~ is actually based on the nightlies, 5.1 or is just old ebuild with the . extension somebody never got around to renaming or deleting? are live

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/04/15 19:37, james wrote: So is my best hope the toolchain repo ? Do drop me a short message, if there is a live or 5.1 gcc somewhere. I'm itching (really bad) to test RDMA on Cephfs with some in-memory codes, on my gentoo_GPU_linux_cluster_hack... You can always compile and

[gentoo-user] Re: [OFF TOPIC] Qt Creator unable to access containers in debug mode

2015-03-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/03/15 15:07, Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, Recently - but can't figure out exactly when - Qt Creator has become unable to access Qt containers (where the STL ones work as expected) on the debug panel. It shows not accessible in place of the expected item quantity for a QList, for instance,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OFF TOPIC] Qt Creator unable to access containers in debug mode

2015-03-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
...@outlook.com mailto:frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com: On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:32:07 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 24/03/15 21:12, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:07:56 AM Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, Recently - but can't figure out exactly

[gentoo-user] Re: [OFF TOPIC] Qt Creator unable to access containers in debug mode

2015-03-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/03/15 21:12, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:07:56 AM Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, Recently - but can't figure out exactly when - Qt Creator has become unable to access Qt containers (where the STL ones work as expected) on the debug panel. It shows not accessible

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/03/15 14:16, Matti Nykyri wrote: On Mar 23, 2015, at 14:13, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/03/15 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: The consensus seems to be that there's no point in trying to prevent a user from rebooting the machine, and I'm happy to go along

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/03/15 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: The consensus seems to be that there's no point in trying to prevent a user from rebooting the machine, and I'm happy to go along with that. The remaining question is: why is the user not allowed to halt it? Because there's no keyboard shortcut for

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/03/15 21:26, German wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from user? Thanks If you have dbus running (KDE, Gnome and others automatically use it), then you can shut down with

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/03/15 12:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 21 March 2015 16:20:17 Jc García wrote: Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am a user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't shut down? Strange It's not strange, `man 2 reboot`. It's a

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/03/15 17:58, Philip Webb wrote: Because of that, the default of allowing ctrl+alt+del for local users makes more sense than disabling it. That doesn't follow : if you have multiple users, you don't want some rogue user rebooting randomly You can't stop a local user from doing that. As

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/03/15 22:12, Philip Webb wrote: 150322 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 22/03/15 17:58, Philip Webb wrote: If you have multiple users, you don't want some rogue user rebooting randomly You can't stop a local user from doing that. As mentioned, the reset button works just fine. You really do

[gentoo-user] Re: unwanted cursor change

2015-03-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/03/15 03:58, Philip Webb wrote: Yesterday, I updated to gtk+-3.14.9 , which required installation of x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme . This new unwanted pkg created a dir under /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 a symbolic link 'default-Adwaita', which changed my mouse cursor. Not liking the new

[gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/03/15 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: Being a member of the portage group allows to to write to directories owned by portage, so you can do things like emerge --sync and emerge --fetchonly. You can do fetchonly, but sync is not possible. You need root for that.

[gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/03/15 12:42, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:08:16AM -0400, German wrote Question is in the subject line. If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as long as the command includes --pretend or -p Actually, users in the portage group can emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/15 00:42, Grant Edwards wrote: What is a good acroread replacement? Not sure if it's a good replacement, but I'm using Google Chrome. It has a built-in PDF viewer. (I just dragdrop PDF documents into an empty tab.) It can also print. It might be worth checking out.

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange equery behavior when piping output

2015-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/03/15 23:07, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: When piping the output of equery uses, all descriptions disappear. RTFM: -N option. Would still be nice to have it be the default. Omitting details should only be done through a option, imo. Like --short.

[gentoo-user] Strange equery behavior when piping output

2015-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I don't know when this started. I don't remember it behaving this way, in any event. When piping the output of equery uses, all descriptions disappear. Example: $ equery uses app-misc/mc [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [: I - package is installed with flag

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/15 20:26, lee wrote: Hi, how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. As others said, it's probably a bug and /var/log/messages is actually

[gentoo-user] Re: off topic: rotating a video

2015-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/02/15 22:51, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I apologize in advance for this off topic query. I took a video with my phone (galaxy note 4) and via google+ uploaded it to my mail laptop. It is an mp4 and plays fine on both the phone and the labtop except that it is sideways. I was surprised that

[gentoo-user] Re: off topic: rotating a video

2015-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/15 01:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 16 2015, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 16/02/15 22:51, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I apologize in advance for this off topic query. I took a video with my phone (galaxy note 4) and via google+ uploaded it to my mail laptop. It is an mp4

[gentoo-user] Re: off topic: rotating a video

2015-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/15 03:30, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I built and tried mplayer. Again not rotated. I ran it from the terminal. Below is the output up to when I killed it Is it possible I did the ffmpeg command wrong? Sorry, that was my fault. mplayer doesn't support this :-P mpv does. If you want

[gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf migration lost overlay priority

2015-02-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/02/15 20:52, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: I migrated my portage config to the new repos.conf system. repos.conf system is very cool; thanks for posting about it; but it's brand new to me [...] Does this system effect epatch user, as in where the patches

[gentoo-user] repos.conf migration lost overlay priority

2015-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I migrated my portage config to the new repos.conf system. I now have a file /etc/portage/repos.conf/local.conf: [Local] location = /usr/local/portage auto-sync = no And removed the path from make.conf. However, now layman overlays override my local repo. If I copy an ebuild to

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with Adobe flash

2015-01-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/01/15 05:11, Philip Webb wrote: Typically, when I try to watch a short movie from a general news site, it stops quickly with an error message : it seems not to download fast enough. I assumed this was a problem with Adobe flash (all versions), but on the Mageia system I also have installed

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.7.3 -- 4.8.3

2014-11-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/11/14 19:46, James wrote: Ok so I'm still on 4.7.3; but if I set 4.8.3 as the default, should I rebuild @system ? # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.7.3 * [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.8.3 I saw the news item about 4.8.3-SSP, which I think is a good idea, but how deeply, if at

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE monitor configuration disappeared!

2014-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/11/14 18:28, Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: What happened? Where are the KDE settings for my monitor? from kde-misc/kscreen postinstall: LOG: postinst Disable the old screen management: # qdbus org.kde.kded /kded

[gentoo-user] KDE monitor configuration disappeared!

2014-11-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I updated to KDE 4.11.13/4.14.2 and in the middle of the emerge, my monitor's resolution was changed from 1920x1080 to 640x480. After the emerge I simply restarted. The system booted into a KDE with 640x480. I went to the System Settings application and into the Display and Monitor section to

[gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/10/14 18:49, James wrote: Often the latency is minimal and the system response (as guaged) from the keyboard is fine (quick). Other times the active terminal session is a pig mostly in the web browser windows. Try different browsers. See for example if Chrome (or Chromium) behaves

[gentoo-user] Re: Playing timidity patches via keyboard?

2014-09-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/09/14 08:53, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com [14-09-27 07:48]: 2014-09-26 23:42 GMT-06:00 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, I am looking for some sort of software, for which I have no words (neiter I am a native english speaker nor I am a musician...;): There is a

[gentoo-user] Re: stack-protector-strong option results in gcc error

2014-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/09/14 11:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:16:42AM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote Looks like support for '-fstack-protector-strong' was implemented in more recent versions of gcc. The the URL below for details: https://securityblog.redhat.com/tag/stack-protector/

[gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

2014-09-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
When I run: emerge -uDNl --with-bdeps=y @world I get this: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: x11-base/xorg-server:0 (x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.0.901:0/1.16.0.901::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with

[gentoo-user] Re: world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

2014-09-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/09/14 14:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: When I run: emerge -uDNl --with-bdeps=y @world I get this: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: x11-base/xorg-server:0 (x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.0.901:0/1.16.0.901::gentoo, ebuild

[gentoo-user] Re: world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

2014-09-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/09/14 16:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 22/09/2014 13:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: When I run: emerge -uDNl --with-bdeps=y @world I get this: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: x11-base/xorg-server:0 (x11-base/xorg

[gentoo-user] Re: Is kde really buggy or it is me?!

2014-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/09/14 16:15, behrouz khosravi wrote: Hi. I have just installed the kde desktop. I like the overall experience but its kind of buggy. For example the last problem that I had, system setting was not responding till the next reboot. I have not used kde before so, I was wondering that is buggy

[gentoo-user] Re: unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/09/14 10:24, Gevisz wrote: I have just installed unix2dos utility (never had a need to use it before) and just after that tried to install dos2unix but the installation of dos2unix failed complaining on the fact that app-text/unix2dos is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5 I find it very

[gentoo-user] Enable password echo during login

2014-08-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Does someone know how to enable the echoing of passwords when logging in? I mean in the console or terminal. By default there's nothing displayed. I'd like to have the more traditional method of displaying asterisks instead. Possible?

[gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/07/14 20:39, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [...] and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram. I don't really care if the porn I'm watching has one frame with corrupted pixels on it.

[gentoo-user] Re: Skype now will only work with pulseaudio?

2014-06-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/06/14 19:53, Mick wrote: I was surprised to find that skype now has the pulseaudio flag set as a default. Well, that didn't really surprise me, but what did is that after I unset the pulseaudio flag and emerged skype-4.3.0.37, audio in skype no longer works. :-/ The skype website says

[gentoo-user] GCC upgrade can't run fix_libtool_files

2014-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Does someone know what causes the error? I got this when upgrading from GCC 4.8.2 to 4.8.3: Installing (1 of 1) sys-devel/gcc-4.8.3 * gcc-config: Could not locate 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.8.2' in '/etc/env.d/gcc/' ! * Running 'fix_libtool_files.sh 4.8.2' * Scanning libtool files for

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC upgrade can't run fix_libtool_files

2014-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/06/14 20:02, Daniel Frey wrote: On 06/16/2014 09:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Does someone know what causes the error? I got this when upgrading from GCC 4.8.2 to 4.8.3: Installing (1 of 1) sys-devel/gcc-4.8.3 * gcc-config: Could not locate 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.8.2' in '/etc

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d

2014-06-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/06/14 08:14, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. Does anyone have a clue as to why v86d should suddenly start being very cpu intensive on my computer? When I first boot its fine (using either systemd or openrc), but after a while -- maybe a day or two it starts using up lots of cpu and

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d

2014-06-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/06/14 17:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Thanks. I have a fairly old kernel for other reasons and I installed v86d in 2011 and it has not changed since. I use udesafb because I want a frame buffer so I can get a lot more than 80x25 in a virtual console. Iget 64x160. I also need

[gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

2014-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site.

[gentoo-user] Re: fstab cleanup

2014-05-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/05/14 13:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern systemd/gnome3-environment? tmpfs /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 /dev/cdrw /media/cdrecorder auto user,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 You

[gentoo-user] Re: Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/05/14 00:37, Alex Schuster wrote: So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics

[gentoo-user] Filesystem doesn't mount automatically after unclean shutdown

2014-05-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I have this weird problem where a filesystem (Ext4) refuses to mount automatically after something like a power loss or forced shutdown. The fstab entry for it is: LABEL=Data /mnt/Data ext4 defaults,relatime,exec 0 2 During boot, this is what OpenRC tells me: Root: clean, 805088/6553600

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/05/14 01:29, Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2014 15:34:32 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.05.2014 15:36, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/05/14 14:05, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.05.2014 11:46, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: EFI does not provide a VGA text mode, only BIOS does. So booting in EFI mode makes VGA text mode impossible to use. Then there's NVidia, who do not officially support booting in anything else than

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/05/14 15:02, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Could you maybe add how you use the EFI console framebuffer driver here, just as a reference for others? You know, we all google around like hell ... especially with this intuitive UEFI-stuff ;-) It's an in-kernel driver, like VESAFB and so

[gentoo-user] No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I only get a blank screen. I tried setting:

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/14 15:54, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.05.2014 14:41, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. [...] Does that help, maybe - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1864113 ? Nope.

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I only get

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with usb audio and midi

2014-04-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/04/14 05:47, luis jure wrote: i have an internal pci card (m-audio 2496) that works fine on my gentoo machine, but i'm having problems with usb audio cards and midi devices. All I had to do to get my MIDI controller working was to enable USB Audio/MIDI driver in: Device Drivers

[gentoo-user] What's happening with grub-install on GPT?

2014-04-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
As an old fart with MBR hardwired into my brain, I'm not sure I understand how booting from a GPT partitioned disk works now. So, I had to (note: had to, not wanted to) install Windows 8.1 on my machine. I had a dual boot Gentoo/Windows7 before that. So I did a backup, wiped the Windows7

[gentoo-user] Re: Realtek R8168

2014-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/14 18:53, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Has anyone got =net-misc/r8168-8.028.00::gentoo to compile? [...] Can anyone advise me how to proceed here? I've been using the in-kernel R8169 module with no problems until I installed Snort, but now I have to keep issuing ethtool -K eth0

[gentoo-user] bash completion doesn't always work with sudo

2014-04-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I have a problem where commands preceded by sudo are not always auto-completed. This happens with executables that don't have user execute permission. For example, net-analyzer/tcptraceroute installs this binary: -rws--x--- 1 root wheel 35536 Mar 8 23:32 /usr/sbin/tcptraceroute Typing:

[gentoo-user] Re: bash completion doesn't always work with sudo

2014-04-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/04/14 18:58, staticsafe wrote: On 4/6/2014 06:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I have a problem where commands preceded by sudo are not always auto-completed. This happens with executables that don't have user execute permission. For example, net-analyzer/tcptraceroute installs this binary

[gentoo-user] --jobs is ignored for unmerging?

2014-02-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I recently needed to unmerge Netbeans and KDE from a machine. So removed the top-level packages of those, and then ran: emerge -a --depclean --jobs 20 However, --jobs is being ignored. So I'm sitting there, watching hundreds of packages being unmerged one by one, taking a long time :-/ Is

[gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell me that there's nothing to update. And it does that every time, even directly in succession and

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia and poor codec performance (sync)

2014-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/01/14 03:12, João Matos wrote: Dear list, I'm having problem to watch videos on Gentoo, since I can't remember. I got stripes all the time, but it get worse iv the scene is fast. A couple days ago, a friend borrowed my Nvidia gt 240, and I started to use my at-least-seven-year-old

[gentoo-user] How do I make connection attempts in Git timeout sooner?

2014-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
With overlays.gentoo.org being down, by update script takes a long time to complete. Instead of Git telling me immediately that it can't connect to the server, it just sits there for whole minutes doing nothing before it decides to abort. This is extremely frustrating. Is there a way to

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia and poor codec performance (sync)

2014-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
: When using mplayer, I switched between all possible output. I used to use vdpau. I had the same problem with vlc and kaffeine. Nvidia vsync option also haven't work. 2014/1/16 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com mailto:rea...@gmail.com On 16/01/14 03:12, João Matos wrote: Dear list

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I make connection attempts in Git timeout sooner?

2014-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/01/14 00:38, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:14:28PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote With overlays.gentoo.org being down, by update script takes a long time to complete. Instead of Git telling me immediately that it can't connect to the server, it just sits there for whole

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE nepomuk memory usage

2013-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/12/13 21:13, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there, How many memory is reasonable for virtuoso to use? I just had a view via htop, and I was surprised to see virtuoso-t processes occupying more than 1.5 GB (!), althoug there is a maximum of 128MB defined. KDE's System Activity (KSysGuard)

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers 325.15 removal

2013-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/12/13 06:39, »Q« wrote: It looks to me as if the removal of nvidia-drivers-325.15 was a mistake, but I've got a lot going on in the meat world right now, and I don't want to file a bug if I've simply gotten confused. I run mostly stable amd64. I have 325.15 installed, and nothing

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild gone in a loop

2013-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/12/13 11:51, Mick wrote: Not sure why, but for some reason running emerge @preserved-rebuild does not seem to fix some preserved libs links: !!! existing preserved libs: package: x11-libs/pango-1.34.1 * - /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 * - /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0.3000.1 This is

[gentoo-user] Any good way to pick global USE flag alternatives?

2013-12-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Can't come up with a more descriptive title for this one. The issue is this: There are some global USE flags that allow users to pick alternative methods of implementing the same thing. For example, packages that offer a GUI might do so through the qt or gtk USE flag. Or audio support, where

[gentoo-user] Re: Any good way to pick global USE flag alternatives?

2013-12-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/12/13 08:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/12/2013 08:25, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There are some global USE flags that allow users to pick alternative methods of implementing the same thing. For example, packages that offer a GUI might do so through the qt or gtk USE flag. Or audio support

[gentoo-user] Re: certificates - hwo to accept these

2013-11-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/11/13 13:22, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have a local package dev-python/grin with ESVN_REPO_URI=https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk/; Since some time I get Unpacking source... * subversion check out start -- * repository:

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 31/10/13 16:16, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is showing up. Perhaps a license issue? # Modify /etc/portage

[gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is showing up. Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64.

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/10/13 01:16, walt wrote: On 10/28/2013 02:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is showing up. Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64. I just

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

2013-09-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/09/13 01:33, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: mingdao@workstation ~ $ eselect news read 2013-09-27-initramfs-required Title Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs AuthorWilliam Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org Posted2013-09-27

[gentoo-user] Re: scrolling not seamless in firefox/thunderbird

2013-09-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/09/13 15:39, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've noticed that when I am scrolling up/down a page in Firefox, or scrolling up/down an email body in Thunderbird, it's not seamless. Not sure how to best describe what I mean by 'not seamless'. A screenshot would speak a thousand words :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't ping remote system

2013-09-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/09/13 21:17, Grant wrote: So the culprit is the first IP that should appear in the list but doesn't? If so, how is that helpful since it's not displayed? This is where it gets tricky. You identify the last router in the list for which you have an address or name, and contact the NOC

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't ping remote system

2013-09-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/09/13 15:28, Grant wrote: My laptop can't ping my remote system but it can ping others (google.com, yahoo.com, etc). I've tried disabling my firewall on both ends with '/etc/init.d/shorewall stop shorewall clear'. Could my ATT business ADSL connection on the remote system be blocking

[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/08/13 21:32, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Alessio Ababilov ilovegnuli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Hi Alessio. I wrote a script that allows /usr merge in Gentoo without changes to ebuilds. I described it in an article

[gentoo-user] Is it a bug if revdep-rebuild catches something that preserved-rebuild doesn't?

2013-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
When running: emerge @preserved-rebuild and nothing is found that needs a rebuild, but: revdep-rebuild -i does find something, should it be considered a bug with the preserved-rebuild mechanism and be reported, or is this expected to happen from to time?

[gentoo-user] Re: What (free) remote desktop do you use

2013-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/08/13 11:26, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, some recent updates of X11, gtk++ or glib has broken the possibility to use some gnome3 applications (like a recent balsa) via nxclient. Since NX3's internal X-server has some known deficiencies and Nomachine has stopped the development of NX3 and

[gentoo-user] Re: Killing Adobe Flash

2013-08-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/08/13 17:37, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman

[gentoo-user] Re: Killing Adobe Flash

2013-08-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/08/13 19:23, hasufell wrote: On 08/06/2013 06:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/08/13 17:37, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl tansta

[gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

2013-08-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/08/13 04:50, Harry Putnam wrote: [...] So, anyway, thinking I'll go with USE=-blksha1 -gpg -iconv -pcre -threads -webdav -cgi -cvs -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gtk -highlight -nls -ppcsha1 -subversion -test -tk -xinetd emerge -v dev-vcs/git Unless I hear something that would

[gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

2013-08-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/08/13 06:20, Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com writes: [...] Unless I hear something that would indicate it will be too crippled even for the usage I plan. You should of course put those USE flags in /etc/portage/package.use instead of setting them in the command

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