Re: [gentoo-user] Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

2017-06-10 Thread Thanasis
On 06/10/2017 09:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I noticed that the root prompt does not include the full path of the > current directory. I think this gets defined in /etc/profile

Re: [gentoo-user] port forwarding

2017-06-05 Thread Thanasis
On 06/05/2017 07:28 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > My firewall (dd-wrt) does not opening specific port. > > In NAT(QoS) tab I have: > forward from port 4569 to internal IP port 4569 (this is an asterisk IAX > port); > > netstat -a |grep 4569 > udp0 0 0.0.0.0:4569

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Thanasis
On 12/07/2016 04:28 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:14:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I do not know what quickpkg is. Makes a tarball of a package so you can later untar it and get the package back without a remerge. It's all in portage's man pages While you can untar it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on ARM?

2016-10-07 Thread Thanasis
On 10/07/2016 06:41 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've come across this nice-looking little box, which seems to come with Ubuntu so at least all the hardware can be driven: http://www.tinygreenpc.com/utilite-pro-32gb.html http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-models

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on ARM?

2016-10-07 Thread Thanasis
On 10/07/2016 06:41 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: What's the current state of Gentoo on ARM machines? I've had a poke around the Web and found a few snippets, but not enough to tell me how deeply I'd have to sink into bug fixing. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:ARM

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread Thanasis
On 06/03/2016 09:16 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I don't have the file you are looking for. My .Xsession-errors is quite old. Are you using a specific /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? If so, try starting X without one. Rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf to something else... (like

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread Thanasis
On 06/03/2016 12:25 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I can login normally to a textconsole. Try to login to a textconsole, and run: startx

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread Thanasis
On 06/03/2016 10:19 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Thanasis <thana...@asyr.hopto.org> wrote: On 06/03/2016 09:14 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having problems starting gdm using the latest from the gnome overlay. Its been going on for a while and started about end of

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread Thanasis
On 06/03/2016 09:14 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having problems starting gdm using the latest from the gnome overlay. Its been going on for a while and started about end of March. Here is a log file of what goes on and I cannot get orca to even start, so something is definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] tablet

2016-05-30 Thread Thanasis
On 05/30/2016 03:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Aquaris M10 https://store.bq.com/gl/ Have you actually run Gentoo on one of these? No, because I haven't even got one.

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading remote eix data file

2016-05-28 Thread Thanasis
On 05/29/2016 01:16 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: eix-remote update works fine here, http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2 is also available via any tool (e.g. wget). Maybe it was a temporary server glitch or some provider issues. However, eix-remote update2 fails for me for a

Re: [gentoo-user] tablet

2016-05-28 Thread Thanasis
On 05/28/2016 09:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I was just about to spring for a mid range MS surface pro 4 tablet when I saw a few posts about hardware problems ... MS hardware is usually solid (in contrast to their software! :) Are there any other similar tablets out there that are gentoo/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Surviving perl-5.24.0

2016-05-23 Thread Thanasis
On 05/23/2016 08:27 PM, Max R.D. Parmer wrote: Then everything rolls along 'til dying with this: installman: Can't open cpan/podlators/blib/script/pod2man: No such file or directory ABORTED Surprising to have this build fail like this when I've done it elsewhere. Odd.

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading remote eix data file

2016-05-23 Thread Thanasis
On 05/23/2016 03:39 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: The other question is: why are you using wget when eix already has the facility to download and import this file built in. Hmmm, I suspect, that *should* be the reason why it fails for me ... However, I don't remember having specified the use

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading remote eix data file

2016-05-23 Thread Thanasis
On 05/23/2016 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 09:32:14 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: wget -N http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2 But the command fails, and it looks like the file eix-cache.tbz2, which is downloaded, is either empty or corrupt. Any one else

[gentoo-user] downloading remote eix data file

2016-05-23 Thread Thanasis
I have a script that runs daily as a cron job, which among others, has the following command in it, in order to update locally the (remote) eix database. wget -N http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2 But the command fails, and it looks like the file eix-cache.tbz2, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking sites for some users

2016-01-26 Thread Thanasis
On 01/26/2016 12:51 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: Make the gateway the proxy. Refuse unproxied connections. You can use iptables, and you might want to; if something else you know of is more featureful then don't. That's what I implied, gateway (router) is also the proxy ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking sites for some users

2016-01-25 Thread Thanasis
On 01/25/2016 08:15 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: squidguard sounds interesting, was wondering if anyone has any experience with setting it up. You can use net-firewall/iptables to redirect to squid port (3128) all passing through traffic directed to port http (80) Like so: iptables -w -t nat

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-11 Thread Thanasis
On 08/08/2015 03:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: (snip) You really should enable logging to /var/log/rc.log and get into the habit of checking it when rebooting after a change. I always check it after booting a new kernel for instance. How do we enable logging to /var/log/rc.log ?

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-11 Thread Thanasis
On 08/11/2015 12:35 PM, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Thanasis wrote: How do we enable logging to /var/log/rc.log ? /etc/rc.conf - rc_logger=YES and rc_log_path=/var/log/rc.log I had already set that, but my /var/log/rc.log is an empty file.

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-11 Thread Thanasis
On 08/11/2015 01:47 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:30:29 +0300, Thanasis wrote: /etc/rc.conf - rc_logger=YES and rc_log_path=/var/log/rc.log I had already set that, but my /var/log/rc.log is an empty file. Are you using OpenRC or systemd? That only works with OpenRC

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-11 Thread Thanasis
On 08/11/2015 02:00 PM, Thanasis wrote: On 08/11/2015 01:47 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:30:29 +0300, Thanasis wrote: /etc/rc.conf - rc_logger=YES and rc_log_path=/var/log/rc.log I had already set that, but my /var/log/rc.log is an empty file. Are you using OpenRC

Re: [gentoo-user] To Wifi or not to Wifi...

2015-07-29 Thread Thanasis
On 07/29/2015 05:42 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ...snip... 2) How I can assign a static IP to my tablet. At the end of /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf add a line like host mytablet { hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; fixed-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; } 3) How I can change the MAC on my tablet.

Re: [gentoo-user] To Wifi or not to Wifi...

2015-07-28 Thread Thanasis
On 07/28/2015 06:27 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: snip By the way...While tumbling down the google hole ;) I came across hostapd which exactly seems to be build for the purpose I want: An access point. BUT: I could not decide, what tutorial is correct: Do I still need wpa_supplicant with

Re: [gentoo-user] To Wifi or not to Wifi...

2015-07-28 Thread Thanasis
On 07/28/2015 07:36 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: snip When starting hostapd, it says: * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Running preup ... * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner leftovers

2015-02-14 Thread Thanasis
Shouldn't all participating in this thread have corrected by now the message's subject, for archiving purposes?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes

2015-02-06 Thread Thanasis
On 02/06/2015 07:08 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: In /etc/postfix/main.cf set message_size_limit = 1 for a 100MB limit or whatever you wan't. message_size_limit = 0 (for unlimited)

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg-2: when getting stable? [SOLVED]

2015-01-28 Thread Thanasis
On 01/28/2015 12:07 AM, Jan Sever wrote: I found the bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510340 So marking as SOLVED. Thank you, Jan Sever P.S. Btw. poli in politics is from latin word polis = a place, not poly = many. But it's a nice parallel. Both a greek words, not latin.

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg-2: when getting stable? [SOLVED]

2015-01-28 Thread Thanasis
On 01/28/2015 05:12 PM, Jan Sever wrote: On 01/28/2015 1:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: Both a greek words, not latin. polis = city poly = many/much Thanks for correcting, I don't know why I had fixed in mind that polis is from latin and poly from greek. But I thought polis should be a city

Re: [gentoo-user] merging pdf file into one page

2015-01-24 Thread Thanasis
On 01/24/2015 10:29 PM, Joseph wrote: Join in1.pdf and in2.pdf into a new PDF, out1.pdf: That was only description of the actual command that followed ...

Re: [gentoo-user] merging pdf file into one page

2015-01-24 Thread Thanasis
On 01/24/2015 09:47 PM, Joseph wrote: What I'm looking for I think it is called stitching two pdf files. Join in1.pdf and in2.pdf into a new PDF, out1.pdf: pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf cat output out1.pdf https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-remote update

2015-01-20 Thread Thanasis
On 01/19/2015 05:07 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Just ran it; it downloads http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2. It terminated with an error while writing the database file, something related to overlays not existing or something. The help page (run eix-remote with no command) tells

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-remote update

2015-01-19 Thread Thanasis
On 01/17/2015 11:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: On 01/17/2015 02:43 AM, walt wrote: I've never used eix-remote and I'm not sure what it does. Is there a reason you don't use eix-sync instead? The result of eix-sync is the same, because it calls eix-remote Am I the only one seeing this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-remote update

2015-01-19 Thread Thanasis
On 01/19/2015 12:23 PM, Dale wrote: Thanasis wrote: On 01/19/2015 11:54 AM, Dale wrote: I've ran it twice at least since this thread started. No problems so far. Dale Was it the following command that you run? eix-remote update I run eix-sync which I'm pretty sure runs that too

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-remote update

2015-01-19 Thread Thanasis
On 01/19/2015 11:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't use eix-sync, but I tried it just now without arguments and it seemed to work just fine. What was the command you tried, and what was the remote file downloaded?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-remote update

2015-01-19 Thread Thanasis
On 01/19/2015 11:54 AM, Dale wrote: I've ran it twice at least since this thread started. No problems so far. Dale Was it the following command that you run? eix-remote update

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-remote update

2015-01-17 Thread Thanasis
On 01/17/2015 02:43 AM, walt wrote: I've never used eix-remote and I'm not sure what it does. Is there a reason you don't use eix-sync instead? The result of eix-sync is the same, because it calls eix-remote

[gentoo-user] eix-remote update

2015-01-16 Thread Thanasis
Is there any fix for it ? eix-remote update --2015-01-16 18:28:11-- http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2 Resolving gpo.zugaina.org... 176.31.182.181 Connecting to gpo.zugaina.org|176.31.182.181|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3188736 (3.0M)

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Thanasis
On 12/17/2014 02:46 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: Because the temperature of the laptop in the freezer will always be above dew point it will never get wet. When you take it out though it's temperature will most likely be below dew point of the ambient air so water will condensate Right. Which is

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-17 Thread Thanasis
on 11/17/2014 03:06 AM thegeezer wrote the following: snip the only way forward that i see would be to get a small device a la raspberry pi, and have that run apcupsd on it. you can then have that device run wake on lan if it detects the power is good, and trigger remote shutdown when not.

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 11:35 AM Mick wrote the following: On Friday 14 Nov 2014 18:53:13 Thanasis wrote: I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 03:54 PM Bruce Schultz wrote the following: If the UPS battery has not run flat before the mains power is restored, I see no reason why a UPS should kill the output power. The PC has an option in BIOS to Power On when the mains power is restored to it, without any need to press

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 04:40 PM Rich Freeman wrote the following: On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Bruce Schultz brul...@gmail.com wrote: If the UPS battery has not run flat before the mains power is restored, I see no reason why a UPS should kill the output power. So the BIOS has no real way of

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 04:59 PM Mick wrote the following: On Saturday 15 Nov 2014 14:22:47 Thanasis wrote: The PC has an option in BIOS to Power On when the mains power is restored to it, without any need to press any button. So, once the UPS has initiated a shutdown to the PC, the PC will shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 06:47 PM Daniel Frey wrote the following: On 11/14/2014 10:53 AM, Thanasis wrote: I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power

[gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-14 Thread Thanasis
I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power to the PC, and consequently the PC stays off. Regardless if the mains power returns soon after

Re: [gentoo-user] snapper (btrfs)

2014-09-25 Thread Thanasis
on 09/25/2014 12:11 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: I use a home-brewed script to make time based snapshots, called from cron - a little like zfs-auto-snapshot. I set a limit on the number of each type of snapshot so the script generally creates one snapshot and deletes one snapshot for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR partition

2014-09-06 Thread Thanasis
on 09/06/2014 03:48 PM Dale wrote the following: I'm not sure if it is ZFS or XFS but I seem to recall one of those does not like sudden shutdowns, such as a power failure. XFS does not like sudden shutdowns

Re: [gentoo-user] oracle-jdk-bin 1.8.0.20 ebuild

2014-09-04 Thread Thanasis
on 09/03/2014 07:07 AM Saifi Khan wrote the following: Hi: portage has ebuild for oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11 whereas oracle website has update 20 ie. oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.20 i am interested in tweaking the ebuild in order to install 1.8.0.20 dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.20 is in the tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] accidentally deleted the /usr (I'm gonna kill myself!)

2014-08-25 Thread Thanasis
on 08/24/2014 10:43 PM Alon Bar-Lev wrote the following: before you install everything, try to boot from installcd, extract stage3 over your rootfs, Wouldn't that also override his /var/lib/portage/world file? chroot to rootfs, then: # emerge --emptytree @world

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package [SOLVED]

2014-02-01 Thread Thanasis
ebuilds in a local overlay[1], say virtual/thanasis-sources, then adding that to world. You can make one ebuild for each kernel-series you want, each in its own slot, using the =cat/pkg-3.10* syntax for RDEPEND. Find attached a (barely tested) suggestion for virtual/thanasis-sources/thanasis-sources-3.10

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-31 Thread Thanasis
on 01/31/2014 06:35 PM Khumba wrote the following: On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:29:21 +0200 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with the latest gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-30 Thread Thanasis
on 01/30/2014 08:30 AM Mick wrote the following: On Wednesday 29 Jan 2014 19:37:39 Thanasis wrote: Sometimes folks have to stay with a kernel series, because a vendor binary patch forces them into this situation. That's my case, ie Nvidia drivers for a relatively old hardware (AGP Graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-30 Thread Thanasis
on 01/30/2014 12:50 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On 30/01/2014 00:14, Thanasis wrote: Yea, but I think, this is the case for *all* packages, not only kernel sources, at least until now, isn't it? No, not at all. Kernels are different and portage treats them very differently

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-30 Thread Thanasis
on 01/30/2014 11:04 PM James wrote the following: Peter Humphrey peter at prh.myzen.co.uk writes: Maybe you chose unwisely?(get ATI next time) unless I've used nVidia cards for many years. When I bought my first one (maybe 20 years ago) ATI support in Linux was woeful, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-29 Thread Thanasis
on 01/29/2014 03:23 PM James wrote the following: There might be a work around that suites your needs? # emerge -pv =gentoo-sources-3.10.28 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ~]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-29 Thread Thanasis
on 01/28/2014 10:12 PM eroen wrote the following: On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:29:21 +0200, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with the latest gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-29 Thread Thanasis
on 01/29/2014 03:36 PM James wrote the following: Once the newer kernel series come out, the newer versions of a series (usually) slow way down on being delivered. Not necessarily, if some devs are maintaining a series as long term, which, I think, is the case for the 3.10.X series (if I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-29 Thread Thanasis
on 01/29/2014 05:59 PM James wrote the following: Once the newer kernel series come out, the newer versions of a series (usually) slow way down on being delivered. Not necessarily, if some devs are maintaining a series as long term, which, I think, is the case for the 3.10.X series (if I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-29 Thread Thanasis
on 01/29/2014 11:41 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On 29/01/2014 17:35, James wrote: Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org writes: No, because as I said in a previous post, the matter is that when a newer version 3.10.X is in the tree, and you do an update of the world set, the newer

[gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-28 Thread Thanasis
Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with the latest gentoo-sources? Currently, that would be version 3.10.28. I know I can specify it like so, emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.28 but then it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-28 Thread Thanasis
on 01/28/2014 09:36 PM Andrew Tselischev wrote the following: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:29:21PM +0200, Thanasis wrote: Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with the latest gentoo-sources

[gentoo-user] keyword a whole overlay as ~arch [SOLVED]

2014-01-27 Thread Thanasis
on 01/27/2014 03:14 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote the following: On 01/26/2014 05:12 PM, Thanasis wrote: I am following stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64). In order to install the mate desktop I need to install the mate overlay and keyword all its packages as ~amd64. Is there a way to do it easily

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ?

2014-01-27 Thread Thanasis
on 01/27/2014 12:38 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On 27/01/2014 00:12, Thanasis wrote: I am following stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64). In order to install the mate desktop I need to install the mate overlay and keyword all its packages as ~amd64. Is there a way to do it easily

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ?

2014-01-26 Thread Thanasis
I am following stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64). In order to install the mate desktop I need to install the mate overlay and keyword all its packages as ~amd64. Is there a way to do it easily for the whole overlay?

Re: [gentoo-user] re: setting up binhost [SOLVED]

2014-01-19 Thread Thanasis
on 19/01/2014 09:38 μμ Alexander Kapshuk wrote the following: Original Message Subject: re: setting up binhost Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:45:03 +0200 From: Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org I would

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Thanasis
on 12/16/2013 11:11 PM Bruce Hill wrote the following: There should be a .config in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source/.config and if you look under /lib/modules/ you should see a directory for each kernel version you've installed with a .config. In my system /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source is

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Thanasis
on 12/17/2013 05:24 PM Bruce Hill wrote the following: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:34:14AM +0200, Thanasis wrote: In my system /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source is a symbolic link to /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` What does that guys sig say - List replies preferred. My sig? Where is that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-02 Thread Thanasis
on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following: So, here's the plan, please check me... 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD If you boot a different system to do the rsync, or, if you do it over ssh, add the option --numeric-ids I usually do rsync -aHvxW --numeric-ids --delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-02 Thread Thanasis
on 12/02/2013 08:58 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following: On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following: So, here's the plan, please check me... 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD If you boot a different system to do

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

2013-10-29 Thread Thanasis
on 10/29/2013 03:06 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] using lvm without a partition of type linux LVM

2013-10-12 Thread Thanasis
on 10/12/2013 05:40 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote the following: copy the lvm partitions to directories on an external disk (ext3) What command did you use for copying?

[gentoo-user] Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable

2013-10-02 Thread Thanasis
Set PORTDIR for backward compatibility with various tools like: euse - bug #474574 euses and ufed - bug #478318 PORTDIR=/usr/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error.

2013-09-24 Thread Thanasis
on 09/24/2013 01:37 PM Ralf Ramsauer wrote the following: A friend of mine told me, that AMD also had some trouble concerning TLB on that architecture (translation lookaside buffer). Unfortunatelly I have no references for that issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_10h#TLB_Bug

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-08-01 Thread Thanasis
on 08/01/2013 12:59 AM Paul Hartman wrote the following: If no disks are attached, I wonder if something is probing it? I checked my dmesg and every time I plug in my eSATA enclosure, I see this very similar message: [156541.724580] ata7: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x404

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-08-01 Thread Thanasis
on 08/01/2013 01:10 AM Bruce Hill wrote the following: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:17:02PM +0300, Thanasis wrote: on 07/31/2013 10:06 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: There are a few approaches to try figuring it out explained here: http://serverfault.com/questions/244944/linux-ata-errors

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-08-01 Thread Thanasis
on 08/01/2013 05:43 PM Bruce Hill wrote the following: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:37:34AM +0300, Thanasis wrote: Me too. That's exactly how I use this Sata port, so it must be related to the way the kernel handles/probes it. BTW, I use a cable which is sata - eSata, i.e. sata

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-08-01 Thread Thanasis
on 08/01/2013 07:38 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: Am 01.08.2013 09:37, schrieb Thanasis: on 08/01/2013 12:59 AM Paul Hartman wrote the following: If no disks are attached, I wonder if something is probing it? I checked my dmesg and every time I plug in my eSATA enclosure, I

[gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-07-31 Thread Thanasis
Early during booting phase, dmesg shows: [0.515651] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfdefe000 port 0xfdefe180 irq 17 [0.833387] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) But later, it reports lots like the following stanza: [164362.715469] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-07-31 Thread Thanasis
on 07/31/2013 10:06 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: There are a few approaches to try figuring it out explained here: http://serverfault.com/questions/244944/linux-ata-errors-translating-to-a-device-name Looking into /sys/dev/block it seems like /dev/sda is on ata1 and /dev/sdb is on

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Anyone survive the big gnome update from this morning (July 25)?

2013-07-26 Thread Thanasis
Thanks for the heads-up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-11 Thread Thanasis
on 07/11/2013 10:50 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 07/10/2013 09:38 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: This has nothing to do with the necessity to call eix-remote add after eix-sync With eix-0.29.0 which just entered the tree, eix-sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Insync

2013-07-11 Thread Thanasis
on 07/11/2013 04:23 PM András Csányi wrote the following: On 11 July 2013 15:18, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:03:42 +0200, András Csányi wrote: Does anybody have any experience with it? Can I use this repo as layman repository? If so how? [1] -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-10 Thread Thanasis
on 07/10/2013 09:38 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option You don't need KEEP_VIRTUALS. Whether you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-09 Thread Thanasis
on 07/08/2013 09:39 PM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set KEEP_VIRTUALS=true REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 With the current default setting of separate databases for the local eix cache (normally /var/cache/eix/portage.eix

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Thanasis
on 07/07/2013 11:58 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings should I use? LOCAL_LAYMAN=/path/to/layman

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Thanasis
on 07/08/2013 11:12 AM Daniel Pielmeier wrote the following: 2013/7/7 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings

[gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-07 Thread Thanasis
I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings should I use?

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-06 Thread Thanasis
on 07/06/2013 12:03 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: su username - I think that sould be: su - username

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mount not properly unmounting during shutdown/reboot

2013-06-11 Thread Thanasis
on 06/10/2013 11:29 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: snip You could also write a scriptlet to do the umount and put it in /etc/conf.d/local - see /etc/init.d/local for details Actually /etc/conf.d/local has been replaced by files you put in directory /etc/local.d/ ie:

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panick after time while compiling....

2013-05-29 Thread Thanasis
on 05/29/2013 12:41 AM Tamer Higazi wrote the following: It's usually a quality power supply unit, that made it 6 years. However, what I find totally strange, at the same time. That applications die during my work. Totally strange, like clock dies, and restarts. Eclipse dies, firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Thanasis
on 05/10/2013 11:47 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:52:05 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I've repartitioned it 3 or 4 times, but it still comes up with that error when I fire up fdisk. Is it a problem, and if so, can I dd a few sectors to remove whatever it's

Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's

2013-05-04 Thread Thanasis
on 05/05/2013 01:15 AM Tanstaafl wrote the following: On 2013-05-04 6:01 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: I have both postfix and mailx. You'll notice that the category of mailx is mail-client and not mail-mta (or net-mail, as you wrote). mail-client/mailx is simply a command line email

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

2013-01-23 Thread Thanasis
on 01/23/2013 04:41 AM »Q« wrote the following: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:57:59 + Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2013 08:51:43 Philip Webb wrote: I just tried upgrading to udev-197 , which is supposed to be stable. There were multiple problems I'm now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

2013-01-23 Thread Thanasis
on 01/23/2013 01:10 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 01/23/2013 04:41 AM »Q« wrote the following: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:57:59 + Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2013 08:51:43 Philip Webb wrote: I just tried upgrading to udev-197 , which is supposed

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-09 Thread Thanasis
on 01/09/2013 09:15 PM Walter Dnes wrote the following: apcupsd pulls in virtual/mailx ... virtual/mailx is needed as a program to send mail via shell scripts. ssmtp (like postfix) is used as an MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to save a change to radeon power profile

2012-11-18 Thread Thanasis
on 11/18/2012 02:37 PM Mick wrote the following: I would like to check the difference between the power management profile settings of 'default' and 'auto' for my radeon card. I can change it from default with: # echo auto /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] How to save a change to radeon power profile

2012-11-18 Thread Thanasis
on 11/18/2012 04:13 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 11/18/2012 02:37 PM Mick wrote the following: I would like to check the difference between the power management profile settings of 'default' and 'auto' for my radeon card. I can change it from default with: # echo auto /sys/class

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread Thanasis
on 10/15/2012 05:41 PM Randolph Maaßen wrote the following: By the way, I got used to tabbing terminal.in http://terminal.in gnome-terminal, does someone know a tabbing terminal without gnome or kde or something this big? Try x11-terms/terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-26 Thread Thanasis
Have you checked EPSON as an option?

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