[gentoo-user] RE: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Laurence Perkins: > Some of the higher-end UPS models do have diagnostic modes for simulating > various events to make sure the connected systems behave as desired. A very > few of the consumer-grade ones do as well. But how to do it is model > specific, > so you'll have to dig up the

[gentoo-user] Can Portage be used with FreeBSD or NetBSD?

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
Can Portage be used as a package manager with anything other than Linux? I like some features of Portage; think it might be better than FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc, or is just a case of the grass being greener on the other side? I like the option "--with-bdeps=y", wish FreeBSD's synth and

[gentoo-user] Re: Building kernel without messing the kernel source tree

2021-05-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
from netfab at Fri, 14 May 2021 11:59:37 +0200: > Le 14/05/21 à 11:47, Thomas Mueller a tapoté : > > I am looking to compile the Linux kernel and send the work and output > > to another directory, thereby leaving the kernel source tree > > directory clean. >

[gentoo-user] Building kernel without messing the kernel source tree

2021-05-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
I am looking to compile the Linux kernel and send the work and output to another directory, thereby leaving the kernel source tree directory clean. If I build gcc or other software using configure script, I can go to another directory and run, for instance, ~/builds/gcc-8.3.0/configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

2021-01-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 12:01:48 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 16:06:38 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 22:15:25 -, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > On 2021-01-13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > I think bringing up a new Gentoo system

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc

2021-01-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and > > managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc > > versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate > > versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes but > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I think fdisk couldn't handle GPT at first.  I guess that's why gdisk > came along.  Then I think the fdisk folks added support for GPT and > since then it handles both.  That's my understanding of it.  If > possible, you may want to check the time stamps on the info you have > found.  I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] fsck.fat 4.1 - File system couldn't be fixed [SOLVED]

2020-12-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Michael: > Right, on UEFI MoBos the ESP partition used by the UEFI firmware to locate > and > run *.EFI executables must be FAT32. Such .EFI executables stored on the ESP > may be OS boot managers/loaders, or other UEFI compatible applications. The > boot manager loaded by UEFI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

2020-11-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I got a message from him.  At least we will know he is OK.  All his > machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore.  > So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch.  > Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him.  > Dale > :-)  :-)  When I sent

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2020-11-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I got a message from him.  At least we will know he is OK.  All his > machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore.  > So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch.  > Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him.  > Dale > :-)  :-)  When you

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate gentoo system

2020-11-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
from the...@sys-concept.com: > Manual approach might be confusing and prone to errors. > I will try Gparted as you suggested but I was wondering if it will allow > me to combine/join partitions. On most modern system I think there is: > 1 - boot partiton > 2 - swap if needed > 3 - root partition

Re: [gentoo-user] .fetchmailrc syntax error

2020-10-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
> With getmail having been deprecated, I can't pull it in on my fresh > install, so I *HAVE TO* go with fetchmail. I tried following example at > https://www.linode.com/docs/email/clients/using-fetchmail-to-retrieve-email/ > but it errors out at the first line... > [i3][waltdnes][~] fetchmail

[gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> >> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions > > No, don't do that!!! > > Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage. > Indeed -- I've done that. It's not fun. You certainly won't do it a > second time. > Grant How did you recover? You

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are > there any better, simpler solutions? > Walter Dnes I generally use mpop, and msmtp to send mail. I suppose you could use mutt; I also have Steffen Nurpmeso's s-mailx on the back of my mind, having used nail when I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc

2020-06-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and > > managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc > > versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate > > versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes but > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for the same package: how to add a USE flag?

2020-05-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
> from n952162: > > And really unless you REALLY care about your CFLAGS you get 99% of the > > benefit just sticking with the original stage3 and just rebuilding > > anything you change USE flags for. Over time it will all get rebuilt > > anyway using your preferences. > If I understand that

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading old kernel

2020-04-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 4/15/20 1:40 PM, Andreas Stiasny wrote: > On 15.04.20 17:50, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Jumping from >> 3.18 you're somewhat more likely to run into issues - your biggest >> headache though will be dealing with the 30,000 prompts you get from >> make oldconfig and making sure you set all the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas Schweikle
ebuild is going to use an EAPI that isn't supported by the version of > portage you already have. Portage is usually updated in EAPI > conservatively to minimize this issue, but if you want to jump > multiple years at a time it won't work. Jumping 6-12mo at a time will > minimize this issue. > > -- > Rich > > -- Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas Schweikle
that isn't supported by the version of > portage you already have. Portage is usually updated in EAPI > conservatively to minimize this issue, but if you want to jump > multiple years at a time it won't work. Jumping 6-12mo at a time will > minimize this issue. > > -- > Rich > > -- Thomas

[gentoo-user] trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system

2019-12-17 Thread Thomas Schweikle
es emerge -qav sys-kernel/vanilla-sources emerge -qav sys-kernel/genkernel USE='-rsync-verify' emerge -qavO portage emerge -qavN portage <- fails emerge -qavuND @world <- fails too. Any idea? -- Thomas

[gentoo-user] trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-15 Thread Thomas Schweikle
es emerge -qav sys-kernel/vanilla-sources emerge -qav sys-kernel/genkernel USE='-rsync-verify' emerge -qavO portage emerge -qavN portage <- fails emerge -qavuND @world <- fails too. Or shall I consider gentoo unupgradeable after anyone changed eapi versions? -- Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Mick has a good point.  I have two or three of the cheaper USB external > enclosures and only one of them was somewhat fast, it is USB 2.0 after > all.  The other two logged a lot of errors in messages file about > resetting something.  It was resetting so often that moving data to or > from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Philip Webb: > I suspect Fetchmail is somewhat neglected : is there an alternative ? > Otherwise, thanks for the various responses. > I now understand what's going on & will defer Python 2.7 till year-end. I use mpop and msmtp. I tried to set up fetchmail many years ago. One

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

2019-08-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> You're missing the point! As soon as something works as most users want, or > becoming used to at any rate, the KDE devs will /improve/ their > software by breaking its most desired functionality - sometimes irrepairably. > LOL! > Konqueror was the best file manager ever, with multiple

[gentoo-user] setup.py question: platform.system()

2019-06-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
I was just looking through gentoo/setup.py and find something that arouses my curiosity. I see if platform.system() == 'Linux': x_c_helpers.update({ 'portage.util.file_copy.reflink_linux': [ 'src/portage_util_file_copy_reflink_linux.c',

Re: [gentoo-user] sysrescuecd gone rogue

2019-06-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
One thing I noticed with sysrescuecd switching from Gentoo to Arch was no more gcc, meaning you can't build any additional software. But then the use of squashfs always was an annoyance. Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager

2018-12-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 2018-12-03, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I see also the suggestion > > $ ssh -Y > > but what would be the syntax for specifying where > > is a different computer on the same local network? > Does it have an IP address? > Grant Edwards I see wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Program for posting to a Newsgroup

2018-12-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Daniel Frey wrote: > I've been trying to clean up my machines (pruning world file, etc) and > am making progress. > I ran into one issue, that being on my server (mythtv, file, etc) I am > normally in text/ssh mode but occasionally I need X for something. > Does anyone have

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc from 6.4 to 7.3

2018-08-02 Thread Thomas
Whenever you compile your kernel, you will need to run emerge @module-rebuild Otherwise, you can always install all the modules manually. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade#Reinstalling_external_kernel_modules On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:02 PM gevisz wrote: > 2018-07-24 22:00

Re: [gentoo-user] Removal of media-plugins/npapi-vlc

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Schmitz
-vlc. To my understanding Firefox bundles its own codecs unless specified otherwise through USE flags. Regards Thomas Schmitz On 30 January 2018 at 11:50, Petric Frank <pfr...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello, > > during an upgrade i got a message that media-plugins/npapi-vlc have been >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 57.0.4 without pulseaudio? Possible?

2018-01-15 Thread Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen
, -- Thomas [1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8118290.html (the third post)

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD migration, what to do with /usr/local

2017-10-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ian Zimmerman: > I think I have written here previously that I want to move my _server_ > to FreeBSD. I am still thinking about that. But now I hit an > obstacle. For a long time, I have put my local kiddie scripts in > /usr/local. For better or worse, they are written in my dense style

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this working correctly??

2017-08-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
You (Dale) seem to have corrected the multipart/alternative problem, except one message (Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downgrading glibc) where multipart/alternative went through. I would never design an email client to send multipart/alternative by default, and might design an email client

Re: [gentoo-user] Question on install

2017-08-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="5A3B7F546928893D6B2B7B3A" > X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=HvEGIwbS c=1 sm=1 tr=0 > a=ZNQZ+YIiQ1SmzuxDAKl+CA==:117 a=ZNQZ+YIiQ1SmzuxDAKl+CA==:17 > a=x7bEGLp0ZPQA:10 a=ISoD08LcTzsA:10 a=xqWC_Br6kY4A:10 a=KeKAF7QvOSUA:10 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

2017-02-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:58:05 +0100, Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > On 170225-09:19-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > > > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > [ some cca. 80k text cut here ] > > Go

Re: [gentoo-user] Print quality unreadable in Firefox

2016-02-23 Thread Thomas Doczkal
gt; I did try changing the fonts in Firefox but that made no difference. > > Dan > Hi, has someone found a solution for this? I currently have the same issue on a Laptop with Arch Linux whereas I don't experience this on my Gentoo Desktop machine. Would be great if someone could po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: java.awt.AWTError

2016-02-03 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
On 02/03/2016 01:34 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 02/03/2016 02:04:32 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Helmut, >> >> Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> when emerging sci-geosciences/josm- I get a Java error : >>> >>> >>> java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java 8 and remote access

2016-02-02 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
On 02/02/2016 02:50 PM, Grant wrote: I need to run a Java 8 app remotely. Can this be done on Gentoo? > >> Bummer. FYI guys, Amazon Workspaces, Amazon Appstream, and Microsoft >> Azure RemoteApp kinda work the way I've described but they all have >> limitations which exclude them

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

2016-01-24 Thread Thomas Doczkal
and find out. This post [2] looks promising if you can blacklist everything in the first run (but don't know how) and then white list just the domains you want. > Thanks, > > Joost Best regards, Thomas [1] http://www.privoxy.org/ [2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11277/how-to-whitel

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe flash warning and tree

2016-01-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I keep getting a warning that Flash needs to be upgraded. I went to > packages.g.o and there doesn't seem to be a newer version than what I > have. What gives? I'd upgrade if there was one available but there > isn't or I can't find it one. I found a bug report on the version I > have

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

2015-12-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I think USB 3.0 is cheaper and more common. > Only seen the occasional eSATA port on laptops and afaik, eSATA requires a > seperate powersupply. USB can supply the power for the drive as well. > Joost USB hard drives, in my experience, come with and require AC power adapter, are not powered

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

2015-12-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I've got 16 3TB WD Reds running 24/7 for a little over 3 years. > Only had 1 failure (Smart complaining) in that time. > I find that decent odds. > Joost I bought a WD Green 3 TB hard drive in May 2011, warranty was then 3 years. It went bad with errors after 34 months. I was able to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-18 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
t sure if the dbus issue > is separate or not - if it is the same it seems odd that it won't > start even after getting everything mounted by hand, anyway. > > -John Sent from my phone > > Thomas Sigurdsen <thomas.sigurd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> -BEG

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-12 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > It seems to me the root of your problems is fsck failing because (it > thinks) the partitions are already mounted. > > Is your mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts as it "should" be? Just checked, and mtab is not a symlink. It is a plain text file.

[gentoo-user] Unknown problem causing incorrect mounting and daemons not starting

2015-12-11 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
. The following is what I've discovered during troubleshooting. # FS's not Mounted After Boot After login I need to remount `/` with rw. I always then mount `/boot`, `/mnt/hdd`, `/home/thomas/hdd` manually; that is --- with the `fixmnt` script I made pasted below. before doing the above `mount` command tells

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
* Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com [150829 12:59]: On Friday, August 28, 2015 2:24:37 PM Rich Freeman wrote: Those who wish to use git can do so, and I'd encourage people to try. It really does have a lot of advantages. Oh, and it makes it really easy to contribute

Re: [gentoo-user] gru2-mkconfig tries to read the extended partition ??

2015-07-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
N one is forcing you (unless you have a UEFI board), and more than anyone is telling you not to use a 2.4 series kernel. Neil Bothwick This brings a question to mind: Does anybody know what Linux kernel was the first to support GPT? Slackware 13.0, released in 2009 with kernel 2.6.29.6, did

Re: [gentoo-user] Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
All that has been said on this thread supposes that the hard drive is still readable and writable. But the original post stated this was a failed drive. Then you might not be able to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx .. or whatever else. You would be stopped by bad sectors. Or a hard drive might

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flags

2015-06-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
Best way I ever found to learn how things really work under the hood is to build a Linux From Scratch and pay close attention to every single step. Not that you'd ever actually *use* that system - there's no sane package management for a start - but after building an LFS, the content of

[gentoo-user] Re: Bluetooth Input Devices

2015-03-21 Thread Thomas Mori
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:51:12 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:53:42 AM Thomas Mori wrote: Hi guys I have stumbled on the Bluetooth Input Devices section in wiki.gentoo.org [1]; however, I am not finding the Driver L2CAP

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth Input Devices

2015-03-19 Thread Thomas Mori
Hi guys I have stumbled on the Bluetooth Input Devices section in wiki.gentoo.org [1]; however, I am not finding the Driver L2CAP protocol support in my kernel [2]. I am not seeing the driver L2CAP protocol anywhere [3]. I am wondering if the Wiki is slightly outdated or am I not using the proper

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth Input Devices

2015-03-19 Thread Thomas Mori
Hi guys I have stumbled on the Bluetooth Input Devices section in wiki.gentoo.org [1]; however, I am not finding the Driver L2CAP protocol support in my kernel [2]. I am not seeing the driver L2CAP protocol anywhere [3]. I am wondering if the Wiki is slightly outdated or am I not using the proper

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-02-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Michael Vetter: just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc. paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment and pkgsrc because of the nice thought to have the same pkg files for multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Bruce Hill: To whoever controls this list... I just arrived home to find my mailbox spammed with hundreds of messages from this luser Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org What is the explanation for this please? I didn't get these spams. Are you sure they are from Andrew Savchenko?

[gentoo-user] hostapd wlan ap AR9485 and Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 Windows 8

2014-07-14 Thread Thomas Langer
showed about 100Kbit/s... My setup is: 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) with hostapd Sheldor thomas # cat /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf interface=wlp2s0 driver=nl80211 ssid=** bridge=br0 hw_mode=g ieee80211n=1 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=1

[gentoo-user] Re: Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thanks to Joost Roeleveld and Brian Hesdorfer for helpful answers. Even before getting the new email, I googled on linux boot root delay and found the answer where previous Google search failed to yield results. That was an old Linux, Slackware 13.0 with kernel 2.6.29.6 where I remember trying

[gentoo-user] Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
Is there a way to make Gentoo or other Linux allow extra time when root is on a USB device? Any way to say just a second or more like 15 seconds before aborting with the message that root partition does not exist? In this case it's an IDE hard drive in a USB enclosure. FreeBSD seems to handle

[gentoo-user] Root password, keys, and authentication

2014-03-14 Thread Thomas Sigurdsen
or certificates. Does this exist; and if anyone has had experience with it, is it worth the hassle? And if this is a bad way of doing root authentication, why/how? Also the machine in question will have more than one user and a subset of the users shall have access to the root account. - -- Thomas

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
systemrescuecd? Too complicated. What I mean by this is that the user upon booting has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do you copy everything to memory, do you. you get the idea. The problem is that these are first year students in a common first year, they

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
I do. Why, does it have its own info reader? Personally I've never had to bite the bullet and had to learn how to use info. Regards Peter I tried to learn info and never did well, always lost my place and had to hit q to get out. Reading the info file as plain text worked better.

[gentoo-user] Re: out of disk space to compile webkit-gtk

2013-12-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: I'm upgrading the system and running out of disk space to compile webkit-gtk I'm not sure you have usb3, but if you do and you have a usb3 stick, it's useful for this temporary expanded space need and so much more. Sure it probably will not run as fast

Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Philip Webb: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

2013-09-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Walt: On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then I'd need toner. My ill luck was with FreeBSD and NetBSD, and hplip makes assumptions on Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

2013-09-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
I will be buying a new printer and am considering three members of the HP 8600 class HP officejet pro 8600 (N911a) HP officejet pro 8600 plus (N911g) HP officejet pro 8600 premium (N911n) The first two are listed on the hplip site as having full support

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

2013-08-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
On the issue of whether ZFS can be shipped with the Linux kernel, FreeBSD includes ZFS with the kernel, binary and source. So does that mean it would be OK for Linux too? FreeBSD has a different license (BSD) than Linux (GPL 2 or 3). I am not a lawyer! Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers

2013-08-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
I've also created aliase for kde awesome (.bashrc): alias kde=startx kde alias awesome=startx awesome Means whenever i want to start kde or awesome i only have to execute kde or awesome. By default (startx) it would start kde. I've wondered how to run X simultaneously or concurrently with

Re: [gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

2013-08-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
That is interesting. I have the exact same problem. Tried to save it to the desktop and it saved to my home directory.On the second try I typed in the directory that I wanted to save the file. Instead of output.pdf, I put /home/ill/Desktop/output.pdf. It's not a fix but it works. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration - caveat

2013-07-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
from luis jure l...@internet.com.uy: on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote: You have to map the drive so grub can find it: no, i don't think that's the problem. the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since they don't have a MBR.

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
been formatted when growisofs first inspected it. This avoids the error. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, michaelkintz...@gmail.com: Hi Thomas, this problem can either be fixed by patching growisofs as you suggest, or by changing k3b to use cdrtools in preference to growisofs Joerg will heavily object, but my sincere opinion as technical expert on this field is that growisofs is the better

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The proper place to submit a patch in Gentoo is bugs.gentoo.org I encounter obstacles like having no account and running no Gentoo. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
frontend to muck things up. A potential user of my xorriso, then. (xo stands for X/Open, not for X Window System) Just letting you know that Gentoo is a community distro, They all are. I try to be a good upstream for them. My apologies for insisting heavily. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
not show up. So i subscribed a day later and sent it again. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
:) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
has made his point in http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/Blu-ray/ I do not agree, but i cannot flatly reject his reasons, either. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
7.5.2, 7.5.3) So this problem is highly dependent on the media type. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
:) Thomas

[gentoo-user] Re: k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
/000924.html Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Stroller: My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network adaptors have worked. Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen USB network adapters don't work with Linux is the sort of thing that might have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way of tracing kernel freezes?

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Frank Steinmetzger: I found my old USB Gentoo which has memtest installed (and which I used for my first test also). I let it run for two passes, both successful. So the RAM seems fine. Temperature? - check for dust puppies clogging the heatsinks, cooling etc. It's a netbook

Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb? How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer? When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like /dev/sda? Thank you, Chris I believe it depends on how the drives are connected. /dev/sda would

[gentoo-user] Re: Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thanks to those who responded for the suggestions. I didn't think I sent this same message a second time. If I did, it was accidental. Using equery and other portage commands may be better than looking directly at /var/db/pkg/category/package-name, sort of like the new pkgng in FreeBSD

[gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories. I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports, though FreeBSD is wsitching to a

[gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories. I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports, though FreeBSD is wsitching to a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmount bind-mounted /dev?

2011-04-30 Thread Thomas Ulrich Nockmann
On Saturday 30 April 2011 Alex Schuster wrote: [...] Hello, weird ~ # umount /32/dev umount: /32/dev: device is busy. (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1)) try 'umount -l /32/de' Thomas

[gentoo-user] Any small and fast desktop search app for GNOME?

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas Yao
I dislike gnome-do and I use synapse on ubuntu with another PC So I'm wondering is there any other good desktop search applications? Or how can I install synapse on gentoo? Thank you! -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 Facebook.com/ghosThomas Mechanism, not policy

Re: [gentoo-user] The new guy

2011-01-20 Thread Thomas Yao
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, I'm Nils - the new guy. I have been using gentoo since 2005.0 (or something...) and linux (as THE single os installed) since '98. Im above 30, a bit on the heavy side but I can see my toes when I look down (and

Re: [gentoo-user] No module named sqlite3

2011-01-08 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Am 08.01.2011 22:46, schrieb Daniel D Jones: I've run python-updater, re-emerged sqlite and pysqlite and am still getting the error. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated. I had a similar problem. If I remember correctly (and I am not sure that I do) I solved it by re-emerging python

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-20 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, just to let you know that approach below works for me. I modified it slightly in that I add mount --bind /usr/portage /mnt/other/usr/portage to belows cmd list as machine A and B will always be synchronized. Thanks a lot, Thomas Am 15.12.2010 10:56, schrieb YoYo Siska: On Wed, Dec 15

[gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread Thomas Drueke
. Machine B still needs a reasonable amount of time to fetch unpack and install the packages. An alternative way might be to mount machine B's / directory via NFS and change make.conf's $ROOT variable to that mount point. Does that sound as a reasonable approach ? Regards, Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread Thomas Drueke
Interesting approach. I'll give that a try. Thanks, Thomas Am 15.12.2010 10:56, schrieb YoYo Siska: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:15:12AM +0100, Thomas Drueke wrote: Hi, is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ? The setup is - machine A is equipped with a Quad

[gentoo-user] Archive for gentoo patches ?

2010-12-04 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, I'm sure this has been asked before (though quick search on this list did not show this topic). Is there an archive for gentoo patches of older package versions (esp. python-2.6.2) somewhere available ? Regards, Thomas

[gentoo-user] Can't save the font configuration in qtconfig

2010-11-06 Thread Thomas Yao
Hi all , I'm having this headache , some characters in qt applications display as blocks , you can see the screenshot from the attachment And the problem is I don't know how configure the font of qt application , qtconfig doesn't work at all I change the font setting in qtconfig and save the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo - by hand - line-by-line - command-by-command?

2010-09-26 Thread Thomas Yao
You may try Linux From Scratch and try to write the init script yourself, it's good for self-education Once you master the LFS you can learn more things interesting and amazing in gentoo On 9/27/10, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm curious if there's a way to capture the

Re: [gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-21 Thread Thomas Drueke
Thanks for the hint. unset DISPLAY let su - complete immediately. I'll check my bashrc/profile + xauth related things to see what might cause this. Thomas Am 21.09.2010 12:10, schrieb YoYo Siska: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:53:34PM +0200, Thomas Drueke wrote: Thanks for hints, but no luck so

Re: [gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-21 Thread Thomas Drueke
Just to let you know that I solved this (at least somehow) by using kdm as login manager and no longer start KDE via .xinitrc/startkde. It seems some more configuration/program-startup is done by kdm which solves this. Thanks for your help. Thomas Am 21.09.2010 19:29, schrieb Thomas Drueke

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas Yao
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, me poiso...@gmail.com wrote: Chrome's set of extensions is growing rather large, and at least contains most of what anyone would need, a bit short of 'want', but covers needs fairly well. If you don't like chrome's interface I'll not argue, but if the

[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas Yao
Hi all , I just downloaded the VMware Workstation 7 and tried to install it on my gentoo but failed I installed 32-bit gentoo system on my PC and its kernel version is the lastest one in gentoo - 2.6.35-r7 I successfully installed Workstation on the gentoo but when I run it , it ask me to compile

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