[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

On 06/29/2012 05:55 PM, walt wrote: > On 06/29/2012 01:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> GRUB and GPT are completely unrelated, I use GRUB2 on machines with >> both DOS and GPT partition tables, you don't need to repartition >> your drive to upgrade your bootloader. >

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

On 06/29/2012 01:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > GRUB and GPT are completely unrelated, I use GRUB2 on machines with both > DOS and GPT partition tables, you don't need to repartition your drive to > upgrade your bootloader. I didn't make myself clear. I wouldn't hesitate to convert this machine to

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

On 06/29/2012 08:05 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start Thanks for the tip. /etc/make.conf strikes me as an odd place to put settings that apply to only one package. Any idea why that decision was made?

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

On 06/28/2012 05:19 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:12 PM, walt wrote: >> >> On 06/28/2012 03:41 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dale wrote: >>>>> It appears that gru

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

On 06/28/2012 03:41 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dale wrote: >>> It appears that grub2 is coming soon. >> grub 2.00 has been released! >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ > > I wasn't expecting it to be that soon. I guess it will hit the tree >

[gentoo-user] [OT] Computer security

I really enjoyed reading this: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf

[gentoo-user] Re: eselect binutils list not matching

On 06/26/2012 10:51 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, walt wrote: >> On 06/24/2012 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi, >>>One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: >>> >>> c2stable ~ # eselect binutil

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

On 06/24/2012 10:05 PM, Dale wrote: > I only run Gentoo here, no windoze at all and no other distro > either. I agree with Canek. The only reason I switched to grub2 is that I have an outboard docking station that I don't always power on. That causes the BIOS to change the order of the drives wh

[gentoo-user] Re: eselect binutils list not matching

On 06/24/2012 03:18 PM, walt wrote: > On 06/24/2012 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: >> >> c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern does not >> match any installed version of binutils! exiti

[gentoo-user] Re: eselect binutils list not matching

On 06/24/2012 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: > > c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list > !!! Error: Pattern does not match any installed version of binutils! > exiting I would start by comparing /usr/share/eselect/* between the

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

On 06/24/2012 12:13 PM, Samuraiii wrote: > The driver 295.59 builds just fine against kernel 3.2.12 > So problem _MUST_ be somewhere around kernel. A perfectly reasonable conclusion. (My own perfectly reasonable conclusions are often wrong ;) Maybe you could install vanilla-sources and see if you

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

On 06/16/2012 12:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, walt wrote: >> FWIW, I recently tried Windows 8 beta (on virtualbox, of course) >> and I found it unusable. Why? Because they are rushing to >> catch up with gnome3. Their new desktop

[gentoo-user] Re: Need Help!

On 06/22/2012 09:20 AM, Willie wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a > desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The > problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The > only one that has open without crashing the e

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

On 06/21/2012 12:47 PM, walt wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 20/06/12 17:04, walt wrote: On 06/18/2012 02:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 120615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 2012/6/15 Philip Webb after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wouldn't compile.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

On 06/19/2012 06:39 PM, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> (no, nobody really understands autotools) > > I do. Thanks for the excellent reply. Exactly what I needed to know.

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 20/06/12 17:04, walt wrote: >> On 06/18/2012 02:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >>> 120615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>> 2012/6/15 Philip Webb >>>>> after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wou

[gentoo-user] Re: Should I re-emerge after switching to new gcc profile?

On 06/21/2012 08:40 AM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Now, the question is: > Do I need to re-emerge something due to having new gcc? > I'm pretty sure not, but just wanted to ask. Technically, you should re-emerge c++ apps because you are now using a newer version of libstc++. IRL I suspect that nobo

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

On 06/18/2012 02:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 120615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> 2012/6/15 Philip Webb >>> after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wouldn't compile. >> I can see that 295.53 and 295.59 are available. Use 295.59. > > I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 & it's work

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

On 06/19/2012 05:27 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 06/19/2012 06:38 PM, walt wrote: >>> >>> Got a link? If it works with 4.10, I can just make an ebuild for it. >> >> Thank to you and Ezequiel for the quick replies :) >> >> git://git.xfce.org/panel-

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

On 06/19/2012 01:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like

[gentoo-user] [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, libbonobo and libbonoboui. I edited the autoconf.in to check for those standard libraries, and it did p

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

On 06/18/2012 07:28 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:59:13AM -0700, walt wrote: >> On 06/17/2012 11:16 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >>> I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even >>> acknowledge its presence. >> &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird and chinese fonts

On 06/18/2012 04:01 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Thing is, when I view messages in Thunderbird - I use TB13 - that are > encoded in GB2312 and have chinese characters in them, the font looks > rather ugly. Unicode messages with or without chinese characters look > much better. I attached a screens

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

On 06/17/2012 11:16 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even > acknowledge its presence. By 'system' do you mean the BIOS, or the kernel driver?

[gentoo-user] Alternatives to the gnome-system-monitor panel applet?

(I considered posting this into the Linus-bashing-gnome3 thread, then I decided against it :) There are tons of stuff in gnome(any version) that I don't need, but for many years I've stuck with gnome for one, maybe silly, reason. The gnome-system-monitor applet displays graphs of processor use, m

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

On 06/16/2012 02:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:04 +0300 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 16/06/12 21:27, walt wrote: >>> I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon >>> and their customer base will vanish unles

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Gnome3

On 06/16/2012 12:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > BTW, using GNOME 3 for more than one year in my laptop and desktop, > and I love it. I also want a tablet with it. Are you using any of the extensions Linus was discussing? I'm using gnome3 in fallback mode because most of my machines are too o

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

FWIW, I recently tried Windows 8 beta (on virtualbox, of course) and I found it unusable. Why? Because they are rushing to catch up with gnome3. Their new desktop looks very much like a smartphone. I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon and their customer base will van

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get any microphone to work

On 06/12/2012 03:05 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Strangely, I needed to change "Channel mode" from "6 ch" to "2 ch" for > my intel-hda soundcard. > > I still can't get the webcam mic to work :-( Are you running pulseaudio, and do you have the pulseaudio USEFLAG set? If yes, /etc/pulse/defa

[gentoo-user] [PATCH] Using ati-drivers with kernel 3.5

Like the last time, this patch is an ugly hack and it needs a professional touch before any sane dev would take it seriously. But here it is anyway :) BTW, I replaced for_each_cpu_mask because I still haven't learned the correct syntax for it. The number "4" is the number of cpus in this particu

[gentoo-user] Re: dracut + UUID : a problem solved

On 06/10/2012 03:33 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> That has *got* to be the first time ever someone could validly call >> grub "simple" and "well-documented" >> >> Usually, grub is anything but :-) > > Well documentation is pretty good me thinks, or at l

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] USB hard drive puzzle

On 06/08/2012 08:13 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 08/06/12 14:52, walt wrote: >>>> >>>> Does unloading and reloading the xhci module help? >>> >>> >>> Brilliant :) It doe

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo user] Install gentoo-prefix on ubuntu 12.04

On 06/08/2012 05:24 AM, 赵佳晖 wrote: > Hi, everybody. I followed the doc > to > install the gentoo-prefix on my ubuntu 12.04 , But when i come to the setp : > emerge linker and compiler , and when i run the command : e

[gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

On 06/08/2012 06:39 AM, walt wrote: > I just updated one of my ~amd64 machines and something in gnome is > badly broken now. I'm about to update another ~amd64 machine but > I'll do it one package at a time until I can identify the culprit. > > The symptom is that every

[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] Beware of today's ~amd64 gnome update

I just updated one of my ~amd64 machines and something in gnome is badly broken now. I'm about to update another ~amd64 machine but I'll do it one package at a time until I can identify the culprit. The symptom is that every application icon I click on starts in the background but never appears

[gentoo-user] Re: unable to compile seamonkey-2.9.1-r2

On 06/07/2012 11:12 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. > > Up to seamonkey-2.9.1 I was able to build from sources. > > emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with "collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 > [Killed]" and I see swap space being eaten up quickly towards the end o

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] USB hard drive puzzle

On 06/07/2012 05:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:53:53 -0700, walt wrote: > >> When I power up the outboard hard-disk docking station (plugged into >> the usb3 adapter) the computer never sees the docking station or its >> hard disk until I reboot the

[gentoo-user] [OT] USB hard drive puzzle

I have an add-on usb3 adapter (based on ASMedia ASM1042 usb chip, using xhci kernel driver), which I dearly love except for one very annoying 'feature' ;) When I power up the outboard hard-disk docking station (plugged into the usb3 adapter) the computer never sees the docking station or its hard

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Screenshot but as video ?

On 06/06/2012 11:23 AM, Mick wrote: > Since this is Gentoo: > > ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mp4 Trust a gentooer to reinvent the wheel because using an existing wheel is too boring :)

[gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0

On 05/29/2012 04:54 AM, walt wrote: Maybe a year ago I started having problems building virtualbox on my older/smaller machine. There is one place which ran through my puny 1GB of ram and then went on to fill up another 2GB of swap before oomkill stepped in. That turned out to be a gcc bug

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome3 weather applet

On 05/29/2012 10:56 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not > pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early > gnome2 over 1.4 was :( I find gnome3 to be not very different from gnome2 *if* I run it in "fallback mode". Tr

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 4.10 xsane and Application --> Run Program not working

On 05/29/2012 06:23 PM, Joseph wrote: > 2.) Application --> Run Program a windows pups up. When I type: nano 1.txt > > Nothing happens. Please be more specific about 'nothing'. Does nano just close immediately with no error message? Does it hang forever until you hit ^C, or what? What do you

[gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0

On 05/28/2012 01:04 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > As GCC-4.7.0 appeared for ~amd64 now ... Cool. I hadn't noticed it yet. > anyone recompiled system or world with it already? > > More advantages or disadvantages? Maybe a year ago I started having problems building virtualbox on my older

[gentoo-user] Re: How to access newsgroup?

On 05/24/2012 08:30 PM, wenpin cui wrote: > damn firewall Your English is better than my Chinese :-D

[gentoo-user] Re: [entirely ON topic] Thanks to the devs

On 05/23/2012 12:10 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > I've noticed a lot of overt participation on this list by gentoo > devs[1], especially in scenarios where they're explaining rationales > and reasoning behind changes that affect users. > > I'd just like to say thank you for the work you guys do. > > T

[gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

I bought this desktop 4-core machine during the coolest part of the year and until very recently I could barely hear the CPU fan except for about one second during power-up when the fan spins way up and then quickly slows down. Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of the fan noi

[gentoo-user] Re: In X: wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

On 05/16/2012 05:22 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > On 05/16/2012 07:08 PM, walt wrote: >> You did me a huge favor by asking that question, thanks! While >> poking around in the keyboard settings applet I discovered a >> well-hidden option to disable the Caps-Lock key. I hit th

[gentoo-user] Re: Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background

On 05/16/2012 05:41 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:43:50AM -0700, walt wrote > > On 05/16/2012 01:40 AM__Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > _( ) __ >> I want to do ( )s, s\ (ha( \do n()e to wait while non-crucial >> se

[gentoo-user] Re: In X: wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

On 05/16/2012 03:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of > wants to create a .png image of my current desktop. This is > regardless of which application is currently active. This is > particularly irritating in Firefox,

[gentoo-user] Re: Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background

On 05/16/2012 01:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial > services are being started I can barely remember when I was young enough to care about saving a few seconds. (But, good for you :) Have you heard of systemd? Yet another evi

[gentoo-user] Re: HP A8 laptop install

On 05/14/2012 12:12 PM, James wrote: > Well, > > I just got this new HP A8 laptop. > > After setting up the default windows, I modified > the bios boot order to use the internal DVD. Then > I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for > small gentoo symbols across the top, then went > blank after 3 m

[gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

On 05/14/2012 06:08 AM, walt wrote: > On 05/14/2012 03:49 AM, Space Cake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For several weeks I'm trying to solve dependency issues with curl, but I'm >> lost.. any idea? > > That problem drove me nuts for months. I finally discov

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Curious hdparm results

On 05/13/2012 02:00 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, walt wrote: >> > I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't >> > understand: >> > >> > #hdparm -t /dev/sdc >> > >> > /dev/

[gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

On 05/14/2012 03:49 AM, Space Cake wrote: > Hi, > > For several weeks I'm trying to solve dependency issues with curl, but I'm > lost.. any idea? That problem drove me nuts for months. I finally discovered by desperate trial and error that un-setting the 'curl' useflag fixes it. Finally!

[gentoo-user] [OT] Curious hdparm results

I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't understand: #hdparm -t /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.00 seconds = 88.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 268 MB in 3.01 seconds = 89.05 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.01 se

[gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

On 05/10/2012 07:20 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > LD init/mounts.o > ls -Al -m elf_x86_64 -r -o init/mounts.o init/do_mounts.o > init/do_mounts_initrd.o init/mounts.o: No such file or directory Maybe that step is correct but it sure looks strange to me. Looks like 'ls' is being substitute

[gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

On 05/10/2012 07:20 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > Hi all, > > after downloading the 3.2.12-sources everything went fine > for a couple of weeks, I compiled them a couple of times, > but suddenly, maybe because of some world-updates, errors > started to accumulate, Yes, sounds like something is wro

[gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

On 05/07/2012 04:13 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > And vanilla-sources just work. Stable. Even with suspend to ram and ati > drivers. That confuses me. Are you saying the gentoo-sources don't 'just work'?

[gentoo-user] Re: asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?

On 05/07/2012 01:40 PM, Stroller wrote: > I'm also seeing that maybe alsa's default state is muted, so that the > muted state would be correct even if the sound state is not being > restored. I would say the default state is muted except for one very confounding discovery at my end, which may a bi

[gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

On 05/07/2012 10:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke: >> Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help? >> >> # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt >> # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt >> # /usr

[gentoo-user] Re: adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

On 05/06/2012 09:39 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I've come to think of this > as a Firefox crash that only happens when starting Flash, and not > actually a Flash crash. Firefox nerds often suggest starting firefox with the -safemode flag as an experiment. IIRC it never works, but you can try it :)

[gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

On 05/02/2012 11:39 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video > card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia > driver causing a segfault when X started I make this ridiculous suggestion only because you're stil

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

On 05/02/2012 05:40 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >>> Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr >>> ~/.libreoffice? >>> >> ... >> >> always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then >> move it back if thats not the problem. > > mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice-or

[gentoo-user] Re: USB sticks now mounting on /run/media instead of /media ?

On 05/03/2012 02:48 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, walt wrote: >> On 04/13/2012 05:19 PM, walt wrote: >>> >>> A recent update >>> (udev?) on my ~amd64 machines is now mounting removable drives >>> on /run/media

[gentoo-user] Re: USB sticks now mounting on /run/media instead of /media ?

On 04/13/2012 05:19 PM, walt wrote: A recent update (udev?) on my ~amd64 machines is now mounting removable drives on /run/media instead of /media. Ha! I should have suspected Lennart from the beginning: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id

[gentoo-user] Re: Any experience with swapfiles?

On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote: > Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely not obvious to me. Anyone know the technical details? > As for security, having a swap is less > secure than having none: a

[gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?

I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe. Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe depending on which filesystem you us

[gentoo-user] Re: More lvm2 questions

On 04/29/2012 06:05 PM, Dale wrote: > What version are you on when this happened? Also, what version did you > go back to? I ask because I have not masked any version here. I may > need to do that since I have all but /boot and / on LVM now. I'm now running lvm2-2.02.95-r1 on both ~amd64 mach

[gentoo-user] Re: More lvm2 questions

On 04/29/2012 03:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:53:57 -0700, walt wrote: > >> Also, I notice that a /run directory on tmpfs appeared a while ago >> (can't remember when) and I think that should have fixed the file >> locking error from lvm, n

[gentoo-user] More lvm2 questions

Something in today's update for ~amd64 changed the bootup behavior of lvm (again). Now I get an error message that none of the labels on my lvm disks can be found (I mount by disk label in fstab). So now lvm is starting even later than before. I still get the (now familiar) error from lvm that f

[gentoo-user] Re: printer

On 04/29/2012 12:55 PM, Stephane Guedon wrote: > Hi everyone > > I am now forced to replace my epson printer. > > Anyone think of a printer for which ink is quite cheap (contrary to the > epson) > and that allow to have status not only in windows ? > > Epson as an utility to have ink status in

[gentoo-user] Re: Please help, kernel can not load root

On 04/29/2012 11:35 AM, Ignas Anikevičius wrote: > Hello, > > it's been several since I have tried to make my machine boot again > without any live CDs and I could not narrow the main issue down. The > problem is that the kernel can not mount the root partition. The error message is unknown block

[gentoo-user] Re: qbittorrent and icui18n lib

On 04/28/2012 06:04 AM, András Csányi wrote: > On 28 April 2012 14:55, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Have you tried re-emerging qbittorrent? If the library was upgraded, >> this seems to be necessary. revdep-rebuild should have reported this >> issue but maybe qbittorrent uses dlopen() and friends

[gentoo-user] Re: OWFS Ebuld

On 04/28/2012 03:32 AM, yendor wrote: > Dang firefox, security exception on the bugz site :( You probably need to install the root CA cert from cacert.org so firefox won't complain about certs issued by cacert.org. I'm not sure why cacert.org hasn't made the list of CA's routinely included by/w

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrade to Gnome3 from overlay

On 04/28/2012 06:12 AM, 赵佳晖 wrote: > [blocks b ] <=sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-3.0.2-r200 > ("<=sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-3.0.2-r200" is blocking > gnome-base/libgdu-3.0.2) ^ Aside: notice the small 'b' in that blocks message. That says portage is smart enough to fix the proble

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer

On 04/27/2012 12:35 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > Hi all > > This is a copy of the thread I recently opened on Gentoo forums[1]. > > I replaced my Phenom II cpu with a new 6-core AMD bulldozer. However, I > noticed that all of my Gentoo virtual machines throw (compiler) > segmentation faults when

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone setup Gentoo on an Archos 101

On 04/24/2012 01:07 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > On 24/04/2012 21:46, James wrote: >> >> >> http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/tabletpc.html?country=kg&lang=en >> >> >> >> I'm just curious if anyone has attempted to put Gentoo >> on any Archos tablet. >> >> >> James >> >> >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge w3m failed

On 04/24/2012 03:29 AM, wenpin cui wrote: > hi, all, > > I tried to emerge www-client/w3m but failed, does anybody have met this > problem? > > This is build log: > istream.h:23:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct file_handle’ I get exactly the same error, so the stable

[gentoo-user] Re: genkernel assistance building initramfs

On 04/24/2012 08:35 AM, Dale wrote: > > I hope you have good weather too. I just been having health issues, > again. It's been a rough week or so. I'm sorry to hear that. But if you're going to do risky things like giving up junk food and actually going outdoors -- well, we here on this list c

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ [error: conflicting types for 'Cursor' on emerge]

On 04/24/2012 05:48 AM, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:46:31 -0700, walt wrote: >>> >>> It appears that you are installing gentoo as a virtual machine to >>> be run from inside of Darwin, is that how it works? > > Yes, more like its own s

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ [error: conflicting types for 'Cursor' on emerge]

On 04/23/2012 08:09 AM, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote: > I've been waiting for pango 1.30 to become available and this morning > on syncing noticed that everything was emerge-able (28 or so items), > so I updatedlast on that list were gtk+ and image magick. > > Everything went fine until I got to gtk+

[gentoo-user] Re: laptop screen goes dark in boot

On 04/21/2012 11:25 PM, Zhang Jun wrote: > laptop: asus F3TC, amd Turion, NV-go7300 > kernel-3.0.17-r1 tuxonice > > screen goes dark just after I see the linux boot logo, > when using kernel 2.6.x, I even do not use hotkey to control lcd backlight, > default light is ok, > but now, it goes dark,

[gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

On 04/19/2012 04:41 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:39:25 -0700, walt wrote: > >>> That would have failed on su. It works because I have key >>> authentication for SSH. Otherwise I'd have been screwed. >> >> That seems like a (pos

[gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

On 04/19/2012 02:51 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:58:42 -0700, walt wrote: > >>> I upgraded to sys-auth/pambase-20120417 and sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1 >>> and found I couldn't login to a new session or use su. Rebooting only >>> made the

[gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

On 04/19/2012 12:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I upgraded to sys-auth/pambase-20120417 and sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1 and > found I couldn't login to a new session or use su. Rebooting only made > the problem permanent, I had to SSH in to revert to > sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r2 and sys-apps/shadow-4

[gentoo-user] Re: Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X

On 04/18/2012 02:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > Do the proprietary Nvidia drivers work with kernel 3.2.12? Yes, though it may differ depending on which version of the drivers you need. If your card needs the very recent drivers (which I suspect it does) then you should have no problems. > I'm runn

[gentoo-user] Re: It comes problem when emerge fcitx

On 04/18/2012 07:00 AM, 赵佳晖 wrote: > Hello everyone, i just want to install the fcitx in gentoo , but when i > emerge fcitx , it comes the problem, the message are bleow: > > * IMPORTANT: 6 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > * Use eselect news to read news items. > > > These a

[gentoo-user] Re: USB sticks now mounting on /run/media instead of /media ?

On 04/18/2012 10:04 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: > How do you mount them automatically? Isn't there a middle-man software > that mounts removable drives? I'm pretty sure I never had a drive > automount without kde or gnome managing them. I forgot to check on this because I was distrac

[gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git

ion, so I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of it.] >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Bah! A cliffhanger! >>> >>> *twiddles thumb waiting for Walt to wake up* I'm back. Why do I feel just as crappy now as I did last night? Must be the cheap win

[gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git

On 04/17/2012 01:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-04-09 02:30, schrieb walt: >> I have some seriously ugly hacks for building the >> nvidia (and very recently) the ati proprietary drivers against git >> kernels, but I won't spend time explaining them here

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

On 04/16/2012 10:14 AM, Doug Hunley wrote: > I'm currently running ~amd64 and when I ran a world update, > dev-libs/ppl-0.12 was pulled down, compiled and installed. At that > point, gcc stops compiling. It doesn't matter what I try to compile, > whether it's the dev-libs/cloog-ppl rebuild that dev

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI-drivers 12.3 with Kernel 3.4

On 04/16/2012 06:09 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > does anybody know about patches for the ATI-drivers 12.3 to work with > git-sources 3.4_rc3 ? Well, "patch" is too formal for the ugly hack I use :) After building your new kernel you should patch one kernel header file before building

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/local/bin/python???

On 04/14/2012 07:46 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Running > > glsa-check -p affected > > > produces: > > solfire:/root>glsa-check -p affected > zsh: /usr/bin/glsa-check: bad interpreter: /usr/local/bin/python: no such > file or directory On my machines glsa-check returns nothi

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk-engines-2.91.1 couldn't be compiled!

On 04/14/2012 04:29 AM, easior wrote: > In file included from ./src/animation.c:31:0: > /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtimer.h:28:2: error: #error "Only > #can be included > #directly." Could version 2.91 need a more recent version of glib? What ve

[gentoo-user] USB sticks now mounting on /run/media instead of /media ?

Maybe I overlooked some gentoo emerge warning? A recent update (udev?) on my ~amd64 machines is now mounting removable drives on /run/media instead of /media. Perhaps motivated by the recent lvm2 error messages during boot? Anyone know for sure?

[gentoo-user] Re: My printing's not working. Help, please!

On 04/13/2012 08:39 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, all. > > My printing's not working. I've got cups-1.4.8-r1 installed. Have you tried deleting the cups printers using the localhost:631 cups server? I've had so many obscure printing problems after updating the cups package, I just routinely d

[gentoo-user] Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git

For many years I've been testing kernels from Linus's git repository and I find that about twice a year the kernel devs do something evil that breaks proprietary video drivers. (I suspect they do it on purpose but I can't prove it ;) I have no idea how many of you like to test bleeding edge kerne

[gentoo-user] Re: WFB trust 1099 for 2011

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:21:29 -0700, walt wrote: > The trust was terminated in 2011 so there will be no more of these to > deal with. Oh shit oh dear oh crap. I thought I emailed this to my accountant, but instead it wound up here. I'm totally humiliated. I cancelled the post imme

[gentoo-user] "lvm failed to start"

This is an ~amd64 machine, up to date as of today. The strange thing is that lvm did *not* fail to start -- it's working perfectly. Now, being an Incorrigible Old Fart(TM) I'm still using openrc, and who knows what evil lurks in that paleolithic package? :p Anyone else getting this (false) alar

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice about ati-drivers? [50% SOLVED]

On 04/03/2012 04:28 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > You cannot use two drivers at once. Either use the kernel driver > (which does KMS), or ati-drivers. Thanks Nikos, that's the part that (apparently) the gentoo wiki doesn't emphasize enough, because my googling has found dozens of us confused g

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >