[gentoo-user] Yet another Flash security problem

This is quoted from today's sans.org security update: Title: Adobe Flash Player Cross-Site Scripting Description: Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia application available for multiple platforms. The application is exposed to an unspecified cross-site scripting issue. Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.16

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks for all the fish!

On 06/06/2011 11:32 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > Just to say I'll be withdrawing from this list in a few days, > unsubscribing actually, mainly so that I can go back to being an Emacs > developer... BTW, you've never told us your opinion of vi...

[gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

On 06/06/2011 05:26 AM, Indi wrote: > The fact they carried so many of their mistakes to v3 as if they > were treasure not to be left behind has perhaps said the most > about why I can't recommend or support thunderbird. I can't disagree, but I've become accustomed to its bugs :) This thread

[gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

On 06/04/2011 02:59 PM, Indi wrote: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:44:30PM +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> Am 04.06.2011 23:10, schrieb Indi: >> >>> Every single GUI MUA I ever tried would lock up and become unresponsive >>> at times when dealing with IMAP. >> >> I use Thunderbird and IMAP for 3 ye

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --depclean - libcurl.la

On 06/02/2011 08:44 AM, dhk...@optonline.net wrote: > > > - Original Message - From: Paul Hartman Date: Thursday, June > 2, 2011 11:24 am Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean - > libcurl.la To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, wrote: >>> emerge --

[gentoo-user] Re: chrome and everything

On 06/02/2011 02:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Flash is a piece of shit that has never worked right and Adobe are a bunch of > fools that cannot code properly or securely. I agree 100%. My question is why they continue to be so successful in spite of such a history. And they don't seem to be i

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

created /dev/console and added udev to the sysinit level and now it boots right up :) > On 2011-05-31, walt wrote: >> >> However, when I reboot the virtual gentoo guest machine with my new >> customized kernel, the boot hangs forever after discovering devices >> and mounting the root partition.ro.

[gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

In preparation for the upcoming "upgrade" to gnome3, I've installed the latest gentoo snapshot to a new virtualbox machine. (So I can trash my virtual gentoo machine instead of my real gentoo machine :) The virtual install went perfectly AFAICT, except for building a new customized kernel for the

[gentoo-user] Re: Goodbye, Gentoo

On 05/26/2011 04:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Now, a couple of months into my retirement ... > in 2002 when I finished my PHD Retiring 9 years after finishing your education? WTF are the rest of us doing wrong? Drop by here occasionally to give us a progress report :)

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3 ??

On 05/26/2011 07:04 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> >>> Thank you. Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from >>> gnome2 is difficult. Did you >>> >>> 1. Upgrade from 2.32.1

[gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird bug?

On 05/26/2011 09:58 AM, James wrote: > Adam Carter gmail.com> writes: >> As a troubleshooting step - have you tried a new profile? IIRC the >> windows version has a profile manager, if the linux version doesnt >> have the same then just move the .thunderbird directory so it >> will re-create

[gentoo-user] Re: system rescue usb stick

On 05/20/2011 04:22 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > On 05/19/2011 04:12 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not >> been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. > I use it for all my gentoo installations as well. > Have

[gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote: >> For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke >> dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. >> >> The problem is that libreof

[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

I'm surprised that this problem hasn't already been posted here. For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5 installed on your machine. A gent

[gentoo-user] Re: ldd -r /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 = undefined symbol:

On 05/16/2011 02:06 PM, Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, does anyone knows how to solve it? > Reemerging did nothing > > ldd -r /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 (snippage) > undefined symbol: _ZN5QHashIi15QHashDummyValueE13detach_helperEv > (/usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2) > undefined symbol: _ZN5

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message

On 05/16/2011 02:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > Would somebody please help me. > > In every program in Gnome, there is a help menu. When I click on any of > them, I get the wierd error message: > > Couldn't display help > The specified location is not supported > > Does

[gentoo-user] Re: chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

On 05/14/2011 06:20 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > My #1 problem to solve is NFS not working yet (nfs-utils aka > libevent, portmap, rpc emerge failures), but it would also be very > nice to get Grub to emerge. Logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ Looking at the config for libevent, the script can't

[gentoo-user] Re: Will the next auto-build stage tar ball include OpenRC update?

On 05/12/2011 06:54 PM, Indi wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 03:40:01AM +0200, 刘勇泰 wrote: >>2011/5/12 Thanasis <[1]thana...@asyr.hopto.org> >> >> on 05/12/2011 03:43 PM Indi wrote the following: >> >>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 02:40:02PM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: >>>> On Thursd

[gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

On 05/12/2011 07:00 AM, Indi wrote: > ...It was a harrowing time, switching > everyone to gnome, finding that is not so hot... Just curious: what sort of complaints did you get about gnome?

[gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

On 05/11/2011 03:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 04:55:46 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I'll leave it like it is I guess. I like all the little green OK's >> that scroll up anyway. > > Reassuring, aren't they? I'd like a similar system for checking my marriage.

[gentoo-user] Re: Need Preferred Applications help

On 05/09/2011 03:44 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I switched my gcc profile over and rebuilt > everything with emerge -e system and emerge -e world. Now, when I click > on a link in Evolution, seamonkey opens to a blank page instead of to > the link that I clicked on. I'm us

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to set wireless regulatory domain

On 05/09/2011 09:20 AM, John Nielsen wrote: > I got it working like I want by: > > 1) Including RFKILL in my kernel config and 2) Building cfg80211, > mac80211, rfkill, and all parts of the ath9k driver as modules > > Just adding RFKILL to a static (module-less) kernel didn't fix it, > and just

[gentoo-user] Re: checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

On 05/06/2011 12:45 AM, Dale wrote: > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler works... no I know you have it fixed now, but just thought I'd mention that you will see the same error when compiling something in a directory where you don't have write privileges.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to use a slotted library

On 05/04/2011 11:47 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have 3 versions of x11-libs/gtk+ in slots 1, 2 and 3. Do you still have gtk+-1.2.10 on your machine? Does anything still depend on it? I removed it years ago. Some applications cannot be compiled with gtk+:3 . Is there a way to temporar

[gentoo-user] Re: QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: 2011/5/5 Mick mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com>> On Thursday 05 May 2011 03:00:23 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Hello! > > I just installed a Gentoo box and i am having a bizarre problem (bizarre > for me at least), i'd li

[gentoo-user] Re: heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

On 05/02/2011 02:43 AM, Mick wrote: I've been through the migration guide. In the section about udev it mentions /etc/runlevels/sysinit. Is this something added by baselayout2/OpenRC? I don't seem to have this in my runlevels: $ ls -l /etc/runlevels/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan

[gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working

On 04/30/2011 04:53 PM, Adam Carter wrote: I use nfs about twice/year to transfer large files between machines -- so I'm quite an expert at praying to the computer gods to "please let this nfs mount work just this one last time and I'll never bother you again, I promise!" I'm l

[gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working

On 04/29/2011 05:46 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: OK. I recently switched my three computers (carter, camille, and catherine) to the new gcc profile: i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5 from i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4. As recommended, I performed emerge -e system and then emerge -e world on all of them. Carte

[gentoo-user] Re: Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update [correction]

On 04/27/2011 02:40 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: #readelf -s libxcb-atom.so.1.0.0 | grep xcb_atom_get don't have that lib. only: readelf -s /usr/lib64/libxcb-util.so.0.0.0| grep xcb_atom_get 34: 2c6035 FUNCGLOBAL DEFAULT 11 xcb_atom_get_name_predefi 55: 0

[gentoo-user] Re: Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update

On 04/28/2011 03:51 AM, godzil wrote: I have similar breakage with xcb*-0.3.8 but with gnome-base/nautilus this time, but seems related with startup-notification... During the ebuild compilation, it fail with a link error searching for libxcb-aux, libxcb-event and libxcb-atom. I search in all

[gentoo-user] Re: Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update [correction]

On 04/27/2011 12:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 26 April 2011 13:46:01 walt wrote: On 04/26/2011 01:03 PM, walt wrote: There is already a bug filed against xlibs/xcb*-0.3.8, and 0.3.6 has already been removed from portage (a very bad decision). Oops, my bad. x11-libs/xcb-util

[gentoo-user] Re: Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update [correction]

On 04/26/2011 01:03 PM, walt wrote: There is already a bug filed against xlibs/xcb*-0.3.8, and 0.3.6 has already been removed from portage (a very bad decision). Oops, my bad. x11-libs/xcb-util has just been split into several packages with the update to 0.3.8. If, like me, you need to

[gentoo-user] Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update

There is already a bug filed against xlibs/xcb*-0.3.8, and 0.3.6 has already been removed from portage (a very bad decision). The major problem is with libstartup-notification, which relies on a function defined in xcb-util-0.3.6 and no longer exists in 0.3.8. I'm going to try to recreate the eb

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

On 04/17/2011 05:32 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: On 17 April 2011 16:14, walt mailto:w41...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 04/17/2011 11:38 AM, Carlos Sura wrote: But, trying as a normal user, isn't working and I dont have any clue about what is making this problem, there i

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

On 04/17/2011 11:38 AM, Carlos Sura wrote: But, trying as a normal user, isn't working and I dont have any clue about what is making this problem, there is no log or error to trace. So, I've unistalled libreoffice, and installed again, but... Isn't working yet... I'm not really sure what's thi

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.5.2 won't merge

On 04/16/2011 10:00 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I got a new gentoo VPS. Everything installed fine, and also upgraded, except gcc. The gcc I have on the server is 4.4.5 which I'm trying to upgrade to 4.5.2 I get the error: Unable to determine suffix for object files. The build log refers to

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

On 04/14/2011 01:21 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: On 13 April 2011 01:49, Daniel Pielmeier mailto:bil...@gentoo.org>> wrote: 2011/4/12 Carlos Sura mailto:carlos.su...@googlemail.com>>: > > It might be GLIB? (I've reciently updated) Do you also use the ~amd64 version of glib? What a

[gentoo-user] Re: GPU lockup with nouveau driver and accel on

On 04/13/2011 07:09 AM, Doug Hunley wrote: I recently switched from the proprietary driver to the nouveau driver and everything appeared to go well except that during boot I see: GPU lockup detected switching to software fbcon I'd ask on the nouveau mailing list, e.g. gmane.comp.freedesktop.xor

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild Not Fixing Broken Links

On 04/05/2011 07:23 AM, dhk...@optonline.net wrote: On my amd64 laptop I have broken links that never clear up. The laptop is new and the install is only about two months old. Everything works all right, but revdep-rebuild lists the following broken links, and after a few weeks of sync'ing the

[gentoo-user] Re: how to match kernel and udev/lvm2 ?

On 04/06/2011 04:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2011 01:36:14 Indi wrote: I laughed so hard... I didn't. Not even the first time I saw it. I didn't either. I thought the instructions were very clear and easy to follow.

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-terms/enterminus-9999 won't compile

On 04/03/2011 03:04 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2011 19:21:05 walt wrote: Anyway, looks like you're compiling with -j> 1, so I'd suggest trying again with -j1 just for fun. Thanks Walt, just tried it, but it fails in the same way. All I now see is this: term

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-terms/enterminus-9999 won't compile

On 04/03/2011 09:45 AM, Mick wrote: enterminus fails to compile - any ideas why? term.c:338: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘ecore_timer_add’ from incompatible pointer type /usr/include/ecore-1/Ecore.h:534: note: expected ‘Ecore_Task_Cb’ but argument is of type ‘int (*)(struct Term *)’ make[3]

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

On 04/01/2011 01:23 PM, Yohan Pereira wrote: On Friday 01 Apr 2011 08:39:04 PM walt wrote: > The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily. have you tried nouveau? works well here. Yes, a few months ago, but I had the same problem with slow bug-fixes for the older chipsets l

[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe-flash becomes quite slow.

On 04/01/2011 07:35 AM, Einux wrote: Adobe-flash becomes quite slow in my laptop after I updated world(or maybe I reconfigured kernel options) several days ago. I've made a lot of modifications, so I'm not sure exactly which action leads to the malfunction of adobe-flash. I use the latest sta

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from nvidia complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce 6150SE. Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know. The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily.

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID on new install

On 03/31/2011 12:46 PM, James wrote: Hello, I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo software raid system, with BTRFS. I just want to make sure you know that BTRFS is experimental and not intended yet for use on production machines. Otherwise, have fun :)

[gentoo-user] Re: unable to emerge lvm2 in new install of gentoo

On 03/31/2011 02:25 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am trying to install a new gentoo install, its a 64-bit and I have copied the world file from my old 32-bit install and I am chrooting into the 64-bit install. Now things are not going too bad, but when I try to emerge lvm2, I get the f

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-forensics/chkrootkit finds INFECTED binaries on ~amd64

On 03/28/2011 07:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: I just got an email from cron on my ~amd64 machine, containing these lines: Checking 'find'... INFECTED Checking 'netstat'... INFECTED Took me a few minutes to deduce that sys-fore

[gentoo-user] sys-forensics/chkrootkit finds INFECTED binaries on ~amd64

I just got an email from cron on my ~amd64 machine, containing these lines: Checking 'find'... INFECTED Checking 'netstat'... INFECTED Took me a few minutes to deduce that sys-forensics/chkrootkit was the source of those messages. I ran chkrootkit manually and found the same messages in the out

[gentoo-user] Re: broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

On 03/21/2011 02:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32 Probably, the function ge

[gentoo-user] Re: Updated boost to 1.42 + encfs 1.7, killed encfs volume

On 03/20/2011 02:44 AM, Adam Carter wrote: It looks like i've hit this issue; http://code.google.com/p/encfs/issues/detail?id=60 So i've reinstalled boost 1.41 with; # emerge =boost-1.41.0-r3 # eselect boost set 1 # emerge encfs but its still broken, and $ ldd /usr/bin/encfs | grep boost l

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge dev-lang/perl-5.12.3 failed

On 03/15/2011 08:05 AM, Philipp Kraus wrote: On 2011-03-15 15:50:44 +0100, walt said: On 03/15/2011 03:14 AM, Kraus Philipp wrote: Hello, I've try to emerge my world target new, but the dev-lang/perl-5.12.3 failes. I've found on the gentoo pages the hint to sync the portage tree

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge dev-lang/perl-5.12.3 failed

On 03/15/2011 03:14 AM, Kraus Philipp wrote: Hello, I've try to emerge my world target new, but the dev-lang/perl-5.12.3 failes. I've found on the gentoo pages the hint to sync the portage tree again, but that does not solve the problem. The messages during emerge are: IO.xs: In function 'XS

[gentoo-user] Re: devfs is obsolete?

On 03/14/2011 10:57 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: As per the and I recompiled my kernel with pts support, installed udev, and used rc-update to remove devfs from sysinit. Everything seems to work fine, excep

[gentoo-user] Re: *** Warning - beware of sys-apps/coretuils-8.10

On 03/12/2011 05:26 AM, Gregory Fontenele wrote: any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to: gentoo-users+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org Note: You must use the identical address that you subscribed with to unsubscribe successfully. If your

[gentoo-user] Re: no-multilib profile trying to build multilib glibc-2.11.3 and gcc-4.4.5

On 03/09/2011 05:27 PM, Andrew Wilkinson wrote: I have a VM image based on the amd64 hardened no-multilib profile. Today, when trying to emerge glibc-2.11.3 and gcc-4.4.5, the builds have been failing, and appear to be trying to build multilib versions, which of course it can't. Any idea why

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone

On 03/09/2011 03:29 PM, sean wrote: I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under /usr/src is not there. In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have happened, and how to fix? I don't know why/how it happened,

[gentoo-user] Re: Error on gtk thmem: gtk-engines-flat

On 03/08/2011 07:27 PM, du yang wrote: At last, the problem is still there. so I suspect it may be a problem for gtk-engines-flat itself. I think the gtk-engines-flat package is broken (now that I've installed it). #ldd /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libflat.so linux-gate.so.1 =>

[gentoo-user] Re: Error on gtk thmem: gtk-engines-flat

On 03/07/2011 11:29 PM, du yang wrote: On Tuesday 03/08/11 11:31:42 CST, Adam Carter wrote: I got a gtk library error when trying to run a python script. # ./st.py /usr/bin/python2.7: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/ libflat.so: undefined symbol: gtk_rc

[gentoo-user] Re: broken X.org

On 03/01/2011 11:50 AM, pat wrote: When using X.org with intel driver there's an error in log: FATAL: Module fbcon not found. I know nothing about Intel graphics, but my guess is that your kernel has no framebuffer console support. It's a relatively new addition to the kernel graphics config

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions

On 02/27/2011 07:01 AM, dhk wrote: I tried to partition my disk with fdisk the way I wanted. It had the usual Linux partitions and a partition that I was going to use for Window 7. I wanted to make this an LVM2 partition, but that didn't work; Good old fdisk is indeed old, and there are muc

[gentoo-user] Re: Xfce: shutdown and reboot normal users

On 02/27/2011 05:55 AM, luis jure wrote: i'm posting this to the list in case it's of some use to somebody. trying to get automounting of usb drives working on xfce, as discussed on a recent thread... Heh. I just replied to that other thread before reading this :) Sounds like you're way ahe

[gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives [SOLVED]

On 02/27/2011 04:54 AM, luis jure wrote: PENDING ISSUE: on thunar (and xfce, the other file manager i occasionally use) i can eject the drive but no umount it (i mean the ability to umount the file system but not delete the mount point under /media) The auth/policy landscape has changed so qui

[gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

On 02/26/2011 03:40 AM, luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-26 at 06:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Make sure you have udev enabled for your desktop environment. Or HAL, if it doesn't support udev. Then it will just work. hi nikos, the only package in xfce that has a flag for udev is xfce-base/xfce4-

[gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

On 02/25/2011 03:10 PM, Dale wrote: I got a good power supply but it could still be that. Even the best and most expensive break from time to time. I think I could swap mine out from my old rig if needed. This new rig doesn't pull near as much as my old one. How can you tell how much power th

[gentoo-user] Re: strange library dependencies

On 02/25/2011 01:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've just emerged app-text/djview4 which went through without any errors. But invoking djview4 fails due to missing libraries libdjvulibre.so.15 and libtiff.so.3 On my system there the more recent versions libdjvulibre.so.21libtiff.so.

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

On 02/15/2011 02:43 AM, dhk wrote: On 02/14/2011 12:29 PM, walt wrote: On 02/14/2011 03:43 AM, dhk wrote: What are the "Intel HD Audio" codecs? I don't remember doing anything explicitly for them. How do I check them? Thanks. Under the HD-Intel sound card driver menu th

[gentoo-user] Updating to gnome 2.32.x -- building totem fails.

Sometimes I think I'm the only gnome fan in this wild jungle of kde users, pardon my paranoia. Anyway, I went through the same problem with totem on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines a few months ago, and now I've just hit it again on my last amd64 (gentoo-stable) machine because gnome-2.32.x just made

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS

On 02/23/2011 02:51 PM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2011 22:45:18 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2011 18:54:12 walt wrote: On 02/23/2011 08:28 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I noticed that since I installed xorg-server-1.9.4 my screen will not go into standby anymore ... According

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS

On 02/23/2011 08:28 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I noticed that since I installed xorg-server-1.9.4 my screen will not go into standby anymore ... According to the man pages "DPMS" is enabled by default and I have not disabled it. Have you noticed the same? No, it still works as usual. What does

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got my Acer Aspire 4551 notebook 100% functional

On 02/22/2011 09:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: I finally got my Acer 4551 100% functional under 64-bit Gentoo linux. Congratulations :) Thanks to various people on various linux forums who spelled out the answers, and also to "Mr. Google" for helping me find them. There are several tweaks tha

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

On 02/21/2011 03:14 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: ffmpeg -y -f alsa -i plughw:0,0 audio1.wav ffmpeg -y -f oss -i /dev/dsp audio2.wav I understand the /dev/dsp, but where did plughw:0,0 come from? After googling around a bit, I must say I've rarely seen such opaque documentation as I've just found

[gentoo-user] Re: plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

On 02/21/2011 11:48 AM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big. That's interesting. I have no such logfile. Did you change something in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Oh, wait, I'm running openssh-5.8-p1, and my config file says the logging configuration has eli

[gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I lost my keyboard -- Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also rebuild *all* of the X device drivers e.g. mouse, keyboard, evdev, xf86- v

[gentoo-user] Re: flash drive mounting is very slow

On 02/20/2011 07:33 AM, David Relson wrote: Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3 minutes later at 10:21:05. As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: KERNEL=="sd*1

[gentoo-user] Re: net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3: cannot create saslpasswd

On 02/20/2011 05:22 AM, Johannes Geiss wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I have a problem. After installing net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3 portage tells me You have to add user cyrus to the sasldb2. Do this with: saslpasswd2 cyrus But when I try to do this, I get the following error: Password: [passwo

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade

On 02/14/2011 04:03 PM, Fzinc wrote: Hi. Im trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 to linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 just copied the .config from the old one and did a make oldconfig as i usually do but when i tried to compile it got this message:

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

On 02/14/2011 03:43 AM, dhk wrote: What are the "Intel HD Audio" codecs? I don't remember doing anything explicitly for them. How do I check them? Thanks. Under the HD-Intel sound card driver menu there are several codecs for specific sound chips. e.g. I use the one for realtek, but yours

[gentoo-user] Re: util-linux failed to patch while emergeing

On 02/12/2011 09:58 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this morning I got this while emergeing util-linux: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/util-linux-2.19 * util-linux-2.19.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * util-linux-ng-2.18-20100706.diff.bz2 RMD160

[gentoo-user] Re: For net-print/hplip users

On 02/11/2011 06:47 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: walt schrieb am 12.02.2011 00:15: I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using

[gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users

I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which has been working very well for years -- until now. After much floundering I fi

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc 2.13 warning

On 02/09/2011 02:31 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:23:50 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: Thanks a lot, I've read your mail just in time. Actually, glibc 2.13 krept onto my first machine Monday night - I generally test new versions of such "far reaching" stuff as glibc on a single mac

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug#354229 Disk Labels in Handbook

On 02/09/2011 12:05 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: I'm a little confused about use of the term "disk labels" in this discussion. Isn't a disk label a fs level ID (I create those when I make my fs)? Using UUID in fstab for quite awhile here (due to multiple external drives), but those aren't disk la

[gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

On 02/05/2011 03:43 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: the latest builds of "screen" are in a git repository, which I'm not familiar with. (I'm not the same Walter, as you know already :) I urge everyone to get to know git. I admit, I could be prejudiced in git's favor just because it was the first vcs

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage is misplaced in /usr

On 02/05/2011 12:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:43 on Saturday 05 February 2011, Cedric Sodhi did opine thusly: There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially not) the distfiles should reside in /usr. I've been saying this for years. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads

On 02/04/2011 04:54 PM, Grant wrote: Yesterday I caught up with portage and updated quite a few packages on a remote workstation. The system hadn't been updated for about a month. The updates included some xorg stuff and some xfce4 stuff. Today when the workstation's user logged in via gdm, she

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: Avoiding HAL

On 02/05/2011 05:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I even had a lockup while running from the live CD Have you tried memtest86 on that machine?

[gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and colour depths. Is there a way to set tty1..tty9 to 640x480 *IN TEXT MODE*

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

On 02/02/2011 09:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt did opine thusly: As much as I like the convenience of automounting as a luser, all of my bofh instincts cry out that lusers shouldn't be allowed to mount a files

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I reset mount-count?

On 02/01/2011 12:05 PM, Jarry wrote: I would like to avoid it [fsck], as it is rather large partition (2TB) with a lot of files, and fsck takes quite long time... The ext4 wiki site claims that fsck runs 2 to 20 time faster than ext3, depending on the number and size of the files contained in

[gentoo-user] Re: USB stick recognition problem

On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt wrote: On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when first inserted into the PC. That sounds to me like a bug :) do you see the same on

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

On 02/02/2011 11:23 AM, John wrote: I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8 All seems to be well apart from a) Normal Users cannot shutdown b) Normal Users cannot automount using xfce (can through sudo mount). I understand very well your frustration because my gnome desktop goes through periods w

[gentoo-user] Re: USB stick recognition problem

On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when first inserted into the PC. But, if I issue "hdparm -z /dev/sdg" then the kernel re-reads the partition table and everything works fine after that. That sounds to me like a bug :)

[gentoo-user] Re: thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

On 01/30/2011 02:36 PM, Alan Warren wrote: Hello, My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting with strange characters in it's name. My thumbdrive mounts as /media/ I can offer an observation but not an answer. Your email client, mutt, is sending "quoted-printable"

[gentoo-user] Re: Doubt about Python.

On 01/27/2011 12:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am NOT a NUMBER! I am a DEMOGRAPHIC! I am NOT a HUSBAND! I am a MARITAL SERVICES PROVIDER!

[gentoo-user] [cookbook] Mounting root partition by UUID (no initrd needed)

(I'm separating this from the grub2 stuff because it works with any bootloader that allows you pass a boot parameter to your kernel.) This turned out to be easier than I thought -- but be aware that your kernel must have "EFI GUID partition table support" compiled in before you start anything els

[gentoo-user] Re: invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

On 01/15/2011 06:34 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am trying to use my unstable gentoo on kernel 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 and when I emerge nvidia-drivers, I get invalid argument when I try to modprobe the module. Forgive me if I'm repeating something already posted in this very long thread. I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - Code translation tools?

On 01/24/2011 02:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if there are any generic sorts of code translation tools in portage wherein I could translate from an 'uncommon' language no one here is likely to use (EasyLanguage) into C? As an example I've attached a little EL function..

[gentoo-user] Re: [cookbook] grub2 for idiots like me PART 2

On 01/23/2011 02:28 PM, walt wrote: Okay, I genuinely have grub2 installed and doing exactly what it's supposed to do: boot your machine using only partition LABELS, not device names/numbers... If you got through part 1 you should have all the files you need to install grub2 to your dr

[gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for idiots like me

Okay, I genuinely have grub2 installed and doing exactly what it's supposed to do: boot your machine using only partition LABELS, not device names/numbers. Below are a series of steps that *any* gentoo fan should recognize and be comfortable with. If you are not familiar with any of these steps

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