Re: [gentoo-user] MARK

2010-01-16 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:11:54 -0500 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 17:08 -0500, David Relson wrote: > > From /var/log/messages: > > > > Jan 16 01:35:27 osage -- MARK -- > > Jan 16 01:55:37 osage -- MARK -- > > Jan 16 02:15:44 osage -- MA

[gentoo-user] 2.6.12.2 hangs a little bit while booting.

2005-07-07 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
elivre.org - - "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." ~ Albert Einstein -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQs3lgv7iFmsNz

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP -> Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
my guess is that courier hasn't been told where to look for the mails. If you can see them from squirrelmail but not imap, that's probably the problem. furthermore you can diagnose connection problems seperately from missing mail problems. ( claws-mail has a convenient log feature for connections

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:32 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 > media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA > controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned > when control

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
>> Linux numa-be 2.6.29-gentoo-r3 #2 SMP Wed May 6 21:02:49 CEST 2009 x86_64 >> AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux >> >> >> Many thanks for a hint, >> Helmut. > > sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to > > see if that is your problem. > > Many thanks (to Albert, as well). > I didn't know about

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 14:45 +0200, Jarry wrote: [...] > man sensord: > > DESCRIPTION > Sensord is a daemon that can be used to periodically log > sensor readings from hardware health-monitoring chips to > syslog(3) ***OR*** a round-robin database (RRD) and to alert > when a sensor alarm is signall

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled >> something, the word would be underlined. Ever since

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread KH
Albert Hopkins schrieb: > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:44 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can >> actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in >> Linux? I sure don't. >> &g

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpDvvw1Qpctq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:30 -0800, kashani wrote: > Grant wrote: > > Do you guys think RAID1 is unnecessary with an SLC SSD drive? > > No need for RAID1, brand new technology always works right in the first > generation. There are never problems. :-D > > It would be interesting to run RAID1 betw

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash & Server Sockets

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Martin
While I don't think there's a way. I took a shell scripting class a year or two ago and we used netpipes for tcp connecrions. Since it was a very bash class we'd have used bash if possible On 1/16/09, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:53 -0800, Hilco Wijbeng

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

2009-03-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 13:53 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG? > > It wasn't that easy, that's what I did in the end: > 1) vgchange -a n > 2) vgexport -a > 3) vgimport -a > 4) vgscan --mknodes > 5) vgchange -a y #5 is all I've ever ha

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving this block

2009-03-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
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Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 23 July 2007 02:33, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:56 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > I already tried rebuilding the kernel to ensure that DMA was compiled > > into it. It doesn't have any affect on the DVD drive - with or > > without > &

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file?

2007-07-27 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:45 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:54 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like > > to > > kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenev

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

2007-09-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY)           = 3 > open("/etc/shadow", O_RDONLY) = 3 > chage: can't open password file Since the opens succeed, this must be some other kind of error. Looking at the sour

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]

2007-09-18 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Seems to be a problem with GCC. Or with your CFLAGS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^model\ name | head -n 1 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep CFLAG /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem

2007-10-16 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
I just installed it so i did not have any useful data. I must admit though, i did not stop the database before unmerging and emerging, however i did run emerge --config afterwards. Thanks for the replies :D 2007/10/16, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 2007-10-16

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem

2007-10-16 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
That worked perfectly, thanks for all your help people. 2007/10/16, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:10 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > > I just installed it so i did not have any useful data. I must admit > > though, i did n

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:25:03 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension. > > While one might agree or disagree about that, IMHO the problem now i

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Knecht
nt what I asked about than it took the guy who responded to write the instructions. A very good experience. Cheers, Mark On Nov 16, 2007 6:43 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 05:28 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks for all the answers. Th

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linux/Standards-friendly mobile phone

2008-05-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-05-19, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well after acquiring my first very own mobile phone only three > years ago I've come to destroying it last night. So now I'm > in the market for a new phone. I'd prefer something Linux/OSS > friendly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting

2008-07-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:16 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > I'm sorry, I wasnt clear in my original post. > > When using gnome in ubuntu, clicking the sort by name in nautilus > sorts using > [Aa]-[Zz] > > When using gnome in gentoo, clicking the sort by name in nautilus > yields > A-Z-a-z. >

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashes

2008-10-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Simon wrote: > > Hi, > > recently (dunno why or when exactly) firefox has started crashing when > > loading certain pages. Two pages I'm used to access often that are > > causing the problem are my banking site (once logged in) and > > linode.com/

[gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken

2008-10-27 Thread James
Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > > > Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. > # bash -x /usr/sbin/python-updater Simple enough: + CATPKGVER==sys-apps/man-pages-2.78 + [[ 0 = 2 ]] + [[ CHECK_PYLIBDIR -ne 0 ]] + grep -qe

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Albert Hopkins writes: >> , >> | % emerge --info libxcb >> | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, >> glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) > [blah] >> Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. > Bec

Re: [gentoo-user] broken python howto [SOLVED][OT]

2007-01-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
Albert Hopkins wrote: > You didn't do something crazy like put "-static" in your CFLAGS did you? > > No, I don't have it in my CFLAGS: grep CFLA /etc/make.conf CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -mmmx -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote: >> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it >> feels like a

[gentoo-user] Re: Math symbols with emerge -C

2007-06-01 Thread reader
Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But that's totally irrelevant as to whether you have other versions of > gentoo-sources installed. All that probably indicates is that you *had* > them installed at one time, and probably unmerged them. The directories > lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

2011-04-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.04.2011 22:09, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Saturday 30 April 2011 21:56:19 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 30.04.2011 21:12, schrieb Thanasis: >>> on 04/30/2011 09:57 PM Albert Hopkins wrote the following: >>>> Perhaps a bit too public. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-18 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/18/2011 09:50 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a >> laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-23 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:16:33 Pandu Poluan wrote: > -original message- > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance > From: Albert Hopkins > Date: 2011-06-23 07:11 > > >I have a program that I use to create Gentoo VM appliances. I have no > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 8 at 22:50 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: > Apart from the need to access legacy data, which Harry has resolved by > reformatting, is there any benefit in using encfs rather than the > in-kernel ecryptfs these days? Admittedly there isn't much difference, so if what you are using

Re: [gentoo-user] ?? CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND ??

2011-07-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, July 11 at 10:16 (+), Alan Mackenzie said: > Hi, Gentoo. > > Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was > sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was: > > CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be. > * Please check to make s

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 16 at 01:24 (+0100), john said: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok. > > When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only > error message I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Converting flv to what?

2011-07-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 16 at 07:12 (+0200), meino.cra...@gmx.de said: > Hi, > > As a Blender-fan over the time my harddisk has been filled (by me ;) ) > with lots of video-tutorials in the flv (flash video)-format. > > Now I need some space to store more *.blend files ... > > So I think I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] best cflags and cpu for gentoo qemu virtual machine

2011-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 July 2011, at 13:02, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Saturday, July 16 at 16:54 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said: > >> The mother machine will be Core I7 4 cores. >> What cpu and CFLAGS should I use to get the best performance out of this vm? > > A router is not going to be C

Re: [gentoo-user] mysqld invoked oom-killer

2011-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:16:41 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > Think of it this way: You have a house with an attic. Now the attic is > not as "efficient" as say, the middle of your living room. You have a > Christmas tree, but you only use that Christmas tree maybe once a ye

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig

2011-07-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 24 at 15:11 (+0100), Stroller said: > > Well, if you knew what was causing it, then you wouldn't need to > report > > a bug as you could just fix it yourself :P > > Quite the opposite! > Yeah, I was half joking. The point was that not filing a bug because you don't know what t

Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, July 25 at 21:04 (+1000), Adam Carter said: > > No message about init, just no more console messages. I'll try the > > kernel line. Thanks. > > Ok. i ran init from the shell, and it reported /dev/initctl no such > device or directory. > > I hadnt copied the contents of /dev across -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do slots work?

2011-08-29 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Monday, August 29 at 13:01 (-0400), Canek Peláez Valdés said: > > http://ompldr.org/vYTN6NQ > > Damn, that looks hot. Did you modify the CSS file by yourself? I would > love a window title bar a little smaller. > I started by modifying it myself. I really wanted the top panel to look more

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:46:21 -0400 "Albert W. Hopkins" wrote: > On the server side, I don't think there is any major server > manufacturer dumb enough to sell a system not capable of running > Linux. How very true. If a manufacturer tried that, they would lose the entire

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-17 Thread James
port for the framework for loop optimizations based on a polyhedral intermediate representation Then drill down into the a specific package's use flag meaning, using the aforementioned 'equery u' delineated by Albert. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

2011-11-26 Thread Vishnupradeep
Need login details. Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/ Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 17:19 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > I don't think that's fair. Perhaps nobody had compiled it using the > exact set of USE flags and the exast set of library versions and > configurations you were using, but I've never seen anything appear in > testing that was so broken it c

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-03 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 14:43 -0800, walt wrote: > I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm > seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them. > > When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling > or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I s

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-06 Thread walt
On 12/05/2011 09:41 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: IIRC, libreoffice was released with *experimental* support for gtk3, and have acknowledged that there are issues with the gtk3 port. However Gentoo decided to enable gtk3 support by default

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell, networkmanager, wifi re-connect

2011-12-20 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 13:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Maybe I have something wrong in my /etc/hibernate/common.conf ... > gotta > look that up now. I suspect that's not it. If I were to guess I'd say it's probably "normal"; that it takes a while to associate with the AP, either because

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ?

2010-09-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Albert Hopkins did opine thusly: On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell(sic), and the author wrote we shouldn't do k

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql... drives me crazy

2010-09-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 16:02 +0200, András Csányi wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not a mysql guru but what that bastard is doing it's drive me crazy. > > version:5.1.50-r1 installed from portage > > So... > I have installed and working fine. > I have installed phpmyadmin too and it's working fine. I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/python failure

2010-10-15 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 19:55 +0300, Fatih Tümen wrote: >> > This is a bug... shuld be more something like: >> > >> >                uris.append(syncuri.replace( >> >                    &

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

2007-01-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a > camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it. > Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking at > kdenlive

[gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-03 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
://monobrasil.softwarelivre.org - - "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." ~ Albert Einstein -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQ7tGh/7iFmsNz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
sed of hacking the voicemail of a murdered teenager and suddenly it mattered. Of course, the paper didn't really close down, it was almost immediately relaunched under a different name. -- Neil Bothwick "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." (Alb

Re: [gentoo-user] showing files in numerical order

2016-10-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
pps/rename (it's actually called rename but for Gentoo is was renamed to avoid a collision). It has a lot more options than rename and defaults to prompting you if you try to rename to an existing file. -- Neil Bothwick "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expectin

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to install www-misc/rekonq-9999 (kde-testing) because of git error

2009-05-25 Thread Nick Cunningham
> Starting src_unpack > * GIT NEW clone --> > *repository: git://gitorious.org/rekonq/mainline.git > trace: built-in: git 'clone' '--bare' > 'git://gitorious.org/rekonq/mainline.git' 'rekonq' > Initialize rekonq >

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 15:39 +, Mick wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 07:10 +, Mick wrote: > > > Almost every time I split a large file >1G into say 200k chunks, then ftp > > > it to a server and then: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after DST change

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/12/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 06:44 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, >One of my machines had problems with the early DST changes. I guess > I hadn't updated something. The machine is our Myth backend server so > it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Space Cake
On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 17.54.15 CEST, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch 31 August 2011, 17:18:26 schrieb Space Cake: >> 2010-08-17 21:34 keltezéssel, Albert Hopkins írta: >>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>>> Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:58 +, James wrote: > Albert Hopkins gentoo.org> writes: [...] > > I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post > on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact that with > Vista the boot.ini file is gone.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:54 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: > I had tried to see if there was anything special about the hardware, > but > couldn't find anything. I'm still of the opinion that it's something > to > do with the kernel, but I've given up on amd64 (I'm not sure if I've > had > an amd64 Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:26 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: > No, I was tempted to try genkernel, but again, OCD got the best of me; > I > like Gentoo because I tell it what I want and need, and it does that > and > nothing else. Genkernel, in my understand, does everything (and > apparently does it pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and > configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal > to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-configuring devices. > Well in general ha

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: [..] >> I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the >> x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin >> a mouse does no

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.6 won't install

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:34:25PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > The OP was over 3 months ago. I think a lack of response speaks volumes > compared to responding so late. It was a thread that was DOA. Why did > you decide to dig it up? The real reason is that I don't have time

Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

2010-07-12 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:41 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the ".xz" extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop > working after that and there's no information on how to recover from > that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the > previous, workin

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem build error

2009-10-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 07:09 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > thanks for your post...but it is not clear to me, what it means -- > sorry I am no native english speaker. I did: > > solfire:/home/mccramer>find /usr/lib/python* -type f -name > codegen.py > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/fract

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict on consolkit -- how to resolve?

2009-10-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 05:34 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I am trying to upgrade to the gnome overlay and I get the following slot > conflict: > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been > pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terminal settings

2009-11-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
only on that box. I can't explain it, and I don't know what would control that. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpl1YZweSfPH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-11 Thread KH
Albert Hopkins schrieb: [snip] But they are wrong ;-) I'm actually against mixing testing and stable branches. Here's why. People choose "stable" because they are under the impression that it's somehow "safer" or "less troublesome" than "testin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

2009-12-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:26:57 +0800 Bruce Hill wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: >> FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down, >> presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except >> I don&

[gentoo-user] Re: off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

2009-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/16/2009 07:51 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:36:45 -0500 Albert Hopkins wrote: FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down, presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except I don't use the latter as I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 08:50 -0800, Grant wrote: > > Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong > device. > > Bingo, right as usual! Apparently I wiped the USB stick. I ran fdisk > and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small > Linux on the stick. F

[gentoo-user] Re: freezing a package

2009-12-19 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:01:03 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On 19/12/09 Albert Hopkins said: > > > Create an local overlay. Put the ebuild in there. > > I'll need to read up on how. The section on overlays left me with the > impression that overlays

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into > > ext4. That > > crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. > > People say this fr

Re: [gentoo-user] RANT: WTF does a *SPREADSHEET* need SVG and unicode?

2008-01-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:49 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > SVG is an OpenSource replacement for Schlockwave-Trash, to be used for > creating singing/dancing webpages. SVG actually has (very) little to do with shockwave. It's a graphics format, like JPEG or PNG, but is vector instead of raster. M

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-interactive bash help?

2008-04-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:58 -0400, Benjamin Leggett wrote: > Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help. > > What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware of > my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the > given > string with $SHELL if se

Re: [gentoo-user] New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After updating to 2008 pkgset after merging openrc I lost the > net.eth0 link.. I see other have seen this and even at least 2 bug > reports but the cure is said to be recreating by hand. > > I find that not to work... DETAILS: > > Fi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hey. I like old fashioned. >> >> How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is >> the equ

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
r and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpkOnwubYkao.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:29 -0600, Joseph wrote: > On 08/13/09 21:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >So what do you suggest? I mean, other than whinging about something that > >Gentoo can do absolutely nothing about, what do you suggest one actually > >DOES? > > Had a cancel/board[sic] meeting and s

[gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime dependency of xinit). This is a brand new machine that I'm building. Basically the error is: Checking for BSD signal semantics... no This package needs BSD signal semantics to run. sed: can't read M

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 13:35 +0200, pk wrote: > Questions (I don't know the answers): Doesn't glibc need a rebuild after > kernel reconfiguration (such as CONFIG_BSD_...)? I mean glibc doesn't > support (kernel) options that the kernel doesn't support, right? Is > glibc built against sanitized kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a > > bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of > > trouble a few times. > > Wait until some bastard runs > > mv /bin/bash /bin/bash.gotcha > > the

[gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

2009-08-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
lling in an unstable eselect-python? If so I'll just remove django for now... Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpKdU1rSAcRP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-20 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: >>> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a tex

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

2008-12-03 Thread Justin
Albert Hopkins schrieb: > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 23:38 +0100, Michele Schiavo wrote: > >> on me, it aet 413.9 of virtual and 44.9 of resident.. >> >> > > Ok, here's is what I found. Both my 32-bit GNOME boxes show about > 70-80MB VIRT for g

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread KH
Mark Knecht schrieb: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:18 AM, KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Albert Hopkins schrieb: >> >> Some weeks ago I bought Samsung clp-300 color laser printer for less >> than 130 Euros. I use cups and I don't have any proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

2008-12-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 07:12 -0800, Grant wrote: > I'm getting this: > > !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. > !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: > This profile is deprecated. Please update to a 2008.0 profile > using eselect profile. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
this thread states, it just came a little late. :) I like Gentoo, but I find it in the wrong in this particular case. Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the op

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
omplex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpkWrOcePJBP.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
in firefox 3.0. If I want to run the risk and keep it, is masking out firefox 2.0 the way to go? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpttvI05wnY8.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] can't get pysqlite custom build working

2009-01-30 Thread Michael P. Soulier
how to solve this. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpT3FYhj9ZjZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 21:58 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:49:36 + > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:39:29 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > > > P.S. I'm not using vgextend to simply add sda4 to the lvm because > > > > I might want to migrate my ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC (just to be sure)...

2009-03-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 19:56 +0200, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > today after syncing I found new version of GCC being available, > "emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world" shows: > > [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3 [4.1.2] USE="..." > > I found a "Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide", but it deals

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:49 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: > I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild > neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. > > Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, > the ebuild had pulled in,

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

2007-09-17 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/17/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having this problem on one of my machines for a while. As a > user or as root I cannot run chage: > > $ chage -l marduk > chage: can't open password file > > I've looked at

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