Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months

Re: [gentoo-user] OS inaccessable after brief uptime in X

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after running in X for a while.  I haven't noticed a time pattern yet but it doesn't take long sometimes. I see no problem when starting X and I see nothing in /var/log/messages that gives a clue about what is happening. I'm running

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
Hi group, When my netbook boots under battery power w/o the ac adapter connected I get this warning msg in the boot  window: 'Skipping fsck due to not being an ac adapter'. Chaos ensues. The warning appears in /etc/init.d/fsck. How do I fix this? Some option in /etc/conf.d/fsck? I did

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey 2.0 and certain sites not working.

2009-11-29 Thread Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 29 November 2009 08:26:36 daid kahl wrote: I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster now! Yes, I'm just installing it on my home server to replace KDE. Looks quite usable now, though it wasn't a few years ago when I last tried it. This desktop might even

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, andrey larin ubergit...@yandex.ru wrote: let suppose sda and sdb is raid 1 md1 and new sdc remove sdb from raid mdadm /dev/md1 -f /dev/sdb mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sdb then create degraded raid 5 don't forget md1 is still running mdadm --create /dev/md2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:44:48 -0600, Dale wrote: Before someone says that someone can steal my puter, well, they are stored here now anyway. Seamonkey does it for me for most sites. I have the others on post it notes stuck to my monitor. I don't type in my login/password every time I got

Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Saturday 28 November 2009 13:58:42 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I recently updated one of my systems to KDE4. Now I have the problem that only one application can access the

[gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. Various hardware reporting tools such as uhinv and syscriptor do not give that information (far as I can tell). In fact syscriptor cannot even report pci info and gives the message `cannot open /proc/pci'

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model?  I mean without opening the case. Various hardware reporting tools such as uhinv and syscriptor do not give that information (far as I can tell). In fact syscriptor

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 29 November 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. dmidecode for example: Base Board Information Manufacturer: ASRock Product Name: A770CrossFire Version:

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

2009-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 27 November 2009, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hello list, Currently I have two terabyte hard disks in a RAID1 configuration using software RAID. What I'd like to do is add a third disk and arrive at the end with a RAID5 array. The problem is I have limited disk space and not enough room

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
Do you have powermgmt-base installed? Ah, memories! Yes Also, the top post here seems similar to your question, but I can't find anything like lvcheck on my own system (or for Gentoo...maybe it's named something else): http://markmail.org/message/5ipnsva3xkdyzzfy /etc/init.d, conf.d/lvm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Jarry
Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. # emerge sys-apps/dmidecode # dmidecode | grep Version: Version: ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1805 Jarry --

Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device

2009-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 29 November 2009 16:32:47 Dan Cowsill wrote: When I was first messing around with Linux, I think I was using Mandrake (back when it was called Mandrake) and this issue crept up on me. Back then, if I understand correctly, it was accepted behaviour for hardware to be accessible by

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. sys-apps/lshw -- Neil Bothwick I am MODERATOR of BORG. Follow the rules or be assimilated. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 29.11.2009 17:23, schrieb Jarry: Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. # emerge sys-apps/dmidecode # dmidecode | grep Version: Version: ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1805 I like my manufacture: #

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 29 November 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 29.11.2009 17:23, schrieb Jarry: Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. # emerge sys-apps/dmidecode # dmidecode | grep Version: Version: ASUS A8N-SLI

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 29.11.2009 18:04, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: don't grep for version. There are several version strings. # dmidecode | grep Version: Version: P1.60 Version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Version: Version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Version: AMD Athlon(tm) 64

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 29 November 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 29.11.2009 18:04, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: don't grep for version. There are several version strings. # dmidecode | grep Version: Version: P1.60 Version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Version: Version:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/29/2009 8:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 29 November 2009 08:26:36 daid kahl wrote: I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster now! Yes, I'm just installing it on my home server to replace KDE. Looks quite usable now, though it wasn't a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey 2.0 and certain sites not working.

2009-11-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/29/2009 4:05 AM, Dale wrote: I think that's a bug with your email client, you should try using the latest version...

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, When my netbook boots under battery power w/o the ac adapter connected I get this warning msg in the boot  window: 'Skipping fsck due to not being an ac adapter'. Chaos ensues. The warning appears in

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

2009-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:48:25PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: There was a report for broken Pioneer formware that hits in -v mode and causes the firmware from the drive to through

Re: [gentoo-user] OS inaccessable after brief uptime in X

2009-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 28 November 2009 22:53:52 Harry Putnam wrote: I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after running in X for a while. I haven't noticed a time pattern yet but it doesn't take long sometimes. Today I started from an OFF machine, booted up, started X did a few

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 29 November 2009 03:07:14 BRM wrote: If not, fixing it is quite trivially easy: Get a copy of any recent liveCD or rescue image that you can boot, and boot into it. It will find your drives using whatever conventions it uses, and let you mount your gentoo partitions just like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-29 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:44:48 -0600, Dale wrote: Before someone says that someone can steal my puter, well, they are stored here now anyway. Seamonkey does it for me for most sites. I have the others on post it notes stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey 2.0 and certain sites not working.

2009-11-29 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 11/29/2009 4:05 AM, Dale wrote: I think that's a bug with your email client, you should try using the latest version... I sync'd this morning and according to emerge, I have the latest in the tree.

[gentoo-user] What provides libaudio.so

2009-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, I need a 32 bit browser running 32 bit java on an ~amd64 system (that's the only combination that works on the company vpn, it's complicated). mozilla- firefox-bin works, but it interferes with the regular firefox installed when run. A 32 bit Opera would be ideal but for some bizarre

Re: [gentoo-user] What provides libaudio.so

2009-11-29 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:47:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need a 32 bit browser running 32 bit java on an ~amd64 system (that's the only combination that works on the company vpn, it's complicated). mozilla- firefox-bin works, but it interferes with the regular

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey 2.0 and certain sites not working.

2009-11-29 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 11/29/2009 4:05 AM, Dale wrote: I think that's a bug with your email client, you should try using the latest version... I found another site that doesn't work. It is nothing secure either.

[gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I've been getting the same silly OpenOffice compile error for a couple weeks now. Nothing I can search up or think of seems to do the trick. Since it takes about 2 hours + to crash out (the *exact* same way), it's also not trivial to try lots of different ideas. I'd read something that

[gentoo-user] Re: OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 November 2009 00:06:23 daid kahl wrote: I've been getting the same silly OpenOffice compile error for a couple weeks now. Nothing I can search up or think of seems to do the trick. Since it takes about 2 hours + to crash out (the *exact* same way), it's also not trivial to try

Re: [gentoo-user] What provides libaudio.so

2009-11-29 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Hi, I need a 32 bit browser running 32 bit java on an ~amd64 system (that's the only combination that works on the company vpn, it's complicated). mozilla- firefox-bin works, but it interferes with the regular firefox installed

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I had hoped to never ever see this error again, looks like my hopes were dashed. If my eyes needed a screen saver, this would be burned into my retinas. Long answer: The reason for the failure is in the build log, but it is never just above the error message. It is often many 1000s of lines

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
You say Chaos ensues ... in what way? Further errors, failure to boot, file system corruption, or...? The problem isn't likely rooted in the fact that it doesn't run an fsck when the system's booting on battery, but rather that you have some more pressing problem that should be addressed.

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:08:56 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: You say Chaos ensues ... in what way? Further errors, failure to boot, file system corruption, or...? The problem isn't likely rooted in the fact that it doesn't run an fsck when the system's booting on battery, but rather that you

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
You say Chaos ensues ... in what way? Further errors, failure to boot, file system corruption, or...? The problem isn't likely rooted in the fact that it doesn't run an fsck when the system's booting on battery, but rather that you have some more pressing problem that should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
[about LastPass] I have an alarm system in my head. It's called the Security by bullshit baffles brains Alert. It's ringing right now ;-) Hahahaha. Just make your doorknob turn the wrong way and you don't have to lock it. Or you could remap all your system filestructure, remove all PATHS

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
Forgive the top-post, but I would like to say I was very impressed by the analysis of Joerg Schilling. Given the issue appears resolved, I can't help myself: When I bought this notebook in january and first installed gentoo, cdrecord used to work. Then at some point ago (probably after some

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
So I managed to fix the other wonkiness on my system (viz, gcc and emacs not emerging). Turns out, I had been sloppy in putting together my make.conf and used march=prescott when I should have been using march=pentium4. Fixed it, ran emerge -uDNe world. Things emerge now. Really late post on

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

2009-11-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/29/2009 8:21 PM, daid kahl wrote: When I bought this notebook in january and first installed gentoo, cdrecord used to work. Then at some point ago (probably after some update) it has stopped working with the behaviour I have described above. This is every single story of Gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-29 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: So, another question. Is there a tool that is local and would do something like this? I am using Seamonkey 2.0 nowadays. It seems to have some tools available to it that the old Seamonkey doesn't. Dale :-) :-) There is a tool I've used in the past called PasswordMaker. It

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
Right. wrong Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll want to get them solved, but it's either a LiveCD chroot or disable fsck at boot. There's nothing wrong with the filesystem. It's ext2 and requires being checked at every boot. Before that it wouldn't boot

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
besides the problem has to do with the power cord and/or the battery -- not the fs. I'm sending this from the netbook in question with the power cord attached; if I was on battery power it wouldn't work. Look in your /etc/init.d/fsck, you'll see the warning. There ought to be some boolean thing I

[gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

2009-11-29 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all, I recently moved my local home directory to an nfs-mounted directory. Now I'm having trouble with kmail. It seems that the permissions on ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail/cur are being... changed... What I'm seeing is this: drwxrwxrwx 5 mdiehl users 4096 2009-11-28 03:41 .

[gentoo-user] bluetooth headset

2009-11-29 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I am trying get a bluetooth headset working with bluez4. most documentation (even on the bluez site) is is for bluez3 and not applicable. Ive installed bluez4, the gnome bluetooth applet (2.26) associates with the headset fine. The headset is a Motorols S9 and I primarily want just a2dp

Re: [gentoo-user] OS inaccessable after brief uptime in X

2009-11-29 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
my 2-cents: Might want to check filesystem integrity too (e.g: fsck, xfs_check). Amit Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 28 November 2009 22:53:52 Harry Putnam wrote: I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after running in X for a while. I haven't noticed a time pattern