Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-11 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 07:18:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Is it working for you, Dale? :-) So far, so good. I been using unstable, except for the version, for quite a while. Are you saying something is broke and it works for me?? O_O Seriously?? This

Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?

2013-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/09/2013 04:02, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Sep 10 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2013 18:57, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 16:44:36 David W Noon wrote: I did the following: chown -R portage:portage /usr/portage /var/lib/portage /usr/local/portage and that fixed things. This assumes you use a userid of portage in a group named portage to maintain your system. Nope, that didn't do it

Re: [gentoo-user] creating an image of the system

2013-09-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 08:30:24 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: Tar with permission preservation is fine. Just exlude everything in dev/sys/proc/tmp as you said. But make sure, that these directories are in your tar file, it does not matter if they are empty, but they have to exist in order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-10 10:13 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 07:18:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Is it working for you, Dale? :-) So far, so good. I been using unstable, except for the version, for quite a while. Are you saying something is broke

[gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
systemd-204 lvm2-2.0.2.99-r2 (lvm2 patched as mentioned in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480066 this should only matter for activation) - See what happens here: # lvcreate -n mlp-tmpl -L 11G VG02 /dev/VG02/mlp-tmpl: not found: device not cleared Aborting. Failed to wipe start

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and lvm

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.09.2013 13:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Failed to set a proper state for notification semaphore identified by cookie value Also found this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-965446-view-previous.html?sid=5c1f845f96ca4cf1a9c17d73501e232d I have # zgrep UEV /proc/config.gz

Re: [gentoo-user] creating an image of the system

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.09.2013 08:30, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Tar with permission preservation is fine. Just exlude everything in dev/sys/proc/tmp as you said. But make sure, that these directories are in your tar file, it does not matter if they are empty, but they have to exist in order to boot proplery.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 11 Sep 2013 07:14:30 Tanstaafl wrote: Well, according to that bug, the fix is IN 2.2.1 (well, it says the fix is in 2.1.13 and 2.2.0_alpha189, which means it is (should be?) in 2.2.1... So it can't be this bug? Whether that's true or not, I've found the problem. It was my own

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.09.2013 21:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I also wonder if http://reviews.cnet.com/adapters-nics/hp-ethernet-1gb-4/4507-3380_7-35338794.html is supported by the tg3-module ? preparing that system within a KVM-based VM now. I pre-compile the kernel as well ... the host will run

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread Guillaume Poulin
2013/9/11 fe...@crowfix.com: 1. Anyone have any experience installing gentoo on a System76 laptop? If it works fine on Ubuntu I don't any reason why you would have difficulty with Gentoo. 2. If I use kvm/virsh, is it possible to install a Mac image to watch Netflix streaming movies?

Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?

2013-09-11 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Sep 11 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: OK, I get it. I'd write all that temp stuff to /var/tmp so it doesn't get nuked by something cleverly trying to manage /tmp. But A. McKinnon says (above) that an always valid rule of thumb is No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a

Re: [gentoo-user] creating an image of the system

2013-09-11 Thread thegeezer
On 09/11/2013 12:55 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 09.09.2013 08:30, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Tar with permission preservation is fine. Just exlude everything in dev/sys/proc/tmp as you said. But make sure, that these directories are in your tar file, it does not matter if they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread felix
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:02:20PM +0800, Guillaume Poulin wrote: 2013/9/11 fe...@crowfix.com: 1. Anyone have any experience installing gentoo on a System76 laptop? If it works fine on Ubuntu I don't any reason why you would have difficulty with Gentoo. Right, in theory. Software is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:04 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: 2. If I use kvm/virsh, is it possible to install a Mac image to watch Netflix streaming movies? Or, yecch, Windows, but I'd really rather not try that, as I haven't touched Windows for 15-20 years and see no reason to enrich

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread felix
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:31:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:04 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: 2. If I use kvm/virsh, is it possible to install a Mac image to watch Netflix streaming movies? Or, yecch, Windows, but I'd really rather not try that, as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-11 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: Sorry to cause you palpitations, Dale. Portage wasn't at fault - I was! Well, as some know, I'm disabled. Right now, my brother is fighting cancer. My 80 year old Mom is having issues, took her to the ER the other day and plan to take her to the regular Dr tomorrow.

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/09/2013 00:22, Timur Aydin wrote: On 09/11/13 00:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: I suspect your make.conf is faulty. What is the contents of make.conf? what is ls -al $PORTDIR/eclass/pam.eclass Here are the contents of /etc/portage/make.conf:

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-11 Thread Timur Aydin
On 09/11/13 23:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: I can't reproduce that fault here, and google hits on the matter seem to point towards stale metadata referencing eclasses that no longer exist. I have a hunch you do not have valid metadata for your local overlay, so I suggest: 1. delete the eclass

[gentoo-user] Python Imaging/Pillow

2013-09-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, i think Gentoo has block the imaging package. Now should use pillow. But the problem is that Openshot need imaging package. How should handle the Problem? Thank you for help Greetings Silvio gentoomobile siefke # emerge -avuDN @world These are the packages that would be merged, in

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/09/2013 22:46, Timur Aydin wrote: On 09/11/13 23:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: I can't reproduce that fault here, and google hits on the matter seem to point towards stale metadata referencing eclasses that no longer exist. I have a hunch you do not have valid metadata for your local overlay,

Re: [gentoo-user] Python Imaging/Pillow

2013-09-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, i think Gentoo has block the imaging package. Now should use pillow. But the problem is that Openshot need imaging package. How should handle the Problem? Thank you for help Greetings Silvio gentoomobile

Re: [gentoo-user] Python Imaging/Pillow

2013-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/09/2013 23:39, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i think Gentoo has block the imaging package. Now should use pillow. But the problem is that Openshot need imaging package. How should handle the Problem? No, that is not quite what it says. The blocker says that dev-python/imaging-1.1.7-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Python Imaging/Pillow

2013-09-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:55:51 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Run emerge -pvuDNt @world to get a tree view of dependencies and see what is really pulling in which package. gentoomobile dwhelper # emerge -pvuDNt @world These are the packages that would be merged, in

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] Hint for bonehead systemd users (like me)

2013-09-11 Thread walt
I've been struggling with today's update of systemd on ~arch because the ebuild keeps accusing me of using a compatibility symlink to run systemd during bootup. Yes, guilty as charged, I told grub2 to use /usr/bin/systemd as 'init', when /usr/bin/systemd has been, until now, a symlink to

[gentoo-user] Mail System with virtuell User

2013-09-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, has someone run a Mailserver (Postfix) with virtuell User which not use Mysql/Postgresql Database Backen? I has read the Dovecot / Postfix Websites which has Howtos for No Database but so really want not run. The most Howto i found are for Mysql and on Debian. Gentoo is not use as

[gentoo-user] Hooray! Working nvidia-drivers for a recent kernel

2013-09-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Just in case someone is interested: Finally, there is a version in portage of nvidia-drivers for recent kernels and older cards. I have a GeForce 7600, so I need to use version 310. Thus I had been stuck with kernel 3.9 for a long time now. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share

Re: [gentoo-user] Python Imaging/Pillow

2013-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/09/2013 01:32, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:55:51 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Run emerge -pvuDNt @world to get a tree view of dependencies and see what is really pulling in which package. gentoomobile dwhelper # emerge -pvuDNt @world

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-11 Thread Timur Aydin
On 09/12/13 01:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yes of course, it make a great deal of sense now. Basically, your local overlay had no idea where the parent portage tree is or how to find it so couldn't find the eclass directory. As I understand it, this information used to be hard-coded magic and

Re: [gentoo-user] Python Imaging/Pillow

2013-09-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:26:45 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Your only real choices are to uninstall openshot until the sabayon devs fix their ebuild, or to fix the ebuild yourself. But there is no portage magic that can work around these blockers right now. Mmh

Re: [gentoo-user] Python Imaging/Pillow

2013-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/09/2013 03:03, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:26:45 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Your only real choices are to uninstall openshot until the sabayon devs fix their ebuild, or to fix the ebuild yourself. But there is no portage magic that can