Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 08:23:42AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > On 2017-06-16 14:23, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > This is not the first time I've seen somebody mention this "songs and > > pictures" stuff. I don't understand. When I use mtpfs to mount my > > Android devices, a "file-level view" is

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

On 2017-06-16, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-06-16, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >> The last time I tried MTP was on Debian maybe 2 years ago or 3 years, >> using the jmtpfs package. IIRC this was what happened; yes, I could see >> individual files, but

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

On 2017-06-16, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > The last time I tried MTP was on Debian maybe 2 years ago or 3 years, > using the jmtpfs package. IIRC this was what happened; yes, I could see > individual files, but only certain types, and only in certain > directories. Interesting. I

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 23:37:22 Mick wrote: > Many old-timers lurking around here are still using text only > (teletype) terminals. :p ASR-33, KSR-35. Takes me back, does that, to a two-day course on their maintenance. 1974. -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 16:16:04 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 06/15/2017 12:28 PM, Mick wrote: > > If you remove the USB disk while the PC is accessing it, the electrical > > discharge across the physical contacts of the USB connector can cause > > terminal damage to the onboard chipset controller. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 15:47:03 Rich Freeman wrote: > You're comparing a 500kV breaker at a substation to a USB device? > > I'm very skeptical of the claim that any electrical effects associated > with unplugging a device is going to cause issues with any USB device. > They're basically

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

On 06/16/2017 12:26:07 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 15/06/2017 06:26 μμ, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm trying to repair USB disk (64GB) originally formatted with ext4 I read the USB stick on Windows via some kind of windows ext4 driver now I can not open it on Linux box. e2fsck -a

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.24-r2 failed (install phase)

On Friday 16 Jun 2017 04:05:17 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 06/15 08:18, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 06/15 12:16, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:56 AM, wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > While updateing glibc-2.24-r2 failed to install. > > > > > > > >

[gentoo-user] ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

Good afternoon all, Does anyone have any inside knowledge as to why 5.9.5 of KDE plasma desktop did not require ntp whereas 5.10.5 does? I use Openntp and been using KDE 5 for ages with the time being correct so was wondering why now the requirement for net-misc/ntp specifically.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

On 06/14/2017 09:18 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > My 2-months old system is giving me 1-long 3-short beeps. > No, video display. > I've swapped the video cards, it is not it. > > Is it a motherboard? > Asus 970 PRO GAMING AURA Mobo > > I've taken the system to the outfit that put it

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

Hi, On 06/16/2017 04:19 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Good afternoon all, > Does anyone have any inside knowledge as to why 5.9.5 of KDE plasma > desktop did not require ntp whereas 5.10.5 does? I use Openntp and been > using KDE 5 for ages with the time being correct so was wondering why > now

[gentoo-user] Kde 5 Latin characters

Hi, I've installed kde 5 on my laptop, who have us keyboard. My Gentoo was installed with pt-BR and en-US L10N and locale. Despite that fact that I'm running a English system, I need to write in Portuguese. The problem is, when I type ~+a, my system writes ~a and not my desired chapter ã, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 5 Latin characters

Hello, Raphael. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 08:49:07 -0300, Raphael MD wrote: > Hi, > I've installed kde 5 on my laptop, who have us keyboard. > My Gentoo was installed with pt-BR and en-US L10N and locale. > Despite that fact that I'm running a English system, I need to write in > Portuguese. >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.24-r2 failed (install phase)

On 2017/06/16 at 09:55am, Mick wrote: > On Friday 16 Jun 2017 04:05:17 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 06/15 08:18, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > On 06/15 12:16, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:56 AM, wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > While updateing

[gentoo-user] Re: e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

On 16/06/2017 11:59 πμ, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 06/16/2017 12:26:07 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you don't need the files on the stick (as you mentioned on another post), then I'd recommend formatting it using exfat. Works on both Linux and Windows. Emerge sys-fs/fuse-exfat and mounting

[gentoo-user] Re: nscd not caching hostnames

On 2017-06-16 15:14, Adam Carter wrote: > But i see from packet captures that a new request is sent to the dns > server each time, and nscd -i hosts is always empty. stracing nscd > shows that its not processing anything. How do i get it to intercept > the name requests? FWIW, im running

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

On 2017-06-16 14:23, Grant Edwards wrote: > This is not the first time I've seen somebody mention this "songs and > pictures" stuff. I don't understand. When I use mtpfs to mount my > Android devices, a "file-level view" is exactly what I get: I see the > device's root directory and everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:34 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > Is it not possible to add it via a USE flag? Even if there are no real > compile time options, could the flag pull in ntp? Could a USE flag do this? Sure. Should it? No. "The usage of a USE flag should not control runtime

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:01 AM, wrote: > > I find it hard to believe as the computer was working for 3-months > without any problem with video card in 8-bit PCI slot. > Something was definitely lost in translation here. I suspect you might be referring to 16x slots or

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

On 2017-06-16, Michael Palimaka wrote: > > Someone raised the issue that the "time server" option in the date and > time applet was greyed out on their system. It turns out that this > occurs if neither ntpdate nor rdate binaries are present, That seems like perfectly

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

On 2017-06-15, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Another option (Android only, of course) is the adb program in > android-tools package. I prefer it over MTP (independent of > implementation issues) because it gives me file-level view of the > device, rather than dealing in "pictures"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:44 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/16/2017 04:19 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Good afternoon all, >> Does anyone have any inside knowledge as to why 5.9.5 of KDE plasma >> desktop did not require ntp whereas 5.10.5 does? I use