Re: [gentoo-user] nfs over (lvm over nbd) ?

2009-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:58:18 +0200, Raph wrote: I never did such a setup but already see a couple of problems : - each client need some private HD space to, at least, boot enough to let the NBD daemon start. That's not a problem. Install the OS as usual and mount /home over the network. -

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-13 Thread Roy Wright
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 11:25:07 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Furthermore, how to unmerge all of KDE:3.5, e.g. emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:3.5 does not work. paludis --uninstall --with-dependencies =kdelibs-3.5.9 If you have openoffice installed, it will need

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 22:19:04 Robin Atwood wrote: I have everything at 4.2.3 like you. I rebuilt adobeflash as 32bit but I still get the same error: konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::lookup: Looking up plugin for mimetype application/x-shockwave-flash :

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 22:19:04 Robin Atwood wrote: I have everything at 4.2.3 like you. I rebuilt adobeflash as 32bit but I still get the same error: konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::lookup: Looking up plugin for mimetype

[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Alexey Luchko
Alexey Luchko wrote: colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.1_p17] USE=-examples% -plugins%

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 12:03:40 Alexey Luchko wrote: Alexey Luchko wrote: colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] [ebuild U

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:43:30 Robin Atwood wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 22:19:04 Robin Atwood wrote: I have everything at 4.2.3 like you. I rebuilt adobeflash as 32bit but I still get the same error: konqueror(20163)

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc not working after update

2009-05-13 Thread Arnau Bria
Well, all commands are failing because: ar...@lx-arnau ~/downloads $ amarok amarok: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Cheers, Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc not working after update

2009-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:31:07 +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: all commands are failing because: ar...@lx-arnau ~/downloads $ amarok amarok: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Have you run gcc-config? -- Neil Bothwick If

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc not working after update

2009-05-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 13 Mai 2009, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, I've updated my system and gcc stop working. I've done: 1.-) emerge -uD world 2.-) revdep-rebuild 3.-) emerge -depclean 4.-) revdep-rebuild depclean did this: sys-devel/gcc selected: 4.1.2 protected: none omitted:

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc not working after update

2009-05-13 Thread Arnau Bria
Things getting better: # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 * Switching native-compiler to i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 ... * Your gcc has a bug with GCC_SPECS. * Please re-emerge gcc. * http://bugs.gentoo.org/68395 Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc not working after update

2009-05-13 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:43:49 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml you don't need to. You have to read the documentation. :-) as gcc-config -l failed I did not try gcc-config gcc-version and asked here... but doing that solved problems, nad now I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:43:30 Robin Atwood wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 22:19:04 Robin Atwood wrote: I get similar output when viewing flash, right up to PluginHostXEmbed, and yet mine

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc not working after update

2009-05-13 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:43:49 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 13 Mai 2009, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, I've updated my system and gcc stop working. I've done: 1.-) emerge -uD world 2.-) revdep-rebuild 3.-) emerge -depclean 4.-) revdep-rebuild depclean did this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 May 2009, at 11:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Why are you doing this? Is it to learn how to cope with such things? If not, you are really wasting time that you will never get back. ... Trust me, if this is not a learning exercise, just unmount your data volumes and reinstall the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 16:16:10 Stroller wrote: In my case, reinstallation would be a huge pain. I would be massively worrying about which services on the machine I need to configure again, and whether everything I needed had been backed up properly. I have forgotten the original

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 May 2009, at 11:03, Alexey Luchko wrote: Alexey Luchko wrote: colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling kernel

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009 21:33:23 +0200 Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 May 2009, at 15:27, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... It's just that I remember all too well what it took to get through those many various blockers. More often than not I was once of the first to run into them - I sync and update daily - but I'd hate to do it all again all in one go,

[gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

2009-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Now this is _really_ annoying. My new PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e CPU, but sometimes one of the cores stops to do things for a while. I think. It happens many times per day, sometimes every minute, sometimes I do not notice it four hours. It seems that only new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 16:49:52 Stroller wrote: I reread Alexey's post after replying to yours, and the reason he's having problems is because he's being careless. If you break the system, it's obviously a gamble whether you'll get your ass out of the problem you created for yourself.

Re: [gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Hi there! Now this is _really_ annoying. My new PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e CPU, but sometimes one of the cores stops to do things for a while. I think. I wonder if it is some kind of power-saving

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 16:49:52 Stroller wrote: I reread Alexey's post after replying to yours, and the reason he's having problems is because he's being careless. If you break the system, it's obviously a gamble

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: buildsyspkg in FEATURES (make.conf) can be a life saver too :) But it does not (IMHO) save binaries for enough packages. For example, it saves a binary for portage but not for python. I think it would be good if it saved a binary package for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: buildsyspkg in FEATURES (make.conf) can be a life saver too :) But it does not (IMHO) save binaries for enough packages. For example, it saves a binary for portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:30:09 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: buildsyspkg in FEATURES (make.conf) can be a life saver too :) But it does not (IMHO) save binaries for enough packages. Then use buildpkg. -- Neil Bothwick It's only a hobby ... only a hobby ... only a signature.asc

[Solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Font problem

2009-05-13 Thread Christoph Schrauth
Hi all, I get the following error when starting Eterm: Eterm: Error: Unable to load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1. Falling back on k14 Eterm: FATAL: Couldn't load the fallback font either. Giving up. and the follwoing warning when starting

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-13 Thread bn
Adam Carter ha scritto: Now I want to ask the list: 1) Does anyone have a recent kernel config for this kind of machine? Just copy your .config file to the new kernel source directory and run make oldconfig. This runs through the old config file and prompts you to select what you want for

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:14 PM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but this means recompiling all external modules (nvidia, madwifi) every time I boot in a new kernel if I want them to work, isn't it? I think those modules get installed into kernel-version-specific directories in

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
bn wrote: You can keep both kernels and just use the bootloader to select which one to boot into. So if your new kernel doesn't work just reboot and use your old kernel again until you can work out whats wrong with the new one. Yes, but this means recompiling all external modules (nvidia,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-13 Thread bn
Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: bn wrote: You can keep both kernels and just use the bootloader to select which one to boot into. So if your new kernel doesn't work just reboot and use your old kernel again until you can work out whats wrong with the new one. Yes, but this means recompiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling kernel

2009-05-13 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote:

[gentoo-user] KDE4 Task Manager - How can I keep it maximized?

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
This is a minor annoyance, but it's really frustrating me that I can't figure out how to solve it. Does anyone know how to make the KDE4 task manager (task bar, whatever you call it) fit the width of the screen? I can resize it by clicking on the cashew and dragging the arrows, but once I login

[gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

2009-05-13 Thread walt
Jorge Morais wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:50:47 -0700 waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name

[gentoo-user] Gnome complaining about automount of audio CD

2009-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
I wonder if someone here knows where I turn off Gnome trying to automount audio CDs and complaining that that it can't be mounted. This is a recent development with updates in the last month or two. I don't play a lot of audio CDs on my Gentoo machine but periodically copy a CD. It used to be

[gentoo-user] Gnome complaining about automount of audio CD

2009-05-13 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 05/13/2009 Mark Knecht(markkne...@gmail.com) wrote I wonder if someone here knows where I turn off Gnome trying to automount audio CDs and complaining that that it can't be mounted. This is a recent development with updates in the last month or two. I don't play a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome complaining about automount of audio CD

2009-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: on Wednesday 05/13/2009 Mark Knecht(markkne...@gmail.com) wrote   I wonder if someone here knows where I turn off Gnome trying to   automount audio CDs and complaining that that it can't be mounted.     This is a recent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

2009-05-13 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 13 May 2009 17:13:23 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:50:47 -0700 waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus