Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 01:18 -0400, Denis wrote: > libguide.so I don't have this one, and I don't know what it is. > libgmp.so.3 This is probably the gmp (GNU Multiple Precision) arithmetic library. > libvml.so I don't have this one, but I'm pretty sure it is part of Intel MKL (see below). > l

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration to baselayout2 / openrc

On 10.10.2009 13:01, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > On gentoo web I found this: 2. > Migration to OpenRC > Migration to OpenRC is fairly straightforward; it will be pulled in > as part of your regular upgrade process by your package manager. PPP startup scripts still do not work with openr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

Brandon, Thanks very much for all this information about Mathematica - that gives me a glimmer of hope! > 1) If you haven't already, recompile your xf86* packages. Somehow I > missed those when upgrading X, which caused issues for me. I did recompile all the xf86 packages that qlist came up with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 21:46 -0400, Denis wrote: > >> But X crashing from my use of Mathematica is absolutely unacceptable - > > > > I agree, it shouldn't crash. Are you starting Mathematica by clicking on > > an icon in a menu? If so, I'd suggest starting it from an xterm command > > prompt becau

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

091011 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:04 +0200, KH wrote: >> Peter Ruskin schrieb: >>> I'm 71 ... is that old enough? >> To use a trendy idiom: That's cool. > I believe the current trendy idiom (with the identical meaning) > is "That's hot". Thus portraying exactly the problem wit

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:04 +0200, KH wrote: > Peter Ruskin schrieb: > > > > I'm 71 ... is that old enough? > > > To use a trendy idiom: That's cool. I believe the current trendy idiom (with the identical meaning) is "That's hot". Thus portraying exactly the problem with our language. :x --K

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: > >> On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: > >>> KH schrieb: > Peter Humphrey schrieb: > > The difficulty is in keeping up with the > > idiom. Personally, I prefer t

[gentoo-user] Konqueror 4.3.1 crashed X

Has anyone else seen anything like this ? Using Konqueror 4.3.1 , I entered Ctl-Shift-Rightarrow to move a tab & X vanished ! I don't remember that happening with any app in recent years. There was a report earlier today re something similar with a math pkg & someone was complaining bitterly in c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

>> But X crashing from my use of Mathematica is absolutely unacceptable - > > I agree, it shouldn't crash.  Are you starting Mathematica by clicking on > an icon in a menu?  If so, I'd suggest starting it from an xterm command > prompt because you may see some helpful error messages before the cras

[gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

On 10/11/2009 05:14 PM, Denis wrote: >> He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get >> the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all >> the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate > > I am flexible on acroread, but a

[gentoo-user] Re: Blank screen after Xorg update

On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I wrote: > >> At the moment I am away for two days from my machine, and so I am doing >> the BIG update now. xorg-server is upgraded to 1.6.3.901-r2, I followed >> the upgrade guide and also did the libxcb stuff. I removed then kdeprefix >> use flag,

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

> He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get > the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all > the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate I am flexible on acroread, but acroread doesn't crash X - just gets a little

[gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Reffett wrote: > It could be manually downloaded from > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/package.keywords/kde-4.3.keywords;hb=master > We actually have a package.mask file for KDE 4.3 at [1]. T

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Sunday 11 October 2009 23:25:02 Dale wrote: To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do I now have to downgrade myself to "still wet behind

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

Peter Ruskin schrieb: On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: KH schrieb: Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like "its" = "belonging to it"; "it'

[gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

On 2009-10-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need > acroread?" and get the full complete answer. In my experience > very few people actually need all the features in acroread, > and okular|evince are quite adequate Do okular or eveince have a "print c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:29:19 Dale wrote: > >>> equery belongs $(which q) >>> >>> ;) >>> >>> -James >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >> I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from >> anything containing the letter

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sunday 11 October 2009 23:25:02 Dale wrote: > >>> To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... > >>> > >> > >> I'm 71 ... is that old enough? > >> > > > > Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do > > I now have to downgrade myself to "still

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:04:57 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:23:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > since everything kde depends on kdelibs you could mask that > > I tried that, but of course the problem is that I get a whole load of > errors because things that want to

Blank screen after Xorg update (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED])

I wrote: > At the moment I am away for two days from my machine, and so I am doing > the BIG update now. xorg-server is upgraded to 1.6.3.901-r2, I followed > the upgrade guide and also did the libxcb stuff. I removed then kdeprefix > use flag, unmerged all of kde-4.2, updated world, depcleaned. N

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:30:30 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 09:25 -0700, James Ausmus wrote: > > When you forget which package a command (or any random file) belongs > > to, a > > great way to figure it out would be: > > > > equery belongs $(which q) > > Or use 'q' to find its

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: > >> On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: >> >>> KH schrieb: >>> Peter Humphrey schrieb: > The difficulty is in keeping up with the > idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:29:19 Dale wrote: > > equery belongs $(which q) > > > > ;) > > > > -James > > > > > > > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from > anything containing the letter "q". Later on when I had a little bi

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: > > KH schrieb: > > > Peter Humphrey schrieb: > > >> The difficulty is in keeping up with the > > >> idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the > > >> last 60 years or so and to hell wi

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:02:07 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 15:55:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that > > is less ambiguous than the German equivalent. > > > > I would not have thought it could be done. > > En

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:36:24 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:08:41 -0400, Denis wrote: > >> nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can > > cause > > >> a lot > >> of problems. > > > > Alright, I am now running 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel, but I still have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

It could be manually downloaded from http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/package.keywords/kde-4.3.keywords;hb=master Nikos Chantziaras wrote: From where? On 10/11/2009 10:58 PM, Chris Reffett wrote: Couldn't you just grab the kde 4.3 package.keywo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation problem.

Igor Spiridonov wrote: > Hi. I try to install "DVD gentoo 10.0" and happens this: "scanning for > ata_piix" and installation freeze. Motherboard Asus P4P800SE. > Try 10.1, the are lots of bugs fixed. http://linuxcrazy.com/?q=node/77 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

From where? On 10/11/2009 10:58 PM, Chris Reffett wrote: Couldn't you just grab the kde 4.3 package.keyword list and append that to package.mask, since it uses the same slot format? Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, In the last few days some pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

Couldn't you just grab the kde 4.3 package.keyword list and append that to package.mask, since it uses the same slot format? Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the stable tre

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

091011 Philip Webb wrote: > E 'packet' = G 'kleines Pack' or 'Päckchen'. Sorry, typo : that sb 'kleines Paket' or 'kleine Pack'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Un

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

091011 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Paket = packet ; Paket = package Oh dear ! -- English calls such words 'false friends' ! My German-English dictionary (Langenscheidt) suggests E 'package' = G 'Pack', while E 'packet' = G 'kleines Pack' or 'Päckchen'. In English, a 'packet' calls to mind somet

[gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not qt:4). What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of kde:4?

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

Mick wrote: > Packet in English is almost always correctly used to denote a format of > network transmitted data (in the context of a conversation about IT and > computers) which is routable: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology) > > The word packet also has other meani

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

KH schrieb: Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is". Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest pe

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is". Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest person on the l

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:08:41 -0400, Denis wrote: >> nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can cause >> a lot >> of problems. > > Alright, I am now running 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel, but I still have > the same issue. > > I think it's a scroll-bar that triggers it. If I dra

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

Justin schrieb: I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating german words literally into english and as the the german word for package is "Paket" they come up with packet. Hi, This is OT: I am sure I don't have the best English and I do a lot of faults. But in Germany *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 09:25 -0700, James Ausmus wrote: > When you forget which package a command (or any random file) belongs > to, a > great way to figure it out would be: > > equery belongs $(which q) Or use 'q' to find itself: $ q file `which q` app-portage/portage-utils (/usr/bin/q)

[gentoo-user] Gentoo installation problem.

Hi. I try to install "DVD gentoo 10.0" and happens this: "scanning for ata_piix" and installation freeze. Motherboard Asus P4P800SE.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

James Ausmus wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Dale > wrote: > > Jonathan Callen wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > I would urge you to check into the "q" command and equery. I > !think! > > > the "q" command is part of portage. It may be p

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:23:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > since everything kde depends on kdelibs you could mask that I tried that, but of course the problem is that I get a whole load of errors because things that want to be installed can't be. I need to know how to prevent those things

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sunday 11 October 2009 15:55:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that is > less ambiguous than the German equivalent. > > I would not have thought it could be done. English contains many ambiguities, but if you know the current idiom the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Dale wrote: > Jonathan Callen wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > I would urge you to check into the "q" command and equery. I !think! > > > the "q" command is part of portage. It may be part of gentoolkit tho. > > > Just the "q" command has more than a dozen differen

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the > stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not > qt:4). > > What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

Am Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009 13:30:06 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole > of kde:4? When using paludis, that would be =kde-base/*:4.3 or more general: =/*: Don't know wether this works the same with portage, though. HTH...

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

Am Samstag 10 Oktober 2009 09:41:52 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > I suspect that it has something to do with recent QT update to 4.5.3, > but I'm not sure. Downgraded QT to 4.5.2 and everything works fine again. Will file some bugs for this... Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

On Sunday 11 October 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Mick schrieb: > > If in addition you use the --verbose and or --debug options you should > > see all that dbus has to tell you. > > Such options don't exist. Huh? They seem to exist here (although the script calls them "flags"): =

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:50:37 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:22:48 Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: > > > > I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating > > > > germa

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sunday 11 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:22:48 Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: > > > I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating > > > german > > > words literally into english and as the the germa

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:22:48 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: > > I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating > > german > > words literally into english and as the the german word for package is > > "Paket" they come up with packet

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:30:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the > stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not > qt:4). > > What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to excl

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

Albert Hopkins wrote: > 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 depende

[gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

Hello list, In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not qt:4). What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of kde:4? I did start masking each package separately, b

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: > I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating > german > words literally into english and as the the german word for package is > "Paket" they come up with packet. Oh wow I did not know that. See I knew it had to have some reas

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

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] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it > > This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word "packet" used a lot > lately to describe software. I always think "is this a new thing or did > th

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it > > This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word "packet" used a lot > lately to describe software. I always think "is

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word "packet" used a lot lately to describe software. I always think "is this a new thing or did they mean 'package'? I tried doing

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

Mick schrieb: > If in addition you use the --verbose and or --debug options you should see > all > that dbus has to tell you. Such options don't exist. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Checksum error

On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently doing a python-updater run. While the rebuilding > of the several packages the process failed with > > >>> Downloading > >>> 'http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4. > >>>7.25/pa

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

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 conflict: sys-auth/consolekit:0 ('installed', '/', 'sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.1',

Re: [gentoo-user] Checksum error

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently doing a python-updater run. While the rebuilding > of the several packages the process failed with > > >>> Downloading > 'http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.7.25/patch.4.7.25.4' > --2009-10-11 10:57:48-- >

[gentoo-user] Checksum error

Hi, I am currently doing a python-updater run. While the rebuilding of the several packages the process failed with >>> Downloading 'http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.7.25/patch.4.7.25.4' --2009-10-11 10:57:48-- http://www.oracle.com/technology/products

Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild and how to clear the list

On Sunday 11 October 2009 09:45:08 Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I recently did some upgrading which lead to some other packages having > to be rebuilt. I have one that can't build and hasn't been able to for > ages so I assume it isn't going to be fixed. It is hearts which is > pulled in my kde-meta.

[gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild and how to clear the list

Hi, I recently did some upgrading which lead to some other packages having to be rebuilt. I have one that can't build and hasn't been able to for ages so I assume it isn't going to be fixed. It is hearts which is pulled in my kde-meta. This rebuild also forced me to upgrade kbackup which doesn'