[gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-03 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks revdep-rebuild -p * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package * update * will be emerged.

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer does not have man page & output info is chinese

2010-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/04/2010 06:50 AM, Xi Shen wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64. my /etc/env.d/01locale is empty. after i compiled mplayer, the output info is chinese, and i cannot read it console, even though i can read it in the xterm. how to make the out

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer does not have man page & output info is chinese

2010-02-03 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64. my /etc/env.d/01locale is empty. after i > compiled mplayer, the output info is chinese, and i cannot read it > console, even though i can read it in the xterm. how to make the > output to english? > > in my /etc/

[gentoo-user] mplayer does not have man page & output info is chinese

2010-02-03 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64. my /etc/env.d/01locale is empty. after i compiled mplayer, the output info is chinese, and i cannot read it console, even though i can read it in the xterm. how to make the output to english? in my /etc/locale.gen file, i do have chinese support. and, my mplayer d

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:29:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Taken more globally, maybe portage should warn whenever you are trying to remove a package that is a dependency of anything in @world. Could be useful if implemented with an off switch Or leave it off b

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/03/2010 05:50 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wednesday 03 February 2010 09:15:05 ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> >>> Daniel Troeder wrote: >>> On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010 01:27:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I appreciate the humour, but so far for me, it's Just Worked(TM). Even > > with this log file annoyance, it's still "working". > > You're the lucky one :-) > > nm seems to w

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:57:19 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > b. use wicd instead, which is decidedly not a piece of shit > > > > I had a look at that, but it doesn't do 2 things that I use > > NetworkManager for: > > 1. mobile b

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:29:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Taken more globally, maybe portage should warn whenever you are > > trying to remove a package that is a dependency of anything in > > @world. > > Could be useful if implemented with an off switch > > Or leave it off by default, user

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:09:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > It seems a little underhand to me, either its open source or it isn't. > > There's no good technical reason to not release the USB source, only > > commercial reasons. > I agree, but it may be that Sun had licensed stuff like this from > s

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:07:33 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:08 -0600, Dale wrote: In my opinion, the old portage was good, the new one is even better. Now if the next version will prevent a person from borking their syst

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread ubiquitous1980
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010 09:15:05 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >> Daniel Troeder wrote: >> >>> On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: >>> Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen. At other times, the computer

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-03 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15:45/02/03/10, Harry Putnam wrote: > After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils > broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another > revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing. > > Anyone seen somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 23:45:00 Harry Putnam wrote: > After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils > broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another > revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing. > > Anyone seen something similar or have an idea wha

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing. Anyone seen something similar or have an idea what might be the problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all hard-links and soft-links?

2010-02-03 Thread Stefan Schulte
Yeah, you're right. And I think I have to correct myself. You don't have two inodes, you have two directoryentries pointing to the same inode. So if you want to find corresponding files, you can sort by inodenumber: find /usr/bin -type f -links '+1' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -li | sort -n On Wed, Feb

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:29:40 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    I guess that you're correct that it's been crippled a bit but >> according to this page it doesn't seem that bad to me: >> >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions >> >>    I don

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all hard-links and soft-links?

2010-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 21:43:31 Stefan Schulte wrote: > Hi Jarry, > > searching for softlinks is pretty easy: > > find / -type l > > If my understanding of hardlinks is correct you cannot say which file is > the original and which file is the link. It's worse than that - the concept of "

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all hard-links and soft-links?

2010-02-03 Thread Stefan Schulte
Hi Jarry, searching for softlinks is pretty easy: find / -type l If my understanding of hardlinks is correct you cannot say which file is the original and which file is the link. Both inodes just point to the same datablocks. But you can identify those files by checking the linkcount. find / -t

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:31:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > It just seems to me that portage should keep it so it can work. It > > needs python to do that. Since portage is the package manager for > > Gentoo, portage is the one that should be protected. > > Portage is A package manager, b

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:07:33 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:08 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> In my opinion, the old portage was good, the new one is even better. > >> Now if the next version will prevent a person from borking their > >> system, that would be he

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all hard-links and soft-links?

2010-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:37:36 Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > just out of curiosity: is there any quick way to find all > hard- and soft-links on a system? I just want to be sure > they were all created after I moved system from the old disk > to the new one... Soft links are easy app-misc/syml

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all hard-links and soft-links?

2010-02-03 Thread dhk
Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > just out of curiosity: is there any quick way to find all > hard- and soft-links on a system? I just want to be sure > they were all created after I moved system from the old disk > to the new one... > > Jarry I think everything falls under the category of a hard or soft

[gentoo-user] How can I find all hard-links and soft-links?

2010-02-03 Thread Jarry
Hi, just out of curiosity: is there any quick way to find all hard- and soft-links on a system? I just want to be sure they were all created after I moved system from the old disk to the new one... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-ma

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:07:33 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Portage gives you a big red warning if you try to do this, but it > > doesn't, and shouldn't, try to stop you. What if you really want to > > remove Python? Postage is not the only package manager, so python is > > not compulsory. > It doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:29:40 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >I guess that you're correct that it's been crippled a bit but > according to this page it doesn't seem that bad to me: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions > >I don't personally need the USB stuff inside of VB so for me it > m

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:08 -0600, Dale wrote: In my opinion, the old portage was good, the new one is even better. Now if the next version will prevent a person from borking their system, that would be heaven. lol You know, unmerge python and see what happens. Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:50:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I didn't have as much luck with VirtualBox that didn't seem to like me >> moving copies from one partition to another. I must go back and give >> that another try as I'd like to be usi

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 01:27:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 00:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 04:06:14 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > The 50k of messages all look like this: > > > > That's definitely not right. Even with full debugging enabled no

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 09:15:05 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Daniel Troeder wrote: > > On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >> Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login > >> screen. At other times, the computer shuts down normally. > > > > When I had similar

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread ubiquitous1980
Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >> Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login >> screen. At other times, the computer shuts down normally. >> > When I had similar problems it was sometimes because of > permission-problems wh

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login > screen. At other times, the computer shuts down normally. When I had similar problems it was sometimes because of permission-problems when talking to some service over the dbus. C

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 20:53:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Whereas willy-nilly mixing stable and unstable is normally condemned as a > bad idea (with good reason), it generally considered OK with portage for > the above reason. Portage is self-contained, unmasking it doesn't > contaminate the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:50:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I didn't have as much luck with VirtualBox that didn't seem to like me > moving copies from one partition to another. I must go back and give > that another try as I'd like to be using Open Source but for now > VMWare is very nice. VirtualBo

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:08 -0600, Dale wrote: > In my opinion, the old portage was good, the new one is even better. > Now if the next version will prevent a person from borking their > system, that would be heaven. lol You know, unmerge python and see > what happens. Yes, you can still unm

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:57:19 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > b. use wicd instead, which is decidedly not a piece of shit > > I had a look at that, but it doesn't do 2 things that I use > NetworkManager for: > 1. mobile broadband (essential for on the road) True, it's been on todo for a wh