[gentoo-user] Is emacs-vcs bug 299997 back? [repo rename]

2011-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
[NOTE: I did this a bit awkwardly by posting this message on the user list first. Probably it should be here] [aside: It may be of note that this `emerge world' comes after about 2-3 mnths of neglect] I've hit something during an emege world while emerging emacs-vcs, that looks a lot like bug

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-07 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:47:01 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:16:20 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> don't use prelink - but postfix still Works For Me(tm) > > That's odd, it broke local deliveries for me - and others. Fortunately, > nothing was lost, it just stayed in

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads

2011-02-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 February 2011 20:10:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:54 on Saturday 05 February 2011, Grant > did > > opine thusly: > > >> Yesterday I caught up with portage and updated quite a few packages on > > >> a remote workstation. The system hadn't been updated

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-07 Thread Nils Holland
On 12:24 Mon 07 Feb , Stroller wrote: > > > The closest Gentoo stage was i486, and on such a slow old system it would be > nice to squeeze out any extra performance I can. Well, what I'm currently in the process of trying to do (not because I have an actual need for it, but rather out of ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:55:37 +, Mick wrote: > It think this proposal (to only change portage for new installs) is > eminently doable, with enough early e-warnings about it and changes in > docs. It could be introduced with a change in the make.profile and > require explicit user intervention.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:16:20 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > don't use prelink - but postfix still Works For Me(tm) That's odd, it broke local deliveries for me - and others. Fortunately, nothing was lost, it just stayed in the queue while I recompiled glibc. -- Neil Bothwick Am I ignora

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Adjusting chromium?

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Sorry to bother you with another OT question. > > I've been trying the /chromium/ browser and I've come to like it - except > for one thing: I can't see how to force pages to be shown in sans-serif but > without forcing a par

[gentoo-user] Is emacs-vcs bug 299997 back? [repo rename]

2011-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
[aside: It may be of note that this `emerge world' comes after about 2-3 mnths of neglect] I've hit something during an emege world while emerging emacs-vcs, that looks a lot like bug #299667: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299667 I found the bug by googling the last bits from the buil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 February 2011 16:51:28 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:07:59AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > > From "lspci -v"... > > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9712 > (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 February 2011 20:03:13 Cedric Sodhi wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 05:54:19PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:53:20 +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote: > > > > > 1. With a sudden change portage would simply resync to a new > > > > > directory, the old tree would rot in /

[gentoo-user] Re: Amazon mp3 downloader?

2011-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-07, justin wrote: > On 07/02/11 18:54, Grant Edwards wrote: >> What are people using to download MP3's from Amazon.com? I see they >> provide their close-source downloader in .deb and .rpm formats for >> Debian 5, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, and OpenSUSE 11.1: >> >> http://www.amazon.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon mp3 downloader?

2011-02-07 Thread justin
On 07/02/11 18:54, Grant Edwards wrote: > What are people using to download MP3's from Amazon.com? I see they > provide their close-source downloader in .deb and .rpm formats for > Debian 5, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, and OpenSUSE 11.1: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html?&forceos=LI

[gentoo-user] Amazon mp3 downloader?

2011-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
What are people using to download MP3's from Amazon.com? I see they provide their close-source downloader in .deb and .rpm formats for Debian 5, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, and OpenSUSE 11.1: http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html?&forceos=LINUX I've also found clamz which has a masked ebu

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS lcd becomes gray after sleeping

2011-02-07 Thread Kfir Lavi
I think I found the problem but I'm still not 100% sure. Its the "fade to black when blanking" of xscreensaver. When my laptop goes to sleep, it issues lock command which in turn will sometimes will fade the screen. I think its a bug of the fading. I disabled this feature. I'll see if it happens ag

[gentoo-user] Re: web redirection

2011-02-07 Thread james
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > https://vsa.flvs.net/Default.aspx > But I do run Firefox with NoScript... :) OPera worked out of the box. Firefox now works, with a simple modification to cookies. Konqueror nor Seamonkey work, despite many changes to browser setting. I'll just have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:07:59AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote From "lspci -v"... 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9712 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Feb 07 2011, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Monday 07 February 2011 13:34:52 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. >> After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my >> desktop and home server and broke both

Re: [gentoo-user] web redirection

2011-02-07 Thread BRM
Well, testing from work on a Windows system it seems to work ok. Don't have a Linux system with a web-browser quite accessible to use at the moment; so may be it's a difference in platforms? $0.02, Ben - Original Message > From: James > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Mon,

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail not working after KDE 4.6 upgrade

2011-02-07 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 07 February 2011 09:34:26 Tami King wrote: > After compiling KDE 4.6, kmail isn't accessing my email accounts. I get > errors > like this: > > Error while checking account gmail for new mail: > The process for the imaps://imap.gmail.com protocol died unexpectedly. > > For all of my IMA

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-07 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Monday 07 February 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. > After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my > desktop and home server and broke both. confirmed, prelink kills the system! running prelink -u rest

Re: [gentoo-user] web redirection

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:53 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm having trouble connecting to a url > that previously worked. It's a Microsoft > based web server, over which I have no control. > > confirmation with abberant behavior, as I > have tried seamonkey, konqueror and Firefox, > would be ap

[gentoo-user] web redirection

2011-02-07 Thread James
Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to a url that previously worked. It's a Microsoft based web server, over which I have no control. confirmation with abberant behavior, as I have tried seamonkey, konqueror and Firefox, would be appreciated www.flvs.net (just click the login button) "F

Re: [gentoo-user] Given the rough end of the pineapple by liblzma.so.0

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 07/02/11 01:57, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: telling me to run revdep-rebuild: # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/liblzma..so.0' Did it tell you to give the full path the liblzma or just the library name "liblzma.so.0"? I suspect this

[gentoo-user] possible portage or ebuild bug?

2011-02-07 Thread covici
On trying my last world update with --deep and --newuse, etc. I get the following message: Calculating dependencies .. done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-libs/glib-2.27.5" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your reques

[gentoo-user] kmail not working after KDE 4.6 upgrade

2011-02-07 Thread Tami King
After compiling KDE 4.6, kmail isn't accessing my email accounts. I get errors like this: Error while checking account gmail for new mail: The process for the imaps://imap.gmail.com protocol died unexpectedly. For all of my IMAP and POP accounts. My .xsessions files contains: kioslave: ###

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 07 February 2011 13:34:52 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. > After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my > desktop and home server and broke both. sys-libs/glibc Available versions: (2.2) [P]*2

[gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my desktop and home server and broke both. -- Neil Bothwick All mail what i send is thoughly proof-red, definately! signature.asc Description: PGP signat

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 11:13:27 +, Stroller wrote: > > Any time you consider a process that involves emerge -e world, you > > should also consider a reinstall. A reinstall will certainly be > > quicker, the only reason for an in place fix is if you cannot take > > the machine down for that length

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 06 February 2011 20:03:13 Cedric Sodhi wrote: > please [...] keep it short, logical, and remain on topic if you have > any further points to add. Remind me - what was the topic, again? Was there ever any point to it? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-07 Thread Stroller
On 4/2/2011, at 5:58am, Florian Philipp wrote: >> ... >> The warning is actually there to stop users doing stupid things like blindly >> trying to convert 32 bit systems to 64 bit. This is how that goes down: >> >> 1. Change CHOST >> 2. emerge -e world >> 3. ??? >> 4. Fail! > > Is the same true

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-07 Thread Stroller
On 4/2/2011, at 9:31am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > ... > Any time you consider a process that involves emerge -e world, you should > also consider a reinstall. A reinstall will certainly be quicker, the > only reason for an in place fix is if you cannot take the machine down > for that length of time.

RE: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS lcd becomes gray after sleeping

2011-02-07 Thread Barney Salter
Can you restore the backlight with setpci? setpci -s [device id] F4.B=[00-99] -Original Message- From: Keith Dart [mailto:ke...@dartworks.biz] Sent: 07 February 2011 07:30 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: lavi.k...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS lcd becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS lcd becomes gray after sleeping

2011-02-07 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 02/06, Kfir Lavi wrote: === > Any thoughts? === Try also enabling backlight control drivers. I also have an Intel laptop and it works fine, and the backlight controls also work. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith