Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2011/7/5 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings.  I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something.  I did have a power failure the other day and the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/5 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepimlibs and openldap compile failure. Shotgun please.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Hi, Sorry, subject is a bit weird. As mentioned in my other somewhat related thread, KDE is having issues so I started a emerge -e kde-meta. Well, this is bringing up some other issues I guess. Alan, you started this mess. You mentioned it. :-P Here we go: Earlier openldap

[gentoo-user] /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache - how to manange it?

2011-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I don't know how the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is built. But I don't like some ``priorities'' in there, e.g. I'd like to change the sequence of applications for html. Currently I have text/html=seamonkey.desktop;opera-

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepimlibs and openldap compile failure. Shotgun please.

2011-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
build log is located at '/var/log/portage/kde-base:kdepimlibs-4.6.4:20110705-012450.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.6.4/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.6.4/work/kdepimlibs-4.6.4' root@fireball

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness in dep calculation

2011-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 July 2011 00:18:48 Roman Zilka did opine thusly: I think this is the root cause of your questions. You say portage has no way to know the difference - who says that is true? Did you assume it? It sure is possible. I assumed what I did because the ebuild of a virtual and a

[gentoo-user] wicd fails to set wireless connection

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but I'm not sure. I have done several restarts, re-emerged all relevant packages (dbus, dbus-python, wicd) but still it stops shortly after clicking the

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails to set wireless connection

2011-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 July 2011 10:32:44 Peter Weilbacher did opine thusly: Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but I'm not sure. I have done several restarts, re-emerged all relevant packages

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache - how to manange it?

2011-07-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/7/5 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I don't know how the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is built. update-desktop-database But I don't like some ``priorities'' in there, e.g. I'd like to change the sequence of applications for html. Currently I have

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 04 July 2011 17:30:27 Grant wrote: I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. I'm suspicious of my Asus P7P55D motherboard. It seems just fine with Gentoo, and it has lots of tuning methods built in (over-clocking etc.). I've never used those facilities

[gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am using tnftp to login to a vsFTPd 2.2.2 server: = Connected to ftp_host.com. 220 (vsFTPd 2.2.2) ftp_login: user `mick_login' pass `null' host `ftp_host.com' --- USER mick_login 331 Please specify the password. Password: --- PASS 230 Login successful. ---

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 Jul 2011 17:15:55 Joshua Murphy wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 Jul 2011 15:48:06 Joshua Murphy wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepimlibs and openldap compile failure. Shotgun please.

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 08:55:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: Dale, Considering the mess openldap is causing below, I'd recommend you set USE=-openldap and rebuild world. I can't imagine why on earth you think you might need to be running an ldap server (or even using one) from your home setup.

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails to set wireless connection

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 09:32:44 Peter Weilbacher wrote: Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but I'm not sure. If you have emerged python recently and switched to 2.7, did you remember to

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache - how to manange it?

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 08:24:29 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I don't know how the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is built. But I don't like some ``priorities'' in there, e.g. I'd like to change the sequence of applications for html. Currently I have

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/05/2011 07:58 AM, Mick wrote: If I try the same thing with Konqueror there is no problem, I login and Konqueror immediately lists the directory contents. How can I see what Konqueror's ftp client sends to and receives from the server? log_ftp_protocol When enabled, all FTP

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/05/2011 12:39 AM, pk wrote: Yes, since a htpc doesn't need a powerful cpu (or a powerful gpu) My learned-this-the-hard-way advice: while this is generally true, if you ever come across a 720 or 1080p video that doesn't use a hardware-accelerated codec, you would rather the HTPC not sound

[gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Gian Calgeer
Hi I was really looking forward to the new autounmask feature in portage, as it replaces my ugly home-grown bash script. However, it just picks a seemingly random file in /etc/portage/package.keywords to put things into. Is there a way to specify which file it writes things into? Ideally, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-05 Thread covici
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Monday, July 4 at 13:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Are you saying it does not require `xorg-x11'. Step 2) says in large type: `2. Installing Xorg' Then a big note in a green box later on says: , | Note: You could

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 14:48:24 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/05/2011 07:58 AM, Mick wrote: If I try the same thing with Konqueror there is no problem, I login and Konqueror immediately lists the directory contents. How can I see what Konqueror's ftp client sends to and receives from the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system)

2011-07-05 Thread Jarry
On 04-Jul-11 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: obelix ~ # emerge --depclean cut Calculating dependencies... done! Calculating removal order... !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-05 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/04/2011 09:39 PM, pk wrote: On 2011-07-04 22:32, Grant wrote: That's the FM1 socket, right? I only see two FM1 CPUs on newegg.com Yep. right now. They're quad-core and 100W. I guess the advantage there is they have graphics on the CPU. A 65W CPU would be better but when it

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepimlibs and openldap compile failure. Shotgun please.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 08:55:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: Dale, Considering the mess openldap is causing below, I'd recommend you set USE=-openldap and rebuild world. I can't imagine why on earth you think you might need to be running an ldap server (or even using one) from your

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Gian Calgeer wrote: Hi I was really looking forward to the new autounmask feature in portage, as it replaces my ugly home-grown bash script. However, it just picks a seemingly random file in /etc/portage/package.keywords to put things into. Is there a way to specify which file it writes

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/05/2011 11:29 AM, Mick wrote: log_ftp_protocol Thanks Michael, where am I supposed to set this up? I do not have access to the ftp server, or its logs. Oh. It would have gone in vsftpd.conf. Um, wireshark your FTP conversation?

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 200 Switching to ASCII mode. tnftp: setsockopt SO_DEBUG (ignored): Permission denied --- EPSV 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||62430|) 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||62430|) Don't use EPSV, use PASV instead,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's up with the hardened USE flag?

2011-07-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Neil Bothwick schrieb am 05.07.2011 00:36: On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:47:07 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Why not? I see no downside to it but I'm willing to be educated. Imagine this: A package is built by default with Gtk as well as with Qt support. There is no USE flag which would

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:58:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too. Jeez. That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :) -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 46: Found missing signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Well, I tried a different kernel. Same thing. I tried reseting the BIOS and lurking around in there for a bit as well. Same thing. So, right now I'm chewing on a emerge -e kde-meta. After I remembered the power failure the other day, I suspect a corrupt file somewhere. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 19:42:53 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 200 Switching to ASCII mode. tnftp: setsockopt SO_DEBUG (ignored): Permission denied --- EPSV 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||62430|) 229 Entering Extended

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 19:42:53 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 200 Switching to ASCII mode. tnftp: setsockopt SO_DEBUG (ignored): Permission denied --- EPSV

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Well, I tried a different kernel.  Same thing.  I tried reseting the BIOS and lurking around in there for a bit as well.  Same thing.  So, right now I'm chewing on a emerge -e kde-meta.  After I remembered the power

Re: [gentoo-user] setsockopt SO_DEBUG - ftp connection problems

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 20:50:55 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 19:42:53 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 200 Switching to ASCII mode. tnftp:

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing printing options from within application

2011-07-05 Thread Mick
On Monday 20 Jun 2011 02:46:42 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Perhaps I'm doing this wrong, but I can't change print settings from within an application, e.g. using Okular, FF, etc. I cannot change from colour to greyscale. I can only change these settings if I login to http://localhost:631

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I got rid of openldap. It runs longer but still crashes so I am back to Fluxbox again, which works fine. I also started with a fresh .kde4 directory. That seemed to help more than anything else.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:58:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too. Jeez. That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :) Yea but I don't always want it to unmask packages either. If I was going to let that be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing printing options from within application

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Monday 20 Jun 2011 02:46:42 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Perhaps I'm doing this wrong, but I can't change print settings from within an application, e.g. using Okular, FF, etc. I cannot change from colour to greyscale. I can only change these settings if I login to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:43:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too. Jeez. That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :) Yea but I don't always want it to unmask packages either. If I was going to let that be the default, I thought we were

[gentoo-user] Re: wicd fails to set wireless connection

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.07.2011 15:22, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 09:32:44 Peter Weilbacher wrote: Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but I'm not sure. If you have emerged python recently and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I got rid of openldap. It runs longer but still crashes so I am back to Fluxbox again, which works fine. I also started with a fresh .kde4 directory. That seemed to help more than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tuesday, July 5 at 11:27 (-0400), cov...@ccs.covici.com said: I tried to use kms, but it conflicted with the nvidia driver and did not give me as much screen size in the console as uvesafb. Yeah, you can't use the nvidia driver and KMS at the same time. You'd have to use the nouveau

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:07:44 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: You can also use nvidia-settings to change the power saving mode at run-time, but it does not save it and you must do it every time you log into X, which is annoying. Can't you put nvidia-settings -l in xinitrc or autostart? That's the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing (whatever it is) is not bount to intensive I/O operations and/or high cpu loads. Openldap itself

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Just to discard some basic things, you could run a SMART check in your disks and memtest86+ in your RAM. The fact that a memory intensive desktop locks the computer that flux didn't might mean a thing there (or not). -- Jesús Guerrero Botella

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:07:44 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: You can also use nvidia-settings to change the power saving mode at run-time, but it does not save it and you must do it every time you log into X, which is annoying.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Can't you put nvidia-settings -l in xinitrc or autostart? That's the official way of loading the settings at login. If I remember, this option could not be set by commandline, only by the nvidia-settings GUI. Maybe it has been

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing (whatever it is) is not bount to intensive I/O operations and/or

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 05 July 2011 15:41:13 Dale wrote: update your fucking drivers. Seriously, no userspace app does something like this. The driver is broken, KDE touches the broken part and BOOM. Don't blame KDE, blame nvidia. And update the driver. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2011 15:41:13 Dale wrote: update your fucking drivers. Seriously, no userspace app does something like this. The driver is broken, KDE touches the broken part and BOOM. Don't blame KDE, blame nvidia. And update the driver. I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Can't you put nvidia-settings -l in xinitrc or autostart? That's the official way of loading the settings at login. If I remember, this option could not be set

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:43:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too. Jeez. That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :) Yea but I don't always want it to unmask packages either. If I was going to let that

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever the problems is, things are breaking.  I think something in KDE is broke, like corrupt file or some corrupt config somewhere, and it was just the first symptom of the problem.  No matter what I try to emerge, I get