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

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: On Thursday 07 Jul 2011, Dale wrote: Well, I'm going to send this then open Konsole. See if it locks up again. There was a fairly well documented problem, on the Gentoo fora at least, with the nvidia drivers, Xorg-server-1.10, KDE 4.6 and Konsole. I had it on

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Peter Ruskin peter.rus...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: On Friday 08 July 2011 19:58:47 Grant wrote: host example.com What package provides host? I'm amazed I don't have it. net-dns/bind-tools it contains these basic essentials :) /usr/bin/dig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
OK. Back to the original thread. Here we go again. Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox. When I log into KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and such but as soon as I start Firefox, it locks up tight. Tight enough that the kernel panics and it resets since Neil

[gentoo-user] Re: DNS error with ssh

2011-07-09 Thread walt
On 07/08/2011 03:35 PM, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 08 July 2011 19:58:47 Grant wrote: host example.com What package provides host? I'm amazed I don't have it. net-dns/bind-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] Lexmark X5650 working in Gentoo Linux?

2011-07-09 Thread Carlos Sura
On 7 July 2011 22:51, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Carlos Sura wrote: Hello, I've been looking how to get working this printer in my gentoo-b0x, searched in gentoo wiki, but those ebuilds and links are not updated, they are a little bit old and none of that worked for me. I was

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

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: You should continue to investigate the glibc thing. There was a thread about how it's causing problems for someone running LibreOffice I think. You might also look more at what part of Firefox s causing the lockup. Is it Firefox proper, or is it something caused by your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DNS error with ssh

2011-07-09 Thread Adam Carter
When I do ssh google.com the process hangs until I kill it, Its probably just retrying.. adam@sphinx ~ $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries 5 ...five times because google's firewall is dropping it (so not resetting the connection), and IIRC the timeout at each retry increases (doubles?) so

Re: [gentoo-user] Lexmark X5650 working in Gentoo Linux?

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Carlos Sura wrote: Thank you for your answers, As you recommended, I visited www.openprintin.org/printers http://www.openprintin.org/printers there is my printer: Lexmark X5650 (fax, copier, scanner and printer) Also, lexmark support website, claim there is a driver for Debian users and

Re: [gentoo-user] Lexmark X5650 working in Gentoo Linux?

2011-07-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 Jul 2011 01:10:17 Carlos Sura wrote: On 7 July 2011 22:51, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Carlos Sura wrote: Hello, I've been looking how to get working this printer in my gentoo-b0x, searched in gentoo wiki, but those ebuilds and links are not updated, they are a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 July 2011 18:39:04 Stroller did opine thusly: On 8 July 2011, at 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... easy. Two USE flags: gtk2 and gtk3 in ebuild: DEPEND= gtk2? (x11-libs/gtk+:2) gtk3? (x11-libs/gtk+:3) in src-configure() write the code such

Re: [gentoo-user] Lexmark X5650 working in Gentoo Linux?

2011-07-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 Jul 2011 07:52:26 Dale wrote: Most of the time, all you need is a ppd file for printing. I don't know about the scanner and rest tho. I have read that Lexmark is not Linux friendly. I tend to like their printers as they do a good job. It's just that they don't support

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:40:58 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: Apart from the need to access legacy data, which Harry has resolved by reformatting, is there any benefit in using encfs rather than the in-kernel ecryptfs these days? Admittedly there isn't much difference, so if what you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 Jul 2011 02:49:55 Dale wrote: OK. Back to the original thread. Here we go again. Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox. When I log into KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and such but as soon as I start Firefox, it locks up tight. Tight enough

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

2011-07-09 Thread William Kenworthy
firefox --help lists a DISPLAY option. Start it from a console and set $DISPLAY elsewhere, even remote if thats what it takes ... BillK On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 20:53 -0500, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: You should continue to investigate the glibc thing. There was a thread about how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 09 Jul 2011 02:49:55 Dale wrote: OK. Back to the original thread. Here we go again. Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox. When I log into KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and such but as soon as I start Firefox, it locks up tight.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread András Csányi
On 9 July 2011 03:49, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK.  Back to the original thread. Here we go again.  Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox.  When I log into KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and such but as soon as I start Firefox, it locks up tight.  Tight

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 9 at 08:39 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: Fair enough, except this thread is about encfs not working :( Unfortunately. But that's not to say encfs doesn't work. When I have a problem with a bash script, I don't just up and switch to zsh :P (although I hear people do such

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

2011-07-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 07.07.2011 23:59, schrieb walt: When I run glxgears with the proprietary nvidia driver I get 3000 FPS. With nouveau I get 54 FPS. That looks for me that nouveau has vsync on and the proprietary is not. Such a difference should not be if everything is configured and installed right.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:22:55 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: Fair enough, except this thread is about encfs not working :( Unfortunately. But that's not to say encfs doesn't work. When I have a problem with a bash script, I don't just up and switch to zsh :P I wasn't suggesting that. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:03:47 -0500, Dale wrote: This is weird as heck. A program leading a kernel panic. It's a head scratcher. Do you have CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC set in your kernel? -- Neil Bothwick An atheist is someone who feels he has no invisible means of support.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 9 at 12:22 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: I wasn't suggesting that. But when the main reason for sticking with the older option is that you have a working system with data in it, the loss of both of those is a good time to investigate the newer alternative. I see. I guess

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/09/2011 10:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 July 2011 18:39:04 Stroller did opine thusly: On 8 July 2011, at 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: Two USE flags: gtk2 and gtk3 DEPEND= gtk2? (x11-libs/gtk+:2) gtk3? (x11-libs/gtk+:3) in src-configure() write the code such that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:03:47 -0500, Dale wrote: This is weird as heck. A program leading a kernel panic. It's a head scratcher. Do you have CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC set in your kernel? I had to search for this one. │ Symbol:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
András Csányi wrote: I had a similar problem but regarding Chromium. You can read about in this list Chromium and everything subject. May I ask which kernel do you use? I remember the thread, even replied a couple times, but this is even worse and happens when flash is not even

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-09 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Alan and all, On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:19:46PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: easy. Two USE flags: gtk2 and gtk3 in ebuild: DEPEND= gtk2? (x11-libs/gtk+:2) gtk3? (x11-libs/gtk+:3) This doesn't account for all possible use flag settings. If I had neither flag set, neither

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/09/2011 04:49 AM, Dale wrote: OK. Back to the original thread. Here we go again. Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox. When I log into KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and such but as soon as I start Firefox, it locks up tight. Try to temporarily remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: András Csányi wrote: I had a similar problem but regarding Chromium. You can read about in this list Chromium and everything subject. May I ask which kernel do you use? I remember the thread, even replied a couple times, but

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: On Friday, July 8 at 11:55 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: [..] Somehow I managed to really hurt the installation ... here is what I remember having done: Some how I got mixed up when running as root, and attempted to mount a users encfs

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:35:55 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: Having said that: One of encfs's Achilles heel is its dependency on the boost C++ library which is *very* sensitive wrt to API/ABI changes and the like. It also depends on OpenSSL which also

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/09/2011 08:16 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/09/2011 04:49 AM, Dale wrote: OK. Back to the original thread. Here we go again. Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox. When I log into KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and such but as soon as I start Firefox,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/09/11 12:18, Dale wrote: András Csányi wrote: I had a similar problem but regarding Chromium. You can read about in this list Chromium and everything subject. May I ask which kernel do you use? I remember the thread, even replied a couple times, but this is even worse and

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 09 July 2011 11:28:19 William Hubbs did opine thusly: Hi Alan and all, On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:19:46PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: easy. Two USE flags: gtk2 and gtk3 in ebuild: DEPEND= gtk2? (x11-libs/gtk+:2) gtk3? (x11-libs/gtk+:3) This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/09/11 12:18, Dale wrote: András Csányi wrote: I had a similar problem but regarding Chromium. You can read about in this list Chromium and everything subject. May I ask which kernel do you use? I remember the thread, even replied a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/09/11 16:56, Dale wrote: No worries. Sometimes when you back up a bit, you may realize you missed something. I did run memtest and it bad about 45 passes I think with no errors. That takes a while when you have 16Gbs. o_O Ah, ok. I'd also try a hard drive scan to make sure

[gentoo-user] Thunderbugs

2011-07-09 Thread john
Help. I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing havoc behind my screen. Small black mites have taken over xorg-server! rm -r thunderbugs srm -r thunderbugs emerge -C thunderbugs emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild = no use There is no mention of thunderbugs package in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/09/11 16:56, Dale wrote: No worries. Sometimes when you back up a bit, you may realize you missed something. I did run memtest and it bad about 45 passes I think with no errors. That takes a while when you have 16Gbs. o_O Ah, ok. I'd also try a hard

[gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: Help. I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing havoc behind my screen. Small black mites have taken over xorg-server! rm -r thunderbugs srm -r thunderbugs emerge -C thunderbugs emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild = no use There is no

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

2011-07-09 Thread Grant
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 like it's about to launch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/09/11 16:56, Dale wrote: No worries.  Sometimes when you back up a bit, you may realize you missed something.  I did run memtest and it bad about 45 passes I think with no errors.  That takes a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: And this is exactly why you should consider posting any information your can find on LKML to let the heavy weight guys figure it out. As I said earlier, I believe they will take you quite seriously. In general I would also say that Firefox should be able to cause a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: And this is exactly why you should consider posting any information your can find on LKML to let the heavy weight guys figure it out. As I said earlier, I believe they will take you quite seriously. In general

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati nvidia-drivers

2011-07-09 Thread meino . cramer
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-10 01:42]: When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers. xf86-video-nouveau didn't have the same problem. Now I've switched to an ATI video card and unfortunately I have the same problem with

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

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Grant 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 like it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: Help. I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing havoc behind my screen. Small black mites have taken over xorg-server! rm -r thunderbugs srm -r thunderbugs emerge -C thunderbugs emerge --depclean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: And this is exactly why you should consider posting any information your can find on LKML to let the heavy weight guys figure it out. As I said earlier, I believe they will take you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: Help. I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing havoc behind my screen. Small black mites have taken over xorg-server! rm -r thunderbugs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP It works as long as I don't open Firefox.  If I open Firefox, poof!!  No more trapped smoke.  lol Dale So I had suggested running it in gdb and someone else suggested running it in strace. Did you have a chance to try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP It works as long as I don't open Firefox. If I open Firefox, poof!! No more trapped smoke. lol Dale So I had suggested running it in gdb and someone else suggested running it in strace. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: SNIP It works as long as I don't open Firefox.  If I open Firefox, poof!!  No more trapped smoke.  lol Dale So I had suggested running