Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate blocks portage?

2011-07-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:43:46AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote (app-admin/logrotate-3.7.9-r2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by app-admin/logrotate required by (net-proxy/squid-3.1.8::gentoo, installed) app-admin/logrotate required by @selected

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate blocks portage?

2011-07-28 Thread Walter Dnes
One more question... when you ran emerge --sync, did you see a message telling you to update portage immediately? When you see that message, do it right away before updating anything else. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate blocks portage?

2011-07-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:34, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  One more question... when you ran emerge --sync, did you see a message telling you to update portage immediately?  When you see that message, do it right away before updating anything else. -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate blocks portage?

2011-07-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:39, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:34, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  One more question... when you ran emerge --sync, did you see a message telling you to update portage immediately?  When you see that message, do it

[gentoo-user] Re: logrotate blocks portage?

2011-07-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, reading up [1] [2], it seems I have to first upgrade logrotate to = 3.8.0 [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/portage [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374287 When I return from my late-lunch, I'll try that. Unless I'm not supposed to do that. Rgds, On 2011-07-28,

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 17:18:19 James Wall wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a update. Let's see what folks think about this situation. I mentioned in another thread that I did a from scratch kernel. It was a .35 version. It seemed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 16:35:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of memory too, and tmpfs is using it all. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:35 -0500, Dale wrote: Speaking of tmpfs, I should have re-emerged OOo on tmpfs. It filled up /var and died, just a few minutes before it would have finished. Oh well, I'll make /var bigger next time. Maybe a couple more Gbs. I put that http-replicator on here

[gentoo-user] Re: logrotate blocks portage?

2011-07-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:56, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Okay, reading up [1] [2], it seems I have to first upgrade logrotate to = 3.8.0 [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/portage [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374287 When I return from my late-lunch,

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-28 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 17:13:21 Kfir Lavi wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Andy Wilkinson Another good trick I've found on the forums

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/28/2011 11:40:40 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: My guess is that -msse4.2 imply also -msse1..4.1 Can someone confirm this? I don't think so. It's part of the war Intel - AMD Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote: I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-28 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 07/28/2011 11:40:40 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: My guess is that -msse4.2 imply also -msse1..4.1 Can someone confirm this? I don't think so. It's part of the war Intel - AMD Helmut. Can you elaborate

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/28/2011 11:51:29 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 07/28/2011 11:40:40 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: My guess is that -msse4.2 imply also -msse1..4.1 Can someone confirm this? I don't think so. It's part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:35 -0500, Dale wrote: Speaking of tmpfs, I should have re-emerged OOo on tmpfs. It filled up /var and died, just a few minutes before it would have finished. Oh well, I'll make /var bigger next time. Maybe a couple more Gbs. I put that

[gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org (27 Jul 2011) # Old replaced packages. Will be removed in 30 days. # app-office/openoffice -

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org (27 Jul 2011) # Old

[gentoo-user] Botched Raid1 install

2011-07-28 Thread James
Background: I worked on this last April can gave up on the (livedDVD) install with too many other things to do, and pissed off at a lack of usable (current) documentation. Currently: Meds have kicked in ( peace and joy ) (yea right). So, taking a fresh look at the BOTCHED system: The 2 drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tomáš Chvátalscarab...@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] kernel make files disappear

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Hilst Selli
I have some old kernel trees here.. But there is no Makefiles for some of them. I did not remove the Makefiles. There is anyone having the same problem? Whats happen? I emerge -NuD periodically, some times I see my kernel being updated.. May portage remove my Makefiles?? -- Do or do not...

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread skiarxon
Yeap there is a version for windows and it works fine. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) #

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel make files disappear

2011-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 July 2011 11:53:04 Daniel Hilst Selli did opine thusly: I have some old kernel trees here.. But there is no Makefiles for some of them. I did not remove the Makefiles. There is anyone having the same problem? Whats happen? I emerge -NuD periodically, some times I see my kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 July 2011 01:47:12 walt wrote: On 07/27/2011 08:01 AM, Michael Mol wrote: If you allow tmpfs to be backed by swap... Does that require some extra configuration? Nope. You just define swap and tmpfs in your fstab. Here are my entries: $ grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/sda3

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary. Is it much worse than OpenOffice? Build times are nearly identical on my system but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary. Is it much worse than

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and on at least two machines

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to

[gentoo-user] e17 default theme at fresh install

2011-07-28 Thread András Csányi
Hi All, I installed e17 and at the first login everything worked but the fonts were unreadable. I can't decide they are only to small or the font type is the problem. I tried to figure out what is the problem and I found this [1] in the Arch Linux Wiki. I installed both fonts but nothing happened

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDE here. I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used

[gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-07-28, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge Is it any worse that OOo was? Both took hours, but beyond that, I didn't pay much attention. and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary. A few

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: I made some screenshots [*] after I started with an empty .kde4 directory one week ago. They show what is started automatically when I log into KDE, well, except for the last desktop where I fired up a browser for online banking. Desktop 1: Administration stuff. A Konsole

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen. That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :) But even if it were, I guess it wouldn't be too

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote: Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such. Is that Bow Fell

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 July 2011 20:06:09 Alex Schuster wrote: I'll wait a little and then upgrade to 4.7, and then I'll decide if I stay with it. If not, the question would be what to use instead, I would miss so many things. Me too. I'm sure you wouldn't like gnome: it has far too much of the

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 default theme at fresh install

2011-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:57:28 András Csányi did opine thusly: Hi All, I installed e17 and at the first login everything worked but the fonts were unreadable. I can't decide they are only to small or the font type is the problem. I tried to figure out what is the problem and I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen. That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :) But even if

[gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread walt
On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: I hit the wrong button. lol Dale :-) :-) Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'?

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 default theme at fresh install

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon: writes: I only know of 2 e17 users here. I was an Enlightenment user for years, before I finally gave KDE 3.something a try. I ran it under the Gnome environment, but only one of my 3x3 vortual desktops actually showed the Gnome desktop. Which I liked, I did my multimedia stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-07-28, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge Is it any worse that OOo was? Both took hours, but beyond that, I didn't pay much attention. My build took about 3.3Gbs of

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote: I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: I hit the wrong button. lol Dale :-) :-) Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'? Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this machine is a LOT faster, I had to come

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 14:38:01 Dale wrote: How do you tell KDE that you want a widget thingy on one desktop and not all of them? Settings - workspace behavior - Virtual Desktops - Tick diffrent widgets for each desktop in earlier kde versions when they were trying to figure out what to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-07-28, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com  wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge Is it any worse that OOo was? Both took hours, but beyond that, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote: Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such.

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2011 17:18:19 James Wall wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a update. Let's see what folks think about this situation. I mentioned in another thread that I did a from scratch kernel. It was a

[gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-28 Thread walt
On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active? In UTC, if possible :) (Still can't wrap my head around USA time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:14:09 Dale wrote: I guess lightening will be next. No, no, no. Lightning, please. Quite a different word (the cause of thunder, as against a lifting of the ambient light level). Or maybe that's another simplification in the American language. I can't keep up with

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:27:48 Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Probably not. The image file name is citrusdal.jpg, this is the name of a small town in South Aftica as Wikipedia tells me. It's a nice town. In season, you can buy the most fantastic oranges there that you ever tasted. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:14:09 Dale wrote: I guess lightening will be next. No, no, no. Lightning, please. Quite a different word (the cause of thunder, as against a lifting of the ambient light level). Or maybe that's another simplification in the American

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:27:48 Alex Schuster wrote: I would need many more desktops then. How many do you have? Mostly I have six, but when I'm in a major redevelopment phase of my web site that goes up to eight. So you also use activities? I don't, and I think they don't suit me as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: Here is mine: Wed May 25 10:07:18 2011 app-office/libreoffice-3.3.2 merge time: 34 minutes and 10 seconds. On my Intel Core i7 920 with 12GB of RAM using tmpfs. :) Do those merge times include download time? I wonder... I have wondered that too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:33:22 walt wrote: Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When asked why he did this he replied, Why? Does it matter? Did you ask him who combed his hair shirt? -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:33:22 walt did opine thusly: On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active?

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen. That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :) But

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? Easy. emerge --fetchonly blah first, then start the real work. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When asked why he did this he replied, Why? Does it matter? Hey, I'm also wearing mis-matched socks right now :) But of course I always wear a wrist-watch. A digital one. Well, I still can't answer his question...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? Easy. emerge --fetchonly blah first, then start the real work. I have acron job

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? Easy. emerge --fetchonlyblah first, then start the real work. But if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: I have wondered that too.  The process is sort of started but it's not actually compiling either.  I wonder how we could know for sure? Easy. emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread walt
On 07/28/2011 01:14 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: I hit the wrong button. lol Dale :-) :-) Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'? Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this machine is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
walt wrote: Oops, I got it completely wrong, then. Amongst hardware geeks there is an old (maybe obsolete?) expression it's time for the smoke-test! which means: plug it in and turn it on -- and then note carefully where the plume of smoke is coming from :) You're obviously too young to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 07/28/2011 01:14 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'? Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this machine is a LOT faster, I had to come up with something good for it too. Fireball is it. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? Easy. emerge --fetchonlyblah first, then start the real work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: And I could play the ancient spacewars game once again. Star Control? Wing Commander? hmm :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? Easy. emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That may explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as reading goes. Thoughts? How do I check/change it? Headed to some man pages

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Raid1 install

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/-10/37 11:59, James wrote: Background: I worked on this last April can gave up on the (livedDVD) install with too many other things to do, and pissed off at a lack of usable (current) documentation. So, taking a fresh look at the BOTCHED system: The 2 drives are identical 2TB:

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:37:24PM -0500, Dale wrote: Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That usually won't throw a kernel panic. That usually just gives an error. W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me.  My brain passed gas here.  lol  Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called?  That may explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as reading goes.

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That may explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:37:24PM -0500, Dale wrote: Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That usually won't throw a kernel panic. That usually just gives an error. W

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Adam Carter
1) Is the filesystem mounted read-only? Dale, usually you'd check this by running mount without arguments, and looking to see if the options have ro or rw listed; eg adam@rix ~ $ mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Adam Carter
Dale, usually you'd check this by running mount without arguments, and looking to see if the options have ro or rw listed; Sorry - didnt read your post correctly. Obviously you already know this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:54 -0500, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: Dale, usually you'd check this by running mount without arguments, and looking to see if the options have ro or rw listed; Sorry - didnt read your post correctly. Obviously you already know this. Doesn't hurt to mention things sometimes. There are things I

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 15:10 -0500, Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote: I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Raid1 install

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: fdisk does have a partition/drive limit of ~2.2TB, but this drive should still work with it. The only other option is GPT, but I don't think grub boots from that yet (unless you use grub2 with patches?) grub in Gentoo