Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Please try to deactivate everything related to framebuffer and specific video hardware in your kernel config. See if it helps, then activate one option at a time until it breaks again. Specifically: CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it on google. I've spent the last several hours searching for the answer to this and I can't find it. [...] So far I am very happy with 3.2.1-r2 on my PC except for one

[gentoo-user] lilo 'duplicate volume id' issue after attaching esata enclosure

2012-04-23 Thread Doug Hunley
The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up to my machine, added 4 disks I had sitting around, and on boot, lilo throws a 'duplicate

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Rebuilt everything. Congrats Am 23.04.2012 04:17 schrieb Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: On Apr 23, 2012 1:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag,... What about statically linked packages? Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Strange, never had problems in that regard. Am 23.04.2012 05:24 schrieb kwk...@hkbn.net: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:12:48 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 23, 2012 1:09 A... Bless those who keeps on telling people there is no need to rebuild packages after glibc upgrade, for they

Re: [gentoo-user] lilo 'duplicate volume id' issue after attaching esata enclosure

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up to my

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-23 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Hi there! How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more. I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools,

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.04.2012 04:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Apr 23, 2012 1:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 22. April 2012, 19:52:16 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Just browsed the changelog of glibc-2.15:

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-23 Thread kwkhui
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:42:28 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Strange, never had problems in that regard. See, for example, the problem described in thread http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_264b8690e0ab67e3f55c0967cba101ec.xml from this list last November

[gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread napalm
I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather strange error when trying to start postgres. # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start * Caching service dependencies ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:21 AM, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather strange error when trying to start postgres. # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start  *

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it on google. I've spent the last several hours searching for the answer to this and I can't find it. [...] So far I am very happy

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it on google.  I've spent the last several hours searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Apr 22 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:21:56 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: First, thanks for the fix, hopefully not needed. It appears that the bug is in conf-update and not shadow so the rather brusque changing of the status of the shadow bug to resolved might be

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/23/12 09:21, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather strange error when trying to start postgres. # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start * Caching service

[gentoo-user] gtk+ [error: conflicting types for 'Cursor' on emerge]

2012-04-23 Thread Daniel Ibn Zayd
I've been waiting for pango 1.30 to become available and this morning on syncing noticed that everything was emerge-able (28 or so items), so I updatedlast on that list were gtk+ and image magick. Everything went fine until I got to gtk+; it's giving me the following error. I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 04/23/12 09:27, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it on google.

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread napalm
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:43:18AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/23/12 09:21, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather strange error when trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 23. April 2012, 06:31:31 schrieb Graham Murray: kwk...@hkbn.net writes: Bless those who keeps on telling people there is no need to rebuild packages after glibc upgrade, for they must have not used pam or any other packages that uses dlopen(). So which packages need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/23/12 11:44, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: You can `su postgres` and then try to read the files yourself. That should reveal the problem. Interestingly I can't `su postgres` even though I have set it a shell, thanks for the tip though, I'm getting closer! You can also try `su -

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 09:27, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: First

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ [error: conflicting types for 'Cursor' on emerge]

2012-04-23 Thread walt
On 04/23/2012 08:09 AM, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote: I've been waiting for pango 1.30 to become available and this morning on syncing noticed that everything was emerge-able (28 or so items), so I updatedlast on that list were gtk+ and image magick. Everything went fine until I got to gtk+;

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Scherer
unless you have solved the problem already, could you please post the rc.log, too? michael -- Michael Scherer Univ.klinik f. Psychiatrie email: michael.sche...@meduniwien.ac.at phone: +43 6991 941 22 54 - Original Message - From: Zhang Jun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] lilo 'duplicate volume id' issue after attaching esata enclosure

2012-04-23 Thread Doug Hunley
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 08:47, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while now and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 21 April 2012 16:21:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Do a: dmesg | grep -i firmware and check for firmware loading errors. I have what seems to be the same network hardware, so I did what you said and duly found an error. I hadn't had any obvious network performance problems

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 04/23/12 11:05, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 09:27, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.04.2012

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 04/23/12 11:05, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 09:27, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.04.2012

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own initramfs, and udev = 181 will eventually hit stable. I want my systems ready before that. Now, having looked at the pertinent

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/04/12 03:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: So far I am very happy with 3.2.1-r2 on my PC except for one thing: xv doesn't seem to work anymore. Why 3.2.1-r2? Try 3.2.12 and 3.2.14. Many bugs were fixed since 3.2.1. If that doesn't help, try 3.3.3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:50:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: [snip] So I removed linux-firmware, rebooted and got kmail back. We all noticed that you are using KMail once more, because you are sending HTML messages with a huge font and bold

[gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/04/12 21:34, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:50:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: [snip] So I removed linux-firmware, rebooted and got kmail back. We all noticed that you are using KMail once more, because you are sending

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.04.2012 20:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: On 04/23/12 11:05, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/23/12 09:27, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user]How can i remove the xfce clearly?

2012-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 09:31:18AM +0800, ?? wrote But it seems that the --depclean is a dangerous operate ?? I've built a script called autodepclean that runs --pretend --depclean and filters the output to a separate script file cleanscript. You can run autodepclean as a regular user,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:53:36 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: On 23/04/12 21:34, David W Noon wrote: [snip] Any chance of you reconfiguring KMail not to send HTML messages? Please ... pretty please ... :-) A mail-client worth its salt

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 April 2012, at 19:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: … We all noticed that you are using KMail once more, because you are sending HTML messages with a huge font and bold typeface to the list. Any chance of you reconfiguring KMail not to send HTML messages? Please ... pretty please ... :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: There must be 10,000 items per day listed on eBay, maybe 100,000 [OT] I believe it to be over a million per day. The site has sold something like 750,000 items per day since its beginning on average, and many more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 23 April 2012 19:34:58 David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:50:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: [snip] So I removed linux-firmware, rebooted and got kmail back. We all noticed that you are using KMail once more,

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 23 April 2012 20:41:27 Stroller wrote: So I have to either tolerate Peter's choice of font size, or I have to sacrifice being able to read these other messages in their optimum format. As I said in another e-mail, I have not made any such choice. Ever. Now I appreciate that my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 23 April 2012 19:34:58 David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:50:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: [snip] So I removed linux-firmware,

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23.04.2012 19:52, Michael Mol wrote: So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own initramfs, and udev = 181 will eventually hit stable. I want my

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread napalm
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:56:47AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/23/12 11:44, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: You can `su postgres` and then try to read the files yourself. That should reveal the problem. Interestingly I can't `su postgres` even though I have set it a shell,

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Scherer
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own initramfs, and udev = 181 will eventually hit stable. I want my

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Dale
Michael Scherer wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own initramfs, and udev = 181 will eventually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:18:27 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Claws-mail also has that option, but it applies globally, and there are some email messages I receive (mostly marketing related) where HTML gives added value. Consequently, I would have to keep reconfiguring Claws to exclude/permit HTML

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:52:41 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own initramfs, The kernel make process can create the initramfs for you, although you have to give it a

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Scherer
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:01:09 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Scherer wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I really don't want to get into the

Re: [gentoo-user] lilo 'duplicate volume id' issue after attaching esata enclosure

2012-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up to my

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Dale
Michael Scherer wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:01:09 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Scherer wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I really don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:14:46 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:18:27 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Claws-mail also has that option, but it applies globally, and there are some email messages I receive (mostly marketing

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:59:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered: Plain text is what I have always specified. Kmail seems to want to override my preferences. Try under the Security option of KMail Settings. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 09:56:13PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote Is this better? I hate HTML in e-mail and I've never set any kmail option to use it; however I did find html-markup=true in kmailrc and set it to false. Actually, that kmailrc setting sounds familiar from the last time

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 24 April 2012 01:21:33 David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:59:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote Plain text is what I have always specified. Kmail seems to want to override my preferences. Try under the Security option of KMail Settings. That's the only reference I can find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 24 April 2012 02:41:49 Walter Dnes wrote: You seem to be sending multipart/alternative. I didn't even notice that there was any HTML. Here is what mutt shows when I ask it to view attachments... -- Mutt: Attachments I 1 no description

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Graham Murray
nap...@squareownz.org writes: Postgres doesn't have a home directory and if I create one and chown it postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss here. Postgres should have a home directory - /var/lib/postgresql If you run su - postgres, this is the directory you should