Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 12. feb. 2013 02:14, Stroller wrote: On 12 February 2013, at 00:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 00:01:00 Dale wrote: This makes me think, if a Government suddenly decided for people to switch which side of the road they are supposed to drive on. This happened in my

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Alecks. You wrote: I believe there is a way to setup persistent storage. I've never done it personally, but I think tools such as unetbootin or Pendrivelinux[1] offer it. It wont work on your standard CD, of course. Yes, there seem to be a number of programs that will create a bootable

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone got a 2009 - 2011 PPC LiveCD

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Volland
Hi, no Answer but a question: What Computer(s) do you want to use it with? Michael

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone got a 2009 - 2011 PPC LiveCD

2013-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 February 2013, at 09:31, Michael Volland wrote: no Answer but a question: What Computer(s) do you want to use it with? 1ghz eMac - the old CRT model, but the eMac is larger (has a larger screen) than the CRT iMac. I think it's a G4, it's 32-bit. Tentatively speaking, I think I'm on

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone got a 2009 - 2011 PPC LiveCD

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Volland
On (13/02/13 09:41), Stroller wrote: On 13 February 2013, at 09:31, Michael Volland wrote: no Answer but a question: What Computer(s) do you want to use it with? 1ghz eMac - the old CRT model, but the eMac is larger (has a larger screen) than the CRT iMac. I think it's a G4, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/02/2013 06:13, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: [...] IOW, try gnome3 on a virtual machine first :) I think it would be easier if you tried a LiveCD: http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ For what is worth, I find myself more

[gentoo-user] Re: Selecting a Linux compatible mobo for FX8350

2013-02-13 Thread masterprometheus
Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I discussed this with a hardware expert friend of mine, and he said on board GPU could interfere with certain features of the FX8350. Additionally, no support for 1600 Mhz DDR3 could slow down the system. Going by his suggestion, I'll get a HD Radeon 7750 and a 970

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Resetting KMail 2 / semantic-desktop (Was: How to stem the flood of new packages?)

2013-02-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 13 February 2013 06:36:53 Bryan Gardiner wrote: If this is any help to you, I've attached a script that I've used numerous times to start from scratch with the whole KDE4 semantic desktop. It moves everything related to Nepomuk, Akonadi, and Kontact's apps, out of your KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 February 2013, at 10:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: … I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but I really do not see the point of Gnome3 at all. It has no identity of its own … So what's the point of Gnome3? If people like the Unity-ish bits, they should run Unity. Same with the KDE

Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-13 4:20 AM, Michael Sondow mson...@iciiu.org wrote: Yes, there seem to be a number of programs that will create a bootable USB flash drive from a linux distro ISO, and also from some of the rescue disk ISOs. Some of these utlities create persistence, but I'm not sure what that means:

Re: Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Walker
On 13/02/13 11:55, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-02-13 4:20 AM, Michael Sondow mson...@iciiu.org wrote: Yes, there seem to be a number of programs that will create a bootable USB flash drive from a linux distro ISO, and also from some of the rescue disk ISOs. Some of these utlities create

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No server profile anymore???

2013-02-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-12 6:30 PM, (Nuno Silva) nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno Silva) wrote: I have no doubts that devs have lots of work to do, but it's a rather serious situation if the difference between unstable and stable land is *not* used as an advantage when it comes to deal with situations like this

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/02/2013 13:36, Stroller wrote: On 13 February 2013, at 10:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: … I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but I really do not see the point of Gnome3 at all. It has no identity of its own … So what's the point of Gnome3? If people like the Unity-ish bits, they

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got a 2009 - 2011 PPC LiveCD

2013-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 February 2013, at 10:36, Michael Volland wrote: ... I hadn't posted back before because it looks like yaboot doesn't support ext3, so I'm now having to go back and make a separate /boot partition. I boot my G5 late 2005 from ext4 with yaboot: This statement caught me just finished

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got a 2009 - 2011 PPC LiveCD

2013-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 February 2013, at 13:12, Stroller wrote: … I commented / changed my yaboot.com thusly: image=/boot/vmlinux-3.5.7-gentoo label=Linux #root=/dev/sda5 root=/dev/hda5 partition=5 read-only ran `ybin -v` and, on reboot, it worked! I find it a little strange to be

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread walt
On 02/13/2013 04:23 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: All the progress I see from Gnome3 (and I get this only from blog posts on the tubes) is that stuff is being ripped out and replaced with mostly nothing. That's exactly my problem with gnome3 in a sentence. I don't hate gnome-shell as an interface,

Re: [gentoo-user] What is libgomp.so.1 and why do I need it?

2013-02-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 08:46:16PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a new laptop, and I'm doing a 64-bit Gentoo install (naturally). I've run into a brick wall building xorg-server, more specifically x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-2.7. The build fails as it's trying to find libgomp.so.1. See

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:12 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/13/2013 04:23 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: All the progress I see from Gnome3 (and I get this only from blog posts on the tubes) is that stuff is being ripped out and replaced with mostly nothing. That's exactly my problem with

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I'm happy to be shown to be wrong and to be shown where Gnome3 has merit for being itself, where it can proudly stand on it's own. But I'm just not seeing it yet I thought the following brilliant feature was obvious? So your Gran has absolutely no chance of finding the power off button so

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I'd still really like someone who groks what Gnome3 is all about to fill in these blanks in my understanding with truthiness ;-) Apparently the main drive is to have a brand, so a constant and so simple look is recognised as a Gnome/? machine. A bit pointless if no-one uses it or changes to

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2013-02-10 15:41, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: conflicting device node '/dev/mapper/swap' found googled that and found this similar issue: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32403 The command there returns on my thinkpad: # journalctl -b --no-pager _SYSTEMD_UNIT=systemd-udevd.service --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 13/02/13 at 12:39pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: Purely out of morbid curiosity, I've just spent an hour playing with the Gnome 3 LiveCd in a VM. What I'm seeing is a KDE4 ripoff, done badly, plus a few MacOS-isms and some ideas from Unity: - Highly generic launcher on the left, just like

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/02/2013 19:56, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I'd still really like someone who groks what Gnome3 is all about to fill in these blanks in my understanding with truthiness ;-) Apparently the main drive is to have a brand, so a constant and so simple look is recognised as a Gnome/? machine. A bit

[gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread Daniel Frey
I updated my server a while back, and just recently I noticed this in /var/log/messages: Feb 13 11:26:14 coretwoduo login[25575]: pam_tally2(login:auth): pam_get_uid; no such user I have thousands of entries in my logs. It doesn't seem to prevent me from logging in though. I have figured out

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Do Gnome devs know how to spell fork? I think not they have an accent and keep saying 'pass me the fork an knife' Puzzled why they only got a knife they just get their heads down and start cutting away due to the funny look from the passer. --

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 2013-02-10 15:41, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: conflicting device node '/dev/mapper/swap' found googled that and found this similar issue: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32403 The command there returns on my

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2013-02-13 21:01, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: LVM2 will be pulled again by udisks2; it's a mandatory dependency. I don't think the problem is related to LVM, but I don't really know. I already found out, yes. Maybe it's just some systemd race condition. It's not that important to me right

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2013 22:03, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Do you have acpid installed/enabled? Anything aside the default acpi-scripts? The last time I installed acpid was in November of 2010, and I uninstalled for the last

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 11.02.2013 22:03, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Do you have acpid installed/enabled? Anything aside the default acpi-scripts? The last

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.02.2013 22:08, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: # grep ACPI config-3.7.6 # Power management and ACPI options CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y [..] This is my laptop, my desktop is obviously a little different. I'll compare with my thinkpad asap, just to get an impression ... I do

[gentoo-user] Re: pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread walt
On 02/13/2013 11:29 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: I updated my server a while back, and just recently I noticed this in /var/log/messages: Feb 13 11:26:14 coretwoduo login[25575]: pam_tally2(login:auth): pam_get_uid; no such user I have thousands of entries in my logs. It doesn't seem to

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Alecks Gates
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I'm happy to be shown to be wrong and to be shown where Gnome3 has merit for being itself, where it can proudly stand on it's own. But I'm just not seeing it yet I thought the following brilliant feature was

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If you can't find the power off button in a modern GNOME installation you have to be quite blind... of course, I don't even use it when I have it, powering off from the console and all. I guess you haven't seen the mountains of users who didn't consider holding ALT to change the suspend option

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon-Instant video

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
No thats not it, i am using the adobe plugin not pepperflash. This is the message that I get http://imgur.com/LoNB9RV -Kevin On 02/12/2013 09:14 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 01:32:10AM -0600, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: I just got amazon prime for the instant videos (among

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 13 2013, Kevin Chadwick wrote: If you can't find the power off button in a modern GNOME installation you have to be quite blind... of course, I don't even use it when I have it, powering off from the console and all. I guess you haven't seen the mountains of users who didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/13/2013 02:51 PM, walt wrote: For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be wrong somewhere. Just for fun I ran emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this: #emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/13/2013 02:51 PM, walt wrote: For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be wrong somewhere. Just for fun I ran emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this: #emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 14 February 2013, at 04:13, Daniel Frey wrote: ... I've poked into this a bit more, and every 60 seconds 5 attempts at logon are being made… This weekend I'll reformat reinstall. Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but does this machine have any ports open to the internet? This thread