Re: [gentoo-user] xdm doesn't try to start (Gentoo issue)

2012-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I have two hardware-identical laptops exhibiting different behavior WRT xdm. xdm doesn't try to start automatically on one of the laptops but does on the other. On the one that does not start xdm, I get this on startup: # rc-update -s | grep xdm xdm | default #

Re: [gentoo-user] Python update question

2012-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: root@fireball / # eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.7 * [2] python3.1 [3] python3.2 root@fireball / # I ran --depclean and it wants to remove python 3.1. I ran python updater and recompiled the needed packages. Since python 2.7 is

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience? I use MySQL for an ld phpBB board and for Amarok, and do not now much about it. I never explicitely installed MySQL, I only have the mysql USE flag set for things like python or PHP. Somehow, dev-db/mysql was

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Tuesday 28 February 2012 11:23:40 Alex Schuster wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? Because KDE is so weird all over the place. Well I just hope

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? Because KDE is so weird all over the place. I can't see any material difference between the two links. Yes, there is none. This doesn't happen here,

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
trevor donahue writes: So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am left without disk space... In situations like this I start deleting /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. I have a question

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the need for fragmentation. I routinely use 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I get Unrecognized command from savedefault in grub: grub savedefault --default=1 --once Error 27: Unrecognized command Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb understands this? The documentation does not mention the --default option I think. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Have a look at 'info grub', 'Booting' - 'Making your system robust', especially section 4.3.2 'Booting fallback systems'. That's what I used in order to test new kernels remotely.        Wonko I like that better. Where do you execute 'grub-set-default 0'? I had it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv compilation problems

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: I'm having trouble compiling mythtv-0.24.1. The build log is attached. Can anyone help me decipher what is going on? mythtv-0.23.1_p27077 compiles OK. Probably the same problem they are talking about here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Henson Sturgill writes: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Now I'd also like to use Midori, as a lightweight browser for using Google+. The reason is that when I open Google+ in Firefox, I am also logged in at Google when I using other tabs

[gentoo-user] local layman repository missing files

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I haven't been able to emerge sci-libs/dcmtk from the science overlay for a while, due to a missing dcmtk-asneeded.patch in the files directory. In fact, the whole /var/portage/layman/science/files directory was missing. I fixed this by removing and adding the science overlay again:

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: In Firefox you can create multiple profiles. Each profile will have its own set of cookies, bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc. To open 2 firefox windows with 2 different profiles at once, launch it with: firefox -P -no-remote Thanks Paul, that's what I am doing

Re: [gentoo-user] do you USE=minimal in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE flag to /etc/make.conf. The only difference I've noticed so far is the lack of color in vim. Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and remove it as necessary in package.use or the other way around? I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem?

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I have a 1200 watt Corsair power supply and my temps are very low even during the stress test so I'm thinking bad (Corsair) RAM. I should remove modules one at a time and re-test to narrow it down? This sounds just like the right thing to do. Well, if you have four RAM chips,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Replace Kwin with something else

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Ignas Anikevicius writes: I was wondering if anybody knows what USE flag should I enable in order to have the option to change the default WM in KDE settings to something else. I want to run Awesome WM on top of KDE and currently I can not do it from the KDE System Settings. This has nothing

[gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am using all kinds of web browsers. Firefox for sites I always want to have open. Konqueror when I start a browser from scratch to look something up. Chromium is also running, Mainly because I had trouble with Firefox opening one window on another desktop. Now I'd also like to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile: [... big linking being done ...] collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 [...] Do you have enough memory on that machine, is swap space activated? The linking phase will need a lot of memory.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use it at all. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [12-02-18 14:40]: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 14:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: As this line in my previous posting states, museseq needs Qt 4.*, which is installed...: configure: error: need qt = 3.2.0 Um, huh? If it would need Qt 4.*, it would say that you need qt = 4.something. But it says you need qt = 3.2.0, so qt-meta 3.3.8b-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: So, if QT3 is removed from protage, and museseq which still is in portage seems only to build agains qt3, I see a contradiction here... No, it has already been removed from portage two years ago [1], because it still depends on Qt3. So your version probably comes

[gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run games-fps/quake3-bin instead. I have no sound. There are error messages:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:44]: What about trying the new ebuild for musesq-2.0 [2]? [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/206852 [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/proaudio@lists.tuxfamily.org/msg04170.html Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:52]: I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
James Broadhead writes: Please try: ~/.mplayer/config lavdopts=threads=2 # Use 128MiB input cache by default. cache = 131072 # Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback. cache-min = 20.0 Which should eliminate disk IO somewhat James, thanks for your input. I already

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 17:36]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: try (as root) fuser /dev/dsp to figure out, which task helds that device... I get no output at all. ?Hu? The access rights to that device are ok...? Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: If you're already building KDE, KMail was decent. Yes. It was. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Urs Schutz writes: Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your disk... smartctl -t short /dev/sda and after some minutes smartctl --all /dev/sda If all went OK then the status is «PASSED», and you could try the extended or long tests with smartctl. I have smartd

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on. :) Yes, this helps. As does copying the movie to another

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote Then my hardware broke, and I got new one... I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case it was a 4+ year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU that was having problems playing NHL

[gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Strange things are going on here. I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running KDE4. Then my hardware broke,

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of RAM. Running gentoo-sources-3.2.1 as kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: How can I find out in such a case which processes are waiting for I/O? top showed nothing. iotop is your friend. I had called it, but didn't spot the problem there. I don't remember exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
LK writes: On 120214, at 20:29, Andrea Conti wrote: PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you say how? Remove or comment out any splashimage directives from the config file. I meant in GRUB2. I have another box with linux mint using GRUB2, and splash backgrounds

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support? Maybe you like www-client/midori: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28web_browser%29 Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: Sorry, but now I'm completely confused. I've emerge mplayer2 and it DOES play video and SOUND ! But smplayer2 doesn't play sound - no idea why since it invokes mplayer2, doesn't it? Not as default. You have to define the player in the settings dialog. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging util-linux-2.20-r1 in chroot

2012-02-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: Have anyone been having problems emerging sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1 on a chroot-ed environment? In my case, it always fail during the following stage: chmod g+s /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1/image//usr/bin/write Very strange. What is the exact error

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging util-linux-2.20-r1 in chroot

2012-02-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: In my case, it always fail during the following stage: chmod g+s /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.20-r1/image//usr/bin/write Does this command work when you enter it manually in the chroot? Maybe FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sys-apps/util-linux works? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and X-Forwarding

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Schuster
William Kenworthy writes: I am having problems setting up X-forwarding for libreoffice (gentoo) over ssh to an ipad (iSSH client). X-forwarding is working fine for xterms, fluxbox and simple apps but libreoffice fails even when using the -display localhost:10.0 argument. The $DISPLAY is

Re: [gentoo-user] Build librsvg-2.34.2 Error

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Schuster
高金培 writes: In file included from stdin:19:0: /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/librsvg-2.34.2/work/librsvg-2.34.2/rsvg-cairo-render.h:32:19: fatal error: cairo.h: No such file or directory My guess is that you need to emerge x11-libs/cairo which has the missing cairo.h. Probably a bug in the

Re: [gentoo-user] List of recently installed/updated packages in chronological order?

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: My Eclipse (Indigo) has started crashing today. So I wanted to see which packages I had installed/upgraded recently. I can, of course, go through emerge.log manually but I was wondering if there was a tool that could simply provide me with a chronologically ordered

Re: [gentoo-user] static nano - how to?

2012-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: from time to time I need to boot in 'single' mode. I'd like to use the nano editor in this case. But unfortunately it doesn't run since it cannot resolve the dynamic library libmagic.so.1 Probably because you have a separate /usr partition that is not mounted in

[gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

2012-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Due to a MAJOR hardware problem I just got a new PC. It has an AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor which is a lot faster than my previous AMD 4850e dual core machine. I'd like to emerge -e @world with -march=native now, but I think about starting to use that graphite stuff. You know,

Re: [gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

2012-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
victor romanchuk writes: Alex Schuster wrote, at 01/29/2012 11:23 PM: What are your impressions on this? Is it fun? Will there be a noticeable speed difference? Do packages fail to build? We just had a 'Graphite causing trouble' thread here, the problem was that dev-libs/cloog-ppl has

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: These things sure beat trying to remember a really strong password. My bank and credit card passwords are off the chart. Yeah, but what about those moron banks that only allow you to use lowercase letters - and

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: Am 10.01.2012 18:43, schrieb Michael Mol: Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hm. That sounds like your tz (-0500) is being applied twice. Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate

[gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance

2012-01-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt container file where I need to store the data into. This is sort of working, but the speed is waa too slow. After about four hours, only 8 G

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe wrote: I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia driver and also evdev drivers and then

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: ... or what the unbelievable lack of maturity of KDEPIM devs has landed us in: I have upgraded KDE on my old laptop to see what gives. Surprisingly, it was not *too* bad; i.e. my old emails were not corrupted, deleted or otherwise affected. I am doing the same on my

[solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-27 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments /usr/bin /usr/sbin /bin /sbin are given along the libraries and library paths. I have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Something must be wrong on my system. But what? For libggi, emerging with USE=-aalib

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments /usr/bin /usr/sbin /bin /sbin are given along the libraries and library paths. I have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Something

[gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm currently upgrading my little sister's PC from an x86 Sempron to an x86_64 AMDS A6 processor. So Gentoo is being installed from scratch. But some packages fail to build. I filed a bug [1] for media-libs/libggi-2.2.2, but a similar problem is happening for pygtksourceview now, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-26 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments /usr/bin /usr/sbin /bin /sbin are given along the libraries and library paths. I have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Something must be wrong on my system. But what? For libggi, emerging with USE=-aalib

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: On Dec 27, 2011 6:01 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org mailto:wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I wrote: The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments /usr/bin /usr/sbin /bin /sbin are given along the libraries and library paths. I have no idea why

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

2011-12-22 Thread Alex Schuster
G.Wolfe Woodbury writes: On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote: Reemerge all xf86* packages Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server version, driver version mismatch) I looked right at it and missed the obvious! Thanks for the clue-by-four. BTW, emerge -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package management. Have a look at this thread:

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

2011-12-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works: How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command? AFAIR there used to be an option for this, but it's not in the docs. Have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Troeder writes: I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to move that some weeks ago, because the fs was full. Now it's full again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left: $

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: On 12/12/11 12:15, Daniel Troeder wrote: Hello :) I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to move that some weeks ago, because the fs was full. Now it's full again, though it

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related stuff. I wanted to take a look at Octave, but this positively wants graphicsmagick, which is a fork of imagemagick as far as I can tell and which conflicts with

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread Alex Schuster
James Broadhead writes: On 8 December 2011 11:17, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I just upgraded gcc and after switching to the new version I want to update system too. But it wants to emerge baselayout-2 as dependency of system: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: No flames from me. I agree. I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to someone who has no, or even very little, Linux experience. Looking back, I was one heck of a noob when I installed Gentoo. It had to be fools luck that I got it done. Then again, the docs were, and still are,

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Róbert Čerňanský writes: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:07 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: pvcreate /dev/sda5 vgcreate myvg /dev/sda5 lvcreate -n usr -L 10G myvg mke2fs -j /dev/myvg/usr Of course, just using /dev/sda5 for /usr is simpler. But what

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'll steal your 1.6 factor, and give:    MAKEOPTS=-j 2*N -l 1.6*N)    PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs --load-average1.6*N a try. Ah. Which file does PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS go in? It doesn't appear to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/ 404, but http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/ seems to work. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex. I really don't think so. pvcreate partition creates a physical

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: OK. Everyone duck, I been thinking on this and Neils info above. lol This is what I sort of figured out and tell me where I am off here. I have to reduce the file system, change the partition in cfdisk (?), resize the lv, then reduce the vg, then I can run pvmove? After all

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: On 15-Nov-11 20:36, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 13:58, Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged and my world file is somehow larger. To my surprise, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in 6-12 months. Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is always kept up-to-date and works great. After rebooting, the keyboard on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work. The keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot?

2011-11-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: just out of curiosity: is it possible to use ext4/ext3 filesystem even for separate /boot partition? Yes. But a separate /boot partition is small, it is seldomly being written to, it is often unmounted anyway, and a fsck is very fast on such a small partition. So there is not

Re: [gentoo-user] No man page for traceroute?

2011-11-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: Am 06.11.2011 14:13, schrieb Mick: Why would there be no traceroute(8) man page on my laptop? An older x86 box has it and displays it without fuss. It seems that the man page has been dropped from the package. Only the old 2.0.3 version from sourceforge still

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan Mackenzie writes: On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, the volume can't be said to be louder than comfortable and sensible. In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise of the power supply. I know from plugging in my iPod that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: My point is that the numbers aren't what mattered here. My point is that SAMSUNG sold me a shoddy product, replaced it with another instance of the the same shoddy product, wouldn't replace it again, and never addressed a detailed technical report of a systemic problem in

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: On 28-Oct-11 17:24, Michael Mol wrote: lsmod -k Find the line for the Realtek device lsmod -vn I do not understand. lsmod does not have -k or -vn switches. lspci was meant. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
András Csányi writes: I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me what is needed more? No, I think the debug USE flag has another

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl python?

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this point in the life of a desktop PC so I added both flags to make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl python?

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: I don't recall seeing any discussion about this.Was there?? There was a message on the gentoo-announce list on Sept. 30th: [...] Interesting. I guess I'm no longer subscribed

Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
luis jure writes: hello boys [1], [...] [1] sorry if there are any girls out there, but i think i have never seen any female names on this list... I see one :) Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
luis jure writes: on 2011-10-16 at 22:03 Alex Schuster wrote: [1] sorry if there are any girls out there, but i think i have never seen any female names on this list... I see one :) yes, so do i, now, after sending my last message... sorry, colleen, i hadn't noticed you before

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp is not up to date yet: I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for ~~~ ~~~ the first time so I doubt he values

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health

2011-10-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: That said... I am not aware that to be a Gentoo user, one has to be celibate... :-P But it helps. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I power disk off when not needed (and on again when needed) in order to save a little power and

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Niccolò Belli writes: Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. This is somewhat surprising, but intended and correct, it has been discussed here some months ago.

[gentoo-user] gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2011-10-04 Thread Alex Sla
Hi Guys, i got a problem build gconf. The problem is somehow emake again o.O * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile * environment, line 3235: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2496: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem build gconf

2011-10-04 Thread Alex Sla
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.eduwrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:15:34PM +0200, 4k3nd0 wrote: i put the build log into pastbin: http://pastebin.com/CXEFY342 What is the version of pango you have installed? It may be related to this bug:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem build gconf

2011-10-04 Thread Alex Sla
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Alex Sla 4k3...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.eduwrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:15:34PM +0200, 4k3nd0 wrote: i put the build log into pastbin: http://pastebin.com/CXEFY342 What is the version

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-29 Thread Alex Sla
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Alex Sla 4k3...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Alex Sla 4k3...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - krdc full screen view does not allow remote windows' task bar interaction

2011-09-29 Thread Alex Schuster
fra...@gmail.com writes: When I move the mouse down to the task bar area, the mouse pointer changes from the remote machine native shape to the local desktop shape, showing visually the fact that I can not click on any task bar icons. Does the same happen when using rdesktop? Wonko

[gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
I can't just compile anything. Getting all the time: * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile * environment, line 3450: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2736: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die compile failure don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Alex Sla 4k3...@googlemail.com wrote: I can't just compile anything. Getting all the time: * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile * environment, line 3450

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [110928 16:05]: Am 28.09.2011 21:39, schrieb Alex Sla: I can't just compile anything. Getting all the time: * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Alex Sla 4k3...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [110928 16:05]: Am 28.09.2011 21:39, schrieb Alex Sla: I can't just compile anything. Getting all

Re: [gentoo-user] emake die by compling

2011-09-28 Thread Alex Sla
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Alex Sla 4k3...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [110928 16:05]: Am 28.09.2011 21:39, schrieb Alex Sla: I can't just compile anything. Getting all

[gentoo-user] Editing the open with dialog of PCMANFM

2011-09-24 Thread Alex Barrios
that. How? ^_^ Thanks in advance. -- Alex Barrios - Piensa como una persona de acción, y actúa como una persona que piensa. - Twitter http://twitter.com/alexbariv GPG Pub 0D843DCB Linux User 383172 Descubre! Disfruta

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r3

2011-09-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Wednesday 21 Sep 2011 23:02:02 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install Graphviz but I get: [...] /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng14 [...] Is there something I can do about this? Or is it a bug in

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing kernel config parameter

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: Having just upgraded gcc from 4/4/5 to 4.5.3-r1 I recompiled binutils-2.21.1-r1. Then, while emerging -e system, I got this: * Messages for package sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1: * CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be. But: $ grep SUSPEND

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: On 21-Sep-11 21:55, Doug Hunley wrote: I'd like to ask if anybody here has already some experience with Btrfs? Is it usable (although not officialy stable)? I use it as my main fs here and have had no issues. Having said that, there is NO functional fsck at this time. And

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