[gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
. How do I resolve this conflict please? Thanks. Alexander Kapshuk. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Just installed the base system and xserver. As I went to emerge xfce4 as shown here http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce emerge --ask xfce4-meta xfce4-notifyd, I got a slot conflict: sys-ath

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/15/2013 10:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:43, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Just installed the base system and xserver. As I went to emerge xfce4 as shown here

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/15/2013 10:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 21:21, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 07/15/2013 10:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:43, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot [SOLVED]

2013-07-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/15/2013 10:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Try this first: emerge -av1 shadow it should upgrade shadow to 4.1.5.1-r1 just fine. Then: emerge --sync emerge -avuND world and then emerge xfce (the original command). Thanks very much for your help. The suggestions above have worked as

[gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
/lm_sensors-3.1.0 ) video_cards_nvidia? ( media-video/nvidia-settings ) I now seem to have both versions of nvidia-settings installed. How do I fix that please? Thanks. Alexander Kapshuk.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 08:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You don't have two versions of nvidia-settings. You have one version of nvidia-drivers and one version of nvidia-settings, and they don't have the same version number. This is normal, nvidia-settings often runs behind nvidia-drivers. They do not

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 09:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: xfce4-sensors-plugin is not what's doing it. It only requires nvidia-settings and doesn't care what version. So that's not it. There's really only one explanation - something else is pulling in nvidia-settings and xfce4-sensors-plugin is leaving it

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 09:27 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: I guess it's rather obvious. The two packages x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers and media-video/nvidia-settings don't know about each other. The xfce4-sensors-plugin package needs nv-settings but it simply doesn't know that nv-settings is already

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 09:27 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: I think this could be reported to the maintainer of the xfce4 plugin. The maintainer field for the xfce4-sensors plugin seems to be undefined: box0=; equery meta xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.5|grep -i maintainer Maintainer: None specified Who would

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 09:59 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: As I figured in the package's changelog, some work on it is being done by Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org. He is also on this list, so I guess he could get involved as soon as he reads the list. Understood. Thanks. Let's wait and hear from

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Understood. Thanks. What course of action would you recommend taking with regard to my original post? Thanks. On Aug 22, 2013 10:17 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22/08/13 22:03, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 08/22/2013 09:59 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: As I figured

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
No worries then. Thanks very much for the explanation. On Aug 22, 2013 10:31 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22/08/13 22:22, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: What course of action would you recommend taking with regard to my original post? I'm not sure if I understand your

[gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, Just compiled the new kernel [3.10.7], was about to edit my /boot/grub/grub.conf, and found it missing: box0 boot # pwd /boot box0 boot # ls -a . .. kernel-3.10.7-gentoo kernel-3.8.13-gentoo What did I miss? Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 09:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Just compiled the new kernel [3.10.7], was about to edit my /boot/grub/grub.conf, and found it missing: box0 boot # pwd /boot box0 boot # ls

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 09:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/07/2013 09:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Just

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/07/2013 09:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/07/2013 09:11

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 11:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/07/2013 10:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7] [SOLVED]

2013-09-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/08/2013 06:20 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 11:31:47PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: the problem is in your fstab: You try first to mount /boot before mounting root / Cant work... Try this one: /dev/sda3/ext4noatime0 1

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

2013-09-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/13/2013 07:48 AM, Joseph wrote: I want to list recursively certain type of files eg. *.pdf but I want to display: date, path and newest file first. What is the easiest way of doing it? Perhaps not the most elegant solution. ls -lt `du -a|grep -i '\.pdf$'|awk '{ print $2 }'`|awk '{

[gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case. Perhaps, the reason for having duplicate packages is the fact that various packages I have

Re: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/19/2013 10:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case

Re: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/20/2013 04:37 AM, Dale wrote: Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 09/19/2013 10:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using

[gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
emerge --depclean wants to remove the gentoo-sources for my old kernel [sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13] which I want to hang on to for the time being. Is there a way to instruct emerge not to remove them? emerge(1) Packages that are part of the world set will always be kept. They can be

[gentoo-user] re: alternating between wired and wireless interfaces

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I have both wired and wireless network interfaces configured: box0 log # rc-update show|egrep 'enp3s0|wlp2s0' net.enp3s0 | default net.wlp2s0 | default (1). Is there a way to instruct the system as to which network interface to use,

Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 01:36 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:27:28 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: If I understood the instruction above, 'emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' should have added 'gentoo-sources' to /var/lib/portage/world_sets, which it didn't seem to do

Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 02:02 PM, Randolph Maaßen wrote: Hi, 2013/9/21 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com: emerge --depclean wants to remove the gentoo-sources for my old kernel [sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13] which I want to hang on to for the time being. Is there a way to instruct

Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 02:51 PM, Randolph Maaßen wrote: 2013/9/21 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com: On 09/21/2013 01:36 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:27:28 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: If I understood the instruction above, 'emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 03:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:45:59 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: box0=; grep sources /var/lib/portage/world sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:3.8.13 Once I decide I no longer need 'gentoo-sources-3.8.13', would it be enough just

[gentoo-user] re: scrolling not seamless in firefox/thunderbird

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've noticed that when I am scrolling up/down a page in Firefox, or scrolling up/down an email body in Thunderbird, it's not seamless. Not sure how to best describe what I mean by 'not seamless'. It's kind of wavy. The text is. Is this kind of behaviour a result of something missing in the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] re: alternating between wired and wireless interfaces

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 03:56 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 01:47:24PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I have both wired and wireless network interfaces configured: box0 log # rc-update show|egrep 'enp3s0|wlp2s0' net.enp3s0 | default

Re: [gentoo-user] re: scrolling not seamless in firefox/thunderbird

2013-09-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 06:32 PM, Al wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: I have Use smooth scrolling checked and no such wavy line anywhere. Hmmm I just tried Firefox, and get the wavy line when Use smooth scolling is checked (scrolling with the mouse wheel). It goes away when unchecked. Did the same in

Re: [gentoo-user] re: scrolling not seamless in firefox/thunderbird

2013-09-23 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/23/2013 11:46 AM, Joakim Gebart wrote: 2013/9/22 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com On 09/21/2013 06:32 PM, Al wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: I have Use smooth scrolling checked and no such wavy line anywhere. Hmmm

[gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I want to be able auto-mount removable drives. I'm running xfce: box0=; equery list xfce-base/xfce4-meta * Searching for xfce4-meta in xfce-base ... [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10:0 and kernel: box0=; uname -a Linux box0 3.10.7-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Sat Oct 5 23:57:58 EEST 2013 i686 Intel(R)

[gentoo-user] re: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel! [dmesg]

2013-10-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Is the message below I should do something about? box0=; dmesg|grep -i PAE [0.00] Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel! My CPU seems to have support for it. box0=; grep pae /proc/cpuinfo flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/07/2013 08:08 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 07/10/13 00:01, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:01:09PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I want to be able auto-mount removable drives. I'm running xfce: box0=; equery list xfce-base/xfce4-meta * Searching for xfce4-meta

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have xfce4-mount-plugin installed. box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mount xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin-0.6.4 But I still

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have xfce4-mount-plugin installed

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 10:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] re: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel! [dmesg]

2013-10-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/09/2013 05:17 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Oct 08 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: That is correct, with 3G physica RAM, you will not benefit from using PAE at all. I don't think it interferes with anything if you do have it, I recall a time when RedHat shipped 32 bit kernels that were

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives [SOLVED]

2013-10-10 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 10:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks

[gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. Is that normal? What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do that? Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/15/2013 10:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/10/2013 21:34, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. Is that normal? What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do that? create the file and edit

[gentoo-user] re: mouse pointer not consistent [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1]

2013-10-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
When running [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1], I've noticed that the mouse pointer is sometimes shaped like a capital letter 'I', like when a mouse pointer is over a string of characters. Sorry, not sure what the proper name for the character is. While at other times, it is a proper mouse pointer, shaped

Re: [gentoo-user] re: mouse pointer not consistent [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1]

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/26/2013 09:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/10/2013 04:07, William Kenworthy wrote: On 26/10/13 03:49, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: When running [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1], I've noticed that the mouse pointer is sometimes shaped like a capital letter 'I', like when a mouse pointer

Re: [gentoo-user] re: mouse pointer not consistent [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1]

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/26/2013 01:34 PM, Paul Klos wrote: It's called a caret cursor. Thanks.

[gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application client? box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1 * These packages depend on net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1: media-video/vlc-2.0.9

Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application client? box0=; equery -C depends

Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/27/2013 03:18 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp

[gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-10-27 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I got the message below. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-scheme/guile-1.8.8-r1 USE=deprecated nls regex threads -debug -debug-freelist

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/02/2013 05:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I got the message below

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/03/2013 02:27 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 11/02/2013 02:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 11/02/2013 05:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/03/2013 02:27 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: For starters, you should probably merge package.keywords into package.accept_keywords; the latter is the new standard name, though Portage will likely support the old names for a while. Just a heads-up on that. Thanks for a heads-up. I did as you

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/03/2013 11:42 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 07:40:12 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: What about skype? Does it have to be in the keywords file as well? From memory, I put it there as instructed on the gentoo wiki page. If you remove it, the next emerge world will tell you why

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0] [SOLVED]

2013-11-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/03/2013 10:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/11/2013 21:06, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: The basic problem is a stable system with a bunch of unstable packages installed. The requested vlc version is ~arch, which wants a ~arch version of gnutls. This conflicts with other stable packages

[gentoo-user] Fwd: re: mouse pointer not consistent [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1] [mystery solved]

2013-11-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Original Message Subject:re: mouse pointer not consistent [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1] Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:49:04 +0300 From: Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org When running [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1], I've noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-11 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/11/2013 04:52 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 01:44:10AM -0600, Dale wrote: On 10/11/13 at 08:07pm, Walter Dnes wrote: Try this hack :) $ ps -ef | grep [u]rxvt yohan 3559 1 0 11:50 ?00:00:00 urxvt yohan 3667 1 0 11:52 ?00:00:00 urxvt

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-11 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/11/2013 09:44 PM, Edward M wrote: On 11/11/2013 10:50 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: Couldn't you just issue: find .mozilla/firefox/ -iname '*.parentlock' 2/dev/null rather than running strace? Hello:-) It may work. never tried it Now I'm thinking probably using a shell

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-11 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/11/2013 10:46 PM, Edward M wrote: On 11/11/2013 11:57 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Alternatively, to the best of my knowledge, that could be shortened down to: rm `find ~/.mozilla -name *lock` Thanks for sharing:-) After a little modification, tried it in a script

[gentoo-user] re: a couple of power management questions

2013-11-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've been setting up power management on my HP compaq laptop using this article, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml, as a reference. Just a couple of questions I thought I'd ask. (1). CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO seems to be missing in the 3.10.17-gentoo kernel, but is available in

[gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade Sanitize sources If you just want to rebuild the current kernel, you need sometimes to sanitize the kernel sources: |root # ||make distclean| Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke my .config as well. Just finished setting it up.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Dec 16, 2013 9:38 PM, the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/13 23:30, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke my .config as well. Just finished setting it up. Thought I'd follow the advice given before

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 12/16/2013 10:28 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2013 19:57:30 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Dec 16, 2013 9:38 PM, the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/13 23:30, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke my

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/12/2013 22:39, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 12/16/2013 10:28 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 16 Dec 2013 19:57:30 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Dec 16, 2013 9:38 PM, the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/13 23:30

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Thanks, but, as Bruce Hill pointed out, for your advice to work I'd have to have the appropriate kernel options enabled, which I don't. Thanks anyway. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12/16/2013 07:30 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: https

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
So there's still some hope left, huh? :-). Thanks a lot. I'll check it out. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade Sanitize

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Thanks very much, Tom, for your prompt response and action taken. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:30:52 +0200 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade Sanitize

[gentoo-user] re: nvidia GeForce 8400 GS temperature readings

2013-12-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to be safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU, as reported by the XFCE sensors plugin are 73 degrees C. Here's some info about my current set-up

Re: [gentoo-user] re: nvidia GeForce 8400 GS temperature readings

2013-12-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 12/21/2013 10:45 PM, masterprometheus wrote: Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to be safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU, as reported

Re: [gentoo-user] re: nvidia GeForce 8400 GS temperature readings

2013-12-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 12/21/2013 11:35 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 12/21/2013 05:36 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to be safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU

[gentoo-user] re: setting up binhost

2014-01-17 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I would like to set up one of my Gentoo systems as a binary host to build and distribute packages that normally take longer to compile, like libreoffice, firefox and thuderbird, to another Gentoo system of mine with less RAM. I've been following the instructions found here,

[gentoo-user] re: setting up binhost [SOLVED]

2014-01-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Original Message Subject:re: setting up binhost Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:45:03 +0200 From: Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org I would like to set up one of my Gentoo systems as a binary host to build and distribute

Re: [gentoo-user] re: setting up binhost [SOLVED]

2014-01-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 01/19/2014 10:28 PM, Thanasis wrote: on 19/01/2014 09:38 μμ Alexander Kapshuk wrote the following: Original Message Subject: re: setting up binhost Date:Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:45:03 +0200 From:Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com To: gentoo

[gentoo-user] re: ADSL+WiFi modem router possibly compromised

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
console password, as well as the WiFi access point password. As a result, my nameserver IP address has been defined as 192.168.1.1. Anything else I can do to ensure my system has not been compromised? Thanks. Alexander Kapshuk.

Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 02/03/2014 09:15 PM, Stephen Reynolds wrote: if I run ifconfig -a this currently what I get. I have completed the installtion, but Kernel Modules I am not sure about. eth0: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ADSL+WiFi modem router possibly compromised

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Feb 3, 2014 10:02 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/03/2014 10:25 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, I connect to the Internet via a TP-LINK TD-W8101G Wireles ADSL2+ model router. It has been set up to acquire IP addresses via DHCP. My '/etc/resolve.conf' has been getting

Re: [gentoo-user] slim/X11 : waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.

2014-03-10 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 03/10/2014 08:05 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, it seems the powerfail this moring while I was updateing my Linux box has killed / screwed up something. The effect: Slim login manager starts and presents the login screen. It is possible to login but openbox seems not to start - I

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is /etc/conf.d/net.example?

2014-03-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 03/16/2014 08:27 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Where is the proper place to specify the gentoo network configuration nowadays? I do not have a file called /etc/conf.d/net.example on my hard drive. That surprised me. The handbook talks all about eth0, but my machine does not have a eth0.

[gentoo-user] re: Failed to load x86_pkg_temp_thermal

2014-04-12 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, I'm running: Linux box0 3.12.13-gentoo #2 SMP Sat Mar 29 22:38:01 EET 2014 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux My '/var/log/rc.log' says: * Loading module x86_pkg_temp_thermal ... * Failed to load x86_pkg_temp_thermal [ !! ] 'modprobe

Re: [gentoo-user] re: Failed to load x86_pkg_temp_thermal

2014-04-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
: notify_delay_ms:User space notification delay in milli seconds. (int) I found 'CONFIG_X86_PKG_TEMP_THERMAL=m' in .config for my current kernel only. Does the output above mean that my CPU doesn't support this feature, and as such should be disabled in my kernel config? Thanks. Hi Alexander Kapshuk

[gentoo-user] re: nVidia GeForce 210 and nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3

2014-04-14 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've had to replace my GPU today. Prior to attempting to start X with the new GPU in, I thought I'd pull in the latest updates and reboot the system. X wouldn't start as a result. I've googled for answers, but haven't found a solution so far. Here's the information that may be useful in narrowing

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to load x86_pkg_temp_thermal

2014-04-14 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 04/14/2014 07:05 PM, Stroller wrote: On Sat, 12 April 2014, at 4:10 pm, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: ... My '/var/log/rc.log' says: * Loading module x86_pkg_temp_thermal ... * Failed to load x86_pkg_temp_thermal [ !! ] 'modprobe x86_pkg_temp_thermal' says

Re: [gentoo-user] re: nVidia GeForce 210 and nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3

2014-04-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 04/15/2014 04:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/14/2014 07:39 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've had to replace my GPU today. Prior to attempting to start X with the new GPU in, I thought I'd pull in the latest updates and reboot the system. X wouldn't start as a result. I've googled

Re: [gentoo-user] re: nVidia GeForce 210 and nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3

2014-04-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 04/16/2014 05:06 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/16/2014 09:14 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: The new driver's been running OK so far. Playing videos via vlc/mplayer seems to run smooth. Some youtube videos are a bit choppy, and/or delayed though. Not sure if it's the nouveau driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/12/2014 10:31 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. I got Espeakup to finally function, but I have a problem now with my Realtech 8188 WiFi adapter, Rev01, according to ifconfig. I know it shows up as wlp7s0 on an ifconfig, normally. But for what ever reason, it isn't showing up. I have, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/13/2014 02:45 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 7:00 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface On 05/12/2014 10:31

Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/13/2014 04:25 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface On 05/13/2014 02:45

Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/13/2014 04:53 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 05/13/2014 04:25 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Having

Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-14 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/14/2014 12:41 PM, Stroller wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2014, at 1:19 pm, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: … If you like to check if RTL8192CE is enabled in your kernel's .config file. If it isn't, you probably want to compile it as a module, and then add rtl8192ce

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing Init Scripts

2014-05-14 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/14/2014 04:40 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. I wish to edit the Speakup init script such that I don'at have to type: #echo soft /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth espeakup Every time I boot and login to my system. I added the echo portion of the command to the start() part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/15/2014 11:39 AM, Stroller wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2014, at 12:36 pm, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: … If you like to check if RTL8192CE is enabled in your kernel's .config file. If it isn't, you probably want to compile it as a module, and then add rtl8192ce

Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/15/2014 10:50 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 15 May 2014 14:24:57 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 05/15/2014 11:39 AM, Stroller wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2014, at 12:36 pm, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: … If you like to check if RTL8192CE is enabled in your kernel's

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 02:37 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. How do I get Portage to update all software to use my new USE flags? I made some modifications to the variable, and I want to make sure that all packages can use the flags. emerge(1) -N -- --newuse

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 02:40 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: *From:*Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:44 AM *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating On 05/20/2014 02:37 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 10:13 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: On May 20, 2014, at 14:49, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/20/2014 02:40 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: *From:*Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 11:56 PM, yac wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 14:49:17 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what I usually run when updating the world. Long version: emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world With '--with-bdeps=y' set in the file shown

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/18/2014 04:05 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: On 05/15/2014 03:50 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 15 May 2014 14:24:57 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 05/15/2014 11:39 AM, Stroller wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2014, at 12:36 pm, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: ? If you like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/22/2014 06:34 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: On 05/21/2014 01:56 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Just to double check I understood it correctly, there's no need to put the list of kernel modules into /etc/conf.d/modules any longer, because udev is aware

[gentoo-user] re: xfce4 sessions and start-up menu

2014-05-29 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, After shutting down my system with some apps still running the other day, I noticed they were automatically started for me when I logged on to the system next. As that wasn't what I wanted, I thought I'd go to the xfce4 settings menu and clear the session cache, which resulted in my

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 sessions and start-up menu [SOLVED]

2014-05-29 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/29/2014 07:03 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, After shutting down my system with some apps still running the other day, I noticed they were automatically started for me when I logged on to the system next. As that wasn't what I wanted, I thought I'd go to the xfce4 settings menu

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