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

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

[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: 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: 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

[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

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

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

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

[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

[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)

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

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

[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: 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: 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] 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 '{

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

[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

[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

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: 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

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