[gentoo-user] dev-util/cmake-2.8.8-r3 | Bootstrap failed

2012-09-02 Thread David Abbott
Hi, When updating from cmake-2.8.7-r5 to the just stablized cmake-2.8.8-r3 I get; http://bpaste.net/show/43387/ but this works; http://bpaste.net/show/43385/ Thanks for any insight, David

[gentoo-user] udev rules

2012-09-30 Thread David Relson
suggestions where to look? what to fix? I'm running kernel 3.2.11 on an AMD64 with udev-171. Here's a link to the card reader http://rosewill.com/products/1610/ProductDetail_Overview.htm Regards, David

Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules

2012-09-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:58:42 -0500 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: Good morning! I have a Rosewill 75 in 1 card reader with slots for USB, SATA, SD, microSD, etc. udev recognizes USB devices and mounts them as /media/whatever. However, when SD and microSD cards are inserted

Re: [gentoo-user] System cold crashing when too much memory is used?

2012-10-21 Thread Robert David
Hi, what rebooted Dom0 or DomU? Have you some special need to run kernel 3.4.9, try 3.0.35, I dont have any issue on server with 3.0.x. Other thing, try to disable swap and run the script. Could be disk problem or bus/controller problem when copying pages from swap. Robert. On Friday 19

Re: [gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-25 Thread Robert David
Hi Patric, what about iperf? Robert. On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 20:36:54 Petric Frank wrote: Hello, this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but i don't now where to ask otherwise. Is there a tool for (Gentoo-)Linux to do network performance tests as defined in RFC 2544 ? This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Questions about building from source tarball

2012-11-01 Thread David Relson
. HTH, David On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:29:10 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: Thanks for the pointer. It got me going... sort of. Now I know why we don't have the latest seamonkey in the Gentoo tree. It requires =dev-libs/nspr-4.9.3 and the highest ebuild of nspr in the tree is 4.9.2, even though

[gentoo-user] Xorg - RADEON vs VESA

2012-11-24 Thread David Relson
. The logs are similar for approx 400 lines, then diverge. Below is shown the beginning of the log file differences. Any suggestions? Thanks. David ** 1.12.2 ** (++) using VT number 7 (II) drm report modesetting isn't supported. (II) RADEON(0): TOTO SAYS fdbf

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2012-12-28 Thread Robert David
Hi Kevin, what exactly you missing on screen lock in E17? I use E17 and screen lock is ok when suspending. It does not need some xscreenlock stuff, it is just part of e. Just check settings-sceen-screen_lock and checkin lock_on_suspend. Thats all:) If you missing something, just make sure you

Re: [gentoo-user] How broken is my raid device /dev/md6?

2012-12-28 Thread Robert David
Hi, what does say: cat /proc/mdstat This happened on running system? The root is still running fine I suppose. Try run smartctl test on both drives. And do not rebuild or recreate md before you do not know all information, you can terribly broke your root. Robert. On Sun, 23 Dec 2012

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2013-01-03 Thread Robert David
is greyed out and uncheckable. Did try building with all modules -Kevin On 12/28/2012 04:16 AM, Robert David wrote: Hi Kevin, what exactly you missing on screen lock in E17? I use E17 and screen lock is ok when suspending. It does not need some xscreenlock stuff, it is just part of e. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2013-01-03 Thread Robert David
change the settings. no dbus problems that i can see -Kevin On 01/03/2013 04:26 AM, Robert David wrote: Did you try e with new config with e-17 release? Or you had some previous configs and was replaced with release. Because there was some config upgrade and old configs did not work

[gentoo-user] Firefox and ssl

2013-01-04 Thread Robert David
Hi all, anyone have problem with firefox and selfsigned ssl? I tryed firefox and firefox-bin. Firefox: Problem loading page: Secure connection failed. Firefox-bin: No problem loading page. I tryed with/without system-sqlite. Rebuild nss. Nothing helped. Robert David

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and ssl

2013-01-04 Thread Robert David
This is not the problem. With firefox-bin I can normaly accept the certificate, compiled firefox does not give me the option. Robert. On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:13:20 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 04 Jan 2013 12:45:01 Robert David wrote: Hi all, anyone have

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2013-01-05 Thread Robert David
. On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:20:24 -0600 Kevin Brandstatter kjbrandstat...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, ive attached one to this email. -Kevin On 01/03/2013 03:08 PM, Robert David wrote: This is wired, can you post screenshot? There does not seem to be some condition in code. Robert

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The new Gentoo user and the Kernel

2013-03-05 Thread David Abbott
, there's genkernel. Welcome to Gentoo! Have fun! :) Many Gentooligans start with a kernel-seed :) http://kernel-seeds.org/seeds/64_bit/gentoo/ http://kernel-seeds.org/working.html Yes, have fun, David

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64, Firefox = Java Plugin?

2013-03-16 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a useable howto/tutorial which describes howto install the java plugin for the current fireox. Where can I find one? Best regards, mcc I use icedtea; amd64testbox ~ # emerge -pv icedtea These are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bus error during compilation of gcc

2013-04-22 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:44:46 +0400 the guard wrote: Суббота, 20 апреля 2013, 19:56 UTC от Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: On 2013-04-20, the guard the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: The package i decided to install required a gcc rebuild so I started rebuilding it and got a bus

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc compiling, is this normal?

2013-05-12 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 12 May 2013 23:27:48 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/05/2013 23:16, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been noticing something weird when I upgrade gcc. Is this normal? root@fireball / # genlop -c Currently merging 2 out of 5 * sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7 current merge

Re: [gentoo-user] howto on setting up rootfs on ZFS?

2013-05-22 Thread Robert David
Hi, I use grml livecd for various recovery/livecd purposes. I just add an script to my boot partition to compile current zfs. Since it is debian based it contains installation through aptitude. Robert. /boot/zfs # ls install_zfs* spl-0.6.1.tar.gz zfs_create zfs-0.6.1.tar.gz /boot/zfs #

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:11:35 -0700 Grant wrote: Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system is compromised? app-backup/backuppc

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread David Relson
not a member of group games. Regards, David

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-08-01 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Paul Hartman wrote: http://serverfault.com/questions/244944/linux-ata-errors-translating-to-a-device-name All flawed IMHO. My version (works with PATA too), possibly flawed too: ~/bin/ataid_to_drive.sh #!/bin/bash oIFS=$IFS IFS=$'\n' CTRLS=( $(/sbin/lspci |

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager stays in inactive mode

2013-12-08 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 7:00 AM, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hi, I updated this week and since then I have problem with NetworkManager. It starts, but last message is WARNING: NetworkManager has started, but is inactive and the network is not set up :-( networkmanager-0.9.8.8

Re: [gentoo-user] MidnightCommander - exit in working directory

2013-12-30 Thread David Abbott
to exit in the current working directory instead of the directory it started in? Much thanks - Skippy From the ebuild elog; LOG: postinst To enable exiting to latest working directory, put this into your ~/.bashrc: . /usr/libexec/mc/mc.sh HTH :) -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] @system updated but @word is an issue!

2014-01-20 Thread David Abbott
how to change my make.conf that everything fits, that I can update my entire machine without any problems. Try commenting them out. [snip] Regards, David

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread David Abbott
tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage was not enough to re-compile gcc-4.7.3! You can configure emerge to build large packages outside of the tmpfs drive. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs HTH -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread David Abbott
://cdnpayroll.gemlog.ca/ I think it was written by Paul Evans -- Joseph -- David

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, null_ptr wrote: modprobe pcspkr doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also tried building it in the kernel. On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on the

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, null_ptr wrote: On 22/03/14 23:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr: modprobe pcspkr doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also tried building it in the kernel. On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and ModemManager

2014-04-25 Thread David Abbott
Manager... Apr 24 13:36:46 localhost ModemManager[215]: info ModemManager (version 1.0.0-r2) starting... Apr 24 13:36:47 heater systemd[1]: Started Modem Manager. Apr 24 13:36:47 heater NetworkManager[214]: info ModemManager available in the bus -- David Abbott

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014, Dale wrote: I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks with bad eyes? In other words, for you folks

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote The Linux text-console font is also very good. I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480). There are 5 lat1 consolefonts... /usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-08

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 17 May 2014 13:21:08 David Haller wrote: The Linux text-console font is also very good. Yes, except for one thing: the oblique stroke through the zero. That makes it almost indistinguishable from an 8, to my poor eyes (one acute

[gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-21 Thread David Abbott
Hi Everyone, We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content to add to the Tip of the month section. Regards David [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/news -- David Abbott (dabbott) Gentoo Foundation Secretary http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: thegeezer wrote: On 06/25/2014 08:49 AM, Dale wrote: Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166 I have (had sort of) the same disc, with the same FW. see the following Seagate web pages: http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: David Haller wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: Yeah. Oh, and I had a clean smart until a few days ago, luckily I alread had a WD Red (WD40EFRX) drive waiting when this attrib jumped from 0 to: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 087 087 036 Pre-fail

Re: [gentoo-user] larry and znurt

2014-10-04 Thread David Abbott
info on Larry :) https://www.gentoo.org/news/20110630-larry-announcement.xml https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Artwork/Artwork -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am currently checking the compression tools I know of for the best compression ration. But I will definitly miss those I dont know... And sometimes one can do magic with option and

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-19 Thread David Abbott
stick straightforward? It even handled grub2, uefi and such? suggestions? James Regards, David

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread David Abbott
and save those to the usb stick. Likewhoa just put this together for the LiveDVD media, he is the one who builds them; https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveDVD-Persistence-Mode -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: off topic: rotating a video

2015-02-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I built and tried mplayer. Again not rotated. I ran it from the terminal. Below is the output up to when I killed it [..] VO: [xv] 1920x1080 = 1920x1080 Planar YV12 FWIW: if it's just for watching the vid, try mplayer -vf rotate=1

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:35:10 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default use flags and control them manually. [..] You

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 23/06/2015 09:27, Ran Shalit wrote: I am a beginner with Gentoo. I have followed the instruction for the installation, and tried to see that I really understand all of them. There is the command: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnu Common Lisp / cl-ppcre and ... sbcl???

2015-06-23 Thread David Mattli
right. SBCL requires vfp, softfp just means the abi is compatible with the soft abi. My last suggestion is ECL. It has a package on Debian's soft float port. https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/ --David

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:45:58 +0200, David Haller wrote: You can also start USE with -* in make.conf to turn everything off then set your own choices. This is the ideal setup for those who prefer to spend more time fixing their computer than

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: Sent from my iPhone That figures. On Jun 23, 2015, at 10:31 AM, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: [..] /root/bin/chrooter [..] ### convenient way to mount further stuff outside the chroot (with the ### appropriate fstab

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:35:32 +0200, David Haller wrote: You do know that only the desktop profiles include cups as a default USE flag? The one I recommended does not. Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without pulling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, James wrote: David Haller gentoo at dhaller.de writes: [..] Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without pulling in cups, no matter the use-flags. And sabotaging the ebuild and buildsystem to not use cups leads to failed builds, BT,TriedThat

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnu Common Lisp / cl-ppcre and ... sbcl???

2015-06-19 Thread David Mattli
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: David Mattli d...@mattli.us [15-06-19 00:27]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Now I scratching my head...why is sbcl needed, if gcl is already installed? Is it possible to use gcl instead of sbcl nonetheless? How? It looks like cl-ppcre depends

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnu Common Lisp / cl-ppcre and ... sbcl???

2015-06-18 Thread David Mattli
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I check for haveing an ethernet device

2015-07-21 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: on an embedded system I want to check, whether I have an eth0 device (ok, I know, it is not an device in the usual way...), when I attach an USB2Ethernet gadget via OTG-cable to it and whether all needed drivers are already there... How can

Re: [gentoo-user] reading data cd/dvd

2015-11-11 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Philip Webb wrote: >151110 allan gottlieb wrote: >> All my machines run gentoo / systemd / gnome3 >> On my older laptop when I plug in a data cd I get a popup >> suggesting that I open it with files. All is well >> On my newer laptop the disk spins up but no popup

Re: [gentoo-user] reading data cd/dvd

2015-11-11 Thread David Haller
Hello Neil, On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:01:10 +0100, David Haller wrote: >> Add the device(s) to fstab like so: >> >> /dev/cdrom /cdrom autonoauto,ro,user,users >> 0 0 /dev/dvd/dvda

[gentoo-user] Haskell stack

2015-09-06 Thread David Haller
Hello all, could it be, that the dev-haskell stack deps are broken/out-of-sync? I tried to emerge pandoc today, which pulled in haskell, and I got lots of breakages. The tree is freshly synced. Anyway, I finally got it solved by masking: # grep haskell /etc/portage/* 2>/dev/null

Re: [gentoo-user] Haskell stack

2015-09-11 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 06 Sep 2015, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >On 09/06/2015 10:39 PM, David Haller wrote: >> Can anyone reproduce this problem? I did not have _any_ haskell >> package installed so far. >> >> Should I open a bug? Or just wait a couple of days, sync, and try

Re: [gentoo-user] libgpod comment bug

2015-12-13 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 1:51 PM, ddjones wrote: > I'm reemerging Amarok after adding the ipod flag and libgpod fails to install > due to bug 537968. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537968 > > There's a patch for the bug, which I've copied, but it's not being

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

2016-01-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 05 Jan 2016, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:07:47 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > You stipulate physical printing. Does that mean you want to retain th >> > ability to print to PDF or PS? If so, you would still need at least >> > Ghostscript and possibly CUPS

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 04 Jan 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Sunday 03 January 2016 23:50:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! > >That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any such >word as initramfs. :) Naahh, can't be. Must be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

2016-01-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 06 Jan 2016, »Q« wrote: >On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 08:26:42 -0800 >Grant wrote: > >> > AFAICT, details of the gstreamer bug itself haven't been made public >> > yet, and nobody is sure whether the unmaintained 0.10 branch needs a >> > patch. See

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 5.3

2015-12-24 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 24 Dec 2015, Alan Grimes wrote: >Hey, thanks for putting out gcc 5.3... > >Unfortunately, it fails to bootstrap on my machine. I am getting >differences between the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers and it's dying... =( What compiler and C(XX)FLAGS are you using? It builds nicely with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-26 Thread David Haller
tween the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers and it's >> dying... =( [..] >You can work around the failure by installing 5.3.0 with the -jit >useflag (which should succeed) and *then* switch to 5.3.0 using >gcc-config before re-installing 5.3.0 with +jit. > >David mentioned that he s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-29 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, lee wrote: >Andrew Savchenko writes: >> There will be no 5.3.1 likely. Numeration scheme is changed from 5.x >> series: what was middle version is now major, what was minor is now >> middle. So 5.3 is a patch version of 5.0 the same as 4.9.3 is a

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread David Abbott
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:25 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > David Abbott <dabb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:46 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: >> > Thanasis <thana...@asyr.hopto.org> wrote: >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread David Abbott
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:19 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > David Abbott <dabb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:25 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: >> > David Abbott <dabb...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread David Abbott
d it? > > John Covici > cov...@ccs.covici.com > Post your ~/.xinitrc and post the log created when you use startx please. -- David

[gentoo-user] Re: undefined symbol "...[abi:cxx11]" (was: Do we have any Blender build experts in the house?)

2016-05-29 Thread David Haller
Hello, First of all, this has nothing to do with blender "per se" ... On Sat, 28 May 2016, J. García wrote: >El sáb, 28-05-2016 a las 17:26 -0600, J. García escribió: >> BTW, eix won't help you here, I tried it, so the next step is to find >> what provides the symbol 'Imf_2_1::Header::view',

Re: [gentoo-user] ls config file?

2016-02-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 02 Feb 2016, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >Andrew Tselischev wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:54:37AM +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >>> The option that controls this is --quoting-style, so >>> can alias 'ls' to include this option but was wondering if there is a >>> global

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-25 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: [..] >dev-libs/libxml2:2 > > (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled > in by > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-25 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, Neil Bothwick wrote: >Step 1: Use gdisk to create a 1M partition at the start of the disk. >Step 2: Set its type to EF02 I think the EFI-partition should be 100MiB. -dnh -- Like all software sucks, but by knowing how it works it is possible to make it suck in new

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

2016-07-30 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >trying the new kernel linux-4.7 (vanilla, downloaded from >ftp.kernel.org) with nvidia drivers >(Installed versions: 367.35-r1^md(03:00:46 07/30/16)(X driver kms >multilib uvm -acpi -compat -gtk3 -pax_kernel -static-libs -tools >-wayland

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

2016-07-31 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de> [16-07-30 13:24]: [..] >> I've got it working with the attached patch in >> /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-367.35/ [..] >Short qyestion: How can I apply it...

Re: [gentoo-user] kactivitymanagerd endless update loop

2016-08-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Jörg Schaible wrote: >my system is still KDE 4 with the help of kde-sunset. I don't use that repo yet, but I've copied the KDE4 stuff (relevant for me) into my local overlay. >However, I face an endless loop installing kactivitymanagerd. The >package has been in

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: >Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2016, 12:54:37 schrieb hw: >> I?m trying to upgrade portage because I?m getting a message that it >> needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. [..] >If you see this now, your production

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

2016-07-05 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2016, Stroller wrote: >Well, I tried that. > > youtube-dl -x --audio-format best http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh > >This gives an .m4a file which also does not play on the device. Have you tried mkv? E.g. download to m4a as above and then do a quick mkvmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

2016-08-06 Thread David Haller
Hello Meino, On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [..] >WHOW! Thanks a lot for the patch! As this issue has just come up on gentoo-dev as well, has the patch worked for you (so far)? Please give a report if it worked or not. I've been unable to run/test my system with that patch for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-28 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, James wrote: [..] Well, the best I found is this on the gdisk homepage: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html Basically, you shouldn't. The article tackles most aspects and pitfalls. [..] >Number Start End SizeType File system Flags > 1

Re: [gentoo-user] puzzling behavior of USE flags with sys-apps/man-db

2017-02-21 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Harry Putnam wrote: >sys-app/man-db berkdb -gmdb This should be sys-apps/man-db berkdb -gdbm > # cat /etc/portage/package.use/gtk+ > xll-libs/gtk+ X This should be x11-libs/gtk+ X ex one one dash ... Not ex ell ell dash ... HTH, -dnh -- Time is an

Re: [gentoo-user] XOrg / XRanR segfault starting X

2016-08-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, james wrote: >other tools:: 'lshw' or sys-apps/hwinfo HTH, -dnh -- "I'm nobody's puppet!"-- Rygel XIV

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, hw wrote: >David Haller schrieb: [..] >> Yep. BTDT. I had a then 4-4.5 year old gentoo quite broken by being >> partly updated until portage/emerge broke and much else didn't work >> anymore (gcc/make/python/emerge). So, I booted something el

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >Would anybody care to make a recommendation? Ever checked out WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)? The default config is quite clunky though, but there's many themes and stuff. >The requirements are: > > * simple and lightweight Check. Without

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-20 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Grant wrote: [..] >> $ ping -n -c 1 -M dont -s 1465 www.dslreports.com >> PING www.dslreports.com (64.91.255.98) 1465(1493) bytes of data. >> 1473 bytes from 64.91.255.98: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=137 ms >> >> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash failed to compile

2016-09-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >may be bash is missing a lib? > >x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -L./builtins -L./lib -L./lib -L./lib/glob >-L./lib/tilde -L./lib/sh -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed-march=native -O2 -pipe >-msse3 -ggdb -o bash shell.o eval.o y.tab.o general.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Madly flickering display

2016-09-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: >I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with Xinerama >I found from Xorg.0.log that X11 wasn't finding an evdev module, even though >I had INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in make.conf. So I added USE=evdev to dev- >qt/qtgui* and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-20 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Grant wrote: >>>Strangely, I'm able to ping with that command even with a very high -s value: >>> >>>$ ping -c 4 -M dont -s www.dslreports.com >>>PING www.dslreports.com (64.91.255.98) (10027) bytes of data. >>>10007 bytes from www.dslreports.com

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-20 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Grant wrote: >> MTU is per network interface but you really don't want to end up having >> your router fragment every IP packet because systems on your subnet are >> using a larger MTU. >> >> Todd > >That makes sense. So in my case, I'm thinking 1492 MTU on every

Re: [gentoo-user] ...if linking a completly unused library...

2016-10-01 Thread David Haller
u "gluecklichen" Rindern gefuttert? *scnr* Wozu zum Henker sollte man sowas brauchen? Logo ginge auch per ASCII :) (Logo? welches Logo? Wozu ueberhaupt?) [David Haller in suse-linux]

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

2016-10-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Behrouz Khosravi wrote: >> $ mplayer foo.mp4 | grep '^VO: ' >> VO: [gl] ... >> $ mpv foo.mp4 | grep '^VO: ' >> VO: [opengl] >> >> See 'mplayer -vo help' and 'mpv -vo help'. > >Thanks. It seems that mplayer is using "xv" and mpv uses "opengl-hq". mpv >work ok with

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

2016-10-25 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Michael Mol wrote: >On Saturday, October 22, 2016 05:28:22 AM David Haller wrote: >> And I've IIRC used plain 'x11' (or was it 'xv'?) for a very long time. > >Unless things have changed massively in the last 3-4 years, you almost >certainly wer

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

2016-10-21 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Behrouz Khosravi wrote: >You could test different video output drivers and also hardware decoding. [..] >> vo=vdpau:deint=-3,opengl-hq:scale=spline36,xv [..] >I tried testing some options in config file, but it didnt help. Why not check what output-driver you use with

Re: [gentoo-user] conky failed to build: Missing unknown library/application/whatever

2017-01-01 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 01 Jan 2017, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >conky fails to build: >CMake Error at cmake/ConkyPlatformChecks.cmake:353 (message): > Unable to find XNVCtrl library >Call Stack (most recent call first): > CMakeLists.txt:37 (include) Add the 'static-libs' use-flag for

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2017-01-04 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, J. Roeleveld wrote: >I know what you mean. What I miss is an option to have gkrellm on 1 side of >the screen and when I maximize a window, that doesn't hide gkrellm. Doesn't your WM has a stay-on-top feature? And WMaker has an option not to use the Dock/Icons when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

2017-04-09 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >For me, it was a runaway upower process some months ago. I'm using >systemd, so I fixed it easily with the following drop-in: Tell us, why exactly would one need upower again, anyway? -dnh -- Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

2017-04-09 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >Am Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:09:23 +0200 >schrieb David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de>: > >> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >For me, it was a runaway upower process some months ago. I'm using >> >systemd, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hall of FAIL.

2017-07-09 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 09 Jul 2017, Alan Grimes wrote: >Hey, I'm having some pretty dire FAIL issues with respect to a small but >critical collection of packages... > >tortoise portage # tree -L 2 [..] >The most critical root failure is ffmpeg. It appears to be a gcc >incompatibility issue with an asm

Re: [gentoo-user] Hall of FAIL.

2017-07-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Monday 10 Jul 2017 04:30:38 David Haller wrote: > >> Sorry, no such luck, my crystal ball is currently under maintainance >> and to be put in the dishwasher afterwards. > >I sent mine back for a refund - it was dead on

Re: [gentoo-user] Any alternativ to "autotrace" which will be removed in a month ?

2017-07-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >is there any alternative to > >media-gfx/autotrace > >because autotrace gets removed? media-gfx/potrace HTH, -dnh -- The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as ever, created enormous casualties on both sides. --

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils-libs-2.28-r1 - loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

2017-07-03 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 02 Jul 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >During upgrade I get an error trying to compile "binutils-libs-2.28-r1" > >Any hint what to do with it? > >XSParagraph.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got >handshake key 0xd70, needed 0xd60) ^^ >make[3]:

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-04 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 03 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:09:15PM +0100, Mick wrote >> On Thursday 03 Aug 2017 08:13:18 Walter Dnes wrote: > >> > anon_root=/home/ftp >> >> Is this writeable? > > If I do make it writeable, I get... > >500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-08 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 07 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:23:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote >> # mkdir /home/ftp/incoming >> # chown ftp.ftp /home/ftp/incoming >> # chmod 1777 /home/ftp/incoming >> # chmod 555 /home/ftp > > I did the above (copy+

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-09 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 08 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Try a: >> >> ftp> cd incoming > > Thank you, that was it. I just pushed over a file from a Gentoo >machine to my desktop for a test. The OS/2 Warp ftp client still >doesn't work, but that's probably a VM networking issue. There are >other

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