[gentoo-user] Backgammon (GNU) anybody

2015-06-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has anybody any luck in running games-board/gnubg ? The installation proceeded just fine, but when I start it, it hangs, i.e. it takes 100% CPU and has to be killed after half an hour. Has anybody more luck? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/23/2015 07:51:30 AM, james wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: So is my best hope the toolchain repo ? You can always compile and install locally in your $HOME directory. 5.1 was just released, so you can try that. I hear you. It'd take me a long time to

[gentoo-user] [offtopic] GNU Root Gentoo on Android

2015-03-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've installed GNU Root Gentoo on Android from Google Play on my Android-4.4.2 device. Does anybody know how to use it. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf has no effect anymore?

2015-03-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/16/2015 11:42:28 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 16/03/2015 12:07, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, since a few days when I configured /etc/repos.conf the setting of PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/portage/make.conf seems to get ignored. I have some overlays here (installed by layman) but I

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf has no effect anymore?

2015-03-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/16/2015 12:15:43 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:02:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks Alan, I have auto-sync=no. Still, emerge -avu @world considers even those overlays which have auto-sync=no. I see now. When you said update I assumed you

[gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf has no effect anymore?

2015-03-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since a few days when I configured /etc/repos.conf the setting of PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/portage/make.conf seems to get ignored. I have some overlays here (installed by layman) but I don't wont all of these to be considered for updating when I say emerge -auv .. Previously, I could manage

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf has no effect anymore?

2015-03-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/16/2015 11:42:28 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 16/03/2015 12:07, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, since a few days when I configured /etc/repos.conf the setting of PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/portage/make.conf seems to get ignored. I have some overlays here (installed by layman) but I

Re: [gentoo-user] lisp variant for ARM (ARM926EJ-S rev 5) ?

2015-03-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/14/2015 07:36:36 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a LISP version for my embedded system. I tried CLISP and the compilation of the ffcall-package fails do to some (embedded?) assembler codes... Does anyone know of a Lisp variant (near CLISP), which successfully

[gentoo-user] How to find all packages which need Python2_7

2015-03-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to install all packages which need Python, only for Python3 except those which cannot be installed for Python3. How can I find out which of the packages installed on my machine have PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 (only). I could loop over `qlist -IC` do an emerge -vp each grepping for

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find all packages which need Python2_7

2015-03-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/03/2015 10:47:46 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Hello, On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:21:19 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to install all packages which need Python, only for Python3 except those which cannot be installed for Python3. How can I find out which of the packages

[gentoo-user] wacom tablet does not work

2015-01-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after upgrading from an old version of xorg-server (due to an old Radeon card) to xorg-server-1.16.3-r1 my Wacom tablet seems dead. All x11-drivers have been reinstalled. Any messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log w.r.t. Wacom look OK xinput list reports (note the strange characters at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon driver - blank console [SOLVED]

2015-01-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/07/2015 08:07:26 AM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2015 10:09:25 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/05/2015 02:49:04 PM, Florian Gamböck wrote: Am 05.01.2015 um 14:42 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Which (framebuffer?) kernel parameters have to set? Try compiling CONFIG_DRM_RADEON

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon driver - blank console [SOLVED]

2015-01-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/05/2015 02:49:04 PM, Florian Gamböck wrote: Am 05.01.2015 um 14:42 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Which (framebuffer?) kernel parameters have to set? Try compiling CONFIG_DRM_RADEON as module and do not enable any frame buffers, especially not CONFIG_FB_RADEON, as absurd as it sounds

[gentoo-user] Radeon driver - blank console

2015-01-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the recent update of virtual/opengl forced me to switch from my ati [legacy] driver to the open source driver (radeon) While I got X11 running, my console gets blanked before I can log in on the command line. Which (framebuffer?) kernel parameters have to set? It looks like the kernel or

[gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

2015-01-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files before. Has the information previously kept in this file been moved to some other place (database?)? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Paraview 4.2 not building

2014-12-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/30/2014 05:44:16 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Anyone out there using Paraview? A quick question before I put all of the supporting doco, build/error logs etc, together. I'm attempting to get the latest version in portage, V4.2, built but I'm running into problems at

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/gpac-0.5.0-r1 fails to compile

2014-12-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/30/2014 10:57:31 AM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been running into this issue for a while now. Anyone else run into this? Nothing on the forums and google ain't no help either. Last part of the build log below. I have 0.5.1_pre5456 installed here, I had problems with 0.5.0, as well. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/27/2014 10:52:04 AM, Mick wrote: On Friday 26 Dec 2014 23:33:33 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: # file /var/log/messages /var/log/messages: data # grep syslog-ng /var/log/messages

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/17/2014 06:48:55 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is it possible, to do ONE call to emerge, which asks (according to option -a, if set ) and given a yes first fetches ALL necessary files and data and compiles then everything? With some manual operations: Capture the output of

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome fails under kernel 3.18

2014-12-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/11/2014 08:02:12 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: Hi gentoo-users, Yesterday I installed and compiled gentoo-sources-3.18.0, everything seems to be in order but google-chrome just doesn't display any page (even settings), showing a blue screen with Oops instead. In Firefox, everything

[gentoo-user] Python Installation

2014-11-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have python2.7 and python3.4 installed here. I'd like to emerge any packages which use python only for python3.4 unless this package can only be installed for python2.7. Currently, I have the following in /etc/portage/make.conf and with this configuration, packages which can be

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/13/2014 05:41:27 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.6.1' Nov 13 14:52:20 numa syslog-ng[1392

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/13/2014 09:05:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 13/11/2014 18:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/14/2014 06:46:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 14/11/2014 18:18, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11/13/2014 09:05:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 13/11/2014 18:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.6.1' Nov 13 14:52:20 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.6.1' Has anybody

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

2014-10-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/31/2014 04:59:17 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: If someone has suggestionsalways appreciated! :) It's best to ask on the news group comp.compression. There are top international specialists. Helmut

[gentoo-user] jedit-5.2pre1 ebuild anywhere

2014-10-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody have an ebuild for jedit-5.2pre1. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

[gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

2014-10-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not in the tree, yet, like [blocks B ] perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 (perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 is blocking virtual/perl-Socket-2.13.0) Has anybody tried to upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

2014-10-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/07/2014 10:50:53 AM, Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2014-10-07 10:13, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not in the tree, yet, like [blocks B ] perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 (perl

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

2014-10-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/07/2014 06:07:11 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2014, 17:41:11 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: emerge -av1 perl-cleaner emerge -av1O dev-lang/perl These two worked just fine, BUT perl-cleaner --all fails miserably showing many blocks mentioning versions which

[gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, how do I need to configure my Gentoo box to allow for reverse tethering from my (rooted) Android phone? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/17/2014 11:43:28 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:24:36 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, how do I need to configure my Gentoo box to allow for reverse tethering from my (rooted) Android phone? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut What do you mean with reverse

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/17/2014 11:50:58 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:46:12 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 09/17/2014 11:43:28 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:24:36 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, how do I need to configure my Gentoo box

[gentoo-user] Gentoo mirror list - where?

2014-08-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, if an ebuild file has, e.g., mirror://github/... where do I find the list of mirrors Gentoo is using for that? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo mirror list - where?

2014-08-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/12/2014 12:21:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:42:34 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: if an ebuild file has, e.g., mirror://github/... where do I find the list of mirrors Gentoo is using for that? From memory (see other thread) emerge -fp cat/pkg. Yes, thanks a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/04/2014 08:00:55 PM, Stroller wrote: It transpires that sys-apps/most is in portage. Emerging this package should fix it, if you intend to continue using it as the PAGER. most is the best manpager I've found found - the default syntax highlighting is perfect for man pages. Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/08/2014 11:52:30 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 140808 Helmut Jarausch wrote: does anybody know how to tell 'most' to scroll when I use my mouse wheel? IIRC it's KDE which does it for me : Most runs in a Konsole. I'm using icewm where my mouse wheel generates button4/5 events

Re: [gentoo-user] Contradictionary behaviour of SMART on hds ?!?

2014-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/27/2014 06:50:49 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Mick, thanks for your reply on the topic. I executed the mkswap/dd combo a several times today. Since I have no logs I repeated again. Here are the results: solfire:/home/usermkswap -L swap -f -c /dev/sda2 1 bad page mkswap: /dev/sda2:

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/25/2014 12:52:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:23:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE. My excellent adventure started yesterday when I got a clearout 7 tablet, and took a sample photo, and tried mounting the tablet... no /dev/sdb to be

[gentoo-user] triggered by backtracking - what does that mean?

2014-07-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please explain what the following means: emerge -vp net-libs/libpcap Calculating dependencies * waiting for lock on /var/db/.pkg.portage_lockfile ... [ ok ] ... done! [ebuild R] net-libs/libpcap-1.5.3 USE=bluetooth dbus ipv6 -canusb -netlink

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.17 fails and warning: setlocale: LC_ALL error

2014-07-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/16/2014 09:32:31 AM, Dale wrote: I tried this. I unpacked the stage3 tarball just like I would for a new install, in /mnt/gentoo of course. I set it up just enough to where I could try and emerge glibc and just see if it would complete or if it would fail. It failed. It seems to me

[gentoo-user] mimeinfo - which one rules?

2014-07-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, which mimeinfo is used when I open an email attachment? My local info in $HOME/.local/share/applications/{mimeinfo.cache,mimeapps.list} seem to get ignore. Currently, I have to edit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache after each emerge. What am I missing? Many thanks for a hint,

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

2014-07-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/01/2014 10:30:44 AM, Dale wrote: I been wanting to get me something external but hadn't got around to looking yet. I didn't know they have a SATA version. I plan to avoid USB if I can. From my understanding, eSATA can be hotplugged and I have a couple of those connections. I

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

2014-07-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/01/2014 10:58:45 AM, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 07/01/2014 10:30:44 AM, Dale wrote: I been wanting to get me something external but hadn't got around to looking yet. I didn't know they have a SATA version. I plan to avoid USB if I can. From my understanding, eSATA

[gentoo-user] Help! - I cannot emerge anything any more

2014-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I am in a very strange situation where I cannot emerge anything any more. Since it occurs on two different machines it won't be a hardware problem. When I try to emerge a package, say portage, it builds it just fine and starts to install it (for portage, the last file shown is

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

2014-06-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/25/2014 12:55:08 PM, thegeezer wrote: On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote: I got a drive picked out at Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844 slightly offtopic - i notice that the drive has a 2year limited warranty has anyone managed to

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/24/2014 10:01:24 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400 schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be sure I do understand it correctly now. The message ends with All non-systemd users are recommended to choose

[gentoo-user] dependency problem - how to decipher this one

2014-05-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, trying to emerge x11-libs/gtk+:2 (2.24.23-r1) together with dev-libs/atk (2.12.0-r1) I get the following messages emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-libs/atk-1.29.2[introspection?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,

[gentoo-user] gstreamer or ffmeg - that's the question

2014-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the recent upgrade to Gnome 3.12.1 includes app-misc/tracker-1.0 which forces me to decide between gstreamer and ffmpeg. It says The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: at-most-one-of ( gstreamer ffmpeg ) But many packages installed here depend on one of these.

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer or ffmeg - that's the question

2014-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks, John, Helmut On 04/28/2014 10:55:40 AM, John Campbell wrote: On 04/28/2014 01:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the recent upgrade to Gnome 3.12.1 includes app-misc/tracker-1.0 which forces me to decide between gstreamer and ffmpeg. It says The following REQUIRED_USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Script to tar.tgz /etc, works run manually, broken when run from cron

2014-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/31/2014 01:01:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, this is really irritating me... I have a script that simply performs some backups. The commands are like this: # perform tar.tgz backup of /etc tar -czpvf $BKUP_DIR_etc/$BKUP_DateTime-dev-ecat-etc.tgz /etc When I run this script

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/28/2014 08:29:27 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:42:59 +0100 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: sys-apps/portage:0 (sys-apps/portage-:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by sys-apps/portage (Argument) (sys-apps/portage

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please explain Portage's technique for selecting Python versions for packages from dev-python and similar. I'd like to set up things such that Portage installs only the Python-3.{3,4} version unless the packages doesn't support Python-3.x Currently I have

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/28/2014 10:37:56 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:27:00 +0100 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: I have tried to remove python2_7 from PYTHON_TARGETS but then I cannot re-install portage although it is based on Python3. Why is this? Can you share us

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi Tom, that was really helpful. MANY THANKS, Helmut On 03/28/2014 08:29:27 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:42:59 +0100 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: sys-apps/portage:0 (sys-apps/portage-:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled

[gentoo-user] Overlays - a question of principle

2014-03-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, several overlays have their own (additional) eclasses and important packages like eselect. What happens (and does it harm) if I use different combinations of overlays at different times? Many thanks for a mini-tutorial or reference to those, Helmut

[gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

2014-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Please don't use this list for personal quarrels of any kind! If someone says something you don't like - just ignore it/him. If someone insults you, reply by personal mail only. If someone says something which is *technically* wrong, just correct the facts without getting personal. Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 640m

2014-03-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/07/2014 12:18:41 AM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, has someone this Notebook and can share the kernel config? I try and try but it will not work. I make naked make localyesconf and then activate the intel graphic card. But when start i can nothing see. The display is not blank but i

[gentoo-user] emerge all packages which depend on P : how to

2014-02-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a very simple question. How to emerge (update) all packages which depend on some given package P. I've tried emerge -uv1 `equery -q d P` or emerge -uv1 `qdepends -q -Q P` but both commands (equery and qdepends) generate a list with the version attached like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/26/2014 08:55:35 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Again, I think I'm just lucky. I don't think it's luck. A portage system likes to be updated very often (best: each day). I have made the experience that updating a machine which hasn't been updated for a long time (say one year), is just

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/20/2014 06:02:33 PM, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/14 18:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/20/14 18:30, Joseph wrote: After upgrade to systemd my /dev/ttyS0 shows up as: root:dialout ownership and permission 600 When I change as root manually to: chown uucp:dialout /dev/ttyS0 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib' again. six hours and a reboot later and nothing has changed :( Many thanks, you did it for me - I was afraid of that outcome Helmut On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:21:37 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: The log contains many message like dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service

[gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, hopefully someone can help. I have a system where KDE 4.12.0 / 4.11.5 is very slow. The log contains many message like dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.login1' failed: Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/15/2014 12:37:44 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:21:37 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: The log contains many message like dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.login1' failed: Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/08/2014 11:39:21 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 08.01.2014 19:47, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2014-01-08, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Looking forward to some clever suggestions ;-) Well, I'd start by running memtest86 overnight just to eliminate the possibility of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/09/2014 10:59:45 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: You can use sys-apps/memtester without physical access to the machine. I had cases where memtester found errors which memtest86 didn't. One of these cases was a machine which probably had

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/01/2014 11:07:22 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk often goes significant periods

Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/11/2013 03:01:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have

[gentoo-user] certificates - hwo to accept these

2013-11-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a local package dev-python/grin with ESVN_REPO_URI=https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk/; Since some time I get Unpacking source... * subversion check out start -- * repository: https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk Error validating server certificate

Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

2013-10-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/30/2013 04:44:02 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video, the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do this, but low and

[gentoo-user] kde-4.11.2 update-mime-database or is this a new portage comfort?

2013-10-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I might be wrong but I can't remember this has happened earlier. When emerging the new kde-base/kde-meta-4.11.2 (about 250 packages here) portage runs update-mime-database /usr/share/mime many many times. Is this a new nuisance? Thanks for a comment, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server update puzzle

2013-10-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/09/2013 02:13:41 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 131008 Khumba wrote: 131008 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: A few days ago, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.3 with a lot of deps. Everything seems to be working normally since then, but a lot of pkgs became unneeded, according to

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/05/2013 08:30:36 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12

2013-10-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/03/2013 09:08:56 AM, Mick wrote: Curious, is there a reason you are not using the radeon driver instead of the ati proprietary drivers? -- I haven't checked recently but I remember that google-earth didn't work with the radeon drivers. Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12

2013-10-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/01/2013 08:16:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.10.2013 10:00, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, in good tradition the new 3.12 Linux kernel breaks ati-drivers again (as always in the past). Does anybody know about a patch to make x11-drivers/ati-drivers:legacy compile with linux

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12

2013-10-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/02/2013 09:06:42 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/10/2013 09:02, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 10/01/2013 08:16:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.10.2013 10:00, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, in good tradition the new 3.12 Linux kernel breaks ati-drivers again (as always

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12

2013-10-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, in good tradition the new 3.12 Linux kernel breaks ati-drivers again (as always in the past). Does anybody know about a patch to make x11-drivers/ati-drivers:legacy compile with linux-3.12-rc3 ? Trying to emerge ati-drivers-13.1_pre897 (currently the only legacy driver) with 3.12-rc3

[gentoo-user] poppler - how to update it elegantly?

2013-09-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, my most hated package is poppler. Each time in the past and now again it's hard to upgrade. portage (2.2.7) cannot handle it, so I have to (manually) unmerge all packages depending on it and emerge them after the poppler upgrade again. Has anybody found a more elegant procedure? Many

Re: [gentoo-user] poppler - how to update it elegantly?

2013-09-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/30/2013 02:24:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/09/2013 13:55, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, my most hated package is poppler. Each time in the past and now again it's hard to upgrade. portage (2.2.7) cannot handle it, so I have to (manually) unmerge all packages depending

[gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by portage to re-emerge some packages. I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, app-shells/zsh-completions it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR') several packages including, i.e.,

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/27/2013 11:09:11 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/09/2013 10:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by portage to re-emerge some packages. I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, app-shells/zsh

[gentoo-user] kernel with DRM = blank screen

2013-08-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have an old HP 625 laptop with an ATI RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series] chip on board. The xf86-video-ati driver needs DRM (direct rendering support) in the kernel. Unfortunately, if (and only if) I enable DRM (built in or as module) in a recent kernel like

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/19/2013 04:55:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a system booting with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd ? (I am building the initramsfs

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/20/2013 08:54:26 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 08/19/2013 04:55:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, what

[gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a system booting with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd ? (I am building the initramsfs myself) Thanks for some hints, Helmut

[gentoo-user] What (free) remote desktop do you use

2013-08-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, some recent updates of X11, gtk++ or glib has broken the possibility to use some gnome3 applications (like a recent balsa) via nxclient. Since NX3's internal X-server has some known deficiencies and Nomachine has stopped the development of NX3 and has closed sources of NX4, I am in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/14/2013 07:18:41 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! My company has 2 HP DL585 G5 servers and 5 Dell R... something servers. All using AMD processors. They currently are acting as XenServer hosts. How do I determine the 'least common denominator' for Gentoo VMs (running as

Re: [gentoo-user] euse after portage upgrade

2013-08-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/01/2013 09:42:35 AM, András Csányi wrote: Hi All, Yesterday there was an portage upgrade and after that I got it if I would like to use euse: sayusi-desktop sayusi # euse -E gtk3 ERROR: $PORTDIR couldn't be determined What is it and why that variable not determined? I did not do

[gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend?

2013-07-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've been running a Windows 7 (professional)guest with Virtualbox on my GenToo system for some years. But recently I have a broken network either due to Virtualbox or due to some (automatic) Windows updates. The situation is more than strange. Sometime using a backed up Virtualbox

Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend?

2013-07-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/30/2013 10:11:54 AM, Randolph Maaßen wrote: Hi, I'm using qemu-kvm for hoisting a Windows 7, but always typing the long commandline is anoying, so I wrote a little script to start the VM. I recently switched to libvirt and virt-manager, which do the commandline work for me, and creatting

Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend?

2013-07-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/30/2013 10:20:22 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/07/2013 08:45, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've been running a Windows 7 (professional)guest with Virtualbox on my GenToo system for some years. But recently I have a broken network either due to Virtualbox or due to some

[gentoo-user] /etc/profile is gone - how to chroot

2013-07-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, previously and still documented nearly everywhere one has to do env-update source /etc/profile after chroot but in recent systems, the file /etc/profile is gone. How to adapt the environment in a new system? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/profile is gone - how to chroot

2013-07-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/24/13 16:34:46, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, previously and still documented nearly everywhere one has to do env-update source /etc/profile after chroot but in recent systems, the file /etc/profile

[gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3.8.4 requires systemd sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.6cannot coexist with systemd but many packages depend on sys-auth/consolekit : emerge -vpc sys-auth/consolekit gives sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r2 pulled in by:

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/19/2013 11:33:33 AM, Randolph Maaßen wrote: 2013/7/19 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Neil Bothwick wrote: SSDs are not like USB flash drives, and it's been years since I managed to wear one of those out (mainly due to a kernel bug). They have lifetimes similar to spinny disks these

[gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, (too) often I get dbus errors, especial when running an application as root e.g. Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/11/2013 10:31:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:36:29 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/11/2013 11:39:21 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: Making it world executable is same as giving root to every user on your system -- as it makes it possible to escalate to user 'root' or at least group 'messagebus' So... Instead, the problem is often solved by simple re-emerge: # emerge -1

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage

2013-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/27/2013 10:13:55 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: exfat does what you want - it was designed to just work on the very large removeable media we have nowadays (think 7G movie files) and bypass all the nonsense like does the user that created this file even exist on the machine that is reading

Re: [gentoo-user] IPython with Python3 - what magic am I missing?

2013-06-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/20/2013 04:53:00 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: If you built dev-python/ipython with PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_2, then there will be a /usr/bin/ipython-python3.2 script that will launch IPython with the Python 3.2 interpreter, even if the default Python implementation is 2.7. Yes, thanks,

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