[gentoo-user] mounting samsung galaxy S III (android ics)

2012-07-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I just purchased a new smartphone (samsung galaxy S III), which runs android ice cream sandwitch 4.0.4). I would like to copy files to and from the phone. The phone manual describes how to do this for windows (nothing needed) and Mac (a program to download), but not for gnu-linux. Apparently

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting samsung galaxy S III (android ics)

2012-07-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Jul 18 2012, Dale wrote: Oh, make sure you config the phone to be connected to a puter. I always forget that with my phone and it makes me scratch my head for a while That is like my previous phone an htc incredible. This one doesn't offer that choice (or at least I can't find it).

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the flash. I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were

[gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the flash. I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were forced to run stable to limit compiles I would still use package.accept_keywords to permit gnome3. Any experiences

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2012-07-13 19:42, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the flash. I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were forced to run

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2012-07-13 20:53, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2012-07-13 19:42, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems

2012-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Jul 07 2012, Michael Mol wrote: Stupid question...might your firewall be dropping packets? Check your firewall logs. Similarly, is there a difference in network connectivity between the machine that works and the two that don't? Also similarly, is the mfp on the wireless network

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems (Solved)

2012-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Jul 07 2012, walt wrote: On 07/07/2012 11:03 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 error: Unable to print to printer. Please check device and try again. Make me want to throw your laptop out of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems

2012-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Jul 07 2012, walt wrote: On 07/06/2012 05:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have one network (a linksys) to which all my devices are attached. I have two laptops running ~amd64 and one desktop running amd64. I have one scanner, an hp officejet 7310 that is (wired) ethernet attached

Re: [gentoo-user] network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems

2012-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Jul 07 2012, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 07.07.2012 02:35, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have one network (a linksys) to which all my devices are attached. I have two laptops running ~amd64 and one desktop running amd64. I have one scanner, an hp officejet 7310 that is (wired

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems

2012-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Jul 07 2012, walt wrote: On 07/07/2012 07:33 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Moreover the new printer entry in cups fails to print a test page (the old, cups-installed, entry continues to work). sigh Once again I forgot my number-one fallback move: I always delete all the existing

[gentoo-user] network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems

2012-07-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have one network (a linksys) to which all my devices are attached. I have two laptops running ~amd64 and one desktop running amd64. I have one scanner, an hp officejet 7310 that is (wired) ethernet attached. When I try xsane from either laptop I receive the popup saying that no devices are

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Philipp Riegger wrote: On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. Hmm, do you have a user

[gentoo-user] grub2 in portage

2012-06-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub), an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current grub-0.97-r12. Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge but *not* do anything else with grub, I will continue to use legacy grub (-0.97-r12) whenever I boot?

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 in portage

2012-06-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 29 2012, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 29.06.2012 20:46, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub), an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current grub-0.97-r12. Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 in portage

2012-06-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 29 2012, Todd Goodman wrote: * Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu [120629 14:53]: Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub), an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current grub-0.97-r12. Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge

[gentoo-user] gnome-3 extensions and portage

2012-06-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have merged gnome-shell-extensions and eselect-gnome-shell-extensions. There are of course many other extensions listed in extensions.gnome.org and they are easy to (un-)install. I was just wondering if any were packaged into ebuilds beyon gnome-extra/gnome-shell-extensions. thanks, allan

[gentoo-user] failure to login with xdm or gdm

2012-06-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Just today I cannot log into one of my machines (the other has not had an emerge since early yesterday and is ok). With gdm, I don't get a welcome screen. Just the funny cursor going round and round. With xdm, I do get the login screen, but both for me and for root, after entering

Re: [gentoo-user] failure to login with xdm or gdm

2012-06-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 08 2012, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 08.06.2012 16:22, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Just today I cannot log into one of my machines (the other has not had an emerge since early yesterday and is ok). With gdm, I don't get a welcome screen. Just the funny cursor going round and round

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 08 2012, walt wrote: On 06/08/2012 06:39 AM, walt wrote: I just updated one of my ~amd64 machines and something in gnome is badly broken now. I'm about to update another ~amd64 machine but I'll do it one package at a time until I can identify the culprit. The symptom is that

Re: [gentoo-user] failure to login with xdm or gdm

2012-06-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 08 2012, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Just today I cannot log into one of my machines (the other has not had an emerge since early yesterday and is ok). With gdm, I don't get a welcome screen.  Just the funny

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, May 14 2012, Michael Scherer wrote: in my opinion it isn't. with top posting I see the newest message immidiately, while otherwise I need page through sometimes huge amounts of mostly obsolete comments. where it's possible, I put my messages on top, and I've found more than once

[gentoo-user] depclean asking to remove *many* perl

2012-05-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
A recent world update followed by depclean resulted in a request to remove nearly 30 dev-perl packages (plus an old boost). I don't use perl, but wonder what triggered this change. I have not changed any use flags. My inclination is to let depclean have its way, but wanted to check here first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean asking to remove *many* perl

2012-05-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, May 11 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/05/12 17:39, Allan Gottlieb wrote: A recent world update followed by depclean resulted in a request to remove nearly 30 dev-perl packages (plus an old boost). I don't use perl, but wonder what triggered this change. I have not changed any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Apr 24 2012, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2012 02:41:49 Walter Dnes wrote: You seem to be sending multipart/alternative. I didn't even notice that there was any HTML. Here is what mutt shows when I ask it to view attachments... I've finally found what I think was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Apr 22 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:21:56 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: First, thanks for the fix, hopefully not needed. It appears that the bug is in conf-update and not shadow so the rather brusque changing of the status of the shadow bug to resolved might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Apr 22 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:52:39 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The comments there say that if you run etc-update right after the emerge all is well (but this isn't sufficient for people who use screen, detatch, and log out). Someone also mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Apr 20 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:22:20 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I'll run the update again today, paying more attention, and see what happens. What happened is it broke again, with no obvious signs of the cause. conf-update reported only trivial

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Apr 21 2012, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 21.04.2012 17:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote: There is a bug filed https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412721 Am I correct in believing the safe procedure is to add =sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r2 =sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5. to /etc

[gentoo-user] WARNING dev-libs/icu-49.1 is BAD

2012-04-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Another scare. No emacs, no apache, gnome in trouble ... don't install icu-49.1 I was going to file a bug but I see that there are a few stating that some things fail with 49.1 so I don't know that my adding to the list will help. To see the list just ask for ALL icu I now have to reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING dev-libs/icu-49.1 is BAD

2012-04-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Apr 04 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:12:58 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I now have to reinstall everything that was installed after icu, or at least try them to see if they fail. I installed LibreOffice and Chromium after icu, LO seems to work but Chromium

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-04-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Apr 03 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:43:16 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I forgot one of the commands alan wanted to see. Here it is. allan I really did want to look at this thoroughly for you, but I've been flat on my back with some illness

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble understanding a slot conflict

2012-04-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Apr 03 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:13:43 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Yes indeed I have it masked for exactly that reason. I will be going to a combined / + /usr when the semester ends. I use this machine for my lectures and assignments so prefer to break

[gentoo-user] trouble understanding a slot conflict

2012-04-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
A normal update world turned up the error below (~amd64, gnome profile) !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: sys-apps/pciutils:0 (sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble understanding a slot conflict

2012-04-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Apr 02 2012, walt wrote: On 04/02/2012 07:20 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: A normal update world turned up the error below (~amd64, gnome profile) !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I forgot one of the commands alan wanted to see. Here it is. allan ajglap gottlieb # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Mar 27 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: All you need is a decent amount of free disk space as you will shuffle things around just like in that 15 pieces game. This sounds encouraging. My disk is less than half full so space is not an issue. Assuming / is the first (or second) partition on

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING latest lvm2 breaks systems with older udev

2012-03-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Mar 28 2012, Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger writes: Am 28.03.2012 12:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 27.03.2012 22:53, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: My system wouldn't fully boot this morning after

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Mar 28 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: What you describe sounds ok, but I'd still hesitate to give a definite answer without a little more data. If you send over the output of df -h du -shx for each partition you have fdisk -l pvdisplay vgdisplay lvdisplay I'll be happy to go

[gentoo-user] WARNING latest lvm2 breaks systems with older udev

2012-03-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My system wouldn't fully boot this morning after updating lvm (~amd64). Fortunately a mount -a followed by emerge -1 lvm2-previous version has be back in business (with the new lvm2 masked). I subsequently found the bug below. allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update

2012-03-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Mar 23 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:44:53 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I am now unable to update world Total: 26 packages (20 upgrades, 3 new, 1 in new slot, 2 reinstalls, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 604,681 kB Conflict: 3 blocks The following

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update

2012-03-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:14:48 -0700 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer to postpone that for a few weeks. Is it enough to put sys-fs

[gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update

2012-03-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer to postpone that for a few weeks. Is it enough to put sys-fs/udev-171-r5 in /etc/portage/package.mask ? thanks, allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update

2012-03-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:14:48 -0700 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer to postpone that for a few weeks. Is it enough to put sys-fs/udev-171-r5 in /etc/portage/package.mask

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Feb 16 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:31:02 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: That's it! I had collision-protect in make.conf. I just now removed it and indeed emerge --info shows protect-owned. I have an emerge of libreoffice running now. But hope tomorrow

[gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib32/libnvidia-compiler.so * /usr/lib32/libcuda.so * /usr/lib32/libcuda.so.1 * /usr/lib64/libnvidia-compiler.so * /usr/lib64/libcuda.so * /usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1 But the

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions  * Detected file collision(s):  *  *      /usr/lib32/libnvidia-compiler.so  *      /usr/lib32/libcuda.so  *      /usr/lib32

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions  * Detected file collision(s):  *  *      /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:44:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Good to know. I guess the default setting must be to overwrite as I've not made any of those setting changes. emerge --info will show you the settings in use. Of course, but if you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Feb 02 2012, Gregory Shearman wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On 02/02/2012, at 11:02, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am asking for a recommendation of a router/wap. I know the wired/wireless tradeoffs. thanks, allan Sorry, read it as wired or wireless

[gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
should have an ethernet port (beyond the 4 above) to accept the modem output (I realize it is all bidirectional). Suggestions? thanks, allan gottlieb

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 01 2012, bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 02/02/2012, at 9:08, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have a linksys wrt54G that is acting a little funny. Since my new laptop supports 1Gig wired ethernet and the wrt is 100Meg, I should upgrade even if the funny turns out

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Dec 20 2011, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, December 17, 2011 2:37 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: SNIPPED 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and Webb

[gentoo-user] (Solved) please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand.  The entire output is below. As far as I can tell gnome

[gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand. The entire output is below. As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such dependencies in the ebuild for gnome-2.32.1-r1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand. The entire output is below. As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any

Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand.  The entire output is below. As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, pk wrote: On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote: Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is using so much. Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if you are using the

[gentoo-user] Why is gnome-2.32.1-r1 requiring the gnome-3 nautilus and evince?

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I run gnome3 on a test laptop, but want to wait until intersession to install it on my real laptop. I will probably like gnome3, but had a bad experience a few months ago when gnome-shell repeatedly crashed so want to wait for a quiet time to do the upgrade. Anyway, weeks ago I installed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is gnome-2.32.1-r1 requiring the gnome-3 nautilus and evince?

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, walt wrote: On 12/17/2011 06:22 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by gnome-base/nautilus-3.2.1-r1[previewer] Do you have the 'previewer' useflag set? I'm guessing that the older nautilus doesn't have

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, Philip Webb wrote: 111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote: 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and Webb suggested /z for extra space. So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well. Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits (reprinted below

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: One more thing. Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for libreoffice. The failures occurred with 13GB. Today's /mnt/junk success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has 50GB. Dang !! pkg_pretend() { if [[ ${MERGE_TYPE

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: One more thing. Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for libreoffice. The failures occurred with 13GB. Today's /mnt/junk success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has

[gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well. Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits (reprinted below). Following alan's bottom up creation mandate I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

2011-11-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Nov 28 2011, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Though I don’t use either Gnome version, I believe that we are quite safe with Gentoo for a while longer, as compared with most other distros out there. At least that is what I remember from my KDE experience; (almost) all distros jumped on the

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and net-tools

2011-11-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Nov 27 2011, Dan Johansson wrote: On Sunday 27 November 2011 02.02:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade. The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old

[gentoo-user] wicd and net-tools

2011-11-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade. The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I am ~amd64). Neither of these have helped me. Wicd cannot start either the wired or wireless interface. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and net-tools

2011-11-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Nov 25 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade. The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I

[gentoo-user] trouble installing help2man on new gentoo box

2011-11-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am reinstalling gentoo on a Dell inspiron 6400 laptop I am (again) using lvm2. I just built the kernel and then (following the lvm2 guide) tried emerge lvm2 This required a build of help2man, which failed with Configuring source in

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing help2man on new gentoo box--Solved: too fancy with symlinks/mounts

2011-11-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Nov 16 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I am reinstalling gentoo on a Dell inspiron 6400 laptop I am (again) using lvm2. I just built the kernel and then (following the lvm2 guide) tried emerge lvm2 This required a build of help2man, which failed with Configuring source in /mnt/var

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing help2man on new gentoo box--Solved: too fancy with symlinks/mounts

2011-11-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Nov 16, 2011 5:45 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Nov 16 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I am reinstalling gentoo on a Dell inspiron 6400 laptop I am (again) using lvm2. I just built the kernel and then (following the lvm2 guide) tried emerge lvm2

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Nov 12 2011, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: 3. Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules. I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the old device is gone. Removing it does the same thing

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Nov 12 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:44:16 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the currently probed hardware and indexes start from 0. It's just that most people prefer to just remove it because

[gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My dell laptop E6510 had its motherboard replaced (as it turned out, for no good reason) and now the wired ethernet fails. ajglap gottlieb # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart * Bringing up interface eth0 * ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist * Ensure that you have loaded the

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Nov 11 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: My dell laptop E6510 had its motherboard replaced (as it turned out, for no good reason) and now the wired ethernet fails. Thank you florian, alan, michael, and mick. This list is one of gentoo's strongest advantages. To summarize the responses

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Oct 24 2011, Michael Mol wrote: On Oct 24, 2011 7:21 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Now, lack of DMA is another story for hard disks, certainly. Here's where my ignorance of hardware limits my thinking: AFAIK the device driver *always* sits between the disk drive and the DMA

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi Alan, Is there something in dmesg related to the gnome-shell segfaults? Best, Michael Indeed! oldlap ~ # dmesg | grep gnome-shell gnome-shell[3325] general protection ip:b6853dc2 sp:bfdba6d4 error:0 in

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: gnome-shell segfaults. I remember some problems with gnome-shell and GL from the dri-devel-ML. What video-card are you using? Drivers/version? Is there any other WM you can start, execute gnome-shell --replace in a console and dump the

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: What's the output of lspci | grep VGA? oldlap ~ # lspci -v | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) And just to

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Mol wrote: I've skipped most of the thread, so forgive me if this was already done...try rebuilding libmozjs? Bumping its version up or down? oldlap ~ # equery b /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so * Searching for /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so ... dev-lang/spidermonkey-1.8.5

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: hmm, for sure your problem is not video-related then. gjs is the javascript-bindings for gnome... You could try keeping spidermonkey at 1.8.5 and (re-)build the latest version of gjs. google-ing your problem clearly shows: you are not

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I typed that command as root (no complaints) and restarted gdm (twice). Same problem oldlap ~ # dmesg | grep gnome-shell gnome-shell[3479] general protection ip:b682bdc2

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Not sure what to do now other than wait/hope that 3.2.1 (to be released next week) makes it to the overlay and is better for me. That's an option, of course. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Oct 11 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For me, gnome 3.2 has been quite a regression over 3.0. Weird; for me it works so much better than 3.0. Summary: gdm-3.2.0-r1 crashes and when I revert to the 3.0 gdm, I

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, David Abbott wrote: Here is the patch to fix totem-pl-parser with the new quvi api https://386651.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=289447action=diffcollapsed=context=patchformat=rawheaders=1 HTH David Thank you. I follow that bug and know about the patch. Since I

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I notice that I have the default accessibility use flag on. I am tempted to turn it off to reduce the number of packages involved.  Any downside? Not that I know of. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: gnome-shell segfaults. I remember some problems with gnome-shell and GL from the dri-devel-ML. What video-card are you using? Drivers/version? Is there any other WM you can start, execute gnome-shell --replace in a console and dump the

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: It's really weird; can I see /var/log/messages (or whatever logger file you have)? With Enable=true in the [debug] key on /etc/gdm/custom.conf, we should be able to see why gdm is dying. The output is below My flags are: Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: On Wednesday, 12. October 2011 18:02:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Actually the gnome-shell segfault is the 2nd problem. gdm crashes with Oh no, a problem has occurred unless its gnome-shell use flag is disabled, which could possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Here are the logs (update word with gnome-keyring is running now). The update world (sorry for the typo above) with gnome-keyring finished and again gdm flashes the blue curtain of life before having its oh, no death. The video card is intel, build

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: If it is related to the video card/driver that you use, try reemerging cogl and clutter; it doesn't matter that a world upgrade don't want to reemerge it, sometimes the ebuilds change without changing versions. My versions and useflags of cogl

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: If it is related to the video card/driver that you use, try reemerging cogl and clutter; it doesn't matter that a world upgrade don't want to reemerge it, sometimes the ebuilds change without changing

[gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
For me, gnome 3.2 has been quite a regression over 3.0. Summary: gdm-3.2.0-r1 crashes and when I revert to the 3.0 gdm, I get to the login screen but then gnome-shell crashes. I tried to downgrade to gnome-shell-3.0.2-r1, but that needs libgnome-menu, which is not in portage/layman. The crash

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Oct 11 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For me, gnome 3.2 has been quite a regression over 3.0. Weird; for me it works so much better than 3.0. Summary: gdm-3.2.0-r1 crashes and when I revert to the 3.0 gdm, I

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Oct 11 2011, David Abbott wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For me, gnome 3.2 has been quite a regression over 3.0. Weird; for me it works so much better than 3.0

[gentoo-user] What is with the gnome overlay?

2011-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Has something happened to the gnome overlay. It seems to exist oldlap ~ # layman -L | grep gnome * gnome [Git ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome.git, h...) * gnome-live[Git ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome-live.g...) But it seems to not exist

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with the gnome overlay?

2011-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Sep 21 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Has something happened to the gnome overlay. It seems to exist    oldlap ~ # layman -L | grep gnome     * gnome                 [Git       ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome.git

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with the gnome overlay?

2011-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Sep 21 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: There were changes to layman lately, maybe you need to rename or change your config. In layman.cfg I see this: In my layman.cfg I see: #--- # The list of locally installed overlays installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?

2011-09-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Sep 20 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:57:03 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When revdep-rebuild --library is suggested should we run it before or after the ordinary revdep-rebuild that we typically run after each update world? (That was actually my original question

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