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

2011-09-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Sep 18 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:58:14 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I wonder when a routine update world tells you to run revdep-rebuild --library some-lib should you run it before or after the full revdep-rebuild that we normally run

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

2011-09-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 19 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: revdep-rebuild checks everything, revdep-rebuild --library checks just some things. ebuilds sometimes issue messages to check just the libraries known to have been updated, but a full revdep-rebuild after an update will catch those anyway.

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

2011-09-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 19 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: On Monday, 19. September 2011 10:20:25 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Mon, Sep 19 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: revdep-rebuild checks everything, revdep-rebuild --library checks just some things. ebuilds sometimes issue messages to check

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

2011-09-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 19 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: OK.  But the claim was that: if   revdep-rebuild with no argument found nothing to build, then   revdep-rebuild --library some-library will find nothing. I think what everyone

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

2011-09-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 19 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu 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? I think you should run

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

2011-09-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Sep 18 2011, walt wrote: I just did a routine update on my ~amd64 machine and saw the portage warning that libpng14 has been replaced by libpng15, and I should run revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib/libpng14.so' and then delete the obsolete library. After that I ran plain

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Sep 14 2011, Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:49:29 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: Trust me, you would want to run a udev that contained any code written by me! No offense man, but I don't know you

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe?

2011-09-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Sep 13 2011, Jonathan wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:26:35 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I recently removed Java from my system: all I seem to have lost is direct access to the help files in LibreOffice, which have a fully adequate PDF substitute. The offlinehelp

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe?

2011-09-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Sep 11 2011, Philip Webb wrote: 110910 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I converted two machines from icedtea (java6) to oracle-jdk-bin (java7). I did in effect emerge --depclean icedtea icedtea-web =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 On one machine portage now claims that I basically don't

[gentoo-user] License question for jdk

2011-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My update world today produced [nomerge ] dev-java/icedtea-6.1.10.3 USE=hs20 nsplugin nss webstart xrender -cacao -debug -doc -examples -jamvm -javascript -nio2 -pulseaudio -systemtap -zero [nomerge ] dev-java/ant-nodeps-1.8.1 [ebuild NS] virtual/jre-1.7.0 [1.6.0] 0

Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk

2011-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Sep 10 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: Allan Gottlieb writes: My update world today produced So I need the Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE license. But I don't see where it tells me how to do this. Previous license requests said something like * go to URL xxx * click on YYY * store

[gentoo-user] loop merging and unmerging oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0

2011-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My daily update world caused the merging of oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0 (after wonko explained how to handle a license question). But my next step is emerge --depclean --ask This wanted to unmerge the above package and, if permitted to do so, caused a subsequent update word to remerge it. I then wisely

Re: [gentoo-user] loop merging and unmerging oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0

2011-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Sep 10 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: On Saturday, 10. September 2011 11:28:07 Allan Gottlieb wrote: My daily update world caused the merging of oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0 (after wonko explained how to handle a license question). But my next step is emerge --depclean --ask

[gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe?

2011-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I converted two machines from icedtea (java6) to oracle-jdk-bin (java7). I did in effect emerge --depclean icedtea icedtea-web =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 On one machine portage now claims that I basically don't need java (see the output of --depclean below). Can this be right?

[gentoo-user] problem with dump

2011-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I noticed that the last two (daily) dumps have been bad (too short, unreadable by restore). I tried to remerge app-arch/dump both 0.4.44-r1 (which I had before) and o.4.44. Both failed in the compile phase (details below). This seem a little frightening to me. Can someone tell me what has

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with dump

2011-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Sep 04 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: Allan Gottlieb writes: I noticed that the last two (daily) dumps have been bad (too short, unreadable by restore). I tried to remerge app-arch/dump both 0.4.44-r1 (which I had before) and o.4.44. Both failed in the compile phase (details below

[gentoo-user] trouble with locale and ca-certificates

2011-09-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On one machine an emerge of ca-certificates complains that my locale is bad (details below). In particular it asserts that filesystem encoding is ANSI_X3.4-1968. I followed the localization guide; now my locale seems right (although filesystem encoding is not mentioned). allan env.d # locale;

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with locale and ca-certificates

2011-09-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Sep 02 2011, Hans Müller wrote: Hi, did you try to set LC_CTYPE (and perhaps the others also) to 'en_US.utf8'? Regards Bingo! Funny that the value recommended in the gentoo localization guide is (for german) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C which I why I used UTF-8. Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the introspection USE flag for glib being removed by emerge?

2011-08-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 25 2011, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: See the [1] at the end of this line you posted: [ebuild R *] dev-libs/glib- USE=static-libs -debug -doc -fam (-introspection) (-selinux) -test -xattr 0 kB [1] That means this ebuilds come from an overlay, so it's your

[gentoo-user] Why is the introspection USE flag for glib being removed by emerge?

2011-08-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
In package.use I have dev-libs/glibintrospection However emerge is removing it. emerge --ignore-default-opts -pv =dev-libs/glib-::gnome [ebuild R *] dev-libs/glib- USE=static-libs -debug -doc -fam (-introspection) (-selinux) -test -xattr 0 kB [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the introspection USE flag for glib being removed by emerge? (FIXED)

2011-08-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Aug 24 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: In package.use I have dev-libs/glibintrospection However emerge is removing it. emerge --ignore-default-opts -pv =dev-libs/glib-::gnome [ebuild R *] dev-libs/glib- USE=static-libs -debug -doc -fam

[gentoo-user] emerge unable to find telepathy-logger[introspection]; why?

2011-08-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I run ~amd64 with the gnome overlay on one of my machines. I just ran an update world, which failed with emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =net-im/telepathy-logger-0.2.4[introspection]. (dependency required by gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.0.2 [installed]) (dependency required by

[gentoo-user] what is /usr/lib64/debug ?

2011-08-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
/usr/lib64/debug seems to have in it a duplicate (at least as far as directory names are concerned) of much of /usr/lib64. For example ajglap lib64 # /bin/pwd /usr/lib64/debug/usr/lib64 ajglap lib64 # du -s * | sort -n | tail -10 34020 mesa 53148 gstreamer-0.10

Re: [gentoo-user] what is /usr/lib64/debug ?

2011-08-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 18 2011, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2011/8/18 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu: /usr/lib64/debug seems to have in it a duplicate (at least as far as directory names are concerned) of much of /usr/lib64. For example    ajglap lib64 # /bin/pwd    /usr/lib64/debug/usr/lib64

Re: [gentoo-user] what is /usr/lib64/debug ?

2011-08-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Aug 18 2011, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2011/8/18 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu: /usr/lib64/debug seems to have in it a duplicate (at least as far as directory names are concerned) of much of /usr/lib64. For example    ajglap lib64 # /bin

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Aug 15 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun 14 August 2011 19:55:28 Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's installing Gnome 3 stuff. Is that what you want? Yes. That is why I am using the gnome overlay Look at your unmasking rules

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's installing Gnome 3 stuff. Is that what you want? Yes. That is why I am using the gnome overlay Look at your unmasking rules. They were supposed to be the ones that came with the instructions for moving to gnome 3. But I didn't realize that

[gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I was away for 2 weeks and am trying to update world on several systems. One system is ~x86 with the gnome overlay. I am getting a blockage. The output is [blocks B ] gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.32.0-r300 (gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.32.0-r300 is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 22 2011, CJoeB wrote: Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7. You have already received much good advice. I would add that dell

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I should first add that I have verizon and that I have not contacted them. I am willing to contact them and pay a monthly fee if necessary for the times I am away from normal wifi access (basically two weeks on a NH island). I should also add that in all my attempts I have never had ifconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? I think it

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 20 June 2011, at 21:10, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 20.06.2011 22:00, schrieb Matthew Finkel: ... I took a look at some forums and articles, and it seems like in order to get tethering working, some people downloaded an app called

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 21 June 2011, at 01:16, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ... It is my phone that has the problem and I bought it from verizon. None of the boxes are greyed out. However, I don't see a tethering option. I do see a mobile broadband option

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 21 June 2011, at 02:23, Stroller wrote: ... One preliminary question remains. When you mod the linux kernel and don't even have the phone plugged in (or don't even have a phone), are you supposed to get the usb0 interface. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Jun 18 2011, David Abbott wrote: If you open up wicd = Preferences = General Settings = Wired interface the defaultis eth0. That is what I have. Are you suggesting I should change it to usb0? I did not have to manually create any symlink as I think wicd does any majic that is

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 17 2011, David Abbott wrote: I am currently connected with a Google Nexus One. I am going to attach two files, my current lsmod and /usr/src/linux/.config Also I use wicd to connect. I had to add the wired network usb0 HTH David Thank you very much. I will work on this

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 17 2011, Mick wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 23:13:28 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Mick wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 15:38:30 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my gentoo laptop. [snip...] I haven't seen

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 17 2011, Mick wrote: On Friday 17 Jun 2011 11:52:03 Allan Gottlieb wrote: The forum post does not involve any ms windows code (in is a gentoo forum). Indeed it seems perfect ... ... except that for me it doesn't work. I has worked for others so I must have some configuration

[gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my gentoo laptop. The htc manual says that I first must install htc sync. When I go to the htc web site, I find that htc sync is only available for ms windows. I believing others on this group have tethered their incredibles and I

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my gentoo laptop. I haven't seen any howtos for tethering directly with gentoo. Check out this forum post

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Mick wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 15:38:30 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my gentoo laptop. The htc manual says that I first must install htc sync. When I go to the htc web site, I find that htc sync is only

[gentoo-user] converting to gnome3--a trip report

2011-06-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I just finished converting an extra laptop to gnome3. I have not as yet made any serious use of the resulting system, but thought my experiences might ease the effort for anyone trying this as well. I decided on a two step procedure: first convert from x86 to ~x86, and only then install the

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to find xcb-{aux, event, atom}

2011-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 05:00:08 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I get the following error several times when trying to emerge gnome-panel on oldlap, an ~x86 gentoo. CCLD panel-test-applets /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to find xcb-{aux, event, atom} (FIXED)

2011-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 05:00:08 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I get the following error several times when trying to emerge gnome-panel on oldlap, an ~x86 gentoo. CCLD panel-test-applets /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux

[gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list

2011-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
In /etc/portage/package.use I have # Need these or for some games gnome-extra/gnome-games clutter opengl But when I try to emerge gnome-games, I don't get clutter [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.30.2-r1 USE=guile opengl -artworkextra (-clutter) -test 0 kB I know

Re: [gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list

2011-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 01 June 2011 14:25:50 Allan Gottlieb wrote: In /etc/portage/package.use I have # Need these or for some games gnome-extra/gnome-games clutter opengl But when I try to emerge gnome-games, I don't get clutter

Re: [gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list

2011-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: In /etc/portage/package.use I have    # Need these or for some games    gnome-extra/gnome-games         clutter opengl But when I try to emerge gnome-games, I don't get clutter

Re: [gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list

2011-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 01.06.2011 20:25, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I know that the (-clutter) means that the clutter flag has been removed, The flag is not removed as in is not there anymore but it is masked because using it makes, at a high percentage, problems

[gentoo-user] unable to find xcb-{aux, event, atom}

2011-05-31 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I get the following error several times when trying to emerge gnome-panel on oldlap, an ~x86 gentoo. CCLD panel-test-applets /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-aux

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, May 29 2011, Nils Larsson wrote: måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ? echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale and env-update should work. Thanks. It just needed source /etc/profile at the end. The variables are now

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, May 30 2011, David W. Noon wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale: måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ? echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale and env-update should

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

2011-05-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Thank you.  Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from gnome2 is difficult.  Did you 1.  Upgrade from 2.32.1 2.  Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 3.  Do a fresh

[gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On one of my machines all the LC_ variables are POSIX. I want them to be en_US.utf8 as on my other machines. I have the done the following (from the handbook) 1. cat /etc/local.gen (ignoring comments) en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 2. locale-gen 3. source /etc/profile 4. locale

[gentoo-user] file collisions

2011-05-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
emerge complains that icu (details below) will overwrite files that MAY belong to other packages. But in fact none do. The suggestion is to ignore the collisions. Does that mean I should simply rm the files before retrying the emerge? thanks, allan * Messages for package dev-libs/icu-4.6.1:

Re: [gentoo-user] file collisions

2011-05-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: Allan Gottlieb writes: emerge complains that icu (details below) will overwrite files that MAY belong to other packages. But in fact none do. The suggestion is to ignore the collisions. Does that mean I should simply rm the files before retrying

[gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

2011-05-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Since I don't teach again until sept, this seems like a good time to try gnome 3. Before I do, I wonder how others have fared. This is gnome 3 vs gnome 2 (not kde). thanks, allan PS my system is ~amd64.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

2011-05-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Since I don't teach again until sept, this seems like a good time to try gnome 3.  Before I do, I wonder how others have fared. thanks, allan PS my system is ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

2011-05-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Thank you.  Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from gnome2 is difficult.  Did you 1.  Upgrade from 2.32.1 2.  Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 3.  Do a fresh

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, May 08 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:14 on Monday 09 May 2011, john did opine thusly: Great widgets. Not sure what a Molar Mass Calculator does? Perhaps weighs your teeth?? :-) Molar as in the adjective describing mole as in quantity of matter as

[gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

2011-04-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
(I confess to being a little over cautious after xcb.) After today's update word (just a few updates were specified/done). --depclean recommended These are the packages that would be unmerged: x11-libs/gtk+ selected: 3.0.9 protected: none omitted: 2.24.3 All selected packages:

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

2011-04-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Apr 28 2011, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: gtk+ 3.x is not used by gnome versions in portage (2.x). If you don't know if you need it, then you don't need it. You will be happy as long as portage doesn't want to remove gtk+ 2.x which is what most programs use. I don't even know if

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

2011-04-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Apr 26 2011, Todd Goodman wrote: * Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu [110426 14:34]: On Tue, Apr 26 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Starting last night several builds and programs are crashing due to problems in libxcb and others. My system is ~amd64. [SNIP] openoffice (picked up

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

2011-04-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Apr 26 2011, Philip Webb wrote: 110426 Allan Gottlieb wrote: My system is ~amd64. For example evolution fails to start and says gottlieb@ajglap ~ $ evolution evolution: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-aux.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

2011-04-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Apr 27 2011, Urs Schutz wrote: Did you see the Gentoo libxcb 1.4 Upgrade Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml No I hadn't. Thanks for the tip. Results 1. Ubgrading to libxcb 1.4: all was in order (no action needed) 2. Fixing broken

[gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

2011-04-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Starting last night several builds and programs are crashing due to problems in libxcb and others. My system is ~amd64. For example evolution fails to start and says gottlieb@ajglap ~ $ evolution evolution: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-aux.so.0: cannot open shared object file:

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

2011-04-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Apr 26 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Starting last night several builds and programs are crashing due to problems in libxcb and others. My system is ~amd64. For example evolution fails to start and says A rebuild of evolution fixed this but the other two errors still occur

[gentoo-user] Re: FEATURE: fixlafiles

2011-04-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Apr 09 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:02:06 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The last one is now an option in /etc/make.conf under FEATURES: fixlafiles This sounds great! Outside of some extra time in emerging is there any reason *not* to add fixlafiles

FEATURE: fixlafiles (was: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild Not Fixing Broken Links)

2011-04-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Apr 08 2011, Mick wrote: On Friday 08 April 2011 19:51:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I run that manually once in a while, but regularly clean a bunch of other things with a script I call cleanup, -#!/bin/bash -dispatch-conf -revdep-rebuild -lafilefixer --justfixit -

[gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

2011-03-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Something went wrong (I was away from the screen) with a emerge --ignore --depclean --ask ; revdep-rebuild -- --ignore-default-opts --ask I meant to answer n to the depclean since I wasn't ready to unmerge gentoo-sources, but perhaps I answered y (there were only three other--non critical

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

2011-03-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote: I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files. But emerge won't install it (again, just returns). Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

2011-03-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: On Sunday 27 Mar 2011 12:57:23 AM Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote: I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files. But emerge won't

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

2011-03-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:24:29 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files. But emerge won't install it (again, just returns). Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: For net-print/hplip users

2011-02-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Feb 14 2011, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Daniel Pielmeier schrieb am 12.02.2011 20:16: walt schrieb am 12.02.2011 19:47: On 02/11/2011 06:47 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: From the hplip ebuild: elog You should run hp-setup as root if you are installing hplip for the first time, elog

[gentoo-user] using meld with cfg-update -u

2011-02-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have been using cfg-update quite happily for a good while. I appreciate its automatically doing simple updates. For any that it can't do automatically, I have done them manually (using emacs/ediff). I decided to try meld instead (I use gnome). It does make everything clear, but something

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 09 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:03:36 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The postfix issue is separate and needs a glibc downgrade to fix. I am not sure I understand. I did the glibc upgrade and have not downgraded. I run postfix and my mail is coming

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Feb 08 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:37:41 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my desktop and home server and broke both.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
- but postfix still Works For Me(tm) Same for me. I just checked and several bugs have been opened. Scary. allan gottlieb

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with one of about 1 TB in size. Would this work? - attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB-SATA convertor - boot from rescue CD - dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb - remove sda,

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: Allan Gottlieb writes: On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with one of about 1 TB in size. Would this work? - attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB-SATA convertor - boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nVidia nouveau on nVidia 8600M GT

2011-01-30 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Jan 30 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: Happy news: Upgrading to KDE-4.6.0 fixed all the annoying issues below. Does this mean you are now running you nvidia graphics using the nouveau driver? That is, not just testing nouveau, but using it essentially all the time. thanks, allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:09:27 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So on a 20 package world update, only 19 are faster while the 20th runs at the same speed? Where's the loss there? Even if the last were slower, it would be worth it. Given the

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit Something seems wrong. Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run. Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to remove it. I'm running amd64 here but xdm doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: On 12/21/10 15:41:20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I It is already unmasked in ~amd64 (It's running just fine here) Bingo. There was a mesa problem a while ago (7.8.2) that caused me

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Re: depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu writes: Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: On 12/21/10 15:41:20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I It is already unmasked in ~amd64 (It's running just fine here) Bingo. There was a mesa

[gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Something seems wrong. Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run. Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to remove it. I can easily add hal to world, but should xdm depend on it? allan

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Vincent-Xavier JUMEL endymion+gen...@thetys-retz.net writes: Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit Something seems wrong. Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run. Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to remove it. Have you look

[gentoo-user] trouble with new gnome (~amd64)

2010-12-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Yesterday many gnome-apps were updated to 2.32. There is a problem with evolution's addr book, but for me that is minor. However, the gnome panel doesn't work. It starts, remains running, cannot be killed (even with -9) but does not display the panel. Anyone else had trouble and any fixes?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with new gnome (~amd64)

2010-12-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 12/08/2010 04:50 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Yesterday many gnome-apps were updated to 2.32. There is a problem with evolution's addr book, but for me that is minor. However, the gnome panel doesn't work. It starts, remains running, cannot be killed (even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with new gnome (~amd64)

2010-12-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: Create a new test user and then log in as test, and see if you get the same problem with the gnome panel. My guess is that everything will work normally, so you'll need to figure out what item in your regular ~/gnome-related directories is causing the gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:46:20 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: However version 1.7.1 (with the fix) hasn't been released yet. I am surprised since the released version doesn't work with python 2.7. 1.7.1_beta2 is in portage and working with 2.7. Yes

[gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Yesterday my ~amd64 machine updated python. I ran the python-updater and all seemed well. However, this morning wicd is failing. The first indication was a never-seen-before popup stating Granted permissions without asking for password (full text below) I re-installed wicd in case

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:51 on Wednesday 01 December 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Yesterday my ~amd64 machine updated python. I ran the python-updater and all seemed well. However, this morning wicd is failing. The first

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:46 on Wednesday 01 December 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: However version 1.7.1 (with the fix) hasn't been released yet. I am surprised since the released version doesn't work with python 2.7

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: It seems, however, that you're still going down the path

[gentoo-user] TROUBLE gcc profile invalid

2010-11-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Today's emerge update world merged gcc-4.5-1. (I do have the build system package feature enabled.) emerge --ignore-default-opts --depclean --ask; revdep-rebuild -- --ask asked to unmerge 4.5.1 and keep 4.5.1-r1. I said yes and am now in trouble since my gcc-profile is invlaid ajglap gottlieb

Re: [gentoo-user] TROUBLE gcc profile invalid

2010-11-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu writes: Today's emerge update world merged gcc-4.5-1. (I do have the build system package feature enabled.) emerge --ignore-default-opts --depclean --ask; revdep-rebuild -- --ask asked to unmerge 4.5.1 and keep 4.5.1-r1. I said yes and am now in trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] TROUBLE gcc profile invalid

2010-11-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:11 on Monday 22 November 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Today's emerge update world merged gcc-4.5-1. (I do have the build system package feature enabled.) emerge --ignore-default-opts --depclean

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Friday 19 November 2010 05:14:26 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu writes: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: You don't have to chroot to run fsck. You can just boot from the LiveCD and run `fsck -o -p -t -i -o -n

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:14:26 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: So is it now an appropriate time for me to run an emerge -e world It shouldn't do any harm. I do not mind taking this machine offline for the few days of the emerge. There's no need

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:14:26 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: So is it now an appropriate time for me to run an    emerge -e world

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