Mis-posted please ignore Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with modify-frame-parameters

2015-05-11 Thread gottlieb
Sorry. This was meant for the emacs list. On Sun, May 10 2015, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I execute the following function in *scratch* on a fresh emacs -Q (modify-frame-parameters; for 2560x1600 nil '((fullscreen . fullheight) (width . 176) (left . -1300))) My screen is

[gentoo-user] trouble with modify-frame-parameters

2015-05-10 Thread gottlieb
I execute the following function in *scratch* on a fresh emacs -Q (modify-frame-parameters ; for 2560x1600 nil '((fullscreen . fullheight) (width . 176) (left . -1300))) My screen is 2560x1600. Emacs version is 24.4. System is gentoo/gnome. The frame does become fullheight

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-21 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Apr 21 2015, Florian Gamböck wrote: Am 21.04.2015 um 07:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon: It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or more likely, stable request for icedtead-bin-7 is lagging behind. You are right, the stable request is still going on:

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using postfix 3.0.0

2015-03-26 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Mar 25 2015, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 22:34:10 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Then I run for a while, check the logs and issue the appropriate postconf commands. Yes, exactly. You can also manually go through the settings mentioned in the Overview section of

[gentoo-user] anyone using postfix 3.0.0

2015-03-25 Thread gottlieb
A new stable mail-mta/postfix hit the tree recently 3.0.0. Is anyone running it? I built it on a test machine but it doesn't seem to work. However, I don't use that machine much (and never for mail) so it is very possibly mis-configured for mail. Before I build the new postscript for my real

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using postfix 3.0.0

2015-03-25 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Mar 25 2015, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: Is anyone running it? I built it on a test machine but it doesn't seem to work. However, I don't use that machine much (and never for mail) so it is very possibly mis-configured for mail. Before I build the new postscript for my real machine I

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

2015-02-18 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Feb 16 2015, David Haller wrote: Hello, On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I built and tried mplayer. Again not rotated. I ran it from the terminal. Below is the output up to when I killed it [..] VO: [xv] 1920x1080 = 1920x1080 Planar YV12 FWIW: if it's just for

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-18 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Feb 17 2015, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal files? Those live under /var/lib/journal (which you need to create; Gentoo doesn't do it by default last time I

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-18 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 18 2015, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:22 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 17 2015, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal

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

2015-02-16 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Feb 16 2015, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 17/02/15 01:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 16 2015, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 16/02/15 22:51, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I apologize in advance for this off topic query. I took a video with my phone (galaxy note 4) and via google+

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

2015-02-16 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Feb 16 2015, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 16/02/15 22:51, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I apologize in advance for this off topic query. I took a video with my phone (galaxy note 4) and via google+ uploaded it to my mail laptop. It is an mp4 and plays fine on both the phone and the labtop

[gentoo-user] off topic: rotating a video

2015-02-16 Thread gottlieb
I apologize in advance for this off topic query. I took a video with my phone (galaxy note 4) and via google+ uploaded it to my mail laptop. It is an mp4 and plays fine on both the phone and the labtop except that it is sideways. I was surprised that neither the player on the phone nor the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-17 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Jan 16 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/01/2015 03:35, Philip Webb wrote: OTOH I suspect most of us here starting computing with punched cards ... Can't say I had that pleasure :-) I did start with teletype terminals, punched paper tape and a Sinclair Research Mk14 though! Paper

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-*

2014-12-24 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Dec 23 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:34 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I shamefully had not run a --depclean for a few months. Today I did and was surprised by the barrage of gst-plugins to be removed. I have not changed any USE flags nor removed any

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins-*

2014-12-23 Thread gottlieb
I shamefully had not run a --depclean for a few months. Today I did and was surprised by the barrage of gst-plugins to be removed. I have not changed any USE flags nor removed any packages. The plugins to remove include a large bunch where the 0.10.* version is to go but the 1.2.* version is to

Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.7:3/25 keeps on the list of updates

2014-12-22 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Dec 21 2014, meino cramer wrote: Hi, My PC runs over night to successfully compile/install net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.7:3/25. This morning it appears again as item to be updated. What did I wrong? How can I fix it? Best regards, Meino Did you check that they are the same

[gentoo-user] Trouble updating shotwell

2014-12-03 Thread gottlieb
Two of my machines cannot update media-gfx/shotwell; the other two can update it. On the failing machines there are many lines in build.log saying /bin/sh: xml2po: command not found and many pairs of lines saying msgfmt: po/he.po: warning: PO file header fuzzy warning: older

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble updating shotwell

2014-12-03 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Dec 03 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:24 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Two of my machines cannot update media-gfx/shotwell; the other two can update it. On the failing machines there are many lines in build.log saying /bin/sh: xml2po: command not found

Re: [gentoo-user] using python 2.7

2014-11-04 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Nov 04 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Paige Thompson erra...@yourstruly.sx wrote: RIP python 3 how do I get rid of it It's possible that you can't. Some (or many) packages could depend on Python 2.7 because they don't work with Python 3.x. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etiquette for stabilization request

2014-11-03 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Nov 02 2014, Hans de Graaff wrote: On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:10:34 -0500, gottlieb wrote: I am running firefox-24.8.0, which is highest stable (highest testing is 33.0). Several sites, in particular mail.google.com, report that This version of Firefox is no longer supported. Please

[gentoo-user] etiquette for stabilization request

2014-11-02 Thread gottlieb
I am running firefox-24.8.0, which is highest stable (highest testing is 33.0). Several sites, in particular mail.google.com, report that This version of Firefox is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser. Does that warrant a stabilization request. I have never filed one

[gentoo-user] why the sudden need for glamor in xf86-video-intel

2014-09-17 Thread gottlieb
Today EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5 emerge --keep-going --update --changed-use @world generated Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.21.15 USE=dri glamor* sna udev -uxa -xvmc 1,932 kB [ebuild N ]

Re: [gentoo-user] why the sudden need for glamor in xf86-video-intel

2014-09-17 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Sep 17 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:51:17 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: (see package.use in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by x11-libs/glamor-0.6.0 # required by

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 15 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: My favourite Fortran story: One of the Mariner spacecraft yonks ago was sent a routine regular course correction. It flew off at some wild angle and was never seen again, and because the antenna was pointing in the wrong direction comms could not be

[gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread gottlieb
I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple (non-gentoo) error on my part. In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/dia --integrated ls -l /home/gottlieb/bin/dia gives -rwxr-xr-x 1 gottlieb gottlieb 38 Aug 28 11:28 /home

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 28 2014, Kerin Millar wrote: On 28/08/2014 16:42, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple (non-gentoo) error on my part. In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/dia --integrated ls

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:42 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple (non-gentoo) error on my part. In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following #!/bin/bash /usr/bin

[gentoo-user] Do I really need kernel support for ppp?

2014-08-13 Thread gottlieb
(I use gnome, hence systemd. I have no modem, except the cable modem.) network-manager requires ppp and the latest version of ppp (just installed by today's update world) wants me to add ppp support to my kernel. I can certainly do so; is that considered advisable? If so must I do it right

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need kernel support for ppp?

2014-08-13 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Aug 13 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 13/08/2014 14:42, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: (I use gnome, hence systemd. I have no modem, except the cable modem.) network-manager requires ppp and the latest version of ppp (just installed by today's update world) wants me to add ppp support to

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, wra...@wraeth.id.au wrote: On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 08:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v And then retry to update world. I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of this msg. -- The first

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: This new dynamic dep stuff allows portage a degree of freedom in selecting such providers and sometimes it decides to use the one you don't have. To satisfy that decision, it must then uninstall what you have. This I understand I suspect the root

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:23 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v And then retry to update world. I've been

[gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-07 Thread gottlieb
I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of this msg. -- The first conflict is --- !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] updating ALL packages

2014-07-25 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 25 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/07/2014 03:51, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 24 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:24:44 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I had mistakenly thought this would update all packages not at the latest version (subject to

Re: [gentoo-user] updating ALL packages

2014-07-25 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 25 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 23/07/2014 15:24, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My normal updating procedure is EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5 emerge --update --changed-use --keep-going @world I had mistakenly thought this would update

[gentoo-user] Re: updating ALL packages

2014-07-24 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jul 23 2014, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My normal updating procedure is EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5 emerge --update --changed-use --keep-going @world I had mistakenly thought this would update all packages not at the latest version

[gentoo-user] updating ALL packages

2014-07-24 Thread gottlieb
My normal updating procedure is EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5 emerge --update --changed-use --keep-going @world I had mistakenly thought this would update all packages not at the latest version (subject to package.accept_keywords, package.mask, ...).

Re: [gentoo-user] updating ALL packages

2014-07-24 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jul 24 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:24:44 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I had mistakenly thought this would update all packages not at the latest version (subject to package.accept_keywords, package.mask, ...). It only updates runtime dependencies, you need

Re: [gentoo-user] stable/testing system requiring an *UNstable* dev-lang/perl

2014-07-15 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Jul 08 2014, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2014, 00:02:56 schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: For some reason my mostly-stable-slightly-testing system is trying to merge *UNstable* dev-lang/perl. I do not have a package.unmask file Specifically it wants me to unmask

[gentoo-user] stable/testing system requiring an *UNstable* dev-lang/perl

2014-07-08 Thread gottlieb
For some reason my mostly-stable-slightly-testing system is trying to merge *UNstable* dev-lang/perl. I do not have a package.unmask file Specifically it wants me to unmask =dev-lang/perl-5.20.0-r1 An eix on the same system (with no sync in between) does not even show such a version as existing.

Re: [gentoo-user] stable/testing system requiring an *UNstable* dev-lang/perl

2014-07-08 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Jul 08 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:02:56 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason my mostly-stable-slightly-testing system is trying to merge *UNstable* dev-lang/perl. Specifically it wants me to unmask =dev-lang/perl-5.20.0-r1 That's not testing, it's

[gentoo-user] must/should systemd users package.mask upower-pm-utils

2014-06-29 Thread gottlieb
My desktop is a fully stable (empty package.accept_keywords) systemd system. The profile is .../gnome/system and it boots init=systemd. The 3 june news asserts all systemd users are recommended to stay with sys-power/upower. However update world wants to uninstall upower and install

Re: [gentoo-user] must/should systemd users package.mask upower-pm-utils

2014-06-29 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 29 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/06/2014 22:09, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My desktop is a fully stable (empty package.accept_keywords) systemd system. The profile is .../gnome/system and it boots init=systemd. The 3 june news asserts all systemd users are recommended to stay

Re: [gentoo-user] must/should systemd users package.mask upower-pm-utils

2014-06-29 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 29 2014, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: When I started this project there were no related bugs in b.g.o. I will investigate them Pretty tricky huh. When I started this project there were no related bugs in b.g.o.; but there are now. I will investigate them Sorry, allan

Re: [gentoo-user] must/should systemd users package.mask upower-pm-utils

2014-06-29 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 29 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/06/2014 23:57, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Jun 29 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/06/2014 22:09, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My desktop is a fully stable (empty package.accept_keywords) systemd system. The profile is .../gnome/system and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jun 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: That doesn't matter. Take a non-negative integer N; if you flip a coin an infinite number of times, then the probability of the coin landing on the same face N times in a row is 1. This is certainly true. This means that it is *guaranteed* to

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

2014-06-25 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Jun 24 2014, 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 between:

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

2014-06-23 Thread gottlieb
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 between: # emerge --oneshot --noreplace 'sys-power/upower-pm-utils' or # emerge --oneshot --noreplace

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-22 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jun 21 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:20:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and add the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. The only issue with this is that you never get back to

[gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread gottlieb
(I am in the months long process of converting from testing to stable, using the bothwick going stable method; but I don't believe that is related to the question I am asking.) I was away for several days and have a number of problem with my normally-daily update world. Some may be due to the

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 19 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: There are a few more again with no parents Then comes one that I can't understand virtual/libintl:0 (virtual/libintl-0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: This helped considerably. No grey bands; instead gdm puts up its screensaver and tells us the (correct) time. Moving the mouse moves the pointer and clicking on the upper right button

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv nvidia; but in any case it is loading two

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the following problem. To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse button1 and move the mouse up (as

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [...] I did emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world and emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts The problem remains (after a reboot). Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-11 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Philip Webb wrote: On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau ... One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild The overnight emerge @preserved-rebuild finished without error, but at the end announced

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: I copied the two messages, and compared them side-by-each in xterms. I had done exactly that prior to posting When X realizes that you have an Nvidia card, and no xorg.conf, it sets up a list of all drivers that could possibly work with your card,

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-10 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, May 10 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/05/2014 23:34, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, May 09 2014, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, May 09 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: There's a brute force method. All the nvidia files listed below are now orphaned, so you should be able to delete

[gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-09 Thread gottlieb
I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau. I changed the entries in make.conf and did emerge --depclean nvidia-drivers. One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild, including two webkit-gtk and libreoffice (so hours to rebuild). The overnight emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-09 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, May 09 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau. I changed the entries in make.conf and did emerge --depclean nvidia-drivers. One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild, including

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-09 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, May 09 2014, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, May 09 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: There's a brute force method. All the nvidia files listed below are now orphaned, so you should be able to delete them and let revdep-rebuild fix anything remaining. You also have stuffs from emul-linux in

Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

2014-04-28 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:20:12 -0400 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: When I did an emerge --pretend eclipse-sdk I received a note that a recent binary is in the java-overlay. Is that what you would recommend? I have used layman in the past for gnome.

Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

2014-04-28 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Apr 28 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:08:18 -0400 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I get almost immediate segfaults. I type eclipse-bin-7.2 It is basically empty (no projects). I start a new project called crash I then expand the project, select src, right click

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and ModemManager

2014-04-26 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Apr 25 2014, David Abbott wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * gottl...@nyu.edu gottl...@nyu.edu [140425 12:21]: journalctl -b | grep -i modem yields *many* of these lines Apr 25 12:10:18 e6510 dbus-daemon[254]: dbus[254]: [system]

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and ModemManager

2014-04-26 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Apr 26 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:11 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [ ... ] I am hoping someone (guess who :-) ) will chime in with the magic incantation to have the system not try to start modemmanger. I don't know If you meant me, I'll never tell

[gentoo-user] Systemd and ModemManager

2014-04-25 Thread gottlieb
journalctl -b | grep -i modem yields *many* of these lines Apr 25 12:10:18 e6510 dbus-daemon[254]: dbus[254]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

[gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

2014-04-17 Thread gottlieb
I am a CS prof at NYU, which uses Java for CS 101. I have taught this course a few times and have learned Java as a result. During my sabbatical year (a coincidence? :-) )the department decided to teach the eclipse IDE. I have never used an IDE so though i should try now instead of waiting

Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

2014-04-17 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Jc García wrote: 2014-04-17 10:11 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu: I am a CS prof at NYU, which uses Java for CS 101. I have taught this course a few times and have learned Java as a result. During my sabbatical year (a coincidence? :-) )the department decided to teach the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: using eclipse with java

2014-04-17 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Apr 17 2014, James wrote: If you guys are deep into hardware at NYU, My group was back in the 1980s and 90s (nyu ultracomputer still gets a bunch of google hits) I'd suggest getting friendly with one of the big semiconductor houses, We did have industrial contact, chiefly with IBM.

Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

2014-04-17 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Jc García wrote: 2014-04-17 11:15 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu: On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Jc García wrote: 2014-04-17 10:11 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu: Thank you; that does seem preferable. Is the binary you refer to the one in the following message from emerge (I did a

Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

2014-04-17 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:11:05 -0400 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have not yet merged eclipse-sdk. Must I merge this? The only version in the main tree is masked and it brings in 83! packages. One Does Not Simply Compile Eclipse[1]. There is

Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

2014-04-17 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:20:12 -0400 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: When I did an emerge --pretend eclipse-sdk I received a note that a recent binary is in the java-overlay. Is that what you would recommend? I have used layman in the past for gnome.

[gentoo-user] recently masked

2014-03-06 Thread gottlieb
Today's update world produced !!! The following installed packages are masked: - dev-python/python-exec-1.1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) /var/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org (06 Mar 2014) # Compatibility packages masked for removal in

Re: [gentoo-user] recently masked

2014-03-06 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Mar 06 2014, Rick Farina wrote: On 03/06/2014 10:41 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Today's update world produced !!! The following installed packages are masked: - dev-python/python-exec-1.1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) /var/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-18 Thread gottlieb
: USE=+systemd -consolkit OpenRC: USE=-systemd +consolkit At least that is what I did when I switched OpenRC--Systemd (with Canek's help). Now I have no global USE flags, thanks to the systemd subprofile. newlap-wireless gottlieb # eselect profile show Current /etc/portage/make.profile symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] can not mount USB stick as user

2014-02-05 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 05 2014, Joseph wrote: Thank you for correction. You are correct I would need to switch to new systemd. I think for now I'll go back to udev as I'm afraid something might not work after switching :-/ Two comments. 1. Canek is *very* helpful on systemd issues. 2. If you have

Re: [gentoo-user] going from systemd to udev

2014-02-04 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Feb 04 2014, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 02/04/2014 01:58 PM, Joseph wrote: Is it possible to go from systemd to udev? I don't like the way systemd works. I have a problem with mounting USB sick (it mounts as root:root) and I can not even change the permission. I am receiving

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome

2014-01-23 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jan 23 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:54 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 22, 2014 5:55 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Today,

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Jan 21 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say that, although I

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 22 Jan 2014 12:52:25 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 21 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu

[gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating 3.10.17 to 3.10.25. As expected make oldconfig showed nothing new, so I thought the new kernel would just work. However gdm failed, with several pairs of messages Jan 22 17:04:49 localhost gdm[276]: GLib-GObject: g_object_ref: assertion

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 22 2014, walt wrote: On 01/21/2014 07:30 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I recently became a grandfather... OMG! You're the youngest person in this group :) Well I was born (just) before WWII ended, specifically 2 aug 45. I hadn't considered the possibility that I was younger than

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 22, 2014 5:55 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating 3.10.17 to 3.10.25. As expected make oldconfig showed nothing new, so I thought the new kernel would just work. However gdm failed, with

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-21 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say that, although I have had this system for a while, I just now realized that it has a build in webcam. What software do you

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-21 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say that, although I have had this system for a while, I just now realized that it has a build in webcam. What software do you

[gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-18 Thread gottlieb
My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say that, although I have had this system for a while, I just now realized that it has a build in webcam. What software do you recommend and what should I start reading to learn how to use it. thanks, allan

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

2014-01-03 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jan 02 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 03:28 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 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.

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

2014-01-02 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jan 02 2014, Helmut Jarausch wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
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 without activity so it spins down. I was considering

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

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 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. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail

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

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Dale wrote: gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 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. Maybe I'm weird or

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

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Daniel Frey wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was considering what seagate calls an expansion hard drive. They are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only and I don't need any backup software from seagate. The models

Re: [gentoo-user] how to find whether scanner supported

2013-12-24 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Dec 24 2013, Philip Webb wrote: I recently bought an HP 2510 printer-copier-scanner. It prints copies, but Xsane can't find it as a scanner. I suspect the problem is that Sane-backends doesn't support it : how do I find out whether that is the case ? Assuming you use hplip, did you

Re: [gentoo-user] converting from testing to stable SLOWLY

2013-12-20 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 17 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:18:50 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: A few months ago a procedure was given for converting from testing to stable (e.g. ~amd64--~amd) by essentially waiting for stable to catch up. Can someone repost this msg? You can

Re: [gentoo-user] converting from testing to stable SLOWLY

2013-12-20 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Dec 20 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:34:34 -0500, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: You can generate the list with qlist -ICv | sed -e 's/^/~/' -e 's/-r[1-9]$//' /etc/portage/package.mask/goingstable Am I correct in believing that there is a typo and package.mask

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless fixed (network-manager but NO dhcpcd)

2013-12-19 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Dec 19 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:07:16 -0500, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Switched to systemd and all was well for weeks. Then failure occurred (non-global ctrl_ifname). Tried network-manager (NM) with no success. New. Canek told me off-list that, when using

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless fixed (network-manager but NO dhcpcd)

2013-12-19 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Dec 19 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:23:05 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Canek told me off-list that, when using NM, you don't enable dhcpcd, NM handles it all. Poof and when the smoke cleared ... The same applies to Wicd, the default systemd config

Wireless fixed (network-manager but NO dhcpcd) (was: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname))

2013-12-18 Thread gottlieb
Summary of previous emails. All was well using openrc / dhcpcd / wicd Switched to systemd and all was well for weeks. Then failure occurred (non-global ctrl_ifname). Tried network-manager (NM) with no success. New. Canek told me off-list that, when using NM, you don't enable dhcpcd, NM handles it

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