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

2015-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/16/2015 03:25 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/ So it seems the reason (in Lennart Poettering's imagination at least) that Gentoo hasn't embraced systemd as our default init system is because we're all old and conservative? Not like those

[gentoo-user] [~amd64 + nvidia-drivers] Recent updates of mesa, xorg-server, eselect-opengl driving me nuts

2015-01-13 Thread walt
Here are some hints for ~amd64 users who are about to have trouble with gnome3-session failing to start: After updating today to mesa-10.4.2 and xorg-server-1.16.3-r1, gnome3 failed to start, complaining that 3d acceleration was not available. This was true, unfortunately, and the reason is that

[gentoo-user] Re: cannot emerge dev-qt/qtcore, undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'

2015-01-13 Thread walt
On 01/11/2015 09:39 PM, Justin Findlay wrote: I am having a problem emerging dev-qt/qtcore that I have been unable to solve myself yet. The system is amd64 and I have ABI_X86='32 64' so that pipelight will work. I think the error is coming from somewhere within glibc's multilib

[gentoo-user] Re: mouse problem with old machine

2015-01-08 Thread walt
On 01/08/2015 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I want to get my oldest machine, built 2003, to work : it wakes up ok, but it doesn't recognise my mouse. My memory is that there was a change in mice sometimes since 2003 that I needed to use one of the earlier kind for this machine ;

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : bug report

2015-01-01 Thread walt
On 12/31/2014 04:40 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 141231 Philip Webb wrote: 141229 Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : I've investigated further the problem remains. It occurred to me that

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge matplotlib-1.3.0 fails

2014-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/17/2014 03:46 AM, rhan...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, When emergin matplotlib (as dependency of ipython) it fails with the following error: src/_png.cpp:264:13: error: 'npy_PyFile_DupClose' was not declared in Full output of build.log, emerge --info and emerge -pqv is attached I believe

[gentoo-user] Re: unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?

2014-12-16 Thread walt
On 12/15/2014 11:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 16/12/2014 02:17, walt wrote: I confess I've never thought much about why /tmp exists, but today I was inconvenienced when an end-user utility (uudeview) ran out of space on /tmp while doing an ordinary end-user task processing very large end

[gentoo-user] unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?

2014-12-15 Thread walt
I confess I've never thought much about why /tmp exists, but today I was inconvenienced when an end-user utility (uudeview) ran out of space on /tmp while doing an ordinary end-user task processing very large end-user files. Why is an end-user program using a system directory like /tmp in the

[gentoo-user] Re: having problems emerging x11-wm/clutter-3.14.2

2014-12-11 Thread walt
On 12/11/2014 07:12 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. In my usual world update portage asked me to emerge x11-wm/clutter-3.14.2 as I am using the gnome overlay. very big snip -I/usr/include/clutter-1.0 another big snip I'm just speculating because I don't know the answer to your

[gentoo-user] Re: cups-filters failing to build

2014-11-24 Thread walt
On 11/24/2014 02:24 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Hey guys, I've been having a really strange issue with net-print/cups-filters for the last few weeks, wondering whether or not it's a bug or I just have something configured wrong. Somehow ${S} is defined as:

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p594::gentoo failed

2014-11-23 Thread walt
On 11/23/2014 04:45 PM, Joseph wrote: * ERROR: dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p594::gentoo failed (compile phase): On my ~amd64 machines I have ruby-2.0.0_p598 installed. Is there a reason you want 594 instead of 598?

[gentoo-user] qwinff: an excellent qt gui front-end for ffmpeg

2014-11-10 Thread walt
I heard about qwinff in a linux podcast and I'm happy I decided to try it. It's not in portage or layman, but installing it is so trivial I'll describe how I did it: Download the source file here: https://github.com/qwinff/qwinff/ by clicking the Download ZIP button on the right side of the web

[gentoo-user] Re: Nagios testers wanted

2014-11-05 Thread walt
On 11/05/2014 09:42 AM, James wrote: Us old farts, call that:: wisdom Is that Haskell?

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-28 Thread walt
On 10/27/2014 08:22 PM, Tom H wrote: The 1.2.9 nfs-utils ebuild has systemd_dounit ${FILESDIR}/nfsd.service where nfsd.service has Requires=rpcbind.service and After=rpcbind.service. The 1.3.0 nfs-utils ebuild has systemd_dounit systemd/*.{mount,service,target} where nfs-server.service has

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-27 Thread walt
Last night when I powered off my machines NFS was working perfectly. Today it's broken again for the nth time: #systemctl status nfs-server ● nfs-server.service - NFS server and services Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/nfs-server.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result:

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-27 Thread walt
On 10/27/2014 12:56 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:38 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Last night when I powered off my machines NFS was working perfectly. Today it's broken again for the nth time: #systemctl status nfs-server ● nfs-server.service - NFS server

[gentoo-user] Re: [systemd] Is this a NetworkManager bug?

2014-10-17 Thread walt
On 10/16/2014 04:34 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: At some point NM had integration with the OpenRC network configuration, and (AFAIR) sometimes it made a mess inside /etc/conf.d. I don't know if such integration exists anymore; nowadays I don't even have /etc/{conf,init}.d, and everything

[gentoo-user] Re: [systemd] Is this a NetworkManager bug?

2014-10-16 Thread walt
On 10/15/2014 08:23 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:39 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched my home LAN from wired to all wifi and I'm having trouble with NetworkManager at boot time. I have systemd start NetworkManager at boot because I need the internet for ntpdate

[gentoo-user] Re: New wireless adapter breaks nfs exports

2014-10-16 Thread walt
On 10/15/2014 12:57 PM, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:39 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/2014 08:31 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:52 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: This machine (my nfsv3 file server) just got a new wireless adapter, which works fine

[gentoo-user] Re: [systemd] Is this a NetworkManager bug?

2014-10-14 Thread walt
On 10/13/2014 04:56 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:39 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched my home LAN from wired to all wifi and I'm having trouble with NetworkManager at boot time. I have systemd start NetworkManager at boot because I need the internet

[gentoo-user] [systemd] Is this a NetworkManager bug?

2014-10-13 Thread walt
I just switched my home LAN from wired to all wifi and I'm having trouble with NetworkManager at boot time. I have systemd start NetworkManager at boot because I need the internet for ntpdate and to start the nfs server for the LAN. Before I switched to all-wireless this method worked perfectly,

[gentoo-user] Re: New wireless adapter breaks nfs exports

2014-10-07 Thread walt
On 10/05/2014 08:31 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:52 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: This machine (my nfsv3 file server) just got a new wireless adapter, which works fine for everything except serving files :( mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol

[gentoo-user] Re: nonfatal() not supported error in glibc binary install

2014-10-05 Thread walt
On 10/04/2014 09:15 PM, Bruce Schultz wrote: Hi, I'm trying to update a system using binary packages build on another system. I get this error for glibc: Emerging binary (1 of 1) sys-libs/glibc-2.19-r1::gentoo * glibc-2.19-r1.tbz2 MD5 SHA1 size ;-) ... [

[gentoo-user] Re: Cohorent pool size too small...

2014-10-05 Thread walt
On 10/05/2014 06:52 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, while trying to get a mt7601sta (UWN200 WiFi dongle) driver running and working I came accross this in the dmesg output: [9.931938] usb 2-1: device v148f p7601 is not supported This looks to me like it's the real error, not the

[gentoo-user] Re: Cohorent pool size too small...

2014-10-05 Thread walt
On 10/05/2014 07:54 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com [14-10-05 16:16]: On 10/05/2014 06:52 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, while trying to get a mt7601sta (UWN200 WiFi dongle) driver running and working I came accross this in the dmesg output

[gentoo-user] Re: New wireless adapter breaks nfs exports [SOLVED]

2014-10-05 Thread walt
On 10/04/2014 11:52 AM, walt wrote: This machine (my nfsv3 file server) just got a new wireless adapter, which works fine for everything except serving files :( mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported google shows me lots about slow nfs connections over

[gentoo-user] New wireless adapter breaks nfs exports

2014-10-04 Thread walt
This machine (my nfsv3 file server) just got a new wireless adapter, which works fine for everything except serving files :( mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported google shows me lots about slow nfs connections over wireless but nothing about non-support. I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: I did some googling and enabled the appropriate kernel drivers, then rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: wlan0

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/03/2014 07:21 AM, walt wrote: On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Did you try dhcpcd wlan0 to see if it gets an IP-address? That doesn't work (yet). An error message said that /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf was missing, so I copied this example from a man page: #cat /etc

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/03/2014 11:28 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager panel applet to enter the psk manually. Ugh. As for NetworkManager, just log in to your DE as root or run

[gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread walt
My ISP just forced me to upgrade to a new fiberoptic plan with very little advance notice. I can't complain too much because my download speed is three times faster than yesterday, but now I need to use a USB WiFi adapter if I want to use my main desktop machine anywhere other than my kitchen.

[gentoo-user] Re: bloated by gcc

2014-09-28 Thread walt
On 09/28/2014 01:44 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are unaccountably large. I'm talking about C programs of my own, so no version related issues whatsoever. The computer is a core i3 with a 32 bit system. Example, for the same

[gentoo-user] Re: journald refuses to put log files in /var/log/journal/ [SOLVED]

2014-09-23 Thread walt
On 09/22/2014 08:50 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:41 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: My main desktop machine is obviously having a brain fart :( systemd-journald is allegedly obligated to write its journal files to /var/log/journal/ *if* that directory exists

[gentoo-user] Re: journald refuses to put log files in /var/log/journal/ [NOT SOLVED]

2014-09-23 Thread walt
On 09/23/2014 07:46 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:27 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I used systemctl to stop and restart systemd-journald, thinking I might see some useful error messages. But when systemd-journal started up again the journal file was back in /var/log

[gentoo-user] Re: journald refuses to put log files in /var/log/journal/ [REALLY SOLVED]

2014-09-23 Thread walt
On 09/23/2014 11:28 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/23/2014 07:46 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:27 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I used systemctl to stop and restart systemd-journald, thinking I might see

[gentoo-user] journald refuses to put log files in /var/log/journal/

2014-09-22 Thread walt
My main desktop machine is obviously having a brain fart :( systemd-journald is allegedly obligated to write its journal files to /var/log/journal/ *if* that directory exists, right? Well, on my three other gentoo ~amd64 machines, that's exactly what journald does. But not on my everyday work

[gentoo-user] Is systemd-journald a complete replacement for sysklogd?

2014-09-17 Thread walt
I'm trying to track down a bad bug in dhcpcd-6.4.4, so (unlike most days ;) I'm paying close attention to the output of journalctl. The confusing part is that the output of journalctl is *very* different depending on whether dhcpcd starts correctly during boot. Or not. I think I may be shooting

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-16 Thread walt
On 08/16/2014 11:56 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: * unmerge modutils * emerge kmod, with the tools USE flag. Before I screw anything up, does this sound reasonable? Yes, that's what I did and all's well. But *don't* do it until you return from your trip, lest the spirit of desktop environments

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-15 Thread walt
On 08/14/2014 01:24 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:58:44PM -0700, walt wrote On 08/13/2014 03:51 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Going from 3.12.13 to 3.14.14 using make old config and then the standard build (64 bit). At the DEPMOD stage near the very end I get... DEPMOD

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-13 Thread walt
On 08/13/2014 03:51 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Going from 3.12.13 to 3.14.14 using make old config and then the standard build (64 bit). At the DEPMOD stage near the very end I get... DEPMOD 3.14.14-gentoo /usr/src/linux-3.14.14-gentoo/scripts/depmod.sh: line 57: 27721 Segmentation fault

[gentoo-user] Anybody running gnome3 in a virtualbox gentoo guest?

2014-08-13 Thread walt
Because I'm paranoid, I update my virtualbox ~amd64-gentoo-guest machine every day *before* I update my (real hardware) production machine. (The definition of production is left as an exercise for the reader.) Not long ago I noticed that the vbox guest machine failed to start a gnome session

[gentoo-user] Re: colord failed to upgrade

2014-08-02 Thread walt
On 08/01/2014 01:52 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Bus costs me less than 4 euros for a return trip. Car park is 12 euros a day (my employer pays for the car and fuel, so that doesn't enter the equation) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/parking_joke

[gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-26 Thread walt
On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB. [894019.770084] EDAC MC0: 1 CE on mc#0csrow#2channel#0 (csrow:2 channel:0 page:0x2aa6ce offset:0xc60 grain:0 syndrome:0x63e1) [894019.770090] [Hardware

[gentoo-user] Re: Something went wrong with DNS, plz help!

2014-07-26 Thread walt
On 07/26/2014 02:00 PM, Grand Duet wrote: After the last reboot I magically have got the right /etc/resolv.conf with DNS servers IPs. Even more strange is that it happened *without* my intervention: just a few reboots (one was no enough!). I'm glad the evil spirits decided to depart. Are

[gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-25 Thread walt
In this case, the brain dead sysadmin would be moi :) For years I've been using NFS to share /usr/portage with all of the gentoo machines on my LAN. Problem: occasionally it stops working for no apparent reason. Example: two days ago I updated two ~amd64 gentoo machines, both of which have

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

2014-07-24 Thread walt
On 07/23/2014 09:59 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I sent this a day or 2 ago, but it doesn't show up on the list for me. Apologies to anyone seeing a duplicate. I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE. My excellent adventure started yesterday when I got a clearout 7 tablet, and took a sample photo,

[gentoo-user] Re: Before strewing things up beyong recovery...(virtualbox)

2014-07-20 Thread walt
On 07/20/2014 07:22 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I set up virtual box successfully with one image. So nice so far. Unfortunately I did not recognize early enought, thet the image was placed into my home directory, which is short of splace. Can I move that folder (.Virtualbox) to another

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

2014-07-16 Thread walt
On 07/16/2014 10:21 AM, Dale wrote: I'm beginning to wonder about those stage3 tarballs for x86. Do they test those from time to time to make sure they work or do they just autobuild them and upload them? I'm following the install guide so I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything wrong but at

[gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey runs too slow

2014-07-01 Thread walt
On 07/01/2014 07:54 AM, James wrote: I have the latest version of seamonkey installed. It has been running slower with each of the recent upgrades. I noticed now that the roaming flag is default on, so I am going to recomile with this flag off. You might try installing seamonkey-bin to

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

2014-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/27/2014 01:59 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I am in a very strange situation where I cannot emerge anything any more. Since it occurs on two different machines it won't be a hardware problem. When I try to emerge a package, say portage, it builds it just fine and starts to install

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile opens my web-page in https

2014-06-24 Thread walt
On 06/24/2014 08:25 AM, Joseph wrote: On 06/23/14 18:08, Mick wrote: On Sunday 22 Jun 2014 22:52:40 Joseph wrote: I run a server and have two firefox profiles. I have ssl enabled. When I open one profile I it opens my web-page in https instead of http When I open another profile it open my

[gentoo-user] webkit-gtk grumbles

2014-06-16 Thread walt
I'm sick of building webkit-gtk. My oldest machine (a dual-core AMD64) has been building webkit for 6 hours and still going :( Can anyone answer a few questions for me, please? 1) Why do we not have a binary webkit package in portage, like libreoffice-bin, firefox-bin, thunderbird-bin, etc?

[gentoo-user] Re: N failed logins since your last login

2014-06-11 Thread walt
On 06/11/2014 01:56 AM, Florian HEGRON wrote: Is there a way to display that 'failed logins' message without using gdm/kdm/xdm? Hello, See that : http://linux.die.net/man/8/faillog I am not on my Gentoo machine so I don't know if the faillog file is really present. Very good clue,

[gentoo-user] N failed logins since your last login

2014-06-10 Thread walt
I remember seeing that message years ago when logging in at an ordinary console, but not any time recently and never on my gentoo machines. But I just saw that message again yesterday when logging into a Fedora20 virtual machine running the gdm (gnome) display manager. Is there a way to display

[gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread walt
On 06/10/2014 02:31 PM, Heiko Zinke wrote: Hi, with my recent qemu update from 1.6 to 2.0 I got the following error: * The kvm/qemu-kvm wrappers no longer exist, but your libvirt * instances are still pointing to it. Please update your * configs in /etc/libvirt/qemu/ to use the

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with gnome-keyring-daemon

2014-06-09 Thread walt
On 06/08/2014 11:01 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a problem where sometime after reboot, I get hundreds of processes gnome-keyring-daemon --deamonize and this is without even running gdm or gnome at all! They complain about not being able to find the display, but they all sit

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-ruby/json-1.8.0

2014-06-07 Thread walt
On 06/07/2014 12:56 AM, Hans de Graaff wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:47:38 -0700, walt wrote: Is all of the above familiar to you? If not, you may need more help with managing multiple ruby versions. I find it a large PITA and I could use more help myself :) Could you explain what

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-ruby/json-1.8.0

2014-06-06 Thread walt
On 06/06/2014 09:48 AM, Stephen Reynolds wrote: rdoc -o doc -t 'JSON Implementation for Ruby' -m README.rdoc snip ext/json/ext/generator/generator.c sh: rdoc: command not found You apparently have ruby19 and ruby20 installed, is this right? Do you have a version of ruby eselected? eselect

[gentoo-user] Re: Smart Label Printe SLP 650

2014-05-26 Thread walt
On 05/25/2014 03:47 PM, Joseph wrote: Is anybody using Smart Label Printer SLP-650 with Gentoo? The cup driver recognized the printer and install it but it is not printing anything, I'm getting: SII_SLP650SII SLP650officeSII SLP650/SLP650SE, 1.8 Idle - File

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-24 Thread walt
On 05/24/2014 01:20 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, Since kernel 3.12.13 (3.12.13-gentoo), the kernel boot messages have disappeared, i.e. they are no longer displayed at boot time. All I get is a line like Loading kernel 3.12.13. (I just upgraded to 3.12.20-gentoo, so now it's something

[gentoo-user] Re: about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-24 Thread walt
On 05/24/2014 12:29 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: if I do a startx in any console where I am logged in, I get a gnome session on that tty (wish it was on the unused one), Canek gave me this clue a few weeks ago: $startx -- vt1 You can use any other vt you want, of course. I use vt1 so

[gentoo-user] Re: about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-23 Thread walt
On 05/23/2014 12:50 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. Well, I thought I was making progress with systemd, but my gnome session kept saying oh no something has gone wrong and would not work. Also, after such a thing has happened, all my consoles would keep using the last line to put every

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]: Is that (filesystem-)logic vald?

2014-05-12 Thread walt
On 05/11/2014 08:25 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have an embedded system with internal flash memory. The internal flash memory contains some static files, which are only be read and others, which get written from time to time. The internal flash has a FAT32-formatted filesystem

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Regular v Ordinary

2014-05-01 Thread walt
On 05/01/2014 01:53 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:44:51 -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: You might want to check the definition for merkin... I suspect Walt is well aware of it... Actually, no, not the definition according to wikipedia, anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Regular v Ordinary

2014-04-30 Thread walt
On 04/30/2014 01:47 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: It just annoys me when I'm offered a regular coffee, when I would have said standard, or medium (size). It's happened particularly since our high streets were flooded with Starbucks and the like. If someone offered me a regular coffee I'd ask for

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-29 Thread walt
On 04/29/2014 05:49 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Regular readers* will know... * Off-topic note for American readers: as far as I'm concerned, regular does not mean ordinary. That neologism is even polluting our high streets over here. I've used both of those words all my life but never

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenSP build fails

2014-04-22 Thread walt
On 04/22/2014 08:42 AM, Nikita Tropin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to update Gentoo with I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING=1 emerge --deep --update --newuse --with-bdeps=y @world and process fails on OpenSP-1.5.2-r3. I am tried to compile it myself and find those lacking `new.h' mentioned in build.log. I

[gentoo-user] libreoffice uses openssl?

2014-04-18 Thread walt
Not long ago I started building my own libreoffice from their git repo because I wanted to bisect a recent libreoffice bug in localc. In the process of finding the bug I discovered that libreoffice ships its own copy of openssl along with many other common opensource libraries. The libreoffice

[gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-17 Thread walt
On 04/17/2014 11:43 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: I don't know much about the secp521r1 curve or about its security. You can list all available curves by: openssl ecparam -list_curves I don't either, but I hope this guy does :) http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6243

[gentoo-user] Re: HP printing query

2014-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/15/2014 04:07 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I ran into a problem trying to print yesterday -- solved for now -- , but would like to simplify things for the next occasion. What appears to have happened is that when I updated Hplip + Cups, one of them created a new printer, so that the list now

[gentoo-user] Re: Blockers problem: no ebuilds to satisfy media-libs/libpng:0/0=

2014-04-13 Thread walt
On 04/13/2014 08:05 AM, Matthias Bethke wrote: For the first time in years portage is driving me crazy. I'm trying to update my desktop after half a year in storage and coping with the Gnome 3.10 upgrade that I want to avoid because of systemd. And this is where it always gets stuck: |

[gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-12 Thread walt
On 04/12/2014 03:45 AM, Facu Curti wrote: Hi all. First at all i apologize if my english is not enough. When I installed gentoo, I do that with UEFI, and gpt partitions. But right now, I tried to install XEN, and this not works with EFI. I cant wait until somebody fix this problem, So i'm

[gentoo-user] Re: 'Heartbleed' bug

2014-04-10 Thread walt
On 04/09/2014 05:06 PM, Joseph wrote: Is gentoo effected by this new 'Heartbleed' bug? The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library http://heartbleed.com/ This topic was discussed in my favorite podcast, http://twit.tv/sn Steve

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for canon ufr ii lt driver . Anyone got it ?

2014-04-09 Thread walt
On 04/08/2014 11:20 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Canon just came out with a driver for my printer i-Sensys lbp 7100cn (yay!) . It was promised september 2013 (grumble). It is downloadable from here : http://www.canon.no/Support/Consumer_Products/products/printers/Laser/i-SENSYS_LBP7100Cn.aspx

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-bin-28.0-r1: Missing commonDialog icons? Anybody else seeing this?

2014-03-30 Thread walt
On 03/30/2014 08:18 AM, Urs Schutz wrote: Hello When starting up firefox-bin this morning I got the following dialog box popping up: $ firefox-bin Configuration Error Failed to read configuration file. Please contact your system administrator. After confirming with OK the firefox-bin

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to access USB3 HDD / Pen drive

2014-03-03 Thread walt
On 03/03/2014 10:02 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Something weird is happening, I'm unable to access my USB3 HDD on geek-sources 3.13.5 and 3.10 (both compiled with same .config; patches enabled: fedora, gentoo, optimize, uksm). But it works on 3.13.2. [ 124.985666] xhci_hcd

[gentoo-user] Re: Peeve - finding kernel config options

2014-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2014 09:58 AM, thegeezer wrote: wow, it's been years that i've been staring at it and trying to find device drivers with bleary eyes. I'm having cataract surgery next month. Care to join me? ;) i can't believe i have missed the obvious for so very long thanks! always happy to

[gentoo-user] Re: flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread walt
On 02/19/2014 01:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: For a week or so I see flickering applications here. I thought it would help to upgrade nvidia-drivers but even todays update didn't help. I rebuilt thunderbird-24.3.0 and nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 ... I also didn't find anything

[gentoo-user] EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers (?)

2014-02-19 Thread walt
I just spotted that phrase in the sourceforge newsletter: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ and it seems to me like an oxymoron. If that phrase makes logical sense then my definitions of 'BIOS' and 'EFI' need the latest updates :) Until now I thought that EFI is a recent

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

2014-02-15 Thread walt
On 02/15/2014 12:30 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: The social tactics at work from the systemd team (and verily, other Red Hat projects like GNOME) are reminiscent of Microsoft through the use of the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish methodology. I certainly share your hostility towards M$ for

[gentoo-user] Re: [poll] What is your session state?

2014-02-10 Thread walt
On 02/09/2014 06:06 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:43 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Recent threads about consolekit vs logind(systemd) have made me curious, so I've been studying... A few of us have had recent problems with things like plugging USB sticks, which

[gentoo-user] [poll] What is your session state?

2014-02-09 Thread walt
Recent threads about consolekit vs logind(systemd) have made me curious, so I've been studying... A few of us have had recent problems with things like plugging USB sticks, which once worked transparently but now require root privileges. I've discovered that my own such problems are caused by

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

2014-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/06/2014 05:38 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:21 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/05/2014 06:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Feb 5, 2014 6:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] I am seat0 I'm more concerned about you

[gentoo-user] Re: module woes

2014-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/06/2014 08:08 AM, James wrote: What is stumping me is why all three kernels boot, but the modules only point to 3.10.25, even when boot either the second (kernel-3.13.0-gentoo-r1) kernel or the third (config-3.13.1-gentoo) kernel. Baffling things happen to me when I compile modules

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

2014-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/07/2014 02:32 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Your seat seems to be the owner of both the power buttons and USB devices, so you should not be asked for a password when powering down the machine (unless another user or root is logged in, for example by ssh), nor when using a USB stick.

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

2014-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/07/2014 04:43 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:25 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/07/2014 02:32 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Your seat seems to be the owner of both the power buttons and USB devices, so you should not be asked for a password when powering

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

2014-02-06 Thread walt
On 02/05/2014 06:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Feb 5, 2014 6:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] I am seat0 I'm more concerned about you being seat0, and you being asked for a password. In theory that's what logind solves, and in a much more cleaner

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

2014-02-05 Thread walt
On 02/04/2014 04:10 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:27 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure that unsetting the consolekit useflag (when I switched to systemd) resulted in some non-MicroSoft behavior, e.g. I now need to authenticate as root when plugging

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

2014-02-05 Thread walt
On 02/05/2014 04:32 PM, Joseph wrote: Kerel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(O,0) Could that be the letter O instead of the digit 0?

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

2014-02-04 Thread walt
On 02/04/2014 02:29 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Re: ADSL+WiFi modem router possibly compromised

2014-02-03 Thread walt
On 02/03/2014 10:25 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, I connect to the Internet via a TP-LINK TD-W8101G Wireles ADSL2+ model router. It has been set up to acquire IP addresses via DHCP. My '/etc/resolve.conf' has been getting populated like so from the word go: cat /etc/resolv.conf #

[gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread walt
I admit that Oracle finally did something right by requiring a white-list of all java websites you want to use, but it's taken me all morning to understand how to do it. AFAICT, the only way to white-list a website is to use the Java Control Panel (jcontrol) and type the full URL including the

[gentoo-user] Re: The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread walt
On 02/01/2014 10:30 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, February 1, 2014 16:59, walt wrote: I admit that Oracle finally did something right by requiring a white-list of all java websites you want to use, but it's taken me all morning to understand how to do it. AFAICT, the only way to white-list

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server crashing, back to log-in screen

2014-01-31 Thread walt
On 01/29/2014 04:20 PM, Joseph wrote: After recent upgrade I've noticed my xorg-server is crashing, and sending me back to log-in screen on two of my computers. It happens mostly when when I click a tab in firefox or try to log-out. I'm using firefox-24.1.1 Sometimes /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[gentoo-user] Re: llvm compile error

2014-01-23 Thread walt
On 01/23/2014 01:05 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i try to install llvm but it broke llvm-3.4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 Hi Silvio. You're installing an ~x86 package on an x86 machine, I think. Are you doing that on purpose? I don't know if that is causing the error, but it sometimes

[gentoo-user] Re: webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread walt
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 :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Which package contains kdeinit4? Was: Purged gnome, lost X. :-(

2014-01-19 Thread walt
On 01/19/2014 11:40 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I seem to have a hard segfault in xfce4-session. That's after purging xfce and re-emerging, too. There may be something amiss in your home directory. I think the easiest way to confirm/deny is to create a 'disposable' user account (mine is named

[gentoo-user] Re: webcam software

2014-01-18 Thread walt
On 01/18/2014 02:02 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 recommend and what should I start reading to learn how

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

2014-01-15 Thread walt
On 01/15/2014 03:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:21:37 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: The log contains many message like dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.login1' failed: Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

[gentoo-user] Re: D and Gentoo

2014-01-12 Thread walt
On 01/12/2014 10:14 AM, Elias Diem wrote: Hi all What's the best way to have a D compiler in Gentoo? I know that there is a USE flag for gcc which adds D, but apparently it doesn't work. I know absolutely nothing about D, which makes me qualified to ask how you can tell if the 'd'

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