[gentoo-user] Re: emerge failed for sys-devel/binutils-2.23.2

2014-01-11 Thread walt
On 01/11/2014 02:32 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:16:36 -0500 Andrew Penhorwood and...@coldbits.com wrote: * ERROR: sys-devel/binutils-2.23.2::gentoo failed (compile phase): * emake failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_compile *

[gentoo-user] Re: MATE is great!

2014-01-11 Thread walt
On 01/10/2014 04:18 PM, walt wrote: The only reason I didn't switch to xfce a long time ago is that I want the old familiar 'multiload' panel applet, which AFAIK is not available for xfce. At least it wasn't the last time I checked. Well, I just checked again and found this interesting

[gentoo-user] Re: Frustrating error message from layman [SOLVED]

2014-01-10 Thread walt
On 01/09/2014 05:43 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: you might want to start over by removing /var/lib/layman and emerging it again... Aha! Bitrot is not our friend :) I was running a very old version of layman, which yesterday I updated by emerging a new layman. Here's the catch: my old layman

[gentoo-user] MATE is great!

2014-01-10 Thread walt
If you love gnome2 you'll be thrilled when you install the gentoo 'mate' overlay. It's like coming home for the holidays and putting on your old fuzzy slippers :) I had to work around two minor problems before the whole package would build: 1) I had to remove the pulseaudio useflag for

[gentoo-user] Re: MATE is great!

2014-01-10 Thread walt
On 01/10/2014 01:19 PM, Gevisz wrote: I have switched from Gnome2 to Fxce4 without all that troublehacking in such a way that even my friend, who used to work as a system administrator, could not tell a difference when I showed him my previous Gnome2 and my current Xfce4 sessions. I like

[gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-09 Thread walt
I'm a layman noob, so I'm probably making a noob mistake here. Can you spot the error for me please? #ls -la /var/lib/layman/ total 312 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:23 . drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 Dec 13 15:11 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 9 15:16

[gentoo-user] Re: Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-05 Thread walt
On 01/04/2014 05:21 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 05/01/2014 02:42, walt wrote: On 01/04/2014 03:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: FAT was designed for MS-DOS where you put a floppy in the drive and you had full access to everything on it. There was no need to implement security. I think

[gentoo-user] Re: Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-05 Thread walt
On 01/04/2014 05:21 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's all very easy for us to sit back today and play monday morning fullback :) I know as little about, um, Celtic football as you know about American football, I see. I know sod-all about sports from anywhere, but even I know that the phrase is

[gentoo-user] Re: Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread walt
On 01/04/2014 03:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: FAT was designed for MS-DOS where you put a floppy in the drive and you had full access to everything on it. There was no need to implement security. I think the operative phrase is there was no need back when Gates and Allen trained the world to

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

2014-01-02 Thread walt
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. Maybe I'm weird or something

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

2014-01-01 Thread walt
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 gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working,

[gentoo-user] Re: USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread walt
On 12/31/2013 08:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: That looks normal. Having lines in fstab for removable media is not a good solution in general - insert two sticks and the second one doesn't have a matching line (it isn't /dev/sdb1) Having a dos label on a memory stick allows you to mount it using

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

2013-12-21 Thread walt
On 12/20/2013 04:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I recently used it to move a machine from testing to stable. Neil, what do you mean by 'it'? That sentence reminds me of a null-pointer-dereference ;)

[gentoo-user] Re: [gnome3 stable] Not as bad as I expected

2013-12-14 Thread walt
On 12/14/2013 12:54 AM, wraeth wrote: On 14/12/13 12:10, walt wrote: The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes the favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very* quickly to the left upper corner of the screen. Who knew? Well, I didn't know until

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Recent spurious error messages from systemd?

2013-12-13 Thread walt
On 12/12/2013 07:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: For example, during bootup, systemd said that swap.target failed, but in fact swap was working normally when I logged in, and systemctl status swap.target showed no error messages

[gentoo-user] [gnome3 stable] Not as bad as I expected

2013-12-13 Thread walt
I've been preparing for gnome3 for many months by running it in a virtualbox gentoo-guest machine. I missed a very important gnome3 feature by doing it that way :( The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes the favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very*

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] Recent spurious error messages from systemd?

2013-12-12 Thread walt
For example, during bootup, systemd said that swap.target failed, but in fact swap was working normally when I logged in, and systemctl status swap.target showed no error messages. systemd also warned that lvm.service failed, but in fact the lvm drive was mounted and working as expected after I

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with python

2013-12-10 Thread walt
On 12/10/2013 10:10 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I just tried to run python-updater and received several lines like the following Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 7, in module ImportError: No module named portage It did find 4 files to update [ebuild

[gentoo-user] Re: [systemd] lvm.service running too early? [HACKED]

2013-12-08 Thread walt
On 12/07/2013 05:58 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Dec 07 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Dec 7, 2013 12:40 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Just updated my stable amd64 machine to use systemd and all is working okay except for the lvm.service. The lvm.service starts

[gentoo-user] Re: [systemd] lvm.service running too early? [HACKED--]

2013-12-08 Thread walt
On 12/08/2013 10:39 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 11:12:23 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: It has the same problem. I looked more carefully at the systemd logs and found that lvm was running before the xhci kernel module was loaded, hence the usb3 drive was not visible yet.

[gentoo-user] [systemd] lvm.service running too early?

2013-12-07 Thread walt
Just updated my stable amd64 machine to use systemd and all is working okay except for the lvm.service. The lvm.service starts with no errors, but OTOH it finds no physical or logical volumes. I suspect this happens because the drive using lvm2 is in a usb3 external dock instead of attached to

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium build issue

2013-11-23 Thread walt
, thanks. My gut feeling was that the kernel would have no effect on python packages, but now I need to rethink that. I ran python-updater like Walt suggested, no help. Then I rebuilt dev-lang/python:2.7 still didn't help. python-2.7 was built against gentoo-sources-3.11.0 which is my current

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium build issue

2013-11-22 Thread walt
On 11/21/2013 03:19 PM, james N. wrote: File /usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/synchronize.py, line 59, in module function, see issue 3770.) ImportError: In general, when I see emerge errors involving any python stuff, I run python-updater as a knee-jerk reflex even before I

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone installed x11-drivers/ati-drivers recently? (Fails to download)

2013-11-22 Thread walt
On 11/22/2013 10:56 AM, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there, I have no clue why downloading ati-drivers fails. I always get redirected to http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/incomplete no matter what version of ati-drivers I want to install. Problems like that are sometimes caused by

[gentoo-user] Re: Weird graphical glitches after world update

2013-11-21 Thread walt
On 11/21/2013 07:10 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: I spent a chunk of yesterday updating world on my machines (2 file servers and 1 netbook) and with some effort, the updates went through. I had to go out today so I rebooted my netbook and I started noticing weird graphical glitches in certain

[gentoo-user] Re: Weird graphical glitches after world update

2013-11-21 Thread walt
On 11/21/2013 01:38 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 21/11/2013 17:10, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: Greetings, I spent a chunk of yesterday updating world on my machines (2 file servers and 1 netbook) and with some effort, the updates went through. I had to go out today so I rebooted my

[gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2013 02:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I have no facts to device either way. snip but lets the user device when to do them. Neil, are you using a new auto-complete function of some kind?

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-28 Thread walt
On 10/28/2013 02:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is showing up. Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64. I just installed acroread on ~amd64 (a

[gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread walt
On 10/17/2013 02:40 PM, Dale wrote: Third thing is, no mouse worky. It works in the BIOS but not in the OS. Dale, I don't understand what you mean by works in the BIOS. Could you give us a few more details?

[gentoo-user] Re: teamspeak-client-bin-3.0.13

2013-10-14 Thread walt
On 10/14/2013 01:27 PM, james wrote: Hey List, This is my first post, have patience. Has anyone gotten this problem when updating from teamspeak-client-bin-3.0.12? Emerging (8 of 8) media-sound/teamspeak-client-bin-3.0.13 * TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.0.13.run SHA256 SHA512

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-11 Thread walt
On 10/11/2013 01:42 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I don't like systemd, Sorry if my memory is failing (it surely is) but I don't recall any explanation from you describing your dissatisfaction with systemd. The three happiest months of my life were spent as a student in London in the summer of

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-09 Thread walt
On 10/08/2013 09:16 PM, William Hubbs wrote: to provide service supervision, which is the main feature systemd offers By supervision do you mean restarting a service after it crashes, for example? Or something else completely?

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-07 Thread walt
On 09/29/2013 04:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: As much as I hate systemd My Alzheimer's prevents me from remembering your reasons for hating systemd. Would you *very* briefly refresh my memory, please?

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble downgrading systemd and virtual/udev

2013-09-25 Thread walt
On 09/25/2013 03:24 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I want to downgrade systemd from 207-r2 to 204 (highest stable). I currently have virtual/udev-206-r2 installed, which prevents systemd-204. OK. So I need to downgrade virtual/udev to 200. I thought emerge -1 =virtual/udev-200

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] Hint for bonehead systemd users (like me)

2013-09-11 Thread walt
I've been struggling with today's update of systemd on ~arch because the ebuild keeps accusing me of using a compatibility symlink to run systemd during bootup. Yes, guilty as charged, I told grub2 to use /usr/bin/systemd as 'init', when /usr/bin/systemd has been, until now, a symlink to

[gentoo-user] Re: must I mask gnome-3.8 until I am running systemd

2013-09-05 Thread walt
On 09/05/2013 05:43 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [I will be going to systemd since it is aparently required for gnome-3.8. I first want to try systemd on a test system so am building that one up.] On my main system (currently running openrc) I have masked all of gnome-3.8. I wonder if this

[gentoo-user] Re: HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

2013-09-04 Thread walt
On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then I'd need toner. My ill luck was with FreeBSD and NetBSD, and hplip makes assumptions on Linux file structure

[gentoo-user] Re: Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

2013-09-02 Thread walt
On 09/02/2013 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: The rootfs and $HOME of my embedded system is stored on a 16GB SD-card (about 5GB used, rest free). The FS is ext4. Since the system hangs for unknown reasons several times Does it hang at a predictable point, like during boot, or

[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-30 Thread walt
On 08/27/2013 12:59 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: The GPL is in conflict with the law Joerg, which law are you talking about? I've never understood the problems surrounding the many and various available software licenses, and I don't think I ever will understand them. But I'm still trying :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-30 Thread walt
On 08/30/2013 04:05 PM, walt wrote: On 08/27/2013 12:59 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: The GPL is in conflict with the law Joerg, which law are you talking about? Oops, I see you've already answered my question. Please ignore.

[gentoo-user] Re: Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-17 Thread walt
On 08/11/2013 09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 11/08/2013 17:58, Tanstaafl wrote: I would assume that portage now looks first in /etc/portage and uses those if it finds them, and if not, looks in /etc - but the news item is incomplete on this question. My question is why do you have

[gentoo-user] Re: Au revoir, gnome-3.8

2013-08-08 Thread walt
On 08/07/2013 06:17 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: And in particular, all the GNOME stack includes their necessary unit files. That's good to know. The only reason I haven't already made the switch to systemd is lvm2 -- I just couldn't puzzle out how to get lvm2 started and get the needed

[gentoo-user] Re: Au revoir, gnome-3.8

2013-08-07 Thread walt
On 08/07/2013 04:25 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Aug 07 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 07/08/13 05:25, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Aug 06 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: that's only because gnome 3.8 hasn't been stabilized yet. as in, there are no plans in keeping gnome 2.x

[gentoo-user] Re: usb printer disappears on cups upgrade

2013-08-06 Thread walt
On 08/04/2013 09:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 03.08.2013 04:23, schrieb William Kenworthy: Using cups =1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only errors in the cups log are to do with systemd service files which I masked a couple of days

[gentoo-user] Au revoir, gnome-3.8

2013-08-06 Thread walt
I was so hot to prove to myself that I could do the Big Update on both systemd and openrc gentoo machines that I didn't spend much time actually *using* gnome-3.8 until yesterday. Have you ever lived or worked in a building during a big remodeling? With most of your living/working space

[gentoo-user] Re: usb printer disappears on cups upgrade

2013-08-03 Thread walt
On 08/02/2013 07:23 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I have a long running machine with a local epson usb printer using the kernel lpusb Using cups =1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only errors in the cups log are to do with systemd service

[gentoo-user] Recent 'breakage' of kernel module auto-loading?

2013-08-01 Thread walt
For months I've been using apps that need the tun and fuse kernel modules, and I've never needed to modprobe those two modules until about a week ago. The modules were loaded automagically when those apps started up. (I never understood how that happened, BTW.) Suddenly those two apps won't start

[gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-01 Thread walt
On 08/01/2013 03:08 PM, Kerin Millar wrote: On 30/07/2013 22:04, walt wrote: On 07/29/2013 06:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone post a .config for a 3.8.13 kernel that is known to work on a vbox install of gentoo as guest. Working on a fresh install but don't have gentoo running anywhere

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-systemd-only deprecation

2013-07-31 Thread walt
On 07/31/2013 11:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: There's an idea floating around that openrc could use systemd unit files but it's still just an idea. I must have crossed the line into grumpy-old-man-hood. That idea is insane. Someone is willing to re-write udev to use Lennart's config files but

[gentoo-user] Re: [Preliminary report] Gnome-3.8 update works with openrc :)

2013-07-31 Thread walt
On 07/29/2013 06:04 PM, walt wrote: I'm going to test cinnamon next, and I'll post results in a day or two. Sad to report that gentoo's cinnamon-1.6.7-r2 is out of date :( Arch linux installs gnome-3.8 and cinnamon-1.8.8-2, which work fairly well together but not perfectly. The reason

[gentoo-user] [Preliminary report] Gnome-3.8 update works with openrc :)

2013-07-29 Thread walt
As I posted in another thread, after successfully updating to gnome-3.8 on a virtual gentoo machine that's been running systemd for months, I tackled my openrc gentoo virtual machine just to see if I could do it. I just did it :) Gnome-3.8 is running on the openrc machine without running systemd

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Some possibly (?) helpful hints re the big gnome-3.8 update

2013-07-28 Thread walt
On 07/28/2013 01:04 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I finally updated; I had no problems whatsoever. The only way I could solve all of the conflicts on my openrc machine was to enable the systemd useflag globally (to prevent consolekit and udev being pulled in). It's updating to gnome-3.8 now

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

2013-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/26/2013 06:39 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: must I check that every entry previously in /etc/init.d now has an entry in /usr/lib/systemd/system? What do I do if there is no corresponding entry? I actually had to write a few of my own *.service files, which belong in /etc/systemd/system/

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] Some possibly (?) helpful hints re the big gnome-3.8 update

2013-07-27 Thread walt
First hint: it's a mess -- don't do it on a critical machine. (My main machine is ~amd64 and that's why I'm doing it on virtual ~amd64 machines first.) The new gnome-shell demands that systemd be installed, even if you don't intend to use it. The latest systemd conflicts with udev because the

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Some possibly (?) helpful hints re the big gnome-3.8 update

2013-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/27/2013 03:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: And actually, the long term plan is for systemd --user to basically replace gnome-session-manager, Is Lennart part of the gnome project now? ;) so just installing systemd is not going to work at all in the future, even if it *may* seems to

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Anyone survive the big gnome update from this morning (July 25)?[painfully FIXED]

2013-07-26 Thread walt
On 07/25/2013 06:10 PM, walt wrote: I'm very happy that I did the gnome update on a virtual gentoo machine instead of my real machine :) The virtual gentoo is unusable at the moment because gnome is very sick indeed. Two things changed today to help fix the problems: more gnome package

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] Anyone survive the big gnome update from this morning (July 25)?

2013-07-25 Thread walt
I'm very happy that I did the gnome update on a virtual gentoo machine instead of my real machine :) The virtual gentoo is unusable at the moment because gnome is very sick indeed. I avoided the big update on my real machine when I saw that gnome-shell (I think it was) demanded the installation

[gentoo-user] VPN connection from gentoo to OSX server?

2013-06-16 Thread walt
A colleague of mine has set up a Mac server just for the purpose of being a VPN server for the rest of us at work. So far I can't make a good vpn connection from this linux machine or my android tablet. I can log in using a vnc client and poke around in the server settings, so I know that the

[gentoo-user] Re: VPN connection from gentoo to OSX server?

2013-06-16 Thread walt
On 06/16/2013 02:49 PM, walt wrote: I know that the server is configured to use L2PT/PPP and not just PPP Thinko, sorry. s/PPP/PPTP/g :)

[gentoo-user] Re: monitoring system resource usage

2013-06-14 Thread walt
On 06/14/2013 12:56 AM, Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a method for monitoring system resource usage in a way that would allow me to correlate a rise in my web server's response time with the usage of a particular system resource if such a correlation exists? I don't need it to be 100%

[gentoo-user] Re: mesa 9.1.2.r1 fails to build

2013-06-13 Thread walt
On 06/13/2013 02:44 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm on a new Dell i5 machine, stable, straight amd64 profile. I tried makeopts -j1 in depseration; doesn't help. The gzipped buildlog is attached. The problem isn't obvious to me, but in the past I've seen strange linking errors happen when the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Recent git kernels break rtc (real-time-clock)

2013-06-11 Thread walt
On 06/11/2013 04:00 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: It seems that there were some changes recently in the .config file. I recently built a 3.7.10-gentoo-r1 kernel on a new machine and was on the verge of sending an email to the list asking what the bleep I was doing wrong. After some experimentation,

[gentoo-user] [OT] Recent git kernels break rtc (real-time-clock)

2013-06-10 Thread walt
After the recent 3.9 -- 3.10 kernel merge window, udev no longer creates /dev/rtc (or /dev/rtc0) during bootup on my ~amd64 machines. (The only machines I have now.) So, I have two idle (very non-urgent) questions for you git-kernel nerds out there (I know you're there ;) First, anyone else

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A free VPN server

2013-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/27/2013 02:36 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 27 May 2013 02:43:08 walt wrote: This company: https://proxpn.com sponsors my all-time-favorite podcast, which I heartily commend to you: http://twit.tv/show/security-now (the audio podcast is what I suggest, as the video adds very little

[gentoo-user] [OT] A free VPN server

2013-05-26 Thread walt
This company: https://proxpn.com sponsors my all-time-favorite podcast, which I heartily commend to you: http://twit.tv/show/security-now (the audio podcast is what I suggest, as the video adds very little) Anyway, you can get a free account from proxpn.com by giving them a working email

[gentoo-user] Re: problems merging python packages

2013-05-20 Thread walt
On 05/20/2013 05:54 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: answer to stupid response: as a normal user you wouldn't be capable to merge anything. OF COURSE I DID IT AS ROOT! I had a brilliant response to your question, but now I'm afraid to send it.

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc4.7.2-r1 to 4.7.3 upgrade - hosed system?

2013-05-18 Thread walt
On 05/18/2013 02:53 AM, Adam Carter wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:18 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/17/2013 12:33 AM, Adam Carter wrote: # gcc-config 2 * Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.7.3 ... /usr/bin/python2.7: error

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc4.7.2-r1 to 4.7.3 upgrade - hosed system?

2013-05-17 Thread walt
On 05/17/2013 12:33 AM, Adam Carter wrote: # gcc-config 2 * Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.7.3 ... /usr/bin/python2.7: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory #ldconfig -p | grep libgcc

[gentoo-user] Re: Font problems on new install

2013-05-17 Thread walt
On 05/16/2013 04:23 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:27:13PM -0700, walt wrote On 05/15/2013 04:09 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: A new install 64-bit Dell. I noted all the font files in my old machine's /var/lib/world file and installed them on the new machine

[gentoo-user] Re: boot-time message about nic firmware patch

2013-05-17 Thread walt
On 05/17/2013 08:04 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: The last 4 lines from dmesg... [4.299946] r8169 :04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2) I had the same problem and took hours to figure it out because it's such a silly problem I didn't believe it

[gentoo-user] New firefox-bin-21.0: bug or feature?

2013-05-16 Thread walt
Portage just updated firefox-bin to 21.0, and after that I had no firefox plugins. Finally I discovered that the new version apparently ignores the traditional symlink /opt/firefox/plugins-/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins I worked around it by creating my own symlink ~/.mozilla/plugins- and all the

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc4.7.2-r1 to 4.7.3 upgrade - hosed system?

2013-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2013 08:30 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I had the same yesterday - run: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/ ldconfig to fix your system. Thanx to chithanh for this life-saving oneliner (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7053126.html).

[gentoo-user] Re: Font problems on new install

2013-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/15/2013 04:09 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: A new install 64-bit Dell. I noted all the font files in my old machine's /var/lib/world file and installed them on the new machine. Notwithstanding that I had mysterious problems. One of the icons on my ICEWM toolbar launches the

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome not working

2013-05-13 Thread walt
On 05/13/2013 04:06 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no, something has gone wrong. If I had a bitcoin for every time I've seen that message I could buy all of us a beer. Maybe two :) The log file is at

[gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-11 Thread walt
Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe just seeing how I did it will help: menuentry memtest86 { search -l gentoo64unstable -s root linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest boot } Note that gentoo64unstable is the label I gave my root partition. I do that in case I

[gentoo-user] Re: cups - print job owner

2013-05-07 Thread walt
On 05/07/2013 01:46 PM, Mick wrote: $ cat /etc/group | grep lp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat ;)

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread walt
On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a shame. You should become familiar with the 'ebuild' command, which I use very often when trying to debug

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread walt
On 05/06/2013 04:37 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 07.05.2013 01:22, schrieb walt: On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a shame. You should

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-05 Thread walt
On 05/02/2013 09:27 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. I've just built libreoffice-3.6.6.2 and it took 2 hours 10 minutes on my 2.6 GHz quad core Athlon 2. It used to take about an hour. Watching the build, it became evident that the first 50 minutes or so was taken up by several

[gentoo-user] Re: How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread walt
On 04/24/2013 03:22 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: We can't blame any of the software for this That, from a sysadmin? Any more of that kind of talk and I'll recommend that your bofh certificate be revoked!

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-21 Thread walt
On 04/21/2013 03:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:15:49 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: So normal systems require PA. That *you* perhaps don't require PA is another thing altogether. bike-shedding Been a long time since I've seen that used in a linux mailing list :)

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread walt
On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it solid stuff? http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread walt
On 03/31/2013 08:37 PM, luis jure wrote: i'm more than irritated by the assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as non-news. Of course I don't know exactly which irritating people you mean, but there is one senior poster in this mailing list who (very rarely) lapses into posting

[gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-03-31 Thread walt
Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it solid stuff? http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64, Firefox = Java Plugin?

2013-03-17 Thread walt
On 03/16/2013 06:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a useable howto/tutorial which describes howto install the java plugin for the current fireox. I see your question is already answered, but I'll add that there are a zillion open security bugs for java and many are

[gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/09/2013 01:41 PM, v_2e wrote: Hello! On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:46:04 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: BTW I just upgraded lo to 4.0.1.2 and no one has sent me any power-point files recently so I really don't know yet if they would play properly or not. Could you please check

[gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-09 Thread walt
On 03/08/2013 08:34 PM, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:00:02 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I've never had problems playing media files in loimpress, so I all I can do is guess. If you can play video files in LibreOffice-4.0.1.2, could you please tell me

[gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-08 Thread walt
On 03/08/2013 01:24 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello everyone! I still cannot play any video or sound inside LibreOffice-4 even after upgrading to version 4.0.1.2. And I even have no clue where to search for the bug. Did somebody succeed in playing media files in LO (for example, in

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running ck-sources-3.7.10? [SOLVED]

2013-03-05 Thread walt
On 03/04/2013 03:14 PM, walt wrote: My mojo seems to be broken lately :( I just updated a gentoo vbox guest from ck-sources-3.6.11-r1 to 3.7.10 and I'm seeing file-system corruption and a segfaulting NetworkManager during bootup. Heh. My RAM is broken, not my mojo :) Bless memtest86...

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?

2013-03-05 Thread walt
On 03/05/2013 09:56 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR3.

[gentoo-user] Anyone running ck-sources-3.7.10?

2013-03-04 Thread walt
My mojo seems to be broken lately :( I just updated a gentoo vbox guest from ck-sources-3.6.11-r1 to 3.7.10 and I'm seeing file-system corruption and a segfaulting NetworkManager during bootup. I went back one snapshot and I'm going to try switching to gentoo-sources on that same virtual

[gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-03 Thread walt
On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote: On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). Luckily, only the most recent snapshot

[gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-03 Thread walt
On 03/03/2013 05:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 03/03/2013 02:25:51 PM, walt wrote: On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote: On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two

[gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-02 Thread walt
On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to boot normally

[gentoo-user] Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-01 Thread walt
After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both guests). I didn't lose anything important because the only thing I use

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge with --changed-use

2013-02-28 Thread walt
On 02/28/2013 11:16 AM, »Q« wrote: A new useflag, tinfo, has been added for ncurses. I would have expected ncurses not to be rebuilt when I specify --changed-use, but portage does want to rebuild it. This isn't causing me any problem, but I'd like to understand what's going on. I guess I

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge with --changed-use

2013-02-28 Thread walt
On 02/28/2013 03:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:13:31 -0800, walt wrote: My favorite peeve is when a libreoffice useflag is added for, say, support for Swahili or Urdu, and now I'm forced to rebuild all of libreoffice just to re-install libreoffice without support

[gentoo-user] [way OT] Authenticating in a wireless home network

2013-02-24 Thread walt
I've been connecting my google nexus 7 tablet to my wireless router using the standard ssid/password method until last week, when I found that my router will allow wireless connections based on the tablet's MAC address. What I don't know is whether the MAC-address authentication method will cause

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-22 Thread walt
On 02/22/2013 12:24 AM, Joseph wrote: On 02/22/13 09:10, Alexandre Domi wrote: Seems you're getting a nvidia segfault... Did you try revdep-rebuild, or updating your system? Regards Yes, I just updated the system. When I try to compile nvidia-drivers I get this message: ... test

[gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-20 Thread walt
Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;) Virtualbox-modules fails to build against today's kernel.git

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