[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ [error: conflicting types for 'Cursor' on emerge]

2012-04-23 Thread walt
On 04/23/2012 08:09 AM, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote: I've been waiting for pango 1.30 to become available and this morning on syncing noticed that everything was emerge-able (28 or so items), so I updatedlast on that list were gtk+ and image magick. Everything went fine until I got to gtk+;

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ [error: conflicting types for 'Cursor' on emerge]

2012-04-24 Thread walt
On 04/24/2012 05:48 AM, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:46:31 -0700, walt wrote: It appears that you are installing gentoo as a virtual machine to be run from inside of Darwin, is that how it works? Yes, more like its own shell/compiler environment. I tried both fink

[gentoo-user] Re: genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread walt
On 04/24/2012 08:35 AM, Dale wrote: I hope you have good weather too. I just been having health issues, again. It's been a rough week or so. I'm sorry to hear that. But if you're going to do risky things like giving up junk food and actually going outdoors -- well, we here on this list

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge w3m failed

2012-04-24 Thread walt
On 04/24/2012 03:29 AM, wenpin cui wrote: hi, all, I tried to emerge www-client/w3m but failed, does anybody have met this problem? This is build log: istream.h:23:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct file_handle’ I get exactly the same error, so the stable

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone setup Gentoo on an Archos 101

2012-04-24 Thread walt
On 04/24/2012 01:07 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 24/04/2012 21:46, James wrote: http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/tabletpc.html?country=kglang=en I'm just curious if anyone has attempted to put Gentoo on any Archos tablet. James i have one and i dont want

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer

2012-04-27 Thread walt
On 04/27/2012 12:35 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: Hi all This is a copy of the thread I recently opened on Gentoo forums[1]. I replaced my Phenom II cpu with a new 6-core AMD bulldozer. However, I noticed that all of my Gentoo virtual machines throw (compiler) segmentation faults when

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrade to Gnome3 from overlay

2012-04-28 Thread walt
On 04/28/2012 06:12 AM, 赵佳晖 wrote: [blocks b ] =sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-3.0.2-r200 (=sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-3.0.2-r200 is blocking gnome-base/libgdu-3.0.2) ^ Aside: notice the small 'b' in that blocks message. That says portage is smart enough to fix the problem

[gentoo-user] Re: OWFS Ebuld

2012-04-28 Thread walt
On 04/28/2012 03:32 AM, yendor wrote: Dang firefox, security exception on the bugz site :( You probably need to install the root CA cert from cacert.org so firefox won't complain about certs issued by cacert.org. I'm not sure why cacert.org hasn't made the list of CA's routinely included

[gentoo-user] Re: qbittorrent and icui18n lib

2012-04-28 Thread walt
On 04/28/2012 06:04 AM, András Csányi wrote: On 28 April 2012 14:55, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Have you tried re-emerging qbittorrent? If the library was upgraded, this seems to be necessary. revdep-rebuild should have reported this issue but maybe qbittorrent uses

[gentoo-user] Re: Please help, kernel can not load root

2012-04-29 Thread walt
On 04/29/2012 11:35 AM, Ignas Anikevičius wrote: Hello, it's been several since I have tried to make my machine boot again without any live CDs and I could not narrow the main issue down. The problem is that the kernel can not mount the root partition. The error message is unknown

[gentoo-user] Re: printer

2012-04-29 Thread walt
On 04/29/2012 12:55 PM, Stephane Guedon wrote: Hi everyone I am now forced to replace my epson printer. Anyone think of a printer for which ink is quite cheap (contrary to the epson) and that allow to have status not only in windows ? Epson as an utility to have ink status in windows

[gentoo-user] More lvm2 questions

2012-04-29 Thread walt
Something in today's update for ~amd64 changed the bootup behavior of lvm (again). Now I get an error message that none of the labels on my lvm disks can be found (I mount by disk label in fstab). So now lvm is starting even later than before. I still get the (now familiar) error from lvm that

[gentoo-user] Re: More lvm2 questions

2012-04-29 Thread walt
On 04/29/2012 03:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:53:57 -0700, walt wrote: Also, I notice that a /run directory on tmpfs appeared a while ago (can't remember when) and I think that should have fixed the file locking error from lvm, no? But it's not fixed for me. AFAIK

[gentoo-user] Re: More lvm2 questions

2012-04-30 Thread walt
On 04/29/2012 06:05 PM, Dale wrote: What version are you on when this happened? Also, what version did you go back to? I ask because I have not masked any version here. I may need to do that since I have all but /boot and / on LVM now. I'm now running lvm2-2.02.95-r1 on both ~amd64

[gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread walt
I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe. Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe depending on which filesystem you

[gentoo-user] Re: Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread walt
On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote: excellent help snipped for brevity Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely not obvious to me. Anyone know the technical details? As for security, having a swap is

[gentoo-user] Re: USB sticks now mounting on /run/media instead of /media ?

2012-05-03 Thread walt
On 04/13/2012 05:19 PM, walt wrote: A recent update (udev?) on my ~amd64 machines is now mounting removable drives on /run/media instead of /media. Ha! I should have suspected Lennart from the beginning: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id

[gentoo-user] Re: USB sticks now mounting on /run/media instead of /media ?

2012-05-03 Thread walt
On 05/03/2012 02:48 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/13/2012 05:19 PM, walt wrote: A recent update (udev?) on my ~amd64 machines is now mounting removable drives on /run/media instead of /media. Ha! I should have suspected

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

2012-05-03 Thread walt
On 05/02/2012 05:40 PM, Adam Carter wrote: Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr ~/.libreoffice? ... always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then move it back if thats not the problem. mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice-orig didnt help. Any

[gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-03 Thread walt
On 05/02/2012 11:39 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia driver causing a segfault when X started I make this ridiculous suggestion only because you're still

[gentoo-user] Re: adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

2012-05-06 Thread walt
On 05/06/2012 09:39 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I've come to think of this as a Firefox crash that only happens when starting Flash, and not actually a Flash crash. Firefox nerds often suggest starting firefox with the -safemode flag as an experiment. IIRC it never works, but you can try it :)

[gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread walt
On 05/07/2012 10:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke: Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help? # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt #

[gentoo-user] Re: asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?

2012-05-07 Thread walt
On 05/07/2012 01:40 PM, Stroller wrote: I'm also seeing that maybe alsa's default state is muted, so that the muted state would be correct even if the sound state is not being restored. I would say the default state is muted except for one very confounding discovery at my end, which may a big

[gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread walt
On 05/07/2012 04:13 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: And vanilla-sources just work. Stable. Even with suspend to ram and ati drivers. That confuses me. Are you saying the gentoo-sources don't 'just work'?

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

2012-05-11 Thread walt
On 05/10/2012 07:20 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: Hi all, after downloading the 3.2.12-sources everything went fine for a couple of weeks, I compiled them a couple of times, but suddenly, maybe because of some world-updates, errors started to accumulate, Yes, sounds like something is wrong

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

2012-05-12 Thread walt
On 05/10/2012 07:20 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: LD init/mounts.o ls -Al -m elf_x86_64 -r -o init/mounts.o init/do_mounts.o init/do_mounts_initrd.o init/mounts.o: No such file or directory Maybe that step is correct but it sure looks strange to me. Looks like 'ls' is being substituted

[gentoo-user] [OT] Curious hdparm results

2012-05-13 Thread walt
I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't understand: #hdparm -t /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.00 seconds = 88.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 268 MB in 3.01 seconds = 89.05 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.01

[gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-14 Thread walt
On 05/14/2012 03:49 AM, Space Cake wrote: Hi, For several weeks I'm trying to solve dependency issues with curl, but I'm lost.. any idea? That problem drove me nuts for months. I finally discovered by desperate trial and error that un-setting the 'curl' useflag fixes it. Finally!

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Curious hdparm results

2012-05-14 Thread walt
On 05/13/2012 02:00 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't understand: #hdparm -t /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.01 seconds = 88.43 MB

[gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-14 Thread walt
On 05/14/2012 06:08 AM, walt wrote: On 05/14/2012 03:49 AM, Space Cake wrote: Hi, For several weeks I'm trying to solve dependency issues with curl, but I'm lost.. any idea? That problem drove me nuts for months. I finally discovered by desperate trial and error that un-setting

[gentoo-user] Re: HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-14 Thread walt
On 05/14/2012 12:12 PM, James wrote: Well, I just got this new HP A8 laptop. After setting up the default windows, I modified the bios boot order to use the internal DVD. Then I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for small gentoo symbols across the top, then went blank after 3 minutes.

[gentoo-user] Re: Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background

2012-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2012 01:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial services are being started I can barely remember when I was young enough to care about saving a few seconds. (But, good for you :) Have you heard of systemd? Yet another evil

[gentoo-user] Re: In X: up wants to save screenshot. How do I stop this?

2012-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2012 03:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of up wants to create a .png image of my current desktop. This is regardless of which application is currently active. This is particularly irritating in Firefox,

[gentoo-user] Re: Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background

2012-05-19 Thread walt
On 05/16/2012 05:41 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:43:50AM -0700, walt wrote On 05/16/2012 01:40 AM__Ignas Anikevicius wrote: _( ) __ I want to do ( )s, s\ (ha( \do n()e to wait while non-crucial services are__)\ng __) \ed

[gentoo-user] Re: In X: up wants to save screenshot. How do I stop this?

2012-05-19 Thread walt
On 05/16/2012 05:22 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: On 05/16/2012 07:08 PM, walt wrote: You did me a huge favor by asking that question, thanks! While poking around in the keyboard settings applet I discovered a well-hidden option to disable the Caps-Lock key. I hit that stupid thing by accident

[gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

2012-05-23 Thread walt
I bought this desktop 4-core machine during the coolest part of the year and until very recently I could barely hear the CPU fan except for about one second during power-up when the fan spins way up and then quickly slows down. Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of the fan

[gentoo-user] Re: [entirely ON topic] Thanks to the devs

2012-05-23 Thread walt
On 05/23/2012 12:10 PM, Michael Mol wrote: I've noticed a lot of overt participation on this list by gentoo devs[1], especially in scenarios where they're explaining rationales and reasoning behind changes that affect users. I'd just like to say thank you for the work you guys do. Thank

[gentoo-user] Re: How to access newsgroup?

2012-05-28 Thread walt
On 05/24/2012 08:30 PM, wenpin cui wrote: damn firewall Your English is better than my Chinese :-D

[gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-05-29 Thread walt
On 05/28/2012 01:04 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: As GCC-4.7.0 appeared for ~amd64 now ... Cool. I hadn't noticed it yet. anyone recompiled system or world with it already? More advantages or disadvantages? Maybe a year ago I started having problems building virtualbox on my

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 4.10 xsane and Application -- Run Program not working

2012-05-29 Thread walt
On 05/29/2012 06:23 PM, Joseph wrote: 2.) Application -- Run Program a windows pups up. When I type: nano 1.txt Nothing happens. Please be more specific about 'nothing'. Does nano just close immediately with no error message? Does it hang forever until you hit ^C, or what? What do you

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome3 weather applet

2012-05-30 Thread walt
On 05/29/2012 10:56 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early gnome2 over 1.4 was :( I find gnome3 to be not very different from gnome2 *if* I run it in fallback mode. Try

[gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-06-01 Thread walt
On 05/29/2012 04:54 AM, walt wrote: Maybe a year ago I started having problems building virtualbox on my older/smaller machine. There is one place which ran through my puny 1GB of ram and then went on to fill up another 2GB of swap before oomkill stepped in. That turned out to be a gcc bug

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Screenshot but as video ?

2012-06-06 Thread walt
On 06/06/2012 11:23 AM, Mick wrote: Since this is Gentoo: ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mp4 Trust a gentooer to reinvent the wheel because using an existing wheel is too boring :)

[gentoo-user] [OT] USB hard drive puzzle

2012-06-07 Thread walt
I have an add-on usb3 adapter (based on ASMedia ASM1042 usb chip, using xhci kernel driver), which I dearly love except for one very annoying 'feature' ;) When I power up the outboard hard-disk docking station (plugged into the usb3 adapter) the computer never sees the docking station or its hard

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] USB hard drive puzzle

2012-06-08 Thread walt
On 06/07/2012 05:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:53:53 -0700, walt wrote: When I power up the outboard hard-disk docking station (plugged into the usb3 adapter) the computer never sees the docking station or its hard disk until I reboot the computer. Something in the BIOS

[gentoo-user] Re: unable to compile seamonkey-2.9.1-r2

2012-06-08 Thread walt
On 06/07/2012 11:12 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. Up to seamonkey-2.9.1 I was able to build from sources. emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] and I see swap space being eaten up quickly towards the end of the

[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] Beware of today's ~amd64 gnome update

2012-06-08 Thread walt
I just updated one of my ~amd64 machines and something in gnome is badly broken now. I'm about to update another ~amd64 machine but I'll do it one package at a time until I can identify the culprit. The symptom is that every application icon I click on starts in the background but never appears

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

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

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo user] Install gentoo-prefix on ubuntu 12.04

2012-06-08 Thread walt
On 06/08/2012 05:24 AM, 赵佳晖 wrote: Hi, everybody. I followed the doc http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml to install the gentoo-prefix on my ubuntu 12.04 , But when i come to the setp : emerge linker and compiler , and when i run the command : emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] USB hard drive puzzle

2012-06-09 Thread walt
On 06/08/2012 08:13 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/06/12 14:52, walt wrote: Does unloading and reloading the xhci module help? Brilliant :) It does indeed, thanks. Might be worth reporting as a bug perhaps. Or ask

[gentoo-user] Re: dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread walt
On 06/10/2012 03:33 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: That has *got* to be the first time ever someone could validly call grub simple and well-documented Usually, grub is anything but :-) Well documentation is pretty good me thinks, or at least GRUB

[gentoo-user] [PATCH] Using ati-drivers with kernel 3.5

2012-06-12 Thread walt
Like the last time, this patch is an ugly hack and it needs a professional touch before any sane dev would take it seriously. But here it is anyway :) BTW, I replaced for_each_cpu_mask because I still haven't learned the correct syntax for it. The number 4 is the number of cpus in this

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get any microphone to work

2012-06-12 Thread walt
On 06/12/2012 03:05 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: Strangely, I needed to change Channel mode from 6 ch to 2 ch for my intel-hda soundcard. I still can't get the webcam mic to work :-( Are you running pulseaudio, and do you have the pulseaudio USEFLAG set? If yes, /etc/pulse/default.pa

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-16 Thread walt
FWIW, I recently tried Windows 8 beta (on virtualbox, of course) and I found it unusable. Why? Because they are rushing to catch up with gnome3. Their new desktop looks very much like a smartphone. I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon and their customer base will

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Gnome3

2012-06-16 Thread walt
On 06/16/2012 12:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: BTW, using GNOME 3 for more than one year in my laptop and desktop, and I love it. I also want a tablet with it. Are you using any of the extensions Linus was discussing? I'm using gnome3 in fallback mode because most of my machines are too

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-16 Thread walt
On 06/16/2012 02:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:04 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/06/12 21:27, walt wrote: I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon and their customer base will vanish unless they capture the smartphone

[gentoo-user] Alternatives to the gnome-system-monitor panel applet?

2012-06-17 Thread walt
(I considered posting this into the Linus-bashing-gnome3 thread, then I decided against it :) There are tons of stuff in gnome(any version) that I don't need, but for many years I've stuck with gnome for one, maybe silly, reason. The gnome-system-monitor applet displays graphs of processor use,

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread walt
On 06/17/2012 11:16 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge its presence. By 'system' do you mean the BIOS, or the kernel driver?

[gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird and chinese fonts

2012-06-18 Thread walt
On 06/18/2012 04:01 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: Thing is, when I view messages in Thunderbird - I use TB13 - that are encoded in GB2312 and have chinese characters in them, the font looks rather ugly. Unicode messages with or without chinese characters look much better. I attached a screenshot

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread walt
On 06/18/2012 07:28 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:59:13AM -0700, walt wrote: On 06/17/2012 11:16 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge its presence. By 'system' do you mean the BIOS, or the kernel

[gentoo-user] [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread walt
I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, libbonobo and libbonoboui. I edited the autoconf.in to check for those standard libraries, and it did

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread walt
On 06/19/2012 01:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, libbonobo

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread walt
On 06/19/2012 05:27 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/19/2012 06:38 PM, walt wrote: Got a link? If it works with 4.10, I can just make an ebuild for it. Thank to you and Ezequiel for the quick replies :) git://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin Well, I basically recreated

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-20 Thread walt
On 06/18/2012 02:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 120615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 2012/6/15 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wouldn't compile. I can see that 295.53 and 295.59 are available. Use 295.59. I've updated to the latest testing 302.17

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread walt
On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 20/06/12 17:04, walt wrote: On 06/18/2012 02:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 120615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 2012/6/15 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wouldn't compile. I can see that 295.53

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-21 Thread walt
On 06/19/2012 06:39 PM, David Haller wrote: Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: (no, nobody really understands autotools) I do. Thanks for the excellent reply. Exactly what I needed to know.

[gentoo-user] Re: Need Help!

2012-06-22 Thread walt
On 06/22/2012 09:20 AM, Willie wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-23 Thread walt
On 06/16/2012 12:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, I recently tried Windows 8 beta (on virtualbox, of course) and I found it unusable. Why? Because they are rushing to catch up with gnome3. Their new desktop looks very much

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-24 Thread walt
On 06/24/2012 12:13 PM, Samuraiii wrote: The driver 295.59 builds just fine against kernel 3.2.12 So problem _MUST_ be somewhere around kernel. A perfectly reasonable conclusion. (My own perfectly reasonable conclusions are often wrong ;) Maybe you could install vanilla-sources and see if you

[gentoo-user] Re: eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-24 Thread walt
On 06/24/2012 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern does not match any installed version of binutils! exiting I would start by comparing /usr/share/eselect/* between the bad

[gentoo-user] Re: eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-24 Thread walt
On 06/24/2012 03:18 PM, walt wrote: On 06/24/2012 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern does not match any installed version of binutils! exiting And then there's the dreaded

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread walt
On 06/24/2012 10:05 PM, Dale wrote: I only run Gentoo here, no windoze at all and no other distro either. I agree with Canek. The only reason I switched to grub2 is that I have an outboard docking station that I don't always power on. That causes the BIOS to change the order of the drives

[gentoo-user] Re: eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-26 Thread walt
On 06/26/2012 10:51 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/24/2012 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern does not match any

[gentoo-user] [OT] Computer security

2012-06-28 Thread walt
I really enjoyed reading this: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/28/2012 03:41 PM, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that grub2 is coming soon. grub 2.00 has been released! https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ I wasn't expecting it to be that soon. I guess it will hit the

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/28/2012 05:19 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/28/2012 03:41 PM, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that grub2 is coming soon. grub 2.00 has been

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/29/2012 08:05 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start Thanks for the tip. /etc/make.conf strikes me as an odd place to put settings that apply to only one package. Any idea why that decision was made?

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/29/2012 01:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: GRUB and GPT are completely unrelated, I use GRUB2 on machines with both DOS and GPT partition tables, you don't need to repartition your drive to upgrade your bootloader. I didn't make myself clear. I wouldn't hesitate to convert this machine to

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/29/2012 05:55 PM, walt wrote: On 06/29/2012 01:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: GRUB and GPT are completely unrelated, I use GRUB2 on machines with both DOS and GPT partition tables, you don't need to repartition your drive to upgrade your bootloader. I didn't make myself clear. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]

2012-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/28/2012 10:14 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: After booting from gentoo minimal livecd, chrooting into my hard drive, re-emerging grub:0 (just in case it has to be built against my latest kernel) and then running grub and doing: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) it booted normally again. I guess I

[gentoo-user] Re: pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/29/2012 03:05 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to the

[gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]

2012-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/29/2012 06:19 PM, walt wrote: Just for future reference Oops, never mind. I misread your original post :(

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-07-01 Thread walt
On 06/29/2012 10:12 PM, David Haller wrote: -dnh, who has his first 3T GPT partitioned drive (for data only, one 2793GiB ext3 partition) in his main box since tuesday or so. Remember, pride goeth before the fsck. Or something like that. Why did you pick ext3 over ext4? You can fsck ext4

[gentoo-user] Anyone have cinnamon working properly?

2012-07-03 Thread walt
Cinnamon almost works well for me except that the Applications menu does nothing when I click on it. The other dropdown menus work as expected. If it works for you, I'll do more debugging here, but if it's just broken then I won't spend any more time on it. Thanks

[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] New udev-186 breaks pulseaudio

2012-07-05 Thread walt
udev-186 replaces libudev.so.0 with libudev.so.1, and pulseaudio won't compile against it. If you need pulse, avoid udev-186. I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that did build against libudev.so.1 and now

[gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread walt
On 07/05/2012 04:20 PM, Dale wrote: I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other than chroot'in in and all. There are basically only two ways that grub2 or grub1 can fail: First, you reboot and you

[gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] New udev-186 breaks pulseaudio[FIXED]

2012-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/05/2012 08:48 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:40:15 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that did build against libudev.so.1 and now had to be rebuilt a

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

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

[gentoo-user] Re: qemu not working on a P3M

2012-07-07 Thread walt
On 07/07/2012 06:17 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Ive installed app-emulation/qemu and app-emulation/kqemu but there is no qemu binary and programs like qemu-i386 just print a limited help and wont accept the usual arguments - its almost like a wrapper is missing. I don't use the gentoo qemu

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

2012-07-07 Thread walt
On 07/07/2012 04:27 AM, walt wrote: Do you have the 'fax' device on your laptops? BTW, did you 'install' the printer devices with hp-setup?

[gentoo-user] Re: qemu not working on a P3M

2012-07-07 Thread walt
On 07/07/2012 07:14 AM, walt wrote: Qemu supplies two different binaries: one you can run as an unprivileged user (usually named qemu-i386 or whatever) and another that needs special privileges (usually named gemu-system-i386 or whatever). I just remembered that installing the git version

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

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

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

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

[gentoo-user] Re: Issues with Cando touch screen

2012-07-08 Thread walt
On 07/07/2012 02:26 PM, Chandler Paul wrote: I should be able to easily do this simply by setting the option ThirdButtonEmulation in the evdev configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to on, however, this does not seem to make any difference even though I can see Xorg picking up the

[gentoo-user] Re: Issues with Cando touch screen

2012-07-08 Thread walt
On 07/08/2012 06:02 AM, Chandler Paul wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:30:23 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I had similar problems configuring a non-standard mouse. By using xev to examine mouse-clicks I discovered that the button numbering was completely different from what I expected

[gentoo-user] Re: Issues with Cando touch screen

2012-07-09 Thread walt
On 07/08/2012 10:58 AM, Chandler Paul wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:36:26 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Can you generate any other events beside button1-down/up? Maybe by sliding your finger across the screen? I imagine that if I were designing such a gadget I'd want a finger-slide

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc

2012-07-09 Thread walt
On 07/09/2012 02:19 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Additional problem: this box dual-boots Win7pro. Have some of you gentoo-users already been there, done that? This valuable link was posted here recently: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread walt
On 07/13/2012 01:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the flash. I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc

2012-07-13 Thread walt
On 07/13/2012 02:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially with that win7pro on board. It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure) For anyone else attacking this: I now have both

[gentoo-user] Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

2012-07-21 Thread walt
I know there are a few lvm2 experts lurking here :) I have a 500gig disk that is split roughly in half between two volume groups, each containing four physical volumes, and each vg is formatted into an ext4 filesystem of roughly 250GB. What I plan to do is merge the two volume groups into one,

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