Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-11-11 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/11/11 Alan McKinnon : > The remote end cut you off. Try another mirror. Is this a know infrastructure issue. It seems to happening a lot lately. I'm wary of retrying lest I end up on a ban list. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ http://www.half-llama.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/5/5 Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 5 May 2009 11:50:18 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > >> I thought I may as well try the x11 overlay so added it to layman but >> obviously the package mask is still in effect. I assume the manually >> editing /usr/portage/profile/package.mask

[gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I had manually built (via my own local overlay) more recent versions of large chunks of X to get around some slugish performance on my Intel based setup. However I noticed by xf86-video-intel driver got downgraded today due to an updated package.mask with the message: R?mi Cardona (29 Apr 20

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiz broke on latest portage update?

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/4/27 Alex Bennee : > I updated compiz today which required me to unmask: > > dev-libs/iniparser                     ~amd64 > > And it promptly broke with: > > 18:44 a...@danny/x86_64 [~] >~/bin/start-compiz.sh > compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcompizconf

[gentoo-user] Compiz broke on latest portage update?

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Bennee
I updated compiz today which required me to unmask: dev-libs/iniparser ~amd64 And it promptly broke with: 18:44 a...@danny/x86_64 [~] >~/bin/start-compiz.sh compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcompizconfig.so.0: undefined symbol: iniparser_new However revdep-rebuild see

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-17 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 14:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 11:29 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:49 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:01 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-15 Thread Alex Bennee
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:49 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:01 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I logout of gnome it no longer asks me if I wish to save the > > session and as a result I lose all my session data each time I logout.

[gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-14 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, When I logout of gnome it no longer asks me if I wish to save the session and as a result I lose all my session data each time I logout. Anyone know where this went? Is this an upstream Gnome issue or am I missing some magical USE flag? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Electri

[gentoo-user] Gnome Session not saving

2006-08-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Despite having "Ask on Logout" ticked in the Gnome Sessions Preference I'm not being prompted to "Save Session" when I log out. As a result none of my desktop changes are persistent over different logons. Any idea what could be happening? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ The way to

[gentoo-user] Wine won't build

2006-07-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I can't get wine to build. The configure script complains that it can't find freetype (despite it being installed) but I'm not sure if thats the problem. I assume an exit status of 1 from the configure script is bad? malory alex # tail /var/tmp/portage/wine-0.9.16/work/wine-0.9.16/config.log

[gentoo-user] Rhythmbox and Audioscrobbler

2006-02-14 Thread Alex Bennee
I thought I'd give the latest Rhythmbox a try with the scocial music audoscrobbler system. When I emerged it it all ran fine but even with the username and password in the audioscrobbler box I'm not seeing my last.fm page update. I enebaled musicbrainz in my make.conf in case that was it but no dic

[gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-24 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I'm tracking the kernel by hand (following the git tree and doing some hacking of my own). However whenever I try and emerge a ebuild that involves a kernel module it usually fails to work out the correct kernel: * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source dir

[gentoo-user] Udev Permissions

2006-01-08 Thread Alex Bennee
I've been having trouble getting udev to create stuff with the right permissions. The latest is with my phone which has a USB Mass Storrage Interface. I've added this line to my 10-local.rules: # My Phone BUS="usb", SYSFS{interface}="Sony Erics Memory Stick", KERNEL="sd?1",NAME="%k", SYMLINK="phon

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:56 +, C. Beamer wrote: > Hi, > > Alex Bennee wrote: > > >Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I > >suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable > >in the preferences dialog. >

[gentoo-user] How do I test gnome-spell?

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Bennee
I can't get spell checking in Evolution to work (it has no idea what dictionaries are available). The base aspell seems to be working but I don't know how to test the gnome-spell component. Any ideas? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ You have literary talent that you should take pai

[gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Bennee
Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable in the preferences dialog. I have aspell-en installed but that doesn't seem to be enough. Any ideas? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ If

[gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-19 Thread Alex Bennee
As my system has become more lived in I've noticed the time taken to update the cache at the end of an emerge --sync is getting slower and slower. The system will hang around 50% for a long time and thrash the crap out of the disks. Is this just usual behaviour for portage? Is there anyway to flus

[gentoo-user] Getting Bluetooth talking to phone

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Bennee
I think I have everything up. The gnome-bluetooth-manager does come up but it doesn't do much more than display my phone which it can find. I can't get any dialog's up (info/etc) but the messages in the console window seem to suggest it can't display something: 15:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [tmp] >gnome

[gentoo-user] Best way to build a debugging binary

2005-09-05 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I keep getting crashes when exiting evolution so I thought I'd have a go at generating a decent debugging build so I can submit a bug report. I thought the best thing to do would be re-emerge evolution with debugging enabled: CFLAGS="-g3 -O0" USE="debug" emerge -v evolution However this doe

[gentoo-user] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Applogies for the cross-post. I'm unsure if this is and amd64 specific problem or a more general b0rkage. I've posted about my failing glibc emerges before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 I think I've narrowed it down to ldconfig running during the emerge. In fact at

[gentoo-user] udev Strangeness

2005-06-12 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I've managed to get my usbdrive to appear in its own fixed /dev entry but I cannot get the same to happen for my camera. It seems the udev rule seems to get ignored. Any idea why? # My pendrive BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="USB DISK Pro", KERNEL="sd?1", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="usbdrive" # My Ca

[gentoo-user] GStreamer Pad error with Rhythmbox

2005-06-04 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Has anyone else been seeing problems with Gstreamer based apps not playing files due to "Internal GStreamer error: pad problem"? It seems to of broken on the last update. There is a bug filled (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86675) but I was wondering if its an isolated case? -- Ale

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 18:19 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Alex Bennee wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > > > > > >>Alex Bennee wrote: > >> > >> > >>>If you run the command again with strac

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Alex Bennee wrote: > >If you run the command again with strace: > > > >strace -e trace=open nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser > > > >You will probably be able to see what the failing file is interleaved

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Bennee
> >Would you please provide more details about the actual error? > >One good way to do that is to launch nautilus from a terminal with the > >following command IIRC: > > > >nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser > > > >and take a look at the ouput when it crashes. > > > here is the error output f

Re: [gentoo-user] What mixes up line order of world file?

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 19:56 -0400, A. R. wrote: > Yeah, I find this a little bit of an annoyance too ;-) > I find myself doing "cat /var/lib/portage/world | sort" very often just to > see the contents of the file. > > But then again it is just a very minor thing. Its the minor things that prompt

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Data Server keeps reverting

2005-05-08 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 16:03 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Alex Bennee wrote: > > Both versions are ~amd64 so I don't think that is the reason. Any idea > > what is causing emerge to think it wants to revert to a broken package? > > There could be a couple of reaso

[gentoo-user] Evolution Data Server keeps reverting

2005-05-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I had a problem starting evolution: 14:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [alex] >evolution-2.2 evolution-2.2: error while loading shared libraries: libecal-1.2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory When I checked I found that libecalc belonged to evolution-data-server. A quick r

Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work

2005-04-17 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:22 +0200, Erik wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > What error results when you try to run one of > >those programs? > > > > > Segmentation fault. I've seen this before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 Did you seem a similer error at the end of eme

Re: [gentoo-user] nmap results: need help

2005-04-12 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:43 -0700, death rince wrote: > hi, > a) why does it show that the there is netbois ports > b) why mysql is shown as unauthorised. > c) why is it showiing tftp as filtered. why it is open > in the first place > > I have attached the output of grep disable > /etc/xinetd.d/