> Thank you very much for any nice idea, story or of course comparison
> in advance!i :)
Well, I still have a TI-86 calculator with a Z80 processor. Of
course, even these are extremely mocked these days (eg
http://xkcd.com/768/)
My best friend in high school had programmer parents, and lots of
c
Lots of HDD RPMs and company suggestions, but to the point...
My two cents are: ESATA. I have multi TB external disks which I have
physics data stored on and needs to be analyzed. USB might be as fast
(in the best case), but it uses processor overhead.
Not that a lot of machines support that ki
> daid@titan ~ % cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
> # external USB, Seagate FreeAgent GO aka cyclops
> SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", DRIVERS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="
> 5LZ2XQJ5", SYMLINK+="cyclops" ACTION=="add",
> RUN+="/etc/udev/scripts/mount_cyclops.sh"
Sorry, but make sure that the one entry (begins
>> > I can't be of much more help to you, I don't use Gnome at all (see above)
>>
>> Can't say I blame you. What's the choice, though? I appreciate the
>> spare uncluttered desktop of Gnome. Last time I tried KDE (about 7 years
>> ago) it was anything but uncluttered. I tried XFCE briefly, but
On 30 May 2011 20:58, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> On Mon, May 30 2011, David W. Noon wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re:
>> [gentoo-user] setting locale:
>>
>>>måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb:
What must I do to get "en_US_utf8" ?
>>
On 3 March 2011 11:44, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Is Gnumeric unable to handle Excel .xlsx files or am I missing a USE
> flag somewhere?
> emerge -pv libreoffice
> http://www.autoobserver.com/car-data-center/assets/2011-03%20Sales.xlsx
Tried your file in OO.o 3.2.1. Let me get you my USE flags for
> I want to use LXDE as a Desktop on a fresh install of Gentoo on a laptop
> (amd64). It seems to work, but when I logout it hangs. It never
> returns to the command prompt and the keyboard doesn't work so I can
> switch to an alternate terminal.
Strange. Never used LXDE, but KDE and Xfce I nev
2010/10/21 Michael Hampicke :
>
>> May I just unmerge my old gcc ?
>> Is it save ?
>
> Yes it's save to unmerge your old gcc.
> You could also - using quickpkg - create a binary package of your old
> gcc before unmerging (for backup puropses).
>
>From the strictly Gentoo side of things, it's safe
> Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this
> automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if
> not just
>
> emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow
>
> then emerge -avuND world.
>
> No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from
On 22 October 2010 11:02, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well here it seems that openrc is going ~arch
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-688090.html
>
> So has it been decided that openrc is the way forward?
>
>
> Any caveats with openrc we should be aware of?
>
Just to put in my two cents, whi
>
>> > The main correlation I've seen so far is with dhcpcd. Sometimes at my
>> > work I get a 192. IP (which doesn't work), and other times I get a
>> > 133. IP (which is correct). In fact, sometimes dhcp is giving me an
>> > IP address and resolv.conf related to a university I was visiting like
On 13 October 2010 22:38, daid kahl wrote:
>> On 10/11/2010 11:38 PM, daid kahl wrote:
>>
>>> However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding
>>> slowly. This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration
>>> files, but this week it
> On 10/11/2010 11:38 PM, daid kahl wrote:
>
>> However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding
>> slowly. This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration
>> files, but this week it's acting up again. Before it was just su and
&
Sorry, so I put pam back to ~x86 version without any further rebuilds,
and I don't notice any trouble, so it doesn't seem related to pam at
all (my email might imply that).
~daid
On 12 October 2010 16:12, daid kahl wrote:
> Hmm, as usual, sending email to the user list makes subse
-r2 is x86 and and 1.1.2 is ~x86 at present)
I ran an emerge --oneshot --verbose --ask openldap cyrus-sasl pambase bison
Or it could be gremlins...
If the problem comes back (seems possible) I'll try to see if I can
pinpoint the solution.
~daid
On 12 October 2010 15:38, daid kahl wrote:
&g
Hello,
I did a large update a week or two ago (400 packages); system is ~x86.
It took awhile and needed some cleaning, but in general everything
went smoothly.
However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding
slowly. This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration
fil
> Hello,
>
> For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly
> at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting
> would be an extremely useful feature.
> It occurred to me tonight that adding slotting should be easy and very
> useful.
Not true! The slot
Hello,
For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly
at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting
would be an extremely useful feature.
Anyone who doesn't use or know root, but has experience or opinions on
how or when slots should be used, your fe
On 22 February 2010 01:33, daid kahl wrote:
>>> I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch
>>> over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things
>>> worked out.
>
>> Zsh is a wonderfull shell, but it does have a steep le
On 26 February 2010 12:33, Mark Knecht wrote:
> So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and
> played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night
> due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck
> complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired t
On 26 February 2010 22:23, Ward Poelmans wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 18:50, daid kahl wrote:
>
>> As a simple idea, cron task starts rsnapshot configured however. When
>> this is done, backup is tarballed, and tarball is given as like, say,
>> 440 permissions,
Hello,
I've been converting myself over to console applications when possible
now. I think it has a sleek look, and it ought to reduce my overhead.
So on my mutlimedia workspace, I'd considered running a nearly full
screen terminal of alsamixer with a command line music player in a
smaller termi
On 26 February 2010 10:06, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:59, daid kahl wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> As a side note, I tried dd piped through ssh and my router (with
>> firewall) was resetting the connection after around 4GB, and I don't
>> know of a
On 26 February 2010 12:33, Mark Knecht wrote:
> So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and
> played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night
> due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck
> complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired t
On 23 February 2010 02:06, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
>
>> well, cfg-update keeps a backup. It detects manual edits and try to
>> resolve conflicts resulting from that automatically. Which works
>> surprisingly well. If
>
> Volker gave me that same advice long ago, I've us
On 26 February 2010 05:01, Joseph wrote:
> On 02/25/10 16:18, daid kahl wrote:
>>
>> On 25 February 2010 15:19, Joseph wrote:
>>>
>>> I just switched one of my machine to KDE4.3 and when I try to print "pdf"
>>> document it prints it
On 26 February 2010 01:11, Ward Poelmans wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server
>> needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp
>> traffic. The client can then do it's
On 22 February 2010 16:49, daid kahl wrote:
> On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
>> to a newly created one.
>
> you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in
On 25 February 2010 11:40, BRM wrote:
> I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage,
> preferably for KDE4.
> Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not
> being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process -
> something
On 25 February 2010 15:19, Joseph wrote:
> I just switched one of my machine to KDE4.3 and when I try to print "pdf"
> document it prints it sideways.
> I've tried Okurla and xpdf same effect.
>
> The "pdf" shows correctly on the screen and prints correctly from kde-3.5
> Is it a bug or I need to
[snips from daid / Willie Wong]
> > evince will take an arbitrarily long time to print documents that are long
> > or have big figures.
>
> That's odd. I use evince at work (though not on gentoo; work computer
> is a heavily customized version of scientific linux) and I don't have
> the printing pr
On 25 February 2010 02:46, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> > Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making
> notes in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that
> allowed that.
> > If an
On 22 February 2010 18:51, daid kahl wrote:
> On 22 February 2010 12:28, Michael P. Soulier
> wrote:
>> So, I need pdftk to build some documents, so I emerge it and it tells me that
>> I need to update my USE flags and rebuild gcc with gcj support.
>
>> So, I d
>> > > > On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
>> > > > changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the
>> > > > majority, won't be flaged at all.
>> > >
>> > > so does cfg-update
>> >
>> > Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usuall
On 22 February 2010 12:28, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> So, I need pdftk to build some documents, so I emerge it and it tells me that
> I need to update my USE flags and rebuild gcc with gcj support.
> So, I do. I added gcj to my global make.conf and ran the emerge, and gcc was
> rebuilt.
Nope!
On 17 February 2010 06:27, Grant wrote:
>>> I thought SSDs were projected to
>>> last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much
>>> longer than MLC.
>>
>> It's the other way round: HD's last longer dan SSD's. [1]
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Dis
On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
> to a newly created one.
you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in
/proc and /dev you don't want.
This could avoid any problems of your rsync opti
> Other people are mentioning udev, and I wonder about this, too.
> Either before or after you check the kernel (whichever you decide is
> easier or seems better to you), can you chroot and rebuild udev
> through portage and also run a revdep-rebuild please? You said you
> updated, but it is not c
On 19 February 2010 20:43, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 00:49 -0500, James Homuth wrote:
>> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and
>> after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I
>> currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat,
> root:503 ~> equery d virtual/jdk
> [ Searching for packages depending on virtual/jdk... ]
> app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (java? =virtual/jdk-1.5*)
> (java? =virtual/jdk-1.6*)
> dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10 (!java6? =virtual/jdk-1.5*)
> (java6? >=v
>> I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch
>> over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things
>> worked out.
>>
>> The biggest problem that I can't find useful results googling is zsh
>> interaction with sudo.
>>
>> I'm noticing some strange behavior wit
On 19 February 2010 10:44, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> When I run
> emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update
> --with-bdeps=y world
>
> I get (after a DeprecationWarning about portage.dep.dep_getkey() that I
> believe I can ignore)
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downlo
On 19 February 2010 14:49, James Homuth wrote:
> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after
> reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*.
> But, booting to
> an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it sees them just fine.
Kernel versions of nativ
Hello,
I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch
over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things
worked out.
The biggest problem that I can't find useful results googling is zsh
interaction with sudo.
I'm noticing some strange behavior with the PATH and
2009/12/14 Mike Mazur :
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 19:17, Mick wrote:
>> 2009/12/13 Mike Mazur :
>>
>>> I ran across this issue last night.
>>>
>>> At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead,
>>> setting the XSESSION variable in /etc/env.d is the correct way to do
>>> i
> I could take a whole day typing in exactly what I do,
> but I assumed the otherwise intelligent subscribers to the list
> would realise that I add '-1' to those pkgs which are not in 'world'.
> My 'world' file contains 112 entries, incl 28 'sys' + 35 'kde'.
>
> Really, does something like t
>> such as (I am guessing now) saw-umm-bee-yaw-koo. To write Tokyo in
>> the proper furigana is probably something like toh-o-kee-yoh-o.
Oh, I should mention that this is in writing correct. But the yo is a
subscript, so it's also a modifier, so the ki part isn't pronounced,
it's modified into a
> Our handling is simple -- we don't yet. I don't know how to handle
> things like that, or the previous example of Copenhagen in different
> languages. Look at Naples -- that's not what Italins call it. Venice
> is really bad -- no idea how English got it so mangled. Speaking of
> Japanese, th
>>
>> alsasound is on boot runlevel, so it's running. Still, some apps, like
>> flash movies in firefox, don't behave nicely.
>
> Can you give us a URL for a flash movie so I can test?
>
Since I'm having trouble too, here is a youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoAbMfg9_Uk
Maybe you'l
> @Yoav Luft, I don't know if this is the same problem, maybe it doesn't
> relate at all. You should start by checking that there's no pulseaudio or
> something like that monopolizing the alsa output, because maybe the problem
> is not alsa itself. But, if alsa is running alone, I'd start by checki
> On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote:
>>
>> Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up.
>
> Where I come from, we use " | less" :p
Meh, just > into /tmp and use anything you want to view it if you
really want to be hardcore.
Less is really crappy for emerges at console-login. It requ
> I'm not 100% sure but I think eix-test-obsolete will find things like this.
> It will also scan the /etc/portage/package.* files and a few other things
> as well.
>
> Be forewarned, the output can be pretty . . . . large. lol It mostly
> depends on how out of date things are. Mine is usually
> I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean
> converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I
> know Unicode has a different "normalize" meaning, but for my purposes,
> that has already been done. Maybe I should call it standardization or
> make up a
>>> 2 pieces of advice to avoid such problems:
>>> (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs;
>>> (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag.
>> I kindly disagree.
>
>> ~[arch] is testing for Gentoo ebuild. It's considered stable upstream.
>> This was an upstream bug, not a Gen
>>> To say that a person only needs to hear one sound at a time is like
>>> telling
>>> someone to close one eye.
>>>
>>
>> Hey man, you're display's only 2D. What do you need that second eye for
>> anyway?
>>
>> Regards,
>> daid
>>
>>
>
> I say that because I have a bad eye. I wish I could see g
> When I figured out that I was using the wrong march, I switched it out, but
> forgot to look over the cflags, which still contained -msse3. Hence some
> improvement but not a total fix. I was thinking of giving my safe cflags a
> go, when, looking at them and at my regular cflags, I realized that
> I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound would
> play at a time, it was annoying as heck. If I changed desktops, was playing
> a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy playing, I couldn't
> hear anything else. I couldn't hear Kopete if someone was tryi
> 2 pieces of advice to avoid such problems:
> (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs;
> (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag.
I kindly disagree. ~[arch] is testing for Gentoo ebuild. It's
considered stable upstream.
This was an upstream bug, not a Gentoo bug.
And,
> Thanks for letting me know this was blank. Gmail doesn't send me a copy
> back so I had no clue. I thought I had stumped everyone with this one. O_O
I thought maybe you were testing some new super-concise method of
asking for help by including all relevant info in the subject line.
Hey...les
>
> Somewhere in this thread was a mention of a failed patch.
>
> Where version of patch are you using? If it's 2.6, downgrade it as 2.6 is
> horribly broken
>
> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-of-
> gnu-patch-2-6
>
There was some patching things that cau
> Unless you are a developer or trying to get around bugs in portage
> where the ebuild isn't working, you should need to use git as a Gentoo
> user.
*Shouldn't* need to use git.
> Roy Marples, who is a(the?) openrc developer, roped me into using git
> to do whatever git is supposed to do and now it's much worse.
> /dev/sd1 and 2 fail to mount as before PLUS many init services fail to
> start PLUS it no longer matters if the battery is being used or the ac
> cord: Chaos ens
> Success on compiling OOo!
>
> I'm quite certain it was the ebuild, and that making it use the
> internal redland and not the system redland was the issue in my case.
Bing!
Now submitted a bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295268
Regards,
daid
> That's a known issue - it saw a reference to it on b.g.o. last night. That bug
> report declared it to be a kde integration error. Logic tells me any number of
> faulty things could do it too).
Shouldn't be kde. Unmerged that last month...
>
> I'm sure the OOo maintainer will appreciate the de
2009/12/1 daid kahl :
>>> What nfs options are in use, both client and server side?
>>
>> I used this fstab entry on the client:
>> 10.0.1.1:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0
>>
>
> Using defaults you are auto-mounting at boot. But usually fr
>> What nfs options are in use, both client and server side?
>
> I used this fstab entry on the client:
> 10.0.1.1:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0
>
Using defaults you are auto-mounting at boot. But usually from my
experience items in fstab would be mounted before the network is
Success on compiling OOo!
I'm quite certain it was the ebuild, and that making it use the
internal redland and not the system redland was the issue in my case.
However, I've undone my changes in the ebuild and began compiling
again so that I can confirm it fails with only that change.
I had also
> aarrrgh!! I'm the one with the netbook!! The default didn't work.
> Checking fs every boot does. Extra reboot time amounts to a few secs
> vs not booting at all, dammit!
And I'm not sure about this fewseconds. I suppose a netbook drive is
small. But if I'm toying around with kernel configs and
>> > Right.
>>
>> wrong
>>
>> > Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll
>> > want to get them solved, but it's either a LiveCD chroot or disable
>> > fsck at boot.
>>
>> There's nothing wrong with the filesystem. It's ext2 and requires
>> being checked at every boot.
>> >> [about LastPass]
>> >
>> > I have an alarm system in my head. It's called the "Security by bullshit
>> > baffles brains Alert". It's ringing right now ;-)
>>
>> Hahahaha.
>>
>> Just make your doorknob turn the wrong way and you don't have to lock
>> it. Or you could remap all your system fil
> I recently moved my local home directory to an nfs-mounted directory. Now I'm
> having trouble with kmail. It seems that the permissions on
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail/cur are being... changed...
How are you mounting the drive?
If it's in fstab, do you have the right options set
>> I've been getting the same silly OpenOffice compile error for a couple
>> weeks now. Nothing I can search up or think of seems to do the trick.
>> Here's the end of the output during compile:
>>
>> 1 module(s):
>> unoxml
>> need(s) to be rebuilt
>
> I had hoped to never ever see this err
> So I managed to fix the other wonkiness on my system (viz, gcc and emacs not
> emerging). Turns out, I had been sloppy in putting together my make.conf and
> used march=prescott when I should have been using march=pentium4. Fixed it,
> ran emerge -uDNe world. Things emerge now.
Really late post
Forgive the top-post, but I would like to say I was very impressed by
the analysis of Joerg Schilling.
Given the issue appears resolved, I can't help myself:
> When I bought this notebook in january and first installed gentoo,
> cdrecord used to work. Then at some point ago (probably after some
>
>> [about LastPass]
> I have an alarm system in my head. It's called the "Security by bullshit
> baffles brains Alert". It's ringing right now ;-)
Hahahaha.
Just make your doorknob turn the wrong way and you don't have to lock
it. Or you could remap all your system filestructure, remove all
PAT
>> > You say "Chaos ensues" ... in what way? Further errors, failure to
>> > boot, file system corruption, or...? The problem isn't likely rooted
>> > in the fact that it doesn't run an fsck when the system's booting on
>> > battery, but rather that you have some more pressing problem that
>> > sho
> I had hoped to never ever see this error again, looks like my hopes were
> dashed.
If my eyes needed a screen saver, this would be burned into my retinas.
> Long answer: The reason for the failure is in the build log, but it is never
> just above the error message. It is often many 1000s of lin
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.4:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/home/daid/scripts:/sbin:/usr/non-portage:/home/daid/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm/bin:/us
I've been getting the same silly OpenOffice compile error for a couple
weeks now. Nothing I can search up or think of seems to do the trick.
Since it takes about 2 hours + to crash out (the *exact* same way),
it's also not trivial to try lots of different ideas. I'd read
something that suggested
> Hi group,
>
> When my netbook boots under battery power w/o the ac adapter connected
> I get this warning msg in the boot window: 'Skipping fsck due to not
> being an ac adapter'. Chaos ensues. The warning appears in
> /etc/init.d/fsck.
>
> How do I fix this? Some option in /etc/conf.d/fsck?
I
> I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after
> running in X for a while. I haven't noticed a time pattern yet but it
> doesn't take long sometimes.
> I see no problem when starting X and I see nothing in
> /var/log/messages that gives a clue about what is happening.
>
> I'm r
> I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on
> trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've
> been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state
> Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months
> This reminds me of a problem we had just recently.
> Have you got a multi-core CPU ?
> If yes, read on.
If you all think it might be multi-core related, check out a recent
post that was syndicated to planet.gentoo:
http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2009-11.html#e2009-11-19T0
> I'm running the 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 kernel,
> xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 and x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.11
> So, this is quite recent.
> Only killing X itself cures the problem.
> Of course, I have reemerged x11-base/xorg-server x11-drivers/ati-drivers
> and I have run revdep-rebuild.
>
> Probably I have
> 2009/11/25 Helmut Jarausch :
>> Hi,
>>
>> on one of several machines and only occasionally
>> my X-server (/usr/bin/X) takes nearly 100% CPU.
>> I have killed some applications but this didn't help
>> unless I killed X itself and restarted it.
>>
>> Is there any way to find out what is hogging my
>> After suspending to ram (using hibernate-ram) and resuming, sound no longer
>> works. I checked out dmesg, and it says that (among other things):
> Check the various hybernation/acpi config files. There should be the option
> somewhere in there to stop alsasound when it hybernates and start i
> Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab
> to specify the proper layout. Easy - I do it often.
A good idea. If for some reason you don't have disk image
backups...grab something like system rescue cd, and partimage the
whole drive and the restore from it...
~d
2009/11/25 Helmut Jarausch :
> Hi,
>
> on one of several machines and only occasionally
> my X-server (/usr/bin/X) takes nearly 100% CPU.
> I have killed some applications but this didn't help
> unless I killed X itself and restarted it.
>
> Is there any way to find out what is hogging my X server?
> This all happened because you didn't read this:
>
> pkg_preinst() {
> if use make-symlinks && [[ ! ${VERY_BRAVE_OR_VERY_DUMB} == "yes" ]] &&
> [[ ${ROOT} == "/" ]] ; then
> ewarn "setting USE=make-symlinks and emerging to / is very
> dangerous."
> ewarn "it WI
>> I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that was
>> turned on that shouldn't be, and that udev might not work.
> I found it in /var/log/messages. It said:
>
> Nov 23 15:37:07 camille kernel: udev: missing sysfs features; please
> update the kernel or disable the kernel's CO
> To disable namespaces I would have to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y ... correct?
>
> This is rather counterintuitive to me, as my main workstation is far
> from an embedded or small system (ok, not compared to the
> 4096-cpu-clusters in http://xkcd.com/619/ , but compared to, for
> example, my embedded A
2009/11/18 daid kahl :
> Hello,
>
> After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and
> undesirable behavior. It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard
> problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode.
>
It appears that the problem is some unholy alliance between
hal-0.5.13
> After my post I knuckled down and worked systematically through the
> model= options for ALC883/888 and ALC882/885, having gleaned from the
> internet that these are most similar to the 889A. The possible choices
> are listed in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt.
> Several ch
> I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full ~x86
> system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while going from
> x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't it? If possible at
> all.
I just wanted to throw my two-cents in here, although much has
> Back on topic now :-) Apparently upstream is aware of this silly
> behaviour/bug, maybe I should wait a bit and see if they provide a knob to go
> back to the old behaviour
This sounds like a reasonable plan. glibc downgrades aren't supported
not only because they are a pain in the rear, but th
2009/11/18 Maxim Wexler :
> Hi group,
>
> I ran emerge -avuDN world and came up with blocked packages which I
> eliminated by un-merging device-mapper and e2fsprogs-libs. When I
> rebooted was greeted by a maintenance console and the message
> "libblkid.so.1 cannot open shared object file". A lit
> Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager
> in place and that plugin is enabled.
>
> For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged
> in. I am not sure when this stopped working.
>
> My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working
> So this is one of those times where why words come back to haunt me?? :-)
>
> What I think I shall do first, is downgrade binutils to 1.19.x and rebuild a
> few apps I've noticed that are affected. I think the odds of success are
> pretty good. If not, well, a reinstall-rebuild is the certain rou
>> # emerge alsa-util alsa oss
...and "alsa-utils"
I should go to sleep...
> # emerge alsa-util alsa oss
Sorry, that should be "alsa-oss"
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