Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.03.2010 16:54, schrieb Kyle Bader: If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): Echo 0 /sys/class/block/device name/queue/iosched/low_latency http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 That sounded good, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Damian
Anyway, if it were me I'd nuke the file in a heartbeat, but if OP is too timid for that, he can also quarantine the file first, i.e., move it to some other path where it won't cause trouble (and then delete later). Also, (from the bug) his libarchive.la seems to still list the .la, so he

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Damian
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, if it were me I'd nuke the file in a heartbeat, but if OP is too timid for that, he can also quarantine the file first, i.e., move it to some other path where it won't cause trouble (and then delete later). Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all but I can't use it as root at all. Huh? No problem here. [...] This is what I am talking about.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

2010-03-12 Thread dhk
Daniel Wagener wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:09 -0500 dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play news videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the headphones. It's an Intel 32bit box with xfce4. I don't have speakers

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Yes, Gwenview has been quite useable for some time now the KDE 4 version is a bit of an improvement generally. Useable alternatives are Thunar (icon view) Feh (thumbnail view) to browse around Feh (image view) to look at the actual

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i get multiple chromium window on kde 4.4?

2010-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:35:25 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i can only start one chromium window. if i try to drag one tab off the main window, i got the follow error message: This used to work for me, but now it just crashes Chromium, which presumably started after the recent Chromium update. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:18:03 -0500 dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Daniel Wagener wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:09 -0500 dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play news videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i get multiple chromium window on kde 4.4?

2010-03-12 Thread Xi Shen
thanks. i figured out have to start 2 chromium window :) the way 'alt+f2' start a new application is not quite intuitive. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/12/10, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, if it were me I'd nuke the file in a heartbeat, but if OP is too timid for that, he can also quarantine the file first, i.e., move it to some other path where it won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Damian
Hi Arttu, Ok, so moving the file, reinstalling libarchive, and running lafilefixer didn't change the situation. So I'm using gvfs without the archive flag. Bummer. Are you sure your libarchive.la is not another orphan, just like liblzmadec.la was? Indeed. libarchive.la is not owned by any

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i get multiple chromium window on kde 4.4?

2010-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:10:34 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: thanks. i figured out have to start 2 chromium window :) Yes, but that's not how it should work, or how it worked until recently. the way 'alt+f2' start a new application is not quite intuitive. There is nothing intuitive about computer use,

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:51 +0100, Damian wrote: Indeed. libarchive.la is not owned by any package. Is this a symptom of a bigger problem? It probably means you have run fix_libtool_files.sh, or possibly lafilefixer, between installing and removing the package responsible for that file.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Yes, Gwenview has been quite useable for some time now the KDE 4 version is a bit of an improvement generally. Useable alternatives are Thunar (icon view) Feh

[gentoo-user] Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
I just emerged skencil, but it doesn't run: shared memory images supported Could not load font '-misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' for ruler. using defaults. Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/skencil, line 34, in module Sketch.main.main()

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/12/10, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: Bummer. Are you sure your libarchive.la is not another orphan, just like liblzmadec.la was? Indeed. libarchive.la is not owned by any package. Is this a symptom of a bigger problem? Probably not, unless running Gentoo is considered a big

[gentoo-user] New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates: Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1 * SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ... [ ok ] * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd

Re: [gentoo-user] Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-12 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: === Does skencil work for anybody else? === You should probably be using inkscape instead. I'm not sure skencil is maintained. BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil. -- Keith Dart -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/12/10, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Emerge won't remove files it installed if they have been subsequently modified. Just checking: anybody know how long has it been like this? -- Arttu V.

[gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/12/2010 09:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates: Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1 * SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ... [ ok ] * Remember to merge your config files in

[gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-03-12, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: === Does skencil work for anybody else? You should probably be using inkscape instead. I was afraid of that. Inkscape is a bloated monster that's going to pull in another dozen or two packages. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/12/2010 2:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates: Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1 * SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ... [ ok ] * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 03/12/2010 09:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates: Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1  *  SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign

[gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-12 Thread Leandro Boscariol
Hi guys. While trying to find a solution for this error: (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard I came along with a lot of people with the same issue, and I'm even quoting this guy: when I try to login into xdm login prompt, the login and passwd are accepted, I get

[gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-03-12, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-03-12, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: === Does skencil work for anybody else? You should probably be using inkscape instead. I was afraid of that. Inkscape is a bloated

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/net.ra0 is not bringing up the interface?

2010-03-12 Thread Tony Miller
That was just it! Thank you so much. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010 06:12:55 Tony Miller wrote: I have added /etc/init.d/net.ra0 (my wireless interface is called ra0 instead of wlan0) to the default runlevel. It starts the

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-12 Thread Mick
On Friday 12 March 2010 19:37:33 Leandro Boscariol wrote: Hi guys. While trying to find a solution for this error: (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard I came along with a lot of people with the same issue, and I'm even quoting this guy: when I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-12 Thread Kyle Bader
If the elevated iowait from iostat is on the host you might be able to find something hogging you io bandwidth with iotop. Also look for D state procs with ps auxr. Are you on a software raid? If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:10:41 +0200, Arttu V. wrote: Emerge won't remove files it installed if they have been subsequently modified. Just checking: anybody know how long has it been like this? I've been using Gentoo since 2003 and AFAIK it's been like that all this time. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and don't want to lose connectivity. Probably what the writer of that message meant is to update the config files with dispatch-conf and the like.  I don't know to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and don't want to lose connectivity. Probably what the writer of that message meant is to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 March 2010 01:02:12 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and don't want to lose connectivity. Probably what the writer of that message meant is to update the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:56:04 Neil Walker wrote: On 09/03/10 15:41, Peter Humphrey wrote: I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Well, as this box is ~amd64 I shouldn't need any of those. But kompozer

[gentoo-user] compiz+xfce+GM965/GL960

2010-03-12 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, anyone succed on configuring compiz+xfce on intel integrade card? Any good guide/howto? google sends me to gentoo-wiki which seems down to me. TIA, Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:17:48PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil. Apparently skencil is not compatible with tk 8.5. -sigh- now I am unmerging skencil. I used to use it years ago. But now I am getting the same problem you described. W -- Willie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

2010-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:54:35PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: After attempting to use sk1 for a few minutes, I've given up on it. It crashes regularly. Exporting to a .eps file just plain doesn't work (it writes 'sk1' format data to the file). The user interface is full of breakage: if

[gentoo-user] Trying to get compiz or compiz-fusion to work on GMA 965

2010-03-12 Thread ubiquitous1980
When I start compiz with: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 INTEL_BATCH=1 compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp compiz fails to perform 3d rendering with the following standard output: WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function glXCreatePixmap when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an

[gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Hartman
Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be updated or else you won't be able to login to your system. If you have: AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys (which is the default example in the config

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:57:44PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote It probably means you have run fix_libtool_files.sh, or possibly lafilefixer, between installing and removing the package responsible for that file. Emerge won't remove files it installed if they have been subsequently modified.

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to get compiz or compiz-fusion to work on GMA 965

2010-03-12 Thread ubiquitous1980
ubiquitous1980 wrote: When I start compiz with: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 INTEL_BATCH=1 compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp compiz fails to perform 3d rendering with the following standard output: WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function glXCreatePixmap when GLX 1.3 is

Re: [gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users

2010-03-12 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be updated or else you won't be able to login to your system. If you have: AuthorizedKeysFile