Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-10 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:45, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 9/11/2010, at 9:03pm, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 22:05, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The language of this list is English. You might be lucky and find someonewhounderstands French

[gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, I see the gns3 overlay link is broken http://code.gns3.net/gns3-overlay/file/ec6bc595d263/gns3-overlay-docs.txt Do any of you use gns3? what is the recommended way of installing it on gentoo? Regards, Coert Waagmeester

Re: [gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay SOLVED

2010-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:52:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: My bad, I found it after some more googling in the zugaina overlay. Eix is able to search overlays, installed and otherwise, for packages. In this case it shows that sunrise has a newer version that zuigana. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-10 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: I would try it with sandbox disabled. FEATURES=-*sandbox* your emerge command here It may work. Certainly worth a shot I guess. Bingo! For some reason, FEATURES=-*sandbox* emerge nss did'nt work (sandbox still used) when replacing FEATURE=...usersandbox

Re: [gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay SOLVED

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:52:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: My bad, I found it after some more googling in the zugaina overlay. Eix is able to search overlays, installed and otherwise, for packages. In this case it shows that sunrise has a newer version that zuigana.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using consolekit?

2010-11-10 Thread walt
On 11/09/2010 05:08 AM, 李健 wrote: I don't know how to solve this, but I hope the following messages may help you. Messages generated by process 14982 on 2010-10-18 23:54:00 CST for package sys-auth/polkit-0.96-r1: WARN: postinst If you don't use GDM or KDM for logging in, you must start your

Re: [gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay SOLVED

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, I see the gns3 overlay link is broken http://code.gns3.net/gns3-overlay/file/ec6bc595d263/gns3-overlay-docs.txt Do any of you use gns3? what is the recommended way of installing it on gentoo? Regards, Coert Waagmeester My bad, I found it after some

[gentoo-user] [OT] rsync question

2010-11-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the following behaviour of rsync puzzles me. I have the following situation Source/Athis is a symlink ! Dest/A this is a real directory now cd Dest/A rsync -auHz -ni --rsh=ssh --delete --exclude='/A/' source machine:Source/ . shows that it's going to

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Dan Johansson
On Monday 08 November 2010 20.18:22 Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 08.11.2010 15:02, schrieb Dan Johansson: Hi, After updating from dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 to dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2 I am no missing the suidperl binary. Some of my perl scripts _need_ this feature. Any suggestion on how to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-10 Thread felix
I haven't read the entire thread and I don't intend to. The whole concept is so bizarre that I could not read it without thinking of the worst most evil bosses and environments I have worked on, and none of them even come close. It does remind me a bit of what I have read about computers back in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.11.2010 06:56, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2010-11-09, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Well, there are two ways to go here: 1. Modularize what you have. Give every developer only the source he is supposed to work on and binary interfaces (libs + header files

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Petri Rosenström
Hi, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Hartman
2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

2010-11-10 Thread Mick
On 9 November 2010 23:30, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 9/11/2010, at 4:04pm, Alex Schuster wrote: ... I need to mention here that the machine is a laptop which I use regularly on train journeys (bumpy ride).  The drive has a Seagate G-Force Protection™ which is meant to

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Stroller
On 8/11/2010, at 2:02pm, Dan Johansson wrote: ... After updating from dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 to dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2 I am no missing the suidperl binary. Some of my perl scripts _need_ this feature. Any suggestion on how to be able to execute perl-scritps suid (except downgrade to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.11.2010 17:44, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: I haven't read the entire thread and I don't intend to. The whole concept is so bizarre that I could not read it without thinking of the worst most evil bosses and environments I have worked on, and none of them even come close. It does

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Dan Johansson
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18.17:19 Stroller wrote: On 8/11/2010, at 2:02pm, Dan Johansson wrote: ... After updating from dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 to dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2 I am no missing the suidperl binary. Some of my perl scripts _need_ this feature. Any suggestion on how to be

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18:05:40 Paul Hartman wrote: 2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, snipped Last night I took it to full charge, put in memtest86+ boot CD and the system

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Stroller
On 10/11/2010, at 6:04pm, Dan Johansson wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18.17:19 Stroller wrote: On 8/11/2010, at 2:02pm, Dan Johansson wrote: ... After updating from dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 to dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2 I am no missing the suidperl binary. Some of my perl scripts

[gentoo-user] Swing !

2010-11-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am a little confused. I am compiled SuperCollider3 from source. When started, it complains of not finding swing. As far as I know, Swing is part of the java sdk. Is it? Or what can trigger this message? Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread meino . cramer
Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za [10-11-10 18:40]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system (AMD64). But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:40 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: On 10/11/2010, at 6:04pm, Dan Johansson wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18.17:19 Stroller wrote: On 8/11/2010, at 2:02pm, Dan Johansson wrote: ... After updating from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I rarely use swap unless I am compiling something huge, OOo comes to mind, or have a LOT of images open with GIMP. I did check to make sure tho.

[gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. some are colored in red , some blue what are the differences ? Thanks, Benny

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread KH
Am 10.11.2010 21:37, schrieb Benyamin Dvoskin: Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. some are colored in red , some blue what are the differences ? Thanks, Benny Hi, for me red is enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. some are colored in red , some blue what are the differences ? Thanks, Benny From the emerge man page: [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Selon Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: I would try it with sandbox disabled. FEATURES=-*sandbox*your emerge command here It may work. Certainly worth a shot I guess. Bingo! For some reason, FEATURES=-*sandbox* emerge nss did'nt work (sandbox still used)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Just to close this thread... a reboot swept away all `ls' problems so still not sure what caused it, but am happily having normal experience with `ls' once again. Might well be that the reboot caused an fsck run, which fixed the problems. cu --

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I found git has a cvsimport command, but it complained that cvs didn't recognize the server command, and some hints I saw of requiring cvs 2 made me pause ... all I can see is cvs 1.12. echo dev-vcs/cvs server /etc/portage/package.use emerge -1

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Benyamin Dvoskin benyamin.dvos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. some are colored in red , some blue what are the differences ? It's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and directory permissions in there as well. Is there a way to tell portage to conf-protected files under some prefix ? This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:18 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Dale wrote: According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I rarely use swap unless I am compiling something

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Benyamin Dvoskin did opine thusly: Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. some are colored in red , some blue what are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
sure sorry about the HTML ... :) On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Benyamin Dvoskin did opine thusly: Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there a toolchain already setup for cross-compiling 32-bit executables on a AMD64 system, or do I have to do all that cross- compiling magic by myself ? crosstool-ng If you want a build system for crosscompiling, you might like to look at

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -o a.out.64 test.c gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -m32 -o a.out.32 test.c gr...@kraken ~ $ file a.out.* a.out.32: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: My setup is one 32bit pc with gentoo and another 64bit pc with gentoo I managed to get this going on the 64bit with a 32-bit chroot, distcc, and crosstools Why do you need an 32bit chroot if you're going to use an crosscompiler anyways ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control system du jour. Bonus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com

[gentoo-user] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE

2010-11-10 Thread dhk
Lately I've been getting this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. It only happens when I'm logged into my home amd64 box from my office x86 box. I use ssh -X ip.add.res.s to log in. Everything seems to work and save fine except for the error message and not being able to run an x-application remotely. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:18:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: According to the manpage, this only tells which directories should be config-protect'ed. What I need is that these files should be put under some prefix (w/ the same hierachy/names) instead of renamed to ._cfg*. What version of

Re: [gentoo-user] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE

2010-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:20 -0500, dhk wrote: Lately I've been getting this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. It only happens when I'm logged into my home amd64 box from my office x86 box. I use ssh -X ip.add.res.s to log in. Have you tried using -Y instead of -X? -- Neil Bothwick Voting

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-10 Thread Grant
Grant, you need to stop being paranoid.  I am surprised you even worked up the courage to let slip on here, in public, that you even have a sooper dooper sekrit project. This seems to be the general consensus. You see, I don't have a computer science degree and about 75% of what I know about

[gentoo-user] Re: netbook

2010-11-10 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: This isn't such a problem with 10 netbooks where the keyboards tend to be around 92% of full size. On the other hand, my old Eee PC 900 didn't work well with my fat fingers (the fat fingers are on both hands, not just the other one). Thanks for

[gentoo-user] Re: DNSSEC

2010-11-10 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: My first spot of advice would be to use unbound as your caching servers - Yes, I'm going to play around with unbound first. PowerDNS is a fine auth server. If it suits your needs I'd recommend you try it first. I don't know about it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:18 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Dale wrote: According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I rarely use swap unless I

Re: [gentoo-user] Command-line wicd?

2010-11-10 Thread Jake Moe
On 05/11/10 04:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010 17:22:28 Neil Bothwick wrote: Wicd also has an X use flag. I've just tried emerge -p wicd on a headless (and Xless) box and it didn't try to pull in any X related packages. You'll have to try USE=-X -gtk -qt4 emerge -pvt

Re: [gentoo-user] Command-line wicd?

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 11 November 2010 02:35:21 Jake Moe wrote: On 05/11/10 04:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010 17:22:28 Neil Bothwick wrote: [...] Personally, I USE=eth0 when installing Gentoo on a laptop. I see what you mean. I'll do that. Thanks all. j...@aus10224 ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: netbook

2010-11-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:31:08AM +, James wrote Thanks for all the good view pionts on hardware. Do *NOT* get a machine with a Poulsbo video chip. It supported one version of the linux kernel at release time, with a proprietary blob. No updates since. And as we all know, kernel