Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
thanks to all for your suggestion. Still not sure where to turn ... Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:58:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Anyway, I'm downloading the latest stage3 I found (06/14) I'll explode it in a test directory and see whats there. I've emerged so much stuff now on the one I been working on that I hate to bugger it up if there is much chance of

[gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have an annoying problem which I'd like to fix. Something (probably some Gnome application) repeatedly creates the folder .gvfs with permissions dr-x-- 2 jarausch users When I run tar (as root!) I get tar: ./jarausch/.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied which sets an error return

Re: [gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Matthias Krebs
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have an annoying problem which I'd like to fix. Something (probably some Gnome application) repeatedly creates the folder .gvfs  with permissions dr-x-- 2 jarausch users When I run tar (as

Re: [gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks Thanasis and Matthias. I didn't recognize that .gvfs is a mount point for an sshfs file system. Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: ... ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached screenshot, when I play it with mplayer. ... Try passing -sameq WOW! Exceptional improvement in a single stroke!

Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF

2011-06-27 Thread luis jure
on 2011-06-26 at 22:06 Stroller wrote: This isn't the best fix, IMO. i completely agree. by solution i meant a quick and dirty fix that allowed me in the short term to build lilypond. IMO the correct fix for this is: yes, i tried emerging fontforge with the patch you proposed and after that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 12:08:17 Stroller wrote: On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: Try passing -sameq WOW! Exceptional improvement in a single stroke! Thanks! :) Why is it that ffmpeg degrades the quality with default settings? What does it assume that the setting is? (sorry

[gentoo-user] rkhunter --propupd not working since last updates installed

2011-06-27 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, I have had rkhunter installed for a long time, been working well, system was reporting clean... On Saturday I did an emerge -uDN world and installed the available updates (not a huge amount), then on Sunday morning, got a report about 6 files whose properties had changed, and I realized I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
2011/6/27 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Monday 27 Jun 2011 12:08:17 Stroller wrote: On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: Try passing -sameq WOW! Exceptional improvement in a single stroke! Thanks! :) Why is it that ffmpeg degrades the quality with default settings?

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I'm very curious - did you happen to try appending something like init=/sbin/init 1 to the boot kernel command and seeing what happens? That might be instructive about where it's really getting to or what is stopping it from proceeding. Mark, I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 15:14:28 Leonardo Guilherme wrote: This link was very helpful to me, maybe it can be to you: http://verb3k.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/how-to-do-proper-screencasts-on-linu x/ This is excellent info. Just what I was looking for, with a lot of detailed explanation and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I'm very curious - did you happen to try appending something like init=/sbin/init 1 to the boot kernel command and seeing what happens? That might be instructive about where

[gentoo-user] Re: no cdrom (IDE)

2011-06-27 Thread Alexey Mishustin
6/26/2011, walt w41...@gmail.com вы писали: I assume it's connected to a PATA disk controller like my dvd player is? #lspci -k [output edited] 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) Subsystem: VIA Technologies,

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: thanks to all for your suggestion. Still not sure where to turn ... Stefan We can't know which one may best match your needs/expectations/preferences. You can spend some time looking at their documentation to get an understanding

[gentoo-user] OT: kernel parameters

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Some time ago I saw a comment in a kernel config help page saying to enable this option if unexplained, random lockups occurred. I didn't need to do that for Gentoo, but every other distro I've tried locks up after a random interval - even the latest Fedora 15. I suspect I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-27 Thread 4k3nd0
On 06/27/2011 06:33 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: thanks to all for your suggestion. Still not sure where to turn ... Stefan We can't know which one may best match your needs/expectations/preferences. You can spend some time looking at their

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: kernel parameters

2011-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 June 2011 17:57:00 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: Hello list, Some time ago I saw a comment in a kernel config help page saying to enable this option if unexplained, random lockups occurred. I didn't need to do that for Gentoo, but every other distro I've tried locks up after

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 June 2011 17:33:45 Mick did opine thusly: On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: thanks to all for your suggestion. Still not sure where to turn ... Stefan We can't know which one may best match your needs/expectations/preferences. You can spend some

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: kernel parameters

2011-06-27 Thread Remy Blank
Peter Humphrey wrote: Can anyone point me to the parameter concerned? I can't find it with grep. Could it be CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP? -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF

2011-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 June 2011, at 13:21, luis jure wrote: ... yes, i tried emerging fontforge with the patch you proposed and after that lilypond compiled OK. thanks!!! Finally, report your success at bug 367425. done. Thanks! Did you try Lilypond 2.14.1? If so it'd be great if you could report

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc ebuild is hogging CPU?

2011-06-27 Thread walt
On 06/26/2011 12:56 PM, walt wrote: Anyone emerged gcc lately? I've been doing it all day (it seems) so I finally used top to see if something besides gcc is using cpu. Sure enough, emerge is constantly using 50% cpu while the compiler is using the other half. Well, so far I've tracked the

[gentoo-user] Re: no cdrom (IDE)

2011-06-27 Thread walt
On 06/27/2011 09:28 AM, Alexey Mishustin wrote: Here is the output of my lspci -k: SATA IDE Controller #1 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4 Kernel driver in use: ata_piix Kernel modules: ata_piix SATA IDE Controller #2 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread James Wall
Albert, Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing your work. James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

[gentoo-user] Firefox

2011-06-27 Thread Daniel D Jones
Can anyone explain why it takes so long for Firefox-bin to be unmasked? That's not intended to be a rant or finger-pointing, but a serious question. I can certainly understand the issues involved with ensuring that a complex package compiles on various systems with all sorts of different

Re: [gentoo-user] cups 1.3 - 1.4 no more avahi?

2011-06-27 Thread Michael George
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:31:36AM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 26 June 2011, at 04:42, Michael George wrote: I upgraded cups to 1.4.6 today and my Macs could no longer print to it. ? I'm not sure what I'm missing for the Macs to be happy like they were with 1.3 and avahi. Version

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2011-06-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 27 at 19:52 (-0400), Daniel D Jones said: Can anyone explain why it takes so long for Firefox-bin to be unmasked? [etc.] Have you gone to bugs.gentoo.org and submitted a stabilization request?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said: Albert, Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing your work. Cool, now I at least know it works with vmware and virtualbox. I will

[gentoo-user] VLC: Blackouts...

2011-06-27 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, wgen watching television (DVB-T) with vlc it ofen happens, that vlc forgets that there is something to display. For example: When screen aspect changes if the commercials ends and the program is proceeded. Or between scene changes or sometimes when there seems no reason at all... Soetime the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread James Wall
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said: Albert, Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing your work.