Re: [gentoo-user] blank (black) screen on kde 5

On Friday 15 Apr 2016 20:02:04 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 14:11:18 Francisco Ares wrote: > > > > hmmm, I am using gnome and also get the blank screen, and I don't have > > > > an sddm user at all, so I wonder if its a bit more

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:47:14 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > It is fundamentally broken. =| Of course it is, that's why almost all of us[1] are experiencing the same problems as you. If it was just you, then is would be reasonable to assume the problem was with you, which is clearly impossible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:41:37 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > I've got more years on gentoo that most of you. Indeed, my home > directory probably has detritus in it dating back to 2004. Does that mean you have 12 years experience, or 3 months experience 48 times over? > I only joined this list a

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:57:45 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using > LibreOffice. I've put the original file up at > http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx > It should show a table of ridership figures

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

160416 walt wrote: >> 160416 Philip Webb wrote: >> I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using >> LibreOffice. I've put the original file up at >> http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx >> It should show a table of ridership figures

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 5 and portable media mounting

2016-04-16 14:52 GMT-03:00 Dale : > Francisco Ares wrote: > > Hi, All. > > > > After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is > > one pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in > > order to mount a flash drive, for instance. > > > >

[gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

Hi, ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. I know, that there is a difference in knowing the path and walking the path, but it seems that I am not supposed to understand this: These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit > after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. > I know, that there is a difference in knowing the path and walking the > path, but it seems that I am not supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:58:17 -0500, »Q« wrote: > You joined the wrong list -- this one's for helping each other. > Unfortunately, I don't know what is the right list for informing the > world that portage is malicious and out to get you. You want Abuse, that's room 12A, just along the corridor.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:26:34 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > but on my desktop, all of these problems would go away by the end of the > update list and 95% of the time, revdep-rebuild wouldn't have anything > to do. That would mean that one in twenty updates would break your system, requiring

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 5 and portable media mounting

Francisco Ares wrote: > > > 2016-04-16 14:52 GMT-03:00 Dale >: > > Francisco Ares wrote: > > Hi, All. > > > > After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is > > one pretty annoying: regular users have to

[gentoo-user] LibreOffice problem importing file

I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using LibreOffice. I've put the original file up at http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx It should show a table of ridership figures for the Toronto transit system. When I tried to open it using LO 5.1.0.3 on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

160416 Philip Webb wrote: >> * Check if your user is in the video group > No, it wasn't & of course when I added it, both problems were solved ! I've checked /etc from my previous machine (now stand-by) & my user was in the video group there, so the question becomes : was 'group' created by the

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice problem importing file

On Saturday 16 Apr 2016 16:57:45 Philip Webb wrote: > I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using LibreOffice. > I've put the original file up at > http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx > It should show a table of ridership figures for the Toronto transit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 01:14:19 schrieb Philip Webb: > > LO 5.0.5.2 open the file okay for me, > > but I can't easily test the higher versions at the moment. > > Have you tried running localc from an xterm window > > to look for error

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-15 20:54 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Callen : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 04/15/2016 12:44 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 12:24:46 Francisco Ares wrote: > >> Hi, alll. > >> > >> After upgrading to kde 5 (plasma), there is a big problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

Dale wrote: > Basically, take the advice from some people who have been doing this > for years or continue along the path that you have proven doesn't work. I've got more years on gentoo that most of you. Indeed, my home directory probably has detritus in it dating back to 2004. I only joined

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

Alan Grimes wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> you do stupid things and then complain that the system does not work. >> >> Why don't you stop doing stupid things? >> >> That said, C 1.0 blocks A 1.0 but updating to C 2.0 would solve it, does >> happen, even if you do not act retarded, BUT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

On 16/04/2016 16:22, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-04-16, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> I'm like I'M ALREADY UPDATING C TOO, YOU STOOPID STACK OF SHIT!!! >> >> Now I'm uninstalling packages like a madman hoping to clear through this... > > Doing things like a madman may, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On 16/04/2016 21:35, John Blinka wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Dale > wrote: > > Top posting since John started it. lol > > > Sigh... Can I blame it on gmail's interface (rather than me not paying > attention...)?

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:35:18 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > Top posting since John started it. lol > > > > Sigh... Can I blame it on gmail's interface (rather than me not paying > attention...)? Sorry. Of course you can. You can blame it on sunspots if you like. However, that doesn't mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On 16/04/2016 21:54, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, April 16, 2016 09:51:52 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 16/04/2016 21:35, John Blinka wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Dale >> >>> > wrote: >>> Top posting since John started

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, April 16, 2016 11:25:23 AM Dale wrote: >> Top posting since John started it. lol > Refusing to top-post, even when others do... > Makes for even more fun to trace the conversations... > >> Can you two explain this to Alan Grimes? He seems to think emerge has >>

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

160417 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Libreoffice started using the OpenGL system much more > over the last releases. > * Check if "eselect opengl list" settings make sense Yes : root:500 ~> eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11 > * Check

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 05:45:15 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit > after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. > I know, that there is a difference in knowing the path and walking the > path, but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-15 19:51 GMT-03:00 Mick : > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 14:11:18 Francisco Ares wrote: > > > > hmmm, I am using gnome and also get the blank screen, and I don't have > > > an sddm user at all, so I wonder if its a bit more basic. > > OK, is x11-misc/sddm installed? >

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

On 16-04-17 at 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [..] > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency > conflict: > > dev-util/boost-build:0 > > (dev-util/boost-build-1.60.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with >

[gentoo-user] kde 5 and portable media mounting

Hi, All. After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is one pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in order to mount a flash drive, for instance. Am I missing something? Found some posts on the net, but none has given enough light on the subject.

[gentoo-user] Re: Calm

On 2016-04-16, John Blinka wrote: > I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for > prompting me to add my 2 cents. Same here. I switched all my "daily drivers" from Mandrake/Mandriva almost 15 years ago, and have no regrets. No more of the RPM

[gentoo-user] 4.4.2-hardened and Areca ARC-1110 problems

Hello all, I have a server (in another country) running Gentoo with 3.17.7-hardened-r1. It has a "RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1110 4-Port PCI-X to SATA RAID Controller" (17d3:1110). I have no physical access to it, and only a serial console and Debian rescue image to recover

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 5 and portable media mounting

On 16/04/16 19:30, Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, All. After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is one pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in order to mount a flash drive, for instance. Am I missing something? Are the users in the "plugdev" group?

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 12:41:37 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Basically, take the advice from some people who have been doing this > > for years or continue along the path that you have proven doesn't work. > > I've got more years on gentoo that most of you. Indeed, my home >

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On 16/04/2016 16:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here. > > For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without problems. > I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just works. > > The last bit of excitement I had was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 09:47:15 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 16/04/2016 18:58, »Q« wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:41:37 -0400 > > > > Alan Grimes wrote: > >> I've got more years on gentoo that most of you. > > > > I wonder how you determined that, but it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > you do stupid things and then complain that the system does not work. > > Why don't you stop doing stupid things? > > That said, C 1.0 blocks A 1.0 but updating to C 2.0 would solve it, does > happen, even if you do not act retarded, BUT those instances are usually >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

Alan Grimes wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Basically, take the advice from some people who have been doing this >> for years or continue along the path that you have proven doesn't work. > I've got more years on gentoo that most of you. Indeed, my home > directory probably has detritus in it dating back

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On 16/04/2016 18:47, Alan Grimes wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> you do stupid things and then complain that the system does not work. >> >> Why don't you stop doing stupid things? >> >> That said, C 1.0 blocks A 1.0 but updating to C 2.0 would solve it, does >> happen, even if you do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 09:51:52 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 16/04/2016 21:35, John Blinka wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Dale > > > > wrote: > > Top posting since John started it. lol > > > > Sigh... Can I blame it on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:08:41AM -0500, »Q« wrote: >> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:13:27 -0400 >> Alan Grimes wrote: >> >>> Emerge errors out with this: >>> >>> "fuck you user, C 1.0 won't work B 2.0" >> I've got the 'offensive' flag set globally, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

Alan Grimes wrote: > Mick wrote: >> Hello Mr Grimes, >> >> I see you still have trouble dealing with your rage issues. >> >> I recommend you seek professional help about that. >> Nah! Let the man vent. Gentoo is a particularly effective (meta)distro for >> this purpose too. It will invariably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

Am 16.04.2016 um 17:55 schrieb Dale: > Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:08:41AM -0500, »Q« wrote: >>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:13:27 -0400 >>> Alan Grimes wrote: >>> Emerge errors out with this: "fuck you user, C 1.0 won't work B 2.0" >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

Am 16.04.2016 um 16:26 schrieb Alan Grimes: > Mick wrote: >> Hello Mr Grimes, >> >> I see you still have trouble dealing with your rage issues. >> >> I recommend you seek professional help about that. >> Nah! Let the man vent. Gentoo is a particularly effective (meta)distro for >> this purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 5 and portable media mounting

On April 16, 2016 6:30:18 PM GMT+02:00, Francisco Ares wrote: >Hi, All. > >After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is >one >pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in order >to >mount a flash drive, for instance. > >Am I missing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Calm

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-04-16, John Blinka wrote: > >> I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for >> prompting me to add my 2 cents. > Same here. I switched all my "daily drivers" from Mandrake/Mandriva > almost 15 years ago, and have no

Re: [gentoo-user] 4.4.2-hardened and Areca ARC-1110 problems

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 06:17:28 PM Calum wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a server (in another country) running Gentoo with 3.17.7-hardened-r1. > It has a "RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1110 4-Port PCI-X > to SATA RAID Controller" (17d3:1110). > > I have no physical access

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 12:47:14 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > you do stupid things and then complain that the system does not work. > > > > Why don't you stop doing stupid things? > > > > That said, C 1.0 blocks A 1.0 but updating to C 2.0 would solve it, does > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: > Top posting since John started it. lol > Sigh... Can I blame it on gmail's interface (rather than me not paying attention...)? Sorry. John

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 03:35:18 PM John Blinka wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: > > Top posting since John started it. lol > > Sigh... Can I blame it on gmail's interface (rather than me not paying > attention...)? Sorry. Use a different

[gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:13:27 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > Emerge errors out with this: > > "fuck you user, C 1.0 won't work B 2.0" I've got the 'offensive' flag set globally, and emerge never talks to me that way. How to fix?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:08:41AM -0500, »Q« wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:13:27 -0400 > Alan Grimes wrote: > > > Emerge errors out with this: > > > > "fuck you user, C 1.0 won't work B 2.0" > > I've got the 'offensive' flag set globally, and emerge never talks to > me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

On 16/04/2016 18:58, »Q« wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:41:37 -0400 > Alan Grimes wrote: > >> I've got more years on gentoo that most of you. > > I wonder how you determined that, but it doesn't matter; it's the > content of posts that reveal cluelessness quotient, not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

Top posting since John started it. lol Can you two explain this to Alan Grimes? He seems to think emerge has some very serious problems. ;-) I might add, I recently went through the KDE plasma update which involved a ton of rebuilds/upgrades. Since I run a mix of stable and unstable, it

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:41:37 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > I've got more years on gentoo that most of you. I wonder how you determined that, but it doesn't matter; it's the content of posts that reveal cluelessness quotient, not a clock. > I only joined this list a few

[gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

On 2016-04-16, Alan Grimes wrote: > I'm like I'M ALREADY UPDATING C TOO, YOU STOOPID STACK OF SHIT!!! > > Now I'm uninstalling packages like a madman hoping to clear through this... Doing things like a madman may, in fact, be the problem. -- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

Mick wrote: > Hello Mr Grimes, > > I see you still have trouble dealing with your rage issues. > > I recommend you seek professional help about that. > Nah! Let the man vent. Gentoo is a particularly effective (meta)distro for > this purpose too. It will invariably do *exactly* what you

[gentoo-user] Calm

Hello, Gentoo. I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here. For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without problems. I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just works. The last bit of excitement I had was in early 2015 when I was trying to sort out the mess in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for prompting me to add my 2 cents. I've been using Gentoo for perhaps 15 years. There have been a few rough patches along the way resolved by new reinstalls, but overall this has been by far the best computing environment I've

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 5 and portable media mounting

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 13:30:18 -0300 Francisco Ares wrote: > After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is > one pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in > order to mount a flash drive, for instance. > > Am I missing something?

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 5 and portable media mounting

Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, All. > > After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is > one pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in > order to mount a flash drive, for instance. > > Am I missing something? Found some posts on the net, but none has >

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 11:25:23 AM Dale wrote: > Top posting since John started it. lol Refusing to top-post, even when others do... Makes for even more fun to trace the conversations... > Can you two explain this to Alan Grimes? He seems to think emerge has > some very serious problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

Dale [16-04-17 06:08]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit > > after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. > > I know, that there is a difference in knowing the path and

Re: [gentoo-user] why emerge sucks nuts:

Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: >> Now I'm uninstalling packages like a madman hoping to clear through this... >> > You know that posting ACTUAL emerge output might be more useful if you > want help, or if you think there is some

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-misc/sddm does not source my locale

On Sunday 10 Apr 2016 11:41:11 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I noticed that sddm comes up with a US keyboard layout and there is no other > choice on the dropdown list. Shouldn't it pick up my env somehow? How can > I change this, short of using my own xinit or .xsession? It seems that this is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:05:40 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Hello Mr Grimes, > > > > I see you still have trouble dealing with your rage issues. > > > > I recommend you seek professional help about that. > > Nah! Let the man vent. Gentoo is a particularly effective > (meta)distro for this purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] why emerge sucks nuts:

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Now I'm uninstalling packages like a madman hoping to clear through this... > You know that posting ACTUAL emerge output might be more useful if you want help, or if you think there is some improvement that could be

Re: [gentoo-user] why emerge sucks nuts:

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:13:27AM -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > update list: > > B 2.0 (1.0) (pulled in by A.) > A 2.0 (1.0) > C 2.0 (1.0) > > You would think it would just start compiling A and C. > NOOO > Emerge errors out with this: > "fuck you user, C 1.0 won't work B 2.0" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 23:36:17 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > Emerge won't update a single goddammned package on my system. > > My number theory code finished a segment of work, (after a month), and > it's time to reboot the system to propagate updates to nvidia drivers > and such, uptime = 81 days.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On Saturday 16 Apr 2016 11:10:45 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 16/04/2016 05:36, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Emerge won't update a single goddammned package on my system. > > > > > > My number theory code finished a segment of work, (after a month), and > > it's time to reboot the system to propagate

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

On 16/04/2016 05:36, Alan Grimes wrote: > Emerge won't update a single goddammned package on my system. > > > My number theory code finished a segment of work, (after a month), and > it's time to reboot the system to propagate updates to nvidia drivers > and such, uptime = 81 days. > > I