.*
Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and
hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with issues like
this when they arise. So please have patience with us.
--
Albert W. Hopkins
* Actually this is not true either. I once worked for a company with
over
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 15:15 +0100, Laurent Kappler wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for some information about the configuration for a server
used only for a huge database.
I guess dépendanding on which database server used Mysql or Berkley the
hardware should not be same.
Or is it all about
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:53 +0100, Zoltán Füves wrote:
Sorry guys to disturb you with like this but I'm stuck
I have to 4 usb webcam stream (from 4 different machine) embed to a
website
I read and try adobe flash media server (and it likes to work on
linux ) but
unfortunately the
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall
So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when
I test what all gets
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:03 -0500, James wrote:
All,
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :)
I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything
I've emerged since I set my system up, preferably
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:07 -0800, walt wrote:
I've also not heard of the NoSQL movement before
The NoSQL movement is long-lasting and continuous. It just changes
names every few years :-)
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 14:15 -0400, Butterworth, John W. wrote:
How can I verify that the installed packages on a Gentoo system came
from the same source that was on a main rotation mirror and/or
“blessed” by the Gentoo development team?
By verifying the checksum located in
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:57 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i followed the instructions on
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM_with_VDE to configure my system.
the kvm and tun modules loaded fine. but when i run vde_switch
--numports 4 --hub --mod 777 --group users --tap tap0, it will not
return
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 16:12 +0200, Justin wrote:
There will be an announcement, when py-3.* goes stable and is
supported
to be used as system python.
Yes, so make certain you leave instructions in your will ;)
(if you didn't get that then just ignore it)
On Tuesday, August 2 at 10:12 (+0800), Andrew Lowe said:
Greetings all,
I'm probably in the situation where I can't see the wood for the trees
so a bit of help would be appreciated. I've decided to go the LABEL
route in fstab and have set the labels on my partitions a few days ago.
On Monday, August 8 at 18:30 (+), Grant Edwards said:
I don't think this is Gentoo-specific, but I've noticed that a recent
update to make is causing makefile breakage. For example, trying to
build a Linux 2.6.28 kernel:
beta linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 # make oldconfig
Makefile:442:
On Monday, August 29 at 08:51 (+), Alan Mackenzie said:
What I really want to do is to try out Gnome 3, to see if it's like
what
people say it is, but without endangering my current Gnome 2.32.1. If
I
build Gnome 3, will its executable have a different name?
It's not slotted, so that
On Monday, August 29 at 12:02 (-0400), Canek Peláez Valdés said:
[...]
Actually, it's pretty stable. It doesn't have much customization
available
You can get a fair amount of customization by using gnome-shell
extensions. You can also customize the shell interface by changing the
On Monday, August 29 at 13:01 (-0400), Canek Peláez Valdés said:
http://ompldr.org/vYTN6NQ
Damn, that looks hot. Did you modify the CSS file by yourself? I would
love a window title bar a little smaller.
I started by modifying it myself. I really wanted the top panel to look
more like
On Tuesday, September 6 at 18:57 (+), Alan Mackenzie said:
The support for lpr exists. It's being removed, for some reason.
Given
that printing works by constructing a postscript equivalent of the
thing
being printed, just how difficult can it be to squirt this postscript
down lpr
On Friday, September 9 at 13:53 (+0200), Moritz Schlarb said:
I don't think so! NetworkManager generates a configuration file on the
fly for wpa_supplicant, so you still need it, you just don't need to
configure it anywhere else than NetworkManager!
Well, not entirely through an on-the-fly
On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
and /var
will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
That's
was my understanding of this mess. So, if you are about to do a
install
that needs /var
On Monday, September 12 at 07:23 (+0530), Nilesh Govindarajan said:
Ever since I have updated my system on 20th September, my rootfs
(/dev/sda2) isn't umounted (remounted ro) on shutdown, due to which I
see recover messages by kernel at boot (before init starts up).
What's going wrong? I
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 11:23 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on
my system.
Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in
`eix -sS unity', I'm missing something?
I'm sure *when* there is enough
On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 20:54 +0100, Stroller wrote:
The end users do not give a monkey's uncle about the CLA. They just
want to use the software, and our distro already provides Sun Java
binaries, Unreal Tournament and stuff under all sorts of licenses. If
people want to use it, and it's in the
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 11:15 -0500, Dale wrote:
So buy a mobo without it or that can disable it. Got it. It'll be a
good while before I buy a new mobo tho. I'm sure they will have a
nice
fix by then but this is something I need to remember just in
case. ;-)
Ok, I'll bite...
It depends
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 06:41 -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:42:09AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
You could still create a tree, but only by making most modules appear
multiple times.
Just like the '--tree' option for 'emerge'
In that case something like:
#
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 21:39 +0200, Michal Sroka wrote:
Hello,
I would like to run my gtk applications over web-browser using Alexander
Larsson's gtk+ broadway option
http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/
http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/
1 Have you
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:30 +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote:
Il 07/10/2011 13:25, Willie Wong ha scritto:
Most likely you've never set them.
Shouldn't it ship with a default setting? Anyway even after setting a
default, portage still wants to remove both less and nano. I had to put
them in
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 13:11 -0700, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Why don't you try networkmanager-0.9.1.90? It's working great for me
in GNOME 3.2.0
Is there something in the live ebuild that you need?
I can't confirm (never tried it) but I've been told the autounmask
option in portage will
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 07:37 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
[...]
BTW, which overlays did you use?
I'll just interject once again.
When you use many overlays, there is a feeling of a exponential increase
in complexity/instability.
The thing is when you use official tree, all the Gentoo devs
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 01:40 +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote:
Greetings,
emerge --sync was successfull till 'Performing Global Updates' which
leaded to an error. After waiting for perhaps 1 to 2 hours i tried
another 'emerge --sync' in the hope that would fix the issue. No luck.
---
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 20:35 +0800, Lavender wrote:
I have asked the question in gentoo forum , but
it seems that very few people like hanging around
in forums , I didn't get useful method.
My sound card can't work normally , when I use music
player there is no sound .
Someone said that I
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 15:12 +0100, Hartmut Figge wrote:
Greetings,
i am just playing a bit with python and have discovered idle. For idle
to be useful the fonts have to be enlarged both for the menus and the
help window.
http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/id05.png (60 KB)
With
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 07:45 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
The problem for which I am looking for a workaround is not based on
a bug -- it is a logical problem.
I am using session manager like KDE/Gnome/XFCE and others but openbox
as a window manager.
The mapping of keystrokes
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3. Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules.
I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the
old
device is gone.
Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the
currently
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:44 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on
XenServer).
So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give
any
benefits?
I even am toying around with the idea of having a completely
static /dev,
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 08:30 -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 03:29:27PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
what does graphite add ?
It makes gcc-4.5.3 use a newer method to detect parallelism, thus
(potentially) makes programs compiled by gcc to have better multithreaded
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 19:20 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo.
A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with
virtual machines on my Gentoo.
I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in
directory virtual, yet found nothing likely
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 19:26 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like
a
nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
while, either,
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:30 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:59:51 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
I've used Gentoo since 2006 and never had any reason to emerge -e.
Apart from the occasional gcc ABI change, the only time I do it is after
a fresh install, so that
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and
needs a
kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1
Does anybody know of a Live CD that will work with a SATA CD drive?
AFAIK most (all) modern
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 01:28 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages
not
of any use to me: around 200MB in total.
Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of?
Thanks in advance,
What do you have in LINGUAS and
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 15:24 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Oh boy: setting rc_parallel=NO in /etc/rc.conf did the trick now.
Around 4 hrs of fiddling ... and then it is one wrong bit.
I don't have an explanation, just the result ... up and running fine
now
w/ openrc.
So a couple of
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure
there will be those who claim its `simple'.
Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox)
appliance
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 08:48 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote:
Albert W. Hopkins, is that 64bit or 32bit ?
It si 64-bit. Though conceivably the build process could build 32-bit
appliances, I haven't yet tried it.
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 08:53 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote:
Need login details.
There are none. When you first log in (as root) you are forced to set a
password.
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 04:52 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Albert, I cloned your hg repo and tried to build from it, but it fails
at downloading gentoo-sources. Something about not being able to
resolve the kernel URLS.
I suspect it is a problem in the ebuild itself, but I was not able to
find
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 17:04 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote:
[..]
yes :) It's /usr/bin/convert
This isn't quite what I wanted - you have to add options to the
command. I was hoping to get the graphical interface that I had
before. Please don't tell me they took a great little program and
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote:
With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does raise same questions on
the amount of testing done before release. Yes, it's ~arch and
rc_parallel is explicitly marked experimental, but it's not expected
to be completely and consistently
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 18:15 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Generally true, but not when something is obviously broken. That
means
not even its upstream dev bothered to test it.
~arch is for we think this works, but please give it a go in case
there
are problems. It's *not* for we have
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 18:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
My experience is different to both of yours. I too have been using
Gentoo for many years and had good results with unstable. Hardly ever,
if even at all, have I run into packages that would not compile at
Build failures for me have always
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 17:19 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
I don't think that's fair. Perhaps nobody had compiled it using the
exact set of USE flags and the exast set of library versions and
configurations you were using, but I've never seen anything appear in
testing that was so broken it
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 20:57 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
Sorry if that sounded harsh but really, what you want is what Redhat
(maybe) does for its releases and those only occur every few years and
cost lots of money.
Yeah, and even *they* send test pre-releases to some of their clients
and
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating
repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming.
At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in
TCL.. and even had an API for the
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote:
I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be
completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread,
especially among the devs (as rc_parallel results in _very_ tangible
time savings, especially on a
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 23:09 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote:
At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in
TCL.. and even had an API for the system. I can't recall the name
of
the software at the moment, but it was very specialized so not
cheap.
This was during the late
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:11 +0100, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
(2) Mesa is built with gallium and it is enables using eselect.
AFAIK intel drivers didn't work (well) with gallium, at least I
checked[1].
Anyway you might want to try the classic. Works for me.
[1]
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 07:23 +0100, András Csányi wrote:
Dear Stefan,
Nowadays I'm using it just at home for private. I would be so happy if
it would be a gentoo my workspace! :)
I use Gentoo at home and at work, and am running GNOME3 at both
locations. No problems.
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 14:10 +0100, Alexander Tanyukevich wrote:
Is there anybody able to compile media-libs/freetype with USE=-*,
because my one wan't be compiled until USE=static-libs has been set
up.
ARCH=amd64, CFLAGS=-march=atom -O2 -pipe
It really depends.. Do you you splashutils, which,
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 15:02 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 02.12.2011 12:34, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins:
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 07:23 +0100, András Csányi wrote:
Dear Stefan,
Nowadays I'm using it just at home for private. I would be so happy if
it would be a gentoo my workspace
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 14:43 -0800, walt wrote:
I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm
seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them.
When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling
or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I start
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 17:36 +0100, András Csányi wrote:
Has anybody experienced that the Chrome browser is able to eat all of
memory? I have this issue on both Linux and Win 7 as well. I assume
flash could be the main issue. However, facebook, gmail and g+ eat
more than 100 MByte memory.
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 13:29 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I have an offer to sell my Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (Intel Core2Duo T8100).
I am rather happy with that notebook, after having upgraded RAM, SSD and
a new batterypack.
The opportunity to get some money for it instead of using it
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 15:41 +0100, Jarry wrote:
Anyway I'm surprised that everything older than 2.0.3
has been simply thrown overboard, especially while it
worked for us without a problem for many years...
With all due respect, baselayout-2/openrc has been around for a while
too (I've been
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 11:25 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
[...]
Do you see the same amounts of time to reconnect?
Not for me. I'm reconnected before I have a chance to type in my
password... unless it's taking me a long time to type in my password :P
Not that I consider 30 seconds quite a
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 13:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Maybe I have something wrong in my /etc/hibernate/common.conf ...
gotta
look that up now.
I suspect that's not it. If I were to guess I'd say it's probably
normal; that it takes a while to associate with the AP, either because
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 15:16 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
But it connects faster when I boot the machine than when I resume it!
At least it seems like, maybe I get that wrong ...
At it's core NM is just a daemon. The gnome/kde stuff are just
front-ends that talk to the daemon via
For those who complain about default portage behavior:
It changes constantly. If you can't accept the bleeding edge behavior,
you're probably using the wrong distro. There are always going to be
changes. Some you don't like, some you say oh gosh, finally!. For
the latter, I cheer, for former, I
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