Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox: no x-server after kernel upgrade to 4.12.12-gentoo

2017-09-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Alexander Puchmayr < alexander.puchm...@linznet.at> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using a gentoo-guest inside a virtual box on a Win10 host. The last > somewhat working combination was kernel 4.4.39/virtualbox-5.1.24. > > When I update to kernel 4.12.12, the X-Server

Re: [gentoo-user] ARCH is not set

2017-09-29 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:48 PM, IceAmber wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I have a problem when updating my system > > * ARCH is not set... Are you missing the '/etc/portage/make.profile' > * symlink? Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete? > > and the symlink of '/etc/portage/make.pro

Re: [gentoo-user] ARCH is not set

2017-09-30 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 9:55 AM, IceAmber wrote: > No, I cannot find the make.default in the profile directory > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk < > alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:48 PM, IceAmbe

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

2017-10-24 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > My machine went feral which resulted in me having to kill the > power to kill it. Upon reboot everything looked good, fsck did it's job, > [ok]'s scrolled up the screen etc and then I got the login prompt. I > entered my user

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

2017-10-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 25/10/17 11:28, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > Hi all, > > My machine went feral which resulted in me having to kill the power > > to kill it. Upon reboot everything looked good, fsck did it's job, > > [ok]'s scrolled up the screen etc and then

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash

2017-10-27 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Cannot download it: 404 > > I emerge --sync'ed yesterday, and again just a few minutes ago, in > case the particular version of the package required by portage ( > www-plugins/adobe-flash-27.0.0.170) was nuked. > > What might be happening h

Re: [gentoo-user] UFO: 'No. You make ME a sandwich.'

2017-10-30 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > when trying to re-emerge libreoffice I get the strange message > No. You make ME a sandwich. > Has anybody seen this before? > This occurs after having re-emerge 3500 packages from an > emerge --emptyworld > > Many thanks for some hi

Re: [gentoo-user] memset_s

2017-11-10 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 6:25 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Jorge Almeida > wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > >> Am Freitag, 10. November 2017, 10:54:53 CET schrieb Jorge Almeida: > >>> I'm trying to use memset_s() but the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Mick wrote: > I've seen gnome-base/gnome-common pulled in on more than one systems, all of > which have USE="-gnome" set: > > # emerge -uaNDvt world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [nomerge

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs wants rpcgen despite libtirpc is USEd

2017-12-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 6:03 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > autofs-5.1.3 fails to compile: > solfire:/root>emerge -v autofs > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R] net-fs/autofs-5.1.3::gentoo USE="libtirpc -dmalloc -hesiod > -ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc : autoload kernel modules

2017-12-14 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Helmut Jarausch: > >>I have added the following lines to /etc/conf.d/modules >> >>modules="enhanceio" >>modules="enhanceio_lru" >>modules="enhanceio_fifo" >>modules="enhanceio_rand" >> >> >>but these modules don't get loaded at boot time. >

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade

2018-01-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Kruglov Sergey wrote: > Hello, All! > > > Now I have gentoo-sources-4.14.8-r1 installed. > > After "emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world" command > emerge installs old kernel in NS (after first update 4.12.12, after second > update 4.9.49-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] OT awk question

2018-01-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > I'm using this to grab a section of text across multiple lines, how do i get > it to exit after the first match? > > awk '/foo/,/bar/' See if this works for you: awk '/foo/,/bar/{print;if(/bar/)exit}' file sed '/foo/,/bar/!d;/bar/q' file

Re: [gentoo-user] OT awk question

2018-01-18 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Adam Carter >> wrote: >> > I'm using this to grab a section of text across multiple lines, how do i &g

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:51 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > Anyone else getting this error? ( kernel 4.9.77 ) > >> CC fs/ext4/mballoc.o >> CC fs/ext4/block_validity.o >> CC fs/ext4/move_extent.o >> CC fs/ext4/mmp.o >> CC fs/ext4/indirect.o >> fs/ext4/indirect.o: warnin

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: > On 01/22/2018 11:56 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Alexander Kapshuk >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:51 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: >>>> Anyone else getting this erro

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-23 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: > > > On 01/23/2018 01:42 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: >>> On 01/22/2018 11:56 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Alexand

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 = spectre_v2 fixed

2018-01-29 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-01-29 20:11, Adam Carter wrote: > >> Comparing the contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 >> >> With gcc 7.2 + kernel 4.14.15; >> Intel system shows; Vulnerable: Minimal generic ASM retpoline >> AMD system show

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

2018-02-01 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Installing gentoo as guest into vbox vm on solaris-11 (openindiana) > HOST > gentoo-17 > VBox 5.2.6 > Kernel 4.15.0 > > My first boot resulted in resulted in a kernel panic... not able to > mount root. > > I checked my /etc/fstab trying to mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

2018-02-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alexander Kapshuk writes: > > [...] > >>> Can anyone tell me what they used to allow gentoo in vbox to boot? >>> >>> >>> >> Did you enable the recommended kernel config options as s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kinda "try ... catch" in a shell script...how

2018-03-10 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:26 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I have a coyple of files on my harddisk and on a mobile usb-disc. > > Their names are of that pattern: > > something--something > > where 'soemthing' can be totally different from file to file and > '' is a checksum, which does not match the che

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium-65.0.3325.146 compilation warnings

2018-03-12 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Mick wrote: > I can see a few warnings pilling up on different systems when trying to emerge > chromium-65.0.3325.146: > > warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-enum-compare-switch'; did you mean '- > Wno-enum-compare'? [-Wunknown-warning-option] > warning: unknow

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia kernel module API version mismatch

2018-03-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Aleksander Okonski wrote: > Hey, > > I have run into a strange problem with my nvidia drivers and gentoo. I am > currently running kernel 4.14.14 and I upgraded my > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to 390.42 from 390.25. Once the new drivers were > installed I rebooted

Re: [gentoo-user] The return of the dreaded "Cannot run C compiled programs"

2018-03-27 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:24:09 BST Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I ran into this some time ago and one of the updates removed the /lib -> >> /lib64 symlink. >> >> I simply ran `ln -s /lib64 /lib` and it was fine after that. > > Nice idea, Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compile error

2018-04-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi, > > I stumbled into the next problem. > > I do have a decent kernel compile knowledge but that seems to be gentoo > specific. > > I have a old i686 machine where I installed gentoo on.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

2018-05-11 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 2:16 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to do something relatively simple and I've had something > working in the past, but my brain just doesn't want to work today. > > I have a text file with the following (this is just a subset of about > 2500 dates, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:45 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I cannot get either 4.9.106 or 4.9.107 to work on my amd64 system at > all. It seems some (but not all) modules refuse to load: > > Script started on 2018-06-07 13:31:28-0700 > matica!501 ~# modprobe fbcon > modprobe: ERROR: could not inse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:37 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2018-06-08 09:22, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > > matica!501 ~# modprobe fbcon > > > modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'fbcon': Exec format error > > > Could this be a multilib issue?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 22:30 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-06-08 22:00, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > What's the output of: > > uname -r > > strings /path/to/your/module.ko | grep vermagic= > > Here are the results for 4.9.105 (working): > > matica!6 ~$

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018, 07:34 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-06-08 22:38, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 22:30 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > On 2018-06-08 22:00, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > > > > > What's the outp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 8:56 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018, 07:34 Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> >> On 2018-06-08 22:38, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 22:30 Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:26 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2018-06-09 14:15, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > I had a look at the source code for kmod-25. If I read it right, dmesg > > should have records along the lines of: > > kmod-25/libkmod/libkmod-module.c:886:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-11 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 6:09 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2018-06-09 18:51, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > readelf -h /path/to/module.ko > > ELF Header: > Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > Class:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-11 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:54 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2018-06-12 08:23, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > Looks like I'd have to build kernel 4.9.107 in an environment > > resembling yours to try and reproduce the behavior in question. > > What is the versio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 5:54 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2018-06-12 09:56, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > Any reason you're trying to load those modules by hand rather then > > have them loaded for you automatically? > > The only one I try to "load by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-14 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:56 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2018-06-13 20:29, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > 4.9.108 is out with some objtool fixes among other things. See the > > change log for details. > > https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.10

Re: [gentoo-user] how to set python version for one user

2018-07-10 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:23 AM wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to set specific python version to a user and I don't want to set > it up for whole system. Is it possible? If so how to do it. All I found > is about setting for whole system. > > Thanks > > Pat > >

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc failed to compile

2018-07-10 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:42 PM gevisz wrote: > > In today's update vlc failed to compile: > > make[4]: Leaving directory > '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-3.0.3-r1/work/vlc-3.0.3/modules' > make[3]: *** [Makefile:26145: all-recursive] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory > '/var/tmp/portage/me

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc failed to compile

2018-07-10 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:00 PM gevisz wrote: > > 2018-07-10 12:58 GMT+03:00 Alexander Kapshuk : > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:42 PM gevisz wrote: > >> > >> In today's update vlc failed to compile. > >> > >> What shall I do? > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] x86.c:(.text+0xb2): undefined reference to `l1tf_vmx_mitigation' with linux kernel 4.18.1

2018-08-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:10 AM wrote: > > On 08/17 02:53, Adam Carter wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:15 PM, wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > CPU bugs seem to be more and more common: > > > https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Linux-Kernel-und- > > > Distributionen-schuetzen-vor-Prozessorl

Re: [gentoo-user] x86.c:(.text+0xb2): undefined reference to `l1tf_vmx_mitigation' with linux kernel 4.18.1

2018-08-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:57 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:10 AM wrote: > > > > On 08/17 02:53, Adam Carter wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:15 PM, wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] x86.c:(.text+0xb2): undefined reference to `l1tf_vmx_mitigation' with linux kernel 4.18.1

2018-08-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:58 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:57 AM Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:10 AM wrote: > > > > > > On 08/17 02:53, Adam Carter wrote: > > > > On Fri, Au

Re: [gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

2018-09-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM Samuraiii wrote: > > On 5.9.2018 21:20, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > I just noticed a psd error at boot time: > > /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon: line 325: ${#DIRArr[@]##*/}: bad substitution > > Any idea what's brought this about? > > Hi, > > my bet is that your /bin/

Re: [gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

2018-09-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:18 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM Samuraiii wrote: > > > > On 5.9.2018 21:20, Mick wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I just noticed a psd error at boot time: > > > > /usr/bin

[gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
. How do I resolve this conflict please? Thanks. Alexander Kapshuk. <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce>

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Just installed the base system and xserver. As I went to emerge xfce4 as shown here http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce emerge --ask xfce4-meta xfce4-notifyd, I got a slot conflict: sys-ath

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/15/2013 10:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:43, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Just installed the base system and xserver. As I went to emerge xfce4 as shown here

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/15/2013 10:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 21:21, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 07/15/2013 10:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:43, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot [SOLVED]

2013-07-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/15/2013 10:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Try this first: emerge -av1 shadow it should upgrade shadow to 4.1.5.1-r1 just fine. Then: emerge --sync emerge -avuND world and then emerge xfce (the original command). Thanks very much for your help. The suggestions above have worked as adv

[gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
11-libs/libnotify-0.7 ) lm_sensors? ( >=sys-apps/lm_sensors-3.1.0 ) video_cards_nvidia? ( media-video/nvidia-settings )" I now seem to have both versions of nvidia-settings installed. How do I fix that please? Thanks. Alexander Kapshuk.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 08:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You don't have two versions of nvidia-settings. > You have one version of nvidia-drivers and one version of > nvidia-settings, and they don't have the same version number. > > This is normal, nvidia-settings often runs behind nvidia-drivers. They > do

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 09:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > xfce4-sensors-plugin is not what's doing it. It only requires > nvidia-settings and doesn't care what version. So that's not it. > > There's really only one explanation - something else is pulling in > nvidia-settings and xfce4-sensors-plugin is leavin

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 09:27 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > I guess it's rather obvious. > The two packages x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers and > media-video/nvidia-settings don't know about each other. > The xfce4-sensors-plugin package needs nv-settings but it simply > doesn't know that nv-settings is already i

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 09:27 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > I think this could be reported to the maintainer of the xfce4 plugin. The maintainer field for the xfce4-sensors plugin seems to be undefined: box0=; equery meta xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.5|grep -i maintainer Maintainer: None specified Who would

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/22/2013 09:59 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > As I figured in the package's changelog, some work on it is being done > by Samuli Suominen . He is also on this list, so > I guess he could get involved as soon as he reads the list. Understood. Thanks. Let's wait and hear from Samuli Suominen th

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Understood. Thanks. What course of action would you recommend taking with regard to my original post? Thanks. On Aug 22, 2013 10:17 PM, "Samuli Suominen" wrote: > On 22/08/13 22:03, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> On 08/22/2013 09:59 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
No worries then. Thanks very much for the explanation. On Aug 22, 2013 10:31 PM, "Samuli Suominen" wrote: > On 22/08/13 22:22, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> What course of action would you recommend taking with regard to my >> original post? >> > > I

[gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, Just compiled the new kernel [3.10.7], was about to edit my /boot/grub/grub.conf, and found it missing: box0 boot # pwd /boot box0 boot # ls -a . .. kernel-3.10.7-gentoo kernel-3.8.13-gentoo What did I miss? Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 09:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Just compiled the new kernel [3.10.7], was about to edit my >> /boot/grub/grub.conf, and found it missing: >> box0 boot

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 09:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> On 09/07/2013 09:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk >>> wrote: >>>> Howdy, >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> On 09/07/2013 09:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Kapshuk >>> wrote: >>>> On 09/07/2013 09:

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 10:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> On 09/07/2013 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Alexander Kapshuk >>> wrote: >>>> On 09/07/2013 09:

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7]

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/07/2013 11:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 09/07/2013 10:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 09/07/2013 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] re: can't find /boot/grub/grub.conf after kernel upgrade [3.10.7] [SOLVED]

2013-09-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/08/2013 06:20 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 11:31:47PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> the problem is in your fstab: >> >> You try first to mount /boot before mounting root "/" >> Cant work... >> >> Try this one: >> /dev/sda3/ext4noatime

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

2013-09-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/13/2013 07:48 AM, Joseph wrote: I want to list recursively certain type of files eg. *.pdf but I want to display: date, path and newest file first. What is the easiest way of doing it? Perhaps not the most elegant solution. ls -lt `du -a|grep -i '\.pdf$'|awk '{ print $2 }'`|awk '{ prin

[gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case. Perhaps, the reason for having duplicate packages is the fact that various packages I have inst

Re: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/19/2013 10:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear >> about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more >>

Re: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/20/2013 04:37 AM, Dale wrote: > Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 09/19/2013 10:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>>> Howdy, >>>> >>>> Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gent

[gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
emerge --depclean wants to remove the gentoo-sources for my old kernel [sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13] which I want to hang on to for the time being. Is there a way to instruct emerge not to remove them? emerge(1) Packages that are part of the world set will always be kept. They can be manuall

[gentoo-user] re: alternating between wired and wireless interfaces

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I have both wired and wireless network interfaces configured: box0 log # rc-update show|egrep 'enp3s0|wlp2s0' net.enp3s0 | default net.wlp2s0 | default (1). Is there a way to instruct the system as to which network interface to use, s

Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 01:36 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:27:28 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> If I understood the instruction above, 'emerge --noreplace >> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' should have added 'gentoo-sources' to >>

Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 02:02 PM, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > Hi, > > 2013/9/21 Alexander Kapshuk : >> emerge --depclean wants to remove the gentoo-sources for my old kernel >> [sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13] which I want to hang on to for the >> time being. >> >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 02:51 PM, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > 2013/9/21 Alexander Kapshuk : >> On 09/21/2013 01:36 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:27:28 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>> >>>> If I understood the instruction above, 'emerge --nor

Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 03:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:45:59 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> box0=; grep sources /var/lib/portage/world >> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources >> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:3.8.13 >> >> Once I decide I no longer need

[gentoo-user] re: scrolling not seamless in firefox/thunderbird

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've noticed that when I am scrolling up/down a page in Firefox, or scrolling up/down an email body in Thunderbird, it's not seamless. Not sure how to best describe what I mean by 'not seamless'. It's kind of wavy. The text is. Is this kind of behaviour a result of something missing in the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] re: alternating between wired and wireless interfaces

2013-09-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 03:56 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 01:47:24PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> I have both wired and wireless network interfaces configured: >> box0 log # rc-update show|egrep 'enp3s0|wlp2s0' >>

Re: [gentoo-user] re: scrolling not seamless in firefox/thunderbird

2013-09-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/21/2013 06:32 PM, Al wrote: > Bruce Hill wrote: >> I have "Use smooth scrolling" checked and no such wavy line anywhere. > > Hmmm > > I just tried Firefox, and get the wavy line when "Use smooth scolling > is checked (scrolling with the mouse wheel). It goes away when unchecked. > > Did t

Re: [gentoo-user] re: scrolling not seamless in firefox/thunderbird

2013-09-23 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/23/2013 11:46 AM, Joakim Gebart wrote: 2013/9/22 Alexander Kapshuk <mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com>> On 09/21/2013 06:32 PM, Al wrote: > Bruce Hill wrote: >> I have "Use smooth scrolling" checked and no such wavy line anywhere. >

[gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I want to be able auto-mount removable drives. I'm running xfce: box0=; equery list xfce-base/xfce4-meta * Searching for xfce4-meta in xfce-base ... [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10:0 and kernel: box0=; uname -a Linux box0 3.10.7-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Sat Oct 5 23:57:58 EEST 2013 i686 Intel(R) Pen

[gentoo-user] re: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel! [dmesg]

2013-10-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Is the message below I should do something about? box0=; dmesg|grep -i PAE [0.00] Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel! My CPU seems to have support for it. box0=; grep pae /proc/cpuinfo flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-07 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/07/2013 08:08 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 07/10/13 00:01, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:01:09PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>> I want to be able auto-mount removable drives. I'm running xfce: >>> box0=; equery list xfce-base/

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: > On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have >> xfce4-mount-plugin installed. >> >> box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mo

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: >>> On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>>> Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention t

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 10:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>>> On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: >>>>> On

Re: [gentoo-user] re: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel! [dmesg]

2013-10-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/09/2013 05:17 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> That is correct, with 3G physica RAM, you will not benefit from using >> PAE at all. I don't think it interferes with anything if you do have it, >> I recall a time when RedHat shipped 32 bit kernels th

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives [SOLVED]

2013-10-10 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 10:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>>> On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: >>>>> On

[gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. Is that normal? What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do that? Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/15/2013 10:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/10/2013 21:34, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. Is that normal? What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do that? create the fil

[gentoo-user] re: mouse pointer not consistent [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1]

2013-10-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
When running [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1], I've noticed that the mouse pointer is sometimes shaped like a capital letter 'I', like when a mouse pointer is over a string of characters. Sorry, not sure what the proper name for the character is. While at other times, it is a proper mouse pointer, shaped

Re: [gentoo-user] re: mouse pointer not consistent [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1]

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/26/2013 09:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/10/2013 04:07, William Kenworthy wrote: On 26/10/13 03:49, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: When running [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1], I've noticed that the mouse pointer is sometimes shaped like a capital letter 'I', like when

Re: [gentoo-user] re: mouse pointer not consistent [net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.1]

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/26/2013 01:34 PM, Paul Klos wrote: It's called a caret cursor. Thanks.

[gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application client? box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1 * These packages depend on net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 (n

Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that >> normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application >> clie

Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/27/2013 03:18 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>>> I've updated vlc today, which

[gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-10-27 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I got the message below. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-scheme/guile-1.8.8-r1 USE="deprecated nls regex threads -debug -debug-freelist -debug-mall

[gentoo-user] portage summary logs not rotated any more

2015-04-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
My portage summary logs don't seem to be rotated any more. ls -lt `pwd`/summary.log* -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 96581 Apr 3 19:47 /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 5927 Jan 10 07:50 /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20150112 -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 2281 Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] portage summary logs not rotated any more

2015-04-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 04 Apr 2015 20:35:31 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > My portage summary logs don't seem to be rotated any more. > > > > ls -lt `pwd`/summary.log* > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 96581 Apr 3 19:47 >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage summary logs not rotated any more

2015-04-05 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 05 Apr 2015 06:39:31 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 04 Apr 2015 20:35:31 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > > My portage summary logs don

Re: [gentoo-user] portage summary logs not rotated any more

2015-04-05 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 05 Apr 2015 14:19:16 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday 05 Apr 2015 06:39:31 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Mick >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage summary logs not rotated any more

2015-04-05 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Alex Corkwell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 06:31:43PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Mick wrote: > > > > On Sunday 05 Apr 2015 14:19:16 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2

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