[gentoo-user] Sunrise overlay svn problems

2010-08-06 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm just getting into using overlays and am having a problem getting the sunrise overlay. Does anyone know if the svn server on overlays.gentoo.org is down or flakey at the moment? I'm getting some problems and don't know yet whether I should be pointing the finger at them or my box.

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sunrise overlay svn problems

2010-08-06 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 7/08/2010 1:14 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm just getting into using overlays and am having a problem getting the sunrise overlay. Does anyone know if the svn server on overlays.gentoo.org is down or flakey at the moment? I'm getting some problems and don't know yet whet

[gentoo-user] Dialogue placement when using TwinView

2010-08-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, A quick question before I do a huge world rebuild. I've recently built a Gentoo box with has a twinhead setup, an nVidia graphics card and two monitors. I've got everything up and running fine, EXCEPT for one thing, dialogue placement. When a dialogue pops up, it pops up right in the

[gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've done an: "emerge --pretend -NuD world" and whilst reviewing the output, it lists an old package that I played around with in the past but now no longer need. In turn I do: "emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded" the package is removed and I in turn do another "emerge --pre

Re: [gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 26/09/2009 9:08 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 26 September 2009, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've done an: "emerge --pretend -NuD world" [snip] ... ... [snip] p.s. Tried Google on this and just couldn't seem to get the right keywords o find anything

[gentoo-user] The current correct way to start kde 4

2009-12-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've browsed the forums, documentation etc and can find a lot of options/opinions but nothing definitive. Can someone please point me at a document that outlines the current "correct" way to start kde 4. I wish to have kde as the default login manager for all users of a gentoo box.

Re: [gentoo-user] The current correct way to start kde 4

2009-12-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/12/2009 1:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Kirill Lipatov wrote: well yeah. I just think that setting the kdm as the login manager is the easiest way to automatically start kde4 session after loging in. However, kdm is of course not mandatory and it can do mor

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Compiler to compile gentoo ?

2005-06-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
I use the Intel compiler at work, but on a Wintel platform :(, and for some reason the V9 compiler, which has just been released, has slowed down. I have some code that runs fine built with a 8 year old M$ compiler but takes forever to run when built with the latest Intel compiler. Very frustr

[gentoo-user] MythTV ebuild reports the wrong video cards - I think

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm in the process of installing MythTV on a VIA Epia motherboard I have and have come across something that's causing me a bit of concern. I do an: emerge --pretend mythtv and have a look at the output. Amongst all of the new/updated packages there is the line for the MythT

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV ebuild reports the wrong video cards - I think

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:09:53 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I'm in the process of installing MythTV on a VIA Epia motherboard I have and have come across something that's causing me a bit of concern. [ebuild N] media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p16658 USE="a

[gentoo-user] Patching of ebuilds

2009-01-29 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions on how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've tried to install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot of dependent functionality was compiled and now it's up to compiling the ac

[gentoo-user] Another question regarding grub......

2007-07-11 Thread Andrew Lowe
Just wondering, is there a way to make grub just display the boot options, that is the various OS's that I can boot to through grub, without timing out to the default? At times I turn my PC on, wander off to fix up something else and come back to find that grubs booted the default boot option, but

[gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Lowe
I go to bed in the hope that someone might have an insight. Any thoughts on this greatly appreciated, Andrew Lowe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine [SOLVED]

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew Lowe
Grant Edwards wrote: However, the usual way to use remote X-based programs is just to let SSH do that. It can provide a tunnel for X. This is especially easy if the remote SSH server daemon has set its "X11Forwarding" configuration setting set to "yes" (otherwise, it is really a bit harder and no

[gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/05/12 02:51, walt wrote: On 01/04/2012 09:04 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: I can start up bog standard X via "startx" and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get KDE to start. Does startx give you the twm session with some xterms and an xclock? If so, try running 'sta

[gentoo-user] Libre Office failing to build

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Are people currently building Libre Office successfully? I'm attempting to do so and getting it failing with an error 65280 and it failing within tail_build. Going into the appropriate dir and running make results in some error about "viewuno" and a file format not being recognised.

Re: [gentoo-user] Libre Office failing to build

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/15/12 03:21, Carlos Sura wrote: On 14 January 2012 12:09, Paul Hartman mailto:paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Andrew Lowe mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: > Hi all, >Are people currently building Libre O

[gentoo-user] ksmserver not building - can't link to some stuff

2012-01-29 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Just done an "emerge -NuD world" and in the process of it happening, ksmserver has failed to build. The compiling completes but I'm getting bad linking, things not been found. Any one know why the following would happen: *** /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtOpenGL

[gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?

2012-01-30 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, and attempt to do "stuff" to debug the problem the output scrolls off the top of the screen. Is there a way to make a standard bash shell/terminal/thingy scrol

Re: [gentoo-user] ksmserver not building - can't link to some stuff

2012-01-30 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/30/12 12:49, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Just done an "emerge -NuD world" and in the process of it happening, > ksmserver has failed to build. The compiling completes but I'm getting Fixed it. Some blocking packages had caused other stuff to do things which in

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?

2012-01-30 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/30/12 19:20, Robert David wrote: > V Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:16 +0800 > Andrew Lowe napsáno: > >> Hi all, >> I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. >> Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, >>

[gentoo-user] Changing compilers

2012-03-18 Thread Andrew Lowe
web trawling to be done to find what other people are saying as well. Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, Andrew Lowe

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing compilers

2012-03-18 Thread Andrew Lowe
Quoting Matthew Finkel : On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, [snip] Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, Andrew Lowe With regard to speed, are you looking for a faster compile time or higher optimization of the compiled code such that the run time is

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/19/12 20:34, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >>> Hi all, >>>Has anyone played around with the various "better known" compilers on >>> Gentoo?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/19/12 17:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 19/03/12 07:26, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, >> Has anyone played around with the various "better known" compilers on [snip] ... ... [snip] > > You don't need to "change" compilers. You can use whate

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/19/12 22:02, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >>> Hi all, >>>Has anyone played around with the various "better known" compilers on >>> Gentoo?

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/20/12 00:03, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> On 03/19/12 20:34, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >>>>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/20/12 01:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 19/03/12 16:11, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> On 03/19/12 17:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 19/03/12 07:26, Andrew Lowe wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> Has anyone played around with the various "better known

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 19/03/2012 10:18 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 03/19/12 22:02, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, [snip] ... ... [snip] which currently ranks at 151 in the top 500 list :) It's amazin

[gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Is there a way to change the "volume" of a mp3/vorbis track? By volume, I'm referring to lining up several tracks on your computer/phone/tablet/thingy, setting the one volume level and then letting them play. For example, the first track will be quiet, of all ironies my Led Zeppelin t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 05/19/12 20:22, Pandu Poluan wrote: On May 19, 2012 7:00 PM, "Andrew Lowe" mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: > > Hi all, [snip] ... ... ... [snip] What you're looking for is called "replay gain" (alternative spelling, "replaygain"). Basic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 21/05/2012 2:48 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 20/05/12 12:41, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Just for sake of correctness, what the op wants is called normalization, in the world of sound edition. Actually, no. That's not what he wants. Normalization simply adjusts to 0db. How loud some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 21/05/2012 10:51 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On May 21, 2012 9:18 PM, "Andrew Lowe" mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: > [ze schnipp] >Aarrrggghhh, I'm getting confused. More background on my original question. I work in a liquor store and the manager insists

[gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've just kicked off an "emerge -NuD world" and will now head out for a while. My emerge has to do, amongst others, gcc, libreoffice, Firefox & Thunderbird. Now when I get back I'll want to know where the emerge is up to so, in my ignorance of portage/emerge in great depth and with onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-03 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 3/06/2012 10:54 PM, YoYo Siska wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:44:31AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:08:39PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is happening in can display additional info? At the moment, I get

[gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Can someone please point me to the doco that decodes the following errors: ** Calculating dependencies... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-vcs/git" has unmet requirements. - dev-vcs/git-1.7.8.6 USE="blksha1 cgi curl iconv python threads

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/04/12 16:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 10:30, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Can someone please point me to the doco that decodes the following errors: [snip] ... ... ... [snip] Thanks in advance, Andrew To put it simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/04/12 19:15, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 12:50, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 06/04/12 16:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 10:30, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Can someone

[gentoo-user] Hibernate and a few other things have gone missing

2012-06-23 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've been doing sort of regular syncs and emerge worlds, every couple of days, but not really paying attention to changes as they have happened. On the other hand I've read, or rather I think I have read, the news and comments/warnings that appear after the emerge world and can't reme

[gentoo-user] Hibernate and missing drives have reappeared - Gentoo-user is also missing!!!!

2012-06-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I posted a message a few days ago regarding mapped drives not showing up in Dolphin and the Hibernate button disappearing. I hadn't got around to replying to peoples suggestions, don't you just hate work interfering with your enjoyment of life, and was feeling bad about it so decided t

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-12 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Probably a dumb one, but... I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions... If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case' something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /, since /etc is located there? In othe

[gentoo-user] Listing partition labels

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Lowe
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. I now want to update fstab but can't remember the names. I can't fin

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird addons is now full of gunk....

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I use Thunderbird for my email and recently it started complaining about not being able to find enigmai/pgp related stuff. A quick view of the addons revealed a whole lot of stuff I don't want, or use, Enigmail, Lightning, Provider for Google Calendar and Timezone definitions for Mo

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird addons is now full of gunk....

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 09/05/11 17:13, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 05.09.2011 18:25, schrieb Andrew Lowe: Plenty of tips on the web on how to install it, but I want to uninstall it. Rebuild without lightning and crypt USE-Flags, then run emerge --depclean to get rid off the now unneded libs and packages. That

[gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I usually use Gentoo as my "normal" Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the app. My question is regarding /home and swap. Is there anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/12/2011 10:28 AM, Adam Carter wrote: . Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in Gentoo it will work fine, and that's ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/12/2011 10:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com>> wrote: > > > On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: > > [snip] ... ... ... [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/12/2011 1:30 PM, W.Kenworthy wrote: If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of both worlds. Basically because I've done nothing with these thingies and have no experience with them and therefore didn't think of them.. Might be worth looking into - got a

[gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????

2012-01-01 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm playing around with the Boost library, www.boost.org, at the moment and the question is in relation to it but the question also applies to other libraries I've played around with, where are the examples and doco kept? I can't seem to find the Boost example source code anywhere.

[gentoo-user] Updating a profile from 2005

2010-11-05 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've just done an emerge --sync ad got, along with all the usual stuff, the following: * ... ... ... Performing Global Updates: (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/

[gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

2010-11-05 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large translucent

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a profile from 2005

2010-11-06 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 11/06/10 20:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:36:01 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: Performing Global Updates: (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a profile from 2005

2010-11-06 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 11/07/10 02:57, Stroller wrote: On 6/11/2010, at 3:56pm, Andrew Lowe wrote: ... Portage 2.1.9.24 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.1-r1, 2.6.35-gentoo-r9 x86_64) Considering that, you should be perfectly safe to update to the current profile (as explained by

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE [SOLVED]

2010-11-07 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 11/07/10 14:10, John Campbell wrote: On 11/05/2010 09:38 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to di

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE [SOLVED]

2010-11-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 11/08/10 09:27, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 11/07/10 14:10, John Campbell wrote: On 11/05/2010 09:38 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When I move the mouse

[gentoo-user] Openconnect, "Failed to open tun device"

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Anyone out there that has installed Openconnect and has it connecting to a VPN? I need to get into my Uni's vpn, and being on linux, the Cisco thingy is useless. I'm attempting to use openconnect, which I've got from an overlay. I've installed it and when I try to start it up, as root

[gentoo-user] emerge world, USE flags and packages that aren't there

2011-01-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've got a PC that I use as a media computer, music, videos etc. I haven't updated it in ages so decided now is the time to give it a go. I issue the command, and subsequently get: *** harold ~# emerge --pretend -NuD world These are the packages that would be

[gentoo-user] Given the rough end of the pineapple by liblzma.so.0

2011-02-06 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm updating my machine and things were going well until something died and I got a big long list of reports. You know the ones, that emerge spits out after each package compiles and tells you to run etc-update/revdep-rebuild/gcc-config etc. Anyway, one of them was from: app-

Re: [gentoo-user] Given the rough end of the pineapple by liblzma.so.0

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 07/02/11 01:57, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: telling me to run revdep-rebuild: # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/liblzma..so.0' Did it tell you to give the full path the liblzma or just the library name "liblzma.s

[gentoo-user] Problems with help2man and Perl

2012-08-05 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've having a bit of a problem with doing an update world. When I do an "emerge -NuD world" things chug along a bit then the build for help2man fails, having a problem with "Locale::gettext". A Google search mentions using perl-cleaner. I run perl-cleaner and it results in a whole lot

[gentoo-user] Still got problems with help2man and Perl

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, ** H!!! No problems now. Whilst writing this, and doing the steps, the problem has now resolved. Read on if you have any interest in Perl and portage going feral. ** I made a post about a week ago regarding this, got a few replies, accidentally deleted said replies

[gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence will be fiddled via ssh. Obviously ther

Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 08/29/12 11:35, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It wi

Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 08/29/12 12:42, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:57:07 +0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 08/31/12 02:16, James wrote: Andrew Lowe wht.com.au> writes: Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be working as a file/medi

[gentoo-user] Clarifying using the button to cause a shutdown

2012-09-11 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I recently did a ground up rebuild of my little media computer. When it was running I used to push the power button to initiate a shutdown. I now can't remember what I had to fiddle to achieve this so that I can replicate this on my rebuilt box. Is the accepted way to do this as per t

[gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've got a media server that I'm in the process of installing Samba on. When I do: emerge -NuD --pretend samba I get a list of stuff that portage wants to install, including Python, V2.7.3, even though the machine already has V3.2.3 installed. I've also stripped down the USE variabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 09/16/12 19:19, Randolph Maaßen wrote: On Sep 16, 2012 1:05 PM, "Andrew Lowe" mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: > > Hi all, > I've got a media server that I'm in the process of installing Samba on. When I do: > > emerge -NuD --pretend samba

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 09/16/12 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I suppose I'll have to have a look at the ebuild to try and work out why this thingy wants Python, any python, in the first place. Portage is written in Python, which raises the question of wh

[gentoo-user] Recreating a directory structure and indicating a files presence

2012-09-20 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I have the situation where I have a large amount of data, many TB's, made up of many, many files. This information has now been archived but I've got people who want to be able to see what data does/does not exist, filling in gaps where they may exist. As this data used to be availa

Re: [gentoo-user] Recreating a directory structure and indicating a files presence

2012-09-23 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 09/20/12 22:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:33:39 +0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I have a large amount of data, many TB's, made up of many, many files. This information has now been archived but I've got people who want to be a

[gentoo-user] nfs server sometimes not available - timeo and retrans

2012-09-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Just want to check something with those much more knowledgeable that I am. I have a media computer which exports the media as nfs4 shares. My workstation in turn mounts these - it's the only device that does this. If the media device is not on, and exporting these shares, the workstat

[gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!

2012-10-23 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I did an "emerge -NuD world", it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed. This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I use as my terminal, XTerm or UXTerm. In more detail, I get the Konsole window, the menu is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!

2012-11-13 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 14/11/2012 8:42 AM, Willie wrote: Hey Everyone, I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It seems that whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn off. Not shutdown like I did "shutdown -r now". Just completely off out of the blue at random times. I have been reading the lo

[gentoo-user] Ekopath compiler failing to build - something about glibc development files

2013-01-12 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've got the ekopath compiler installed on my machine and Portage wants to update it, but fails. Before I go to the trouble of filling out a full bug report, does anyone have any ideas as to the problem? I think it is in the 5th line, "Configuration failed..." ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekopath compiler failing to build - something about glibc development files

2013-01-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/16/13 06:31, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 13 January 2013, at 06:53, Andrew Lowe wrote: ... From all of the above, I think the important part is that I need to install some "glibc developement files". A google search doesn't point me in the direction of what these migh

Re: [gentoo-user] Infinite loop in revdep-rebuild with firefox-17.0.2

2013-01-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/24/13 19:25, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! A couple of days ago, I merged firefox-17.0.2 and ran revdep-rebuild -p. It said, strangely, that some firefox libraries needed rebuilding. I've just let revdep-rebuild rebuild firefox. I run revdep-rebuild -p again, and it's still saying th

Re: [gentoo-user] Infinite loop in revdep-rebuild with firefox-17.0.2

2013-01-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/24/13 21:02, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 01/24/13 19:25, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! A couple of days ago, I merged firefox-17.0.2 and ran revdep-rebuild -p. It said, strangely, that some firefox libraries needed rebuilding. I've just let revdep-rebuild rebuild firefox. I run r

Re: [gentoo-user] Programm for Floor Plans

2013-03-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 5/03/2013 8:52 AM, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, know someone a program for draw floor plans? I has use normal Visio for it, but unter Linux? Have you tried app-office/dia ? My two cents on dia: ugly, klunky, non intuitive, simple t

[gentoo-user] Module names???

2006-01-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, A simple question, where do I find out modules names? I've currently got menconfig loaded and trying to decide as to whether to go static or module. My problem is that I can't find the names of the modules for most of the options hence how do I know what to load if it is a module. For

Re: [gentoo-user] ISO DB wrapper libs for unix/windows and c++

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I'll have to give a c++ application (running both on unix and windows) the ability to do SQL queries on DBs (for now only ORACLE 9). I do know JDBC - what is the equivalent for C++? ODBC? Has anyone here experience in comparing iODBC vs. unixODBC vs Oracle Template Lib

[gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also headless w

[gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done some googling but

Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Christoph Gysin wrote: Andrew Lowe wrote: I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of

[gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

2005-10-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For some reason when I try to bring up the network interface on the Gentoo box, which

[gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?

2005-11-11 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, The wife has finally put her foot down and said I have to clean up the mess that inhabits my office which occupies our second bedroom. A big part of this mess is paper clipping from newspapers, magazines, trade shows, you name it, I've clipped it, kept it, but most importantly not fil

[gentoo-user] ntp seems a bit flaky

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Lowe
x has recently started doing this? It has worked fine in the past. If I do a "date" on the linux box, I get a time that is about right, so the linux box's clock isn't stuffed. I'm stumped, any thoughts greatly appreciated. Regards, Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

2006-08-12 Thread Andrew Lowe
Richard Fish wrote: On 8/12/06, Andrew Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I placed "tcl" and "tcltk" into my USE variables and tried the reinstall again, "emerge --newuse python", Tcl etc get called in and installed with no problems, but then the above proble

The Big Red Button - was Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten

2006-09-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
Ryan Tandy wrote: rob wrote: How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box rob # emerge sys-power/acpid # rc-update add acpid default # /etc/init.d/acpid start and you're done! The default configuration for acpid includes a handler for the power button event. HTH.

[gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have anything thin and I don't provision anything so why I ask? From what I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 16/09/17 06:57, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 19:56:54 CEST schrieb Andrew Lowe: >> Hi all, >> I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of >> Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a &

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

2017-10-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
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 username & password and then the fun began. I got: -bash: .:

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

2017-10-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
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 I got the login prompt. I > entered m

[gentoo-user] Any reason for "Missing digest" errors at the moment

2017-11-12 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've just done an "eix-sync" and upon doing "emerge -NuD world", get a few screen fulls of: Missing digest for '/usr/portage/. where the packages are mostly from kde-frameworks, -5.40.0, and a few from kde-apps, -17.08.3. Has anyone else seen this? If memory s

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems copmiling firefox 57.0 (linking phase)

2017-11-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 16/11/17 11:05, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > building firefox 57.0 failed on my system - it looks like > the last stage (linking) fails. > > I attached the build.log to this mail. > > Is there a way around this? > > Cheers > Meino > First thing I do when I have a problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] what gives with -O[x] in cflags?

2017-12-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 16/12/2017 4:12 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: So therefore webkit-gtk decides to be a prissy little cunt and throws an > Masterful command of the English language there Alan. How about you just pull your head in and cut down on the swearing. It doesn't make you appear any more knowledgable or g

[gentoo-user] Installing on nvme - not all beer and skittles....

2018-06-29 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I have an existing Gentoo install that I've "customised" a bit too much and things are getting flaky. I've in turn taken the opportunity to purchase an nvme, a Samsung 960 Pro, and do a fresh install. Instead of using the install media I've just booted the existing install, mounted

[gentoo-user] A config file for the magical combo of....

2018-07-01 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm trying to get a new computer working. I've decided to go the UEFI route but something is being a bit obstinate. Would anyone have the combination of a Gigabyte motherboard, x470 Ultra, with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 CPU? Set up to run UEFI? I'm having all sorts of trouble try

[gentoo-user] Firefox & ALSA

2018-07-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, As mentioned in a few emails in the last couple of days, I had a machine fail so I've taken the disks and attempted to put them into a new AMD Ryzen machine. After a fiddle around with the Sysrescue CD and a kernel rebuild, I got the machine booting. Sound was a bit of a pr

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