Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
398266496 338484192 59782304 85% /backup -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Colquhoun
in /etc/filesystems, so it gets tried first. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
unaccounted for after a reboot. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] A DNS question.

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Colquhoun
not be a huge burden. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing 'eth0' with 'wlan0'

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Colquhoun
: dhcpcd_eth0=-t 10 Which will timeout eth0 after 10 seconds, thus making the system boot time faster. Or, install sys-apps/ifplugd and have it taken care of automatically. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
. If you want the VT behaviour also in X, then alias less to 'TERM=linux less'. (There's probably a better way, but this works.) 'less -X' works when I try it. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first

Re: [gentoo-user] Recurring reiserfs error

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
blocks. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
be a library using the sse2 flag. Have you tried using the --newuse or --reinstall changed-use emerge flags? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but startx works

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
what happens then. It could just be some bad config settings from previous versions. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Colquhoun
? ... but everything else seems to work fine. ... but thx for that fast try to help. Have you tried making an ebuild for 1.16 and putting it in /usr/local/portage directory? That way you won't be fighting with portage about what version to install. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Colquhoun
way higher than your card supports. Did you look at the man page for xrandr? I think you need the --fb --panning options. There is even an example towards the end of the man page. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
67.159.5.90 server 67.59.168.233 server 204.62.14.98 Have you tried switching servers? I'm using server 0.au.pool.ntp.org server 1.au.pool.ntp.org Try the equivalent for your location, or there are 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org and so on. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I turn off xterm console restore?

2011-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
it to .bashrc or .bash_profile to make it permanent. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Copy directories in a special manner

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc The tool you are looking for is 'rsync'. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
be the cause. Look in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. I had to add/modify mine to allow user mounts. This is the relevent section I had to change: match action=org.freedesktop.hal.storage.* return result=yes / /match -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:10:37 luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 11:32 Paul Colquhoun wrote: If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. mmm... i don't have this file (or the /etc/PolicyKit directory

Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

2011-05-19 Thread Paul Colquhoun
on an ~amd64 system. Just un-tar it under /usr/local/portage/net-nntp (or wherever you have your local portage tree). -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
arbitrary code during boot looks like yet another large security hole opening up. At least keep the code it can execute tied down to the directories that were set up for this purpose. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Colquhoun
. Or possibly just add a whole new service to use just for hooking software packages into system events. Although this would probably end upneeding to be a udev clone anyway. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
multiple solutions. My major worry is that udev is happily running arbitrary scripts from arbitrary locations early in the boot process, and is actively trying to make this easier. How much more Microsoft-security-ish do we want Linux to get? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
, if the thing he designed is the thing he wants. That's ridiculous! Change happens. We already know this. Regards everyone. Best, Michael -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Colquhoun
and improved functionality. Just don't forget that the desktop isn't the whole world, and allow the backroom server guys to turn off all the bells, whistles and pretty lights so they can get the best performance from their web servers, mail servers, DNS servers, etc. -- Reverend Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install music player without graphic ?

2011-10-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
. I only want to listem music under console , no more fuither , so how to figure this out ? Try installing mpg123 -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Colquhoun
text substitution. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

[gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
. This is an AMD64 motherboard, so a 64 bit kernel is needed. Thanks. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED)

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED)

2011-11-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:16 PM Dale wrote: Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Colquhoun
in a lot more of KDE than you have shown. -- Paul Colquhoun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
that it is mirrored onto multiple physical drives, assuming you have enough space on more than one drive. See the -m, --mirrors Mirrors option in 'man lvcreate' -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes

Re: [gentoo-user] less file.html

2012-05-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
experimenting on my system shows me that this version seems to do what you want: LESSIGNORE=htm html I don't normally have LESSOPEN set, so I havn't seen this situation before. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Gnome3

2012-06-17 Thread Paul Colquhoun
radar for Perth, along with the local forcast. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR703.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/forecasts/map.shtml More radar locations can be found at http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/radar/ -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Colquhoun
'filter = ' lines do you currently have in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf? Does it have something like 'r|/dev/hd.*' in it to hide all the IDE devices from LVM? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
the failures visible (as they probably should have been from the start) or even re-queueing the events to be run after the rule files are avaiable, the developers took the easy (for them) way out, and told the rest of the world to do things their way. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http

Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

2012-12-28 Thread Paul Colquhoun
that was the corporate standard production practice. As to system recovery, nowdays I ususlly do that by booting from a live CD/DVD so I have access to all the tools when I need them. Which reminds me that I need to update my rescue DVD to the latest version... -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC

Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker

2013-06-17 Thread Paul Colquhoun
if they have changed. I can't remember if it handles ACL's, as it's been a few years since I used it. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Colquhoun
programs k3b uses?) Settings - Configure K3b - Programs -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Makeing /dev/rtc1 accessible as soon as possible - how?

2013-08-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
in comparison with rtc0. rtc0 is accessible with system boot - rtc1 is not (current state). I know this might be obvious, but just in case: Have you checked to see if the dud RTC can be disabled in the BIOS? Or completely remove its drivers from the kernel? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-11-01 Thread Paul Colquhoun
it from a command line? That should give some error messages. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] File timestamps got confused...why?

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Colquhoun
like like a Y2K problem, if not a very serious one. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to tty01 (serial port) in simple straight forward way...?!?

2014-10-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
of printf as it has fewer pitfalls. # printf '%s\r\n' command --Kerin Also, are you sure that the standard output of the script is connected to the serial port? Try adding /dev/tty01 to the end of the echo/printf command lines and see if that helps. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange new behavior from the mount command

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
xfs_admin(8), or for reiserfs using reiserfstune(8). On the other hand, using '-l' on my machine didn't appear to try anything, and didn't rewrite /run/blkid/blkid.tab but that may be because I don't use labels. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail-2 duplicates

2015-07-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
of being moved to 'cur'. I havn't checked to see it these correleate with duplicated messages at all. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] 69.99 != 69.99

2015-08-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
. This string to float conversion appears not to be deterministic, if it converts two identical strings into two different float values, but I don't know enough about the internals to comment any further. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

2015-10-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
kmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo > > > So doesn't this tell portage not to upgrade to it? Why does it still > schedule it for merge? > > > Thanks a lot, > Marat Try adding "--autounmask-keep-masks y" to your emerge command line, to stop it suggesting that

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
gt; > > media-video/ffmpeg:0/52.55.55=[vdpau] required by > > > > (media-libs/mlt-0.9.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > ^^^ > > These are unimportant, it is simply portage telling you it is not > updating some packages to the latest available and why. Pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-30 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ugh I had some that would build with 4.8 but not 4.9. > > > > I have an application which I would like to compile with gcc > > > >> 5.x just to see if that's even possible. I could switch, try it, and > >> then switch back. > > > > Exactly, run gcc-config, compile/emerge the program, run gcc-config again. > > And what about ccache? Will it use the new version automatically and > detect that the compiler version has changed so that files in the cache > need to be recompiled? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 5.3

2015-12-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
c:4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8::gentoo sys-devel/libtool:2.4.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r1::gentoo -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 14:00:55 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:40:48 walt wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:18:27 -0500 > > > > Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > Hey, thanks for putting out gcc 5.3... > > > > > > Un

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
sing gcc-4.9 but I had to use the > workaround I described above. I disabled the 'jit' flag for gcc, and 5.3.0 compiled cleanly. Now to turn the flag back on and see if that works. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] xdg-open opens pdf with gimp

2016-06-07 Thread Paul Colquhoun
pens it. Try running: xdg-mime query default application/pdf to see what the default application is for that mime type. Then you can run xdg-mime default insert-your-application-here application/pdf to change the application that opens that mime type. -- Reverend Paul Col

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

2016-04-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
hhh! > > Thanks for any HELP in advance! May the source be with you... > Best regards, > Meino Be careful upgrading boost & boost-build. I updated to 1,60.0 a little while ago, and akonadi stopped working until I went back to version 1.58.0 This also stopped anything that depends o

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic IP address services.

2016-11-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
case I need to add more. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, I've been using noip.com for years with no problems. There is even an up to date version of their client in portage. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgrou

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic IP address services.

2016-11-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:54:20 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 06:17:07 Stroller wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a free dynamic IP address service. > > > > I've used DynDNS in the past, but I think they discontinued their free > > accounts. > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ould love to learn why this is allowed. In my experience, it > happens quite often. Well, --changed-deps is also there for when you change USE flags on your system to activate (or deactivate) software features. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Aski

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

2018-05-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
pt I made. Argh! > > Dan You can add an alternate regular expression that matches the blank lines, but the '-o' switch will still stop that match from being printed as it is an 'empty' match. The trick is to modify the data on the fly to add a space to the empty lines. I have also added th

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

2018-05-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Saturday, 12 May 2018 12:05:47 PM AEST Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Saturday, 12 May 2018 9:16:52 AM AEST 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 wan

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages

2018-06-30 Thread Paul Colquhoun
as it would let you unmount the directory after emerge has finished. You may need to add that to your execution $PATH variable in .bashrc ~/bin/emerge #!/bin/bash mount /usr/portage/packages emerge $* umount /usr/portage/packages -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/podracer doesn't name downloaded podcasts

2018-02-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
e3daf > 7f0e4 Have you looked at the ID3 tags for the files? If they are properly tagged with the name, its an easy script to pull the ID3 tag and use it to rename the files. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] repair FAT-fs

2018-03-02 Thread Paul Colquhoun
but I can not run: dosfsck - it doesn't exist. Try 'fsck.vfat' instead. There is also 'fsck.fat' or 'fsck.exfat', at least on my installation. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?

2018-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
to be impossible, as everybody wants to > assume that dynamic deps work. I just tried this to see what was happening, and adding "--with-bdeps n" cut the number of recompilations right back, even when I still had "--deep" as one of the options. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package

2018-10-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
Apart from the package.mask syntax error, there is also an emerge flag you might want to try: --autounmask-keep-masks y I added this when emerge kept asking me to unmask stuff I had manually masked. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
echo 198.088.062.01 | sed 's/\.0/./g' > 198.88.62.1 In a word, no. echo 198.088.0.01 | sed 's/\.0/./g' 198.88..1 -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
-9]+ > [0-9][0-9] Not quite. A trailing '+' means "1 or more of the preceding item", while a trailing '*' means "0 or more". [0-9]+ would match any string consisting of only digits, no matter how long, but not an empty string. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. ht

Re: [gentoo-user] kworker using 100% cpu

2019-03-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
o disable > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe16 > > Yes, I had to do the same and repeat after each boot. I can't recall if I > added this in a script so I didn't have to run it manually each time. /etc/sysctl.conf is interpreted at boot as an automatic way of doing this, inste

[gentoo-user] LVM2 problem, meta data format change?

2019-05-17 Thread Paul Colquhoun
o I was wondering if anyone here had encountered a similar problem? The next step is to try and find how to update the on-disk lvm meta data so the later versions understand it, hopefully without having to rebuild my system from scratch. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM2 problem, meta data format change?

2019-05-28 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 5:14:42 P.M. AEST Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Hi Paul, > > as an LVM user without deeper knowledge, stumbled upon your question without > any reply yet, and my fear was to run into the same when updating lvm2. > On 5/17/19 2:26 PM, Paul Colquhoun wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
D systems have a background task that regularly reads and checks every block of every disk, to avoid undetected errors. Hot Spares are also a good safety measure, along with monitoring software that alerts you when the spares have gone live. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbe

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
However, the dd command failure sounds suspicious - as I understand > > it dd should not fail unless the disk has run out of space. > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what > I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. It would probably j

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpopper

2019-10-14 Thread Paul Colquhoun
config file is: # cat /etc/tpop3d/tpop3d.conf listen-address: 127.0.0.1 mailbox: bsd:/var/spool/mail/$(user) auth-pam-enable: true auth-pam-mail-group: mail It runs as a service, started from systemd. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for tec

[gentoo-user] meson build woes

2020-08-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
nt, line 1210: Called distutils-r1_python_compile * environment, line 1079: Called esetup.py 'build' '-j' '6' * environment, line 1600: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * "${@}" || die "${die_args[@]}"; ######

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
egen-2.62.6::gentoo USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8" The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_6 python_single_target_python3_7 python_single_target_pyth

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ndencies of one of the other packages, and prefer the one highest on the ladder. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Freezing/unfreezing (groups of) processes

2021-02-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
on any > parameters in the command line? Someone else mentioned pgrep. It has an associated pkill command as well. Both appear to have a "-f" option to also search on the full command line. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] MEGA sync problems

2021-10-08 Thread Paul Colquhoun
verlay, which contains megasync, then emerge -a megasync just like other portage programs. If you still get any crypto-related errors, have a look for the recent news item "*2021-07-23-libxcrypt-migration*" eselect news list will get you a list. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain packages refuse to use binary from build save, the -k thing.

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ile back, I unmerged those and Kicad which I think > used opencascade. It did update some video stuff the other day. I feel > some package is out of sync with some other package and hope a reinstall > will fix it. Otherwise, could be a bug in some package version. > > Any i

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
d us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously dislike it. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED... THE HARD WAY] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-27 Thread Paul Colquhoun
le current system again, to make sure everything is up to date and has the current set of Use flags. Skips all the initial installation steps, and keeps all your /etc config customisations. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in new

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
r your drives, without needing to cobble something together. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
/Guide > > My /etc/locale.gen has been... > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > C.UTF8 UTF-8 > > ...for a long time. Are you missing a hyphen in "C.UTF8"? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
grivation. Try updateing on a regular schedule, at 1 or 2 week intervals, and see if your experience improves. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Another day without clues.

2023-04-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
to see if it prints any usefull error messages? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Paul Colquhoun
dress: Unknown address type (examples > of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix") Have you tried starting it with: strace chromium to get debugging info on each system call. I might show you where the bad server address is coming from, as it will list all the files t

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me understand this emerge error message.

2023-08-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
or the help! In the USE flsgs you have: gnutls -openssl In the CURL_SSL flags you have: openssl -gnutls These 2 are contradicting each other. One says use gnutls instead of openssl, the other says no, use openssl instead of gnutls. Pick which option you want to use, and adjust the flags to agree on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Read date input from text file problem

2023-08-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
%F ) > echo ${xtoday} > > Running the script produces three lines of output... > > 2021-08-14 > "August 14, 2021" > date: invalid date ‘"August 14, 2021"’ > > What am I doing wrong? The date in the text file shoudn't have the quotes around it.

Re: [gentoo-user] ip_change_notifier - empty IP address

2023-06-28 Thread Paul Colquhoun
allow for network > issues. # Retry if the IP address is empty retry_count=0 while [[ -z "$NEW_IP" && $retry_count -lt 3 ]]; do ((retry_count++)) sleep $retry_count NEW_IP=$(get_ip_address) done -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Open source network monitoring / intrusion detection recommendations?

2023-12-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
; Cheers, > Mark I haven't used any of them, but this article lists 6 options. I'd already heard of Kali, but you might find what you are after here: https://www.comptia.org/blog/linux-distributions-for-ethical-hacking-and-pen-testing -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbea

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
diately to the right, left, above or below the other screen. When positioning to the right or left, the top edges are aligned. When positioning above or below, the left edges are aligned. The Relative form specifies the offset

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
)) > accum3=$(( ${accum3} + ${dataarray[3]} )) > accum4=$(( ${accum4} + ${dataarray[4]} )) > accum5=$(( ${accum5} + ${dataarray[5]} )) > accum6=$(( ${accum6} + ${dataarray[6]} )) > accum7=$(( ${accum7} + ${dataarray[7]} )) > accum8=$((

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile, gcc-13.2.1_p20240210 fails to build. ATTN: Peter Humphrey.

2024-03-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
; Maybe Peter will see this, update and try again. May help him as well. I had the gcc compile fail, but was successful after removing the "objc" use flag. Unfortunately, it seemd to be required by app-arch/unar during step 16, rebuild world. I'm re-enbleing it and will see how it al