[gentoo-user] problem emerging libsoup 2.29.91

2010-03-15 Thread covici
>>> '/var/log/portage/net-libs:libsoup-2.29.91:20100315-081624.log' What the heck do I do with this? Thanks in advance for all the great help I have gotten from this list. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread covici
in adance for any help! I like rsync and be sure to say --numeric-ids or whatever to retain the same userids for permissions, but otherwise you are good to go. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
word. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
> Have you looked in gconf-editor for a setting? I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the policykit use flag, so I am not sure where to go with this. Where would I look in gconf? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
pps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons true as the gdm user, this fixed the problem.' Thanks to all for your responses. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: snackup (was: Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive)

2010-05-07 Thread covici
o take a backup before daring to try this script, > but anyway. > > Use the -d option first to test what actually would be going on, before you > do a real backup! > > Hope this is of good use to someone. For me it is, I will be using it on > several systems, and now I only have to make little changes in the config > file for each system, but not at the script. > > Suggestions and bug reports are welcome of course. I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup. I have an lvm which is taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space -- or would it. Would I need some free pes to put the snapshot? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-07 Thread covici
asier to adapt the oXclude array. Thanks, very interesting and I will have a look. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness

2010-05-21 Thread covici
- is that what you want? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet not working on new laptop (dell e6510)

2010-06-10 Thread covici
rrier". > > pump is not on the gentoo installation disk. > > Thanks for the advice; I will try grml next. This dhcp bug is a bug I have reported, bug # 284631 -- please add your comments to this bug -- including dhcp version, router brand, etc. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet not working on new laptop (dell e6510)

2010-06-10 Thread covici
aded grml 10.4 live cd and had no problems with the dhcp. Try dhcpcd or pump manually -- I bet its some imcompatibility between the software and the router. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging libsoup 2.29.91

2010-07-01 Thread covici
should report if not done yet, IMHO. Only way I have been able o emerge libsoup and friends is to unmerge php first and re-emerge it afterwards. I sure would like to know what access violation means, however. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-08 Thread covici
nstat does this as well. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] fate of nmh

2010-07-11 Thread covici
once this happens -- I imagine I can keep it installed, but it would not be a good situation. thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-12 Thread covici
> > Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? > Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ? What I do in those cases is to copy the kernel and the initrd of the Ubuntu system into your normal boot directory and just have a root= directiv

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery

2010-07-12 Thread covici
r append line. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread covici
can say is, every day I get down on my knees and offer thanks that perl > is not slotted. But portage should be sensible enough to either run this for you, or stop emerging -- I had a lot of trouble during the last update where I kept getting errors and I emerged a couple of them before I knew I had to run perl-cleaner. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread covici
that portage had upgraded perl -- the only thing I would like portage to do is to know that something must be run and stop so I can do this. You could have a list of packages which require a stop after emerging or something. I am thinking out loud here, but this is what I am trying to say. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-25 Thread covici
he machine boots up properly. > > > > > > > > And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. > ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. You don't need to invalidate the journal or mount ext2, just use -f if memory serves, be sure the partition is unmounted and that will force a full check. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] mount.cifs removal?

2009-09-10 Thread covici
oing to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] mount.cifs removal?

2009-09-10 Thread covici
ba with the > client USE flag (which will pull in samba-client). OK, I will try and see what happens. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-10 Thread covici
#x27;t make any difference. Any ideas on this would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-10 Thread covici
ut the -d, it didn't tell me anything except that dhcpcd sent several discover packets and then said timeout, so my original question still remains -- why a timeout with 5.1 with the same dhcpcd.conf and no timeout with 4.0.13. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread covici
se. > > File a bug for dhcpcd-5.1 with your findings. > > PS. Other than testing is there a reason why you don't use a stable dhcpcd > version? > -- > Regards, > Mick I am using unstable generally, so it just came in the update. I have no router, this is F

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread covici
n ethernet card. One interesting thing is that 4.0.13 gives the ethernet address whereas 5.1.0 does not. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread covici
here, but from a remote location it would not work, so how can I figure out why this is happening? I think this started when I went to baselayout 2, but not certain of that. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-20 Thread covici
angs right > after slim hast started. > Shutting down the system tries to stop services/processes/action, > which never has been started...which fails in a hang. > > I dont know exactly...but...if that flag is the default configuration > when installing slim I would suggest to change it to > > daemon = yes > > to prevent users like me to spend the weekend in searching for a > problem in the shutdown process. > I don't have such a file, or as far as I know, such a package. My shutdown does not hang, it just says no more processes left at this run level and sits there forever and will not restart the system. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-20 Thread covici
tartup. # Read the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm for more # info. Do NOT remove, as this will start nothing # extra at boot if /etc/init.d/xdm is not added # to the "default" runlevel. x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] slot conflict on consolkit -- how to resolve?

2009-10-11 Thread covici
.1', 'merge') pulled in by sys-auth/consolekit[policykit] required by ('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/gdm-2.28.0', 'merge') (and 5 more) Any way to resolve this so I can get the gnome 2.28 overlay to come in? I know I am on the bleed

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict on consolkit -- how to resolve?

2009-10-11 Thread covici
I am on the bleeding edge here! > > > Check your use flags. hal (base portage) wants consolkit *without* the > policykit USE flag because it was installed with -policykit. > > gdm (overlay) is apparently being installed with the consolekit USE flag > and so it requires consolekit *with* the policykit USE flag. > OK, that did it, thanks very much -- just goes to show you know less than you think you know. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] problem reinstalling gnome-cups-manager preserved-rebuild problem

2009-10-18 Thread covici
, but no more. Any ideas on how to resolve this problem? Thanks much. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] problem reinstalling gnome-cups-manager preserved-rebuild problem

2009-10-19 Thread covici
re, but there is now libsmbclient.h, so looks like things are OK. Thanks -- the joys of packages out of sync. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

2009-10-24 Thread covici
ound it. It's now stored in /var/log/rc.log. However, mine is an empty file even though I have rc_logger="yes" -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

2009-10-24 Thread covici
ank is there is something rotating the file, even though I don't have it in logrotate.conf or logrotate.d -- very strange. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
ike a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
netmask 255.255.255.0" > defaultroute="67.62.15.1" No joy, it did not like those parameters at all. When I put ifconfig_eth1 it just said no config using dhcp, and when I changed it to config_eth1, it did not like defaultroute. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
new style networking scripts, > doesn't it? What are new style networking scripts -- which package is that. The /etc/conf.d/net.example seems not to have changed since May. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:29:24 schrieb covici: > > What are new style networking scripts -- which package is that. The > > /etc/conf.d/net.example seems not to have changed since May. > > The ones that come with newer versions of openrc. If y

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:29:24 schrieb covici: > > > What are new style networking scripts -- which package is that. The > > > /etc/conf.d/net.example seems not to have changed since May. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] sun-jre-bin end-of-life - what now?

2009-11-10 Thread covici
conf it still wants to install dev-java/icedtea6-bin-1.6.1 -- how do I fix this to get it to continue with the sun product? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-14 Thread covici
lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater failure

2009-12-06 Thread covici
n into errors actually installing any of that list > there, take a glance at http://bugs.gentoo.org/230205 ... down in the > comments there's mention of needing to prod eselect to fix things. > > -- > Poison [BLX] > Joshua M. Murphy There is an argument to pythonupdater to ignore version numbers -- maybe this will help your problem. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] freeglut fails to compile because X11/extensions/XInput.h not found

2009-12-17 Thread covici
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

Re: [gentoo-user] freeglut fails to compile because X11/extensions/XInput.h not found

2009-12-17 Thread covici
s package has eliminated this file -- this is my whole problem.Now I re emerged the package which had an update and how its here. I guess portage did things in the wrong order or something. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] freeglut fails to compile because X11/extensions/XInput.h not found

2009-12-17 Thread covici
lares > cosmic rays > a quantum level event > leprechauns > tooth fairies > jubbjubb monsters > > > {well, it's as good as any other explanation :-) } Yep, very strange, however this update went OK, except for that, so I'll knock on my metal desk -- sorry no wood available -- to make sure nothing goes wrong. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeglut fails to compile because X11/extensions/XInput.h not found

2009-12-18 Thread covici
it either -- I save it for Robert Burnsbirthday which is always quite fun. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] unable to emerge totem

2010-01-16 Thread covici
e media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.25 -- how do I get playbin2? Should I just mask off the new version of totem which is 2.28.5? Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unable to emerge totem

2010-01-16 Thread covici
; > > Should I just mask off the new version of totem which is 2.28.5? > > Hm. My x86 machine has totem-2.26.3-r1. Are you running an unstable > version of gentoo? Yep and the overlay of gnome as well. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
't give me anything. How can I tell what is happening here? Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
ed layman to access them. That error proves you do not > have the overlay enabled. > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
ny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] trouble with preserved-rebuild

2009-08-16 Thread covici
til:0". Is it broke, because this is still true after re-emerging apr-util? I am using unstable x86. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with preserved-rebuild

2009-08-16 Thread covici
Use equery depends apr-util to find out what used it and rebuild those. I did that and got the same results. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with preserved-rebuild

2009-08-16 Thread covici
he-tools-2.2.12 (=dev-libs/apr-util-1*) dev-util/subversion-1.6.4-r10 (>=dev-libs/apr-util-1.3:1) www-servers/apache-2.2.12 (=dev-libs/apr-util-1*) I emerged the packages mentioned -- without using the version numbers and when I did the emerge @preserved-rebuild again I got the same results as before. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with preserved-rebuild

2009-08-16 Thread covici
file? > Check versions and SLOTS for apr-utils in /var/db/pkg/ > Check the output of "eix -e apr-util" to see what exactly you have - keep in > mind that a package without a SLOT is 0 by default. I suspect the devs bumped > apr-util to SLOT=1 Well, I did have two versions in there -- there was a 0.9.12 and when I got rid of that things went back to normal -- its emerging 32 packages now. I deleted it from the world file as well. Thanks so much for your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

2009-08-23 Thread covici
ave a similar problem -- with more recent versions of gdm, gdm tries to take ovver vt7 even though it is in use by a login prompt -- I actually have 11 virtual consoles active. I wonder if this solution would prevent this behavior? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] after world update cxfe will not emerge

2012-01-20 Thread covici
ne-lib again, but no joy. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Good 'layman' tutorial on IPv4 > IPv6?

2012-01-20 Thread covici
firewall are hidden from > the outside world (nor directly accessible). I definitely do *not* > want all of my internal devices directly accessible from the internet. I saw something on the shorewall.org site which was an introduction to ipv6 -- look in the documentation area. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-24 Thread covici
this? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-24 Thread covici
d pulse and just didn't start the thing, what would I lose then? Seems like a waste of disk space to me. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread covici
n't bother to try it. Seems > like a losing battle in the long run. Maybe if we wait long enough pulse > will actually become useful to ordinary everyday users. > I can use amixer to change the volume, so that is fine with me. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going

[gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread covici
whatsoever. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread covici
t; That link seems not to work -- I get Unable to locate remote host lists.one-eyed-alien.net Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread covici
ry to see if it > works for you? Of course you'll loose any benefit from IOMMU (if you are > running VMs) but... I don't have a UEFI BIOS -- at least the interface looks the same as a normal one -- I wonder where would I find such a setting? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] cairo-1.10.2 fails to emerge --missing file

2012-03-04 Thread covici
in advance for any suggestions. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bind-9.8.1_p1 recompilation failed...

2012-03-04 Thread covici
ys, for > all of my servers. Seems to me like insufficient testing and > this should never happen in case of stable releases... > > Jarry In bind 9.9.0 I am getting undefined access to main, so things seem to be getting much worse. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] cairo-1.10.2 fails to emerge --missing file

2012-03-04 Thread covici
rt. I may do that, downgrading mesa fix it and I discovered that the version of mesa which portage installed as an update was masked -- I wonder why it did that at all. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-20 Thread covici
tc/portage/package.mask, append the line > > sys-fs/udev > > Create the file if it doesn't already exist. You now have a totally > > udev-free machine > > > > -- > > Walter Dnes > > > > Having personally long considered Lennart Poettering a 'spawn of the devil' > my question is ... is this your reaction to systemd? > > One minor typo to point out: > > /atc/portage/package.mask should be /etc/portage/package.mask > > I just joined this list last week, but might consider sacrificing some > hardware to join your endeavor if you need more testers. OK, I am not seeing mdev in the portage tree -- I would like to learn more about this before I take the plunge. So where do I get it and does it create the appropriate device nodes, etc? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] problem with e2fsck and the pre mount of /usr

2012-03-26 Thread covici
then I can have it not do one in the /etc/fstab -- or any other solution to this problem? I am using gentoo unstable with 3.2.6-gentoo. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John C

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread covici
-- any solution for this? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] "lvm failed to start"

2012-04-04 Thread covici
ike a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-11 Thread covici
un mplayer. Is there a way to just disable it? > > If I recall correctly, the GNOME session manager will keep starting PA > if the daemon dies. I am not using pulse audio -- I told portage I had it and that seemed to make the packages happy -- I will see what happens. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

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

2012-04-13 Thread covici
thout LVM, I would not have had a > chance to save what I did manage to get. > I had a bad drive, and I tried to use pvmove, but it stopped when it got an error and would not tell me the file it had trouble with nor would it move any data past that point -- is there a better way to recover such data? I simply used the backup to get my data back, rather than lvm. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] having problems installing vmware-tools-8.8.0.7367 in gentoo guest

2012-04-20 Thread covici
g unstable gentoo which I need to update to latest kernel, etc. Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

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

2012-06-29 Thread covici
about? How come its hda? Perhaps this is the problem, it certainly should be fixed anyway. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

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

2012-06-29 Thread covici
e /dev/sda etc. Is this really a ide drive? Or do you have the BIOS pretend they are? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] possible portage or ebuild bug?

2011-02-09 Thread covici
t; My guess is something in the overlay depends on a version of gtk+ that > > isn't in the overlay yet, except for the dev versions *99*. And those are > > hard and keyword masked as usual for cvs/svn versions. > > > > resync the overlay, try again. > > It's an overlay. It's certain to break once a day. Less than that is a > > bonus. Thanks much -- I had unmasked glib2.27.5, but I will get rid of that and resync again -- did not really want to use that. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-18 Thread covici
stand what happens when gdm starts. I have Nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 but even some earlier versions I try give the same result. Is my card going or what? Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? J

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-18 Thread covici
t kms is -- I use gnome as the desktop. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread covici
ybe in newer kernels than the one I am using, but I want to get this one back to working first. One thing that I found in my logs which might help is the following: Feb 17 22:29:07 ccs kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 53, CMDre 0080 0005 0005 Feb 17 22:29:49 ccs last message repeated 7 times Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread covici
ng whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel. X stuff is sure quirky. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-22 Thread covici
he monitor just keeps switching between analog and digital, but only when gdm starts. OUtside of X the monitor acts normally. I also am using hal again for the keyboard and that seems to work now. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

2011-02-22 Thread covici
extra lines for each login. VERBOSE is even worse, so we are stuck till someone has sense enough to put that stuff in the VERBOSE level instead. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread covici
he last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread covici
is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] unable to emerge lvm2 in new install of gentoo

2011-03-31 Thread covici
le, but librt seems to be already there, so I wonder what is happening? Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] putting mysql databases from one system to another

2011-04-05 Thread covici
The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] putting mysql databases from one system to another

2011-04-05 Thread covici
; Can anyone tell me why this is so and what I can do to fix? > > > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > > > -- > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > > How do > > you spend it? > > > > John Covici &g

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Scripts not working... HELP!

2011-04-29 Thread covici
to add that whoever fixed the python 3 ebuilds and maybe even other python ebuilds, to reset the python to what they are emerging should be ... I have had this happen several times -- easy enough to fix, but very annoying. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-10 Thread covici
t; sad experience. > I can say the same -- I am using ~x64 and was using ~x86 at the time, and had no problems switching over. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC: Need to start net.eth1 and ntp-client by hand

2011-05-11 Thread covici
errors and >all works find. > >How can I make this working at boot time,too? > > Thank you for your help in advance! I will ask the obvious -- do you have those two in either boot or default run level? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to l

[gentoo-user] docutils will not emerge

2011-05-15 Thread covici
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/docutils-0.8_pre7034/work/docutils-0.8_pre7034' Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

2011-05-15 Thread covici
list" shows you, and what USE_PYTHON is set > to in make.conf. > Here is eselect python list [1] python2.7 * [2] python3.2 I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

2011-05-15 Thread covici
quot; in /etc/conf.d/rc.conf -- is there anything else I need to do? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

2011-05-15 Thread covici
-- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: retrieving log with svn

2011-06-12 Thread covici
iles changed > with each revision for all revisions? > What command do I need to submit? Check the man page, but I use svn -v log to get the file names. Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread covici
rld" [argument]) -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread covici
portage output, see lots of stuff and get > confused. Actually read it and examine each line. It makes sense. > > As for your other errors (xulrunner etc), I don't know about those, I > didn't hit them myself. > > Thanks, sounds like a pain, but doable. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-03 Thread covici
use uvesafb and it works without X -- I get 60x164, depending on the resolution your mileage may vary. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread covici
resolution. For this to work you need uvesafb to be built in to the kernel -- at least that is the way it worked for me. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

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