I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I
also followed the ATI Migration guide at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml.
Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are
unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox disp
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> The Gentoo page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml calls for
> the use of a utility called glxinfo. It does not exist on my system,
> and I have been unable to determine what needs to be emerged for it to
> appear.
>
> Anybody who has
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Grant wrote:
>>> I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
>>> also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
>>> ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
>>
>> It's not that they aren't suppose
The Gentoo page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml calls for
the use of a utility called glxinfo. It does not exist on my system,
and I have been unable to determine what needs to be emerged for it to
appear.
Anybody who has it, please tell me what package it belongs to.
TIA
++ kevin
-
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:37 +0930, Shawn Haggett wrote:
> This has been broken for over a week now (normally I just wait, resync
> and these things go away if they're an ebuild problem) but I'm
> starting to think it's a problem on my end. Anyone have any
> suggestions on how to track down where th
On 4 Aug 2009, at 00:07, Shawn Haggett wrote:
...
This has been broken for over a week now (normally I just wait,
resync and
these things go away if they're an ebuild problem) but I'm starting
to think
it's a problem on my end.
I don't yet use MythTV myself, but had reason to investigate
Shawn Haggett writes:
> Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of
> course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following
> happens:
>
> sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv
[...]
> /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/environment: line
> 3924: cd:
>> I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
>> also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
>> ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
>
> It's not that they aren't supposed to become fragmented, it is that
> they try to a
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM, walt wrote:
> On 08/03/2009 03:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Again as history, I first noticed this issue when emerging gcc-4.3.2.
>> I had 4.1.2 on the system, in use, as well as these old line items in
>> gcc-config. Once I had rebuilt the system with 4.3.2 I did
On 08/03/2009 03:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again as history, I first noticed this issue when emerging gcc-4.3.2.
I had 4.1.2 on the system, in use, as well as these old line items in
gcc-config. Once I had rebuilt the system with 4.3.2 I did an emerge
-C =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 and got rid of that
Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of course
trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following happens:
sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N] media-tv/mytht
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:03:39PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
>> dragonfly ~ # emerge -Cp =cat/pack-ver
>> !!! '=cat/pack-ver' is not a valid package atom.
>> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
>> dragonfly ~ #
>>
>> dra
On 8/3/2009 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 23:22:08 Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 8/3/2009 5:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
kut...@apollo ~ $ cat test.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
print "Python Ok."
kut...@apollo ~ $ ./
On Monday 03 August 2009 23:16:05 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-08-03, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Monday 03 August 2009 23:05:02 Paul Hartman wrote:
> >> The time-honored way of fixing this is "backup, delete,
> >> restore". In my case my simple defragmenter is to move a file
> >> to tmpfs and t
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Dale wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grant wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried the shake defragmenter?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, nothing has blown up yet. :)
>>
>>
>>
>
> I used it a while back but couldn't really see a whole lot of
> difference. The
On Monday 03 August 2009 23:22:08 Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 8/3/2009 5:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
> >> kut...@apollo ~ $ cat test.py
> >> #!/usr/bin/python
> >> import sys
> >> print "Python Ok."
> >> kut...@apollo ~ $ ./test.py
> >> X c
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:16:18 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> So my advice for others is to not take Walter's advice and use -j1
> because "it doesn't slow down the emerge that much". It can slow it
> down. Up to four times slower.
Personaly, I've never had an ebuild fail due to setting MAKEO
On 8/3/2009 1:28 PM, Chris Lieb wrote:
> On 8/3/2009 10:14 AM, walt wrote:
>> On 08/03/2009 07:03 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
>>> On 8/3/2009 8:56 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
I have been running Python 2.5* on my Gentoo system ever since it went
stable x86. Today I ran an `emerge --update --deep --n
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grant wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried the shake defragmenter?
>>
>
> Yes, nothing has blown up yet. :)
>
>
>
I used it a while back but couldn't really see a whole lot of
difference. The numbers said it helped but not much else changed
On 8/3/2009 5:14 PM, Remy Blank wrote:
Mike Edenfield wrote:
I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts,
which of course is playing havoc with portage.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279915
The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would thin
On 8/3/2009 5:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
kut...@apollo ~ $ cat test.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
print "Python Ok."
kut...@apollo ~ $ ./test.py
X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
./test.py: line
On 2009-08-03, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 03 August 2009 23:05:02 Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> The time-honored way of fixing this is "backup, delete,
>> restore". In my case my simple defragmenter is to move a file
>> to tmpfs and then move it back to the hard drive. I always do
>> this to file
Mike Edenfield wrote:
> I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts,
> which of course is playing havoc with portage.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279915
The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would think
breaking Python for all ~x86 is a ma
On Monday 03 August 2009 23:05:02 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grant wrote:
> > I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
> > also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
> > ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn
On Monday 03 August 2009 22:51:58 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Monday 03 August 2009, Grant wrote:
> > # df
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
>
> The partition is fairly full, probably the system has
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grant wrote:
> I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
> also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
> ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
It's not that they aren't supposed to become
On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
> I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts,
> which of course is playing havoc with portage. Bash no longer wants to
> execute the scripts with python as the interpreter, but insists on
> executing them as bash scrip
I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts,
which of course is playing havoc with portage. Bash no longer wants to
execute the scripts with python as the interpreter, but insists on
executing them as bash scripts. Python itself is still functioning
properly, when invok
On Monday 03 August 2009, Grant wrote:
> # df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
The partition is fairly full, probably the system has a hard time finding a
spot to create an unfragmented file. I remembe
On 2009-08-03, Grant wrote:
> My HD is getting noisier during access and I wonder if it's a
> fragmentation issue. I have:
>
> # df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
>
> I know Linux systems aren't supp
Hello.
My Gentoo box lose ability to work with virtual terminals on ctl+alt+fN in
about two weeks of uptime (it seems exactly 14 days after booting). I can
switch between terminals, but there is no signal on cable on VT except X.
I'm using proprietary nvidia drivers for xorg.
Does anyone know
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:22 -0700, Grant wrote:
> My HD is getting noisier during access and I wonder if it's a
> fragmentation issue.
Are you sure it's not a HD-about-to-die issue?
-a
My HD is getting noisier during access and I wonder if it's a
fragmentation issue. I have:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also re
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:03:39PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> dragonfly ~ # emerge -Cp =cat/pack-ver
> !!! '=cat/pack-ver' is not a valid package atom.
> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
> dragonfly ~ #
>
> dragonfly ~ # eix pack-ver
> No matches found.
> dragonfly ~
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jacob Todd wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 04:41:51PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> I was updating my wife's machine today and noticed that there are a
>> number of older/stranded gcc-config's left on the machine. I still
>> have gcc-4.1.2 but the other 3.3/3.4 versi
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:52:52 -0500
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Iliev
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The subject says it all, but let me be a little more specific.
>> >
>> > I want a hot key combination f
Stroller wrote:
>
> On 3 Aug 2009, at 15:56, Dale wrote:
>> But if he has a single CPU system, it won't matter that much. I have
>> always heard that it should be set to number of CPU's plus 1. Mine is
>> set to 2 since I have a single CPU rig.
>
> It should be set to at least the number of *core
Hi Matt,
Matt Harrison wrote on 03/08/09 17:19:
> I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger.
> It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open.
> I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately
> I'm unable to get it
On 3 Aug 2009, at 15:56, Dale wrote:
But if he has a single CPU system, it won't matter that much. I have
always heard that it should be set to number of CPU's plus 1. Mine is
set to 2 since I have a single CPU rig.
It should be set to at least the number of *cores*, not CPUs.
Back in ye ol
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:52:52 -0500
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Iliev
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The subject says it all, but let me be a little more specific.
> >
> > I want a hot key combination for the previous desktop that was
> > "active", not previous by nu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Iliev wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The subject says it all, but let me be a little more specific.
>
> I want a hot key combination for the previous desktop that was
> "active", not previous by number. So I'd be able to to bind, eg
> "alt-p", and use it to toggle betwee
On 8/3/2009 10:14 AM, walt wrote:
> On 08/03/2009 07:03 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
>> On 8/3/2009 8:56 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
>>> I have been running Python 2.5* on my Gentoo system ever since it went
>>> stable x86. Today I ran an `emerge --update --deep --newuse
>>> --with-bdeps y world -avt` and saw
walt gmail.com> writes:
> $l .ooo3/user/uno_packages/cache/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wa1ter users 9511 2009-08-02 09:29 log.txt
> drwxr-xr-x 8 wa1ter users 4096 2008-10-19 18:13 registry/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wa1ter users 1 2009-08-02 09:29 stamp.sys
> drwxr-xr-x 3 wa1ter users 4096 2008-12-07 15:30 uno_p
On 08/03/2009 08:25 AM, James wrote:
walt gmail.com> writes:
# ls -alg /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/uno_packages/cache
Hmm. Both my x86 machine and my ~amd64 machine have *nothing* in that
directory. All of those files and directories are in my ~/.ooo3 instead.
That's certainly not co
Hi,
The subject says it all, but let me be a little more specific.
I want a hot key combination for the previous desktop that was
"active", not previous by number. So I'd be able to to bind, eg
"alt-p", and use it to toggle between Desktop1 and Desktop3
many times.
Is it possible and how?
--
Very interesting. Thank you.
It worked swell.
Alan
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when
you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird...
So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts.
Richard Feyn
Anyway, the point of all this is to prevent an HD failure from
stopping the system. An SSD is much safer, right?
>>>
>>> SSDs are still relatively new technology, so predicting failure rates is
>>> less reliable. What's wrong with using RAID-1? It's proven technology and
>>> totally resi
What version of Pidgin?
I am running 2.5.8 and it connects to yahoo without problems.
Did you emerge with the yahoo flag enabled, maybe that could be the culprit?
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Matt
Harrison wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul
>> Hartman wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt
>> > Harrison wrote:
>> >> Hi guys,
>> >>
>> >> I've recently needed to communi
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul
> Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt
> > Harrison wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger.
> >> It's not idea
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul
Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt
> Harrison wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger.
>> It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open.
>>
>> I've got it wor
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt
Harrison wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger.
> It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open.
>
> I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately
> I'
On 08/03/2009 06:19 PM, Matt Harrison wrote:
Hi guys,
I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger.
It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open.
I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately
I'm unable to get it
walt gmail.com> writes:
> > # ls -alg /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/uno_packages/cache
> Hmm. Both my x86 machine and my ~amd64 machine have *nothing* in that
> directory. All of those files and directories are in my ~/.ooo3 instead.
That's certainly not consistent?
Here's the files under my
Hi guys,
I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger.
It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open.
I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately
I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop.
I've so far trie
On 08/03/2009 07:03 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
On 8/3/2009 8:56 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
I have been running Python 2.5* on my Gentoo system ever since it went
stable x86. Today I ran an `emerge --update --deep --newuse
--with-bdeps y world -avt` and saw that python-2.4.6 was being pulled
into a new sl
Xavier Parizet writes:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:33:22 +1000, "Alan E. Davis"
> wrote:
> > I wish to move the / partition, and separate /usr into a separate
> > partition. One reason is to take advantage of a faster 10,000 RPM
> > drive for system files.
> >
> > I am stuck on one issue (at least):
On 08/03/2009 06:54 AM, James wrote:
Well here's what I found:
# ls -alg /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/uno_packages/cache
total 13
drwxr-xr-x 4 root 168 Aug 2 16:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root72 Mar 26 02:33 ..
drwx-- 8 root 520 Jul 17 08:13 registry
-rw--- 1 root 1 Aug 2 16:34 stam
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/03/2009 03:11 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote
>>
>>> Note that by doing so you will be using -j1 for every future version
>>> of duma. That means, if the problem gets fixed, you'll still be
>>> using -j1.
James wrote:
> Mike Kazantsev gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>
>>> access("/usr/lib64/openoffice/program/../share/uno_packages/cache/registry/
>>> com.sun.star.comp.deployment.configuration.PackageRegistryBackend/registry/
>>> data/org/openoffice",
>>> F_OK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>>>
>
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:33:22 +1000, "Alan E. Davis"
wrote:
> I wish to move the / partition, and separate /usr into a separate
> partition. One reason is to take advantage of a faster 10,000 RPM drive
> for
> system files.
>
> I am stuck on one issue (at least): do I need to copy /sys to the new
I wish to move the / partition, and separate /usr into a separate
partition. One reason is to take advantage of a faster 10,000 RPM drive for
system files.
I am stuck on one issue (at least): do I need to copy /sys to the new /
partition?
Thank you for recent help with other issues.
Alan
You c
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/03/2009 03:11 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>>Actually, I put -j1 into my make.conf after being bitten by -j2 a few
>> times. It doesn't slow down the emerge that much, and doesn't slow down
>> the compiled program at all. And the big thing is that it has probably
On 08/03/2009 03:11 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote
Note that by doing so you will be using -j1 for every future version
of duma. That means, if the problem gets fixed, you'll still be
using -j1.
Actually, I put -j1 into my make.con
On 8/3/2009 8:56 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
> I have been running Python 2.5* on my Gentoo system ever since it went
> stable x86. Today I ran an `emerge --update --deep --newuse
> --with-bdeps y world -avt` and saw that python-2.4.6 was being pulled
> into a new slot. I have no idea why an old versio
walt gmail.com> writes:
> And 'grep -r 1.4.2 /etc/*' may turn up obsolete config files that you don't
> know you have. It's like rummaging through your attic :)
Hello Walt,
fixing the file permission under:
/usr/lib64/openoffice/share/uno_packages/cache
did the trick for me.
thanks,
Jam
I have been running Python 2.5* on my Gentoo system ever since it went
stable x86. Today I ran an `emerge --update --deep --newuse
--with-bdeps y world -avt` and saw that python-2.4.6 was being pulled
into a new slot. I have no idea why an old version of python is being
pulled in since python is
Mike Kazantsev gmail.com> writes:
> > access("/usr/lib64/openoffice/program/../share/uno_packages/cache/registry/
> > com.sun.star.comp.deployment.configuration.PackageRegistryBackend/registry/
> > data/org/openoffice",
> > F_OK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> Why is that?
Good question, d
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:38:32 + (UTC)
James wrote:
> Mike Kazantsev gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > emerge -1 dev-util/strace && strace -f ooffice 2>strace.log
> > grep -2 -e EACCES -e EPERM strace.log
> > tail -500 strace.log | less (to see what happened last)
>
>
>
> OK, Here are the
Dale gmail.com> writes:
> Same here. Have you tried renaming the config directory and letting it
> recreate it fresh? Sometimes that helps. You know, the /home/≤user
> name>/.ooo3 directory? You can rename it, move it or something then
> restart OOo and see if it works.
OK,
Well I tried t
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote
> Note that by doing so you will be using -j1 for every future version
> of duma. That means, if the problem gets fixed, you'll still be
> using -j1.
Actually, I put -j1 into my make.conf after being bitten by -j2 a few
times.
Oops, sorry for the duplicate post.
On Aug 3, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
Howdy,
While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1),
I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay
Howdy,
While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I
copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay then renamed them to the
new version. I then downloaded the ruby-gnome2-all-0.19.1.tar.gz,
placed it in /usr/portage/distfiles, then used "ebuild ruby-...
digest" fo
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