Re: [gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users

[Graham Murray]

Paul Hartman  writes:

> Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to
> openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be
> updated or else you won't be able to login to your system.
>
> If you have:
> AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
> (which is the default example in the config file)
>
> change it to this:
> AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> and then restart sshd.

Whereas if you leave the 'AuthorizedKeyFile' line commented out, sshd
still works as expected and looks in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to get compiz or compiz-fusion to work on GMA 965

[ubiquitous1980]

ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> When I start compiz with: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 INTEL_BATCH=1 compiz
> --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp
>
> compiz fails to perform 3d rendering with the following standard output:
>
> WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX
> 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
> WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when
> GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damien
>   
Hey, anyone reading this, please disregard...all sorted via #compiz on IRC.

Damien

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:57:44PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote

> It probably means you have run fix_libtool_files.sh, or possibly
> lafilefixer, between installing and removing the package responsible for
> that file. Emerge won't remove files it installed if they have been
> subsequently modified.

  Do they warn about it?  There are other circumstances where files are
deliberately not removed.  I just updated my netbook after 6 weeks, and
the media-libs/jpeg-8 ebuild put this in my /var/log/portage/elog (note;
configuration in /etc/make.conf required)


WARN: postinst
Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system.
In order to avoid breaking packages that depend on these old libs,
the libraries are not being removed.  You need to run revdep-rebuild
in order to remove these old dependencies.  If you do not have this
helper program, simply emerge the 'gentoolkit' package.

  # revdep-rebuild --library libjpeg.so.7

Once you've finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to
delete the old libraries.  Here is a copy & paste for the lazy:
  # rm '/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7'


-- 
Walter Dnes 

[gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users

[Paul Hartman]

Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to
openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be
updated or else you won't be able to login to your system.

If you have:
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
(which is the default example in the config file)

change it to this:
AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys

and then restart sshd.

Thanks to Doktor Notor who posted the solution on bugzilla.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308939

[gentoo-user] Trying to get compiz or compiz-fusion to work on GMA 965

[ubiquitous1980]

When I start compiz with: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 INTEL_BATCH=1 compiz
--replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp

compiz fails to perform 3d rendering with the following standard output:

WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX
1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when
GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!

Thanks,

Damien

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Willie Wong]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:54:35PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> After attempting to use sk1 for a few minutes, I've given up on it. 
> It crashes regularly. Exporting to a .eps file just plain doesn't work
> (it writes 'sk1' format data to the file). 
> 
> The user interface is full of breakage: if you export a drawing and
> then do a 'save', it overwrites the _exported_ file rather than saving
> in the original drawing file.
> 
> It also spews a constant stream of errors and tracebacks when doing
> anything at all.
> 

Now this is interesting, inkscape apparently depends on skencil for
postscript support? Somehow this doesn't bode well to me...

W
-- 
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
 et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Willie Wong]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:17:48PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil.
> 
> Apparently skencil is not compatible with tk 8.5.

-sigh- now I am unmerging skencil. I used to use it years ago. But now
I am getting the same problem you described. 

W
-- 
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 et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

[gentoo-user] compiz+xfce+GM965/GL960

[Arnau Bria]

Hi all,

anyone succed on configuring compiz+xfce on intel integrade card?

Any good guide/howto? google sends me to gentoo-wiki which seems down
to me.

TIA,
Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:56:04 Neil Walker wrote:
> On 09/03/10 15:41, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but
> >> quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
> > 
> > Well, as this box is ~amd64 I shouldn't need any of those. But
> > kompozer isn't in portage as far as I can see, so how did you get
> > it installed?
> 
> I got an ebuild somewhere, probably bugzilla. If you want a copy,
> I've put it on http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild.

I tried this just now. I saved your ebuild as /usr/local/portage/app-
editors/kompozer/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild, then ran ebuild [...] 
manifest on it, then tried to emerge it. I got this configuration error:

configure: error: --enable-application=APP is required

which I've seen before when trying to compile this program. I didn't 
manage to solve it then, and i haven't this time either.

Any clues? Thanks for the help so far.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 13 March 2010 01:02:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >>Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and
> > >> don't want to lose connectivity.
> > > 
> > > Probably what the writer of that message meant is to update the
> > > config files with dispatch-conf and the like.  I don't know to what
> > > else "merge" could refer.
> > 
> > Thanks. OK, so I did a restart and I can still ssh in so things seem OK.
> 
> With a remote machine, I always restart SSH, leave the current shell open
> and open a new one from another terminal. The old session will continue
> to work when you shut down sshd, so if the new install is somehow broken,

   ^

restart

Some noobs might get confused ;-)


> you still have the access you need to fix it.

-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Neil Bothwick  wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> >>    Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and
>> >> don't want to lose connectivity.
>> >
>> > Probably what the writer of that message meant is to update the
>> > config files with dispatch-conf and the like.  I don't know to what
>> > else "merge" could refer.
>>
>> Thanks. OK, so I did a restart and I can still ssh in so things seem OK.
>
> With a remote machine, I always restart SSH, leave the current shell open
> and open a new one from another terminal. The old session will continue
> to work when you shut down sshd, so if the new install is somehow broken,
> you still have the access you need to fix it.
>

Thanks Neil. That's exactly what I did, additionally logging in as a
different user that wasn't present before the restart.

Cheers,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> >>    Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and
> >> don't want to lose connectivity.  
> >
> > Probably what the writer of that message meant is to update the
> > config files with dispatch-conf and the like.  I don't know to what
> > else "merge" could refer.  
> 
> Thanks. OK, so I did a restart and I can still ssh in so things seem OK.

With a remote machine, I always restart SSH, leave the current shell open
and open a new one from another terminal. The old session will continue
to work when you shut down sshd, so if the new install is somehow broken,
you still have the access you need to fix it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If you consult enough experts, you can confirm any opinion.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:10:41 +0200, Arttu V. wrote:

> > Emerge won't remove files it installed if they have been
> > subsequently modified.  
> 
> Just checking: anybody know how long has it been like this?

I've been using Gentoo since 2003 and AFAIK it's been like that all this
time.


-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

[Kyle Bader]

If the elevated iowait from iostat is on the host you might be able to
find something hogging you io bandwidth with iotop.  Also look for D
state procs with ps auxr.  Are you on a software raid?

If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors
with smartmontools.  Other than that the only thing I can think of is
something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata
controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on host.  If the host system
is bogged before starting vmware instances I would suspect the former
(host controller or mdadm).

On 3/11/10, Stefan G. Weichinger  wrote:
> Am 11.03.2010 16:54, schrieb Kyle Bader:
>> If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off
>> low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32):
>>
>> Echo 0 > /sys/class/block//queue/iosched/low_latency
>>
>> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32
>
> That sounded good, but unfortunately it is not really doing the trick.
> The VM still takes minutes to boot ... and this after I copied it back
> to the RAID1-array which should in theory be faster than the
> noraid-partition before.
>
> Thanks anyway, I will test that setting ...
>
> Stefan
>
>
>

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Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

[Mick]

On Friday 12 March 2010 19:37:33 Leandro Boscariol wrote:
> Hi guys.
> 
> While trying to find a solution for this error:
> 
> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
> 
> I came along with a lot of people with the same issue, and I'm even quoting
> 
> this guy:
> > when I try to login into xdm login prompt, the login and passwd are
> 
> accepted, I get a black screen for a second and then I get back again to
>  the xdm login prompt. In /var/log/xdm.log I get
> 
> > (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

Is this a new installation (i.e. did you have X working on this machine before 
the error appeared)?

Either way, have you defined keyboard in your make.conf:

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard ."

and if you just updated your xorg before this error occurred, have you 
remerged your keyboard driver?

x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard

Run qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ to see which X drivers you need to remerge.

HTH.
-- 
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Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/net.ra0 is not bringing up the interface?

[Tony Miller]

That was just it! Thank you so much.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Mick  wrote:

> On Friday 12 March 2010 06:12:55 Tony Miller wrote:
> > I have added /etc/init.d/net.ra0 (my wireless interface is called ra0
> > instead of wlan0) to the default runlevel. It starts the script at boot,
> >  but it acts like the device has not been brought up(i.e. with ifconfig
> ra0
> >  up). For instance the boot log will say:
> >
> > * Starting ra0
> > *  Configuring wireless network for ra0
> > Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down
> > Error for wireless request "Set encode" (8B2A) :
> > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down
> > Error for wireless request "Set essid" (8B1A) :
> > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down
> >
> > And so on and so on for all the different settings, until it finally
> gives
> > up.
> >
> > I can do ifconfig ra0 up, iwconfig ra0 essid any, dhcpcd ra0 and connect
> to
> > the network just fine! Of course I would like it to start at boot
> however.
> >
> > Any ideas? The init script is broken? The actual init script is very
> > complicated, and even if it were easy to just add "ifconfig ra0 up"
> > somewhere to it, I'm not sure if that's the "best" solution.
>
> Look at /etc/conf.d/wireless.example to see how you are meant to configure
> /etc/conf.d/net to manage your wireless card either using iwconfig, or
> using
> wpa_supplicant.  You probably need something like:
>
> sleep_scan_ra0="3" #where "3" is three seconds
>
> HTH.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

[gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-03-12, Grant Edwards  wrote:
> On 2010-03-12, Keith Dart  wrote:
>>=== On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: ===
>>> Does skencil work for anybody else?
>
>> You should probably be using inkscape instead.
>
> I was afraid of that.  Inkscape is a bloated monster that's going to
> pull in another dozen or two packages.  I guess if that's the only
> choice...
>
>> I'm not sure skencil is maintained.
>
> Apparently not.  There's a fork named "sk1" that's still somewhat
> active, but it's got its own problem.

After attempting to use sk1 for a few minutes, I've given up on it. 
It crashes regularly. Exporting to a .eps file just plain doesn't work
(it writes 'sk1' format data to the file). 

The user interface is full of breakage: if you export a drawing and
then do a 'save', it overwrites the _exported_ file rather than saving
in the original drawing file.

It also spews a constant stream of errors and tracebacks when doing
anything at all.

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[gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

[Leandro Boscariol]

Hi guys.

While trying to find a solution for this error:

(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

I came along with a lot of people with the same issue, and I'm even quoting
this guy:

> when I try to login into xdm login prompt, the login and passwd are
accepted, I get a black screen for a second and then I get back again to the
xdm login prompt. In /var/log/xdm.log I get
> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

His description fits exactly in my problem, and, as I couldn't find an
answer to his question, I'll try asking here.


ls -l /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10

Xorg -version

X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 i686
Current Operating System: Linux amebamovel 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 #1 SMP Sun Mar
7 21:49:49 BRT 2010 i686
Build Date: 09 March 2010  03:23:43PM

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.


Tks.

Regards
-- 
Leandro A. Boscariol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras  wrote:
> On 03/12/2010 09:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>    I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates:
>>
> Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1
>>
>>  *>>>  SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ...
>>               [ ok ]
>>  * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then
>>  * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd reload'.
>>
>>    Is this a new message or have I just missed in the past? I don't
>> know anywhere else for ssh configuration files to exist except
>> /etc/ssh and I normally just do
>>
>> /etc/init.d/sshd restart
>>
>> anytime it gets updated.
>>
>>    Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and
>> don't want to lose connectivity.
>
> Probably what the writer of that message meant is to update the config files
> with dispatch-conf and the like.  I don't know to what else "merge" could
> refer.

Thanks. OK, so I did a restart and I can still ssh in so things seem OK.

Sometimes the international as[ect of Linux add extra confusion. I'm
sure it's perfectly clear to someone.

Cheers,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] New openssh install message?

[Mike Edenfield]

On 3/12/2010 2:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates:
> 
 Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1
>  * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ...
>   [ ok ]
>  * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then
>  * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd reload'.
> 
>Is this a new message or have I just missed in the past? I don't
> know anywhere else for ssh configuration files to exist except
> /etc/ssh and I normally just do

The message isn't new; every version of openssh in portage includes it
as part of the post-install.

As far as I can determine, it's just a reminder to restart ssh after
merging your config changes e.g. with conf-update or whatever you use,
so you can take advantage of whatever security bugfixes were present in
the new version.

--Mike

[gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-03-12, Keith Dart  wrote:
>=== On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: ===
>> Does skencil work for anybody else?

> You should probably be using inkscape instead.

I was afraid of that.  Inkscape is a bloated monster that's going to
pull in another dozen or two packages.  I guess if that's the only
choice...

> I'm not sure skencil is maintained.

Apparently not.  There's a fork named "sk1" that's still somewhat
active, but it's got its own problem.  Most notably, there's no
batch-mode export.  There's a program called "uniconvertor" that
supposedly uses the sk1 engine to convert between various vector
graphics files, but it can't even read an sk1 file.

> BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil.

Apparently skencil is not compatible with tk 8.5.

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[gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 03/12/2010 09:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:

Hi,
I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates:


Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1

  *>>>  SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ...
   [ ok ]
  * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then
  * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd reload'.

Is this a new message or have I just missed in the past? I don't
know anywhere else for ssh configuration files to exist except
/etc/ssh and I normally just do

/etc/init.d/sshd restart

anytime it gets updated.

Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and
don't want to lose connectivity.


Probably what the writer of that message meant is to update the config 
files with dispatch-conf and the like.  I don't know to what else 
"merge" could refer.

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Arttu V.]

On 3/12/10, Neil Bothwick  wrote:
> Emerge won't remove files it installed if they have been
> subsequently modified.

Just checking: anybody know how long has it been like this?

-- 
Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Keith Dart]

=== On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: ===
> Does skencil work for anybody else?

===

You should probably be using inkscape instead. I'm not sure skencil is
maintained. 

BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil.

-- Keith Dart

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[gentoo-user] New openssh install message?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates:

>>> Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1
 * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ...
  [ ok ]
 * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then
 * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd reload'.

   Is this a new message or have I just missed in the past? I don't
know anywhere else for ssh configuration files to exist except
/etc/ssh and I normally just do

/etc/init.d/sshd restart

anytime it gets updated.

   Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and
don't want to lose connectivity.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Arttu V.]

On 3/12/10, Damian  wrote:
>> Bummer. Are you sure your libarchive.la is not another orphan, just
>> like liblzmadec.la was?
> Indeed.  libarchive.la is not owned by any package. Is this a symptom
> of a bigger problem?

Probably not, unless running Gentoo is considered a big problem. :)

You can read many things about the problems of dynamic vs static
linking from, e.g., flameeyes' blog.

>> Please check (if you are still interested in hunting down the cause).
> Sure, and I really appreciate the gentoo community help.

Ah, I got the impression that you might have been satisfied with USE="-lzma".

>> You should probably only end up with that la file if you have
>> USE="static-libs" for libarchive -- which (if I'm reading correctly
>> the paludis output attached in the bug) you do not have currently
>> enabled.
> That's correct. Should I enable static-libs and recompile libarchive?

I don't think so, but I don't know what your system is for. If the box
currently runs without the static libs then I'd guess you don't need
them. I think you might want to hear a third opinion, if someone else
has one to lend.

>> But since you have the libarchive.la file on your system you may have
>> had the USE flag enabled at one point, or the ebuild may have changed
>> to allow separate dynamic and static building while your package
>> manager might not have kept up with its records.
> Ok, if that's the case I will report it to the paludis developers.

Given Neil's comment I think it might not be a bug, but rather a nasty
"feature", apparently of portage as well (that was news to me).

-- 
Arttu V.

[gentoo-user] Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Grant Edwards]

I just emerged skencil, but it doesn't run:

   shared memory images supported
   Could not load font '-misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' for 
ruler. using defaults.
   Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/skencil", line 34, in 
   Sketch.main.main()
 File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/Base/main.py", line 148, in main
   run_script = options.run_script)
 File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/skapp.py", line 183, in __init__
   self.build_window()
 File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/skapp.py", line 223, in 
build_window
   self.run_script)
 File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/mainwindow.py", line 97, in 
__init__
   self.build_window()
 File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/mainwindow.py", line 592, in 
build_window
   hrule = ruler.Ruler(root, orient = ruler.HORIZONTAL)
 File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/ruler.py", line 68, in __init__
   font = self.tkwin.LoadQueryFont('fixed')
   AttributeError: Ruler instance has no attribute 'tkwin'

   
AFAICT, this is an upstream bug that has been around for almost two
years.

Does skencil work for anybody else?

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Neil Bothwick  wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
>
>> Yes, Gwenview has been quite useable for some time now
>> & the KDE 4 version is a bit of an improvement generally.
>> Useable alternatives are Thunar (icon view) & Feh (thumbnail view)
>> to browse around & Feh (image view) to look at the actual pictures.
>
> I like gqview, but it's time to give Gewnview another try.

gqview is obsolete, geeqie is the modern version under active development.

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:51 +0100, Damian wrote:

> Indeed.  libarchive.la is not owned by any package. Is this a symptom
> of a bigger problem?

It probably means you have run fix_libtool_files.sh, or possibly
lafilefixer, between installing and removing the package responsible for
that file. Emerge won't remove files it installed if they have been
subsequently modified.


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Re: [gentoo-user] how can i get multiple chromium window on kde 4.4?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:10:34 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:

> thanks. i figured out have to start 2 chromium window :)

Yes, but that's not how it should work, or how it worked until
recently.

> the way 'alt+f2' start a new application is not quite intuitive.

There is nothing intuitive about computer use, it is all learned. So if
you've been using KDE for many years, Alt-F2 is a natural action :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Damian]

Hi Arttu,

>> Ok, so moving the file, reinstalling libarchive, and running
>> lafilefixer didn't change the situation.
>>
>> So I'm using gvfs without the archive flag.
>
> Bummer. Are you sure your libarchive.la is not another orphan, just
> like liblzmadec.la was?
Indeed.  libarchive.la is not owned by any package. Is this a symptom
of a bigger problem?

> Please check (if you are still interested in hunting down the cause).
Sure, and I really appreciate the gentoo community help.

> You should probably only end up with that la file if you have
> USE="static-libs" for libarchive -- which (if I'm reading correctly
> the paludis output attached in the bug) you do not have currently
> enabled.
That's correct. Should I enable static-libs and recompile libarchive?

> But since you have the libarchive.la file on your system you may have
> had the USE flag enabled at one point, or the ebuild may have changed
> to allow separate dynamic and static building while your package
> manager might not have kept up with its records.
Ok, if that's the case I will report it to the paludis developers.

> So, also check the owner of libarchive.la, and clean up if necessary.
Ok, I just moved the library to the trash.

What I don't understand is how to orphaned la files can cause
compilation failures.

Thanks,
Damian.

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Arttu V.]

On 3/12/10, Damian  wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Damian  wrote:
>>> Anyway, if it were me I'd nuke the file in a heartbeat, but if OP is
>>> too timid for that, he can also quarantine the file first, i.e., move
>>> it to some other path where it won't cause trouble (and then delete
>>> later). Also, (from the bug) his libarchive.la seems to still list the
>>> .la, so he should re-emerge libarchive after moving away the orphaned
>>> .la-file (or use lafilefixer?).
>> Ok, the OP will try this. If I cannot fix it I will just install gvfs
>> without the archive flag.
> Ok, so moving the file, reinstalling libarchive, and running
> lafilefixer didn't change the situation.
>
> So I'm using gvfs without the archive flag.

Bummer. Are you sure your libarchive.la is not another orphan, just
like liblzmadec.la was?

Please check (if you are still interested in hunting down the cause).
You should probably only end up with that la file if you have
USE="static-libs" for libarchive -- which (if I'm reading correctly
the paludis output attached in the bug) you do not have currently
enabled.

But since you have the libarchive.la file on your system you may have
had the USE flag enabled at one point, or the ebuild may have changed
to allow separate dynamic and static building while your package
manager might not have kept up with its records.

So, also check the owner of libarchive.la, and clean up if necessary.
Actually, since you seem to run a great risk of having more than one
orphan .la-file then maybe you should do something like "find /usr
-name '*.la' | xargs -r equery belongs" or some such generic flush-out
of orphaned .la files.

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Re: [gentoo-user] how can i get multiple chromium window on kde 4.4?

[Xi Shen]

thanks. i figured out have to start 2 chromium window :)

the way 'alt+f2' start a new application is not quite intuitive.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

[Daniel Wagener]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:18:03 -0500
dhk  wrote:

> Daniel Wagener wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:09 -0500
> > dhk  wrote:
> > 
> >> I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play
> >> news videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the
> >> headphones. It's an Intel 32bit box with xfce4.  I don't have
> >> speakers hooked up just headphones and it use to work a few months
> >> ago.  I suspect it stopped working after an upgrade.  Is this
> >> something to do with xfce4, Firefox, or something else?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> dhk
> > 
> > Already checked mixer/volume settings?
> > 
> > 
> 
> I don't see a mixer/volume in the menu, but I do have
> xfce-extra/xfce4-volumed and gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager
> installed. Is there suppose to be a mixer?  I would think so, but I
> thought xfce4 may work differently.  Is there a mixer/volume I need
> to emerge?  Maybe it got uninstalled.
> 
> Thanks,
> dhk
> 
> 
> 

alsa comes with alsamixer, you can find it via the console
and i also meant the volume of the video itself - just to be sure
any other applications that produce a sound?

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i get multiple chromium window on kde 4.4?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:35:25 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:

> i can only start one chromium window. if i try to drag one tab off the
> main window, i got the follow error message:

This used to work for me, but now it just crashes Chromium, which
presumably started after the recent Chromium update. However, opening a
second Chromium window and then dragging the tab from one window to the
other does work.

> looks like this feature is not complete yet...do we have other way to
> do this? having too many tabs in one window is terrible.

You could also try the TooManyTabs extension.


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:

> Yes, Gwenview has been quite useable for some time now
> & the KDE 4 version is a bit of an improvement generally.
> Useable alternatives are Thunar (icon view) & Feh (thumbnail view)
> to browse around & Feh (image view) to look at the actual pictures.

I like gqview, but it's time to give Gewnview another try.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

[dhk]

Daniel Wagener wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:09 -0500
> dhk  wrote:
> 
>> I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play news
>> videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the headphones.
>> It's an Intel 32bit box with xfce4.  I don't have speakers hooked up
>> just headphones and it use to work a few months ago.  I suspect it
>> stopped working after an upgrade.  Is this something to do with xfce4,
>> Firefox, or something else?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> dhk
> 
> Already checked mixer/volume settings?
> 
> 

I don't see a mixer/volume in the menu, but I do have
xfce-extra/xfce4-volumed and gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager installed.
 Is there suppose to be a mixer?  I would think so, but I thought xfce4
may work differently.  Is there a mixer/volume I need to emerge?  Maybe
it got uninstalled.

Thanks,
dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

[Alex Schuster]

Dale writes:

> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Dale writes:

> >> I am in KDE4.  I still have KDE3 installed tho.  Thing is, I'm still
> >> using the same programs I was in KDE3.  Dolphin looks nice and all
> >> but I can't use it as root at all.
> > 
> > Huh? No problem here.
[...]
> This is what I am talking about.  Dolphin will browse through
> directories but as soon as I click to open a text file, it gives a
> error.  I have discussed this on the kde list and it is a known
> problem.  One even said the code was written to prevent that but others
> say it is just not fixed yet.  So, I still use Konqueror just like I
> did in KDE 3.

This is also working here, a click opens the file in kwrite.


> >> So, I went back to Konqueror to edit
> >> config files and such.  I don't use some of the programs that you
> >> are using so I don't have the same issues.  I use smplayer to do
> >> movies or CDs.  It doesn't care what DE you use.
> > 
> > Ah, smplayer. Did not think about that. It was not important anyway -
> > I had ripped a CD with K3b, and wondered why two tracks were
> > swapped. BTW, what do you use for ripping? K3b is okay, but it does
> > not remember changes like output path or file naming, I have to set
> > this again for every CD. But smplayer does not recognise the CD
> > either. I wonder why I do not have a /dev/cdrom device - only
> > /dev/cdrom3, /dev/cdrw3, /dev/dvd3 and /dev/dvdrw3, all symlinking
> > to /dev/sr0.
> 
> I have used tkdvd to burn a DVD.  It ain't pretty but it worked.  ;-)

Oh, K3b is fine for burning, never had a problem with that. It's the 
ripping that could be better, and the audio playing that does not work at 
all.

Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Damian]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Damian  wrote:
>> Anyway, if it were me I'd nuke the file in a heartbeat, but if OP is
>> too timid for that, he can also quarantine the file first, i.e., move
>> it to some other path where it won't cause trouble (and then delete
>> later). Also, (from the bug) his libarchive.la seems to still list the
>> .la, so he should re-emerge libarchive after moving away the orphaned
>> .la-file (or use lafilefixer?).
> Ok, the OP will try this. If I cannot fix it I will just install gvfs
> without the archive flag.
Ok, so moving the file, reinstalling libarchive, and running
lafilefixer didn't change the situation.

So I'm using gvfs without the archive flag.

Thanks again,
Damain.

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

[Damian]

> Anyway, if it were me I'd nuke the file in a heartbeat, but if OP is
> too timid for that, he can also quarantine the file first, i.e., move
> it to some other path where it won't cause trouble (and then delete
> later). Also, (from the bug) his libarchive.la seems to still list the
> .la, so he should re-emerge libarchive after moving away the orphaned
> .la-file (or use lafilefixer?).
Ok, the OP will try this. If I cannot fix it I will just install gvfs
without the archive flag.

> Still, there is something funny with paludis, as so many people using
> it seem to have so many problems with orphaned libtool archive files.
> Ahem, even the warning from exherbo front page is gone nowadays. Is it
> production quality now? o.O
Actually, it is the first problem I have with .la files using paludis,
but I don't know about other people's experience.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Damian.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 11.03.2010 16:54, schrieb Kyle Bader:
> If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off
> low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32):
> 
> Echo 0 > /sys/class/block//queue/iosched/low_latency
> 
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32

That sounded good, but unfortunately it is not really doing the trick.
The VM still takes minutes to boot ... and this after I copied it back
to the RAID1-array which should in theory be faster than the
noraid-partition before.

Thanks anyway, I will test that setting ...

Stefan