[gentoo-user] Firefox-bin-28.0-r1: Missing commonDialog icons? Anybody else seeing this?
Hello When starting up firefox-bin this morning I got the following dialog box popping up: $ firefox-bin Configuration Error Failed to read configuration file. Please contact your system administrator. After confirming with OK the firefox-bin process is terminated. No browser today for me :-( $ firefox-bin -version Mozilla Firefox 28.0 What I tried to do, without success: uninstalled and re-installed firefox-bin, cleaned the program directory and my configuration in between checked to run firefox-bin as root Checked whether there is a file named mozilla.cfg, there is none. created empty /opt/firefox/defaults/pref/mozilla.cfg added // to the first line of mozilla.cfg Safe mode pops up the same dialog box: $ firefox-bin -safe-mode Started the profile browser: $ firefox-bin -P The profile browser lets me delete and create profiles. But firefox still shows the dialog and quits. checked bugs (had to install chrome, but didn't like chrome): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117 Checked with strace which files cannot be read: Just when the dialog box pops up I see: urs@Evo ~ $ strace -e trace=file -f firefox-bin snipped a lot of content here... access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome, F_OK) = 0 access(commonDialog.png, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog.png, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome, F_OK) = 0 access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog16.png, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog16.png, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome, F_OK) = 0 access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog32.png, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog32.png, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome, F_OK) = 0 access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog48.png, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog48.png, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome, F_OK) = 0 access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog.xpm, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog.xpm, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome, F_OK) = 0 access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog16.xpm, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog16.xpm, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) This icons are really missing in my installation: urs@Evo ~ $ ls /opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/ default16.png default32.png default48.png I downgraded firefox-bin to the latest stable version 24.4.0 The icons from above are still not installed, but this version is starting up and is usable. So for me there is a workaround. I am still a little nervous about security concerns with an old browser version. Additional information here, some lines of the Gentoo emerge log history: urs@Evo ~ $ genlop firefox-bin Thu Mar 6 21:57:34 2014 www-client/firefox-bin-27.0.1 Thu Mar 20 08:42:44 2014 www-client/firefox-bin-28.0 Sat Mar 29 08:47:39 2014 www-client/firefox-bin-28.0-r1 I am pretty sure that I had used firefox-bin-28.0 last week without troubles. So, is this just firefox-bin-28.0-r1? Anybody else seeing this? Thanks Urs
[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-bin-28.0-r1: Missing commonDialog icons? Anybody else seeing this?
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:21:59 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/30/2014 08:18 AM, Urs Schutz wrote: Hello When starting up firefox-bin this morning I got the following dialog box popping up: $ firefox-bin Configuration Error Failed to read configuration file. Please contact your system administrator. After confirming with OK the firefox-bin process is terminated. No browser today for me :-( The problem is caused by a missing ')' in /opt/firefox/all-gentoo.js Now that I'm looking at it, I see that I added the missing ')' but I omitted the terminating ';' I forget: is the terminating ';' mandatory in javascript? Well, FF seems to work correctly in any case :) Works perfectly here. There is no need for a bug report, I guess. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks a lot for looking into it. Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb printer disappears on cups upgrade
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:42:54 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 04/08/13 09:42, walt wrote: On 08/02/2013 07:23 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I have a long running machine with a local epson usb printer using the kernel lpusb Using cups =1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only errors in the cups log are to do with systemd service files which I masked a couple of days ago - the usb problem was happening before though. I tried both with and without the kernel module and usb use flag with no difference. I cant create a new printer in 1.6.2 because the usb port doesnt show up at all. Does the printer appear in dmesg when you plug it in? snip... I cant confirm (I have rolled back as I need to print today) but believe the scanner (xsane) in this printer still works fine with either version of cups (its basicly independent) Did you read that? eselect news read 30 2013-06-30-cups16 Title Printer browsing in net-print/cups-1.6 Author Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org Posted 2013-06-30 Revision 1 net-print/cups-1.6 no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols, i.e. network browsing. The browsing functionality can be restored by running cups-browsed from net-print/cups-filters as a separate daemon (just add its init script to your default runlevel). By default cups-browsed uses the net-print/cups-1.5 browse protocol, but it can also utilize zeroconf (if the zeroconf use flag is set). See /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf for configuration. Of course, directly specifying the location of your printers in the cups interface works as well. Seems to me that you could try as root: /etc/init.d/cups-browsed start Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] texlive-basic
On Thu, 2 May 2013 21:57:26 +0200
Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:
Hello,
have someone run the texlive update succesfully? I have
problems with building.
The message:
###
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built
successfully. Visit the log files in directory
/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012/work/texmf-var/web2c
for details.
###
This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
`luatex -ini -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex
dviluatex.ini' failed `luatex -ini -jobname=luatex
-progname=luatex luatex.ini' failed
* ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 failed (compile
phase):
* failed to build format
texmf/fmtutil/format.texlive-basic.cnf
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2195: Called
texlive-module_src_compile
* environment, line 2834: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* VARTEXFONTS=${T}/fonts
TEXMFHOME=${S}/texmf:${S}/texmf-dist:${S}/texmf-var env
-u TEXINPUTS fmtutil --cnffile ${i} --fmtdir
${S}/texmf-var/web2c --all || die failed to build
format ${i};
*
* If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info
'=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012'`,
* the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv
'=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012'`.
* The complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012/temp/environment'.
* Working directory:
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012/work'
* S:
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012/work'
Failed to emerge dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012, Log
file:
gentoo-mobile siefke # emerge -pqv
=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 [ebuild U ]
dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 [2011-r1] USE=-doc
-source emerge --info
=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012
http://nopaste.info/09608209ae.html
Thank you Greetings
Silvio
Hello Silvio
I had the same errors and needed to add -O2 to my CFLAGS.
I did edit /etc/make.conf and changed
CFLAGS=-march=native
to
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native
I am running mostly stable on an old 32-bit laptop with
Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz processor. Hope
that helps.
Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Programm for Floor Plans
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 00:56:57 +0100 Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, know someone a program for draw floor plans? I has use normal Visio for it, but unter Linux? Thank you for help Greetings Silvio If you know AutoCad then this might be a nice choice (only for 2D drawings. If you need 3d then Sketchup is one of the easier ones to learn): http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/ Urs
[gentoo-user] Running programs compiled with a different gcc version
Yesterday I manually compiled photivo, a camera raw file converter and image editor. One of the requirements for installing is gcc 4.6. So I manually unmasked gcc 4.6.3 and installed it with portage. After switching gcc with gcc-config and . /etc/profile, photivo compiled fine. A test run showed that photivo is running fine. I simply do not know enough about gcc and gentoo to leave gcc at 4.6.3, and switched back to the stable 4.5 branch (gcc-config and . /etc/profile again). When I try to run photivo again I get an error: photivo: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by photivo) locate -i glibcxx shows no results. My question is: Can I set some variables (e.g. in a bash start script) that photivo thinks it is running on a system with gcc 4.6? All the components are installed, as I can switch gcc to 4.6.3 and run photivo as user. I do not see any changes in environment variables before and after switching gcc versions. What magic does gcc-config do? Urs
[gentoo-user] Resolved: Running programs compiled with a different gcc version
On Sun, 20 May 2012 01:01:48 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/05/12 23:23, Urs Schutz wrote: Yesterday I manually compiled photivo, a camera raw file converter and image editor. One of the requirements for installing is gcc 4.6. So I manually unmasked gcc 4.6.3 and installed it with portage. After switching gcc with gcc-config and . /etc/profile, photivo compiled fine. A test run showed that photivo is running fine. I simply do not know enough about gcc and gentoo to leave gcc at 4.6.3, and switched back to the stable 4.5 branch (gcc-config and . /etc/profile again). When I try to run photivo again I get an error: photivo: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by photivo) locate -i glibcxx shows no results. My question is: Can I set some variables (e.g. in a bash start script) that photivo thinks it is running on a system with gcc 4.6? All the components are installed, as I can switch gcc to 4.6.3 and run photivo as user. I do not see any changes in environment variables before and after switching gcc versions. What magic does gcc-config do? Try starting photivo with: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3 photivo (I assume the executable is named photivo.) That's it. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3 photivo Thank you! Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together
On Wed, 16 May 2012 00:12:25 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120515 Philip Webb wrote: 120515 Urs Schutz wrote: I just tried with fotoxx. This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. I've installed Fotoxx it does a very good job ! The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg. There's no sign of it on my version : http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/brum-3.jpg It was easy to do an unbend after merging and therefore the clock and the face on the image borders stay in the image. They're on my image, but I can't find out how to turn it into a rectangle. NB there are noticeable curves at the R-hand edge not in the original: look at the sidewalk curve at the building pediment. Any suggestions ? -- otherwise, this looks like the tool to use. Transform - Unbend Image Play with the vertical values, this is very easy, fast and intuitive. With brum-3.jpg the best combination was: vertical linear 5, vertical curved -16, Done and after that Transform - Trim Image or even easier Transform - Auto-Trim Image to get rid of the black areas. In the case of brum-3.jpg apply a little bit of Retouch - Gamma Curves, (bend the left part of the curve a little bit to the bottom, and the right part to the top) to enhance the image contrast. Normally the image looses a little bit of sharpness during the panorama stitching. You can correct this with: Retouch - Sharpen Image. But: If you would like to make an exhibit, then you get better image quality if you bring the negatives to an old fashioned photographer for direct enlargement on BW photo paper. Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together
On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:50:33 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I tried Hugin, but got nowhere. I set 6 points on each picture, which are 2 overlapping parts of a single original negative, but all it offered was a black screen; I did follow the on-line help. Then I tried Imagemagick got a good result after a bit of fussing. The commands I used were convert -size 1000x760 canvas:black brum-canvas.jpg composite -geometry +0+0 brum-3070.jpg brum-canvas.jpg brum-1.jpg composite -geometry +220-8 brum-3068.jpg brum-1.jpg brum-2.jpg You can see the images at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ : they are of trams in Colmore Row, Birmingham in May 1953 . I still need to light/darken 1 image a bit to hide the join, but as a proof of concept this shows it's feasible with Imagemagick. Any further advice re Hugin is welcome: can anyone do it with these photos ? I just tried with fotoxx: This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg. It was easy to do an unbend after merging, and therefore the clock and the face on the image borders stay in the image. This was my first try to do a panorama in fotoxx, and it took me less than 5 minutes, much faster than with hugin. If you like I send you the image to your private mail. Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:32:35 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? - Grant I run a cron job that does glsa-check -t all daily, and had one glsa showing up lately (201201-09). This was an old slot of media-libs/freetype, pulled in by emerge because of obscure useflags in luatex. This was with stable packages. Another one showed up because of app-text/acroread, and was resolved by replacing acroread with evince. So in my opinion it is necessary to run glsa-check regularly to show the detected problems within the system. Run as a cron job there is little work to do, checking the mail takes less than 10 seconds. And: A big thanks to the people who invest their time and use their brains to write the Gentoo Linux Security Advices! Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:03:47 -0600 John irgu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, ... that)? Is there a 'repository' of apps anywhere that I can go to to look and see if the app I normally use for something is there? ... http://packages.gentoo.org Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:04:07 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: ... Then I tried another video, again with the settings you suggested, and it stuttered. There were small pauses when the system did some stuff, and when I did my dd test, the pauses were as long as five seconds. FIVE SECONDS! Wonko Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your disk... smartctl -t short /dev/sda and after some minutes smartctl --all /dev/sda If all went OK then the status is «PASSED», and you could try the extended or long tests with smartctl. I had a bad disk here, which resulted in slow IO, but not complete failure. Smart detected this immediately. Sorry, I do not know how to check disks with LVM. Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA «201110-01 / openssl» and acroread-9.4.2
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:35:50 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:29:28 -0200 Urs Schutz u.sch...@bluewin.ch wrote: As far as I know acroread is not unmasked in this installation, nor is openssl # grep -i acro /etc/portage/* # grep -i ssl /etc/portage/* shows nothing, so acroread and ssl is «stable». For now I just uninstalled acroread to prevent the installation of a buggy openssl version, but this seems wrong for a mostly stable installation... Any hints how to proceed? Is there any danger to have an old (and apparently buggy) openssl lib installed in parallel with the recent one? That's always a tricky one. Users want Adobe's shiny stuff and Adobe is notorious for releasing crap software. For whatever reason, acroread on x86 profile requires openssl in the 0.9.8 series and that can't be worked around. The answer to your question is are you prepared to live with it? The GLSA indicates that this is quite a severe issue so maybe it should be hard masked. However, that will break acroread and there's only one version in the tree. Hardmask openssl:0.9.8 means hardmask acroread and that means thousands of whinging users. So the devs are between a rock and a hard place where all the issues are out of their control. The only middle path left is to inform all the users as much as possible and let them decide for themselves. Personally, I would deep-six acroread and use any one of the many PDF readers out there. The tax authority in my country uses new funky PDF features in Reader for on-line tax returns so I need access to Reader once a year. For that, there's wine, Windows in VirtualBox or the wife's computer. Thanks for the reply. I switched to app-text/evince , this seems fine for just reading pdf. Urs
[gentoo-user] GLSA «201110-01 / openssl» and acroread-9.4.2
Today I see the following:
I uninstalled dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8s-r1 because there is
a GLSA (201110-01 / openssl) against it.
But acroread-9.4.2 wants the installation of
openssl-0.9.8s-r1:
# emerge -uDpvtN world
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse
order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[nomerge ] app-text/acroread-9.4.2 USE=cups ldap
nsplugin -minimal LINGUAS=de en -fr -ja [ebuild NS
] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8s-r1 [1.0.0f-r1] USE=gmp sse2
zlib -bindist -kerberos -test 0 kB
Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 0 kB
The last stable openssl is already installed:
# eix -I openssl
[I] dev-libs/openssl
Available versions:
(0.9.8) 0.9.8r ~0.9.8s 0.9.8s-r1
(0) 1.0.0d 1.0.0e ~1.0.0e-r1 ~1.0.0f 1.0.0f-r1
{bindist gmp kerberos rfc3779 sse2 static-libs test
zlib}
Installed versions: 1.0.0f-r1(07:52:58 PM
01/16/2012)(gmp sse2 zlib -bindist -kerberos -rfc3779
-static-libs -test)
Homepage:http://www.openssl.org/
Description:
As far as I know acroread is not unmasked in this
installation, nor is openssl
# grep -i acro /etc/portage/*
# grep -i ssl /etc/portage/*
shows nothing, so acroread and ssl is «stable».
For now I just uninstalled acroread to prevent the
installation of a buggy openssl version, but this seems
wrong for a mostly stable installation...
Any hints how to proceed? Is there any danger to have an
old (and apparently buggy) openssl lib installed in parallel
with the recent one?
Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2011-12-14 10:29 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: !!! A network error occurred while trying to send logmail: [Errno 111] Connection refused Sure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly? and NOTHING in/var/log/messages... Ok, so, I now have more info so hopefully some kind soul will take pity on me and provide the clue-stick... I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works: li66-207 ~ # echo This is a test e-mail... | mail -s Test e-mail ad...@myserver.com li66-207 ~ # Did you send this as user? What about sending this from the root account? Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts.
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:35:15 +0300
Stayvoid stayv...@gmail.com wrote:
Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts
That didn't work for me.
Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user
font dirs in ${HOME}
Could you be more specific?
copy the fonts to ~/.fonts/, or make soft links there.
There is a fantastic application (outside portage) for font
management, its called fontmatrix.
The UI of fontmatrix version 0.6.0 is a lot better than
fontmatrix version 0.9.99, which I did not like.
If you use a lot of different fonts for your work,
fontmatrix 0.6.0 is one of the best font managers around.
Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:00:04 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Urs Schutz u.sch...@bluewin.ch [11-11-01 18:04]: On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v of course, one has to remove the -p and -v flags after checking the putput of the commands. What else can be checked and should be checked from time to time or after each update? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc snip... snip... Hi, thank you all very much for the checks listed. One question remains: What sequence of commands is adviced to guarantee the best effect on the one hand and on the other hand not to be urged to recompile things -- especially those like libreoffice...-- twice and more? Thank you very much in advance for your help! Best regards, mcc Portage is clever, and does not build libreoffice twice, even if you change the sequence. Some binary packages are faster to install. I'm pretty happy with the prebuilt version of libreoffice. If you stay with stable packets there is less rebuilding of heavy packages, as they normally get less updates. The sequence depends on what use you have. I would do it differently on a server 1000 km away, but anyway here is what I do normally on my laptop: eix-sync then learn about the new packages in portage, look for what gets updated. Then emerge -uDpvtN world to see if there is any blockers, licenses or any other inconsistencies which need to be resolved manually first (running a mix of stable and unstable packages here, so this happens from time to time). Then portage may work in the background, while I do my usual work on the laptop (all on one line): emerge -uDN world revdep-rebuild -i cfg-update -u elogv When the ventilator noise stops and cpu temperatures drop I check the yellow and red elogv output lines, and if there is something indicated by the package maintainers I do it right away. I simply delete the green elogv output lines. Sometimes I do a emerge --depclean -p more because portage says that one should do it. I feel that it is a lot of work to go through the package list manually and do not see the immediate benefit in doing it often. When I remove packages, I always do emerge -uDN world revdep-rebuild -i elogv as I don't trust the state of the system after removing packages. eix-test-obsolete -d is easy if it is done often, as there is little corrective action to do on a day to day basis. eclean-dist -d -p This is really fast and painless, if you do not need old package sources. glsa-check -t all should find no problems if you have an up to date installation. eselect news list and eselect news read xx is always a good thing to do and helps you to prevent the big problems with a evolving Gentoo installation. If there is a day without portage updates for your packages you could do emerge -uDN --complete-graph --with-bdeps=y world or rkhunter or smartctl --all /dev/sda or freshclam clamscan or build a new kernel, just to have some fun... Sometimes I get a little jealous when I see my nephew installing programs and updating applications in Ubuntu... Regards Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 06:01:28 -0700 (PDT) Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote: On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 2:20:02 PM UTC+2, Urs Schutz wrote: eix-test-obsolete -d is easy if it is done often, as there is little corrective action to do on a day to day basis. I have been wondering if it's possible to get this particular check's output to be machine readable, so it could be used in automated scripts. Similar to what qlist -IC atom does. First, I think the different checks need to be separatable with cmdline arguments, so one wouldn't have to start parsing for some header type thing to know what atom list applies to what file. After that, the machine readable output needs to be as simple as possible, no colors, parenthesis, and whatnot. Further thoughts welcome, and suggestions for other ways of automating this cleanup. Only thing I know of was udept, but that's been dead upstream for a while. I should also note that I keep my /etc in git, so naturally all automated actions would be commited and therefore tracked - no need to fear losing some important configuration item, if that is at all applicable here even. Something like eix -tTc --xml could be a start.
Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v of course, one has to remove the -p and -v flags after checking the putput of the commands. What else can be checked and should be checked from time to time or after each update? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc Beside the already mentioned ones: Check and clean the portage logs, can be done with elogv Update the packets config files, can be done with cfg-update -u Clean up old source files (saves some space, but deletes old unused sources) eclean-dist -d -p Check for Gentoo Linux Security Advices glsa-check -t all Have a look at the Gentoo management news eselect news list eselect news read xx Regards Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:53:23 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: snipped This is what I got: root@fireball / # qcheck -aBT app-office/openoffice sys-auth/consolekit sys-auth/polkit net-nds/openldap app-misc/screen net-print/cups net-print/hplip sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/openrc dev-db/mysql kde-base/kdm root@fireball / # That hplip makes me wonder. I had issues with that thing before causing freezes, not lock ups tho. I should have expected openoffice to be on there tho. lol Hmmm. What you think about that list? Anything look suspicious? Dale Just a hint without further proof: I had soffice -quickstart (from LibreOffice) running as panel app, and had kernel crashes. Since I do not start the LibreOffice quickstarter anymore, i have a stable system again. This is with LibreOffice 3.3.2; OOO330m19 (Build:202) and WMaker wmsystemtray. Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone problems Thinkpad X300
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:22:40 + Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi guys, I have some problems to get my headset to work. I have a snd_hda_intel soundcard and the output works pretty good - like watching videos etc pp. But Skype is not able to use my mic. I can hear myself in the speakers but for some reasons I can't use the mic for a skype phonecall. I have installed alsa after this documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Alsaconf does not recognize my soundcard, but alsamixer works. Is there a special Kernelmodule I need to install? I don't think so. ...module details snipped... After installation of alsa none of the microphone channels get captured (recorded) by default. Even when you can hear them in the headset they do not get captured. Try the following: Alsamixer starts up and shows just the Playback channels. To see what is getting captured press key F4 when alsamixer is running. This shows the Capture channels. Then go to one of the microphone channels (maybe named Capture or Capture 1), and press your space bar to toggle the capturing. There should appear the word CAPTURE in red letters below the microphone channel. If capture is inactive then there are white dashes (---) below the channel. You can activate all your microphone channels for capture. Now you have your microphone captured, and can record sound and use skype. gnome-alsamixer is another graphical mixer, which I like better then alsamixer. If this does not work post the output of amixer here. Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:11:02 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Starting last night several builds and programs are crashing due to problems in libxcb and others. My system is ~amd64. For example evolution fails to start and says snipped Something must have gone quite wrong in my last update world. Advice would be appreciated. thanks, allan Did you see the Gentoo libxcb 1.4 Upgrade Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:38:06 + Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 16:09:41 Klaus Müller wrote: Try [installing] a different firefox theme from https://addons.mozilla.org But I've already tried a vanilla setup by creating a test user, and separately by moving my own .mozilla directory elsewhere. In neither case did I have any themes installed but I still had no arrow buttons. I've now removed all themes from my standard user and again I have no arrow buttons. Thanks anyway, but this is not a theme problem. Just a crazy «back to basics» idea: Did you try to use the configuration dialog for the Menu bar / Navigation toolbar / Bookmarks toolbar? If not, please right mouse click on the «STOP» button, and choose «Customize...»). This opens the «Customize Toolbar» window for the toolbars, and you can drag and drop the items from this window to the toolbars. Do you see the Back- and Forward arrows inside the «Customize Toolbar» Window? If yes, then just drag-drop them where you like them. Or use the «Restore default set» button. If the arrows do not appear, I am without any more ideas. Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo with ZIMBRA
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 04:26:42 -0500 Mag. Ing. Emilio Del Campo Z. emilio.delca...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone.. Hola todos, quiza alguno que entienda español? deseo probar gentoo con zimbra o con algun metodo, mail server, antivirus, antispam y webmail que pudieran recomendar, las gracias de antemano y perdon por el español. Saludos, Milo. Its more or less this: «Is here somebody who understands Spanish? I would like to try gentoo with zimbra, or some combination of mail server, antivirus, antispam and webmail. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance and sorry for the spanish.»
