On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said:
> > after the emerge you read the messages with elogv and downgrade. No harm
> > done.
>
> I'll be sure to try that, thank you. However, would not avoiding a bad
> upgrade in the first place be a better
On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said:
> after the emerge you read the messages with elogv and downgrade. No harm done.
I'll be sure to try that, thank you. However, would not avoiding a bad upgrade
in the first place be a better-behaved tool? Especially when the package in
question "knew" that i
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said:
> > it was. Also:
> > elog
> > and
> > elogv
> >
> > the tools are there. It is your fault of not using them.
>
> Great, please demonstrate how I was to know about this breakage before it
> happened, an
On 01/01/09 Graham Murray said:
> I think that the default action should be that such 'breakages' should
> be checked during the dependency building phase, a message displayed and
> the emerge stop[0]. Then you could either mask the offending package or
> issue a special flag[1] to emerge to ackno
On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said:
> it was. Also:
> elog
> and
> elogv
>
> the tools are there. It is your fault of not using them.
Great, please demonstrate how I was to know about this breakage before it
happened, and I'll change how I use the tools.
Cheers,
Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>
> Not impressed. Hopefully this critical message would be summarized at the
> end of the build too. Kind of important. I got lucky and happened to see
> it...
it was. Also:
elog
and
elogv
the tools are there. It is your fault of not using
"Michael P. Soulier" writes:
> Sure enough, X no longer works. I'm following the instructions now, but...
> Don't you think the default action here should be to do nothing instead of
> breaking my system?
I think that the default action should be that such 'breakages' should
be checked during th
On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with
the latest
version of a software package I am left to question the entire
philosophy in
gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a system that's
working
is bec
On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:33, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
...
Don't you think the default action here should be to do nothing
instead of
breaking my system?
"That proposal is ludicrous and completely counter to the Unix
way of doing things."
Not my opinion, just quoting.
Stroller.
On 31 Dec 2008, at 06:44, Harry Putnam wrote:
...
I've noticed a change in recent mnths where until bootup is complete
the kvm switch is not recogized. I see that thru several kernel
upgrades and various kernel builds.
Please confirm that you are able to enter the BIOS using the KVM & the
u
081231 darren kirby wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale wrote:
>> I recently "stole" a Motorola Razr phone which didn't come with manual.
>> I downloaded it off the Motorola website and was attempting to read,
>> when Kpdf crashed. It does this when I scroll down to about page 30 .
>>
Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with the latest
version of a software package I am left to question the entire philosophy in
gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a system that's working
is becoming far more tempting, and I'm curious as to what others h
So, like a good gentoo user I'm emerging some updates available for my system.
To my surprise when I happen to look at the screen (as it's taking some time
to build and I'm obviously not watching the entire time), I see this:
* * WARNING *
*
* You are currently installing a version o
darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Dale:
>
>>
>>
>> It is pretty big so I'll post a link.
>>
>> http://www.phonedog.com/cell-phone-research/motorola-razr-v3i_user-manual.a
>> spx
>>
>> Just click on the link to download the manual. I think it is about 4 or
>> 5Mbs or so. I'm on dialup so it takes
Well...I've seen more than one dodgy PDF document crash readers
before. Seems that there must be features or fonts (as mentioned
earlier...) which can crash readers that were not written by Adobe...
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:44 PM, darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Dale:
>> Matt Causey wrote:
>>
quoth the Dale:
> Matt Causey wrote:
> > You wanna post the PDF? I'd be curious to see if it crashes kpdf on
> > my system...
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matt
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I recently "stole" me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with the
> >
James wrote:
> Dale gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>
>> I did use something else to finish reading my manual but I prefer to use
>> Kpdf since I am accustomed to it already. I just want to try and get it
>> fixed for next time plus, it may be a bug that needs some Raid sprayed
>> on it.
>>
>
>
>
Matt Causey wrote:
> You wanna post the PDF? I'd be curious to see if it crashes kpdf on
> my system...
>
>
> --
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently "stole" me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with the
>> manual. I downloaded it off the Mo
You wanna post the PDF? I'd be curious to see if it crashes kpdf on
my system...
--
Matt
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently "stole" me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with the
> manual. I downloaded it off the Motorola website and was reading, or
> atte
Dale gmail.com> writes:
> I did use something else to finish reading my manual but I prefer to use
> Kpdf since I am accustomed to it already. I just want to try and get it
> fixed for next time plus, it may be a bug that needs some Raid sprayed
> on it.
All of the open source *pdf readers ha
James wrote:
> Dale gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>
>> attempting to read, it when Kpdf crashed.
>>
>
>
> tried acroread?
>
>
> works great for me.
>
> ymmv,
>
>
> James
>
>
>
I did use something else to finish reading my manual but I prefer to use
Kpdf since I am accustomed to it already.
Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes:
> > Then something is wrong with your box or it isn't powerful enough.
> It isn't.
> > Works perfectly in mine.
> Same here (at home.)
Nikos,
I had a problem with a dual (amd) machine once. I dropped
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
to "-j1"
for a while and the workst
Dale gmail.com> writes:
> attempting to read, it when Kpdf crashed.
tried acroread?
works great for me.
ymmv,
James
Hi,
I recently "stole" me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with the
manual. I downloaded it off the Motorola website and was reading, or
attempting to read, it when Kpdf crashed. It does this when I scroll
down to about page 30 or so. It's a pretty large document since it has
both Engli
Harry Putnam wrote:
I have to have a second keyboard connected direct if I want to mess
around with grub or something... while testing kernels.
The kernel isn't even loaded at that point so how can you blame it? It
looks like a hardware/BIOS problem to me from what you have said. FWIW,
I am c
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where* it
> would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often so-called
> "enthusiasts", I'll drop the question here ;)
>
> In KDE (3), when enabling the "fa
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, 15:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
It's coming from the case, not the speakers.
BTW, this happens in both gentoo and windows xp for me.
Same here. The sound is loudest when running the "Mother Nature" test
of 3DMark 03. Happening with every
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, 15:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> It's coming from the case, not the speakers.
>
> > BTW, this happens in both gentoo and windows xp for me.
>
> Same here. The sound is loudest when running the "Mother Nature" test
> of 3DMark 03. Happening with every card I ever t
kernel 2.6.27-r7 and 2.6.28 and several other earlier kenels
Summary:
Anyone here know more details about the kernel settings and KVM
switching?
Details: (and inlined dmesg)
I'm not exactly sure when or what kernel was in use when this change
in behavior started but its been at least 2 mnths ago
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:42:54 +0100
damian wrote:
> >> LiveCD). If they manage to switch off the power to your USB-ports,
> >> that can give us a hint.
> > That I can try, I still keep the Ubuntu (shame on me! :P) which I
> > used to install Gentoo.
> Nope. I've booted with Ubuntu (damn it boots s
Matt Harrison wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure
*where* it would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also
often so-called "enthusiasts", I'll drop the question here ;)
In KDE (3), when enabling the "fade" effect for me
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:05:48 -0800
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Daniel Pielmeier
> wrote:
> > Mark Knecht schrieb am 30.11.2008 00:29:
> >
> >> It seems that
> >> gramps is doing something sort of like this but one wonders just
> >> how large their database is. Also, I'd
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where*
it would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often
so-called "enthusiasts", I'll drop the question here ;)
In KDE (3), when enabling the "fade" effect for menus, clicking on a
me
This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where*
it would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often
so-called "enthusiasts", I'll drop the question here ;)
In KDE (3), when enabling the "fade" effect for menus, clicking on a
menu results in a faint, hig
OK, this seems to be an already filed bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252614
>> LiveCD). If they manage to switch off the power to your USB-ports, that
>> can give us a hint.
> That I can try, I still keep the Ubuntu (shame on me! :P) which I used
> to install Gentoo.
Nope. I've booted with Ubuntu (damn it boots slow! :P) and after
suspending the usb port was still yielding
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your response. I'll try to make some time to test your tips.
> You can also try booting a Fedora/Ubuntu/SuSE LiveCD, and see if with
> their kernel the same happens (given that suspend works on their
> LiveCD). If they manage to switch off the power to your USB-ports, that
>
2008/12/31 Christian Franke :
> On 12/29/2008 02:32 PM, Marc Blumentritt wrote:
>> is there a general way to test, if a kernel module was loaded with a
>> module option and which module options were used?
>
> There is at least /sys/module//parameters/
> If there is nothing else, one could at least
On 12/29/2008 02:32 PM, Marc Blumentritt wrote:
> is there a general way to test, if a kernel module was loaded with a
> module option and which module options were used?
There is at least /sys/module//parameters/
If there is nothing else, one could at least compare each parameter to
its default v
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