Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/24 Dale : > James Skinner wrote: >> Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? >> >> > > If you are not careful, you will get someone on the no top posting > soapbox.  LOL  This is a educational channel and there are teachers and > learners.  I'm the learner.  We can however change the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:46:15 -0400, James Skinner wrote: > Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? As long as people have something to say, yes. Now it can be forked into a no-top-posting discussion too, so you have helped prolong it that much longer :) -- Neil Bothwick If you're not p

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? -> top posting

2009-03-24 Thread KH
Dale schrieb: > James Skinner wrote: > >> Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? >> >> >> > > If you are not careful, you will get someone on the no top posting > soapbox. LOL This is a educational channel and there are teachers and > learners. I'm the learner. We can however

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 03:25:05PM -0400, dhk wrote It looks like the bugreport at... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263562 is identical to yours. No solutions proposed yet. But do check that URL daily. It's the most likely place to find a fix to your problem. Out of sheer curiousi

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-24 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 03:25:05PM -0400, dhk wrote It looks like the bugreport at... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263562 is identical to yours. No solutions proposed yet. But do check that URL daily. It's the most likely place to find a fix to your problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-24 Thread Walter Dnes
After a few more minutes of looking at the bug list, it appears that it's caused by the stable build being rusty. Given the references to "lib64" in your output, I assume you're running on amd64. Is that correct? If so, a quick-n-dirty workaround might be to add the following line to your /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:35:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > It looks like the bugreport at... > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263562 is identical to yours. No > solutions proposed yet. But do check that URL daily. Or add yourself to the bug's CC list to get an email hen anything happens

[gentoo-user] gtkmm puzzle

2009-03-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! Current ~amd64 tree says - see below. My steps? --- emerge -pvDuN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-firewall/iptables-1.4.3.1 [1.4.2-r2] USE="(-l7filter%)" 4

[gentoo-user] kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread James
Hello, Confidence is high that I've mucked_up this upgrade to kde-4.2.1. I was content to leave the system at 3.5.9 and while I was messing around, I guess I triggered a kde 4.2.1 install (I had started the upgrade and decide to wait some weeks ago.) Long story short, I'm now running kde-4.2.1

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 24 March 2009, James wrote: > Where I'm confused is can I have 2 versions > of kdelibs installed at the same time? > My gut tells me NO? your guts tell you wrong a) kde3 is installed into /usr/kde/3.5 b) kde4 is either in /usr or /usr/kde/4.X (kdeprefix useflag, use it) > Mask kdelib

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 19:26:45 James wrote: > Hello, > > Confidence is high that I've mucked_up this upgrade to > kde-4.2.1. > > I was content to leave the system at 3.5.9 and while > I was messing around, I guess I triggered a kde 4.2.1 install > (I had started the upgrade and decide to wait so

Re: [gentoo-user] gtkmm puzzle

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Current ~amd64 tree says - see below. My steps? > > --- > > emerge -pvDuN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! >

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: Hello, Confidence is high that I've mucked_up this upgrade to kde-4.2.1. I was content to leave the system at 3.5.9 and while I was messing around, I guess I triggered a kde 4.2.1 install (I had started the upgrade and decide to wait some weeks ago.) Long story short, I'm now run

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > Confidence is high that I've mucked_up this upgrade to > kde-4.2.1. > > I was content to leave the system at 3.5.9 and while > I was messing around, I guess I triggered a kde 4.2.1 install > (I had started the upgrade and decide to wait s

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM, James wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Confidence is high that I've mucked_up this upgrade to >> kde-4.2.1. >> >> I was content to leave the system at 3.5.9 and while >> I was messing around, I guess I triggered a kde

[gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

2009-03-24 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
Hi all! I have emerged dpkg and tried to install deb package, but got error: dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory How to fix this problem? Thanks! -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver

Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

2009-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:36:07 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > Hi all! > I have emerged dpkg and tried to install deb package, but got error: > dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for > reading: No such file or directory > How to fix this problem? > > Thanks! I have no i

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 05:01:36 SOrCErEr wrote: > > No, that isn't. That file exists. > > So I tested like below. > > > > /etc/init.d/udev stop > > /etc/init.d/sysfs stop > > /etc/init.d/udev start > > /etc/init.d/sysfs status > > > > Result is > >

[gentoo-user] Can't put hard disk to sleep

2009-03-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Gentoo AMD64 here. Kernel 2.6.28-r4. I'm trying to put a drive to sleep with: hdparm -Y /dev/sdb But it immediately wakes up again. dmesg: ata7.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 ata7.00: waking up from sleep ata7: soft resetting link ata7.00: configured for UDMA

Re: [gentoo-user] gtkmm puzzle

2009-03-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 21:25:36 Paul Hartman wrote: > ardour requires gtkmm with accessiblity use flag, but this flag no > longer exists on gtkmm. I think you should file a bug about ardour so > they can fix it. Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 05:01:36 SOrCErEr wrote: >> >>> No, that isn't. That file exists. >>> So I tested like below. >>> >>> /etc/init.d/udev stop >>> /etc/init.d/sysfs stop >>> /etc/init.d/udev start >>> /etc/init.d/sysfs

Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

2009-03-24 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
Alan McKinnon написав(ла): > > I have no idea, but I imagine > > mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status > > would be a good first test. Did you even attempt that much? > > And why are you installing dpkg on a portage box? That looks like a vast file > collision fsck-fest just waiting

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 10:34:40 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 05:01:36 SOrCErEr wrote: > > > No, that isn't. That file exists. > > > So I tested like below. > > > > > > /etc/init.d/udev stop > > > /etc/init.d/sysfs stop > > > /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 08:34 +, Mick wrote: > > $ mount | grep sysfs > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) > > However, I do not have sysfs in /etc/init.d/sysfs. Likely you are using a different baselayout. There are 6 different baselayouts that work in 7 different ways ;-) -

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.03.09 19:54]: > Mick wrote: > > > > $ mount | grep sysfs > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) > > > > However, I do not have sysfs in /etc/init.d/sysfs. > > > > Same here. Both the confused part and the not have the init script > sysfs. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > Alan McKinnon написав(ла): > > I have no idea, but I imagine > > mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status > > would be a good first test. Did you even attempt that much? > > And why are you installing dpkg on a portage box?

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mn

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-24 Thread maxim wexler
> directory of any mirror. But I'd stick with System Rescue > CD, it's so > easy to install to a USB stick. > > Arrrgh! I can't get it. home/user> wget -c downloads.sourceforge.net/sytemrescuecd/systemrescuecd-x86-1.1.6.iso --13:30:13-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sytemrescuecd/syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:01 PM, SOrCErEr wrote: > > > 2009/3/24 Albert Hopkins >> >> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:38 +0900, SOrCErEr wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > My gentoo system has a problem. >> > It has not mounted sysfs while boot process. >> > I have to do mount sysfs by my hand now. >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive.  I set it up for use > with MythTV.  It worked fine.  So now I wanted to turn the old myth > partition into my /home filesystem.  I reformatted it (mke2fs > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /m

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 08:34 +, Mick wrote: > >> >> $ mount | grep sysfs >> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) >> >> However, I do not have sysfs in /etc/init.d/sysfs. > > Likely you are using a different baselayout. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 20:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I am confused reading this thread. I have sysfs mounted: > > > > $ mount | grep sysfs > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) > > > > However, I do not have sysfs in /etc/init.d/sysfs. > > it's done by udev, so there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb am 24.03.2009 20:36: > home/user> wget -c > downloads.sourceforge.net/sytemrescuecd/systemrescuecd-x86-1.1.6.iso sytem? ;-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:36 PM, maxim wexler wrote: > >> directory of any mirror. But I'd stick with System Rescue >> CD, it's so >> easy to install to a USB stick. >> >> > > > > Arrrgh! I can't get it. > > home/user> wget -c > downloads.sourceforge.net/sytemrescuecd/systemrescuecd-x86-1.1.6.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

2009-03-24 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
Paul Hartman написав(ла): > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky > wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon написав(ла): >> >> I have no idea, but I imagine >> >> mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg >> touch /var/lib/dpkg/status >> >> would be a good first test. Did you even attempt that much? >> >> And w

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings daemon failed]

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan > wrote: > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth > > partition into my /home filesyst

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael Sullivan > wrote: > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth > > partition into my /home filesyst

Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

2009-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 22:16:46 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > Why not use the ebuild for app-cdr/nero? > > > > I used nero in previous listing as example to install, but I get these > errors for any deb :( I find it's useful to look at error messages. It often tells you what is wrong: dpkg: e

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted t

Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
2009/3/24 Alexander Pilipovsky : > Paul Hartman написав(ла): > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky > wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon написав(ла): > > I have no idea, but I imagine > > mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status > > would be a good first test. Did you even at

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-24 Thread maxim wexler
> Try adding another s to the directory after sourceforge.net > :) LOL __ Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/

[gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-24 Thread laurent
Hi, I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink /var/ftp/distfiles to it. Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-24 Thread Dale
laurent wrote: > Hi, > > I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. > > For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. > > If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink > /var/ftp/distfiles to it. > > Is the second safe with just a symlink or shou

[gentoo-user] which hardened

2009-03-24 Thread laurent
Hi, I see that I should move to hardened gentoo for a better server profile. Then eselect propose me 3 hardened: hardened/amd64 hardened/amd64/multilib hardened/linux/amd64 which one should I choose ? L

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Dale
Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.03.09 19:54]: > >> Mick wrote: >> >>> $ mount | grep sysfs >>> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) >>> >>> However, I do not have sysfs in /etc/init.d/sysfs. >>> >>> >> Same here. Both the confused part an

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-24 Thread laurent
Dale a écrit : laurent wrote: Hi, I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink /var/ftp/distfiles to it. Is the second safe with just a symlink or

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-24 Thread darren kirby
quoth the laurent: >I looked in make.conf but did not see any 'DISTFILES_PATH'. What should >I add? > Thanks ;) > Laurent DISTDIR=/where/you/want/them see 'man make.conf' for explanation and more... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number o

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.03.09 22:54]: > > r...@smoker / # equery list openrc > [ Searching for package 'openrc' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > r...@smoker / # equery list baselayout > [ Searching for package 'baselayout' in all categories among: ] > * installed pac

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:59:30 +0100, laurent wrote: > I looked in make.conf but did not see any 'DISTFILES_PATH'. What should > I add? DISTDIR - it's described in the make.conf man page. -- Neil Bothwick Hyperbole is absolutely the worst mistake you can possibly make signature.asc Descripti

RE: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Carter
> May just be a coincidence. I'm seeing this on my wife's machine after > an update to Gnome-2.24.x from 2.22.x. No changes in disk drives here. > > If you're not against starting from a new desktop then try making a > new user and seeing if that new user has the same problem. If it > doesn't then

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Mar 2009, at 02:34, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:58 -0500, Dale wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote: emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world ??? Cer

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:40:51 +, Stroller wrote: > Every time you bottom post with more than a page or screenful of > quoting, a top-posting is justified. No it's not, but trimming of the quoted text is. -- Neil Bothwick There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand bi

[gentoo-user] Floorplan software for Linux?

2009-03-24 Thread Grant Edwards
Is there any usable 2D floorplan software for Linux? I've tried sweethome3d, but it seems to be missing a lot of very basic features. The 2D floorplan part of it doesn't seem to work very well (I don't care about the 3D stuff). Some people recommend generic 2D mechanical CAD software (e.g. QCAD,

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:40:51 +, Stroller wrote: > > >> Every time you bottom post with more than a page or screenful of >> quoting, a top-posting is justified. >> > > No it's not, but trimming of the quoted text is. > > +1 I don't mind top posting in priva

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread wireless
Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > > Where I'm confused is can I have 2 versions > > of kdelibs installed at the same time? > > My gut tells me NO? > your guts tell you wrong > a) kde3 is installed into /usr/kde/3.5 > b) kde4 is either in /usr or /usr/kde/4.X (kdeprefix useflag, use

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > Where I'm confused is can I have 2 versions > > of kdelibs installed at the same time? > Yes, you can. Right, got it. Can be done, but henders move to a clean, 100% kde4 installation. > Avoiding having kde-3.5 stuff installed is exactly the same as avo

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > Actually you can probably just do "emerge -pv --depclean kdelibs:3.5" > to see what depends on kdelibs:3.5 Yes, agreed. However, since this system is only for kde-4.x software, It be really cool and easy to just find a way to mask off anything and everything

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-24 Thread Alejandro
If your version of libxklavier is 3.8, did you try downgrading libxklavier to 3.6? Alejandro.