Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 13 May 2010 06:06:17 Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:33:21AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Sun, 9 May 2010 18:28:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Ditto for setting MAKEOPTS to -j1. Every once in a while, somebody runs into a problem that is solved by it. I

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 May 2010 00:06:17 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I can't recall the last time I needed to use MAKEOPTS=-j1, but if you do set it you can get back the time you lose by using the jobs option with emerge. That way you get parallel compilation, but of separate packages. Something

[gentoo-user] S/MIME passphrase problem with Kleopatra

2010-05-13 Thread Mick
In the last two weeks I renewed an SSL certificate from Comodo for email usage. This time round Kleopatra is having problems with recognising the passphrase I use. I partially suspect a gnupg bug here probably relating to mime characters, but I am not sure how to troubleshoot it. This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline

2010-05-13 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 05/13/10 00:54, walt wrote: On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so does the down arrow key on the numpad. 2. Seems like the down key generates a double

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-13 Thread Stroller
On 12 May 2010, at 23:22, walt wrote: On 05/08/2010 07:16 AM, claude angéloz wrote: ... I installed a gentoo on a very recent system (efi support) ... I know that it is not required an efi partiton to boot the os with pc/bios and gpt disk. Or is it false ? I guarantee that some smart geek

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline

2010-05-13 Thread walt
On 05/13/2010 03:22 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: On 05/13/10 00:54, walt wrote: On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so does the down arrow key on the

[gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread John J. Foster
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me. Thanks, festus -- It is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 13 May 2010 22:08:44 Stroller wrote: On 12 May 2010, at 23:22, walt wrote: On 05/08/2010 07:16 AM, claude angéloz wrote: ... I installed a gentoo on a very recent system (efi support) ... I know that it is not required an efi partiton to boot the os with pc/bios and gpt

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
John J. Foster writes: I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: John J. Foster writes: I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-13 Thread walt
On 05/13/2010 03:12 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2010 22:08:44 Stroller wrote: On 12 May 2010, at 23:22, walt wrote: On 05/08/2010 07:16 AM, claude angéloz wrote: ... I installed a gentoo on a very recent system (efi support) ... I know that it is not required an efi partiton to boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:18:08PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: John J. Foster writes: I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
John J. Foster writes: Hope you broke the record, Wonko fes...@localhost ~ $ last | grep system boot reboot system boot 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 Thu May 13 16:39 - 17:30 (00:51) OK, so after looking at man last, I tried fes...@localhost ~ $ last reboot reboot system boot

[gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, I have two 160Gb drives, one internal and one USB. I've partitioned them the same and created an identical filesystem on the USB drive for backing up my internal drive. I'm using the following rsync command to make the backup: sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread Dale
John J. Foster wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:18:08PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: John J. Foster writes: I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Kaddeh
Are you doing a full recursive copy of / from rootfs for sdd7 (aka cp -r /) if so, are the other partitions mounted as well? Cheers Kad On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.auwrote: Hi, I have two 160Gb drives, one internal and one USB. I've partitioned them

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:22 -0700, Kaddeh wrote: Are you doing a full recursive copy of / from rootfs for sdd7 (aka cp -r /) if so, are the other partitions mounted as well? [snip] yes, but the rsync command -x or --one-file-system should stop rsync traversing to different mounts so (I hope)