Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-07 Thread pk
On 2010-06-06 22:13, Harry Putnam wrote: I disagree that we all are accustomed to Cntl-v etc. That is more a windows phenomena... long time linux (X) users are more accustomed to left mouse highlight... middle mouse paste, I think, at lest I am. I'm not alone then... :-D About your problem,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt

2010-06-07 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:13:24 Mick wrote: Hi All, I emerged rxvt-unicode because aterm which I have been using faithfully for years does not do UTF8, but as you can see in the attachment all bold characters look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt

2010-06-07 Thread Mick
On 7 June 2010 13:52, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:13:24 Mick wrote: Hi All, I emerged rxvt-unicode because aterm which I have been using faithfully for years does not do UTF8, but as

Re: [gentoo-user] Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Does anyone else notice a serious mess when copy/pasting to firefox. Some other places too. With Firefox, I can only paste things that were copied after the program was started. If I copy a link (say, from an e-mail) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-07 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [10-06-05 10:08]: On 06/05/2010 09:39 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this night dd copies the contents of my first 1TB disk to my second 1TB disk (same Model). (dd if=/devsda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096) I want to verify, that the copy is

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-07 Thread walt
On 06/07/2010 08:48 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Does anyone has experiences with gparted? Is it recommended (I need support for ext4)? I've used it many times for DOS and ext3. The program says it supports ext4 but I've never tried ext4 so I can't comment. Gparted is just a gui front-end

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-07 Thread Andrea Conti
Does anyone has experiences with gparted? I have no experience with Parted Magic, but I have used a lot the Gparted live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). No idea on how the two compare. As for gparted (which is a lot more than a gui for parted), I have used it on ext4 a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] how did xine-lib get broken?

2010-06-07 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/6/10, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: I'm confused. I was upgrading my box piecemeal, as it's been a while. I ran revdep-rebuild and it turned up xine-lib as broken, so it rebuilt it, but the rebuild failed. libtool: compile: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-07 Thread meino . cramer
walt w41...@gmail.com [10-06-07 20:04]: On 06/07/2010 08:48 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Does anyone has experiences with gparted? Is it recommended (I need support for ext4)? I've used it many times for DOS and ext3. The program says it supports ext4 but I've never tried ext4 so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-07 Thread meino . cramer
Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net [10-06-07 20:28]: Does anyone has experiences with gparted? I have no experience with Parted Magic, but I have used a lot the Gparted live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). No idea on how the two compare. As for gparted (which is a lot more than a

[gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Mick
I am trying to clean up what seems like a remnant of a failed emerge, but I can delete the directory in question: # rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3- r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale rm: cannot remove `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:54:36 +0100, Mick wrote: # rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3- r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale rm: cannot remove `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3- r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale': Directory not

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: I am trying to clean up what seems like a remnant of a failed emerge, but I can delete the directory in question: # rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3- r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale rm: cannot remove `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 June 2010 21:24:37 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: I am trying to clean up what seems like a remnant of a failed emerge, but I can delete the directory in question: # rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3- r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale rm:

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to clean up what seems like a remnant of a failed emerge, but I can delete the directory in question: Maybe try lsof to see if anything is using one of those directories

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: I am getting worried now about fs corruption. I would be, too. The fs is supposed to be checked at boot time But only if it was not shut down correctly. To force a complete fsck on reboot on a file system that looks sane, issue a 'touch /force_fsck'. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:45:57 +0100, Mick wrote: I am getting worried now about fs corruption. The fs is supposed to be checked at boot time Only if it's marked unclean. extN filesystems are only checked every so many mounts or days. Run fsck with the --force option to force a proper

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Monday 07 June 2010 21:24:37 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: I am trying to clean up what seems like a remnant of a failed emerge, but I can delete the directory in question: # rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-

[gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-07 Thread Jake Moe
I've got two Gentoo boxes, and would like to run X apps from both on one display. From reading up on it, it appears that while this is possible, it's also not recommended from a security standpoint, and the few HOWTOs I've found for it seem to be 4-6 years old. Can anyone tell me: a) if this is

[gentoo-user] dual booting windows 7, extended partitions, and the mbr

2010-06-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I just bought a dell laptop with a single large (500GB) disk. I find getting dell service is easier if I have windows installed so I reinstalled windows from its original configuration of claiming all the space to just 30GB. However this uses three partitions 1. A dell partition (I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

2010-06-07 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 15:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Brandon Vargo brandon.va...@gmail.com writes: As an example of how it works, suppose I am making a news website and have a bunch of news posts, each of which has an author, category, and Thank you brandon for such a nice through