Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 23.07.2010 05:51, schrieb Walter Dnes: I had a similar situation. I use one Windows app, that runs in WINE. WINE will not build without multi-lib support on a 64-bit install. I ended up installing QEMU-KVM, and then a 32-bit Gentoo guest inside that. Having done it once, the second time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:37:27PM +0200, Andrea Momesso wrote > And yes, I had read the AMD64 FAQs before installing, and I've been > happy with no-multilib for quita a while. I still have adobe flash > 10.0.45.2-r2 installed, but I understand it has serius security > problems, and I had to mask

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: lightspark flash player

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Just saw a mention about the lightspark flash player. Is any one using > it and can comment on it being a viable replacement for adobe flash for > general web browsing? It seems to be in very early stages. So far there's no flash player no

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: lightspark flash player

2010-07-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 09:35 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Just saw a mention about the lightspark flash player. Is any one > using > it and can comment on it being a viable replacement for adobe flash > for > general web browsing? There is also some comment here > (http://lwn.net/Articles/389266

[gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey email snafu

2010-07-22 Thread James
Dale gmail.com> writes: > Sent the screenshot offlist. Should get it soon. If not, check the > spam bucket. Got it. thx, James

[gentoo-user] OT: lightspark flash player

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Just saw a mention about the lightspark flash player. Is any one using it and can comment on it being a viable replacement for adobe flash for general web browsing? There is also some comment here (http://lwn.net/Articles/389266/) on various linuc flash players. I can test specific sites but hop

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > On 22 July 2010 16:08, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is > > more intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let two people > > access the same session at once. So I (being remote) tried starting > > a session with

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 22 July 2010 16:08, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga writes: > >> I would like to do remote pair programming with somebody on a >> non-Linux box. It seems that NoMachine NX or TightVNC would allow me >> to do so. Great. > > I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread William Kenworthy
Openvpn tunnel - treat the endpoints as a network connecting the two of you. If one end is public, connect direct (easier), or use your server as a server and the ends as clients and route between at the server end - can be fun (not) to get to work :) Zebedee is a port based tunnel when only a si

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > I would like to do remote pair programming with somebody on a > non-Linux box. It seems that NoMachine NX or TightVNC would allow me > to do so. Great. I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is more intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey email snafu

2010-07-22 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dale gmail.com> writes: I think that is in about:config. I think if you type in "reply" in the search field, you will be able to see the setting. If needed, I can email you a screen shot of mine for you to compare, off list of course. This worked thanks... The

[gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, I would like to do remote pair programming with somebody on a non-Linux box. It seems that NoMachine NX or TightVNC would allow me to do so. Great. My problem is that I don't have a routable IP address. My ISP gives me a 192.x.x.x IP which is sort of nice because the bad guys can't see me

[gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey email snafu

2010-07-22 Thread James
Dale gmail.com> writes: > I think that is in about:config. I think if you type in "reply" in the > search field, you will be able to see the setting. If needed, I can > email you a screen shot of mine for you to compare, off list of course. This worked thanks... > The same thing happened to

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling media-libs/netpbm-10.49.00

2010-07-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 July 2010 13:30:49 Bill Longman wrote: > On 7/22/10, Arnau Bria wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:53:54 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:04:46 Arnau Bria wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > long time since last update. I was trying to update my s

[gentoo-user] Re: lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-22, walt wrote: > On 07/22/2010 02:04 PM, Bill Longman wrote: >> On 07/22/2010 12:49 PM, walt wrote: >>> On 07/21/2010 03:18 PM, Bill Longman wrote: >>> Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm >>

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey email snafu

2010-07-22 Thread Dale
James wrote: Hello, Well, I just upgraded to Seamonkey 2 for email. It's first curve ball for me is this error. When I reply to a message in my inbox, it puts this at the beginning in the message body "chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:" So where do I star

[gentoo-user] Re: lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread walt
On 07/22/2010 02:04 PM, Bill Longman wrote: On 07/22/2010 12:49 PM, walt wrote: On 07/21/2010 03:18 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm Hey, where's the parallel port for my Epson MX-8

[gentoo-user] seamonkey email snafu

2010-07-22 Thread James
Hello, Well, I just upgraded to Seamonkey 2 for email. It's first curve ball for me is this error. When I reply to a message in my inbox, it puts this at the beginning in the message body "chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:" So where do I start hacking and s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/22/2010 12:49 PM, walt wrote: > On 07/21/2010 03:18 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > >> Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade: >> >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm >> > > Hey, where's the parallel port for my Epson MX-80 printer? You're aging yo

[gentoo-user] Re: lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-22, walt wrote: > On 07/21/2010 03:18 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > >> Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade: >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm > > Hey, where's the parallel port for my Epson MX-80 printer? Ah, quit whining. At least it

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

2010-07-22 Thread James
Daniel Troeder admin-box.com> writes: > $ sudo aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf OK That worked.. thx, James

[gentoo-user] Re: lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread walt
On 07/21/2010 03:18 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm Hey, where's the parallel port for my Epson MX-80 printer?

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:56:50 +0200 Andrea Momesso wrote: > That's impossible, isn't it? > > Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a > chroot? > > Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing > flash for linux 64 bit, and I some of the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Andrea Momesso wrote: > I still have adobe flash 10.0.45.2-r2 installed, but I understand it has > serius > security problems, and I had to mask all higher versions. I think given the track record of security problems in flash player (and java and firefox and eve

Re: [gentoo-user] dying hard drive

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2010 05:14:08 David Relson wrote: >> /var/log/messages has indicated a slew of XFS problems on an external >> USB hard drive (see attachment).  These look pretty fatal.  Anybody >> think the file system is recoverable? > > You'll h

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/22/2010 01:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Looks like a quad cpu, each one dual core. I've got one of those in the Data > Centre next door and each core is running that new fancy hyper-threading that > actually works: It's quad CPU TWELVE core. Just putting four CPUs into the thing will cost

Re: [gentoo-user] SPF & sendmail: howto?

2010-07-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 July 2010 14:37:04 Mr. Jarry wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I assume you have a perfectly legitimate reason for still using sendmail > > in > > > this day and age? > > For ~10 years I've been a satisfied sendmail-user. Does it count for a > le

Re: [gentoo-user] SPF & sendmail: howto?

2010-07-22 Thread Mr. Jarry
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I assume you have a perfectly legitimate reason for still using sendmail in > this day and age? For ~10 years I've been a satisfied sendmail-user. Does it count for a legitimate reason? On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Jason Carson wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling media-libs/netpbm-10.49.00

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 7/22/10, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:53:54 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:04:46 Arnau Bria wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > long time since last update. I was trying to update my system and it >> > failed at netpbm with this error: >> >> Yes, I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling media-libs/netpbm-10.49.00

2010-07-22 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:53:54 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:04:46 Arnau Bria wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > long time since last update. I was trying to update my system and it > > failed at netpbm with this error: > > Yes, I can see it was a long time ago :-) I really don

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Thursday 22 July 2010 11:13:23 Alex Schuster wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > > On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > > That's impossible, isn't it? > > I think so. > > > > Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even > > > from a chroot? > > > > > > Shou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:19:21 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > That's impossible, isn't it? > > > > Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a > > chroot? > > > > Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > That's impossible, isn't it? I think so. > > Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even > > from a chroot? > > > > Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing > > flash

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling media-libs/netpbm-10.49.00

2010-07-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:04:46 Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi all, > > long time since last update. I was trying to update my system and it > failed at netpbm with this error: Yes, I can see it was a long time ago :-) You hit the jpeg issue and that was a while back. We've had the linpng issue since

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling media-libs/netpbm-10.49.00

2010-07-22 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi again, a revdep-rebuil --library libjpeg.so.7 solved my problem. now I should be able to continue with my update. sorry for the noise. Cheers, Arnau

[gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: That's impossible, isn't it? Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a chroot? Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing flash for linux 64 bit, and I some of the sites I need to visit for

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 July 2010 02:03:15 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote: > >> On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: > And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my ex

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-07-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.07.2010 20:35, schrieb Bill Longman: > On 06/23/2010 01:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> - From /proc/cpuinfo: >>> address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual >>> >>> That's only 8GB physical, but that's probably a reasonable limit at >>> the moment. > > $ units -1 '2^36 by

[gentoo-user] error compiling media-libs/netpbm-10.49.00

2010-07-22 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, long time since last update. I was trying to update my system and it failed at netpbm with this error: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.7, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../libjasper.so, not found (try usi

[gentoo-user] Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Andrea Momesso
That's impossible, isn't it? Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a chroot? Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing flash for linux 64 bit, and I some of the sites I need to visit for work need it. Mantaining a chroot is not w

Re: [gentoo-user] dying hard drive

2010-07-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 July 2010 05:14:08 David Relson wrote: > /var/log/messages has indicated a slew of XFS problems on an external > USB hard drive (see attachment). These look pretty fatal. Anybody > think the file system is recoverable? You'll have to try to recover it, to see if it is possible: x