Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-03-02 Thread dhk
On 02/28/2011 08:25 AM, Mick wrote: > On 28 February 2011 13:11, dhk wrote: > >> Alright, I found a couple thing in Grub that I had wrong. 1) The >> (hd0,0) for the splash should have been (hd0,2). That fixed the problem >> with no Grub menu. 2) The Windows menu option was (hd0,1) and should >

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Dale wrote: > I was looking to see how tall they were at the time. I was more worried > about whether it was going to get in the way of my CPU cooler. Turns out, I > should have been worried about the fan hitting them instead of the cooler > itself. I do wish t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Mick
2011/3/1 Peter Humphrey : > On Tuesday 01 March 2011 23:14:12 Mick wrote: > >> Ha! I remember on an old machine when in WinXP would rarely if ever >> crash, while in Gentoo would crash every time. > > My machine is only about a year old, built by a specialist builder of high- > performance systems,

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video

2011-03-02 Thread james
Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102902 OK > usb3 will work 3x charge won't. All those nifty tools won't work. The bios > fan > control is ok - could be better. It likes to err on the higher rpm side which > means that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Mick
On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +, Mick wrote: > >> >> This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was >> >> rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. >> > >> > At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:37:11 +, Mick wrote: > > You can still resume a merge after a power down, with > > ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. > > I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? The path to the actual ebuild- /usr/portage/cat/pkg/pkg-ver.ebuild -- Neil Bothwick The best thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You can still resume a merge after a power down, with > > ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. > > I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? No, /usr/portage//. Alternatively, you can use FEATURES=keepwork emerge , or even simp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +, Mick wrote: > >> This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was > >> rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. > > > > At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it > > just stops responding to keyboard and mouse,

Re: [gentoo-user] internal-sftp and logs files

2011-03-02 Thread Ivan Kharlamov
2011/3/1 Naira Kaieski : > Good afternoon, > > Staff set up openssh to direct users to a certain group members to a chroot > environment and these users will have access only to the server using sftp > protocol. > > Put in the sshd_config file: > Match Group customers >    ChrootDirectory% h >    F

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video

2011-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 16:21:46 james wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102902 > > OK > > > usb3 will work 3x charge won't. All those nifty tools won't work. The > > bios fan control is ok - could be better. I

[gentoo-user] dev-vcs/qbzr - bug or no?

2011-03-02 Thread Michael
Hi, I'm using qbzr - a GUI for the Bazaar VCS. When performing a network operation involving SSH, I get the following error: Run command: bzr push bzr+ssh://kensing...@example.com/home/kensington/whatever ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/lib64/misc/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory In order to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Daniel Heemann
On Tuesday 01 March 2011 21:21:32 Alex Schuster wrote: > Jarry writes: > > is there any way to move running (already started) process > > to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal > > so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? > > Ctrl-Z > bg I think to be able to deta

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Heemann writes: > On Tuesday 01 March 2011 21:21:32 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Jarry writes: > > > is there any way to move running (already started) process > > > to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal > > > so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? > > > > C

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 06:21:13 Stroller wrote: > On 1/3/2011, at 7:12pm, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > ... > > Combine with GNU Screen to achieve what you want. > > Not screen. > > He's never used screen before, therefore he has no reason not to use tmux. > > $ eix -I tmux > [I] app-misc/tmux

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 02.03.2011 21:44, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 06:21:13 Stroller wrote: >> tmux is better that screen in a variety of ways. Many of those ways are >> minor, however all together and in total they're significant enough. You >> may want to stay with screen if you ha

Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-03-02 Thread Hamilton Silva
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrison< >> iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com >> >>> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a >>> U

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video

2011-03-02 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > since I changed that f*er for a 880GA-UD3H OK, how's the 7.1 audio output? Is it analog or digital audio output that you have set up and used. Do you like it? james

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: You are right. I was not sure myself, so I did test this, but only with a 'sleep 60' command. It was still running when I closed the shell, so I thought this would work. But now I learnt this is not true for emerge. Does anyone know why? I agree with Stroller, tmux seems li

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: >> I agree with Stroller, tmux seems like the way to go. I do not use it (yet), >> because I already know screen, but it is on my to do list, after some >> postings here. > Do share. I use screen here to but plan to look into tmux. Right now, > I have no cl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 16:37:11 Mick wrote: > On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You can still resume a merge after a power down, with > > ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. > > I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? No, I think he means something like: ebuild `e

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: See Stroller's comprehensive posting: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg107371.html Wonko I read that but still would love to here of someone else's experience. From that link tho, it sounds . . . interesting. Dale :-) :-)

[gentoo-user] Gnumeric USE options and .xlsx files?

2011-03-02 Thread Walter Dnes
Is Gnumeric unable to handle Excel .xlsx files or am I missing a USE flag somewhere? Or is there a quick-n-dirty viewer/translator? I've downloaded a file from Auto Observer. Gnumeric segfaults trying to open it, after issuing the message... "MarketShare!P70 : Dropping missing object" I'm r

[gentoo-user] Postgresql emerge question

2011-03-02 Thread Walter Dnes
Am I supposed to "emerge postgresql-server"? Any Gentoo-specific gotcha's that anyone's aware of? This will be on pure 64-bit (no-multi-lib) Intel i3 with 8 gigs of ram. -- Walter Dnes