Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1 fails to install

2011-04-19 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: I just installed python 7 on an x86 box. I switched to it and now running revdep-rebuild which is asking for a number of packages to be reinstalled. It fails on kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1: === -- <<< Gentoo configuration>>> Build type

[gentoo-user] kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1 fails to install

2011-04-19 Thread Mick
I just installed python 7 on an x86 box. I switched to it and now running revdep-rebuild which is asking for a number of packages to be reinstalled. It fails on kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1: === -- <<< Gentoo configuration >>> Build type Gentoo Instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-Rebuild md RAID Arrays?

2011-04-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/19/11 17:05, Andrew Wilkinson wrote: > Hello All, > > I am in the research phase of building a Gentoo-based backup/NAS target > using md software RAID or (maybe) btrfs or zfs. One thing that I am not > finding much info about is any facility for automatically rebuilding an > array when a ne

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:50 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Stroller > wrote: > > > > On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> ... > >> So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home > >> lan router that has gigabit lan ports and ver

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:30:00 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > I use evince for PDFs and Gqview for photos. Gqview is no longer in development. Try Geeqie, an active fork of Gqview. -- Neil Bothwick The word 'Windows' is a word out of an old dialect of the Apaches. It means: 'White man staring throug

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Dale
Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy I got 16Gbs in my rig and I mounted portages work director

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > >> Hello list, > >> > >> How's this for sheer persistence and grit? > >> > >> $ genlop -c > >> > >> Currently merging 321 out of 368 > >> > >> * www-client/chro

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo guest vm - vlan support kills eth0

2011-04-19 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > If i enable 802.1q kernel support in a gentoo vmware guest and reboot (even > as a module which is not loaded), eth0 is no longer available. (ifconfig -a > shows nothing). Is this expected? > What is the driver you use for eth0? Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-19 Thread Kfir Lavi
> things like that. I also need to find a decent PDF viewer, and a decent > jpeg viewer. > I use evince for PDFs and Gqview for photos. Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] win key takes me from X to VT

2011-04-19 Thread Kfir Lavi
2011/4/18 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella > El día 18 de abril de 2011 00:01, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella > escribió: > >> Try to reset all shortcuts with: > >> setxkbmap -option > > > > It doesn't change anything. The problem starts in kdm, before loging > > in, so it's nothing specific to a given user

[gentoo-user] Auto-Rebuild md RAID Arrays?

2011-04-19 Thread Andrew Wilkinson
Hello All, I am in the research phase of building a Gentoo-based backup/NAS target using md software RAID or (maybe) btrfs or zfs. One thing that I am not finding much info about is any facility for automatically rebuilding an array when a new, matching drive is inserted. At this stage, the plan

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:59 on Tuesday 19 April 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if a

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:15:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Oh no. Emerging one package to see how another package emerges will > > give exactly the same result every time, not an inch of variation :( > > You're forgetting about what the cosmic rays, solar flares and quarks > clear across the

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:59 on Tuesday 19 April 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad > > >> idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad > >> idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it > >> changes. > > But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, > > because it doesn't att

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-19 Thread walt
On 04/17/2011 05:32 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: On 17 April 2011 16:14, walt mailto:w41...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 04/17/2011 11:38 AM, Carlos Sura wrote: But, trying as a normal user, isn't working and I dont have any clue about what is making this problem, there is no log or e

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin

2011-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:06:29 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Nils Andresen writes: > > > I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - > > > sounds interesting... > > > Since there is no "News" after 2003 I did not try to install... (need > > > a vm first...) > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin

2011-04-19 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:06:29 Alex Schuster wrote: > Nils Andresen writes: > > I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - > > sounds interesting... > > Since there is no "News" after 2003 I did not try to install... (need > > a vm first...) > > Does anyone know about the p

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500, Dale wrote: I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: >> ... >> So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home >> lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ >> informative logging options? >> >> ps - I'm not inte

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Stroller. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote: > On 19/4/2011, at 8:23am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > ... > > I'm trying "# emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta". > If you're installing this for the first time then there's no need for > the "--update". I don't know that "--de

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:04:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it > > > > with > > > > emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I > > > > want > > > > to upd

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 11:04 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. >>> Can you p

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-19 Thread Stroller
On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: > ... > So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home > lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ > informative logging options? > > ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as > ro

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:31, Harry Putnam wrote: > This is way OT, but this list is such a great resource I suspect the > advice gotten here will be more to the point. ( I have posted to a > network hardware group as well) > > I've bumped my home lan router to a gigabit from the old 10/100 > (NE

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed

2011-04-19 Thread Stroller
On 19/4/2011, at 8:23am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > ... > I'm trying "# emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta". If you're installing this for the first time then there's no need for the "--update". I don't know that "--deep" is good practice, either. What are you trying to achieve? > It fails at glib

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 04:31:38 Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. > Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too > appealing. I'm gazing at an Atom box sitting on my window-sill that would be ideal. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin

2011-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Nils Andresen writes: > I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - > sounds interesting... > Since there is no "News" after 2003 I did not try to install... (need > a vm first...) > Does anyone know about the project? Is it dead? Probably. But have a look at: http://en.gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with > > > emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want > > > to update. > > > > Can you post the script? > > My guess is that the script wo

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:11:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:21 on Monday 18 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie > did opine thusly: > > > These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE > > > flag set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't > > show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error > > message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one > > causing the problem. You'd need t

[gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, gentoo. I'm trying "# emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta". It fails at glib-perl-1.223, since it can't find ExtUtils::Depends and ExtUtils::PkgConfig. Here is the relevant section from the build log: * Package:dev-perl/glib-perl-1.223 * USE:amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multil