Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle

Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: Thanks for this! Regards, Colleen This may help too. This is from a post Neil made a long time ago: [QUOTE] Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full sequence is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dale wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: > > > > Thanks for this! > > Regards, > > Colleen > > > > This may help too.  This is from a post Neil made a long time ago: > > [QUOTE] > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual > full sequenc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle

Colleen Beamer wrote: Thanks for this! Regards, Colleen This may help too. This is from a post Neil made a long time ago: [QUOTE] Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken [END QUOTE] D

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle

On 12/25/11 16:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/25/2011 09:08 PM, CJoeB wrote: >> Happy Holidays, Everyone, >> >> To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an >> issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). >> Every once in a while, when the

[gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle

On 12/25/2011 09:08 PM, CJoeB wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the monitor goes on power s

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On 12/25/11 15:08, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:20:56 Michael Hampicke wrote: >>> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my >>> KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or >>> anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot.

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:13:22PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to a login screen and > > neither my keyboard nor mouse work […] > > Well then leave the graphical login out. […] Whoops, that’s what you get if you send answers without reading al

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 03:51:02PM -0500, CJoeB wrote: > > Wild guess: xorg-server was upgraded to a newer version with changed > > ABI, so you have to remerge everthing installed under x11-drivers > > > > # emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) > > It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On 12/25/11 14:27, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB wrote: >> Happy Holidays, Everyone, >> >> To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an >> issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). >> Every once in a while, when

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my >> KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or >> anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer >> booted okay and gave me my logi

[gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.5 bug hunting session

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Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:20:56 Michael Hampicke wrote: > > Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my > > KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or > > anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer > > booted okay and

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On 2011-12-25 20:08, CJoeB wrote: > Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my > KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or > anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer > booted okay and gave me my login screen, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB wrote: > Happy Holidays, Everyone, > > To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an > issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). > Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the > mon

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB > wrote: > > Happy Holidays, Everyone, > > To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know > about an > issue I've been having with my desktop (writing t

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my > KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or > anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer > booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor > the mo

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB wrote: > Happy Holidays, Everyone, > > To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an > issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). > Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the > mo

[gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the mo

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Re: [gentoo-user] Holiday greetings!

Merry Christmas gentooers! Lorenzo -- Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Re: [gentoo-user] Holiday greetings!

that's a beautiful ascii tree =] On 12/24/11, Bill Longman wrote: > Merry Christmas all! Looks like it's about to officially start in about > twenty seconds. > > -- > Bill Longman > Sent from my Galaxy S > On Dec 24, 2011 12:49 PM, "Andrés Becerra Sandoval" < > andres.bece...@gmail.com> wrote: >

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Hi, I have few directories each contains C++ code, and is mapped to a local private ebuild. So I need to install few projects that depend on each other. On the target machine I have gdbserver running. When connecting to gdbserver, the links to the sources is /var/tmp/.../../file.cpp. My problem is