Re: [gentoo-user] less file.html

2012-05-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 May 2012, at 06:57, Paul Colquhoun wrote: … You can set LESSIGNORE='*.htm*'. This environment variable is used by the lesspipe command, which is invoked by less and filters the input file before giving it to less itself. … I have here now: $ env | grep -i less

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 12 May 2012 11:41:33 -0400 Norman Invasion invasivenor...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Norman Invasion writes: On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition. How do you create your initramfs? The new udev (= 182, I believe) requires the use of an initramfs if you have a separated /usr.

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash?

2012-05-13 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.05.2012 13:47, Dale wrote: Hi, There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. Well, I let mine upgrade and now it crashes, badly. I unmerged adobe-flash then tried lightspark and gnash. Neither of those work on sites I tried,

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Not with mine :) Maybe I'll give dracut a try. It seems to be a nice utility, and I was about to try it, but then I read about Dale's problems and decided to stay with genkernel for a while. Wonko I'm not sure but I think the reason I was having so much

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 12 May 2012, Mick wrote: Is this 193 Load_Cycle_Count an issue only on the green drives? AFAIK it was a firmware bug on some models. I have a very old Compaq laptop here that shows: # smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep Power_On|Load_Cycle 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 055 055

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 12 May 2012, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:20:57PM -0400, Norman Invasion wrote: On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually.  The prices are

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash?

2012-05-13 Thread Dale
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.05.2012 13:47, Dale wrote: Hi, There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. Well, I let mine upgrade and now it crashes, badly. I unmerged adobe-flash then tried lightspark and gnash. Neither

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
120513 Alex Schuster wrote: I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition ... after an unclean shutdown -- reading files in /proc/pid/ was not a good idea -- /usr wants to be fsck'ed. But it is already mounted at that stage. Maybe I should just enlarge my root partition and move /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: 120513 Alex Schuster wrote: I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition ... after an unclean shutdown -- reading files in /proc/pid/ was not a good idea -- /usr wants to be fsck'ed. But it is already mounted at that stage. Maybe I should just enlarge my

[gentoo-user] libicui18n.so.49 troubles

2012-05-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I had to mask icu-49 because some packages failed to compile during a world update. I reverted back to 4.8, but now certain applications complain about .49 missing. revdep-rebuild isn't able to detect breakages and neither revdep-rebuild -L libicui18n.so.49 solved the problem. How do I solve

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash?

2012-05-13 Thread ny6p01
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 08:32:38PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2012 17:42:34 ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I hope not. HTML5 runs like crap here. I think it may need a faster dl speed than I've got. If everything does migrate I might have to upgrade my internet speed. Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] libicui18n.so.49 troubles

2012-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 May 2012 20:58:51 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I had to mask icu-49 because some packages failed to compile during a world update. Same here, but the problems seem fixed now and I unmasked 49-r1 a week or so ago. -- Neil Bothwick Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:11:55 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: # copy data over rsync -ax /usr /tmp/bindroot/ It would be wise to remount /usr read-only before doing this. No need for downtime except for the reboot, I guess I cannot unmount /usr otherwise. You could drop to single user mode to

Re: [gentoo-user] libicui18n.so.49 troubles

2012-05-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2012, 20:58:51 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: Hi, I had to mask icu-49 because some packages failed to compile during a world update. I reverted back to 4.8, but now certain applications complain about .49 missing. revdep-rebuild isn't able to detect breakages and neither

Re: [gentoo-user] libicui18n.so.49 troubles

2012-05-13 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/13/2012 06:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 20:58:51 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I had to mask icu-49 because some packages failed to compile during a world update. Same here, but the problems seem fixed now and I

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:11:55 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: # copy data over rsync -ax /usr /tmp/bindroot/ It would be wise to remount /usr read-only before doing this. Yes, as written a few lines above what you quoted :) No need for downtime except for the

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 May 2012 19:27:07 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: It would be wise to remount /usr read-only before doing this. Yes, as written a few lines above what you quoted :) :P -- Neil Bothwick Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without consulting the other experts out there (who will always outnumber you) Which better

[gentoo-user] [OT] Curious hdparm results

2012-05-13 Thread walt
I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't understand: #hdparm -t /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.00 seconds = 88.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 268 MB in 3.01 seconds = 89.05 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.01

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Curious hdparm results

2012-05-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2012, 13:28:45 schrieb walt: I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't understand: #hdparm -t /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.00 seconds = 88.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 268 MB in 3.01 seconds =

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Curious hdparm results

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't understand:  #hdparm -t /dev/sdc /dev/sdc:  Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in  3.00 seconds =  88.59 MB/sec  Timing buffered disk reads: 268 MB in  3.01

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash?

2012-05-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 May 2012 16:29:53 ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 08:32:38PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2012 17:42:34 ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I hope not. HTML5 runs like crap here. I think it may need a faster dl speed than I've got. If everything does migrate I

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:03:59 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:03:59 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Scherer
regrettably no. at this point make (correctly) assumes that mounts.o should have been built, but it didn't. sorry for my delayed replay, I've tried I lot of possibilities, needless to say without success. thanks michael -- Michael Scherer Univ.klinik f. Psychiatrie email:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-13 Thread ny6p01
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:44:31AM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: regrettably no. at this point make (correctly) assumes that mounts.o should have been built, but it didn't. sorry for my delayed replay, I've tried I lot of