Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:48 pm, Dale wrote: > I still have not hooked this thing up yet. We have storms predicted > here over the next couple days so I figure I will get a chance to switch > whether I want to reboot or not. :/ I live close to the end of the > power lines, phone lines and ev

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph wrote: >I'm trying to configure virutalbox serial port, but I'm getting an >error: > >NamedPipe#0 failed to connect to local socket /dev/ttyS0 >(VERR_ACCESS_DENIED). > >in "inittab" I have: >c7:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 > >is the above correct? > >In virtualbox - serial port >P

[gentoo-user] virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-17 Thread Joseph
I'm trying to configure virutalbox serial port, but I'm getting an error: NamedPipe#0 failed to connect to local socket /dev/ttyS0 (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED). in "inittab" I have: c7:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 is the above correct? In virtualbox - serial port Port Number: COM1 Port Mode:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2012 22:22:50 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> I believe that's the beauty of options like CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. If >> you leave the machine running crunching numbers (of whatever), with >> USB_SUSPEND the devices not use

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2012 22:22:50 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> I believe that's the beauty of options like CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. If >> you leave the machine running crunching numbers (of whatever), with >> USB_SUSPEND the devices not use

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 17 September 2012 22:22:50 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > I believe that's the beauty of options like CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. If > you leave the machine running crunching numbers (of whatever), with > USB_SUSPEND the devices not used (say, the backup disk you transfer > to the results of your

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:17:47 -0400, Philip Webb wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears: > 120917 Philip Webb wrote: > > 120917 David W Noon wrote: > >>print(' {0}'.format(eval(expression))) > > That works properly with Python2 in this machine ; > I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > You don't leave the monitor turned on and disable the power off > features of it, right? < raises hand > I leave mine on unless I turn off my puter too. Actually, I just tested the power save thingy and for some reason, mine doesn't cut the monitor off. So, mine run

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Dale wrote: >> Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:34:12 schrieb cov...@

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2012 16:57:49 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> so what? is power managment not a good idea on a desktop > > Not on this one, no. It spends its life running BOINC applications. You > know, contributing something back fo

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
120917 Philip Webb wrote: > 120917 David W Noon wrote: >>print(' {0}'.format(eval(expression))) That works properly with Python2 in this machine ; I'll check it with Python3 later in the new machine. > 120917 Marc Joliet wrote: >> print(' ',eval(expression)) That

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
120917 David W Noon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:45:41 -0400, Philip Webb asked about >> print ' ',eval(expression) >> whose syntax is obsolete in Python3. >print(' {0}'.format(eval(expression))) > be aware that the above is only for your original print statement.

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:45:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears: > 120917 David W Noon wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:14:27 -0400, Philip Webb wrote re Python > > 2/3 : > >> print ' ',eval(expression) > > The above line uses o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 17 September 2012 16:57:49 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > so what? is power managment not a good idea on a desktop Not on this one, no. It spends its life running BOINC applications. You know, contributing something back for all the help I've gained. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:45:41 -0400 schrieb Philip Webb : > 120917 David W Noon wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:14:27 -0400, Philip Webb wrote re Python 2/3 : > >> print ' ',eval(expression) > > The above line uses obsolete syntax. Try using > >#!/usr/bin/python2 -3 > > for yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:34:12 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: >> OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Felix Kuperjans wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I was doing a update a while back and noticed a ewarn, enotice or >> something going by. I used the elogviewer to go back and dig it out. >> This is what it says: >> >> Found sources for kernel version: >> 3.5.0-gentoo >> Checking for suitable ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Dale wrote: >> Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >>> wrote: Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:34:12 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: > OK, sorry if this is a dumb question, but I did search for

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Newegg just had a sale on a really nice UPS. I got one. Anyway, it has >> both serial and USB connections. I have a question about these. I >> could use either one but not sure if it matters. Does the USB >> c

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
120917 David W Noon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:14:27 -0400, Philip Webb wrote re Python 2/3 : >> print ' ',eval(expression) > The above line uses obsolete syntax. Try using >#!/usr/bin/python2 -3 > for your hash-bang line on all your old Python scripts. Well, thanks for th

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> wrote: >>> Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:34:12 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: OK, sorry if this is a dumb question, but I did search for it using make menuco

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I was doing a update a while back and noticed a ewarn, enotice or > something going by. I used the elogviewer to go back and dig it out. > This is what it says: > > Found sources for kernel version: > 3.5.0-gentoo > Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... > ER

Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: >> It's been a while since I did this so, does he need to run emerge >> --metadata like used to be needed a long time ago? > Metadata is included in the tree now, so probably not necessary I would guess. > > I thought it was chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:34:12 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: >>> OK, sorry if this is a dumb question, but I did search for it using make >>> menuconfig, but could not actually find it! I have all my

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:34:12 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012, 20:39:36 schrieb Dale: >> > > Howdy, >> > > >> > > I was doing a update a while back and notice

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:14:27 -0400, Philip Webb wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears: > In case others might like to use it, the script is : > > #!/usr/bin/python2 > from math import * > import sys > expression = sys.argv[1] > print ' ',eval

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:34:12 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012, 20:39:36 schrieb Dale: > > > Howdy, > > > > > > I was doing a update a while back and noticed a ewarn, enotice or > > > something going by. I used the elogviewe

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012, 20:39:36 schrieb Dale: >> The important part is about 'if you are unsure about this, say N here'. >> Well, I don't think I need USB remote wakeup or anything so I don't >> think I need this but at the same time, udisk is giving me notice

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
120917 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:24:01 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> We've been warned not to use Python 3 , so it's not installed in this >> box, but it was included along with Python 2 in the Stage3 for the new >> machine. I now find that 13 pkgs have been compiled relying on

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread covici
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012, 20:39:36 schrieb Dale: > > Howdy, > > > > I was doing a update a while back and noticed a ewarn, enotice or > > something going by. I used the elogviewer to go back and dig it out. > > This is what it says: > > > > Found sources for

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012, 20:39:36 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > I was doing a update a while back and noticed a ewarn, enotice or > something going by. I used the elogviewer to go back and dig it out. > This is what it says: > > Found sources for kernel version: > 3.5.0-gentoo > Checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.09.2012 20:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > This workaround also works in my systemd-only overlay. So, if you have > the systemd flag in any of those four packages, disable it and > everything should work. Just to be explicit, the versions are: > > gnome-base/gdm-3.4.1-r1 > gnome-base/gno

Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: > It's been a while since I did this so, does he need to run emerge > --metadata like used to be needed a long time ago? Metadata is included in the tree now, so probably not necessary I would guess.

[gentoo-user] [ot]flashing netbook bios

2012-09-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I want to upgrade an old 900A netbook, but I have to flash the bios first. This has proven difficult despite using all the tips I found on the web. The recommendations call for a small partition on a usb key formatted fat 16. You copy over the bios file, making sure its called 900A.ROM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache forked itself to death...

2012-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jarry wrote: > On 16-Sep-12 20:06, Michael Hampicke wrote: >>> >>> * Each Apache process is consuming 80-100MB of RAM. >>> * Squid is consuming 666MB of RAM >>> * memcached is consuming 822MB of RAM >>> * mysqld is consuming 886MB of RAM >>> * The kernel is using

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Newegg just had a sale on a really nice UPS. I got one. Anyway, it has > both serial and USB connections. I have a question about these. I > could use either one but not sure if it matters. Does the USB > connection offer any addition

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache forked itself to death...

2012-09-17 Thread Jarry
On 16-Sep-12 20:06, Michael Hampicke wrote: * Each Apache process is consuming 80-100MB of RAM. * Squid is consuming 666MB of RAM * memcached is consuming 822MB of RAM * mysqld is consuming 886MB of RAM * The kernel is using 110MB of RAM for buffers * The kernel is using 851MB of RAM for file cac

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning when installing/updating clucene

2012-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-09-17 10:25 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Never mind, just got a reply from the dev that he had fixed it and the next update would contain the fix... I'm still curious if I should not go down that road and use something else for FTS... clu

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning when installing/updating clucene

2012-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-09-17 9:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I thought I'd posted about this way back when I opened the bug at >> sourceforge: >> >> >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3494798&group_id=80013&atid=558446 >> >> >> b

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.09.2012 20:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > [snip] >> Great to hear, thanks so far. >> Looking forward to his reply > > Stefan, do you use systemd? I don't boot with systemd now (yes, kinda green) ... but have the USE-

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning when installing/updating clucene

2012-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-09-17 9:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, I thought I'd posted about this way back when I opened the bug at sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3494798&group_id=80013&atid=558446 but didn't find anything in my local archives, so I guess I didn't... Does anyon

[gentoo-user] Warning when installing/updating clucene

2012-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I thought I'd posted about this way back when I opened the bug at sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3494798&group_id=80013&atid=558446 but didn't find anything in my local archives, so I guess I didn't... Does anyone use clucene? I'm planning on enabling F

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:24:01 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > We've been warned not to use Python 3 , so it's not installed in this > box, but it was included along with Python 2 in the Stage3 for the new > machine. I now find that 13 pkgs have been compiled relying on it > & Portage refuses to unmer