Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-10-13 00:52, schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > another "feature" is you have to be booted via efi so the variables are > available so it can install itself - sorta catch 22 :( Yes, I know that. No problem, when I boot from that stick, I do that via EFI, so I get the correct environment. > I just

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
>> I just remembered another step that I missed - I dont have the syntax >> but "efibootmgr" - google for the correct options. > > Yes ;-) > > I do that for days now. What puzzles me: > > I get the entries into EFI: when I boot I see the entries created by > efibootmgr, but when I chose one of t

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 11:06 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-10-13 00:52, schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > > > another "feature" is you have to be booted via efi so the variables are > > available so it can install itself - sorta catch 22 :( > > Yes, I know that. No problem, when I boot from

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-10-13 11:38, schrieb Michael Hampicke: >>> I just remembered another step that I missed - I dont have the syntax >>> but "efibootmgr" - google for the correct options. >> >> Yes ;-) >> >> I do that for days now. What puzzles me: >> >> I get the entries into EFI: when I boot I see the entrie

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 13.10.2012 12:13, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 2012-10-13 11:38, schrieb Michael Hampicke: I just remembered another step that I missed - I dont have the syntax but "efibootmgr" - google for the correct options. >>> >>> Yes ;-) >>> >>> I do that for days now. What puzzles me: >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Timur Aydin
On 10/13/12 04:11, Mark Knecht wrote: > Take look here. The answer is, I think, not necessarily. > > http://www.makelinux.net/alp/032 > Hello Mark, Thank you for the link to an excellent book. However, it seems the book is talking about linuxthreads by Xavier Leroy, not nptl. I am well aware t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 14:15:50 schrieb Timur Aydin: > On 10/13/12 04:11, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Take look here. The answer is, I think, not necessarily. > > > > http://www.makelinux.net/alp/032 > > Hello Mark, > > Thank you for the link to an excellent book. However, it seems the book >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: > On 10/13/12 04:11, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Take look here. The answer is, I think, not necessarily. >> >> http://www.makelinux.net/alp/032 >> > > Hello Mark, > > Thank you for the link to an excellent book. However, it seems the book > is talkin

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.10.2012 12:51, schrieb Michael Hampicke: > > Looks good, could you cross-check if the GUID is correct? My EFI > partition is the first one on my ssd, so I use # sgdisk -i1 /dev/sda to > check. The value you are looking for is "Partition unique GUID" - should > be the same to what efibootmgr

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce - folder icons gone

2012-10-13 Thread walt
On 10/12/2012 11:49 PM, Joseph wrote: On 10/13/12 00:29, Joseph wrote: After todays upgrade my xfce4 folder icons are gone including some file icons with extension "txt, ps" Including some icons in "Application Menu" How to restore them? running : USE=thunar emerge -av xfdesktop (log out/in) d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce - folder icons gone

2012-10-13 Thread Joseph
On 10/13/12 06:14, walt wrote: On 10/12/2012 11:49 PM, Joseph wrote: On 10/13/12 00:29, Joseph wrote: After todays upgrade my xfce4 folder icons are gone including some file icons with extension "txt, ps" Including some icons in "Application Menu" How to restore them? running : USE=thunar eme

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 13.10.2012 15:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 13.10.2012 12:51, schrieb Michael Hampicke: >> >> Looks good, could you cross-check if the GUID is correct? My EFI >> partition is the first one on my ssd, so I use # sgdisk -i1 /dev/sda to >> check. The value you are looking for is "Partitio

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 14:15:50 schrieb Timur Aydin: >> On 10/13/12 04:11, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > Take look here. The answer is, I think, not necessarily. >> > >> > http://www.makelinux.net/alp/032 >> >> Hello Mark, >> >> Than

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > We can only know seeing the code. Timur, this is the little test I > made which creates 5 threads and runs them for 1 minute. In my case, > `ps x` shows only 1 PID, care to give it a try? > > -- > #include <<

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> >> We can only know seeing the code. Timur, this is the little test I >> made which creates 5 threads and runs them for 1 minute. In my case, >> `ps x` shows only 1 PID, care t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés >> wrote: >> >>> >>> We can only know seeing the code. Timur, this is the little test I >>> made which creates 5 threads a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 10/13/2012 02:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Now, this does make me curious about some things running on my system. > Two for instance, Google Chrome and akonadi_agent, have LOTS of pids. > I was assuming those were different threads and were demonstrating > what the OP was asking about, but no

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés > wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés >>> wrote: >>> We can only know seeing the code. Tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés >> wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Canek Peláez Valdé

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce - folder icons gone

2012-10-13 Thread Christian Ehrich
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:01:57 -0600 > From: syscon...@gmail.com > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce - folder icons gone > > On 10/13/12 06:14, walt wrote: > >On 10/12/2012 11:49 PM, Joseph wrote: > >> On 10/13/12 00:29, Joseph wrote: > >>> After todays u

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Timur Aydin
On 10/13/12 19:15, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > We can only know seeing the code. Timur, this is the little test I > made which creates 5 threads and runs them for 1 minute. In my case, > `ps x` shows only 1 PID, care to give it a try? I have re-read all messages and I noticed Canek writing about

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Michael Mol wrote: [snip] > (Well, I'm not certain that POSIX thinks of threads as parents to each other. Hence the reason I put "parent" in quotes, and I specified "actually, the thread that created it". > There are *numerous* IPC mechanisms available on Linux.

[gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Philip Webb
Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working : Gigabyte BIOS 10 s , Linux Lilo prompt - login prompt 8 s , 'startx' - GUI ready 4 s : total 22 s + entering userid+password ; I start the I/net connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread lists
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:13:31 +0300 Timur Aydin wrote: > On 10/13/12 19:15, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > We can only know seeing the code. Timur, this is the little test I > > made which creates 5 threads and runs them for 1 minute. In my case, > > `ps x` shows only 1 PID, care to give it a try?

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. > I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working : > Gigabyte BIOS 10 s , Linux Lilo prompt - login prompt 8 s , > 'startx' - GUI ready 4 s : total 22

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:40:43 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. > > I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working : > > Gigabyte BIOS 10 s , Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. >> I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working : >> Gigabyte BIOS 10 s , Linux Lilo pr

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:40:43 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> > Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. >> > I thought they mb interested in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce - folder icons gone

2012-10-13 Thread Joseph
On 10/13/12 21:53, Christian Ehrich wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:01:57 -0600 > From: syscon...@gmail.com > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce - folder icons gone > > On 10/13/12 06:14, walt wrote: > >On 10/12/2012 11:49 PM, Joseph wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to start open source development

2012-10-13 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 10/10/2012 6:45 AM, karan garg wrote: Hi all, I have been an open-source enthusiast since 2010 and using Linux as my operating system for last 2 years. However, now I want to take an active part in open-source development and contribute to the society under an expert guidance. I am an RHCE an

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. > >> I thought they mb interested in

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés > wrote: >> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> >> Regulars will remember the threads re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce - folder icons gone

2012-10-13 Thread Joseph
On 10/13/12 21:53, Christian Ehrich wrote: look into ~/.gtkrc (gtk-icon-theme-name) Solved, Something in Application Menu --> Setting --> Appearance was not correctly set :-/ -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 16:40:45 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés > > > > wrote: > >> > On Sat,

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 16:40:45 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics driver freezes my kernel

2012-10-13 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 10/9/2012 4:57 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm using kernel 3.6.1-gentoo (which claims to have fixed a synaptics modules bug) with xorg-server-1.11.4-r1 (I can't use a more recent one because my ATI graphics card is "too old" for ati-drivers > 12.4) and xf86-input-synaptics-1.6.2. After a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > [snip] >> (Well, I'm not certain that POSIX thinks of threads as parents to each other. > > Hence the reason I put "parent" in quotes, and I specified "actually, > the thread that c