Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 20:44:07 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine but now I see it's on every

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and lvm

2013-01-06 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 06 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: On Friday 04 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: Having observed all

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 03 January 2013 18:22:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I do not know who shat into the brains of the kdepim devs that they fucked up kmail in this unbelievable broken way. Most people do not need akonadi - or nepomuk. Everything worked GREAT. Now most shit only works half way, a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On 4.9.3 you are still experiencing something similar. Hmmm. Indicates to me a high probability of a systemic problem with the projects approach, something that is unlikely to ever get really fixed. In my opinion kdepim2 is vastly over-engineered and an attempt to solve a problem that does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Maybe this post will save someone else some time. Thanks Mark, but why do we have to make this file changes ourselves? Isn't it a bug? PS. I also have cd dvd /dev links missing. -- Regards, Mick I'd say it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 Jan 2013 15:11:35 Francesco Talamona wrote: On 4.9.3 you are still experiencing something similar. Hmmm. Indicates to me a high probability of a systemic problem with the projects approach, something that is unlikely to ever get really fixed. In my opinion kdepim2 is vastly

Re: [gentoo-user] Implicit udev dependancy in Gentoo? and workaround.

2013-01-06 Thread Norman Invasion
On 24 December 2012 22:21, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm asking questions here before filing a bug/reature-request, to make sure I have my ducks in a row. I did a big update a couple of days ago. As per the user in... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7168984.html I too

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 11:57:10AM +, Mick wrote It will, but only partially. It seems that the list is long and it is getting longer and longer! Check this out: whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep ^route (as advised by

[gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist Or something like that (it scrolls by very fast and openrc doesn't seem to log

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist Or

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 6. Januar 2013, 23:59:21 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist Or something

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist Or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Maybe this post will save someone else some time. Thanks Mark, but why do we have to make this file changes ourselves? Isn't it a bug? PS. I also have cd dvd /dev links missing. -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. I don't have, and have not had,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:53 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a good while back. There was a reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it was. The new

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On 04/01/13 17:09, Mick wrote: On Friday 04 Jan 2013 04:13:21 Randy Barlow wrote: On 01/03/2013 12:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Does anyone recommend a mail client that doesn't rely too heavily on the mouse? I much prefer to navigate, reply etc with the keyboard. I've seen Evolution

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it was.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/2013 09:10 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've got Thunderbird to connect to my ISP and fetch new messages, but I now have another, large problem. It won't import my 25,000 or so messages from kmail, nor even its filters. I do not wish to lose

[gentoo-user] Install from USB stick; here's how

2013-01-06 Thread Walter Dnes
For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml * My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, except when I boot from a USB stick. The stick will become /dev/sda and the harddrive becomes /dev/sdb * My desktop's harddrive is also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash

2013-01-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +, Mick wrote On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote: One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot dd directly to a device, for obvious reasons. Yes, also tried it as root. No change. BTW, with the device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP This links goes to a specific post in the thread. Don't scroll or you will have to dig. The one to look far if it messes up is the post by NeddySeagoon. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6362608.html#6362608 More

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 06 January 2013 19:22:16 Mick wrote: WOW! The fact that any KDEPIM devs consider this migration torture even remotely acceptable must be a clear sign of advanced insanity! O_O Thank you very much for your detailed instructions. It seems that kmail2 requires the full KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash

2013-01-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 Jan 2013 03:13:30 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +, Mick wrote On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote: One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot dd directly to a device, for obvious reasons.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP This links goes to a specific post in the thread. Don't scroll or you will have to dig. The one to look far if it messes up is the post by NeddySeagoon.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:43:51 -0500 Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote: That seems like it will likely be tricky. I don't know a lot about kmail, but I've got two ideas that might work: 1) Depending on what kmail can do, you might be able to set up a maildir or mbox folder with