Re: [gentoo-user] updating netbook : next problem

2015-01-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 26/01/15 13:01, Philip Webb wrote: > Having restored X & proceeding to work thro' pkgs, I emerged > reiserfsprogs lsof kbd tar baselayout libutempter autoconf-wrapper > bin86 push coreutils gmp . Trying the next set of pkgs, > I got the dreaded "C compiler cannot create executables". > I susp

[gentoo-user] updating netbook : next problem

2015-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
Having restored X & proceeding to work thro' pkgs, I emerged reiserfsprogs lsof kbd tar baselayout libutempter autoconf-wrapper bin86 push coreutils gmp . Trying the next set of pkgs, I got the dreaded "C compiler cannot create executables". I suspect some effect from baselayout or coreutils.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging Libdrm : solved

2015-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
150125 Philip Webb wrote: > After exactly 2 years , I'm trying to update my Asus EEE netbook. > Trying to update gtk+ , I've run into a problem : > it requires Mesa & Cairo & both require libdrm-2.4.58 , > which refuses to compile, failing with lines reporting > that "libpng15.so.15 & libudev.so.0

Re: [gentoo-user] REQUIRED_USE on dev-db/mariadb-10.0 confuses me

2015-01-25 Thread Bob Wya
Mick, In these instances I find it easier to look directly at the ebuild file for the package I'm installing... Sadly this highlights the fact that the output from Portage is remarkably obtuse... On 25 January 2015 at 20:56, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 Jan 2015 19:41:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] REQUIRED_USE on dev-db/mariadb-10.0 confuses me

2015-01-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 Jan 2015 19:41:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:17:00 +, Mick wrote: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: > > xml? ( extraengine ) > > > > Can you please remind me what the above message m

Re: [gentoo-user] REQUIRED_USE on dev-db/mariadb-10.0 confuses me

2015-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:17:00 +, Mick wrote: > Calculating dependencies... done! > > The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: > xml? ( extraengine ) > Can you please remind me what the above message means? What is the > meaning of the question mark after xml? I rem

[gentoo-user] REQUIRED_USE on dev-db/mariadb-10.0 confuses me

2015-01-25 Thread Mick
Calculating dependencies... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "=dev- db/mariadb-10.0*[embedded=,minimal=,static=,static- libs=,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?]" h

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-25 Thread Dale
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 24 Jan 2015 18:18:36 Dale wrote: > >> Since I already replaced this drive, nothing lost. We did learn >> something tho. Just because it claims to have fixed itself doesn't mean >> it will be a long term solution. ;-) >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-25 Thread Dale
Bob Wya wrote: > It would be far better to use Spinrite (like I mentioned before) - to > allow a really low level access to the drive. While Spinrite is > running the HDD will not be able to automatically relocate sectors. > I've been blown away how effective this piece of software is - even > when

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-25 Thread Nils Holland
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 02:03:48PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > I gave up on chromium starting from chromium-36, where they dropped > pre-SSE2 x86 support (and I use such system: Athlon-XP). I tried to > re-add this stuff with partial success (works, but still SIGILLs > sometimes) and it's ver

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql-5.6.22 update borked akonadi

2015-01-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 Jan 2015 13:23:47 you wrote: > Hi All, > > I just updated a laptop after a week's abstinence and with mysql-5.6.22 > akonadi won't start. This error renders this laptop useless for email (it > uses kmail) and therefore I am hesitant to update other boxen to avoid a > luser riot. Hav

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging Libdrm

2015-01-25 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 25 January 2015, at 1:57 pm, James wrote: > Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: > >> After exactly 2 years , I'm trying to update my Asus EEE netbook. > > http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/ Further to this, some historical Portage snapshots are here: htt

[gentoo-user] can pulseaudio make trouble with non-audio parts?

2015-01-25 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hi. Yesterday and today I experienced some problems which were weird. First of all the xdm service was crashing so I disabled it, and started using startx. After that my whole KDE desktop was a pain. The application where to slow, mplayer stopped working and ... Anyway at last I notices that as soo

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-25 Thread Bob Wya
It would be far better to use Spinrite (like I mentioned before) - to allow a really low level access to the drive. While Spinrite is running the HDD will not be able to automatically relocate sectors. I've been blown away how effective this piece of software is - even when run with (apparently) ve

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge default config

2015-01-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:57 AM, wrote: > Marc Joliet wrote: >> >> The man page to cfg-update says that it needs diff3 for the automatic >> three-way >> merge (STAGE2), which is part of diffutils. Interestingly, cfg-update does >> not >> depend on diffutils, so maybe you (Covici) just need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-25 Thread victor romanchuk
On 01/25/2015 04:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 25.01.2015 um 11:08 schrieb victor romanchuk: >> On 01/24/2015 07:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Saturday 24 January 2015 16:43:41 Nils Holland wrote: The question, thus, would probably be: Anyone using one of the recent chromi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge default config

2015-01-25 Thread covici
Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:30:07 -0500 > schrieb Rich Freeman : > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:12 PM, wrote: > > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:45 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > >> > Is there a way to have default config lines that emerge updates won't > > >> > touch? > > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge default config

2015-01-25 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:30:07 -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:12 PM, wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:45 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > >> > Is there a way to have default config lines that emerge updates won't > >> > touch? > >> > > >> > >> I'd be interested in hearing

Re: [gentoo-user] html5 no longer working in firefox

2015-01-25 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:43:24 -0500 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 05:06:55PM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote > > > > > Funny thing is it used to work fine, early November and then some update > > > broke the thing, but I will definitely try

[gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging Libdrm

2015-01-25 Thread James
Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: > After exactly 2 years , I'm trying to update my Asus EEE netbook. http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/ hth, James

[gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging Libdrm

2015-01-25 Thread James
Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: > > After exactly 2 years , I'm trying to update my Asus EEE netbook. > I've emerged gcc-4.8.3 ( 3 h 31 m ), portage-2.2.14 & udev-216 . > However, I've lost X : trying to update gtk+ , I've run into a problem : > it requires Mesa & Cairo & both require libdrm-

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-25 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 Jan 2015 18:18:36 Dale wrote: > Since I already replaced this drive, nothing lost. We did learn > something tho. Just because it claims to have fixed itself doesn't mean > it will be a long term solution. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) Your repeated dd action probably relocated som

Re: [gentoo-user] chatting with the customer

2015-01-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.01.2015 um 11:24 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I communicate with an admin at a customer ... > > we write dozens of emails and tickets and often it would be simpler to > have some kind of chat or so. > > I'd like to avoid skype etc ... so I think of installing something on > one of their ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 25.01.2015 um 11:08 schrieb victor romanchuk: > On 01/24/2015 07:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Saturday 24 January 2015 16:43:41 Nils Holland wrote: >> >>> I've been using chromium successfully on my ~x86 system for quite a >>> long time, but starting with the last two updates that came in

[gentoo-user] mysql-5.6.22 update borked akonadi

2015-01-25 Thread Mick
Hi All, I just updated a laptop after a week's abstinence and with mysql-5.6.22 akonadi won't start. This error renders this laptop useless for email (it uses kmail) and therefore I am hesitant to update other boxen to avoid a luser riot. Have you experienced such a problem? How can I fix it

Re: [gentoo-user] merging pdf file into one page

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:26:28 -0700 Joseph wrote: > I've pdf form that I print. Once the form is printed I put it back in the > printer tray and print information over top of it. > > It worked in the past but after I print it second time (over the printed > form) the pages look as if they came ou

[gentoo-user] KDE in livedvd

2015-01-25 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hello everyone. I was wondering that is there any list of packages to emerge and make my KDE look like the last live dvd. I mean the theme, color, icons, ... ? Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging Libdrm

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:18:32 -0500 Philip Webb wrote: > After exactly 2 years , I'm trying to update my Asus EEE netbook. > I've emerged gcc-4.8.3 ( 3 h 31 m ), portage-2.2.14 & udev-216 . > However, I've lost X : trying to update gtk+ , I've run into a problem : > it requires Mesa & Cairo & both

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:43:41 +0100 Nils Holland wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been using chromium successfully on my ~x86 system for quite a > long time, but starting with the last two updates that came in during > the last few days (namely, chromium-40.0.2214.85 and > chromium-40.0.2214.91), I star

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-25 Thread victor romanchuk
On 01/24/2015 07:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 24 January 2015 16:43:41 Nils Holland wrote: > >> I've been using chromium successfully on my ~x86 system for quite a >> long time, but starting with the last two updates that came in during >> the last few days (namely, chromium-40.0.2214

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging Libdrm

2015-01-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > After exactly 2 years , I'm trying to update my Asus EEE netbook. > I've emerged gcc-4.8.3 ( 3 h 31 m ), portage-2.2.14 & udev-216 . > However, I've lost X : trying to update gtk+ , I've run into a problem : > it requires Mesa & Cairo & both