[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/03/15 14:16, Matti Nykyri wrote: On Mar 23, 2015, at 14:13, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/03/15 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: The consensus seems to be that there's no point in trying to prevent a user from rebooting the machine, and I'm happy to go along with that. The

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: The remaining question is: why is the user not allowed to halt it? Keep in mind there are many ways that a unix-like OS can be used. It could be running on a laptop, or it could be running on a multi-user system

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 23 March 2015 at 10:46, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2015 14:36:36 Jc García wrote: 2015-03-22 4:30 GMT-06:00 Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: On Saturday 21 March 2015 16:20:17 Jc García wrote: Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Mar 23, 2015, at 14:13, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/03/15 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: The consensus seems to be that there's no point in trying to prevent a user from rebooting the machine, and I'm happy to go along with that. The remaining question is: why is the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/03/15 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: The consensus seems to be that there's no point in trying to prevent a user from rebooting the machine, and I'm happy to go along with that. The remaining question is: why is the user not allowed to halt it? Because there's no keyboard shortcut for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/03/2015 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve, and to be honest, portage is not helping at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, March 23, 2015 4:38:08 PM Dale wrote: Howdy, For the past week or so, I been getting this endless loop with preserved-rebuild. I did a emerge -ev world last night and it still gives me the same thing. I'm stumped with the info emerge is giving me again. root@fireball / #

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng: reporting no space though there's plenty

2015-03-23 Thread hw
Hi, syslog-ng keeps reporting: Mar 23 17:34:41 sunflo-mx syslog-ng[27532]: Error suspend timeout has elapsed, attempting to write again; fd='15' Mar 23 17:34:41 sunflo-mx syslog-ng[27532]: Suspending write operation because of an I/O error; fd='15', time_reopen='60' while there's plenty

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile kdelibs in arm chroot

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Mair-Keimberger
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 01:17:12PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Friday, March 20, 2015 10:15:03 AM Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 04:44:55PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Thursday, March 19, 2015 9:11:02 PM Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: Hi List,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve, and to be honest, portage is not helping at all. You have two options in running it: don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 23 March 2015 11:59:23 Alan McKinnon wrote: Maybe I'll have a deeper look into portage's code with a view to improving this area. No promises thought :-) So we'll expect to see you again, wringing your hands and shivering, in about six months then... :) -- Rgds Peter.

回复:Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Nicol TAO
just security problem. server should not be that easy to be interrupted! 在2015年03月23日 17:46,Peter Humphrey 写道: On Sunday 22 March 2015 14:36:36 Jc García wrote: 2015-03-22 4:30 GMT-06:00 Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: On Saturday 21 March 2015 16:20:17 Jc García wrote: Interesting.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 March 2015 14:36:36 Jc García wrote: 2015-03-22 4:30 GMT-06:00 Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: On Saturday 21 March 2015 16:20:17 Jc García wrote: Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am a user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:25:53PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote I guess gcc devs are careful when using the model numbers (Intel lists 3 for Atoms, gcc uses only two so that may account for the models I mentioned) but the chance of error is there. The -mno-xxx flags would safeguard

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:25:53PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote I guess gcc devs are careful when using the model numbers (Intel lists 3 for Atoms, gcc uses only two so that may account for the models I mentioned)

[gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Dale
Howdy, For the past week or so, I been getting this endless loop with preserved-rebuild. I did a emerge -ev world last night and it still gives me the same thing. I'm stumped with the info emerge is giving me again. root@fireball / # emerge @preserved-rebuild These are the packages that would

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Sounds like you're volunteering, Alan. I do have some of the required skills, and I have free time right now. Ah; stepping up are we? I'll be hoping you are taking requests on the 'portage thingy' ? How'z about extending emerge with a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Mar 2015 09:37:19 Julian Simioni wrote: Interesting. When I used IMAP in Mutt, rather than offlineimap, I was really frustrated by the constant lag within Mutt from syncing with the server. I experienced the same problem, but this was more pronounced on IMAP accounts with many

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: reporting no space though there's plenty

2015-03-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, March 23, 2015 5:37:28 PM hw wrote: Hi, syslog-ng keeps reporting: Mar 23 17:34:41 sunflo-mx syslog-ng[27532]: Error suspend timeout has elapsed, attempting to write again; fd='15' Mar 23 17:34:41 sunflo-mx syslog-ng[27532]: Suspending write operation because of an I/O

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Dale
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Preserve-libs Wow. I searched the forums, googled and nothing helped. I never thought to check the wiki, of course, I rarely go to the wiki either. I keep forgetting the thing exists. Is it me or does the search function at fgo pretty

[gentoo-user] emerge message pathconf: Permission denied; meaning?

2015-03-23 Thread Walter Dnes
What does it mean? It shows up on the screen at the start of emerge, but it's not in the log files. Is it possibly a message from the server that emerge is grabbing the tarball from? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, March 23, 2015 6:48:39 PM Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Monday, March 23, 2015 6:18:46 PM Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun,

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/23/2015 05:12 PM, Dale wrote: Is it me or does the search function at fgo pretty much stink? I find a lot of times I type in something and where it should show what I searched for, it is blank which means it kicked all my search terms out. Surely it ain't just me. o_O It's not just

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, March 23, 2015 6:18:46 PM Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:25:53PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote I guess gcc devs are careful when using the model numbers (Intel lists 3 for Atoms, gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Monday, March 23, 2015 6:18:46 PM Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:25:53PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 23 March 2015 21:51:04 Walter Dnes wrote: I have one of the earliest Atom chips. Some people have a hard time believing this, but it's a 32-bit-only chip; a couple of lines from /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z520 @ 1.33GHz address sizes : 32 bits

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Cook
Have you tried running python-updater? I have no idea if it would fix it, but worth a try? On Mar 23, 2015 17:38, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, For the past week or so, I been getting this endless loop with preserved-rebuild. I did a emerge -ev world last night and it still gives me

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: On 03/23/2015 05:12 PM, Dale wrote: Is it me or does the search function at fgo pretty much stink? I find a lot of times I type in something and where it should show what I searched for, it is blank which means it kicked all my search terms out. Surely it ain't just me.

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Dale
Michael Cook wrote: Have you tried running python-updater? I have no idea if it would fix it, but worth a try? I don't know if it would or not but removing the links that was triggering it then running revdep-rebuild did fix it. It seems this is one of those times that portage just can't do