Re: [gentoo-user] java replacement

2017-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, January 26, 2017 3:14:15 PM CET Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 26/01/2017 03:52, Dale wrote: > >> taii...@gmx.com wrote: > >>> On 01/25/2017 05:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > The java 8u112 download that the latest oracle java pulls in requires > an > invasive

Re: [gentoo-user] What has happened to the Gentoo tree?

2017-01-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks Mick, thanks Neil, it turned out that eix (I'm using eix-99) was broken. I removed it and installed again. This fixed the issue. Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] java replacement

2017-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:15:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Some people think they can sell anything to everyone and then there is > > Alan and me. You to Neil. ROFL > > It also helps if you know multiple languages and can switch between > them at will. I once had a call from someone wanting

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with gdbus-codegen

2017-01-27 Thread Marc Joliet
On Thursday 26 January 2017 22:42:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/01/2017 17:35, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > (Sent via webmail while I continue wrestling with KMail...) > > > > Alan McKinnon wrote : > >> Does explicitly emerging gdbus-codegen-2.50.2 then re-running a world > >> emerge give a differ

[gentoo-user] Re: What has happened to the Gentoo tree?

2017-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/27/2017 11:56 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Thanks Mick, thanks Neil, it turned out that eix (I'm using eix-99) was broken. I removed it and installed again. This fixed the issue. Or you forgot to run eix-update after doing emerge --sync?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What has happened to the Gentoo tree?

2017-01-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/27/2017 12:11:56 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/27/2017 11:56 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Thanks Mick, thanks Neil, it turned out that eix (I'm using eix-99) was broken. I removed it and installed again. This fixed the issue. Or you forgot to run eix-update after doing emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] snafu: the update

2017-01-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> AFAIK, when you load the kernel directly from the EFI firmware, it has >> to have the ".efi" suffix. But that doesn't explain why it would stall >> when loaded from grub... >> >> Somewhat OT: Regarding grub, your "/boot/" is m

[gentoo-user] julia against libgit2-0.25.1

2017-01-27 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Hello there, someone with problems on julia after upgrade libgit2 to 0.25.1 version? Since them i'm facing a impossibility to upgrade packages. And yes, julia was recompiled against new libgit2. julia> Pkg.update() INFO: Updating METADATA... ERROR: METADATA cannot be updated. Resolve problem

[gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-27 Thread Alan Grimes
To make a boot disk in DOS you have two options. Format /s x: and Sys x: Once this is done, the new disk will boot perfectly [period] . So what I did was I deleted my botched UEFI partition, and created two new partitions, each of half-size. I mark ... well.: #33 localh

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-27 Thread Alan Grimes
Alan Grimes wrote: [] Had another learning experience with respect to how GPT disks work., system is buttoned up and operating in GPT mode. In old systems, the boot sectors and bootstrap loaders were kinda consigned to a digital pergatory on the drive, now you just have to give it its own 1mb

[gentoo-user] Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox

2017-01-27 Thread Jochen Kirchner
Hi fellow gentoo'ers, I'm running XFCE with pulseaudio. Hardware is Asus Xonar STX II with the 7.1 daughterboard Analog Surround 5.1 is selected in xfce4-volumed-pulse. If I do speaker-test -c 6 all is right. Front audio is put through the front speakers. But if I play sound in Firefox and/or

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

2017-01-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first > impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently > some users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size > problem but the project has bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

2017-01-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and > more robust. rEFIt or rEFInd?

Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox

2017-01-27 Thread Jochen Kirchner
On 01/27/2017 05:15 PM, Jochen Kirchner wrote: > > Hi fellow gentoo'ers, > > > I'm running XFCE with pulseaudio. > > Hardware is Asus Xonar STX II with the 7.1 daughterboard > > Analog Surround 5.1 is selected in xfce4-volumed-pulse. > > If I do speaker-test -c 6 all is right. Front audio is put

Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox

2017-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On January 27, 2017 5:26:15 PM GMT+01:00, Jochen Kirchner wrote: > > >On 01/27/2017 05:15 PM, Jochen Kirchner wrote: >> >> Hi fellow gentoo'ers, >> >> >> I'm running XFCE with pulseaudio. >> >> Hardware is Asus Xonar STX II with the 7.1 daughterboard >> >> Analog Surround 5.1 is selected in xfce4

[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl and multiple berkdb segfault

2017-01-27 Thread Konstantin
Hello Guys, On one of my gentoo servers i had dev-libs/cyrus-sasl installed for some time. Users configured for sasl auth. After last system update i found that 'sasldblistusers2' and other commands broken: # sasldblistusers2 Successful return: 0 Segmentation fault # ldd `which sasldblistusers2`

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:41:44 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > Device Start End Sectors Size Type > /dev/sdc12048264191262144 128M EFI System > /dev/sdc2 526336 537233407 536707072 255.9G Linux filesystem > /dev/sdc3 264192526335262144 128M BIOS boot You don't h

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

2017-01-27 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 28/01/17 00:25, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> >> I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and >> more robust. > > rEFIt or rEFInd? > Sorry, yes it is rEFInd I am using. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

2017-01-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 06:50:32 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 28/01/17 00:25, Tom H wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and > >> more robust. > > > > rEFIt or rEFInd? > > Sorry, yes it is rEFInd I a

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

2017-01-27 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 28/01/17 07:27, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 06:50:32 Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> On 28/01/17 00:25, Tom H wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy > wrote: I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and more robust. >>> >>> rEFIt or rEFIn

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

2017-01-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 07:49:13 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 28/01/17 07:27, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 06:50:32 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> On 28/01/17 00:25, Tom H wrote: > >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy > > > > wrote: > I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFi

[gentoo-user] Re: Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox

2017-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/27/2017 06:15 PM, Jochen Kirchner wrote: Hi fellow gentoo'ers, I'm running XFCE with pulseaudio. Hardware is Asus Xonar STX II with the 7.1 daughterboard Analog Surround 5.1 is selected in xfce4-volumed-pulse. If I do speaker-test -c 6 all is right. Front audio is put through the front

[gentoo-user] Again emerge represents a wise koan

2017-01-27 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, I tried to decipher this, but I failed, since the six isn't there actually... emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-python/six-1.10.0[python_targets_pypy(-)?,python_targets_pypy3(-)?,python_targets_python2_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_4(-)?,python_targets_python3_5(-)?,-python_singl

Re: [gentoo-user] Again emerge represents a wise koan

2017-01-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:43:14 AM CET meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to decipher this, but I failed, since the six isn't there > actually... > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy > ">=dev-python/six-1.10.0[python_targets_pypy(-)?,python_targets_pypy3(-)?,p > ython_targe

Re: [gentoo-user] Again emerge represents a wise koan

2017-01-27 Thread Meino . Cramer
Roeleveld [17-01-28 08:12]: > On Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:43:14 AM CET meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to decipher this, but I failed, since the six isn't there > > actually... > > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy > > ">=dev-python/six-1.10.0[python_targets_pyp