Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-05 Thread Spackman, Chris
bbe9281b8362fa549991b7581b7758668 > > I'll try that and see if my version of the problem appears again. Thanks for finding that. I love patches that I can actually understand. I've also applied the fix. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ESOL Coordinator, The Graham Family of Sc

Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-05 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2024/01/05 at 10:57am, Andreas Fink wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 08:04:49 +0100 > Arve Barsnes wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 02:49, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > > Any thoughts on possible causes or fixes? > > > > I've also had this happen a f

[gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-04 Thread Spackman, Chris
thing new can start. Not sure if SDDM is a cause or a symptom, but /tmp/ should usually have something like this: > chris:~$ ll /tmp/ | grep sddm > srwxrwxrwx 1 sddmsddm 0 Jan 4 06:56 dbus-blahblah > srwx-- 1 sddmsddm 0 Jan 4 06:56 sddm-:0-blahblah > sr

Re: [gentoo-user] slim gives me blank screen after entering wrong password

2023-04-08 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2023/04/07 at 11:40am, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 4/7/23 11:06, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > On 2023/04/06 at 06:53pm, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I'm starting X server via "slim" (XFCE4). When I enter a wrong > >> password the slim

Re: [gentoo-user] slim gives me blank screen after entering wrong password

2023-04-07 Thread Spackman, Chris
computer. Have you tried restarting the 'display-manager' service instead? IIRC, it replaced xdm. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ESOL Coordinator, The Graham Family of Schools ESOL Educator, Columbus State Community College Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (Wajima, Ishikawa 1995-1998) Linux user since 1998 Linux User #137532

Re: [gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

2022-03-02 Thread Chris Phillips
Thanks! On 2022-03-02 9:43 a.m., tastytea wrote: > On 2022-03-02 09:27-0500 Chris Phillips wrote: > >> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-libs/gtkd" has unmet >> requirements. >> - dev-libs/gtkd-3.9.0::dlang USE="opengl -dmd-2_074 -dmd-2_075 >>

[gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

2022-03-02 Thread Chris Phillips
Any Dlang users/experts out there? The following is hanging me up: # emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse --changed-use --verbose-conflicts --backtrack=3000 --keep-going=y --sync dlang >>> Syncing repository 'dlang' into '/var/lib/layman/dlang'... /usr/bin/git fetch origin Already up

Re: [gentoo-user] viewer for "ps" postscript files

2021-12-23 Thread Spackman, Chris
iles I get an error: I honestly have no idea about hylafax and YajHFC. Unless there is more here than just trying to view a .ps file (or you are working in a very restricted environment), they are probably not the best tool. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ch...@osugisakae.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-23 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2021/12/21 at 07:17pm, Wols Lists wrote: > On 21/12/2021 18:49, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > 2b. press the "export video" button at the bottom of the window. Here, > > for me, the defaults work fine. > > The problem is 2b. For me, it's an extremely si

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-21 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2021/12/21 at 05:13pm, Wols Lists wrote: > On 21/12/2021 16:07, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > On 2021/12/20 at 11:17am, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of > >> a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-21 Thread Spackman, Chris
s that do video editing. I like veed.io just because it can add and then translate subtitles (which I need for my job), but I'm sure there are many others. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ch...@osugisakae.com ESOL CoordinatorThe Graham

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-09-27 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2021/09/27 at 11:07pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-09-27, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > > If it is still working, that is great news for users of > > Chromium-based browsers that aren't Google Chrome, but I don't think > > it is safe to expect the behavior t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-09-27 Thread Spackman, Chris
wit network, either This Week In Tech or maybe Security Now talked about Google closing that "bug". If it is still working, that is great news for users of Chromium-based browsers that aren't Google Chrome, but I don't think it is safe to expect the behavior to continue.

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrome - no system title bar or boarders

2021-09-24 Thread Spackman, Chris
bug that is fixed / being fixed in the next version (also from the above link). I have NOT tried this fix on KDE. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools ESL In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-03-12 Thread Spackman, Chris
king on the tab and choosing "Move tab to new window" (if there is only one window) or "Move tab to another window" => "New window" (if there is already more than one window) works without problem. I've no idea what is causing the problem. Fluxbox is my window m

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-19 Thread Spackman, Chris
ple (less careful types) would just have switched to an easier password. Luckily / Oddly, the site did allow pasting into the password field for regular log in. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Fa

Re: [gentoo-user] Python3 emerge problem with pycairo and wxpython

2020-09-17 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
Hi, On 16/09/20 11:50 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Changing the subject does not start a new thread, nor should it. Sorry! Will be more careful in future. Chris PS 2nd try using correct list membership (*Darn this old version of thunderbird). PPS Removed old, intended to be funny sig. --

[gentoo-user] Python3 emerge problem with pycairo and wxpython

2020-09-16 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
-3.0.2.0:3.0::gentoo USE="cairo libnotify opengl -examples" \ PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB I can successfully cut those out and apply the rest of the ebuilds, can't determine what is pulling in wxpython. Any ideas on what I need to do to keep these from occurring? T

Re: [gentoo-user] A new Linux back door

2020-08-14 Thread Spackman, Chris
g/wiki/Signed_kernel_module_support but haven't had time to try it yet. Does anyone have experience with digitally signing kernel modules on Gentoo? -- Chris Spackman (he/him) ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Scho

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-15 Thread Spackman, Chris
lucky not to have a huge number of problems with drives, so I can't say how much either has helped. -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools ESL Instructor

Re: [gentoo-user] Help working around a bug...

2020-04-26 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
Hi, On 25/04/20 11:27 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 4/25/20 11:20 AM, "Chris Phillips"@T O wrote: How do I override the ./configure options for emerge [-r] ? If it's a one-time thing, you can set the EXTRA_ECONF environment variable to contain the extra arguments to .

[gentoo-user] Help working around a bug...

2020-04-25 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
I override the ./configure options for emerge [-r] ? Chris --

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
nd no one liked it. Probably an uncanny vallley thing. So, they dropped it. (IIRC, I heard that on TWIT a while back.) Maybe two cameras could do it better, though? -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-02-17 Thread Spackman, Chris
ing 7, of which I allow 3. The Guardian has like 28, of which I allow 19. It would not be fun to try to go through all of those to figure out which ones are absolutely necessary. You'd be examining, allowing, and reloading 20 times per site, at first. Maybe the Tor Browser

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
umount, for about 8 months for roughly weekly backups and some misc storage. So far, I've not seen any problems with it. The drive immediately shuts down, and there haven't been any data or performance issues. But because no one else has mentioned it, I wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] ryzen and c-state poweroffs?

2019-05-12 Thread Spackman, Chris
dering one from System 76 instead - hopefully a computer build for Linux will not come with any of these issues out of the box. Thanks for your help. -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham

Re: [gentoo-user] ryzen and c-state poweroffs?

2019-05-12 Thread Spackman, Chris
tabilizator ? Thank you, I had not seen that. > Is it a first gen processor, or a 2XXX one? Not sure. Thanks for the advice. I actually ended up returning the computer. It started crashing in addition to this problem, so it was no longer worth my time to try to f

[gentoo-user] ryzen and c-state poweroffs?

2019-05-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
minutes. This seems to work, but it is obviously not a long term solution. I checked for a bios update, but there was not one available. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there maybe a /sys/ or /proc/ file I can tweak to avoid bios powering things off? Thanks. -- Chris Spackman

Re: [gentoo-user] pam issues with crontab and xscreensaver

2019-04-26 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2019/04/26 at 10:14am, Spackman, Chris wrote: > But, xscreensaver cannot recognize my password. It just says incorrect > (or permission denied?) and will not unlock. I had to switch to vt1, > log in, and kill xscreensaver. > > Similar with "crontab -e" (as a regula

[gentoo-user] pam issues with crontab and xscreensaver

2019-04-26 Thread Spackman, Chris
password. It just says incorrect (or permission denied?) and will not unlock. I had to switch to vt1, log in, and kill xscreensaver. Similar with "crontab -e" (as a regular user). It tells me I do not have permission: "You (chris) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups can't see my USB printer

2019-02-17 Thread Spackman, Chris
ev/bus/usb/003/008 to change the permissions I'm not sure when this started, but I first noticed it a few weeks ago. Not a huge issue, so I've not put much effort into trying to find the cause, I'm afraid. -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

2017-12-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
skipfirst to continue. I am actually almost 75% done with the system rebuild and have had to do this so far with cdrdao and spideroak-bin (which probably doesn't matter as it is a -bin package). -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.24-r2 failed (install phase)

2017-06-16 Thread Spackman, Chris
ust yesterday, but not with glibc - I was unable to emerge almost anything. In my case, I think texinfo was a symptom, not the problem. Perhaps it is similar in your case? I ran "perl-cleaner --all" once or twice, did an "emerge --deep -av --newuse @world" which found one package to update, and then maybe perl-cleaner again, and finally, "emerge --deep -avu @world" was able to upgrade / reinstall texinfo. After that, I was able to emerge new packages just fine. So, point is - maybe try running something like perl-cleaner, revdep-rebuild, or the such? -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-30 Thread Chris Spackman
forms I have tried with it. Only issue I have noticed is that check marks (which show up fine on the screen) end up printed as another character. Still better than dealing with acroread, in my opinion. -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-21 Thread Chris Spackman
s with conflicting file versions with Syncthing than I had with Dropbox. FWIW, I tried ownCloud a couple of times and could never get it up and running properly. -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-07 Thread Chris Spackman
When I do upgrade (probably next week), I will check for the behavior you found. -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stuttering, breaking up, fading in and out

2015-04-18 Thread Chris Spackman
On 2015/04/18 at 08:11pm, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:46:37 PM Chris Spackman wrote: > > I have an issue with sound during music and sometimes video > > playback. > The Arch wiki has a lot of tips for configure pulseaudio: > https://wiki.ar

[gentoo-user] sound stuttering, breaking up, fading in and out

2015-04-18 Thread Chris Spackman
peex -timidity -tremor -wavpack) (I removed Quodlibet recently for unrelated reasons.) Thanks for any and all help and advice. -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to "full multilib"

2015-04-01 Thread Chris Camisa
On 03/30/2015 02:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I was also wondering if there might a way for emerge to show you which > packages have USE flags enabled that aren't required by any dependent > package: it would be sort of like "emerge --depclean" but for USE > flags instead of packages themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] So emerge spoke ...

2015-02-10 Thread Chris McGinley
On 02/10/15 13:13, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2015, 18:15:44 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: >> How can I list all offending ones? > Check in /var/lib/portage/world if there are any lines starting with > "perl-core" > > If yes, remove these lines and try again. > I found th

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
n't think it'll set > up an icon automatically. Yes I agree. I am still curious what is the mechanism that causes icons to "appear" on the "desktop" of popular GUIs. I suspect the answer involves the magic of policykit/consolekit/dbus/hal/gvfs/gnome-vfs/fuse/hotplug/udisks/etc. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
included them to encourage answers that explain how things work. Chris

[gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
alled "kde" 9. Bonus: if a GUI is runing, an icon appears on the desktop. This icon can be used to umount or to quickly navigate to the mounted directory. 10. Bonus: if you use words like dbus/policykit/consolekit/COM/DDE/OLE that allow me to get a technical understanding of the mechanisms in play. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
, I thought the ssh folks were BSD-friendly and GPG was GPL-friendly. Thanks, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
he string "/usr/bin/pinentry" or "GPG_AGENT_INFO". Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
ss to manage complex/unique passwords. Perhaps in the future (2015) everybody will support something like the Yubikey HW OTP... in which case it won't matter if everyone sees my password! Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
pinentry dev-vcs/git -gpg mail-client/thunderbird -crypt tail /etc/portage/package.mask # 2014-07-05 Avoid password entry program that disallows paste app-crypt/pinentry Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?

2014-07-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
variable, ssh stopped trying to use pinentry to acquire my passphrase. However, I still do not understand how that variable got set or how/why ssh behaves differently when it is set. Chris

[gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?

2014-07-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
"pinentry sucks". pinentry is on my system because it is a dependency of gpg. gpg is on my system because I use thunderbird with +crypt (which is the default). Question: By what mechanism does ssh know to use the program "pinentry" to acquire my passphrase? Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] kswapd0 100% CPU with swapoff and no memory demands on system

2014-05-03 Thread Chris Stankevitz
have swap mounted? Q3: Is there anything I can do to prevent kswapd0 from using CPU on my system? e.g. disable SWAP in the kernel config I suspect the answer to Q1 is: a) kernel is not configured properly for my hardware or b) there is some bad side effect to my readonly root fs Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA + opencl = requires video_cards_radeon

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Éric DUNAND wrote: > Btw, if you intend to try the intel sdk for opencl, it actually > computes on the cpu, not the integrated graphics. Eric, Thank you. I will try to use beignet as I am using Intel hardware. Chris

[gentoo-user] init.d/openvpn starts init.d/net.eno1

2014-05-01 Thread Chris Stankevitz
figed to not start at all. However, I find myself in a situation where I need to switch my internet access from net.eno1 to wicd. Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] MESA + opencl = requires video_cards_radeon

2014-05-01 Thread Chris Stankevitz
-devel/gcc-4.6 ) Does this say "if you want to use opencl then you have to say that you are using a radeon graphics card, even if you are not using a radeon graphics card": Thank you, Chris

Actually, pay no mind... Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 3:05 PM, Chris Walters wrote: On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: .snip. Feel free to put the entire mail including headers on a pastebin / gist. Pastebin / gist? How would I do that? It is not really that important to me to post something that, by definition, is off

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:00:43 -0400 Chris Walters wrote: .snip. Is it this message? http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/Heartbleed-bug-td278708.html#a278743 Or is it another one? http://search.gmane.org/?query=&author=Chris+Walters&a

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:00:43 -0400 Chris Walters wrote: On 4/14/2014 11:58 AM, Chris Walters wrote: I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list .snip. Is it this message? http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/Heartbleed-bug-td278708

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 11:58 AM, Chris Walters wrote: I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test. So, is there a keyword block on

[gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'Heartbleed' bug

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Walters
ed web page has some information on it that is a good beginning for researching this bug, the the lists I mentioned above are probably the best source of information, after you understand the basics from the web page. Chris Walters

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2014-04-08 Thread Chris Stankevitz
VIDEO_CARDS setting should I use? 3. Which packages should be emerged? Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from > opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? This is solved: 1. opencv has USE=cuda. I have opencv-2.4.5 installed. 2. I had these mask rules: # 2013-12-24 Hold off on CUDA

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
e ~ # grep -r opencv /etc/portage/ /etc/portage/package.use:media-libs/opencv cuda opencl /etc/portage/package.mask:# 2014-03-13: Hold off on opencv upgrade /etc/portage/package.mask:>media-libs/opencv-2.4.5 > equery depends opencv Also uninteresting: jane ~ # equery depends opencv * These packages depend on opencv: jane ~ # Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
opencv greater than 2.4.5 (i.e. 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.8). I wonder if my greater than symbol was interpreted as a "reply quote": *** jane ~ # grep opencv /etc/portage/package.mask *** # 2014-03-13: Hold off on opencv upgrade *** >media-libs/opencv-2.4.5 Chris

[gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? I would not expect portage to want to do this because: 1. opencv-2.4.8 is unstable (and I run a stable system) 2. >opencv-2.4.5 is masked Thank you, Chris = jane ~ # grep opencv /

[gentoo-user] Where is /etc/conf.d/net.example?

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Stankevitz
? I'm using wicd now but I want to ditch wicd and replace it with the "generally accepted correct gentoo way". Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: Stephen Reynolds Sent: 02/03/14 11:15 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards if I run ifconfig -a this currently what I get. I have completed the installtion, but Kernel Modules I am not sure about. You can get the info o

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: Joseph Sent: 01/25/14 10:15 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py I'm using a python script "cdnpayroll.py" but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File "./cdnpayroll.py", line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid synt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: James Sent: 01/24/14 05:27 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels I had a problem with the doc useflag, so I've been reading across the net. So now all of those "docs" are installing. I re-emerged with the do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: James Sent: 01/24/14 01:14 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels Lee gmail.com> writes: > I am using grub2 also, but on another distro, with multiple > kernels/partitions. I don't have a lot of firsthand knowledg

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: Lee Sent: 01/24/14 12:46 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels However, IIRC there is a grub2 command called update-grub that scans all your boot sectors on all your devices. At least that's the way its _sposed_ to

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm compile error

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Stout
> FreeBSD use it > and say is stable. FreeBSD maybe not the reference on earth > but the > BSD's make a good job. When i saw all versions of Clang is masked. > > Isn't FBSD more similar than, say, Linux, to what OSX is, sort of? I could > be way off. But I think of OSX as being FBSD built for pe

[gentoo-user] Re: Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Michael Hampicke wrote: > > > But why don't you install lilo on /dev/sdb? You change change the boot > order in BIOS after that. > Michael, Thank you, that worked perfectly. Chris

[gentoo-user] Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
parameters do I used to avoid a clobber? Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
on, it seems most sources stick to these too-general or too-specific talking points: a) NFS is fast replacement for SMB b) edit your fstab and modify your exports to get it working Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to that account. Got'cha. If I go with NFS, I think I would be interested in is more of a "global squash". No matter which UID is making the connection, squash it over to the generic local UID which was granted rw access to the share. Thanks again, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
t; You probably want to tweak your squash settings. I never have heard that term before, but I'm hoping to find something like this: "Normally NFS requires you go compile a list of UIDs of people around the world who will ever connect to your server. The "squash settings" help you avoid that. Thanks again, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-19 Thread Chris Stankevitz
ome/cstankevitz/Desktop/ drwxr-xr-x 2 rootroot 2 Jan 19 20:37 sdn_collections Please note how the ownership changes from cstankevitz to root after I mount. What am I doing wrong? Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-19 Thread Chris Stankevitz
27;d be ok with an approach that will allow a regular user to mount any network share with the mount command. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 05/01/2014 01:31, Chris Stankevitz wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> It >> sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a >> PITA. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Stick with FAT, where thereis no ownership so Linux pretend all files > are owned by whoever mounted the drive. Neil, Thank you. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
nd everything has permissions 777, regardless of who plugged it in. > Considering the nature of a USB stick, this is almost always what you want. Alan, Thank you very much this is exactly what I needed to understand. It sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a PITA. Chris

[gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
continue to be writable by anyone? 3. How can I ensure that all files will appear to have the same owner; or, if this is not important, can you explain why it should not be a problem. And of course if you can refer me to a document that explains this I'm happy to read it. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Stankevitz
y. CUDA is a PITA because due to the closed-source short-and-curly dependence on NVIDIA corporation. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Stankevitz
h to radeon and let us know how it goes! PS: Installing the CUDA runtime and SDK is easier on Gentoo than on any other linux distro. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Stankevitz
age/package.mask This downgraded me to: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-325.15 USE="X acpi (multilib) tools -pax_kernel" Chris

[gentoo-user] Do I require static nodes?

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Stankevitz
tatic nodes? Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
no avail... Follow these steps: 0. undo whatever you did 1. emerge --sync 2. echo =sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 ~amd64 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords 3. update your system Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
m by adding RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" to make.conf' Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
required by dev-lang/ruby-1.9.3_p448[rdoc] # required by dev-ruby/rubygems-2.0.3[ruby_targets_ruby19] # required by virtual/rubygems-4 # required by dev-ruby/rake-0.9.6[-test,ruby_targets_ruby19] # required by dev-ruby/json-1.8.0[-test,-doc,ruby_targets_ruby18] # required by dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p247-r1 # required by sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8 Chris

[gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Stankevitz
s to add a bunch of ruby_targets_ruby20 use flags in /etc/portage/package.use Thank you, Chris === The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p247-r1[rdoc] # required by

[gentoo-user] xorg seizes during debugging

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
is that the display freezes. My CPU graph which is always updating at 10Hz stops updating. However, the mouse cursor moves. Can someone suggest a "teach a man to fish" approach I can use to figure out what is causing this? Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] Is the ebuild for dhcpcd wrong

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Allison
Hello, when emerging dhcpcd it attempts to retrieve the source from /distfiles/... looking at the mirror the file is actually at /gentoo/distfiles/... Is this the correct place to bring this to your attention? regards Chris -- _ o , , / | | |_| / \_/ \_| | \__/ \/ \/ |/ \/ \/ \/|/ (|

[gentoo-user] USB disk automatically mounting: how does it work

2013-10-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
ut an icon on the desktop. The reason lowly users can mount and write to these devices is E. PS: These topics are a blur in my mind: udev hotplug coldplug session pam. I suspect these words are used to fill in some of the variables in my pseudo-description above. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I downgrade chromium below 29.0.1547.57?

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
e science team knows about the breakage! :-) Works great, thank you. I filed a bug also. Chris

[gentoo-user] How do I downgrade chromium below 29.0.1547.57?

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
el since I use nvidia. Chris :(

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Stankevitz
fit. Our tools should be a joy to use, and should help the user to appreciate the richness of the Linux and free software community, and the flexibility of free software. Kind of funny... Gentoo's mandate is sort of at odds with itself. A joy to use while simultaneously giving full flexibility. Chris

[gentoo-user] The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Stankevitz
n a stable system but I've been afraid to sync for fear I'll get sucked into having to mask/unmask packages and keep up with the unfolding drama. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to run a 32 bit xubuntu that is used only to view webpages that demand flash. I start it up ~once/week. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
s not a or b. I'm sure it's not c either since I just made it up. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: > Run "eselect locale", first with the "list" parameter and then the "set" > parameter as appropriate. It's easier. Kerin, all, Thank for your help. SVN (and I'm sure other apps) are happy now. Chris

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