Re: [gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/09/2011 12:56:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:38:37 +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > > Another way to do it is with find: > > find /home/mark/Builder -type f -iname '*csv' -exec cp {} > > ~mark/CorrelationTests \; > > Replace \; with + for a faster process, as Mark said there

[gentoo-user] non-root user switch gcc version ?

2011-02-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler. Is there something similar in GenToo? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

[gentoo-user] strange library dependencies

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've just emerged app-text/djview4 which went through without any errors. But invoking djview4 fails due to missing libraries libdjvulibre.so.15 and libtiff.so.3 On my system there the more recent versions libdjvulibre.so.21libtiff.so.5 I don't understand how something that's just

Re: [gentoo-user] strange library dependencies

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Please ignore! There were an older binary somewhere in my PATHs. Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/25/2011 04:33:20 PM, Dale wrote: > Well, I think my machine is possessed or something. I'm getting > random > reboots here. When it does this, it is like hitting the reset > button. > > It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this. I noticed the > first > time the other day and

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background & out of screen?

2011-03-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/01/2011 07:56:40 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > is there any way to move running (already started) process > to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal > so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? > > Sometimes I start updating my server, but it keeps running > for long

[gentoo-user] *** Warning - beware of sys-apps/coretuils-8.10

2011-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, as I've been just be bitten by this, I'd like to warn you. My root partition has an ext4 FS while other partitions use BTRFS. But the bug shown below seems to be related to the ext4 FS on my root partition. I've just tried to install the 12.6.37-gentoo-r2 kernel. make modules_installed told

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
or > related to btrfs too? > But beware of the bug I've reported last Saturday which is revealed by /bin/cp if you have >= coreutils-8.10 installed. Only the 2.6.38 kernel (from today) has fixed this for btrfs but AFAIK not for ext4, yet. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl

[gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32 Probably, the function get_libdir (defined in /usr/portage/eclass/multili

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 11:13:36 AM, walt wrote: > On 03/21/2011 02:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. > > > > I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but > ... > > > > Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 10:19:07 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. > > I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... > > For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of >

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 08:32:22 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for "the best" filesystem for a small multi-purpose > server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). > For me very important features are: > > snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) > journali

[gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? It assume it's connected to so

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/31/2011 01:26:05 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have a big problem on a very import machine here. > Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, > it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory > and therefore unresponsive or it crashes.

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/31/2011 01:32:30 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > 2011/3/31 Helmut Jarausch : > > Hi, > > > > I have a big problem on a very import machine here. > > Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, > > it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of me

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/10/2011 03:50:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > I read about again and again is a RAID user who loses 1 drive and > then, while in the process of fixing the RAID, loses a second drive. > Most of us (myself included) buy identical d

Re: [gentoo-user] restrictive equery depends

2010-01-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
package given on the command line.) Thanks Neil! Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] krita - missing install target (STRANGE)

2010-01-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ld doesn't contain an install target. What might be the reason? (app-office/krita is cmake driven but re-emerging cmake didn't help.) Many thanks for a suggestion on what to try, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] krita - missing install target (STRANGE)

2010-01-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 29 Jan, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just emerged app-office/krita on an AMD64 machine without problems. >> But on an older i686 machine it fails strangely >> >>>>> In

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers

2010-01-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
h I need anyway). In addition plugins are working (better) now since firefox-bin is a 32 bit application on a 64 bit machine which isn't ideal. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ckage order > * Generated new 5_order.rr > * All prepared. Starting rebuild > emerge --oneshot --pretend sys-devel/binutils:0 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] sys-devel/binutils-2.20 &g

[gentoo-user] RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" - what's that?

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
nt, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
restarting udev hasn't helped. Since the rule >> > is hal related, I also restarted hald -- which hasn't helped. >> > >> > >> What happens if you do: >> >> mount -t devpts none /dev/pts >> >> Does the problem go away? >> >> -James > > Eureka! Problem fixed. > > Looking in /etc/mtab, the last line is: > >none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 > > Perhaps the mount devpts command should have been issued as part of > emerging udev, openrc, or sysinit ??? Should this be reported to > b.g.o.?? > > David > I have the following line in my /etc/fstab (I can't remember if I put it there myself or not) devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 Since a "mount -a" is issued quite early during boot, this is mounted, as well. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" - what's that?

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Feb, Justin wrote: > On 08/02/10 09:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> the recent dev-python/matplotlib-0.99.1.1-r1 contains the statement >> RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" >> >> Does anybody know what that means? >> >> Does it indicate

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again

2010-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new version? This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they go to different slots. Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that. Thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again

2010-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new >> version? >> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again

2010-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
: 726,272 kB > Conflict: 499 blocks > > Sure am glad I got DSL now. lol That would take me a week on dial-up. Thanks Dale, but what should I use autounmask for? No version of kde is masked here. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again

2010-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10 Feb, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:36:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new >> version? >> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages tho

Re: [gentoo-user] in-memory database

2010-02-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
a tmpfs directory. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] script to check if a package is installed ?

2010-02-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
at to replace for CHECK_IF_INSTALLED ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
CD. Otherwise the GRML64 RescueCD has a true 64 bit version of memtester. I have made the experience that memtester finds errors more quickly than memtest86+ . Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ed RAM speed if more than 1 memory bank is installed. I have been burnt by that several times. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] zsh and sudo

2010-02-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
gt; /usr/sbin/useradd > > So sudo has the PATH set correctly, but it doesn't actually use the > correct path. Fishy! SNIP AFAIK, sudo invokes the shell specified in the environment. What is echo $SHELL saying? Here, is says /bin/zsh and your examples works just fine. Helmut. -- He

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
168.1.5". >> Just one note, are you using a binary version of firefox, etc, on a 64 bit machine? I had the same problem here. This was easily solved by replacing the binary version by the native (freshly compiled) version here. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
too mupdf" google had >> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what >> they were talking about. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/280469 > > I hope it at least makes into sunrise. There is a version or two in > the gentoo-china overlay, but th

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks to 'Stroller' and Willie I couldn't just believe in such an archaic user interface. Helmut. On 25 Feb, Stroller wrote: > The quoted stated "vi-like bindings", so I would advise you to state > that you've tried the j & k keys for up & dow

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-file search & replace of text

2010-03-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
useful The link in the following web page is broken! http://centoshacker.com/kabir/utility/global-search-and-replace-using-the-fgres-utility.html Download from http://wiki.uni-konstanz.de/pitz/fgres.html Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] mail client for mbox format sought

2010-03-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
x27;Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync' I've been googling around but any suggestions to remove some index files didn't help either. So, does anybody know a solution? Many thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. Is there something easier than eix --only-names -I 'kde-base/*' | xargs emerge -uv1 -j4 --keep-going Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 3 Mar, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . >> emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. >> >> Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] do we have a write-redirect snapshot system on linux?

2010-03-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 3 Mar, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > both lvm2 and zfs are copy-on-write snapshot system. do we have a > write-redirect snapshot system on linux? > If I remember right, this can be achieved with aufs2 . Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aach

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
t; So anyone know what is wrong here? I can only report that I've built a 2.6.33-gentoo kernel with the device (sensors) Winbond W83627EHF/EF/EHG/EG built in (not just a module), then ran sensors-detect and now, xsensor works just fine (on a Phenom-II) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
the first one to support the Phenom (K10) temperature sensor.) Helmut. On 22 Mar, Harry Putnam wrote: > Helmut Jarausch writes: > >> On 21 Mar, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> Harry Putnam writes: >>> >>> Forgot to give kernel version: >>> uname -r &

[gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ent than say 10.2 What's the difference between the 8.x and the 10.x series? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 25 Mar, ich bins wrote: > Am 25.03.2010 10:45, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: >> Hi, >> >> would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver >> versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports >> Xorg-7.x . >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 26 Mar, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > >> On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch >> wrote: > >> > Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree? >> > Helmut. >> >> I can't answer that (as far as I know

[gentoo-user] ghostscript / a2ps Courier invalidfont

2010-03-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
-fonts which is blocking media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] X11 keyboard permanent mode switch ?

2010-03-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I have to press it again (each time) to enter normal ASCII characters). If I'm lucky I can revert this to normal if I press the menu-key and the right control-key 'at the right timing'. Is this a bug or a feature (xorg-server-1.7.6) Many thanks for a comment, Helmut. -- Helmut Jaraus

[gentoo-user] Xauthority and su

2010-04-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ately, sux (from X11-misc/sux) doesn't work in that case. I always get X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Are there any means to achieve this? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Xauthority and su

2010-04-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
7;re using ssh -Y. > Hi Jonas, unfortunately, I don't understand your advice. I do have X11 forwarding configured and I don't have any problems when working as the same user for which I logged in via ssh -Y. But if I change the user by using su (doesn't work) or sux (wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Xauthority and su

2010-04-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 Apr, Jonas de Buhr wrote: > >>I do have X11 forwarding configured and I don't have any problems >>when working as the same user for which I logged in via ssh -Y. >>But if I change the user by using su (doesn't work) or sux (works on >>a local machine), Xauthorization fails. > > oh wait... m

[gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 . Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already? Many thank for some info, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to unstable

2010-04-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
". When doing emerge -j - which is a very useful feature on a multicore machine - sometime a package just stops to build (which is reported as failing package). Just emerge it again. So, I'd say some new features are not ready, yet, but still very useful as they are. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] USe rsync to backup RAID0 to RAID1?

2010-04-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
he links? > > It does. I don't think it copies hard links, as well. Therefore I prefer the additional option -H Furthermore I add the -u option for not overriding files on the destination which are newer. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming practices

2010-04-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the installation of a package (unofficial gimp-gap) is 'aborted due to poor programming practices' probably since there have been lots of dereferencing type-punned pointers and similar warnings. How can I forced portage to install it anyway? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming practices

2010-04-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 19 Apr, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:17 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> the installation of a package (unofficial gimp-gap) is 'aborted due to >> poor programming practices' probably since there have been lots of >> dereferencin

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Apr, Justin wrote: > On 20/04/10 09:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? >> I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those >> of gentoo-sources). >> But I didn'

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? >> I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those >> of gentoo-sources). >&

[gentoo-user] CUPS-1.5 (SVN) anybody/anywhere

2010-04-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has anybody experience with CUPS-1.5 (i.e. the svn version)? Does anybody know where to find an ebuild for net-print/cups- ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] /dev/.udev - safe to remove ?

2010-04-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi rkhunter showed a warning because there is a /dev/.udev directory on my machine. qfile didn't find any 'owner'. Is it safe to remove that directory? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] mixing python-2 and python-3 howto

2010-04-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
and I know about eselect python but do I have to switch Python (by using eselect) before emerge a given packages. And does this work at all (a Gentoo system where different parts use different versions of Python)? Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer

[gentoo-user] kernel: conftest segfault error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after upgrading to glibc-1.22.1 I get this strange (non-fatal) error message in my /var/log/messages. Has anybody seen this as well or does anybody know where this comes from? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University

[gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to bypass processing by CUPS and send some postscript/pdf file directly to a USB / network printer. Does anybody know how this can be achieved? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Apr, David W Noon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:10:02 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about > [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto: > >>I'd like to bypass processing by CUPS and send some postscript/pdf file >>directly to a USB / network printer. >>Does anybo

Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 29 Apr, Stroller wrote: > > On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>> ... >>> Why do you need to bypass CUPS? >> >> Thanks, it's just for debugging. >> >> Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers >> hang

[gentoo-user] acroread-9.3.2 produces "invalid" postscript?

2010-04-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
s the nice feature of printing several pages on a sheet of paper which is very handy when printing slides of a presentation) Thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] RFC ebuild for a non-standard Python package

2010-05-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to install the new package expy on sourceforge http://expy.sourceforge.net/ Unfortunately, the contents of it are a bit non-standard. First, the tarball has the unusual name expy.6.6.tgz. Second, it untars in to the current directory (no subdirectory expy-6.6) Third, it has setup.

[gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
indeed, emerge -auv1 -j4 --keep-going $(qlist -IC kde-base/) upgraded 24 packages. Where does this discrepancy come from? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 4 May, Bert Swart wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> the following situation puzzles me a lot. >> >> My 'standard' way of updating is >> emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --t

Re: [gentoo-user] libdb no longer slotted?

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
that here python-2.6.5-r2 uses 4.7 while perl-5.10.1 uses 4.8 and my system is running quite happily (at least, I think so) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 4 May, Kraus Philipp wrote: > > Am 04.05.2010 um 13:09 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > >> On Sat, 1 May 2010 12:58:34 +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: >> I would suggest dual-booting... >>> >>> Sorry, that's no solution, because it is only one network service, >>> that >>> need's a older glibc. I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 5 May, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file > system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want. > > Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere. I don't want > to register a whole bunch of files

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 6 May, Roger Mason wrote: > Stroller writes: > >> On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: >>> ... >>> I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds >>> the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of >>> the >>> kernel on the install cd. >> >> A

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
veryone else for your help. > One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list) Boot from a rescue CD (preferably http://www.sysresccd.org/ ) then execute lspci -k it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot. Good luck, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Source DSP tools for learning?

2010-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ab.org) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] logrotate - strange error message

2010-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have the following file as /etc/logrotate.d/denyhosts /var/log/denyhosts { missingok notifempty create 0640 root root sharedscripts prerotate /etc/init.d/denyhosts stop endscript postrotate /etc/init.d/den

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate - strange error message

2010-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10 May, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 10 May 2010 09:46:11 Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> I have the following file as /etc/logrotate.d/denyhosts >> /var/log/denyhosts { >> missingok >> notifempty >> create 0640 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11 May, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:47:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I still have huge breakage with gnomecanvas and other things, meaning >> that lots of gtk apps are broken right now for me. > > This worked for me > > lafilefixer --justfixit > emerge --oneshot --jobs

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD-"Container" ?

2010-06-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ent idea: have a look at app-cdr/gaffitter It approximates the so-called knapsack problem of optimal packing. You can then use this information to burn and afterwards delete the files. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] mkfs.btrfs check for bad blocks - howto

2010-06-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ms to have gone. What can I do about this? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.btrfs check for bad blocks - howto

2010-06-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10 Jun, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:15:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when creating a file system on a partition on a brand new hard disk, >> I have always used the '-c' twice to check for bad blocks. >> This works f

[gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help

2010-06-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition. Unfortunately, the backup version is 4 weeks old. But my /usr partition is up-to-date and I have binary build-pkgs. What's the fastest way to restore the portage-relevant data on the root partition? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help

2010-06-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 14 Jun, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition. >> Unfortunately, the backup version is 4 weeks old. >> But my /usr partition is up-to-date and I have >&

Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help

2010-06-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 14 Jun, Dru Kargin wrote: > On 06/14/10 12:19, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >>> On 14 Jun, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> >>>> On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>>&

[gentoo-user] annoying message - /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 is not a symbolic link

2010-06-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
ibpng:1.2 Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] gnome applications die when run as root

2010-06-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 24 Jun, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:57:55 +0200, Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: > >> > But, >> > an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system >> > @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 >> > >> > How can I find out, why? >> >> What does `equery d gcc`

[gentoo-user] VFAQ mirroring a live root FS

2010-07-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please explain to me what difficulties might occur if I mirror a live root file system and use that for booting (in an emergency case). I know that for proper mirroring I may mirror a live root file system but I have to rsync it after booting from a different device (USB,...)

[gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've discovered balsa , a great mail client, btw. How can I configure the application which is called for a pdf attachment. I cannot see any configuration item for balsa itself, so I suppose it must be a Gnome setting. Currently it's set to acroread, but I'd like to set it evince. I've chec

[gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image// usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' is not a directory: No such file or directory Ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 17:39:36, Arttu V. wrote: > On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > this errors baffles me. > > > > Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine > > but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 21:55:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:35:41 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > instead of > > /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ > > python2.6/site-packages > > > > there is a file > > /var/tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 22:09:09, Arttu V. wrote: > On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't help > > > > instead of > > /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ > > python2.6/site-packages > > > > there is a file >

[gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments Looking at this line it shows if test $ax_python_header != no; then So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header. Putting some echo statements into configure

Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/06/10 19:34:29, Alex Schuster wrote: > Helmut Jarausch writes: > > > I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) > > > > ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments > > > > Looking at this line it shows >

Re: [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch < > jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've discovered balsa , a great mail client, btw. > > How can I configure the application which is called for a pdf > > attachment. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/09/10 14:02:39, Arttu V. wrote: > On 7/6/10, Arttu V. wrote: > > I filed a bug (#327171). > > The bug is marked fixed, and at least on my testing system emerge > exact-image is successful. > Yes, it installs just fine now (unfortunately no revision bump, so I didn't notice myself). Helmut

[gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since a few days logrotate is failing due to error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory What has changed, what am I missing? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/12/10 11:00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > since a few days logrotate is failing due to > > error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory > > do you have the process accounting deamon runni

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