[gentoo-user] [OT] how to "extract" a GIT repository

2010-07-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
uncompressed sources. I could use ebuild unpack and then look at /var/tmp/portage//work/ but is there a direct way (or how does portage do this)? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] firefox-3.6.7 any flash player on 64bit

2010-07-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
the worst version of Firefox ever. Or am I the only one with problems? Thanks for some comments, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] Access to an embedded microSDHC card?

2010-07-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, when I attach my Garmin GPSmap 62s with an installed microSDHC card to a USB port, I only see one device which is the internal storage of the Garmin. On Windows I see a second mass storage device (the microSD card) in addition. How to access this internal SD card or how to debug the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Access to an embedded microSDHC card?

2010-07-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/30/10 10:25:07, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Friday 30 July 2010 10.03:11 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when I attach my Garmin GPSmap 62s with an installed microSDHC card > to > > a USB port, I only see one device which is the internal storage of >

[gentoo-user] CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT

2010-08-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed for nxssh, I've got the message !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection Does anybody have an idea what that means? Thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT

2010-08-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/20/10 09:35:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed for > nxssh, I've got the message > !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection > > Does anybody have an idea what that mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT

2010-08-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/20/10 15:43:20, walt wrote: > On 08/20/2010 12:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed > for > > nxssh, I've got the message > > !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot i

[gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local distribution file. I've tried SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2" but "file://" doesn't seem to be supported. Is there any alternative? Thanks for a hint, Helmut. (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68)

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to > a > > local distribution file. > > > > I've tried >

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks, Mick, Robin and Alan! Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to > a > > local distribution file. > > > > I've tried >

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 19:17:05, Arttu V. wrote: > On 8/24/10, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > >> On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I'd like to create an ebuild

[gentoo-user] portage slang - interpreter sought

2012-04-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, a package at its 101st alpha version must be a bit crazy but it's probably me. Trying to emerge dev-python/xhtml2pdf I get the following message which I don't understand. They must be new in portage-2.2.0_alpha101 : !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-python/xhtml2pdf" has unmet requi

Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-04-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/26/2012 05:09:58 AM, Michael Mol wrote: I've had two segfaults I'd never seen before. One in sudo and one in rdesktop. Updates later when I get things better tracked down. I am at glibc-2.15-r1 on AMD64 with no problems so far, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/02/2012 02:51:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012

[gentoo-user] Gnome mimeinfo cache

2012-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I don't know Gnome but I use some applications, like the mail-client/balsa. It opens suitable applications for given mime types (in attachments). The application invoked is read from /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache . Unfortunately, that file is rebuild after each emerge of a rela

[gentoo-user] ssh stalls - please help

2012-05-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, probably since I've emerged openssh-6.0_p1 and/or git-sources-3.4_rc? I have problems with ssh. scp as well as filezilla as well as rsync -e 'ssh' stall when transmitting a somewhat larger file. This might be as few as 500 Kb on a slow network (256 Kbit/s). But it occurs on a fast netwo

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh stalls - please help

2012-05-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/09/2012 11:56:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2012 09:09:28 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > The problem is caused by the server running openssh-0.6_p1 with the hpn > USE flag, which is enabled by default. Either downgrade to 5.x or > re-emerge with USE="-hpn". I did the latter a

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI - time to mask ati-drivers above 12.4 if you're < Radeon 5400

2012-06-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/11/2012 11:26:56 AM, Adam Carter wrote: 12.4 is the last Catalyst to support Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series, so if you're using them you probably want to; # echo ">x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4" >> /etc/portage/package.mask And if you're not concerned about 3D or power saving, maybe think

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Should I re-emerge after switching to new gcc profile?

2012-06-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/21/2012 09:44:28 PM, walt wrote: On 06/21/2012 08:40 AM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Now, the question is: > Do I need to re-emerge something due to having new gcc? > I'm pretty sure not, but just wanted to ask. Technically, you should re-emerge c++ apps because you are now using a newer vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 from this disk: Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 by

[gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version have put it at block 1. Now, I'm going to upgrade an older system. Is it safe to repartition it by letting the first partition start 63 and shortening the first partition by 62 blocks? (I will loose the first parti

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/03/2012 09:25:20 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.07.2012 09:09, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older > version have put it at block 1. > > Now, I'm go

[gentoo-user] Heads Up - gcc-4.5.4 makes trouble

2012-07-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've just been bitten by this * surprise * After upgrading to gcc-4.5.4 (from 4.5.3) some packages / ebuilds fail since gcc-4.5.4 doesn't include the libffi.so.4 library. I had to rebuild dev-lang/perl (all versions here 2.7 3.2) dev-libs/gobject-introspection dev-libs/gobject-introsp

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - gcc-4.5.4 makes trouble

2012-07-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/16/2012 12:02:25 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I've just been bitten by this * surprise * > > After upgrading to gcc-4.5.4 (from 4.5.3) > some packages / ebuilds fail since gcc-4.5.4 doesn'

[gentoo-user] VFAT problem

2012-07-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a Garmin GPS with a 32GB SD card. If I attach my device to the USB port, a directory listing looks totally scrambled. A listing of the smaller (2GB) 'internal' storage device is just fine. And I am sure the listing of the bigger SD card has been fine earlier when less storage was us

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-3.5 with 3.4 kernel?

2012-07-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/23/2012 04:16:41 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage now installs sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.5. sys-kernel/gentoo-sources is at 3.4.5. Is it even adviced to do that, installing 3.5 headers and running a 3.4 kernel? This sounds like a bad idea to me. Why are you not using the 3.5.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Web page to pdf

2012-07-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I couldn't find a solution by using Google. Say, I have a web page consisting of the file index.html with links to other files (and so on) in the same directory or subdirectories thereof. I'd like to generate a single pdf file *** where links are converted to (pdf) bookmarks ***. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/14/2012 04:07:39 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern > features like reiser4 or xfs Unfortunately btrfs is still generally slower than ext4 for example. Checkout http://openbenchmarking.org/, eg http://openbenchmarking.org/s/ext4%20btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: glibc detected memory corruption

2012-09-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/12/2012 12:41:20 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hi List Every once in a while, my mplayer can't play a video from the intertubes. It just crashes on load, it really drives me mad sometimes. I then need to x-kill the window, and if I started from the console, I can't even get back i

[gentoo-user] sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Doing, e.g., sshfs -o transform_symlinks -o Cipher="blowfish" numa-sv:/Save /numa-sv works just fine. df shows numa-sv:/Save 148976776 102070872 40882408 72% /numa-sv grep /numa-sv /etc/mtab shows numa-

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/13/2012 04:23:15 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > > Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. > I cannot unmount it ! > > Doing, e.g., > > sshfs -o transform_symlinks -o Cipher="

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python precision

2012-09-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/21/2012 08:31:45 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 120920 Willie WY Wong wrote: > Unless you want to load the math module every time you start Python, > it is perhaps better to create an alias in Bash > using the `-i' option of Python: > alias python-calc='python -i loadmath.py' > or if you only nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/24/2012 05:34:51 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 13/09/12 14:37, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Doing, e.g., sshfs -o transform_symlinks -o Cipher="blowfish" numa-sv:/Save /numa-sv works just fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/06/2012 02:49:08 AM, Philip Webb wrote: The machine is running c 16 hr/day , so I have to ensure that cron jobs wb run at times when it's awake, which is not predictable on any given day. Have a look at fcron. You can specify an hour *after startup* of the machine. Helmut.

[gentoo-user] Synaptics driver freezes my kernel

2012-10-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm using kernel 3.6.1-gentoo (which claims to have fixed a synaptics modules bug) with xorg-server-1.11.4-r1 (I can't use a more recent one because my ATI graphics card is "too old" for ati-drivers > 12.4) and xf86-input-synaptics-1.6.2. After a few minutes, it segfaults the kernel ==>

[gentoo-user] Heads Up - mesa-9.0 needs media-libs/glu in addition

2012-10-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, upgrading from mesa-9.0_pre20120918 to mesa-9.0 broke some package, among them ati-drivers. They have remove glu. Installing media-libs/glu in addition now (never needed it before) restores the essential /usr/include/GL/glu.h file. Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics driver freezes my kernel

2012-10-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/14/2012 12:44:32 AM, Gregory M. Turner wrote: On 10/9/2012 4:57 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm using kernel 3.6.1-gentoo (which claims to have fixed a synaptics modules bug) with xorg-server-1.11.4-r1 (I can't use a more recent one because my ATI graphics card is "t

[gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

2012-10-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've managed to make one of my systems next to unusable since I cannot start an xterm anymore. In the logs I get "opentty failed out of pty devices" This occurred after a reboot today. It must have something to do with a recent update to udev. I remember a similar problem a few days or

Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

2012-10-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
58 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:53:57 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I've managed to make one of my systems next to unusable since I cannot > start an xterm anymore. > In the logs I get "opentty failed out of pty devices" Add udev-mount to the sysi

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/24/2012 03:54:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: It looks as if Eric Sandeen has found the culprit and Theodore Ts'o has suggested this patch yesterday https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/28/309

[gentoo-user] [OT] firmware update for an external (USB) hard drive

2012-10-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, googling didn't help me. I've just got an Intenso Memory Center. According to smartctl it contains a Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001-9YN166 hard disk. And smartctl reminds me to check for a firmware update, and indeed, there is one. But how can I update the firmware for hard disk connecte

[gentoo-user] qfile alternative?

2012-11-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, qfile doesn't find the corresponding packages all the time, e.g. qfile /usr/bin/pq_config showed nothing, but re-installing dev-db/postgresql-base changed that file. Is there an alternative to qfile to find out the 'owner' of a file? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] qfile alternative?

2012-11-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/02/2012 12:57:24 AM, James Cloos wrote: Many thanks, James. Since app-portage/portage-utils is a portage specific package, it would be nice if it would take all portage actions (like eselect) into account. You might want to open an RFE bug report for app-portage/portage-utils suggesti

[gentoo-user] Python3 - how to disable for an individual package?

2012-11-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since some Python packages are still broken w.r.t. Python3 and still more w.r.t. Python3.3, I'd like to disable installation of Python3 related files for same (but not all) packages. How can this be achieved? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Python3 - how to disable for an individual package?

2012-11-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/03/2012 01:18:46 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Nov 3, 2012 4:33 AM, "Helmut Jarausch" wrote: > > Hi, > > since some Python packages are still broken w.r.t. Python3 and still more w.r.t. Python3.3, I'd like to disable > installation of Python3 relat

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

2012-11-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you can't start Firefox or Thunderbird in remote NX session, downgrade cairo on the server until the nx libs are patched to work properly with it.

[gentoo-user] PYTHON_COMPAT and setuptools

2012-11-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the new setuptools-0.6.30-r1 ebuild has PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_5,2_6,2_7,3_1,3_2,3_3} pypy{1_8,1_9} jython2_5 ) still, it tries to pull in Python3.2 which I've masked. Can anybody explain to me what's going on? Many thanks, Helmut.

[gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a small local network with local Inet numbers 192.168.1.x . How can I request a specific Inet number for a given device (PC,printer). Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this changes. I'd like to assign fix adresses since the net is used by only

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/08/2012 09:18:35 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: Hello, > Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this > changes. DHCP clients can neither request nor suggest a specific IP address, so they don't "try to get" anything. It's just the DHCP server giving out the pre

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/08/2012 09:45:34 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:18:35 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > > Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but > > sometime this changes. > > DHCP clients can neither request nor suggest a specific IP address, so > they don't "try to g

Re: [gentoo-user] Trailing colon and integer in output of emerge

2012-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/12/2012 01:28:08 PM, Redcap wrote: Today I noticed that emerge adds a colon together with an integer to the version of every package it wants to update, e.g. it says [ebuild U ~] kde-base/kmail-4.9.3:4 [4.9.2:4] USE="handbook kontact (- aqua) -debug {-test}" 0 kB I never noticed

[gentoo-user] WLAN with fixed IP

2012-11-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to assign fixed IP numbers to computers of a local network. Using dhcp as in modules="wpa_supplicant" wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext -iwlan0" config_wlan0="dhcp" works just fine but depends on dhcp for IP assignment. The following does not work, i.e. the network is not working modu

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN with fixed IP

2012-11-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/13/2012 11:53:49 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:39:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I'd like to assign fixed IP numbers to computers of a local network. I prefer to do this on the DHCP server, that way all my network configuration is in one place and if

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN with fixed IP

2012-11-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/13/2012 12:15:35 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11/13/2012 11:53:49 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:39:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I'd like to assign fixed IP numbers to computers of a local network. I prefer to do this on the DHCP server, that wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

2012-11-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/06/2012 12:42:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource >> NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you c

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN with fixed IP

2012-11-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/13/2012 07:08:24 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 13.11.2012 17:27, schrieb Bruce Hill: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:52:25PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'd like to assign fixed IP numbers to computers of a local >>>> map MAC add

[gentoo-user] Wine anybody?

2012-11-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has any been successful in using Wine-1.5.17 on an AMD 64bit machine? When I run /usr/bin/wine it says file not found. I'm seeing the wine32 and wine64 use flags. Removing the wine64 use flags makes emerge fail : configure: error: No OpenGL library found on this system. eselect opengl l

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] Wine anybody?

2012-11-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/19/2012 10:00:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:42:18 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > has any been successful in using Wine-1.5.17 on an AMD 64bit machine? > > When I run /usr/bin/wine it says file not found. > > I'm seeing the wine

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding an extra patch to an ebuild

2012-11-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/21/2012 09:38:26 AM, Adam Carter wrote: It looks like i have hit this gcc 4.7 build bug: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53113 Theres a patch attached to the bug i'd like to apply. Unfortunately the gcc 4.7.2 ebuild doesnt have "epatch_user", so i need to take the other appr

[gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-11-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this is nuissance all the time. Updating a machine which hasn't been updated for a long(er) time I try emerge -vup --changed-use --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system @world >/root/UPD But many times this stops prematurely with messages like emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-11-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks to all who helped me. I didn't think of --keep-going having an effect if --pretend is active. Helmut.

[gentoo-user] hard disk name changes within initramfs

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, on one of several machines I have a problem with initramfs. The machine has a single SATA drive. When the kernel boots it shows that it is called /dev/sda, Now, within the init script of my initramfs it tries to mount /dev/sda2 as root but fails. Since the initramfs spawns a shell (b

Re: [gentoo-user] hard disk name changes within initramfs

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks to Todd, Paul and J. Roeleveld. I have replaced device names like /dev/sda1 by UUIDs in my fstab which I have copied to /usr/src/initramfs/etc, as well. Having rebuild the kernel (with an integrated initramfs) seems to work. Thanks again, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/07/2012 12:01:29 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text. Put black text on a black background and

[gentoo-user] openrc - network configuration fails - how to debug it

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a problem with wlan without dhcpd. I have created the bug report below but didn't get any comments. Perhaps, some here on this list has an idea how to debug the problem. Here my bug report sys-apps/openrc (0.11.8 and earlier) doesn't play well with wlan without dhcp, i.e. This do

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/08/2012 12:26:35 AM, Dale wrote: If I figure out something or Helmut's config works, I'll post back. Here is my ebuild app-portage/eix-.ebuild in my local overlay. Hopefully it helps, Helmut. # Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU Gener

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages & eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/09/2012 11:10:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:13:16 -0800, Grant wrote: > This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of a way to > install only certain packages from a layman overlay and > use eix-test-obsolete? I don't add such overlays to make conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/10/2012 09:50:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 06:37:37 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. > dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man > pages. You can check with: Nothing here

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc - network configuration fails - how to debug it

2012-12-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/09/2012 05:50:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:18:49 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > config_wlan0="192.168.1.3 netmsk 255.255.255.0" ^ If this is a direct paste from your config, there's the problem. Thanks Neil for spo

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address

2012-12-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/11/2012 12:33:15 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: For years I have been using ifconfig and some simple shell magic to extract the ip address from the adsl ppp session when it changes. The latest update has changed the output format of ifconfig breaking things so if ifconfig cant be relied on,

[gentoo-user] disk accesses per subdirectory tree

2012-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to put some subdirectory trees (of / and of /usr and of /home) onto an SSD. For that I'd like to count the disk accesses which go to a given subdirectory tree in some given time intervall. Is there any utility which can measure this? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/11/2013 03:04:01 PM, walt wrote: This seems to me like very happy news indeed, but I'm interested in contrary opinions. There's a recent thread discussing how udev-197 breaks lvm2, but that's a trivial fix once you know about it. The problem is caused because many apps including lvm2

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build gcc-4.6.3 on old Pentium III

2013-01-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/12/2013 03:24:47 PM, Mick wrote: Not sure why it fails, or how to progress from here: ... checking how to run the C preprocessor... /mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/sys- devel/gcc-4.6.3/work/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/sys- devel/gcc-4.6.3/work/build/./gcc/ -B/usr/i

Re: [gentoo-user] Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/22/2013 08:41:14 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I have this old E2180 processor and no money as of now to buy a new rig :P I'm trying to overclock my CPU using BIOS host clock control and everything is fine at 2.6 Ghz up to bootloader. Kernel segfaults. Any idea why? I'm running pf-kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] can not print pdf w/e-document viewer

2013-01-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/24/2013 05:43:06 PM, Joseph wrote: I have a document "letter" size in landscape mode and I'm trying to print it with e-document viewer 4-pages per side and it will not print. Some documents prints OK but this one will not print it. Are there better programs in Linux for printing pdf f

Re: [gentoo-user] can not print pdf w/e-document viewer

2013-01-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/25/2013 11:33:45 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: On 25/01/13 18:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:43:06 -0700, Joseph wrote: > >> I have a document "letter" size in landscape mode and I'm trying to >> print it with e-document viewer 4-pages per side and it will not >> print. S

Re: [gentoo-user] can not print pdf w/e-document viewer

2013-01-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/25/2013 02:43:49 PM, Joseph wrote: On 01/25/13 06:41, Bruce Hill wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:00:18PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > there is also pdf2pdf - I cant find which package its in, but its > saved > a few files for me (cleans/scrubs the pdf code as part of

[gentoo-user] certificates - hwo to accept these

2013-11-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a local package dev-python/grin with ESVN_REPO_URI="https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk/"; Since some time I get Unpacking source... * subversion check out start --> * repository: https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk Error validating server certifica

Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/11/2013 03:01:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoug

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/01/2014 11:07:22 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk often goes significant periods wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/08/2014 11:39:21 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 08.01.2014 19:47, schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2014-01-08, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Looking forward to some clever suggestions ;-) > > Well, I'd start by running memtest86 overnight just to eliminate the > possibility of marginal m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/09/2014 10:59:45 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > You can use sys-apps/memtester without physical access to the machine. > I had cases where memtester found errors which memtest86 didn't. > One of these cases was a machine

[gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, hopefully someone can help. I have a system where KDE 4.12.0 / 4.11.5 is very slow. The log contains many message like dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.login1' failed: Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success console-kit-daemon[

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/15/2014 12:37:44 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:21:37 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > The log contains many message like > > dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.login1' failed: >Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbu

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
the issue persists. For the hell of it, I ran 'emerge -e sys-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib' again. six hours and a reboot later and nothing has changed :( Many thanks, you did it for me - I was afraid of that outcome Helmut On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:21:37 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/20/2014 06:02:33 PM, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/14 18:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/20/14 18:30, Joseph wrote: After upgrade to "systemd" my /dev/ttyS0 shows up as: root:dialout ownership and permission 600 When I change as root manually to: chown uucp:dialout /dev/ttyS0 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/26/2014 08:55:35 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Again, I think I'm just lucky. I don't think it's luck. A portage system likes to be updated very often (best: each day). I have made the experience that updating a machine which hasn't been updated for a long time (say one year), is just pain.

[gentoo-user] emerge all packages which depend on P : how to

2014-02-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a very simple question. How to emerge (update) all packages which depend on some given package P. I've tried emerge -uv1 `equery -q d P` or emerge -uv1 `qdepends -q -Q P` but both commands (equery and qdepends) generate a list with the version attached like app-editors/kil

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 640m

2014-03-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/07/2014 12:18:41 AM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, has someone this Notebook and can share the kernel config? I try and try but it will not work. I make naked make localyesconf and then activate the intel graphic card. But when start i can nothing see. The display is not blank but i c

[gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

2014-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Please don't use this list for personal quarrels of any kind! If someone says something you don't like - just ignore it/him. If someone insults you, reply by personal mail only. If someone says something which is *technically* wrong, just correct the facts without getting personal. Thanks, Hel

[gentoo-user] Overlays - a question of principle

2014-03-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, several overlays have their own (additional) eclasses and important packages like eselect. What happens (and does it harm) if I use different combinations of overlays at different times? Many thanks for a "mini-tutorial" or reference to those, Helmut

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please explain Portage's technique for selecting Python versions for packages from dev-python and similar. I'd like to set up things such that Portage installs only the Python-3.{3,4} version unless the packages doesn't support Python-3.x Currently I have PYTHON_COMPAT=

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/28/2014 10:37:56 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:27:00 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I have tried to remove python2_7 from PYTHON_TARGETS but then > I cannot re-install portage although it is based on Python3. Why is this? Can you share us the log or output o

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi Tom, that was really helpful. MANY THANKS, Helmut On 03/28/2014 08:29:27 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:42:59 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > sys-apps/portage:0 > >(sys-apps/portage-:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by > s

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/28/2014 08:29:27 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:42:59 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > sys-apps/portage:0 > >(sys-apps/portage-:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by > sys-apps/portage (Argument) > >(sys-apps/por

Re: [gentoo-user] Script to tar.tgz /etc, works run manually, broken when run from cron

2014-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/31/2014 01:01:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, this is really irritating me... I have a script that simply performs some backups. The commands are like this: # perform tar.tgz backup of /etc tar -czpvf $BKUP_DIR_etc/$BKUP_DateTime-dev-ecat-etc.tgz /etc When I run this script manua

[gentoo-user] gstreamer or ffmeg - that's the question

2014-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the recent upgrade to Gnome 3.12.1 includes app-misc/tracker-1.0 which forces me to decide between gstreamer and ffmpeg. It says The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: at-most-one-of ( gstreamer ffmpeg ) But many packages installed here depend on one of these.

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer or ffmeg - that's the question

2014-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks, John, Helmut On 04/28/2014 10:55:40 AM, John Campbell wrote: On 04/28/2014 01:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the recent upgrade to Gnome 3.12.1 includes app-misc/tracker-1.0 which forces me to decide between gstreamer and ffmpeg. It says The following REQUIRED_USE flag

[gentoo-user] dependency problem - how to decipher this one

2014-05-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, trying to emerge x11-libs/gtk+:2 (2.24.23-r1) together with dev-libs/atk (2.12.0-r1) I get the following messages emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-libs/atk-1.29.2[introspection?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?, abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)

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