[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] 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

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't find which patches and why these have only been applied

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). But I didn't find which patches and why

[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. -- 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 dereferencing type-punned pointers and similar warnings

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

2010-04-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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] 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
- 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] Xauthority and su

2010-04-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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. Thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische

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... maybe the

[gentoo-user] Xauthority and su

2010-04-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
, 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

[gentoo-user] X11 keyboard permanent mode switch ?

2010-03-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
(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 Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik

[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

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 jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de 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 the devs will only say that it will appear when

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

2010-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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 . From the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739

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

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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

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

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
one to support the Phenom (K10) temperature sensor.) Helmut. On 22 Mar, Harry Putnam wrote: Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: On 21 Mar, Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Forgot to give kernel version: uname -r 2.6.33-gentoo I see lots

[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 Jarausch Lehrstuhl

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 something easier than eix --only-names -I 'kde-base/*' | xargs

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 - Aachen University D

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

2010-03-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
-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
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. . . 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 they are old and have security vulnerabilities. W -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl

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 down. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische

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

2010-02-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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] zsh and sudo

2010-02-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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. -- 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
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
experience with sys-apps/memtester. If you have not more than 4 Gb RAM, you can use the SystemRescueCD. 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

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

2010-02-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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] in-memory database

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

[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 go to different slots. Even portage

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

2010-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. 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 though they go to different slots. Even portage

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

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. -- 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
. -- 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 that this package needs Python-3.x ? (Reason, it fails here

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

2010-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/binutils-2.20 * Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep- rebuild. Leon Feng -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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

2010-01-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
) 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

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

2010-01-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
-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 jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've just emerged app-office/krita on an AMD64 machine without problems. But on an older i686 machine it fails strangely Install krita-2.1.0 into /var/tmp/portage/app

Re: [gentoo-user] restrictive equery depends

2010-01-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
to find out what packages are pulling the older version. Hi, take Neil Bothwick's swiss army knife : emerge -vp --depclean virtual/jdk:1.5 (it's a special case of emerge, showing which packages have pulled in the package given on the command line.) Thanks Neil! Helmut. -- Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Jan, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:39:12 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: Second, kde-sunset poses some difficulties like !!! Couldn't download 'koffice-1.6.3_p20090204.tar.bz2'. Aborting. Unmerge koffice:2.5 and emerge koffice-meta:3.5. What is koffice:2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
/arts:3.5. Since there are more difficult cases where ebuild files have been delete for packages which are still installed, I've filed a bug/feature request for portage to allow emerge @preserved-rebuild to go on with the remaining packages instead just quitting. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl

[gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
/libjpeg.so.7 directly? Thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Jan, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 21 January 2010 17:10:56 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 poses a new level of difficulty (to me). I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the kde-sunset overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Jan, Arttu V. wrote: On 1/21/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 poses a new level of difficulty (to me). I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the kde-sunset overlay

[gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
the output of equery to a file, edit it with an editor with good regexp support and hand it over to the shell. But I wonder, is there an easier way to use portage utilities for that? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056

Re: [gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
to do it twice once with --pretend and then without) Many thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild - how to force it to run?

2010-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
want to upgrade other packages like package: media-libs/jpeg-8 * - /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7 * - /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0 used by 608 other files ^^^ at lot of work by 'hand' What can I do about it? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeze up during X session

2010-01-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
replaced the motherboard) To exclude a software problem, try booting from a SystemRescue-CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page It's Gentoo based and sports an X-Server. That are the problems that makes one crazy! Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: file system failure after emerge -DuN @system

2010-01-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
(e.g. building/installing a new kernel) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox - I'm lost [SOLVED]

2010-01-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11 Jan, James Ausmus wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've tried (for the first time) to install the source version of firefox www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.7 with useflags alsa bindist dbus gnome java linguas_de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers {SOLVED]

2010-01-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/10/2010 03:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 9 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/09/2010 07:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 8 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/08/2010 04:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore

[gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox - I'm lost

2010-01-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. When I enlarge it (dragging a vertex of the window) it's just empty. I have no idea what went wrong. (I have renamed ~/.firefox and ~/.mozilla but this doesn't help either) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox - I'm lost

2010-01-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11 Jan, Mick wrote: 2010/1/11 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I've tried (for the first time) to install the source version of firefox  www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.7 with useflags  alsa bindist dbus gnome java linguas_de linguas_en sqlite startup-notification

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox - I'm lost

2010-01-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11 Jan, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 11 January 2010 12:42:26 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11 Jan, Mick wrote: 2010/1/11 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I've tried (for the first time) to install the source version of firefox www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.7

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mozilla-firefox - I'm lost

2010-01-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/11/2010 01:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've tried (for the first time) to install the source version of firefox www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.7 with useflags alsa bindist dbus gnome java linguas_de linguas_en sqlite startup-notification

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 9 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/09/2010 07:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 8 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/08/2010 04:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR My cups

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/08/2010 04:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR My cups printers are specified in /etc/cups/printers.conf. Does that file have

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Jan, Michael Higgins wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR What am I missing

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Jan, Stroller wrote: On 8 Jan 2010, at 20:10, Michael Higgins wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR What am I missing? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] eselect data - how to update?

2010-01-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?

2010-01-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide i.e., such that these are available to all users? (AFAIK, the standard method installs them local to each user) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions

2010-01-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
this kernel 'by hand' i.e. outside of portage? Check by uname -a if you are not currently running linux-2.6.31-r6 If not, it's safe to rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6 and emerge it again. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

2010-01-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
floppy support. I'll have to find out how to use a PATA driver for the ZIP drive. Helmut. On 1/4/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. There is a /dev/hdd device

[gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
too early is one of the biggest disappointsment of GenToo! For someone who needs some package depending on it, it's really hard. (I do need kexi) Many thanks for some help, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

2010-01-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
finish) Has anybody any hint on what to try? Many thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and kde-base/kdelibs:3.5

2010-01-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 2 Jan, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: yes, get rid of the app that needs kde3 and move on. Very good idea, indeed. Then, please, tell me a replacement for app-office/kexi. Thanks! -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-01-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. Perhaps you could try venti+fossil or git

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Dec, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. I've come across

[gentoo-user] brasero drive detection

2009-12-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
the difference might come from? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. Similarly, fusecompress http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127433 doesn't build on an up-to-date Gentoo system and doesn't look maintained either. There would be sys-fs/zfs-fuse but that sounds like overkill to me. Are there any other packages? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut

[gentoo-user] make an -9999 ebuild compile only if necessary

2009-12-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have ebuilds fetching the source code directly from a repository (be it CVS,SVN,HG,GIT,...) I'd like to modify the .ebuild to enter compilation only if something has been updated. Is this possible, has somebody else tried to do so? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch

[gentoo-user] SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge- how to find out

2009-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
different for different projects hosted by Sourceforge.) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks with xz-utils lzma-utils

2009-12-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
it by echo app-arch/xz-utils- /etc/portage/profile/package.provided That works. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
sometimes only rebooting solves some very strange problems) How to replace fundamental X11-libaries on a system running X11 or even more suprising, how can I replace a running glibc ? Many thanks for enlightening me, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11 Dec, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 11:11:41 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm curious how portage solves its most difficult part (in my eyes). When installing a dynamic library (by hand) I have often got an error messages if the corresponding library is currently

[gentoo-user] cvs hangs - any idea ?

2009-12-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
) I am using dev-util/cvs-1.12.12-r6 . Many thanks for suggesting something to try, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] cvs hangs - any idea ? [UPDATE]

2009-12-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I've just noticed that cvs does work when run as root. This shouldn't be necessary since as non-root user I have full permission to all involved directories. If it hangs I have to use 'kill -9' Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. On 10 Dec, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, on one of my machines cvs

[gentoo-user] cmake - need help

2009-12-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
there is include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${EIGEN2_INCLUDE_DIR}) How is this CMakeLists.txt processed (how to debug it). Many thanks for a pointer, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] tunneling or redirect attack?

2009-12-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
, e.g. you get http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-tunnel.html https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html http://members.shaw.ca/nicholas.fong/vnc/ and many more. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] Where to set XDG_DATA_HOME ?

2009-11-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
are under /usr/share/icons this looks like a broken installation. What is the best place to set XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS system wide? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
revdep-rebuild. Probably I have to somehow compare every lib on the faulty machine to another once which should have identical packages. Thanks again, Helmut. On 26 Nov, daid kahl wrote: 2009/11/25 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, on one of several machines and only

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
can, set the BIOS switch that only a single core can use the secondary cache. If the problems disappears the CPU is broken. I hope you can solve your problem, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
/File_types_and_download_actions Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools

2009-11-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
to use which one. Which is faster, more reliable, ... Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools

2009-11-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder when to prefer which one. On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of symlinks to /usr/bin

[gentoo-user] _exists command not found [URGENT]

2009-11-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: urgent : chicken-egg problem[SOLVED]

2009-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11 Nov, walt wrote: On 11/11/2009 01:22 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi,, somehow one of my machines is broken. After uninstalling x11-drivers/ati-drivers eselect opengl set xorg-x11 gives Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...!!! Error: No proper xorg-x11 or xorg-x11 opengl

[gentoo-user] slotted package - how to switch

2009-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
cannot do this. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] slotted package - how to switch

2009-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 Nov, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 13:05:29 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Sorry if this is FAQ but I couldn't find the answer. E.g. I have to versions of dev-libs/libusb installed, one in slot 0 and the other one in slot 1. For testing purposes I'd like to make the slot-0

Re: [gentoo-user] ati drivers.

2009-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
) and xorg-server-1.6.5 . Using the x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.10 graphics is really fast including googleearth. But, as noted earlier, these ati-drivers don't work with xorg-server-1.7.1 Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] slotted package - how to switch

2009-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 Nov, William Kenworthy wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 12:39 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12 Nov, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 13:05:29 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Sorry if this is FAQ but I couldn't find the answer. E.g. I have to versions of dev-libs/libusb

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