[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading old kernel

2020-04-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
e anything, it just dumps some source code on your system for you to compile outside of portage. In short: | Downloaded | Installed --+--+- gentoo-sources| source code | source code gentoo-kernel | source code | built kernel gentoo-kernel-bin | built kernel | built kernel -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
sa to see if it is > created with the correct content. > > The file is created/modified by app-eselect/eselect-opengl. If you have USE=libglvnd enabled, eselect-opengl is no longer installed, but the files it generated may remain. In this case, it is safe to remove the file if USE=libglvn

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] What was it....?

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
> suggests rlwrap: > > https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-rlwrap/ > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/rlwrap > Additionally, rlfe (readline front end) is included with sys-libs/readline[utils] and does about the same thing. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

2018-04-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
and network > names and IPs. Google hasn't helped either. > > Any ideas, anyone? > Generally, this would indicate a problem resolving DNS. This is normally caused by not having a correct /etc/resolv.conf inside the chroot (it generally will need to be the same as the file outside the chroot). Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE

2018-04-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
you specified in make.conf. As you figured out, the correct action is to install the file in your real ${DISTDIR}, but the ebuild no longer has access to determine what the name of that directory should be. This probably should be reported as a bug. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: after masking the X11-update due to nvidia-incompatibilities I got this...

2018-03-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
ility" flag enabled 2) dev-qt/qtgui-5.9.4-r3 states that if the "accessibility" flag is enabled, then both the "dbus" and "xcb" flags must also be enabled on that package (and portage is saying that at least one of them is not currently enabled) Your fix wo

[gentoo-user] Re: The uselessness of equery

2017-10-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
user0m6.439s sys 0m0.160s $ time portageq owners / /usr/bin/portageq sys-apps/portage-2.3.11 /usr/bin/portageq real0m1.391s user0m1.348s sys 0m0.044s $ time qfile /usr/bin/qfile app-portage/portage-utils (/usr/bin/qfile) real0m0.104s user 0m0.085s sys 0m0

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off text console screen in software?

2017-05-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
s/module/kernel/parameters/consoleblank to see if your > changes applied properly. > > Additionally, "setterm --blank force" turns the console off immediately. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+-2.x, adwaita, gsettings and all that

2017-05-01 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/01/2017 02:35 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I remember there was a thread about these topics, but I think it was > only in the context of resolving build conflicts. That is not my > problem: I can build and merge these packages just fine. > > My problem is that the adwaita theme, on which the

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

2017-04-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
ic, then call "append-flags -fgnu89-inline" in src_configure before the econf line. If you explicitly only want to set CFLAGS (and not CXXFLAGS), then call "append-cflags" (there is also a append-cppflags, append-cxxflags, append-ldflags, append-fflags). -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

2017-04-02 Thread Jonathan Callen
is automatically generated by eselect-opengl, which means it does need to be in /etc. It is used to tell Xorg which OpenGL libraries to use, so that it doesn't have to make a bunch of symlinks in /usr anymore. If you aren't using proprietary xorg drivers, then it doesn't actually change any settings. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?

2017-03-31 Thread Jonathan Callen
s if you are using the minix filesystem (which you probably aren't), in which case there is a fsck.minix applet that can be compiled into busybox, but is not included by default. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?

2017-03-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
s a lot in advance for any help! Cheers Meino The fsck applet provided by busybox is just the fsck(8) driver, which calls the fsck.${FSTYPE} command to actually check the filesystem. You still need fsck.ext4/e2fsck from e2fsprogs to actually do the check. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: Borked network connections on KDE apps (ftp, fish)

2017-03-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
ev-libs/libev-4.23) > 1489518628: >>> unmerge success: dev-libs/libev-4.23 > 1489518628: *** exiting successfully. > 1489518629: *** terminating. > > On another box I did not notice this behaviour, but there are some > differences > between them in terms of applications installed. Both have the same portage > profile: > > default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma > > Is it a matter of waiting for a while for the new KDE apps to move into > stable, or should I be reinstalling some of the above packages? > Have you rebooted (or at least logged out of KDE) since you upgraded? Sometimes KDE has issues with network connections after an upgrade, as some parts are still running with the old code and other parts with the new, until you log out of your session. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

2017-03-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
to pass "-n 1" to tell xargs to only use 1 argument from the input per command run (instead of as many as possible), like so: ifconfig | grep [^A-Za-z] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n 1 ethtool -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

2017-02-01 Thread Jonathan Callen
nter and is >>> configured via /etc/xdg/kcm-about-distrorc. >> >> Nope. Regular install. > > And this is the launcher icon: > > http://i.imgur.com/UyGlgLK.png > > AFAIK, this is the Gentoo logo. > That appears to be upstream's new icon for that: https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.9/plasma-5.9.png -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: locale : cannot generate it

2017-01-11 Thread Jonathan Callen
X). > > It is possible to create this on Gentoo (with some warnings) by creating a symlink /usr/share/i18n/locales/C that points to "POSIX", then adding "C.UTF-8" to locale.gen as normal. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: GTK+ circular dependency

2016-10-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
pendencies. > > > This is bug 597068[1]. The issue appears to have been caused by a misunderstanding of when the package manager can and cannot solve circular dependencies, and the fix is likely to be to move gtk-engines-adwaita from RDEPEND to PDEPEND in gtk+:2, as gtk-engines-adwaita has a build-time DEPEND on gtk+:2 (not just a runtime RDEPEND). [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597068 -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother scanner wants libusb-0.1.so.4

2016-10-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
way to solve this? > > Thanks in advance. > > Bertram > To get libusb-0.1.so.4, you need to install dev-libs/libusb-compat (which uses the new libusb 1.0 to provide the old libusb 0.1 API). -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Being uypdated or not being updated ?

2016-07-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
he oracle has spoken to me ... > > > Hmmm > > > Best regards, > Meino > > > > You explicitly told emerge not to update nvidia-drivers ("--exclude x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"), and emerge is doing exactly what you told it to -- not updating nvidia-drivers. If you were to remove the "--exclude" parts of your emerge command line, you might see different results. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: executing a command as a nologin user

2016-07-14 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 07/14/2016 05:19 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On 07/13/2016 01:41 PM, wabe wrote: >> Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> On 07/13/2016 07:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/07/2016 03:47, jens w wrote: > .procmailrc > :0

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --resume says "invalid resume list".

2016-06-23 Thread Jonathan Callen
-pvte @world` shows packages that would be updated, newly installed, or rebuilt, when your normal @world update would show nothing, this may be part of the problem. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2016-06-12 Thread Jonathan Callen
. >> >> In reality, I'm doing this to make my life easier. As much as I tell >> them to do something, write up documents that tell them what to do and >> reiterate what they have to do, I still get the question "It's broken, >> it won't do as I want" >> >> Andrew >> >> p.s. Nico's point was a typo on my part in the email. >> > > Simple answer to this which a single google search found. You CAN'T > pass parameters to an alias under Bash. You need to do a function. A > simple function of: > > npp() > { > npp $1 & > } > > was all I needed. > > Andrew > > A better function for the same (that also doesn't loop forever because the function might be calling itself): npp() { command npp "$@" & } This allows any number of arguments to be passed, instead of "exactly one" and allows filenames containing spaces, etc. to be passed correctly. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Change from udev to eudev?

2016-06-09 Thread Jonathan Callen
sibly) to notify other applications of changes, somehow (but I'm not sure that it actually does that). If you don't actually need any of that (you are working on an embedded system where you only need root anyway, for instance), then you can just use a bare devtmpfs without a device manager changing permissions, adding links, etc. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Attic files (app-admin/rackview) removed?

2016-06-07 Thread Jonathan Callen
the web view, or read the output of `cvs log`). You can then do `cvs up -r1.X file`, replacing "1.X" with the CVS revision and "file" with the filename in question. Note that CVS tracked every file separately, so the revisions will differ between files. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-23 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/23/2016 11:08 PM, Dale wrote: > Jonathan Callen wrote: >> On 05/23/2016 12:39 AM, Dale wrote: >>> Forwarded Message >>>> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot >>>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:45:55 +020

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-23 Thread Jonathan Callen
to remove the line that is exactly "-- " (dash-dash-space) and everything following it -- or to ensure that that line is quoted somehow. Most text email clients treat that string as a signature indicator, and assume that everything following it isn't very important, just boilerplate. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/16/2016 12:34 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Jonathan Callen [16-05-16 14:09]: >> On 05/13/2016 06:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2016-05-11, Jonathan Callen wrote: >>> >>>> Looking further at the ebuilds in question, it appears that if you

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/13/2016 06:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-05-11, Jonathan Callen wrote: > >> Looking further at the ebuilds in question, it appears that if you wish >> to have older versions of GCC installed with >=gcc-4.9, you need to have >> USE=multislot on the *newer

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/10/2016 10:59 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Jonathan Callen: > >> I haven't looked into why gcc 4.9 blocks older versions now, although >> I know it didn't always do so. > > I was bitten by that problem today. First I masked gcc-4.9 so I was able > to do a

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
satisfy your requests (as it knows them to be). I haven't looked into why gcc 4.9 blocks older versions now, although I know it didn't always do so. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is CONFIG_MICROCODE gone in kernel 4.4.6-gentoo?

2016-04-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
ly disable some of those features on some CPUs (because they are completely broken anyway). This means that loading the microcode before any userspace programs run will ensure that applications like /sbin/init won't crash just because a feature they thought they could use suddenly disappeared. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

2016-04-17 Thread Jonathan Callen
erent SLOT; this meant that portage would not remove an older version of a package just because you installed a newer version. At that time, portage did not have any collision-protect mechanism (or so it appears). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcB

[gentoo-user] Re: blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-15 Thread Jonathan Callen
u > need to add sddm to the video group. > Note that your own user account must *also* be in the video group if you are using the NVIDIA driver (and any other account used to run applications that link against libGL.so.1). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 i

[gentoo-user] Re: Has my PC been compromised?

2016-04-14 Thread Jonathan Callen
es in /dev/shm/ named "pulse-shm-*" are created by pulseaudio for its own internal use; applications that may play sounds through pulseaudio will create those files automatically. The PostgreSQL.* file is likely also a false positive, but I do not hav

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

2016-04-14 Thread Jonathan Callen
wer than kdm. > > Why is the video group needed? What does it do? > The sddm user only needs to be in the video group if using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, as it controls access to some low-level device nodes created by that driver for the use of the NVIDIA driver's userspace c

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

2016-04-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
nd bugfixes each month that there isn't a new version. Overall, there are plenty of updates coming. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: EAPI-6 dev-python ebuilds

2016-03-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
> yep, it works just fine. sorry for being a bit brain-dead this > am... > > > thx, James > For future reference, this would be a bit more efficient: grep -r -l --include="*.ebuild" "EAPI=6" . This way, grep only looks at the files you want to search anyway. - --

[gentoo-user] Re: Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

2016-03-20 Thread Jonathan Callen
the three sets "@profile @selected @system" -- @system is the usual system set, @selected is the contents of the "world" and "world_sets" files, and @profile is certain packages that used to be defined as required in profiles without being listed in @system (I don

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE's confusing versions

2016-03-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
with regards to everything being "15.12" for the December release, or "15.08" for the October release). Note that upstream split the old "KDE Software Compilation" (formerly "KDE Desktop Environment") into three separate parts: KDE Frameworks, Plasma, and KDE Applications. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories

2016-03-03 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/03/2016 04:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm sure I'm just being stupid, but I don't understand the lists of > affected and unaffected version numbers in Gentoo security > advisories. > > For example: > > Package dev-libs/openssl on

[gentoo-user] Re: QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread Jonathan Callen
s* done on the host that the packages will be used on, because slightly different versions would otherwise cause problems. So your problem with "arch-specific headers and libraries" *always* causes that part to run on the netbook, even if the remote distcc server is exactly the sa

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd, libgudev and bug 552036

2015-12-18 Thread Jonathan Callen
hon/python-systemd), but dev-python/python-systemd is not yet stable. Therefore, portage is keeping the older version of systemd installed, as that is the only way it could find to keep all deps satisfied. If you want to keep fail2ban, the easiest method may be to keyword

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] What package provides gstreamer-app?

2015-12-11 Thread Jonathan Callen
x branches of gstreamer are each slotted (well, the ancient 0.8 release is gone from the tree as nothing uses it any more) specifically so that they can be installed in parallel, and upstream actually supports doing so (which is why the ABI version number is in the name of every library, plu

[gentoo-user] Re: Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread Jonathan Callen
s-font only requires X11 packages if USE=X is enabled (adding deps on x11-apps/mkfontdir and media-fonts/encodings) or USE=pcf is enabled (adding a dep on x11-apps/bdftopcf). All these deps are compile-time only. USE=pcf installs the fonts used in X11, USE=psf installs the fonts used on th

[gentoo-user] Re: Weird "df" output

2015-11-25 Thread Jonathan Callen
l per-mount flags may follow, terminated with...) 7: the exact string "-" 8: filesystem type 9: filesystem device name (or string passed to mount(2) for virtual filesystems) 10: per-device options (always the same for multiple mounts of same device) (any number of optional per-device

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

2015-09-29 Thread Jonathan Callen
which package installs it, but it's not part of any app > that lets me print things. I think it's part of the > gnome/mate/xfce/lxde family of desktops because I use all of those > and the printer widget is always the same. Must be a gtk thing > because

[gentoo-user] Re: why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Jonathan Callen
t; > James Until Sven updates his code to not use GuideXML, I have linked to his snapshots in my own devspace, under <http://dev.gentoo.org/~jcallen/snapshots/>. The snapshots go back to 2008-01-20, and are current to 2015-07-20. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

[gentoo-user] Re: SDDM/KDE5: no sound card available?

2015-07-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
most likely that your X session is not being treated as a login session by logind/ConsoleKit, and therefore your user is not being added to the ACLs on the various devices under /dev, including all sound devices, certain input devices, any CD/DVD/BR devices you may have, and certain video devices. - --

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
stemd-boot, but I don't know for sure because I do not have any non-systemd systems). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVqEQ0AAoJEEIQbvYRB3mgtToP/AgKlQrdkgMq5ss8n/uO5hwl iBMu9+iFE7NRyp8tu/KZ7QPmVTwrkNu3WtmquhNak

[gentoo-user] Re: Profile listings

2015-06-20 Thread Jonathan Callen
rofile_modernizations.. > > > Others comments are welcome. > > > James > The list of all profiles that can be chosen (for all architectures) can be found in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/profiles.desc . There are other "profile-like" directories under ${PORTDIR}/profil

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Jonathan Callen
to get H.264 video to work is to enable USE=gstreamer on Firefox, which will allow Firefox to use any plugin that GStreamer 1.x supports. If you then also set USE=ffmpeg on gst-plugins-meta, you will have GStreamer supporting any codec that ffmpeg or libav (whichever you have installed) suppor

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
e "tty-helpers" USE flag enabled*. You don't need multiple versions of anything installed. If you just add "sys-apps/util-linux tty-helpers" to your /etc/portage/package.use file and try again, you will likely find that po

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
ith USE=tty-helpers, and you didn't tell portage it was allowed to set that flag, so it doesn't know what you want to do about the issue. The easiest solution is probably to add "sys-apps/util-linux tty-helpers" to your /etc/portage/package.use. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEG

[gentoo-user] Re: Manipulating ext2 image without root access.

2015-02-09 Thread Jonathan Callen
For FAT it can be done > with mtools, is there anything like it of ext? > > > It is possible to do this with debugfs(8), although you probably want to run e2fsck(8) on the filesystem after modifying it via debugfs. Keeping a backup copy of the image might not be a bad idea as w

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] dependancy xorg-server

2015-02-07 Thread Jonathan Callen
o have less trafic. The default is "log warn error"; "info" is normally used to describe what is going on in the middle of a build; the log/warn/error levels may be used to inform the user of actions required after a build. - -- Jonat

[gentoo-user] Re: grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-29 Thread Jonathan Callen
* booting > my kernel(s) ... which works already! > > thanks, regards, Stefan > > (leaving now ... late here as mentioned) > You have mounted your ESP on /boot, so you need to tell grub *that* is your ESP, not "/boot/efi", like so: # grub2-install --target=x8

[gentoo-user] Re: Working thru fresh install Gentoo as vbox guest

2014-12-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
it that I can see is: # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD is not set This controls the traditional PS/2 keyboard support (as well as the older AT keyboard, which used the same protocol, but a differently shaped connector), which I believe is what VBox emulates (as just about everything supports having a PS/2 keybo

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.7.3 --> 4.8.3

2014-11-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
to get the libstdc++.so.5 to install. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUZYqGAAoJELHSF2kinlg4sTYP/A1f89WjzUi4yqM+ob9XCovU sVbgWS2hW2UL8wDeRuqbQoF6fAtVBLx5J2+akR+TOJN7BQ1fORBOkfOtcdw1vn8l 8YZ8LVKSPvB9+EQimuiLGYfWSoVFOwsoc6zL6htFHQhdqb4+O7ceJ1Iqn/P

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo mirror list - where?

2014-08-17 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/12/2014 04:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > if an ebuild file has, e.g., mirror://github/... > > where do I find the list of mirrors Gentoo is using for that? > > Many thanks for a hint, Helmut > > The default list of all mirrors f

[gentoo-user] Re: Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg

2014-06-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/15/2014 04:47 AM, Dale wrote: > John Campbell wrote: >> On 06/14/2014 10:10 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Well, I have 16Gbs here. I'm not lacking for memory. If >>> memory prices were to drop a bit, I could upgrade some more. >>> I'd have to swap

[gentoo-user] Re: How to extend the tmux status 'title' for each pane or window

2014-06-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/07/2014 06:33 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 03 Jun 2014 15:16:56 Stroller wrote: >> On Tue, 3 June 2014, at 6:59 am, Mick >> wrote: … I have: … status-left "#[fg=blue]#T" … status-right "#[fg=blue][#S]" … >>> >>> Thanks S

[gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
YSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation" set the value "RealTimeIsUniversal" (a DWORD if you have to create it) to "1". If you use Windows 8, in addition to the above, you have to disable Windows from ever writing the time to the BIOS clock, otherwise on shutdown

[gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation" set the value "RealTimeIsUniversal" (a DWORD if you have to create it) to "1". If you use Windows 8, in addition to the above, you have to disable Windows from ever writing the time to the BIOS clock, otherwise on shutdown

[gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
nything that would cause them to be autoloaded (such as the vbox-* modules from VirtualBox), in which case you *would* need to explicitly load them. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Th

[gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-17 Thread Jonathan Callen
uot;7104" (not listed in pci.ids, sorry), base class "03" (Display controller), sub class "00" (VGA compatible controller), and programming interface "00" (VGA controller). This information is then used to look up the module in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alia

[gentoo-user] Re: planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Btrfs_system_root > > Greetings and thanks in advance for any help given > As I understand it, when you use BTRFS's internal "RAID1" implementation, the filesystem ensures that all the data is on at least two different drives, but otherwise does

[gentoo-user] Re: libdvdnav is blocking libdvdread

2014-04-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
ia-libs/libdvdread-4.1.2) > media-video/vlc-2.0.7 > (dvd ? media-libs/libdvdread) sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-3.10.0 > (>=media-libs/libdvdread-4.2.0) > > Any comments? > > I don't see any errors in that output. "[blocks b]" means "While there is a

[gentoo-user] Re: Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot?

2014-04-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
with the mtab format. Newer versions of mount(8) will use /proc/self/mountinfo if it detects that the final target of /etc/mtab (possibly /proc/self/mounts) is not writable. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comm

[gentoo-user] Re: Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-19 Thread Jonathan Callen
es something >>> similar. If I'm >>> understanding this right, they have a loop in their initrd that just waits >>> a maximum of X >>> seconds until it shows up. >>> >>> I'm not sure ho

[gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
ble and the first partition (I don't recall having a problem when my first partition started 2048 sectors (1MiB) into the disk). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.

[gentoo-user] Re: latest gentoo-sources and nvidia ?

2014-03-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/30/2014 04:04 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:14:28 +0200 schrieb "Stefan G. Weichinger" > : > >> Thanks a lot, very helpful. I followed your suggestions and run gnome now >> successfully with >> both the latest (stable) kern

[gentoo-user] Re: World update and dev-lang/python-exec weirdness...

2014-03-08 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/08/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 3/8/2014 10:12 AM, Todd Goodman wrote: >> * Tanstaafl [140308 09:46]: >>> If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among a >>> few other >>> things) ONE version of dev-lang/py

[gentoo-user] Re: "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Jonathan Callen
rint/cups-filters kde-base/kdelibs dev-qt/qtgui \ app-text/poppler to work, or to give you the "3 more with the same problems", which can then be added to the command line and rebuilt. Because you didn't tell portage that it was allowed to rebuild packag

[gentoo-user] Re: Systemd as drop-in replacement for udev?

2013-12-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
hanged? > > -- Joost > > > > Udev as installed by sys-fs/udev is *exactly* the same as udev installed by sys-apps/systemd, except that the latter installs more files. It is very much possible to switch to systemd as your udev provider without using th

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there any way out of this...?

2013-12-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > merge) > > media-libs/flac:0 > > (media-libs/flac-1.2.1-r3::gentoo, installed) pulled in by (no parents that > aren't satisfied by > other packages in this slot) > > (media-libs/flac-1.2.1-r3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for m

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan Callen
lcopy symlinks as symlinks - -ppreserve permissions - -tpreserve modification times - -gpreserve group - -opreserve owner - -Dpreserve device files and special files - -Hpreserve hard links - -Apreserve ACLs (implies -p) - -Xpreserve extended attributes - -xd

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd and LUKS

2013-09-05 Thread Jonathan Callen
network setup), > but wpa_supplicant > always failed to authenticate, so I gave up for that night. > The various systemd units involved assume that you have KDM set up like Fedora does, with the first graphical terminal (:0) on tty1, so kdm.service actually *conflicts* with getty@tty1.s

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-18 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/18/2013 05:50 AM, Grant wrote: > When trying to eject a USB camera in thunar in xfce4, the error appears > and the device > does not umount. Here is a command that also produces the error: > > # udisks --detach /dev/sdb D

[gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade renames eth-interfaces

2013-03-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
ons anyway, which, looking at the code, I can believe). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRRHYFAAoJELHSF2kinlg4d0MQAJhJs73Nlja+TGoq77TaYMOz vrJmZmPDewp+1imFjfnddhC6c

[gentoo-user] Re: kde4 upgrading

2009-10-27 Thread Jonathan Callen
back when, was to transition everything to sets, but the current implementation in portage 2.2_rc* does not currently do everything that is needed, so we are recommending the usage of the meta packages. - -- Jonathan Callen Gentoo KDE Developer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
Harry Putnam wrote: > In fact what does `developer' buy you? Among other things, it enables I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING, which tells you the expected audience :). Seriously, the developer profiles are mainly for Gentoo Devs, people who are going to be doing a lot of debugging and testing of ebuilds.

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maxim Wexler wrote: > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, > Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. D

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maxim Wexler wrote: > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, > Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. T

[gentoo-user] Re: Confusion

2009-10-18 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 econti wrote: > Hi all > I am a bit confused :-( > I upgrade my box weekly. After the last upgrade the "emerge -NDpvu" gave > me the output you can see in the attached up_20091010 file. > As you can see there were a lot packages to upgrade with a lot o

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 3.5 and desktop links not working

2009-10-15 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: > Well, that started something. I'll post the output here. > [snip lots of output] > > I have seen that ran before during a emerge and I have not seen WARNINGs > like that before. Should I re-emerge some KDE 3.5 stuff and see if that > f

[gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Reffett wrote: > It could be manually downloaded from > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/package.keywords/kde-4.3.keywords;hb=master > We actually have a package.mask file for KDE 4.3 at [1]. T

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: > I would urge you to check into the "q" command and equery. I !think! > the "q" command is part of portage. It may be part of gentoolkit tho. > Just the "q" command has more than a dozen different things it does. > equery can do a lot

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with > backticks. You can nest commands with ``, it's just less intuitive; each of the following are equivalent: echo $(echo $(echo $(echo $(echo foo ec

[gentoo-user] Re: Guesstimates of KDE4 going stable?

2009-10-05 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > Any guesses as to when that will happen (KDE 4 going stable) > with Gentoo ebuilds so I can plan some new > installations for my friends are greatly appreciated. The stabilization bug was filed earlier today as bug 287697 [1]. This is

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

2009-09-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
Eric Martin wrote: > Actually, /bin/bash is a symlink -> /bin/dash on Ubuntu so dash (Debian > ash) is the default shell on Ubuntu (and either dash or ash is on > Debian). I found that out the hard way when I was scripting and some > bash stuff wouldn't work properly. > No, /bin/bash is *always*

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't build PyKDE4 on kde-4.4 or kde-live from kde-testing

2009-09-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > As the subject says, I can't build PyKDE4 from kde-4.4 or kde-live > sets in the kde-testing overlay. I found various references to the > same problem on lists and forums but no solutions. Does anyone use the > bleeding-e

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-24 Thread Jonathan Callen (ABCD)
o (not .so.5 or .so.5.2 !) first, so that kalgebra is forced to link against /usr/lib64/libreadline.so (which ends up pointing at /lib64/libreadline.so.6). My guess is that for some reason the linker is looking in /lib64 before checking /usr/lib64, and finding the wrong

[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

2009-09-19 Thread Jonathan Callen (ABCD)
quite enough information to be sure, it looks like a problem with dbus. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to determine if this is the case, or what should be done if that *is* the case. - -- Jonathan Callen (ABCD) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using G

[gentoo-user] Re: udev and init.d. Should it be running now?

2009-09-10 Thread Jonathan Callen (ABCD)
ttempt to run it on a baselayout-1 system, as it isn't needed. If/when you upgrade to baselayout-2/openrc, it will automatically be added to the boot runlevel, but only if baselayout-1 had been previously installed. In short, don't worry about it. :) (this didn't appear to send t