Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
bout to try this, and I may change it a bit because when I restarted apache, reload didn't work. I had to stop it and restart it. Maybe I'll submit a bug if I can make sense out of what happens with 'reload' and it always happens. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ed an usb version of the livedvd to help me in this, > as wicd was among the broken things and i couldn't connect to the net to > download the required packages to update python. > so thanks everyone for the hints that led me to the solution and particular > thanks to helmut, alan, k

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin McCarthy
O NOT put it in your make.conf. Hopefully looking at the .la file will help us narrow down what is happening. -- Kevin McCarthy pgpdJIm46UKZ2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin McCarthy
util/dialog-1.1.20100428/temp/build.log -- Kevin McCarthy pgplICJy9Tg5I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin McCarthy
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:25:31PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > 2011/5/6 Kevin McCarthy > > > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:45:01PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > > > > > > Attached to this message are the contents of the afforementioned file, > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin McCarthy
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Kevin, can you upload your PGP/GPG key to a public keyserver, otherwise > the only point of signing your mails is to cause mailers to slow down > while trying to check a signature against an unavailable key. I know what yo

Re: [gentoo-user] crossdev avr compile failing on crtm328p.o

2011-05-07 Thread Kevin McCarthy
me dir. Maybe I should ping the Gentoo maintainers and see if I can help get Arduino up-to-date in Portage... [1] http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Gentoo -- Kevin McCarthy

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-09 Thread Kevin McCarthy
u have to set the timezone and UTC/local settings for you clock, but you also have to make sure it is set. Unfortunately, adding this specific problem to a FAQ is problematic because there are dozens of errors and problems that can come from a mis-set clock. It would be difficult to cover them all. -- Kevin McCarthy

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Kevin McCarthy
ot; $curl_opts > > If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve > the proxy ''. > While bash arrays probably aren't required for this, the following seems to work OK: curl_opts=(-x "") curl $url -d \"mydata\" "${curl_opts[@]}" But I'm sure there's a quotes-only solution, too. -- Kevin McCarthy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ood thing... >> > > Sounds to me like that should be made into a feature request. What does the > list think? If there's support I will log it. > +1 It bit me, and just seems stupid. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
consists of - things like minimum > packages to install, things that must not be installed, starting point for > USE > flags, etc etc. > [snippage] > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t; never fails to process some packages that are hardwired for one reason or another. Some search engine results suggest this may be true, but they're mostly old. Is this still and permanently true? If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in the elogs? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > > I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it. Now > > I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now > >

[gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. I have gotten pretty tired of updates that take over 48 hours to compile, and the occasional mess-up that once or twice led me to rebuild with empty-tree and took a week or so. So I guess I shouldn't complain (and I'm not). I'm just not in the target market for Gentoo any more. It was fun, though. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a >> little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 27/5/2011, at 12:28am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > ... > > * Two XEON chips. I didn't know it right away but that means 4 cores. > They are old Pentium IV-based 32-bit chips. I got the slowest still being &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Thu, 26 May 2011 16:28:46 -0700 > schrieb "Kevin O'Gorman" : > > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:59 PM, walt wrote: > On 05/26/2011 04:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Now, a couple of months into my retirement > ... > > in 2002 when I finished my PHD > > Retiring 9 years after finishing your education? > Nice to know that so

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da > Veiga > did opine thusly: > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > It looks like it's time to tak

[gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just imagine it, or has something else happened? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:53:21 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. > I > > just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did > I &

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Jan 2010, at 03:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. >> I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I >> just

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> for. When are they going to start considering the environment? > > > > What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still > > believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ? > > I am stupid enough. > >Wonko > > ++me

[gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
h I'll probably keep kdelibs because I like a few of their games. Similarly for gnome. But I wonder what I should do about the rest. Ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer > > important to me. I have remained out o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:41 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > > > > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > >> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> >>> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> > problem on my end. Can you confirm that this happens on your system too? > > Happens here too. My error file is 38M > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > I wanted to make sure first that this isn't some sort of configuration Me++ -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
nload still works. i can also ping the > web site. i really have no idea how to troubleshoot this. even 'curl' > cannot get the web page. it feels like all tcp connections are > blocked. > > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4. > > > -- > Best Regards, > David

[gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-aDNvu" denies there's any work to do, and revdep-rebuild reports health. Still no mouse. Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I can work with it, but it's still essentially headless. Anybody run into this state recently? If there's a quick fix, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
down, I had to do that when X would not come up at all, but I'll try again. It will be a while before I have everything backed up the way I want it to be before I try switching to Ubuntu. If you mean something else, please clue me in. ++ kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Kaddeh wrote: > >> have you tried emergeing x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and >> x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse on their own without xorg? >> >> Cheers >> >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there were some >> packages that would not install, so I was carefully emerging what I could >> and filed a bug about one in parti

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 12 May 2010 21:21:25 Dale wrote: > > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale > > <mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > > Have y

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
fferent but you do need > the line tho. > > I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev", and adding either of the others makes X go back to not starting at all. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mick > michaelkintz...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>On Wednesday 12 May 2010 21:21:25 Dale wrote: >>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale wrote: > > > Mine has xf86-* drivers as well. OP, do you have your setting in > > > make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale wrote: >> > > Mine has xf86-* driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 16:43:48 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick > wrote: > > > On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > > Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev, and > noticed >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:45:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick > wrote: > > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, walt wrote: > On 05/16/2010 08:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick > michaelkintz...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
tion: 1) Exactly what client-side and server-side flags are you telling us to set. The names have me somewhat overwhelmed. 2) Is there a connection between NX and SSH? Could you point me at some setup docs (if they don't come automatically). -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
0.97-r9(06:16:18 AM 03/03/2010)(ncurses -custom-cflags -netboot -static) Homepage:http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description: GNU GRUB 2 boot loader -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
For some reason, the latest x86 stable p7zip wants to force me to remove 'odbc' from wxGTK. This seems wrong, and I'm masking it out for the moment, but I'm wondering what justification there is. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Top posting for maximum notice: As the OP, I'd like to know if anybody else has noticed how far OT this thread has gone? Somebody please give it a meaningful title, and maybe the right people will notice your thread ++ kevin On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:44:41 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" > wrote: > > For some reason, the latest x86 stable p7zip wants to force me to > > remove 'odbc' from wxGTK. This seems wrong, and I&#

[gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the application won't do anything else until the scrolling is finished, and the scrolling for a very tall page can take a couple of minutes. I keep trying to remember that dragging the "thumb" still works as expected, but clicking is an old habit that's hard to drop. Am I the only one seeing this? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's weird. > > > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > starts > > heading in the right direction in

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
sn't changed much, if at all, since I started using mailing lists around 1985. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] vim(1) barks at root, and no other

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
adically during editing. I haven't seen any pattern to what I'm doing when it happens. Anybody have a clue where it's coming from? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
- unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator), and something similar if I attempt to use /etc/issue. Looking at /bin/login with strings(1), I find a format string that would produce this output. Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and the greeting? -- Kevi

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing > at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. > So now it has the line > MOTD_FILE /etc/motd > for insta

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
r logins. For the window manager, I imagine I'm stuck with tweaking /etc/profile, or some such, depending on the shell (always bash on this machine). It just seemed perverse that the one way I found to make them work also makes something emit error messages. Grrr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo XCB

2010-07-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rld.com (David W Noon) > == > I put -xcb in the USE variable of /etc/make.conf, and did an emerge -aDNvu. Everything works, and cairo no longer complains. Ignoring it would probably have worked for me too, but it would have left me worrying. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
7;t, and the list of files for "kcontrol" contains *no* files of that name, and only one directory (under HTML) of that name. So how to I run the darned thing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t there's always something... Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN netstat: no support for `AF INET (sctp)' on this system. treat init.d # Any ideas? Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tomas Krasnican wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > As of today, my apache2 web server seems to refuse to start. I've tried > > a system reboot, to no avail -- > > connections are refused on port 80. > > I think that

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
513u IPv4 8405 0t0 UDP treat.kosmanor.com:domain ntpd5117 ntp 18u IPv4 9045 0t0 UDP treat.kosmanor.com:ntp firefox 7832 kevin 27u IPv4 29522 0t0 TCP treat.kosmanor.com:57043 ->nuq04s01-in-f83.1e100.net:https (ESTABLISHED) firefox 7832 kevin 56u IPv4

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 14:24 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > As of today, my apache2 web server seems to refuse to start. I've > > tried a system reboot, to no avail -- > > connections are refused on port 80. > > > > In /etc/init.d it looks li

Re: [gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> xhost SI:localuser:root > > Thanks -- that was what I was trying to remember, so I just emerged it. Looks like something I should be able to do in my .bashrc and just forget about. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >> then the X app is not limited to using only IP but can choose whichever >> transport it deems best. Of course the usual safety caveats apply. If >> others are on your host, they'll have X access.

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
those connections look normal. I don't know what the usual module list is, so I guess I have to go trolling throught the init.d scripts to figure it out, unless somebody knows a better way. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
g and remain executable by all. So there must be some new thing to do besides defining a ScriptAlias directory. Anybody know what it is? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [snip] > However, my configs contain a few ScriptAlias directories, which are full > of python programs. They are not being executed, but > served up in source code form, even though they have an initial shebang and > rem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Kyle Bader wrote: > Heyo Kevin, > > > > > AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/kosmanor/passwords > > AuthGroupFile /dev/null > > AuthName "OHex Advanced" > > AuthType Basic > > Require valid-user >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
be best. Anyway, I'm going to be exploring. Do you have cgi working on apache2 (2.2.15), and if so, how things are arranged? I'll be trying to make a cgi out of a hello world in C, to see if my current config can CGI at all. If not, I'll be trying to back out config changes. What a mess! -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
se to look? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
See SOLVED thread [snip all] -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I may have found the root of the problem: examine the following output of > an eix query on apache, and note that the cgi stuff seems to be turned off > in the installed version. > [snip snip] > The installed versi

[gentoo-user] GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/gdbmerrno.o gdbm-1.8.3/gdbmclose.o gdbm-1.8.3/update.o gdbm-1.8.3/falloc.o gdbm-1.8.3/bucket.o gdbm-1.8.3/gdbmfetch.o gdbm-1.8.3/findkey.o gdbm-1.8.3/version.o gdbm-1.8.3/gdbmseq.o gdbm-1.8.3/hash.o My test file: /** * @file * * Program to test minimal functionality of the gdbm library on a kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t; ...excepting, of course, "sudo bash -l" which means you've given away > the keys to the kingdom. > > I actually prefer "sudo su -" -- as long as I'm giving it away! :o) -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, walt wrote: > On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > ... > > Now I find that not only >> do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C >> program that uses the distributed >> libgdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:30:40PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill Longman > wrote: > > > I actually prefer "sudo su -" -- as long as I'm giving it away! :o) &

Re: [gentoo-user] python modules

2010-08-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
king). You can use an overlay for ones you cannot otherwise find, but then all maintenance is yours to do. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Help interpreting firefox e-log message

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t. I understand there's a kernel patch of the same name, but it's not in the source tree (AFAIK). -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ke-0.9.4.ebuild<http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=229397> ? WTF? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in >> Gentoo. >> It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> ... >> >> My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my >> camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
1) There are containers 2) Codec != container 3) Video and Audio are encoded one from column A and one from column B. I hope this gives you an idea of what a newb I am. Please calibrate responses accordingly. My friend is pretty sure my problem is the video H.264 codec. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my > camera > > broke, and I had to get > > one in a hurry, and didn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman > > > wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >

[gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
nce. I want clear font rendering, which I guess means using hints, and I've added the auto-hinter use-flag in package.use. I hope I guessed right. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rmit -- which is not right now.) Any ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM, wrote: > On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new >> ASUS VH242H, which is very wide.

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ide the data reported by > the monitor in its own way > The logs show Xorg seriously considering 1920x1080. I don't know what to do about it's complaint about the modeline. My fear is that the 2002 vintage MACH64 motherboard video isn't capable of the speeds required, but I'm not sure how to run that experiment. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
0.0 60.0 896x67260.0 832x62475.0 800x60075.0 72.0 60.0 56.0 65.0 700x52575.0 60.0 640x51275.0 60.0 640x48075.0 73.0 67.0 60.0 720x40070.0 576x43275.0 512x38475.0 70.0 60.0 416x31275.0 400x30075.0 72.0 60.0 56.0 320x24075.0 73.0 60.0 treat log # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman < paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mick wrote: > >> > >> On 24 August 2010 11:23,

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, dhk wrote: > On 08/24/2010 06:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > >>> wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman > > [major snippage] > Check out x11-apps/amlc -- it has an interactive modeline generator > wh

[gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
sn't it odd that the display "manager" has such weak control on its "subordinate"? Big PITA for me. Gr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm actually working to integrate a new HD monitor in a system built before > HD was invented. The monitor works better than the old one, but just in 4:3 > aspect mode. But that's another thread, I only mention

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > > control the display manager. My problem has been that going to > /etc/init.d > > an

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Mick wrote: > On 25 August 2010 15:22, Bill Longman wrote: > > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > >> control the display manager. My

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
aul Hartman > >>> > > wrote: > >>>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > >>>>> I found the specs with Hsync and VSync limits, but they don't mention > the > >>>>> clock speed. I guess I

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