Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound

2017-08-13 Thread Mick
ecting a different output device. I don't know if you can do this from alsamixer, but you should be able to do it from pulseaudio, or from whatever GUI your desktop provides for managing audio devices. Switch over from headphones/docking station to speakers and you should be OK. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something started muting the sound

2017-08-12 Thread Mick
, including the core (I'm guessing that means > snd.ko, right?). I don't do anything particular to load them, they're > not listed in /etc/conf.d/modules. Yet the mixer save and restore via > alsasound works. > > Could it be that alsasound itself loads the modules on demand,

Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound

2017-08-12 Thread Mick
> TIA > Robin Which device does alsamixer or pulseaudio show as being active? I found on some PCs that HDMI is now set as the default audio device and I had to change the configuration to make analogue sound devices active again. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 Aug 2017 02:24:57 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:23:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote > > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, 03 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: > > >On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:09:15PM +0100, Mick wrote > > > > > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] USB device (ATtiny86 w. mcronucleus bootloader) not recognized ?

2017-08-06 Thread Mick
th your Gentoo kernel? Did you compare lsusb and lshw for other related modules and drivers? What I'm saying is there may be other modules needed like UART, serial over usb and what not. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-03 Thread Mick
teable. Help. According to the man page here: https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd/vsftpd_conf.html " ... the anonymous ftp user must have write permission on desired upload locations." You may want to try setting file_open_mode=0777 in your vsftpd.conf and check ftp user or group have write permissions within the /home/ftp/ directory. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

2017-08-03 Thread Mick
e client not using a passive connection type. Can you enable passive *after* it connects? ftp> passive ls Alternatives are the busybox ftpd service or tftp, both of which are relatively easy to run. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

2017-08-01 Thread Mick
r 5.4.0-r3 which is what I am running here and it compiled Chromium fine, although these days takes Chromium ages to emerge. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgresql upgrade

2017-07-30 Thread Mick
tps://survey.kde.org/index.php/852475. It > > won't take you more than 5 minutes. > > -- > Regards > Peter Thank you Peter, I posted my feedback in the hope they may listen to it and not make KMail/KDEPIM worse ... :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Postgresql upgrade

2017-07-29 Thread Mick
have package! :-) Thanks again and thanks also goes to Mark Lord (of hdparm fame) who came up with this helpful tool. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Postgresql upgrade

2017-07-29 Thread Mick
lib64. Removed/restored all broken symlinks to point to the new version and restarted the database. Everything seems to be working as it should now. I don't know what to blame now. My upgrade process which seems to have gone sideways this time, or the eselect tool which may need to get cleverer w

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgresql upgrade

2017-07-29 Thread Mick
On 29 July 2017 at 12:19, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 29 July 2017 at 12:03, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Don't use kmail >> >> Seriously, why are putting up with the pain that POS is causing

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgresql upgrade

2017-07-29 Thread Mick
atabase object during initial database connection" might be and how to recover from it? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgresql upgrade

2017-07-29 Thread Mick
On 29 July 2017 at 11:12, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29/07/2017 11:59, Mick wrote: > > It seems this is one of these things I keep forgetting how to perform > > correctly, despite taking notes and reading the documentation. I > thought I > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Postgresql upgrade

2017-07-29 Thread Mick
On Saturday 29 Jul 2017 10:59:39 Mick wrote: > It seems this is one of these things I keep forgetting how to perform > correctly, despite taking notes and reading the documentation. I thought I > had upgraded postgresql from 9.5.7 to 9.6.3-r1 a couple of weeks ago. > > Today de

[gentoo-user] Postgresql upgrade

2017-07-29 Thread Mick
least it is a matter of setting up the latest postgresql version to start up in rc-update. I've replaced the symlink with the live postgresql manually for now - I hope I haven't borked the database ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

2017-07-28 Thread Mick
of this for you with a lot of default options, but this would leave you pretty much with the level of knowledge you had when you started. For some people this would be an inadequate level to keep a Gentoo system going for any length of time. In any case, if you look at the Gentoo forums there have been a number of scripts over the years doing what you're after. Perhaps one of those with a bit of modification would suit your needs. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating an old version of Gentoo

2017-07-27 Thread Mick
n offline/cold standby system to manage emergencies and emerges with. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which pkg installs /boot/grub?

2017-07-23 Thread Mick
sure most of us been there, or worse. Another idea, the directory may have been installed when you had the partition mounted and now it is for some reason unmounted? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE_EXPAND

2017-07-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 Jul 2017 12:35:39 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, R, 21.07.2017 kell 10:30, kirjutas Mick: > > Where is the best place to put USE_EXPAND flags? In > > /etc/portage/make.conf, > > or in some other file, e.g. /etc/portage/env// > > /etc/portage/

[gentoo-user] USE_EXPAND

2017-07-21 Thread Mick
Where is the best place to put USE_EXPAND flags? In /etc/portage/make.conf, or in some other file, e.g. /etc/portage/env// -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

2017-07-19 Thread Mick
> "COLORFGBG=default;0", "COLORTERM=rxvt", "PS1=%M:%2d>", > "PKGHOME=/home/mccramer/NetModule"..., "DIFMT=SvFUaPTM", > "CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0", "GDAL_DATA=/usr/share/GeoExpressC"..., > "PROJSO=/usr/share/GeoExpressCLUt"..., "_=/usr/bin/strace"]) = -1 ENOENT (No > such file or directory) fstat(2, {st_dev=makedev(0, 9), st_ino=55306, > st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_nlink=1, st_uid=1001, st_gid=100, st_blksize=4096, > st_blocks=0, st_size=0, st_atime=1500520453 /* > 2017-07-20T05:14:13.854919641+0200 */, st_atime_nsec=854919641, > st_mtime=1500520453 /* 2017-07-20T05:14:13.859919641+0200 */, > st_mtime_nsec=859919641, st_ctime=1500520453 /* > 2017-07-20T05:14:13.859919641+0200 */, st_ctime_nsec=859919641}) = 0 > write(2, "strace: exec: No such file or di"..., 40strace: exec: No such > file or directory) = 40 exit_group(1) = ? +++ > exited with 1 +++ > > [1]13169 exit 1 strace -v ./pirate-loader_lnx > > At least it looks different as the previous one...but I can't imagine > still, what it wants to tell me... > > "Trinitu...HELP!" > > Cheers > Meino Are you running it within a partition with a user who has exec rights to it? Note, the partition may be mounted noexec, so remount it. What does this give you: zsh -x ./pirate-loader_lnx -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

2017-07-19 Thread Mick
mewhere > else? If so, a small forest of symlinks might do the job, lacking a > better solution... > > (such assumptions are one of the marks of crappy sw, as in "everybody > uses Windows, so...". Unfortunately, free sw may have the same faults, > for example with s/Windows/Ubuntu/g

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

2017-07-19 Thread Mick
y small. I don't know if it is still alive. > Thanks a lot in advance for any help! > Cheers > Meino -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Simple to upgrade Linux distro

2017-07-19 Thread Mick
best. :-) > > Thoughts? Suggestions?? > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) I suggest she revisits the need to run Plasma, if her current hardware has reached the end of its useful life. There's a bigger world out there and there will be replacements for many of the desktop features she currently thinks are irreplaceable. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] 3D graphics acceleration on QEMU

2017-07-18 Thread Mick
I had a look at this again this morning and cracked it. More info below. On Monday 17 Jul 2017 00:00:53 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 22:49:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:20:15 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > Another annoying thing was the bottom of the scre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What to set in kernel for hi-res console terminal

2017-07-17 Thread Mick
, etc? > > Don't know dupe about Ubuntu... > > My goal is a nice big fat high resolution console mode. > Something on the order of 1600x1200 > > Didn't dig into kernel docs just now... but long long ago using old > grub I dug up the chart Mick mentions .. It might have change

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth head phone

2017-07-17 Thread Mick
lseAudio 10 bug, when > Pavucontrol does not detect A2DP sink profile. > > ​The problem is the solutions proposed does not work.​ I don't have your bt headphone to know what works, but have you tried using bluetoothctl to manage the bt controller on your PC and set up the connection? -- Regards, M

Re: [gentoo-user] What to set in kernel for hi-res console terminal

2017-07-17 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 Jul 2017 00:06:53 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 17:46:11 R0b0t1 wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > > I'm starting a new vbox install of gentoo using the minimal ISO from > > > 07/13 > &

Re: [gentoo-user] What to set in kernel for hi-res console terminal

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
ntation, which refers to the VGA options: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/svga.txt I couldn't find anything about changing the display mode with modesetting though. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D graphics acceleration on QEMU

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 22:49:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:20:15 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Another annoying thing was the bottom of the screen was cropped off and > > to see the main menu and toolbar I have to move the mouse past the > > bottom edge of th

Re: [gentoo-user] What to set in kernel for hi-res console terminal

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
KMS resolution. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "New to aliexpress" pop up - how to block it?

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 20:40:17 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 07/16 07:35, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 20:08:03 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > PS: > > > > > > Found here: > > > https://gigaom.com/2014/05/11/not-all-ad-blockers-are-the-s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "New to aliexpress" pop up - how to block it?

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
you try. Some will continue to download c*ap on your PC even after you leave the page! Chromium has a setting to block this, but I have not tested it to see whether it works as ... advertised. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: 3D graphics acceleration on QEMU

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 16:20:15 Mick wrote: > I launched a Linux Mint liveDVD in QEMU like so: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -enable-kvm -drive > if=virtio,file=Mint_18.2_HDA.qcow2,cache=none -cdrom linuxmint-18.2- > cinnamon-64bit.iso > > and noticed a warning popping up

[gentoo-user] 3D graphics acceleration on QEMU

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
a hardware limitation of this laptop? Grateful for any pointers. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner oddities

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
icode:0 net-irc/irssi:0 media-libs/exiftool:0 * * (Known problems have already been filtered from that list.) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting VM image on QEMU

2017-07-14 Thread Mick
On Friday 14 Jul 2017 19:02:55 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Trying to start it gives: > > > > $ ./coreos_production_qemu.sh -a /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa.pub -p --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting VM image on QEMU

2017-07-14 Thread Mick
On Friday 14 Jul 2017 10:43:23 R0b0t1 wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have followed the gentoo wiki to install and setup QEMU: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU > > > > > > Then

[gentoo-user] Problem starting VM image on QEMU

2017-07-14 Thread Mick
permissions it refers to? I have not tried to run the above as root. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 13 Jul 2017 21:58:10 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, K, 12.07.2017 kell 09:33, kirjutas Mick: > > On Tuesday 11 Jul 2017 23:14:16 Mick wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 Jul 2017 01:10:00 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > > > > I copied /usr/shar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-12 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 11 Jul 2017 23:14:16 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 12 Jul 2017 01:10:00 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > > I copied /usr/share/xsessions/enlightenment.desktop to > > > /usr/share/wayland- > > > sessions/ and tried to select it in LightDM. Unfortunately Light

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-11 Thread Mick
d desktop sessions. LightDM is not such a desktop manager to my > knowledge and you won't be able to launch any wayland sessions with it. > > Mart Thanks Mart, what other DM or means do I have to launch enlightenment with wayland? I'm guessing the time honoured startx f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-11 Thread Mick
ghtdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch xprop does not reveal wayland anywhere either. I copied /usr/share/xsessions/enlightenment.desktop to /usr/share/wayland- sessions/ and tried to select it in LightDM. Unfortunately LightDM returns me back to the login page. I don't know if this is a res

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-11 Thread Mick
iB 2nd question: What are the following enlightenment modules for? wl-desktop-shell wl-drm wl-fb wl-x11 Do I need these to run wayland, or is the wayland USE flang alone sufficient? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-11 Thread Mick
I'll be grateful for an explanation of > this area, as I'm worried about the future of the X server but I'm also > married to openbox. Additional question: will keyboard selection keybindings for different languages be read off /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf? In particular, Option "Xk

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-11 Thread Mick
P to various Vbox desktops, I take it these won't be affected. I'll give it a spin and see how it goes. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-11 Thread Mick
over, or what else. I'm trying to overcome a mesa/dri bug which is crashing enlightenment's compositor and thought Wayland may use mesa not/less/differently. Have you tried the switch and are there any gotchas at this stage, or is it straight forward? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this an alsa th'ang?

2017-07-11 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 11 Jul 2017 11:58:44 Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Dienstag, 11. Juli 2017, 08:01:21 CEST schrieb Mick: > > Specifically why is it > > trying to find conf.c file from the fs path it happened to have been > > compiled in ... > > It's not trying to find anything,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this an alsa th'ang?

2017-07-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 10 Jul 2017 18:38:17 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-07-11 00:11, Mick wrote: > > A few days ago I noticed as the operc messages pass by at boot time, > > alsasound boot service was complaining it can't find some > > files/settings. > > This may not be rel

[gentoo-user] Is this an alsa th'ang?

2017-07-10 Thread Mick
such a path has no purpose being called at run time. Is this due to some alsa bug, or is there something wrong with my system? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hall of FAIL.

2017-07-10 Thread Mick
nting, then that's OK for me, although it may annoy others. I find the titles of your posts immensely entertaining. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting git downloading the whole server farm and yet some

2017-07-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 Jul 2017 12:25:22 Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 07/07/2017 08:49 AM, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 07 Jul 2017 05:28:25 Rasmus Thomsen wrote: > >> I guess you could add "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" to your make.conf, that > >> way > >> you don't h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: redoing grub-2 after emerge updates it

2017-07-07 Thread Mick
these). With GRUB2 you run a single command line and leave it to GRUB2's scripts to scan your boot and other drives, discover their contents and auto-complete /boot/grub/grub.cfg. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting git downloading the whole server farm and yet some

2017-07-07 Thread Mick
sed it is not the default. For two packages I think I had to download the best part of 1GB of unneeded (by me) cruft, which I will never look at or use. I mean, there must be a cleverer way of emerging a package without mirroring a complete project's history ... O_O -- Regards, Mick

[gentoo-user] Restricting git downloading the whole server farm and yet some

2017-07-07 Thread Mick
y I could restrict this huge download of stuff I do not need or want on my PC down to a single package? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] XATTR missing from ext4?

2017-07-01 Thread Mick
the kernel ). Regards, > Rasmus Oops! I thought I had missed something and it was right in front of my eyes! Thank you for point this out. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] XATTR missing from ext4?

2017-07-01 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 Jul 2017 14:10:04 David W Noon wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jul 2017 12:49:54 +0100, Mick (michaelkintz...@gmail.com) > wrote about "[gentoo-user] XATTR missing from ext4?" (in > <10201199.nOKg2Blue2@dell_xps>): > > [snip] > > > and mounted like s

[gentoo-user] XATTR missing from ext4?

2017-07-01 Thread Mick
EXT4_FS_SECURITY is not set CONFIG_EXT4_ENCRYPTION=y CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION=y # CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is not set and mounted like so: /dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered) Should this be different so the ewarning does not happen? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] [Was: Radeon driver not happy] mesa-17.0.6 caused the mess!

2017-06-28 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 Jun 2017 15:57:46 Adam Carter wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since the last radeon/xorg/mesa update things have been rather ropey on > > two > > different boxen > > If you're changed kernels s

[gentoo-user] Radeon driver not happy

2017-06-17 Thread Mick
25107.370] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch Any idea how I can overcome this problem. I makes any work on the desktop a precarious activity, but especially so on LO which is guaranteed to crash. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.24-r2 failed (install phase)

2017-06-16 Thread Mick
; Available versions: 4.13-r2 5.2 6.1 (~)6.3 {nls static} > > Installed versions: 6.3(06:29:05 AM 02/18/2017)(nls -static) > > Homepage:https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ > > Description: The GNU info program and utilities > > I installed this version: > > > > [I] sys-apps/texinfo > Available versions: 4.13-r2 5.2 6.1 [m](~)6.3 {nls static} > Installed versions: 6.1(03:39:36 AM 06/16/2017)(nls -static) > Homepage:https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ > Description: The GNU info program and utilities > > and the same (see above) happens. Did you try reinstalling sys-apps/texinfo, before glibc? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-16 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 16:16:04 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 06/15/2017 12:28 PM, Mick wrote: > > If you remove the USB disk while the PC is accessing it, the electrical > > discharge across the physical contacts of the USB connector can cause > > terminal damage to the onboa

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-16 Thread Mick
hip. At the time I thought the wear levelling chip went sideways and was no longer able to re-allocate sectors. Attempts to fix the bad blocks were unreliable and after some time using smartctl and dd to zero badblocks I gave up. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 21:40:30 dan...@sonck.nl wrote: > On Jun 15, 2017 9:28 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is the first time I heard about discharge damage while unplugging. I > highly doubt that but for curiosity sake I like some document > proving/exp

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread Mick
USB will suffer no damage. I try to remember to unmount the USB before I remove it, but I had to learn this the hard way. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-14 Thread Mick
cation in question was working well with kwalletd:4, but not kwalletd:5. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread Mick
h 52.1.0-r1 seems to have settled down. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

2017-06-14 Thread Mick
k like a VGA problem. PS. Can we please refrain from top posting on this M/L? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

2017-06-14 Thread Mick
I'd check again the PSU output provides the correct voltage 220V or 110V AC. Remove and reseat the RAM modules, try one at a time and check if the beeps change. Replace the video card, which you've done already. If none of the above moves you further down the road of booting, send the board

Re: [gentoo-user] Print options in Okular, QpdfView missing

2017-06-11 Thread Mick
On Sunday 11 Jun 2017 11:41:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:47:23 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I noticed that the above two applications either do not have all the > > options that used to be available in the past, or what is available > > when I select File/Print

[gentoo-user] Print options in Okular, QpdfView missing

2017-06-09 Thread Mick
/qpdfview-0.4.16 dev-qt/qtprintsupport-5.6.2 kde-apps/print-manager-16.12.3 app-admin/system-config-printer-1.4.8 I don't recall such problems with Qt4. Is there some package I am missing? Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-08 Thread Mick
On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 16:56:21 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 13:21:56 Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> > Yes, this seems to be the problem. Starting Kmail does not launch > >> > kwalletd5 and as a consequence kmail starts asking for e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-08 Thread Mick
ependencies until all kde:4 packages are removed from portage. I can think why knotify should be in world, since it ought to be a dependency for kdepim- meta/kdepimlibs/kdepim-runtime, all of which are I have installed here. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-08 Thread Mick
On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 02:04:44 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 Jun 2017 16:35:40 you wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I've updated a number of kde (plasma) packages, including kde- > >> frameworks/kwallet-5.34.0-r1. A depclean a

[gentoo-user] Ended up buying Brother HL-3140CW [WAS: Samsung Xpress C430W with Gentoo]

2017-06-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 Jun 2017 13:18:29 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm about to buy a new printer but before I jump in with both feet, do you > have any experience of getting the above laser printer to work with Gentoo? > > Samsung provide a Unified Linux Driv

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get started with automated update world

2017-06-07 Thread Mick
isn't is small. If somebody triggers a rebuild of chromium then > that is a different story, but most chromium updates get built > overnight. I have stayed away from automating updates because every now and then there are profile changes, which add or remove USE flags. I prefer to

[gentoo-user] Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-06 Thread Mick
nished, kde-apps/kwalletd can be removed." So, do I have to wait for Kmail:4 to be updated to Kmail:5 before I give up on kwalletd4 despite the above message? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-06 Thread Mick
each time the user. Have you noticed the same? Is there a fix or workaround for this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Samsung Xpress C430W with Gentoo

2017-06-05 Thread Mick
of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung Printer Language) printers but I don't know if the C430W will work with the splix driver - it is not listed here: http://splix.sourceforge.net/ -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions

2017-06-05 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 Jun 2017 10:18:04 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am able to go to Settings/Advanced/Privacy/Content Settings/JavaScript > > /Manage Exceptions, click on the left field that

Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions

2017-06-05 Thread Mick
nb -nl -pl -pt-BR -pt-PT -ro -ru -sk -sl -sr -sv -sw -ta -te -th - tr -uk -vi -zh-CN -zh-TW") -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn off ansi (colour) codes in ... script output

2017-06-03 Thread Mick
On Saturday 03 Jun 2017 10:37:46 Toralf Förster wrote: > On 06/03/2017 01:06 AM, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Walter had posted a message about ANSI codes showing up in portage output. > > I am getting the same when I run /usr/bin/script and examine the > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn off ansi (colour) codes in ... script output

2017-06-03 Thread Mick
On Friday 02 Jun 2017 19:13:25 R0b0t1 wrote: > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:12 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> Walter had posted a message about ANS

[gentoo-user] How do I turn off ansi (colour) codes in ... script output

2017-06-02 Thread Mick
^M but when I use less I can see: ~ $ echo $TERM Is there a way of suppressing these characters in gedit, kwrite, vim, etc.? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] app-office/taskcoach-1.4.3-r1 fails to launch

2017-06-02 Thread Mick
nd won't work this time. Can you see something above that can point me to a solution? PS. Is there another application, which will work as well as taskcoach for keeping a record of billing work and charges? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs

2017-05-31 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 31 May 2017 12:36:37 Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sun, 28 May 2017 11:07:03 +0100 > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Did you also have zbud enabled at the time? > > Historical kernel configs say yes: > > xzcat /root/kernels/04.04.26-gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't rebuild gentoo kernel-4.9.16 with gcc-5.4.0

2017-05-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 30 May 2017 14:11:14 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 May 2017 13:08:39 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 May 2017 04:20:17 -0700 (PDT), Mick wrote: > >> > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel did not finding root partition

2017-05-30 Thread Mick
ne. Have a read here to get some grounding on initramfs: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs/Guide and here to use dracut as an alternative initramfs builder application: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dracut HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't rebuild gentoo kernel-4.9.16 with gcc-5.4.0

2017-05-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 30 May 2017 13:08:39 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2017 04:20:17 -0700 (PDT), Mick wrote: > > > After gcc-config, make sure you run: > > > # env-update > > > # source /etc/profile > > > > > > It looks like something still points t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't rebuild gentoo kernel-4.9.16 with gcc-5.4.0

2017-05-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 30 May 2017 13:13:10 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On May 30, 2017 12:56:18 PM GMT+02:00, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I tried to change the kernel config file and then rebuild the kernel, > >but it > >fails like this on two up to date stable sys

[gentoo-user] Can't rebuild gentoo kernel-4.9.16 with gcc-5.4.0

2017-05-30 Thread Mick
r version gentoo-sources to be able to build a kernel with gcc-5.4.0? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Can I resize /dev/shm on the fly?

2017-05-30 Thread Mick
be unmounted at the time Walter tried it and this is why it failed. If a specific size is required then it can also be added into the fstab: none /dev/shmtmpfs defaults,size=1G0 0 Then umount followed by mount /dev/shm should get the desired size. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo livedvd

2017-05-28 Thread Mick
IRC channel and list of members can be seen on the right hand side of the page. > I would like to updated it, since I use it very often. > > Christos.K I'm sure they would welcome contributions and will be able to advise on due process. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs

2017-05-28 Thread Mick
m glad I turned that off, it was a huge mistake. Did you also have zbud enabled at the time? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tmp on tmpfs

2017-05-25 Thread Mick
ng and desktop latency increasing when swapping takes place? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wow, the GTK3 file browser is awful!

2017-05-22 Thread Mick
> I can at least enter a path again. > > I shall probably die still longing for the days of GTK2... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

2017-05-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 May 2017 10:48:52 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 20 May 2017 03:19:20 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday 20 May 2017 00:26:58 Kai Krakow wrote: > > > Am Fri, 19 May 2017 22:50:06 +0100 > > > > > > schrieb Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

2017-05-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 May 2017 03:19:20 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 20 May 2017 00:26:58 Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Fri, 19 May 2017 22:50:06 +0100 > > > > schrieb Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>: > > > On Friday 19 May 2017 15:15:24 Mick wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rocks

2017-05-19 Thread Mick
suffering a power cut without a UPS ... O_O -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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