[gentoo-user] Re: how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-03 Thread Miernik
Michael Higgins wrote: > What the *keypad* does, after plugging in the usb keyboard, is act as > a mouse. I've never seen this... it's kinda cool, actually. Like using > an etch-a-sketch. You can turn such behaviour on and off on any keyboard under X with Shift+Ctrl+NumLock. Try it, maybe it will

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Miernik
Stroller wrote: > > On 2 Feb 2009, at 22:52, Miernik wrote: > >> !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/usr/portage/local/layman/ >> java-overlay' > > Have you tried removing that from your make.conf? And after restarting squash_portage (no idea why

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Miernik
Stroller wrote: > > On 2 Feb 2009, at 22:52, Miernik wrote: > >> !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/usr/portage/local/layman/ >> java-overlay' > > Have you tried removing that from your make.conf? Yes, no effect: przehyba ~ # revdep-rebuild -i

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Miernik
Dale wrote: > Typo there I think. Try revdep-rebuild -i and see if that helps. Unfortunately it didn't help: przehyba ~ # revdep-rebuild -i * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package u

[gentoo-user] Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Miernik
which downgraded everything back to stable. But one thing I couldn't downgrade was glibc which stayed at version sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1 XTerm is not using my ~/.Xresources settings. Is there any way I can possibly fix my system? -- Miernik

[gentoo-user] Re: after emerge -uD world Firefox doesn't get DNS for most pages

2009-01-31 Thread Miernik
Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:21:53AM +0100, Penguin Lover Miernik squawked: >> Installed versions: 3.0.5(06:52:35 PM 01/29/2009)(bindist dbus >> ipv6 java startup-notification xulrunner -custom-optimization -gnome > > Just a completely random shot

[gentoo-user] Re: after emerge -uD world Firefox doesn't get DNS for most pages

2009-01-30 Thread Miernik
Miernik wrote: > I just did an total upgrade of my system, with 'emerge -uD world' and > now Firefox (in version 3.0.5) lost the ability to do DNS lookups for > most (but not all) pages. Only a few sites are accessible: And I did try removing my ~/.mozilla/firefox/ directory,

[gentoo-user] after emerge -uD world Firefox doesn't get DNS for most pages

2009-01-30 Thread Miernik
f speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS How can I fix my Firefox? This is really strange, its the first time I see something like this, that a few selected sites work, and the rest doesn't. Please help. -- Miernik

[gentoo-user] Re: how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-29 Thread Miernik
Man Shankar wrote: > On 20:41 Wed 28 Jan , momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a >> bug before masking it. Well, it could take days, weeks, or more before the bug report is taken care of, and I don't want to wait with my

[gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Miernik
Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so there is a ch

[gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Miernik
I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried inserting: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in /etc/portag

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues

2008-07-21 Thread Miernik
e clipboards > are different in what they paste... Anyone know more about this? Here you can read about it: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html -- Miernik http://miernik.name/

[gentoo-user] Re: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

2008-07-21 Thread Miernik
week or month name, then show it in english? If en_DK locale is invalid for Xlib, and no other english laguage locale has dates in -mm-dd format? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/

[gentoo-user] Re: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

2008-07-20 Thread Miernik
that have to do with territory and language? I don't care what territory has what ordering commonly used - I want to have it in form 2008-07-19, is there a way to do it? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/

[gentoo-user] Re: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

2008-07-20 Thread Miernik
e, so it's not me who messed it up! I did how all the manuals showed - uppercase .UTF-8 Is there any hope for me, or should I reinstall Gentoo from scratch, to a blank disk, and pray that my locales will work after that? However I'm sceptical that will produce any different result than I have, because I'll probably do everything exactly as I did now. -- Miernik http://miernik.name/

[gentoo-user] Re: Curious ping problem with no FW

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm asking for here is advice about where to start debugging > this. How about running tcpdump on your outgoing ethernet interface while running ping? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
/dev/sda /dev/sdb or something similar? Why do you assume your drive is under /dev/hdx and not /dev/sdx ? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
ECTED] ~ $ locale -a C en_DK.utf8 POSIX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale LANG="en_DK.UTF-8" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/locale.gen | grep -v "^#" en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ I re-emerged xterm, x11-libs/libX11, glibc, but didn't help. Any ideas? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This looks like a bug fixed in 3.0.1 - released just today Installed it, and the problem is solved - thanks! -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

2008-07-16 Thread Miernik
orum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_parentId=60433 Lots of discussion about this annoyance, but no definitive solution. Seems to depend on the distro, so I would like pointers specifically about fixing this on Gentoo. -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

2008-07-15 Thread Miernik
rzehyba ~ # przehyba ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.use | grep network przehyba ~ # Should I, or shouldn't I add any flag? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

2008-07-15 Thread Miernik
e the web and I am online, while the stupid program thinks I am offline, and prevents me to browse the web. -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-11 Thread Miernik
ions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create?

2008-07-11 Thread Miernik
t do that to anyone again in the future? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: VFS: cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(2,0)

2008-07-09 Thread Miernik
an argument to the kernel that does the same > thing, IIRC "sleep=30", but I have never used this particular trick, > so you will want to check it. Tried it - didn't work. -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VFS: cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(2,0)

2008-07-09 Thread Miernik
I am installing a new system with 2008.0 on an USB pendrive as the only disk in the machine, and at boot I get this error: VFS: cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 0100 4096 ram0 (driver?) 0101

[gentoo-user] Re: Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-18 Thread Miernik
ehyba ~ # uname -a Linux przehyba 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP Fri Nov 9 22:38:35 CET 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux przehyba ~ # -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Miernik
o, read this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Miernik
, but I'd like such behaviour on my Debian machine, where clipboards are separate, but I'd like them to be common. Preferably also common with GNU screen clipboard (/tmp/screen-exchange). Any ideas how to do it? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-11 Thread Miernik
#x27;t always work". Such message on the liveCD welcome screen, would have saved me quite some time. -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-07 Thread Miernik
have a "normal" install method, that should work usually, and if any, what is it? I just did what the booted image told me to, hoping it was something I was supposed to do. This distro is new for me, I installed Debian maybe a hundred times, so thats what I am acustomed to. -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-07 Thread Miernik
only be needed during bootup, i.e. that a compressed ramfs image would be on the stick, and once it extracts into initramfs or something like that, it could be removed, and whole system will run from RAM, ramfs, XiP (execute in place) - that's what I want to do. But right now I can't even d