[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc

2012-07-09 Thread walt
On 07/09/2012 02:19 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Additional "problem": this box dual-boots Win7pro. > > Have some of you gentoo-users already been there, done that? This valuable link was posted here recently: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread walt
On 07/13/2012 01:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: >> I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). >> >> I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the >> flash. >> >> I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3.

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc

2012-07-13 Thread walt
On 07/13/2012 02:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially >> with that win7pro on board. >> >> It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure) > > For anyone else attacking this: > > I now have bo

[gentoo-user] Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

2012-07-21 Thread walt
I know there are a few lvm2 experts lurking here :) I have a 500gig disk that is split roughly in half between two volume groups, each containing four physical volumes, and each vg is formatted into an ext4 filesystem of roughly 250GB. What I plan to do is merge the two volume groups into one, co

[gentoo-user] Re: Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

2012-07-22 Thread walt
On 07/22/2012 01:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > If you have a spare drive, I'd add a partition on that to the VG you want > to keep, Aha! That's exactly the kind of outside-the-box hint I needed, thanks. Now that I understand the concept, the rest should be "easy". Just like everything else abou

[gentoo-user] Re: Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

2012-07-22 Thread walt
On 07/22/2012 07:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:53:37 -0700, walt wrote: > >>> If you have a spare drive, I'd add a partition on that to the VG you >>> want to keep, >> >> Aha! That's exactly the kind of outside-the-box hint

[gentoo-user] Re: eix needs GLIBCXX_3.4.xxx

2012-07-22 Thread walt
On 07/22/2012 10:41 AM, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:23:47 +0200 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> Am Sonntag, 22. Juli 2012, 09:52:06 schrieb David Relson: >>> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 >> >> how about moving that stuff away and creating a symlink to the >> correct version? > > Su

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.5 and nvidia

2012-07-25 Thread walt
On 07/25/2012 01:25 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > nvidia-drivers-302.17 are masked and older won't compile with > gentoo-sources-3.5.0 > > Do I miss something or is it correct that I won't be able to use > nvidia-drivers with kernel 3.5 right now? I'm using 302.17 now with 3.5.0 and have n

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.5 and nvidia

2012-07-25 Thread walt
On 07/25/2012 01:31 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Right now I managed to get "nvidia module not found" for both kernels > 3.5.0 and -rc7 ... so I am back on 3.4.5 for now. I always get that message when /usr/src/linux-> points to the wrong kernel sources, so nvidia.ko is installed in the wron

[gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm

2012-07-25 Thread walt
On 07/25/2012 05:21 PM, Dale wrote: > The point made about producing less heat with the smaller nm sounds > reasonable tho. >From the chip maker's point of view, everything is about battery life and small size these days. I wonder how many college kids are using desktops these days. Desktops a

[gentoo-user] Linus breaks nvidia again

2012-07-29 Thread walt
For you weirdos who track Linus's git repo every day, and who use the proprietary nvidia-drivers, you need to make this change to the nvidia code for their kernel module (nvidia.ko): --- /usr/src/nv/nv-acpi.c.orig 2012-07-29 04:09:03.336096276 -0700 +++ /usr/src/nv/nv-acpi.c 2012-07-29 04:0

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with help2man and Perl

2012-08-05 Thread walt
On 08/05/2012 11:07 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > I then run the emerge again and for some reason it wants to rebuild > perl again, a different version to what perl-cleaner rebuilt. That sounds very strange. Why should two versions of perl be fighting for top dog on your machine? The only reason I c

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread walt
On 08/07/2012 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Each Windows VM has it's own Windows > license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different > trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox. Just curious if you've given wine a try in recent months. I use a few proprie

[gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-09 Thread walt
This has been slow and painful so far. First, the build stops repeatedly because of zero-length library files. I can restart the ebuild manually and each iteration builds one more (real) library. I've been doing this iterating for hours and I think I may have gotten past that part, but the build

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet? [SOLVED, maybe]

2012-08-10 Thread walt
On 08/09/2012 01:19 PM, walt wrote: > > ...the ebuild is using only one CPU out of four, so this is taking > much longer than before. Ugh. Well, since there are at least four of you who don't have any problem with libreoffice it must be something on my two machines with th

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-12 Thread walt
On 08/12/2012 10:44 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 120812 Philip Webb wrote: >> 120812 v...@ukr.net wrote: >>> Looks like developers have already caught this issue. >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428328#c8 >> I'll try merging again with USE="xmlsec" , as the bug fix recommends. > > Yes,

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet? [WORKAROUND]

2012-08-18 Thread walt
On 08/09/2012 01:19 PM, walt wrote: > This has been slow and painful so far. > > First, the build stops repeatedly because of zero-length library files. The gentoo libreoffice package doesn't yet compile with the 'binfilter' useflag set, so I unset it and the install com

[gentoo-user] Puzzling lvm2 behavior?

2012-09-08 Thread walt
I've never expanded an lvm partition before, and I think I did it the long way around just now: I divided my 1TB disk into 10 equal pv's when I bought it, and then added four of those to a new vg (named wd0), leaving the other six for future use. After a few months of filling up that partition I

[gentoo-user] Re: Puzzling lvm2 behavior?

2012-09-08 Thread walt
On 09/08/2012 12:10 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 08.09.2012 20:20, schrieb walt: I used lvextend -r -L n /dev/wd0/wd0, where n is the number of unused extents listed by pvdisplay. To specify extents, you should use "-l". Thanks, Florian. That was exactly my mistake.

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs server sometimes not available - timeo and retrans

2012-09-24 Thread walt
On 09/24/2012 10:18 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Just want to check something with those much more knowledgeable that I am. I have a media computer which exports the media as nfs4 shares. My workstation in turn mounts these - it's the only device that does this. If the media device is not on, a

[gentoo-user] systemd question

2012-09-25 Thread walt
I just installed and booted with systemd and most services are working normally, except syslog.service and remote-fs.service. Both of those failed on bootup with a "No such file or directory" error. I can't figure out how to make systemd tell me which files it can't find. Any ideas?

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd question

2012-09-25 Thread walt
On 09/25/2012 02:42 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:24 PM, walt wrote: I just installed and booted with systemd and most services are working normally, except syslog.service and remote-fs.service. Both of those failed on bootup with a "No such file or dire

[gentoo-user] Re: Amaya

2012-09-25 Thread walt
On 09/22/2012 07:13 AM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i try since days install Amaya but it want not work. I try from Source but it end with mistake in wx, but wxGTK is installed. I try from deb Package it end with Raptor errors. Has someone installed Amaya and can me tell the way? I finally go

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd question

2012-09-26 Thread walt
On 09/25/2012 08:21 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Do you need remote filesystem support? If not, then don't worry about it; but if you want to find the problem, send the output from systemctl status remote-fs.target. Mine is: # systemctl status remote-fs.target remote-fs.target - Remote File

[gentoo-user] Re: Amaya

2012-10-01 Thread walt
On 10/01/2012 05:39 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: I run the follow command, ../configure --enable-system-wx --enable-system-libwww --enable-system-raptor Sorry, I forgot to say that it compiles for me only when I omit all of those flags. Amaya doesn't like my system libs any better than it likes y

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother MFC 7320

2012-10-02 Thread walt
On 10/02/2012 02:20 AM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i try to install my Printer, but in Cups not come the local port. I take a look in the handbook and have built the kernel new, but the printer want not work. When i take in the USB: Oct 2 11:09:28 gentoo-mobile kernel: [ 1756.280126] usb 2-1:

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother MFC 7320

2012-10-02 Thread walt
On 10/02/2012 04:01 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: I has compile new kernel, but the result is same. CONFIG_USB_ACM=y CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y CONFIG_USB_WDM=y CONFIG_USB_TMC=y I use the handbook for usb and usb printer. Uff. When on Sabayon run, should run on gentoo too, or? All I know about Sabayon

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce - folder icons gone

2012-10-13 Thread walt
On 10/12/2012 11:49 PM, Joseph wrote: On 10/13/12 00:29, Joseph wrote: After todays upgrade my xfce4 folder icons are gone including some file icons with extension "txt, ps" Including some icons in "Application Menu" How to restore them? running : USE=thunar emerge -av xfdesktop (log out/in) d

[gentoo-user] Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-14 Thread walt
I'm back in gnome heaven again, thanks to cinnamon-1.6.1 :) First I'd like to thank Canek for his generous help to all of us here who have been struggling with gnome-shell. I'm sure I'll try gnome-shell again when it's more mature, but for now I'm sticking with cinnamon. It's a giant step backw

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread walt
On 10/15/2012 12:24 AM, mindrunner wrote: Ive had soo many problem with gnome 3 (mainly performance), so i switched to lxde. The performance penalty can be due to old video hardware because both gnome-shell and cinnamon use video compositing for silly and unnecessary stuff like transparent win

[gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks nvidia-drivers again

2012-10-15 Thread walt
Well, this is really a temporary workaround for people who like to run the latest git kernel from Linus, and it's only tested for nvidia-drivers-302.17-r1, and only on ~amd_64. diff -ur NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-302.17.orig/kernel/conftest.sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-302.17/kernel/conftest.sh --- NVIDIA-Li

[gentoo-user] Re: [PATCH] Linus breaks ati-drivers again

2012-10-15 Thread walt
Well, this is really a temporary workaround for people who like to run the latest git kernel from Linus, and it's only tested for ati-drivers-12.9_beta, and only on ~amd_64. --- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.orig 2012-10-15 10:10:58.593454377 -0700 +++ common/lib/modules/fgl

[gentoo-user] Re: [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules again

2012-10-15 Thread walt
Well, this is really a temporary workaround for people who like to run the latest git kernel from Linus, and it's only tested for virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1, and only on ~amd_64. --- vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c.orig 2012-06-12 01:08:34.0 -0700 +++ vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memob

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread walt
On 10/15/2012 12:40 PM, mindrunner wrote: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] Are you using the proprietary ati drivers? (x11-drivers/ati-drivers) If yes, does fgl_glxgears run okay? On 10/15/2012 02:23 PM, walt

[gentoo-user] Re: [PATCH] Linus breaks nvidia-drivers again

2012-10-15 Thread walt
On 10/15/2012 11:10 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 09:05:27AM -0700, walt wrote >Well, this is really a temporary workaround for people who like to >run the latest git kernel from Linus, and it's only tested for >nvidia-drivers-302.17-r1, and only on ~amd_64.

[gentoo-user] Re: genlop and tab completion acts weird

2012-10-21 Thread walt
On 10/20/2012 07:15 PM, Dale wrote: I been noticing something weird. If I try to use tab completion with the genlop command, I get things like this: root@fireball / # genlop -t -f/var/-su: /etc/make.globals: No such file or directory hp-toolbox.lock ^C root@fireball / # genlop -t -f /var/lo-su:

[gentoo-user] Re: adobe flash isnt working

2012-10-28 Thread walt
On 10/27/2012 07:15 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I have noticed that adobe flash isnt working and googling says some versions have an sse2 bug. I have the latest from portage (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.243 with sse2check enabled) Should it work, or should I look elsewhere. I have the s

[gentoo-user] Re: [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

2012-10-29 Thread walt
On 10/29/2012 03:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I just wonder why GenToo still sticks to openrc while other distributions have switched to systemd. Not all gentoo packages have been updated with systemd *.service files, which live in /usr/lib/systemd/system/. I installed a live-CD virtual inst

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Questions about building from source tarball

2012-10-30 Thread walt
On 10/30/2012 01:56 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Several years ago, back in the days of Mozilla 0.9x and Phoenix, I used to build Mozilla and/or Pheonix from the source tarball. Me too :) Every morning I'd pull from their source repo and build my own and then file bug reports (there were thousand

[gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-06 Thread walt
On 11/06/2012 04:18 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hello For everything there is a first time. So after years of coping by myself, this is the first time I need an advice on a shared libary that can't be found. My problem: $ ams ams: error while loading shared libraries: libclalsadrv.so.1: can

[gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-07 Thread walt
On 11/07/2012 04:08 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:56:12PM -0800, walt wrote: Hello […] $ ams ams: error while loading shared libraries: libclalsadrv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I ran revdep-rebuild -pvi twice, the result was that

[gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-09 Thread walt
I have a sore head from banging it on the wall for the last week, but it's beginning to feel better already. I just (finally!) got all my needed services up and running at boot time, and it's *fast*. Rebooting and shutdown are lightning fast now, a matter of five seconds or so. Cool :) I act

[gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-09 Thread walt
On 11/09/2012 03:13 PM, pk wrote: On 2012-11-09 23:53, walt wrote: You Lennart haters out there (and I was one of you not so long ago ;) now I think he's not so bad after all. He just doesn't know yet how to explain things properly to old farts. Good for you. I really don't s

[gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-09 Thread walt
On 11/09/2012 06:30 PM, Dale wrote: Me, if I was going to switch, I'd use a second install or copy my current install to another partition, just in case I can't get around that curve. ;-) Heh, you didn't think I started with my real machine, right? I've spent the last week rebooting a Virtua

[gentoo-user] [systemd] Right way to start an nfs server?

2012-11-11 Thread walt
I'm sooo close, but I'm doing something wrong with nfs server, and my nfs clients keep getting rejection messages. I got my systemd scripts here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd#NFS I know the problem is with the nfs server because the nfs clients work normally if I boot the nfs server

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium print bug?

2012-11-11 Thread walt
On 11/11/2012 11:49 AM, Grant wrote: Does anyone else's chromium get a little crazy when they try to bring up the print dialog without a printer attached? Thanks for the workaround :) Whenever I try to print to a file from chromium, the browser freezes and I need to kill the process to contin

[gentoo-user] Re: [systemd] Right way to start an nfs server?

2012-11-14 Thread walt
On 11/11/2012 07:58 PM, Aaron Russell wrote: > I was having the same problem. > > I had found and nfs package for fedora and in it had the .service > files. I used those and got it to work. Good clue, thanks. Just for fun I did a virtualbox install of Fedora 17 because I haven't tried it for yea

[gentoo-user] Re: new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-03 Thread walt
On 12/02/2012 09:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote: Also, I have PPP installed (2.4.5-r3): do I still need this with DHCP ? >>-- I suspect it's left over from pre-router days. any advice ? I notice that there is a ppp useflag. Do you have it set? I've found that sometimes (for random values of some

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/17/2012 03:26 AM, Francesco Turco wrote: Hello. I get the following error message at boot time: * Mounting /proc... rm: cannot remove /run/openrc: Read-only file system It's the very first script launched by OpenRC, but I cannot determine which one it is. Anyway I'm quite sure it's a s

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-19 Thread walt
On 12/18/2012 01:07 AM, Francesco Turco wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:49, Dale wrote: If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it. There are lots of settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you need to. It's strange because all variables in my /etc/rc.conf file a

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2012-12-29 Thread walt
On 12/27/2012 01:46 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: greets ... today (at least in my timezone ;-) ) I saw gnome-3.6-related ebuilds coming up on my ~amd64 box ... I ran a backup (yes, experience ...) and emerged stuff ... so far it runs OK. There are changes and new features and I am still ex

[gentoo-user] Breakage from recent updates to gnome-3.6 on ~amd64

2013-01-02 Thread walt
I use mostly the cinnamon fork of gnome-shell but I also give gnome-shell a try occasionally just to annoy myself :) The gnome updates from Jan 1-2 caused me a bit of trouble, but I'm making progress that might help some of you: First, the addition of gstreamer-1.0 is now installed along side th

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and ssl

2013-01-04 Thread walt
On 01/04/2013 09:59 AM, Robert David wrote: This is not the problem. With firefox-bin I can normally accept the certificate, compiled firefox does not give me the option. You might try entering 'about:buildconfig' as the URL in both versions of firefox to see what differences there may be. Are

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-09 Thread walt
On 01/08/2013 08:40 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013, 19:11:19 schrieb James: Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: Comments/guidance on ZFS vs BTFRS are welcome. I never used ZFS; googling suggests lots of disdain for ZFS ? Maybe someone knows a good articl

[gentoo-user] udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-11 Thread walt
This seems to me like very happy news indeed, but I'm interested in contrary opinions. There's a recent thread discussing how udev-197 breaks lvm2, but that's a trivial fix once you know about it. The problem is caused because many apps including lvm2 install their udev config scripts in /usr/lib

[gentoo-user] Re: gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.24.0-r1 fails to merge.....

2013-01-11 Thread walt
On 01/11/2013 05:24 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi people! > After updating my entire "world" I have problems emergeing gnustep-base > (revdep-rebuild). > > > I get the error on the screen and I am not getting smart how to solve > it, and ideas?!: > > checking whether objc really works... no > I d

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-11 Thread walt
On 01/11/2013 07:14 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > emerge -p1 $(for p in $(qfile -Cvq $(find /usr/lib/udev/) | sort -u); do echo > "=$p"; done) qfile stopped working for me many weeks ago and I wish I could get it working again. All the other portage utils work normally, though. Any idea how to

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-11 Thread walt
On 01/11/2013 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:52:14 -0800 > walt wrote: > >> On 01/11/2013 07:14 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> emerge -p1 $(for p in $(qfile -Cvq $(find /usr/lib/udev/) | sort >>> -u); do echo "=$p"; done) &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't build gcc-4.6.3 on old Pentium III

2013-01-12 Thread walt
On 01/12/2013 06:24 AM, Mick wrote: > Not sure why it fails, or how to progress from here: > march=pentium3 -pipe -O2 -g -O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -DIN_GCC -W -Wall - > ${GCC_MAKE_TARGET} || die "emake failed with ${GCC_MAKE_TARGET}"; No idea, but I would try -march=native and see what happens

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-12 Thread walt
On 01/12/2013 03:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 01/11/2013 03:04:01 PM, walt wrote: >> >> The problem is caused because many apps including lvm2 install their udev >> config scripts in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/ (where they never belonged in the >> first place IMO) and

[gentoo-user] Re: Ekopath compiler failing to build - something about glibc development files

2013-01-13 Thread walt
On 01/12/2013 10:53 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've got the ekopath compiler installed on my machine and Portage wants > to update it, but fails. Before I go to the trouble of filling out a full bug > report, does anyone have any ideas as to the problem? I think it is in the > 5th li

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

2013-01-20 Thread walt
On 01/20/2013 01:29 AM, victor romanchuk wrote: > just migrated to sys-fs/udev-197 - everything went smoothly and seems to > work. the only observation at this time is absence of device file > /dev/root whilst both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are referring to that > device node: > > # grep root /et

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197: what to do

2013-01-26 Thread walt
On 01/26/2013 10:30 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have read the news item and still have questions. The news item > covers several points. > > 1. remove udev-postmount: >I did this but worry that I now cannot reboot until I upgrade >udev. Is that correct? A reasonable question and I don

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers-304.64 build failure against vanilla linux-3.7.4

2013-01-26 Thread walt
On 01/26/2013 04:06 PM, staticsafe wrote: > I just grabbed vanilla 3.7.4 from kernel.org, the kernel build itself > went fine but when I did a modules-rebuild, the nvidia module failed to > build. Yes, this happens fairly often with proprietary drivers. Once upon a time I would spend hours hacki

[gentoo-user] Re: openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys

2013-01-27 Thread walt
On 01/26/2013 08:46 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > At some point recently, one of my systems has begun having problems > allocating pseudo-terminals via the UNIX98 pty scheme. I am using the same > kernel configuration I've had for years, and running the latest ~amd64 > version of all the relevant pac

[gentoo-user] Re: openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys

2013-01-27 Thread walt
On 01/27/2013 10:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I had something similar (details are different though): > > All my virt consoles went away and I couldn't get to them after X > starts. Ctrl-Alt-F1 left the X screen as-is and it wouldn't blank and > give me the KMS framebuffer. Ctrl-Alt-F7 brought X

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-02 Thread walt
On 02/01/2013 11:50 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the > fact that it crashes a LOT. I always start by running the problem program from a bash prompt so I can look for error messages. Then I check any config files in my ~/ direct

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-02 Thread walt
On 02/02/2013 06:45 AM, Dale wrote: > walt wrote: >> On 02/01/2013 11:50 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the >>> fact that it crashes a LOT. >> I always start by running the

[gentoo-user] [OT] Nigerian spam coming through google calendar invitations

2013-02-02 Thread walt
I thought I'd been rooted when I saw a notification pop up on my desktop with no previous actions on my part -- it just appeared out of nowhere for no apparent reason, offering to sell me gold dust (cheap!). Turns out that evolution (a gnome clone of MS Outook) was checking my google calendar acco

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Nigerian spam coming through google calendar invitations

2013-02-02 Thread walt
On 02/02/2013 09:20 AM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 16:39:55 walt wrote: >> I thought I'd been rooted when I saw a notification pop up on my desktop >> with no previous actions on my part -- it just appeared out of nowhere >> for no apparent reason, offering t

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Nigerian spam coming through google calendar invitations

2013-02-03 Thread walt
On 02/02/2013 01:21 PM, Dale wrote: > walt wrote: >> Yes, I've already fixed the problem by changing the default settings >> in both evolution and at the google website. Another example of the >> tyranny of the default (a phrase I learned from Leo Laporte). > > I

[gentoo-user] Re: google drive

2013-02-04 Thread walt
On 02/04/2013 04:43 AM, András Csányi wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to get some advise what would be the good - reasonably > good - solution use my Google Drive storage under Gentoo. In the last > 1.5 years I haven't used Gentoo so, I'm a little bit out of scope > about the actualities. > > I

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers fail to determine kernel version

2013-02-05 Thread walt
On 02/05/2013 06:56 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > when using vanilla kernel 3.7.5 (appropiate kernel headers installed) > emergeing nvidia-drivers 313.18 works fine. > As soon vanilla kernel 3.7.6 are installed the emerge process fails > because the kernel version couldnt be determined.

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers fail to determine kernel version

2013-02-06 Thread walt
On 02/05/2013 08:57 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > walt [13-02-06 04:51]: >> On 02/05/2013 06:56 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> when using vanilla kernel 3.7.5 (appropiate kernel headers installed) >>> emergeing nvidia-drivers 313.18

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating accounts in Thunderbird

2013-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/03/2013 03:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > How do I get Thunderbird to act like software and not assume it knows > better than I do? Same way you get your wife to do what you want :) The confusing part about thunderbird account creation is that there's more than one way to create a new accoun

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug in spidermonkey?

2013-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/07/2013 09:19 AM, Elias Diem wrote: > Hello all > > I'm encountering a bug when emerging spidermonkey. > > The output from build.log is attached. This is from your build.log: ./system-headers | /usr/bin/perl ./make-system-wrappers.pl system_wrappers_js ./host_jskwgen /var/tmp/portage/dev

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug in spidermonkey?

2013-02-08 Thread walt
On 02/08/2013 05:53 AM, Elias Diem wrote: > Hi Walt > > On 2013-02-07, walt wrote: > >> Any time perl is involved in a bug I suggest running 'perl-cleaner'. May not >> help, but it couldn't hurt :) > > Unfortunately it didn't help... I just

[gentoo-user] Re: multiple installs

2013-02-09 Thread walt
On 02/08/2013 11:46 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have quit a few amd64 systems to install, hopefully > mostly unattended. I'm looking for a way to install quick and simple > workstations running kde. All will have (boot, root and swap partitions only). > They can be updated to current, individu

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-12 Thread walt
On 02/12/2013 12:26 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> GNOME 3.6 is not masked in Gentoo, just keyworded. > > Apologies for the slight thread hijack, but I've been curious if anyone > knows the current state of Gnome 3 in Gentoo? Heh. That's a complicate

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread walt
On 02/13/2013 04:23 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > All the progress I see from Gnome3 (and I get this only from blog posts > on the tubes) is that stuff is being ripped out and replaced with mostly > nothing. That's exactly my problem with gnome3 in a sentence. I don't hate gnome-shell as an interfac

[gentoo-user] Re: pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread walt
On 02/13/2013 11:29 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > I updated my "server" a while back, and just recently I noticed this in > /var/log/messages: > > Feb 13 11:26:14 coretwoduo login[25575]: pam_tally2(login:auth): > pam_get_uid; no such user > > I have thousands of entries in my logs. It doesn't seem to

[gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-20 Thread walt
Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;) Virtualbox-modules fails to build against today's kernel.git updat

[gentoo-user] Re: ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-20 Thread walt
On 02/20/2013 12:57 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM, walt wrote: >> Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to >> start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- >> modules is the

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-22 Thread walt
On 02/22/2013 12:24 AM, Joseph wrote: > On 02/22/13 09:10, Alexandre Domi wrote: >> Seems you're getting a nvidia segfault... Did you try revdep-rebuild, >> or updating your system? >> >> Regards > > Yes, I just updated the system. > When I try to compile nvidia-drivers I get this message: >

[gentoo-user] [way OT] Authenticating in a wireless home network

2013-02-24 Thread walt
I've been connecting my google nexus 7 tablet to my wireless router using the standard ssid/password method until last week, when I found that my router will allow wireless connections based on the tablet's MAC address. What I don't know is whether the MAC-address authentication method will cause

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge with --changed-use

2013-02-28 Thread walt
On 02/28/2013 11:16 AM, »Q« wrote: > A new useflag, tinfo, has been added for ncurses. I would have > expected ncurses not to be rebuilt when I specify --changed-use, but > portage does want to rebuild it. This isn't causing me any problem, > but I'd like to understand what's going on. I guess I

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge with --changed-use

2013-02-28 Thread walt
On 02/28/2013 03:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:13:31 -0800, walt wrote: > >> My favorite peeve is when a libreoffice useflag is added for, say, >> support for Swahili or Urdu, and now I'm forced to rebuild all of >> libreoffice just to re-instal

[gentoo-user] Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-01 Thread walt
After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both guests). I didn't lose anything important because the only thing I use Wi

[gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-02 Thread walt
On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt wrote: >> After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different >> Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). >> >> Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was ab

[gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-03 Thread walt
On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote: > On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt wrote: >>> After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different >>> Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). >>> >&g

[gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-03 Thread walt
On 03/03/2013 05:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 03/03/2013 02:25:51 PM, walt wrote: >> On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote: >> > On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt wrote: >> >>> After updati

[gentoo-user] Anyone running ck-sources-3.7.10?

2013-03-04 Thread walt
My mojo seems to be broken lately :( I just updated a gentoo vbox guest from ck-sources-3.6.11-r1 to 3.7.10 and I'm seeing file-system corruption and a segfaulting NetworkManager during bootup. I went back one snapshot and I'm going to try switching to gentoo-sources on that same virtual machine.

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running ck-sources-3.7.10? [SOLVED]

2013-03-05 Thread walt
On 03/04/2013 03:14 PM, walt wrote: > My mojo seems to be broken lately :( I just updated a gentoo vbox guest > from ck-sources-3.6.11-r1 to 3.7.10 and I'm seeing file-system corruption > and a segfaulting NetworkManager during bootup. Heh. My RAM is broken, not my mojo :) Bless memtest86...

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?

2013-03-05 Thread walt
On 03/05/2013 09:56 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work > just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the > additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there > won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR

[gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-08 Thread walt
On 03/08/2013 01:24 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: > Hello everyone! > I still cannot play any video or sound inside LibreOffice-4 even > after upgrading to version 4.0.1.2. And I even have no clue where to > search for the bug. > Did somebody succeed in playing media files in LO (for example, in >

[gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-09 Thread walt
On 03/08/2013 08:34 PM, v...@ukr.net wrote: > Hello! > > On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:00:02 -0800 > walt wrote: > >> >> I've never had problems playing media files in loimpress, so I all I >> can do is guess. > If you can play video files in LibreOffice-

[gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/09/2013 01:41 PM, v_2e wrote: > Hello! > > On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:46:04 -0800 > walt wrote: >> >> BTW I just upgraded lo to 4.0.1.2 and no one has sent me any >> power-point files recently so I really don't know yet if they would >> play properly

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64, Firefox => Java Plugin?

2013-03-17 Thread walt
On 03/16/2013 06:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a useable howto/tutorial which describes > howto install the java plugin for the current fireox. I see your question is already answered, but I'll add that there are a zillion open security bugs for java and many are

[gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-03-31 Thread walt
Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it solid stuff? http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread walt
On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: >> Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this >> article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it >> solid stuff? >> >> http://

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