Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't libxslt updated by emerge world?

* Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25.07.08 00:46]: > I'm synced up and emerge world doesn't want to emerge anything, but > python-updater wants to re-emerge an old version of libxslt which is > currently installed, which looks like it should have been updated via > emerge world: > > # equery depends li

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [...] BTW: I told a few other faculty about my difficulties: here's a typical reaction: It's an obvious question, but... are they freakin' insane? VMWare is one of the few really good pieces of general-market software that supports Linux. Why on earth would the linux com

[gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc.

Hi, I'm running Gentoo. As part of an unrelated package upgrade, PAM got upgraded. Ever since, or sometime afterward, anything requiring a username and password fails. My POP3 server fails, I can't even log in as root! If I try to log in at the console, it takes the username, which can be a r

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:06:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> it is not about minorities. It is about closed source crap. Nobody can >> fix that execpt vmware. Why should people suffer because vmware is slow? > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a version-control/storage/synchronization software to use?

On 25 Jul 2008, at 01:49, Mark David Dumlao wrote: I have a laptop where I keep writing stuff. "Writing stuff" includes a vast, mixed collection of essays, freemind mindmaps, downloaded pictures, clips, some programs, and generally - a heterogenous collection of various ideas that I might

[gentoo-user] Suggestions for a version-control/storage/synchronization software to use?

I have a laptop where I keep writing stuff. "Writing stuff" includes a vast, mixed collection of essays, freemind mindmaps, downloaded pictures, clips, some programs, and generally - a heterogenous collection of various ideas that I might find "useful". I also have a computer at home, where I inten

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:01:12 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I'm still very confused by profiles, though I obviously need to get to > grips with them. What is a profile, _EXACTLY_? Where in the > documentation can I find a description which says something like " a > profile is a directory whi

[gentoo-user] Why isn't libxslt updated by emerge world?

I'm synced up and emerge world doesn't want to emerge anything, but python-updater wants to re-emerge an old version of libxslt which is currently installed, which looks like it should have been updated via emerge world: # equery depends libxslt [ Searching for packages depending on libxslt... ] d

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

* Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24.07.08 23:02]: > Hi, Sebastian, > I don't know where it is explained, but I try to explain what I know until now about this. > I'm still very confused by profiles, though I obviously need to get to > grips with them. What is a profile, _EXACTLY_? Where

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: > From what I know, "blocked" is the same as "sleeping", ie waiting for something to happen. Tasks that have completed their time slice and are forced by the scheduler to stop, are not "sleeping"; they are re-inserted in the queue of the runnable processes, and the sch

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

Hi, Sebastian, On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:07:35PM +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24.07.08 11:42]: > > Why the 4 do I have to type xfce4, not xfce? Anyhow, that's a minor > > point. > Just a tip: maybe you should use emerge -s for such things, or eix. > A

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:06:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > it is not about minorities. It is about closed source crap. Nobody can > fix that execpt vmware. Why should people suffer because vmware is slow? This was fixed in the vmware overlay ages ago. You could blame the devs, although I w

[gentoo-user] {OT} xscreensaver glslideshow error

Sorry this is off topic, but there doesn't seem to be an xscreensaver list. When I try to run xscreensaver in glslideshow mode, I get "child pid terminated with signal 9". Google doesn't seem to be too helpful and I'm wondering if anyone knows what this might be. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

On Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Kevin, > > It's fruitless to argue with someone who uses crude swearwords --- a > sign that they more interested in impact than in reason. and it is fruitless to argue that the kernel should wait for closed source stuff of questionable l

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

Kevin, It's fruitless to argue with someone who uses crude swearwords --- a sign that they more interested in impact than in reason. --- Vladimir on 07/24/2008 09:06 AM Volker Armin Hemmann said the following: it is not about minorities. It is about closed source crap. Nobody can fix that ex

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

On Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Sebastian Wiesner > However, may I point out that a great deal of the kernel is in support > of minorities > of users? Especially in the device drivers. There may not be another > machine on the planet with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, excellent people! > > Having got X11 installed and "working", I need a window manager. Why > not XFCE, as supplied on the installation disk? > > # emerge xfce didn't work - "Portage: Don't know what xfce is". > Scrabb

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

On Thursday 24 July 2008, 17:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > What does it mean a process is "sleeping", technically? > > It's a misnomer, it means "not running". > > The cpu gives the illusion of executing many tasks simultaneously. In > reality, it is executing them one at a time and very rapidly (m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues

Miernik wrote: list-catcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The most important of the problems involves the fan. The laptop gets a whole lot hotter using linux while compiling than it did using vista while compiling which implies that there is some fan control missing from my install. What sort o

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

On Thursday 24 July 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, excellent people! > > Having got X11 installed and "working", I need a window manager. Why > not XFCE, as supplied on the installation disk? > > # emerge xfce didn't work - "Portage: Don't know what xfce is". > Scrabbled aroud /usr/portage, the

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Sebastian Wiesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You were ever able to built a kernel without warnings?! You certainly must > have some magic in your hands ;) Kernel developers always had a dismissive > attitude towards compiler warnings, non-serious warnings are ra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

Eric Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: Josh Cepek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry Putnam wrote: David Blamire-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

On Thursday 24 July 2008, b.n. wrote: > > I jump here to relief my everlasting UNIX ignorance. > > What does it mean a process is "sleeping", technically? It's a misnomer, it means "not running". The cpu gives the illusion of executing many tasks simultaneously. In reality, it is executing them

Re: [gentoo-user] Set "max locked memory" to unlimited

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:01:17 +0200 Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I tryed to set the "max locked memory" for a user to unlimited. > I did this in that way, > opened shell > su > ulimit -l unlimited > exit > ulimit -a > > And the unlimited was gone and reset to 32k. As root it wa

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

On Thursday 24 July 2008, 12:41, b.n. wrote: > > S means sleeping > > R means running or runnable > > > > s means the process is a session leader > > + means the process is running in the foreground > > I jump here to relief my everlasting UNIX ignorance. > > What does it mean a process is "sleepi

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi # ps auxw | egrep "USER|rsync" root 5301 0.0 0.0 10036 1280 ?Ss 01:13 root 5306 0.2 0.1 56212 31912 pts/0S+ 01:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

* Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24.07.08 11:42]: > Hi, excellent people! > > Having got X11 installed and "working", I need a window manager. Why > not XFCE, as supplied on the installation disk? > > # emerge xfce didn't work - "Portage: Don't know what xfce is". > Scrabbled aroud /usr/por

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-(

Hi, excellent people! Having got X11 installed and "working", I need a window manager. Why not XFCE, as supplied on the installation disk? # emerge xfce didn't work - "Portage: Don't know what xfce is". Scrabbled aroud /usr/portage, then # emerge xfce4 started working. Why the 4 do I have to ty

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

"Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Thursday 24 July 2008, 03:26:26 > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing. > >> > >> Th

[gentoo-user] Set "max locked memory" to unlimited

Hi all, I tryed to set the "max locked memory" for a user to unlimited. I did this in that way, opened shell su ulimit -l unlimited exit ulimit -a And the unlimited was gone and reset to 32k. As root it was set right. What did I do wrong, or where else I have to change things? Thanks, justin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:55:14 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I never needed to do 'make oldconfig'. After emerging a new kernel, I > do "make menuconfig" (or xconfig (Qt) or gconfig (Gtk)) and everything > is already configured like the currently running kernel. But your new kernel is differ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:07:52 -0500 (CDT) "list-catcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The most important of the problems involves the fan. The laptop > > gets a whole lot hotter using linux while compiling than it did > > using vista while compiling which implies that there is some fan > > co