Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge fontforge

2009-04-20 Thread Thomas Chef
> ...and if that doesn't fix it I'm sure the upstream devs will be interested > to know of the problem. I have opened a bug report, and also got a response, which I will try: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266868

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout slot issue, portage wants to downgrade everything

2009-04-20 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Mike Kazantsev: > > ...or, you can accept mask and just downgrade udev (adding later, > incompatible versions to package.mask: ">=sys-fs/udev-..."). > I'd suggest issuing this command to see which one will suit your system: Ok, I found the version of baselayout was masked for 'corruptio

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and -match=native

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:29:44 +1000 Beau Henderson wrote: > So is GCC ignoring the fact that the systems CHOST is i686 or is this > truly optimized for my situation ? No, it shouldn't ignore CHOST to produce the correct binaries. And yes, I believe (according to man gcc) that native/core2 or an

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and -match=native

2009-04-20 Thread Beau Henderson
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:20:34 +1000 > Beau Henderson wrote: > >> I was playing around with a few non-essential packages the other day >> using -march=native -v on my core2 duo ( configured with >> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" ) and noticed tha

Re: [gentoo-user] denyhosts shows "crashed" status in rc-status, but seems to work fine

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:01:27 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > Does any RC expert know why denyhosts is showing "Crashed" status > despite the fact that it seems to be running and operating normally? > Is anyone else running denyhosts and has this same symptom? I'm not an expert, but that could be jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge fontforge

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:11:32 +0200 Thomas Chef wrote: > > Try rebuilding x11-libs/cairo > > I tried: > # emerge x11-libs/cairo > > Which seems to have worked out ok, then ran emerge fontforge, but it > ended up in the same error as before ? > > I searched the disk for the file: cairo-xlib.h (i

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and -match=native

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:20:34 +1000 Beau Henderson wrote: > I was playing around with a few non-essential packages the other day > using -march=native -v on my core2 duo ( configured with > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" ) and noticed that GCC set the -march=core2 > rather than what is typically sugges

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout slot issue, portage wants to downgrade everything

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:00:40 -0600 darren kirby wrote: > Can anybody at least confirm this is not correct behavior? Suggest how to > troubleshoot this further? As best as I can tell my profile is > ok, 'hardened/x86' and portage doesn't want to update itself... I'd suggest to look at all versi

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: That happened to me recently. Just change the value of the variable RC_PLUG_SERVICES in /etc/conf.d/net to exclude eth0, like eg RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth0" That did it. Never actually looked inside /etc/conf.d/rc. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop -f not quite right.

2009-04-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:47:22 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> I renamed my old emerge log file to .old1 to get off to a fresh start >> with the log file. It was getting pretty large. Anyway, to figure out >> how long something takes to emerge, I use this command and get this >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading from ~x86 to x86

2009-04-20 Thread Andrey Falko
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:58 PM, daid kahl wrote: > Hello! > > I was running the unstable branch of portage primarily for about two years > (mostly from user error when I first started), and I finally committed to > downgrading to the stable branch last night.  I did backups first, and I'm > keepi

[gentoo-user] Downgrading from ~x86 to x86

2009-04-20 Thread daid kahl
Hello! I was running the unstable branch of portage primarily for about two years (mostly from user error when I first started), and I finally committed to downgrading to the stable branch last night. I did backups first, and I'm keeping some good logs of any trouble I encounter. So far, gnome l

[gentoo-user] gcc and -match=native

2009-04-20 Thread Beau Henderson
G'day, I was playing around with a few non-essential packages the other day using -march=native -v on my core2 duo ( configured with CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" ) and noticed that GCC set the -march=core2 rather than what is typically suggested on the 3rd party wiki ( which is to use prescott ). Acc

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop -f not quite right.

2009-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:47:22 -0500, Dale wrote: > I renamed my old emerge log file to .old1 to get off to a fresh start > with the log file. It was getting pretty large. Anyway, to figure out > how long something takes to emerge, I use this command and get this > response: [snip] > Why does it

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, 01:44, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > & I start net.eth0 by hand, so it looks as if it's 'netmount'. > > I removed netmount from all run levels and still get net.eth0 started. > It is happening before; during booting I see the line > > *Wiping /tmp d

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Philip Webb wrote: & I start net.eth0 by hand, so it looks as if it's 'netmount'. I removed netmount from all run levels and still get net.eth0 started. It is happening before; during booting I see the line *Wiping /tmp directory... *Device initiated services: net.eth0 udev-postmount

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Tom wrote: kernel ... video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=795 That gives me 1280x1024. I don't know at what refreshrate though... There should be a line in your /var/log/messages file that shows the refresh rate; at least intelfb does show that; not sure vesafb does the same. those options, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
090420 Philip Webb wrote: > Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ? > Htop reveals that 'konsole' -- the 1st app I started after Fluxbox -- > caused the following processes to start & remain running : > > 3863 kdeinit running ... > 3866 dcopserver [kdeinit]

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
090420 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > I would like to start net.eth0 manually, therefore I currently have > -> rc-update show >acpid | battery default > bootmisc | boot > checkfs | boot >checkroot | boot >

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Tom
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 > real_root=/dev/mapper/system-slash \ ro > resume=swap:/dev/mapper/system-swap vga=0x318 quiet \ > video=intelfb:1024x768...@60,mttr,noaccel,hwcursor,vram=4 \ > splash=silent,theme:natural_gentoo console=tty1 I use vesafb, my line is much more simple, just

[gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I would like to start net.eth0 manually, therefore I currently have -> rc-update show acpid | battery default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot conso

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 23:23]: since the mode option under intelfb is useless. I could also drop the video parameter altogether since I only have the intelfb driver compiled into the kernel. Only if you don't want to use it: this paramete

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 23:23]: > > since the mode option under intelfb is useless. I could also drop the > video parameter altogether since I only have the intelfb driver compiled > into the kernel. Only if you don't want to use it: this parameter is necessary to

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 22:29]: > Sebastian Günther wrote: > > > > > This is the hint: intelfb can't change the video mode. But intelfb can > > be used if you /also/ add a vga to the kernel command line. I will post > > mine as an example: > > > > kernel /boot/vmli

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mike Edenfield wrote: these log messages. I assume this is a laptop (or else your intelfb is very confused). For some reason that I don't fully understand, but It is a laptop indeed. assume is a good one, the intel fb device cannot change the video mode on a laptop display. The vga par

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Peter Humphrey wrote: kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.29-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap fbcon=scrollback:128k splash=silent memory_corruption_check=1 Thanks for letting me know the fbcon=scrollback option. -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Sebastian Günther wrote: This is the hint: intelfb can't change the video mode. But intelfb can be used if you /also/ add a vga to the kernel command line. I will post mine as an example: kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/mapper/system-slash \ ro resume=swap:/dev/mapper/sy

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/20/2009 2:47 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format appears to be kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=xxx This is the only correct syntax for the intelfb device, because of Apr 20 14:27:54 dcpl-lpt1 [ 0.173678] intelfb: N

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 April 2009 19:47:15 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > I've been trying the following grub.conf boot > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 video=intelfb,mode=1280x768...@60 > but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format > appears to be > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 20:48]: > > Hello, > > I've been trying the following grub.conf boot > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 video=intelfb,mode=1280x768...@60 > > but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format > appears to be > > ke

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
090420 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009 16:25:07 Philip Webb wrote: >> Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ? > I believe it's kcminit but it doesn't show up in ps afterwards. Thanks for the hint, which got me to look at what's running via 'htop'.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout slot issue, portage wants to downgrade everything

2009-04-20 Thread darren kirby
Can anybody at least confirm this is not correct behavior? Suggest how to troubleshoot this further? As best as I can tell my profile is ok, 'hardened/x86' and portage doesn't want to update itself... I don't understand why my currently installed udev wants the currently installed baselayout bu

[gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I've been trying the following grub.conf boot kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 video=intelfb,mode=1280x768...@60 but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format appears to be kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=xxx where xxx does not accommodate the mod

[gentoo-user] denyhosts shows "crashed" status in rc-status, but seems to work fine

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
Does any RC expert know why denyhosts is showing "Crashed" status despite the fact that it seems to be running and operating normally? Is anyone else running denyhosts and has this same symptom? Thanks, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastián
2009/4/21 Liviu Andronic > 2009/4/20 Sebastián Magrí : > > There are a few tweaks one can do to speed up things... > > > Such as.. > Mostly rc.conf things... rc_parallel="YES" rc_interactive="NO" rc_depend_strict="NO" > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cf

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Liviu Andronic > wrote: >> Dear all, >> Today I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of >> Linux. Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly >> old) Gentoo needs aro

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all, > Today I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of > Linux. Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly > old) Gentoo needs around two minutes from power button to DE idle. > Are there any de

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge fontforge

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 April 2009 14:54:40 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009 15:44:48 Thomas Chef wrote: > > Do I issue [a] bug report ? > > > > In file included from fontP.h:109, > > from gdrawtxt.c:30: > > gxdrawP.h:83:32: error: cairo/cairo-xlib.h: No such file or directory >

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
2009/4/20 Sebastián Magrí : > There are a few tweaks one can do to speed up things... > Such as.. -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge fontforge

2009-04-20 Thread Thomas Chef
> Try rebuilding x11-libs/cairo I tried: # emerge x11-libs/cairo Which seems to have worked out ok, then ran emerge fontforge, but it ended up in the same error as before ? I searched the disk for the file: cairo-xlib.h (in Konqueror) but could not find the file ? / Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

2009-04-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 20 April 2009 16:25:07 Philip Webb wrote: > Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ? > > Xfce offers the option of pre-starting them, > but I can't see where it occurs in its start-up scripts. > I'm currently trying out Fluxbox (generally excellent!) > &

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastián Magrí
El lun, 20-04-2009 a las 10:19 -0400, Philip Webb escribió: > 090420 Liviu Andronic wrote: > > I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of Linux. > > Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly old) Gentoo > > needs around two minutes from power button to DE i

[gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ? Xfce offers the option of pre-starting them, but I can't see where it occurs in its start-up scripts. I'm currently trying out Fluxbox (generally excellent!) & would like to have it pre-start the libs for the KDE apps I us

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
090420 Liviu Andronic wrote: > I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of Linux. > Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly old) Gentoo > needs around two minutes from power button to DE idle. It will all depend on your hardware & precise start-up procedu

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge fontforge

2009-04-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 20 April 2009 15:44:48 Thomas Chef wrote: > I tried to emerge lilypond but it fails when building fontforge, with > the error below. > > What do I do ? > > Do I issue an bug report ? > > / Thomas > > In file included from fontP.h:109, > from gdrawtxt.c:30: > gxdrawP.h:83:

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge fontforge

2009-04-20 Thread Thomas Chef
I tried to emerge lilypond but it fails when building fontforge, with the error below. What do I do ? Do I issue an bug report ? / Thomas In file included from fontP.h:109, from gdrawtxt.c:30: gxdrawP.h:83:32: error: cairo/cairo-xlib.h: No such file or directory gcc -march=c3-

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009 09:30:56 Dale wrote: >> That said, it has worked well for me.  Everything on my rig is working >> again.  If he has to do this downgrade of gcc, then a emerge -e world >> and everything works again, I'm going to reall

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:28:31 +0400 Vasya Volkov wrote: > Mike Kazantsev пишет: ... > lame_opts="--vbr-new -V 2 -B 256" ... > > flac -c -d "$FLAC" | lame $lame_opts - "$MP3" ... > > Script actually depends on following packages (main tree): > > media-libs/flac > > media-libs/id3lib > >

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Antonio Quartulli
depending on your platform. For asus eeepc has been developed a software named finit-mod which substitute init executable in the boot process. I am working on a finit-mod version for gentoo. Actually i use it on my eeepc with gentoo but there is a big problem...you have to avoid the use of in

[gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, Today I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of Linux. Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly old) Gentoo needs around two minutes from power button to DE idle. Are there any developments in Gentoo concerning this? Thanks, Liviu [1] http://lw

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Vasya Volkov wrote: > Here: > 01.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, MPEG Layer 3, stereo 48000 Hz > An idea: try to convert it with soundcoverter (or sox, or whatever) to .wav, and try to load the new .wav in audacity. Liviu -- Do you know how to read?

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> This is almost certainly disk corruption. Boot from a CD and do an fsck >> on all disk volumes > > And maybe do a backup first, in case fsck messes up things worse than > before. > Luckily this wasn't needed. I did the checks using Gparted

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote: > > Start-up messags: > > ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin': Permission denied > > That's a very unusual location for init scripts. Did you put them > there, instead of in the more usual /etc/init.d/?

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-20 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It's more likely a compatibility issue between very specific modules or bits > of code that affect lots of systems. Take for example this elog from the > nvidia drivers: > > === > This ebuild installs a kernel module and X driver. Both must > match explicitly in their ver

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 01:21]: > On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with > > corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see > > below). I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 20 April 2009 09:30:56 Dale wrote: > That said, it has worked well for me. Everything on my rig is working > again. If he has to do this downgrade of gcc, then a emerge -e world > and everything works again, I'm going to really wonder what the deal is > with gcc. Just me running into p

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-20 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009 02:05:35 Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 19 April 2009 22:18:24 Mark Knecht wrote: >>> 2) Should I expect any problems with the system if I do emerge -e system emerge -e system [OPTIONAL]