[gentoo-user] Re: strange dmesg output

2009-10-25 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 26 October 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what. > Maybe you pulled in too much :-) It could be some debug flag switched on in the USB storage subsystem. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEM

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output

2009-10-25 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 10/25, Maxim Wexler wrote: === > Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what. === It looks like you have USB debug turned on. I remember there was a kernel that was released that had that. Normally it's off, but you should turn it off if it's on. -- Keith Dart --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Could be over-zealous whittling. Why not use the Live DVD .config > unchanged? I assumed there was no need for a 1001 modules for hardware i don't have. But there's still some things that need sorting, so it may come to that.

[gentoo-user] strange dmesg output

2009-10-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Still sorting out the glitches in the new 2.6.30-r7 kernel. eg the strange output of dmesg: ... age: 1e 00 00 00 01 00 usb-storage: Bulk Command S 0x43425355 T 0x8 L 0 F 0 Trg 0 LUN 0 CL 6 usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 31 bytes usb-storage: Status code 0; transferred 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 10/25/2009 8:10 PM, Dale wrote: Well, I put -semantic-desktop in my USE line and ran emerge -uvDN world. It recompiled several things and told me it had some @preserved-rebuild packages to build. So, I ran that and got this little message: r...@smoker / # emerge @preserved-rebuild -a Thes

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 13:35:30 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009 14:18:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> >>> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:30:32 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >>> > Or turn off desktop searching, as I have on my notebook with a > notic

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname > > in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. > I have no idea how they are being sent. This just started > autonomously. I don't even know off hand what ssmtp is. What does "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
Another option is to use the start script supplied in the bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=97807 but I'm not sure how to get it to install somewhere useful.  Just putting it in the files dir, I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 25 October 2009 13:22:21 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I have a couple of EEEs and my brother have the same model you have. > All three work the same way, you hold ESC while booting (you can just > keep it pressed after you power it on) and a boot menu comes. That's interesting. I didn't try

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 18:13:19 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure > > > where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glu

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure > > where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real > > sender domain to form localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 October 2009 18:13:19 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure > > where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real > > sender domain to form localhost.ko

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
>>> Another option is to use the start script supplied in the bug: >>> >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=97807 >>> >>> but I'm not sure how to get it to install somewhere useful.  Just >>> putting it in the files dir, I don't think anythi

Re: [gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 October 2009 21:16:37 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:56:24 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of > > them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE > > 3.5. > > You need to selec

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
>> After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures >> are reported a full 20C hotter.  If I load the old kernel, the >> reported temperatures drops back down to normal.  Has anyone else seen >> this? >> >> - Grant >> > > no, but I suspect that lm_sensors is just reporting more

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009, Grant wrote: > After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures > are reported a full 20C hotter. If I load the old kernel, the > reported temperatures drops back down to normal. Has anyone else seen > this? > > - Grant > no, but I suspect that l

[gentoo-user] lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures are reported a full 20C hotter. If I load the old kernel, the reported temperatures drops back down to normal. Has anyone else seen this? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:56:24 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of > them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE > 3.5. You need to select KDE4 at the login screen. > Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-25 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 10/25, walt wrote: === > If I'm wrong about this, please correct me. I'd like to > know why all those devs spent so much energy building it. === Me too. ;-) I agree with you. It has done nothing but cause problems for me also. I don't think it provides any functionality that ALSA, or

[gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE 3.5. Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5, no 4*. The only change I noticed was in the background of the login dialog. One guess is that the flood of newl

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 October 2009 22:19:11 Mick wrote: > # emerge -uatDv world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [nomerge ] kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.3.1 USE="(-kdeprefix)" > [ebuild N] kde-base/akonadi-4.3.1 USE="(-aqua)

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:19:11 +, Mick wrote: > Which I guess proves the point that Dirk is making. If I were to > emerge akonadi again, will it pop up everytime I start kmail, knode, > etc? So it's needed by KMail, not KDE in general (I don't use KMail). -- Neil Bothwick There are 10 type

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-25 Thread David
walt wrote: On 10/25/2009 08:19 AM, walt wrote: > Merging gnome-media with the pulseaudio USE flag breaks > gnome-volume-control most horribly IMO, but OTOH I don't > understand pulseaudio, so maybe I'm wrong. I found the gnome 2.26 upgrade guide, which points to the pulseaudio documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 October 2009 13:35:30 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009 14:18:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:30:32 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > Or turn off desktop searching, as I have on my notebook with a > > > > noticeable improvement in responsiveness

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
>> Another option is to use the start script supplied in the bug: >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=97807 >> >> but I'm not sure how to get it to install somewhere useful.  Just >> putting it in the files dir, I don't think anything happ

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure > where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real > sender domain to form localhost.kosmanor.com -- which does not exist -- > causing a bounce from m

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/25/09, Grant wrote: > Another option is to use the start script supplied in the bug: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=97807 > > but I'm not sure how to get it to install somewhere useful. Just > putting it in the files dir, I don't

[gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've just finished a massive amount of emerging, and a funny thing has happened -- portage has started to send me messages. This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure where it's happening, but "localhost" is being glued onto the real sender domain to form localhost.kosma

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-25 Thread walt
On 10/25/2009 08:19 AM, walt wrote: > Merging gnome-media with the pulseaudio USE flag breaks > gnome-volume-control most horribly IMO, but OTOH I don't > understand pulseaudio, so maybe I'm wrong. I found the gnome 2.26 upgrade guide, which points to the pulseaudio documentation. It seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:23:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Simplest way I can think of: > > eix qt- > > Scroll up and down and note which ones are installed, there's only 20 > in total and the colourized output makes it easy to spot the installed > ones. Unmerge those. To see what's installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Justin
Grant wrote: >> please show us the /usr/bin/jalbum > > I'm not sure what you mean. That file doesn't exist in the installation. > > - Grant > That'S what should be created with java-pkg_dolauncher jalbum \ --jar JAlbum.jar \ --java_args -Xmx400M signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 October 2009 14:20:00 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > I think that if default/linux/amd64/10.0 is a valid profile, it's > reasonable to expect that the relevant news item be listed on eselect. It takes 1 minute to change it and try emerge -upDv world before you change it back if you so pref

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Philip Webb
091025 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:30:48 Philip Webb wrote: >> There's 1 problem : you hold F2 down to get BIOS, >> then use Esc for a boot menu (you have to go in/out of BIOS first). >> However, this doesn't work when I first switch the machine on : >> M$ XP starts regar

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED]

2009-10-25 Thread walt
On 10/24/2009 06:52 PM, walt wrote: ... Have any of you gnomes out there got the latest Volume Control applet to display all of the various controls provided by your sound card? By trial-and-error I tracked it down to the pulseaudio USE flag. Merging gnome-media with that flag breaks gnome-vol

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
>> So 'emerge JAlbum' isn't feasible? > > In its current state I'd say "no", it needs major fixes and polishing. > I'll see if I can do something for it later today, but I cannot > promise I can fix it properly. > > -- > Arttu V. Another option is to use the start script supplied in the bug: http

[gentoo-user] ksoftirqd near 100% CPU during scp/rsync

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
Does anyone else see a ksoftirqd process at or near 100% during very long scp or rsync operations? Google shows numerous reports of this, but no solutions or useful explanations. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
> please show us the /usr/bin/jalbum I'm not sure what you mean. That file doesn't exist in the installation. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
>> So 'emerge JAlbum' isn't feasible? > > In its current state I'd say "no", it needs major fixes and polishing. > I'll see if I can do something for it later today, but I cannot > promise I can fix it properly. Thank you for even considering it. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

2009-10-25 Thread Grant
>> Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)? >> This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome >> overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case: >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/179971 >> >> - Grant >> > gpo.zugaina.org Very nice, thank you. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
I think that if default/linux/amd64/10.0 is a valid profile, it's reasonable to expect that the relevant news item be listed on eselect. Amit Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 October 2009 12:53:33 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: amit0 ~ # eselect profile show Current make.profile symlink: default/linux/a

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
I forgot to mention: After rebuilding all of qt with this amount of changes, be prepared to rebuild all of KDE-4 as well. Not doing this often results in weird behavviour that is impossible to track down, hence the large elog warning in all the qt-* ebuilds. On Sunday 25 October 2009 15:36

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 October 2009 15:26:19 Alan E. Davis wrote: > To follow up, after removing "qt" (by mistake), and all the qt-* packages I > could find, this is what I found when running "emerge -uDav world"" > > x11-libs/qt-gui:4 > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r1', 'merge') conflicts wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009 14:18:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:30:32 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Or turn off desktop searching, as I have on my notebook with a > > > noticeable improvement in responsiveness. > > > > How would that affect akonadi? > > Because you no long

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you Alan. On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Simplest way I can think of: > > eix qt- > > Scroll up and down and note which ones are installed, there's only 20 in > total > and the colourized output makes it easy to spot the installed ones. Unmerge > those. > That

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
To follow up, after removing "qt" (by mistake), and all the qt-* packages I could find, this is what I found when running "emerge -uDav world"" x11-libs/qt-gui:4 ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r1', 'merge') conflicts with ~x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2[-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/', 'x

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 October 2009 15:11:36 Alan E. Davis wrote: > Thank you Mr. MacKinnon: > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Alan McKinnon > > > Did you try the most straightforward (albeit lengthy) approach: > > > > unmerge all of Qt > > emerge world and let portage figure out what it wants to put

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 20:30, Philip Webb wrote: > I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 , > which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32' > (the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode); > despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager is X

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:30:32 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Or turn off desktop searching, as I have on my notebook with a > > noticeable improvement in responsiveness. > > How would that affect akonadi? Because you no longer need it. Set USE="-semantic-desktop" and akonadi isn't even instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 October 2009 13:08:12 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 10:43:41 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:11:28 +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > > Back on topic I hope, it seems to me that KDE4 has made certain choices > which detract from the Gentoo way of being able to run l

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
Yes. This is one of the issues I ran into. Done. On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 12:53:33 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > > amit0 ~ # eselect profile show > > Current make.profile symlink: > > default/linux/amd64/10.0 > > You may want to change this to .../

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 October 2009 12:53:33 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > amit0 ~ # eselect profile show > Current make.profile symlink: > default/linux/amd64/10.0 You may want to change this to .../amd64/10.0/desktop or server depending on what your machine is. Then I would think that the flags for qt3supp

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you Mr. MacKinnon: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Alan McKinnon > > > Did you try the most straightforward (albeit lengthy) approach: > > unmerge all of Qt > emerge world and let portage figure out what it wants to put back > > How can I do this? > There is seldom a good reason to hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 October 2009 14:49:29 Alan E. Davis wrote: > I finally was able to emerge -NuDav world, and revdep-rebuild passed the > system as clean. However, when I try emerge -uDav world again, that same > message, or some permutation of it, is presented. > > I have set the flags "dbus qt3suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Thanks econti (& arttu). My point was that I don't have the relevant news listed, rather than the actual solution to the issue. Amit econti wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer ha scritto: With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: amit0 ~ # emerge -auvt world These are the packages tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
amit0 ~ # eselect profile show Current make.profile symlink: default/linux/amd64/10.0 amit0 ~ # euse -i qt3support global use flags (searching: qt3support) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: qt3support) *

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
I finally was able to emerge -NuDav world, and revdep-rebuild passed the system as clean. However, when I try emerge -uDav world again, that same message, or some permutation of it, is presented. I have set the flags "dbus qt3support qt3 qt4" and so on. So that's not it. I unmerged a number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 October 2009 12:30:32 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009 13:05:53 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:08:12 +, Mick wrote: > > > I guess that until then I will have > > > to put up with the few seconds that akonadi tries to start, searches > > > and th

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread econti
Amit Dor-Shifer ha scritto: With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: amit0 ~ # emerge -auvt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009 13:05:53 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:08:12 +, Mick wrote: > > I guess that until then I will have > > to put up with the few seconds that akonadi tries to start, searches > > and then fails to find mysql. > > Or turn off desktop searching, as I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/25/09, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > - x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (Change USE: +qt3support) Have you tried doing what it says here, i.e., enabling USE="qt3support" in, e.g., make.conf? (Sorry if you've already stated that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 October 2009 11:43:59 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > With regards to this: > I believe I'm in the same situation: > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > "~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[qt3support,-debug]". > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:08:12 +, Mick wrote: > I guess that until then I will have > to put up with the few seconds that akonadi tries to start, searches > and then fails to find mysql. Or turn off desktop searching, as I have on my notebook with a noticeable improvement in responsiveness.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Justin
please show us the /usr/bin/jalbum signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-25 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/25/09, Grant wrote: > So 'emerge JAlbum' isn't feasible? In its current state I'd say "no", it needs major fixes and polishing. I'll see if I can do something for it later today, but I cannot promise I can fix it properly. -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: amit0 ~ # emerge -auvt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph,

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 October 2009 10:43:41 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:11:28 +0100, Dave Jones wrote: Back on topic I hope, it seems to me that KDE4 has made certain choices which detract from the Gentoo way of being able to run lean and mean should you choose to do so. I am waiting t

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Justin
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 24 Oktober 2009 02:02:16 schrieb Dave Jones: >>> Please search the mail archives. Or read your elogs, it's all in there. >> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either >> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group. > > It

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:11:28 +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > > I suppose you're also in favour of McDonalds putting "Warning, > > contents may be hot" notices of their coffee cups? > > Off topic? Only when taken out of context. -- Neil Bothwick A. Top posters. Q. What is the most annoying thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

2009-10-25 Thread Justin
Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)? > This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome > overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/179971 > > - Grant > gpo.zugaina.org signature.asc Description: Open

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:30:48 Philip Webb wrote: > I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 , > which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32' > (the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode); > despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager i

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dave Jones
Neil Bothwick wrote on 25/10/09 00:51: > I suppose you're also in favour of McDonalds putting "Warning, contents > may be hot" notices of their coffee cups? Off topic?

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 25/10/09 01:38: > Oh please, grow up, get a life and stop sounding like a spoilt brat. Thank you for this constructive and original comment. Just as useful as your other postings on this thread.

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Oct 2009, at 00:30, Philip Webb wrote: ... There's 1 problem : you hold F2 down to get BIOS, then use Esc for a boot menu (you have to go in/out of BIOS first). However, this doesn't work when I first switch the machine on : M$ XP starts regardless & I have to reboot from there to get BI

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Stroller
On 24 Oct 2009, at 22:51, Dave Jones wrote: ... How presumptuous of you to say so. Has the gentoo-user group become the resource of last-resort? Has gentoo-user become restricted, to be used only when all other avenues of exploration have been exhausted? If that is so, then shame on me

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

2009-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:09:59 -0700, Grant wrote: > > According to eix, there's a - ebuild in the mpd overlay. > > Thanks Neil. My layman stuff was split across /usr/local/portage and > /usr/portage/local. /usr/local/portage is correct, right? Wherever you set in layman.conf is correct, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-25 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 October 2009 17:45:53 Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Etaoin Shrdlu (Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:35:48 +0100) > > > On Thursday 22 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > I did > > > > > > > > cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4 > > > > > > > > and all the settings (not just only konqueror's) were picked up.