Paul Hartman writes:
> In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files
> or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or
> with etc-update or similar).
Do any of the config tools, etc-update, dispatch-conf, cfg-update etc,
ever prompt for removing a redun
måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb:
> What must I do to get "en_US_utf8" ?
echo "LANG=en_US_utf8" > /etc/env.d/02locale
and
env-update
should work.
On one of my machines all the LC_ variables are "POSIX".
I want them to be "en_US.utf8" as on my other machines.
I have the done the following (from the handbook)
1. cat /etc/local.gen (ignoring comments)
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
2. locale-gen
3. source /etc/profile
4. loc
On Sunday 29 May 2011 22:56:10 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> My money says you've been hit by the Gnome Borg - where you are only
> permitted to do things the way the gnome devs have deemed to be
> appropriate and TheOneTrueWay(tm). After all, you are just a user, what
> do you know? The devs know better
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:09 on Monday 30 May 2011, Colleen Beamer
did opine thusly:
> > Colleen, you should follow the tip you found on Google to fix this. What
> > stage
> > 3 did you download and use?
>
> Actually, I used the most recent one - I think May 26th, However, my first
> i
On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>>
>> Thank you. Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from
>> gnome2 is difficult. Did you
>>
>> 1. Upgrade from 2.32.1
>> 2. Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3
>> 3. Do a fresh ins
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine
> thusly:
>
> > > I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent
> > > stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that wa
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:38 on Monday 30 May 2011, Harry Putnam did
opine thusly:
> Nikos Chantziaras writes:
> > If you have modules you wish to get loaded automatically on boot,
> > only then put entries for them in /etc/conf.d/modules.
>
> Sorry to butt in and change the subject sl
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
> If you have modules you wish to get loaded automatically on boot,
> only then put entries for them in /etc/conf.d/modules.
Sorry to butt in and change the subject slightly:
Do you happen to know the exact syntax for that kind of rule or
whatever it's called.
I've be
James writes:
> Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes:
>
>
>> Is there some quick and sure way to discover any IPs on the home lan?
>
> emerge fping
>
>
> fping -g 192.168.222.0/24
>
>
> searches quite fast and accurate...
Yup, that's quick and easy... thanks
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Dale wrote:
>
> I went back to the man page, it sort of left the @ out on mine:
>
> -d, --date=STRING
>display time described by STRING, not `now'
>
> No mention of the @ sign there. It does say to read the info file but I
> ver
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine
thusly:
> > I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent
> > stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that was
> > still baselayout-1. I did not run into the issues you did
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Nicolai Beuermann
did opine thusly:
> Hi,
> after updating to virtualbox-4.0.8 I cannot start a vm anymore.
>
> The following ebuilds are installed:
> app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8
> app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.8
> app-emul
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
> Hi, Neil.
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post th
On Sunday 29 May 2011 21:57:21 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:35 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Colleen Beamer
>
> did opine thusly:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and
> > couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has b
Hi,
after updating to virtualbox-4.0.8 I cannot start a vm anymore.
The following ebuilds are installed:
app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8
app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.8
app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.0.8
app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.8
The logs mention that symlinks are
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2011 08:55:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
I thought you were a KDE user? Press Alt-F2, enter info:/date,
enjoy :)
I am. I use Konsole. Very rarely use Alt F2 tho.
So you use the horrible text interface for info instead of seeing nice
HTML in
Hi, Neil.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of
> > mount
> > cat /etc/mtab
> And the output of eject -v
acm@acm ~ $ eject -v
eject: using
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:20 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
> Hi, Alan.
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan
> > Mackenzie
> >
> > did opine thusly:
> > > Hi, Ge
Hi, Alan.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
> did opine thusly:
> > Hi, Gentoo.
> > I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the
> > cdrom group. I do wish all
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of
>
> mount
> cat /etc/mtab
And the output of eject -v
--
Neil Bothwick
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
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On Sun, 29 May 2011 08:55:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > I thought you were a KDE user? Press Alt-F2, enter info:/date,
> > enjoy :)
> I am. I use Konsole. Very rarely use Alt F2 tho.
So you use the horrible text interface for info instead of seeing nice
HTML in Konqueror, never mind :)
--
Neil
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the
> cdrom group. I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group
> membership, could be switched off.
>
> H
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:35 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Colleen Beamer
did opine thusly:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and
> couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years
> or more since i did a fresh install, I de
Hi, Gentoo.
I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the
cdrom group. I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group
membership, could be switched off.
Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical
button on the drive is inactive until I
Hi,
I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and
couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years
or more since i did a fresh install, I decided to do one.
I followed the handbook - 1st run, I screwed up and missed a step, 2nd run,
I was carefu
On Sunday 29 May 2011 18:16:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Saturday 28 May 2011 20:27:59 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Maxim Vorontsov writes:
> > > 27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster написал(а):
> > > > Maxim Vorontsov writes:
> > > >> No, for me all works fine.
> > > >
> > > > Probably another
On Saturday 28 May 2011 20:27:59 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Maxim Vorontsov writes:
> > 27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster написал(а):
> > > Maxim Vorontsov writes:
> > >> No, for me all works fine.
> > >
> > > Probably another problem that only I have.
> > > BTW, German language is of course set in
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da
> Veiga
> did opine thusly:
>
> > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman
> wrote:
> > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel
>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 28 May 2011 21:28:47 -0500, Dale wrote:
No mention of the @ sign there. It does say to read the info file but
I very rarely get into those. I never have had any good luck with
them. I felt like I was in Hotel California once before. O_O I
couldn't get out.
On Sunday 29 May 2011 01:48:17 William Kenworthy wrote:
> As well as your other replies, check out ccze
[...]
> Pass your log through it for nicely coloured text (words like "alarm"
> and "error" are bright red to stand out) as well as converting date
> epoch on the fly, leaving it in context.
...
> >
> > * app-admin/ccze
> > Latest version available: 0.2.1-r2
> > Latest version installed: 0.2.1-r2
> > Size of downloaded files: 136 kB
> > Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~joker/ccze/ccze.txt
> > Description: A flexible and fast logfile colorizer
> >
On Saturday 28 May 2011 13:10:09 Tanstaafl wrote:
> After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my
> own question...
>
> I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE
> way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO guy and don't want to have to become
> one).
Hi, Nikos and Florian.
Thanks for the helpful elucidation.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 28.05.2011 12:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> > On 05/28/2011 12:50 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >> Hi, Gentoo.
> >> It occu
On Sat, 28 May 2011 21:28:47 -0500, Dale wrote:
> No mention of the @ sign there. It does say to read the info file but
> I very rarely get into those. I never have had any good luck with
> them. I felt like I was in Hotel California once before. O_O I
> couldn't get out.
I thought you were a
On Sunday 29 May 2011 01:48:17 William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 11:37 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > I asked this once before but I can't find it. I have a log file that
> > has time stamps that look like this:
> >
> > lastrun = 1306574899
> >
> > What do I use to get the human time for
On Sunday 29 May 2011 02:17:24 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> You might want to look into Mikrotik's offering. They are not only
> inexpensive, but they are extremely reliable. Many Internet cafés in
> my country use Mikrotik: they put the device in an outdoor box, and
> stuck it on the pole bearing the wir
On 05/29/11 02:07, Bill Longman wrote:
>
> Yes, absolutely. I use cfgupdate too.
>
> --
> Bill Longman
> Sent from my Galaxy S
>
There was an announcement on the gentoo-announce mailing list that
listed a few different docs for reference. Among other things, the part
of interest in this discussio
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