Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

Reemerge all xf86* packages Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server version, driver version mismatch) t "G.Wolfe Woodbury" wrote: I did:     emerge -va --update --deep --newuse @world on a stable gentoo amd64 (multilib) system after switching the profile from "desktop/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > So it's either add cacert.org to your trusted authorities, or live in hell > when browsing b.g.o.  IMO that's just stupid.  I want to trust just b.g.o, > not every site out there that has a cacert certificate. Okay so how do I add only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > For what it's worth (possibly nothing), from Wikipedia: > > The application of Gentoo to the penguin is unclear, according to the OED, > which reports that Gentoo was an Anglo-Indian term, used as early as 1638 to > distinguish Hindus in Indi

[gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

I did: emerge -va --update --deep --newuse @world on a stable gentoo amd64 (multilib) system after switching the profile from "desktop/gnome" to "desktop" and adding qt4 and kde flags to make.conf. [I wan to add a few kde apps to the mix, but not everything.] Since then, I get a keyboard and

Re: [gentoo-user] Jabber server recommendation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/22/11 05:39, Mike Diehl wrote: > At the risk of starting a religious war, I'd like to ask for a > recommendation for a Jabber server. > > I just tried to install ejabberd, only to find out that it's > written in erklang and that seems to crash o

[gentoo-user] Jabber server recommendation

At the risk of starting a religious war, I'd like to ask for a recommendation for a Jabber server. I just tried to install ejabberd, only to find out that it's written in erklang and that seems to crash on my system. I'd like a native C/C++ implementation. That leaves Jabber and jabber2. Is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

Am Mittwoch, den 21.12.2011, 21:57 +0200 schrieb v...@ukr.net: > Hello! > So how can I install LibreOffice 3.5 to test it? > Portage does not suggest me an update to 3.5 version any more. > > Thanks. > Vladimir > If you want to go deeper into testing, you may be interested to join th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: From where the word 'gentoo' came?

Furthermore, the following publication is at least close enough to start on. I don't have access today. @article{forster1781natural, title={Natural History and Description of the Tyger-Cat of the Cape of Good Hope. By John Reinhold Forster, LL. DFR and AS}, author={Forster, J.R.}, journal={

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:06:12 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > onomatopoeia > > gentoo linux in named after gentoo penguins. > > Those are small and fast. > > They are named after the sound they make if you bring one to Tour > d'Argent and put it into the duck press. > > Cape Town prostit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: From where the word 'gentoo' came?

Actually, the full nomenclatural information is: *Pygoscelis papua* (J.R. Forster, 1781). So there is a publication by J. R. Forster in 1781, describing this penguin. Alan On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > For what it's wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: From where the word 'gentoo' came?

For what it's worth (possibly nothing), from Wikipedia: The application of *Gentoo* to the penguin is unclear, according to the *OED *, which reports that *Gentoo* was an Anglo-Indian term, used as early as 1638 to distinguish Hindus

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! So how can I install LibreOffice 3.5 to test it? Portage does not suggest me an update to 3.5 version any more. Thanks. Vladimir - It's keyworded: [-P-] [ -] app-office/libreoffice-3.5. Since it is still a ebuild, I would wait a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] switching production server from myswl to postgresql

Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, this has been on my ToDo list for a while, and I'm thinking of tacking this over the holidays, since the office will be much slower than usual. The only databases I have in use are for my mail server, which means postfix, courier-imap (soon to be dovecot 2.1 once it

[gentoo-user] switching production server from myswl to postgresql

Hi all, Ok, this has been on my ToDo list for a while, and I'm thinking of tacking this over the holidays, since the office will be much slower than usual. The only databases I have in use are for my mail server, which means postfix, courier-imap (soon to be dovecot 2.1 once it is released)

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

Hello! So how can I install LibreOffice 3.5 to test it? Portage does not suggest me an update to 3.5 version any more. Thanks. Vladimir -

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?

Am 21.12.2011 06:55, schrieb Walter Dnes: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:51:11AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote >> On 2011-12-20 10:13 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> So, incidentally, would 'sudo passwd root'... >> >> Ouch... any way to avoid that? >> >> I guess the best way would be to simply give them access

Re: [gentoo-user] Which log file do all the emerge messages get saved in?

On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 17:48:00 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Evening, all. > > The messages which stream by during an emerge, in particular the > warnings etc. which are repeated at the end of a single emerge > operation. They're accumulated in a log file somewhere, aren't they? > > I can't find th

[gentoo-user] Which log file do all the emerge messages get saved in?

Evening, all. The messages which stream by during an emerge, in particular the warnings etc. which are repeated at the end of a single emerge operation. They're accumulated in a log file somewhere, aren't they? I can't find this file anymore. I've looked in /var/log, /var/lib/portage, but find

[gentoo-user] Re: From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On 12/21/2011 04:59 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727 But your links shows untru

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> I am relatively new, so have not fully understood what you say. What's >> b.g.o, by the way? And how do I add it in trusted ones? > bugs.gentoo.org > http://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/BrowserClients Okay, thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > An alternative to adding new trust certificates to your machine, > consider simply changing the URL when you run into this problem:: > Secure: https:// > Unsecure but fine for just viewing: http:// Making http from https in that website st

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:59:33 +0530, LinuxIsOne wrote: > I am relatively new, so have not fully understood what you say. What's > b.g.o, by the way? And how do I add it in trusted ones? bugs.gentoo.org http://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/BrowserClients -- Neil Bothwick GOTO: (n.) an efficient and gene

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > >> Well, that's up to whether you trust that issuer not to give out >> certificates to people using falsified credentials, setting up >> phishing sites, etc. Any time you choose to allow a

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > Well, that's up to whether you trust that issuer not to give out > certificates to people using falsified credentials, setting up > phishing sites, etc. Any time you choose to allow a person outside of > yourself to decide who or what you tr

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:24 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > >> That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by >> default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate >> throw up a red flag if you choose not to

[gentoo-user] Graphical issues on intel gfx card

Hi all, I'm having a few problems with my graphics on my gentoo laptop. The laptop is a Sony VPC-Z13 with hybrid graphics but I have it forced to purely use the intel card. When I boot into GDM I have around a 5 second delay where the screen exhibits odd corruption but once loaded all seems fine. I

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by > default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate > throw up a red flag if you choose not to add cacert.org to your > trusted authorities. And finally

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] getting rid of KDE

On 12/21/11 08:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:37:35 -0700, Joseph wrote: > It seems you still have kdm in listed in world, try replacing that > with something "non-kdeish" like xdm or something I don't have "kdm" I unmerged it and replace it by slim The following USE chan

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by > default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate > throw up a red flag if you choose not to add cacert.org to your > trusted authorities. Oh I see.

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >> Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727 > > But your links shows untrusted connection in my browser! > That

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE

On 12/21/11 20:27, Paul Colquhoun wrote: Run "eselect profile list" and make sure you don't have the "desktop/kde" profile slected. Although I would have thought that the profile would try to pull in a lot more of KDE than you have shown. -- Paul Colquhoun My profile is: default/linux/x86/10

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727 But your links shows untrusted connection in my browser!

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On 20.12.2011 18:31, LinuxIsOne wrote: > Hi, > > From where the word gentoo came into existence? > > Thanks. > Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727 -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&o

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:54:38PM -0700, Joseph wrote: > I have a problem getting rid of KDE (those meta package might be easy to > install/upgrade but getting rid of them is not easy). > > When I run emerge -uDNav world I get: > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: > #required

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE

On 18:47:32 21/12/2011, Joseph wrote: On 12/21/11 02:11, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:54:38PM -0700, Joseph wrote I have a problem getting rid of KDE (those meta package might be easy to install/upgrade but getting rid of them is not easy). When I run emerge -uDNav world I g

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE

Joseph wrote: On 12/21/11 02:11, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:54:38PM -0700, Joseph wrote I have a problem getting rid of KDE (those meta package might be easy to install/upgrade but getting rid of them is not easy). When I run emerge -uDNav world I get: =x11-libs/qt-qt3sup

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:37:35 -0700, Joseph wrote: > > It seems you still have kdm in listed in world, try replacing that > > with something "non-kdeish" like xdm or something > I don't have "kdm" I unmerged it and replace it by slim > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: > #re