Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Hey, my family ran a 53-line MajorBBS/Worldgroup setup back in the > day, with between 30-50 consumer hardware modems. (Those v.Everythings > were sweet... Courier HST Dual Standard was my favorite modem, 16800 baud seemed so fast. :) I still

[gentoo-user] Re: Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-20 Thread Grant
> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to > the following thread: > > http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM > > I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:30:50PM +0100, pk wrote > Which is easier said than done, IMO... but on the other hand, five of > the major tier 1's is in the good old USA so if you take those down you > still have five more tier 1's, which may or may not comply with an > american request... and if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow not in sync movie playing with mplayer2, ffmpeg, x264 with intel core i5

2012-02-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote > I did a compilation from the start. 3 times @system and 1 time @world. > I have used -march=native -mfpmath=sse and now movies do play well. > I'm still not sure why I had this problem. > I did use mmx and sse use flags, but did removed t

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:57:45AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Anyway, it seems like people answering want to make this more > difficult than it was, or answer some question other than what I > asked. I have no problem with that - do what you want here in this > thread, I'm a supporter - but it do

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for IMAP->IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 21, 2012 6:44 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > > I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP > server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered > messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destination > servers may or may not be the same, a

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for IMAP->IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-21, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Feb 21, 2012 7:03 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: >> >> On 2012-02-20, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP >> > server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered >> > messages into another

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for IMAP->IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 21, 2012 7:03 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > > On 2012-02-20, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP > > server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered > > messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destin

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap-2.4.24 fails to compile

2012-02-20 Thread Joseph
On 02/21/12 07:47, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 21, 2012 1:57 AM, "Joseph" <[1]syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have automake-1.9.6-r3 installed but emerging openldap fails, it seems to me it has something to do with this bug: > [2]https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403261 > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap-2.4.24 fails to compile

2012-02-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 21, 2012 1:57 AM, "Joseph" wrote: > > I have automake-1.9.6-r3 installed but emerging openldap fails, it seems to me it has something to do with this bug: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403261 > > I have all three versions installed: equery list automake > * Searching for automa

[gentoo-user] A systemd-only Gentoo system

2012-02-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
Hi; I've been running systemd in Gentoo since September from 2010, and it works great for me: all my machines run it at this point. Right now, we are getting really close to the point where we will be able to uninstall sys-apps/openrc, sys-apps/sysvinit and sys-apps/baselayout, and run a systemd-on

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for IMAP->IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-20, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP > server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered > messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destination > servers may or may not be the same, and neither is

[gentoo-user] Looking for IMAP->IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destination servers may or may not be the same, and neither is the machine where the filter is running. I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:24:37 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:33:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > I might be a little bit on the radical side, but with seeing the > > > whole KDEPIM debacle I migrated to GNOME 3 and Evolution. It took > > > me some time to get used to it

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:33:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I might be a little bit on the radical side, but with seeing the whole > > KDEPIM debacle I migrated to GNOME 3 and Evolution. It took me some > > time to get used to it but I like it. > No, I wouldn't say that's radical. I would say

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using gnash?

2012-02-20 Thread Grant
>> If I understand it correctly, gnash is a substitute for adobe-flash? >> Is anyone using it?  It wouldn't work on the first flash page I tried >> but maybe it needs a special config or something? >> >> - Grant >> > > I tried it some months ago, it didn't work with Youtube and I left it. > As much

[gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-20, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2012-02-20, Todd Goodman wrote: >>> * walt [120219 15:37]: On 02/18/2012 05:18 AM, Dale wrote: > Sounds like the internet could be switched off. ??So, next question, how > easy w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge using 100% CPU

2012-02-20 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:58:02AM -0800, walt wrote: > On 02/20/2012 01:37 AM, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Recently emerge behavior became strange on my ~amd64 system. When a > > package fails to compile, emerge does not terminate, but goes to 100% of > > CPU usage. Is anybod

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:11:07 +0100 Jorge Martínez López wrote: > Hi! > > I might be a little bit on the radical side, but with seeing the whole > KDEPIM debacle I migrated to GNOME 3 and Evolution. It took me some > time to get used to it but I like it. No, I wouldn't say that's radical. I wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > >> Don't knock the BBS. :) > > I met my wife on a Bay Area BBS called Matchmaker in the late > 1980's. Modems worked for me. ;-) My parents (well, mother and stepfather) got together via

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Don't knock the BBS. :) I met my wife on a Bay Area BBS called Matchmaker in the late 1980's. Modems worked for me. ;-) - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-02-20, Todd Goodman wrote: >> * walt [120219 15:37]: >>> On 02/18/2012 05:18 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> > Sounds like the internet could be switched off.  So, next question, how >>> > easy would it be to get it going again?  Hours?  Da

[gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-20, Todd Goodman wrote: > * walt [120219 15:37]: >> On 02/18/2012 05:18 AM, Dale wrote: >> >> > Sounds like the internet could be switched off. So, next question, how >> > easy would it be to get it going again? Hours? Days? Weeks? >> >> My guess is that the old farts that read t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnupg: can't use keyservers

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-02-20 21:21, schrieb Mick: > I just tried it again and it works from here. I can see 7 keys on > that server. > > Covering all bases and just in case, you're not trying to connect > behind some firewall/gateway that is blocking all but http/https > packets? Nope. > Have you checked if

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell behavior

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-02-20 19:29, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > What does ~/.xsession-errors says? checked that already, I didn't see anything obvious in there (at least for ME) ... will check back tomorrow, I am not at the particular machine right now. thanks, S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnupg: can't use keyservers

2012-02-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 20 Feb 2012 19:52:40 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-02-20 20:34, schrieb walt: > >> Same error: > >> : can't connect to `subkeys.pgp.net': host not found > >> > >> gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: Not found > > > > Have you sniffed your network traffic to see if gnu

[gentoo-user] Re: Downgrading gcc

2012-02-20 Thread walt
On 02/19/2012 08:20 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I want to downgrade gcc from 4.5.3-r1 to 4.4.5. > > The Gentoo gcc UPgrade guide tells me, that ABI are only upward > compatible which implies problems when downgrading and not upgrading. > > Nonetheless a downgrade is needed here and

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge using 100% CPU

2012-02-20 Thread walt
On 02/20/2012 01:37 AM, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Hello. > > Recently emerge behavior became strange on my ~amd64 system. When a > package fails to compile, emerge does not terminate, but goes to 100% of > CPU usage. Is anybody seeing this too? > > # emerge --version > Portage 2.1.10.47 (de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnupg: can't use keyservers

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-02-20 20:34, schrieb walt: >> Same error: >> >> : can't connect to `subkeys.pgp.net': host not found >> gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: Not found > > Have you sniffed your network traffic to see if gnupg is actually > sending anything? no. Right now I repeated it on my thi

[gentoo-user] Re: gnupg: can't use keyservers

2012-02-20 Thread walt
On 02/20/2012 08:23 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 20.02.2012 16:47, schrieb Mick: > >> Well, I did not have such a problem last time I tried - although every >> now and then I have found that the key servers get busy and >> connections do not succeed. >> >> Have you tried connecting to a di

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc and mplayer crash with nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/02/12 14:53, Bernd Butscheidt wrote: as told in the subject. Both crash instantly or after a few seconds when accessing or trying to play a video-dvd. Strange enough, xine doesn't seem to be affected. Seems to me to be related to: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404261 So I rec

[gentoo-user] openldap-2.4.24 fails to compile

2012-02-20 Thread Joseph
I have automake-1.9.6-r3 installed but emerging openldap fails, it seems to me it has something to do with this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403261 I have all three versions installed: equery list automake * Searching for automake ... [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r3:1.9

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using gnash?

2012-02-20 Thread Alecks Gates
Yup, and you can already view a lot of youtube videos in html5. Not all of them, unfortunately. http://www.youtube.com/html5 Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 On Feb 20, 2012 1:15 PM, "Jorge Martínez López" wrote: > Hi! > > 2012/2/20 Grant : > > If I understand it correctly, gnash i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-02-20 19:08, schrieb Jorge Martínez López: > Matthew Garret, a Gnome developer is not a big fan of lightdm: > > http://www.advogato.org/person/mjg59/diary/296.html good read, thanks ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell behavior

2012-02-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Pressing the super-key/windows-key and entering something via keyboard > does not work anymore. It seems to crash the gnome-shell or so, it gets > reloaded, but no way to start applications via keyboard right now . > > I rebuilt all

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using gnash?

2012-02-20 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi! 2012/2/20 Grant : > If I understand it correctly, gnash is a substitute for adobe-flash? > Is anyone using it?  It wouldn't work on the first flash page I tried > but maybe it needs a special config or something? > > - Grant > I tried it some months ago, it didn't work with Youtube and I left

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-20 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi! I might be a little bit on the radical side, but with seeing the whole KDEPIM debacle I migrated to GNOME 3 and Evolution. It took me some time to get used to it but I like it. Of course, YMMV. Greetings, -- Jorge Martínez López http://www.jorgeml.net       Google Talk / XMPP: jorg...@gma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-20 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Matthew Garret, a Gnome developer is not a big fan of lightdm: http://www.advogato.org/person/mjg59/diary/296.html Cheers, -- Jorge Martínez López http://www.jorgeml.net       Google Talk / XMPP: jorg...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?

2012-02-20 Thread Todd Goodman
* Nikos Chantziaras [120218 14:59]: > This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity > killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 > months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use "elogv" as a > regular user. Something had changed the permis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Todd Goodman
* wdk@moriah [120219 17:58]: > > > On 20/02/2012, at 5:14, walt wrote: > > > On 02/18/2012 08:35 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > > >> * On March 8 the FBI will turn off their stand-in DNS servers. > > > > The FBI has people that know how to run a DNS server? I feel better > > about my tax dol

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc and mplayer crash with nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-20 Thread Bernd Butscheidt
> On 20.02.2012 14:12, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Prob. xine isn't configured to use hw acceleration :) Actually mplayer and xine claim to use vdpau and vlc doesn't. But because > Downgrading seems to be the only solution atm. I did the best I could anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:31:38PM +0100, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > >> > Hi, >> >    I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files >> > on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. >> >> You

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Trausch
Actually, NTFS uses the colon, too, for identifying alternate data streams... Remember, kids, NTFS is a database, not a file system. It is therefore quite convoluted. -- Sent from my Ice Cream Sandwich powered Kindle Fire! Pardon any typos... On Feb 20, 2012 11:48 AM, "Frank Steinmetzger" wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-20 Thread Todd Goodman
* walt [120219 15:37]: > On 02/18/2012 05:18 AM, Dale wrote: > > > Sounds like the internet could be switched off. So, next question, how > > easy would it be to get it going again? Hours? Days? Weeks? > > My guess is that the old farts that read this list could have their old > dialup bulle

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:31:38PM +0100, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > > Hi, > >I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files > > on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. > > You will have problems if you try to rsync a maildir folder: > > stef

[gentoo-user] Anyone using gnash?

2012-02-20 Thread Grant
If I understand it correctly, gnash is a substitute for adobe-flash? Is anyone using it? It wouldn't work on the first flash page I tried but maybe it needs a special config or something? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg: can't use keyservers

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.02.2012 16:47, schrieb Mick: > Well, I did not have such a problem last time I tried - although every > now and then I have found that the key servers get busy and > connections do not succeed. > > Have you tried connecting to a different keyserver? Yep, I did. Also tried it manually via s

Re: [gentoo-user] Remaining bundled dependencies

2012-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:10:41 +0100 Anthoine Bourgeois wrote: > 2012/2/20 Mark Knecht : > > I've never seen this message about 'Remaining bundled dependencies' > > before. Just curious as to whether this is significant in any way to > > me as a user or is it just a message that the ebuild develope

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg: can't use keyservers

2012-02-20 Thread Mick
On 20 February 2012 12:14, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 16.02.2012 10:23, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> Greets, >> >> I recently tried to get/update keys from keyservers and always got stuff >> like: >> >> : can't connect to `pgp.zdv.uni-mainz.de': host not found >> gpgkeys: HTTP fetch e

Re: [gentoo-user] Remaining bundled dependencies

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Anthoine Bourgeois wrote: > 2012/2/20 Mark Knecht : >> I've never seen this message about 'Remaining bundled dependencies' >> before. Just curious as to whether this is significant in any way to >> me as a user or is it just a message that the ebuild developer has

Re: [gentoo-user] Remaining bundled dependencies

2012-02-20 Thread Anthoine Bourgeois
2012/2/20 Mark Knecht : > I've never seen this message about 'Remaining bundled dependencies' > before. Just curious as to whether this is significant in any way to > me as a user or is it just a message that the ebuild developer has put > there for development reasons? > > Full disclosure: This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Remaining bundled dependencies

2012-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:30:40 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > I've never seen this message about 'Remaining bundled dependencies' > before. Just curious as to whether this is significant in any way to > me as a user or is it just a message that the ebuild developer has put > there for development reaso

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.02.2012 17:57, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > [root@hactar ~ 0]% genlop -t libreoffice > * app-office/libreoffice > > Wed Feb 15 10:23:58 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.3 >merge time: 40 minutes and 52 seconds. > > Incidentally, the full output from genlop -t shows a steady

[gentoo-user] Remaining bundled dependencies

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Knecht
I've never seen this message about 'Remaining bundled dependencies' before. Just curious as to whether this is significant in any way to me as a user or is it just a message that the ebuild developer has put there for development reasons? Full disclosure: This is from a package built using an over

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc and mplayer crash with nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 20.02.2012 13:53, Bernd Butscheidt wrote: > as told in the subject. Both crash instantly or after a few seconds > when accessing or trying to play a video-dvd. Strange enough, xine > doesn't seem to be affected. Prob. xine isn't configured to use hw acceleration :) > Seems to me to be related

[gentoo-user] vlc and mplayer crash with nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-20 Thread Bernd Butscheidt
Hello, as told in the subject. Both crash instantly or after a few seconds when accessing or trying to play a video-dvd. Strange enough, xine doesn't seem to be affected. Seems to me to be related to: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404261 So I recompiled nvidia-drivers-290.10-r2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails

2012-02-20 Thread James Broadhead
On 19 February 2012 23:08, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Hartmut Figge: > >>But first i should look into that ominous xdg-open. > > 'man xdg-open' didn't help much, but xdg-open is part of xdg-utils. And > there is e.g. xdg-settings. Looking into 'man xdg-settings' and then > > hafi@i5_64 ~ $ xdg-setting

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan Schmiedl
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:12:40 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files > on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. > I think I want to match only the name, creation date & file size. The > eSATA drive needs

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg: can't use keyservers

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.02.2012 10:23, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Greets, > > I recently tried to get/update keys from keyservers and always got stuff > like: > > : can't connect to `pgp.zdv.uni-mainz.de': host not found > gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: Not found > > > Didn't matter which

[gentoo-user] gnome-shell behavior

2012-02-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Pressing the super-key/windows-key and entering something via keyboard does not work anymore. It seems to crash the gnome-shell or so, it gets reloaded, but no way to start applications via keyboard right now . I rebuilt all around gnome-shell, clutter ... disabled extensions, didn't help so far.

[gentoo-user] emerge using 100% CPU

2012-02-20 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
Hello. Recently emerge behavior became strange on my ~amd64 system. When a package fails to compile, emerge does not terminate, but goes to 100% of CPU usage. Is anybody seeing this too? # emerge --version Portage 2.1.10.47 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.2, glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.2.6-gen