> On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>
> It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in
> Gentoo:
>
> I delete package.use and have no backup
>
> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the
> long way round - repeatedly run
> On December 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>
> Please stop insults and offensive language. I just sent replies to
> the list, this is verifiable by mail headers.
My apologies to you sir.
> If you have mail problems, check your MTA or whatever you are
> using to receive e-mail fr
On March 19, 2012 at 9:13 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:48:54 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
>
> > And for the Lennart fanboi, his coding is
> > so questionable that "Lennartware" has become derogatory slang. (Of
> > course, you alread
On March 18, 2012 at 8:36 PM Maxim Wexler wrote:
>
> Hope somebody can see a way out.
>
> MW
>
I'd probably swap my computer shop and all it's latest-and-greatest to live
where you are, and leave all the computers, 'smart' phones, etc. "in town".
Just me, the wife, the daughter, horses, chick
On March 18, 2012 at 2:52 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl
wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
> >
> > I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...
> >
> > I have a remote system that has /usr on a s
On March 18, 2012 at 8:47 AM Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 18. März 2012, 08:01:59 schrieb Bruce Hill, Jr.:
> > On March 18, 2012 at 3:54 AM Michael Mol wrote:
> > > >> I recall reading on this list a week or two ago that kernel
> > > >> aut
On March 18, 2012 at 6:22 AM pk wrote:
> On 2012-03-18 04:11, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
>
> > Am I eternally confused?
>
> I have no idea... besides, eternity is a long time... ;-)
>
> > su - change user ID or become superuser
> >
> > It's not _only
On March 18, 2012 at 3:54 AM Michael Mol wrote:
> >> I recall reading on this list a week or two ago that kernel
> >> autoassembly of 0.90 arrays was deprecated. :(
> >>
> >> --
> >> :wq
> >>
> >
> > Works on my computers.
>
> And mine. But 'deprecated' means 'this may go away in the future'.
On March 18, 2012 at 2:30 AM Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >
> >> initramfs side of things. I did have to use on
On March 17, 2012 at 10:57 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras
wrote:
> >
> >> On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie w
On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote:
> initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server
> with / on a RAID6, not because I needed it long term but in the short
> term I couldn't determine how mdadm was numbering the RAID so that I
> could get grub.conf correct.
On March 17, 2012 at 10:20 AM Alan McKinnon
wrote:
> Android != Linux (in context of userspace)
>
> To get a phone shipped with a running Linux (in the usual definition of
> Linux, not Richard Stallman's) you need that Nokia one that will never
> again see the light of day.
>
> Or root your So
On March 17, 2012 at 9:11 AM pk wrote:
> That's what gives you permission to use 'su' as a member of the 'wheel'
> group ('su' is controlled by 'pam').
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter K
>
Am I eternally confused?
su - change user ID or become superuser
It's not _only_ to become root (maybe theo
On March 17, 2012 at 9:45 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> But again, remember that I'm biased: I keep an overlay to run Gentoo
> systems with only systemd; no OpenRC, no baselayout, no SysV. You guys
> can try it if you want:
>
> http://xochitl.matem.unam.mx/~canek/gentoo-systemd-only/
>
>
On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hello, Nikos.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >
> >>> Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon.
> >
> >> No, we don't. I hope systemd arriv
On March 17, 2012 at 7:59 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello Bruce,
>
> Thanks for the heads up.
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:11:23AM -0400, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
> > This item just appeared after eix-sync:
>
> > udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19.
On March 17, 2012 at 4:00 AM Andrea Conti wrote:
> > This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of
> > udev >=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot
your
> > system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr.
>
> [...]
>
> > Happy Computer Users, syst
On March 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM "ZHANG, Le" wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > my question might seem silly, but I have reason for it:
> > I have heard there is way to auto-reboot linux after kernel
> > panic using "kernel.panic=" in /etc/sysctl.conf.
> >
>
--
On March 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
> >
> >
> >
> > Happy Computer Users (for now), systemd is on your horizon.
> >
> > Houston, we have a problem!
>
> You can always try Walter's et. al. mdev re
On March 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> Alan, the "vast majority" of Linux users right now are phone users.
> At least, that's how I see it.
> Again, think about phones. And tablets. And TVs. And
> [insert-here-cool-gadgets-from-the-future].
> Right now Linux runs in my
This item just appeared after eix-sync:
HTPC ~ # eselect news read
2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking
Title udev-181 unmasking
AuthorWilliam Hubbs
Posted2012-03-16
Revision 1
udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19
On March 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote:
>
> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> No bugreport yet, and I rebuilt and revdeped
>
> Stefan
>
There is a stabilization request for it:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407559
--
Happy Penguin Computers>`)
126 Fenco Drive
On March 13, 2012 at 5:49 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> Just what I was saying: I said (right there) "the probability of it
> needing udev (directly or indirectly) will increase." I did not say it
> would *need* udev for sure; just that the probability of it needing
> udev would increase.
On March 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On March 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >&g
On March 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
>
> "Fringe" programs will not require udev, or it will be optional; but
> the moment a "fringe" program reaches critical mass to become
> "maistream", the probability of it needing udev (directly or
> indirectly) will increase.
>
> I'm
On March 13, 2012 at 1:36 AM ro...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
> I recently decided to update my AMD64 box from 2.38 to the new 3.2
kernel.
> I used genkernel all to compile the upgraded kernel but when I go to boot
> I get the following error.
>
> >>Loading modules
> >>Determining root device
> !!Block
On March 13, 2012 at 3:10 AM Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 Mar 2012 05:36:38 ro...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
> > I recently decided to update my AMD64 box from 2.38 to the new 3.2
kernel.
> > I used genkernel all to compile the upgraded kernel but when I go to
boot
> > I get the following error.
> >
>
On March 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 12/03/12 20:05, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
> > These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in
#gentoo
> > are worse.
> >
> > What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it?
&
On March 12, 2012 at 2:50 PM Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
> wrote:
> > These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in
#gentoo
> > are worse.
> >
> > What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I
On March 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM Michael Mol wrote:
> Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far
> removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves.
>
>
> --
> :wq
>
Maybe you're not, but it only takes me a few minutes being around chithead
and NeddySeagoon for me
These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo
are worse.
What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it?
Today's update output:
server ~ # emerge -aDjNquv world
[ebuild N] virtual/shadow-0
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] No
Quitti
On March 12, 2012 at 10:04 AM Tamer Higazi wrote:
> and it still didn't bring me the desired result :(
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild R] gnome-base/gnome-2.32.1-r1 USE="cdr cups dvdr ldap
> policykit -accessibility -mono" 0 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size
On March 12, 2012 at 8:56 AM Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Hi Alan!
> I thought more or less that I have to unmask packages, or making any
> configurations to unlock the update to gnome3.
>
> If I run now:
>
> tamer@office ~ $ emerge -pav gnome
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order
On March 11, 2012 at 11:16 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
> Not exactly your typical "remote machine", but the principle is the
> same. I have a dedicated HTPC machine next to my 50" plasma, connected
> by 50 feet of ethernet cable to my computer den. I use the TV as a
> monitor when running NHL Ga
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