Re: [gentoo-user] dbus static libs problem

2010-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:33:39 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi all. During a system update today, /usr/lib/libdbus-1.la was > deleted. However a number of packages require this file emerge lafilefixer lafilefixer --justfixit -- Neil Bothwick Znqr lbh ybbx! signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok

2010-09-20 Thread Jonas de Buhr
Hi! >I'm thinking I will change Amarok to Audacious. Maybe you should have a look at aTunes, rhythmbox, exaile, gmusicbrowser and jajuk too... :) >Anybody else experienced this or just I'm cursed? :) I had a lot of stability problems with amarok on opensuse. IMHO it's not worth the hassle, go w

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus static libs problem

2010-09-20 Thread covici
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:33:39 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Hi all. During a system update today, /usr/lib/libdbus-1.la was > > deleted. However a number of packages require this file > > emerge lafilefixer > lafilefixer --justfixit Worked fine, I had lafilef

[gentoo-user] Re: Amarok

2010-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2010 09:02 AM, András Csányi wrote: Hi Guys, I like amarok, I don't know why just I like it. Yesterday, when I switched off amarok I saw the CPU using went down from ~40% to ~3% and kwin from ~30% to ~1%. the side effects of this, slower desktop and sometimes is uncomfortable. My machin

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok

2010-09-20 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Monday 20 September 2010 11:32:57 am András Csányi wrote: > I like amarok, I don't know why just I like it. Yesterday, when I > switched off amarok I saw the CPU using went down from ~40% to ~3% and > kwin from ~30% to ~1%. I use amarok all the time, although its not lite, its cpu usage is norm

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus static libs problem

2010-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:12:56 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Hi all. During a system update today, /usr/lib/libdbus-1.la was > > > deleted. However a number of packages require this file > > > > emerge lafilefixer > > lafilefixer --justfixit > Worked fine, I had lafilefixer, but h

[gentoo-user] xulrunner emerge problem

2010-09-20 Thread covici
I am finding that when I try to emerge xulrunner on the recent update I get the following: XRemoteClient_standalone.o: In function `XRemoteClient::FindBestWindow(char const*, char const*, char const*, int)': /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.9-r1/work/mozilla-1.9.2/widget/src/xremoteclient/

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >  This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, > especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in > mirror). Hi, this Flash 10.2-pre is in portage since 2 days ago. You'll just have to unmask it. :) www-plugi

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less stable. I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX (constant screen redraws;

[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas Yao
Hi all , I just downloaded the VMware Workstation 7 and tried to install it on my gentoo but failed I installed 32-bit gentoo system on my PC and its kernel version is the lastest one in gentoo -> 2.6.35-r7 I successfully installed Workstation on the gentoo but when I run it , it ask me to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok

2010-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 20 September 2010, András Csányi wrote: > > I'm thinking I will change Amarok to Audacious. > > Anybody else experienced this or just I'm cursed? :) cursed. Also, if you want something 'light': qmmp alsaplayer

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2010 06:54 PM, Thomas Yao wrote: Hi all , I just downloaded the VMware Workstation 7 and tried to install it on my gentoo but failed I installed 32-bit gentoo system on my PC and its kernel version is the lastest one in gentoo -> 2.6.35-r7 I successfully installed Workstation on the gen

[gentoo-user] Re: Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2010 06:20 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in mirror). Hi, this Flash 10.2-pre is in portage since 2 days ago. Y

[gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, I installed KDE 4.5.1 over the weekend following the "remove-all-old-kde-packages-first" approach on the gentoo webpage. So far everything seems to be fine except one thing. When I type "su -" in konsole it takes 20-30 seconds to complete. Doing the same on a text console the command complete

[gentoo-user] Re: No contacts in kaddressbook since KDE-4.4.4

2010-09-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 19 September 2010 14:11:55 you wrote: > I have tried changing resources in systemsettings to akonadi directory, > instead of .kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf, but still cannot see any > contacts. > > When entering an address in a new message To: field, the address book seems > to be used be

Re: [gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-20 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Monday 20 September 2010 11:38:15 pm Thomas Drueke wrote: > Hi, > > I installed KDE 4.5.1 over the weekend following the > "remove-all-old-kde-packages-first" approach on the gentoo webpage. So > far everything seems to be fine except one thing. > > When I type "su -" in konsole it takes 20-30

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok

2010-09-20 Thread Nils Larsson
> Also, if you want something 'light': > qmmp > alsaplayer There's also media-sound/clementine

Re: [gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:08 on Monday 20 September 2010, Thomas Drueke did opine thusly: > Hi, > > I installed KDE 4.5.1 over the weekend following the > "remove-all-old-kde-packages-first" approach on the gentoo webpage. So > far everything seems to be fine except one thing. > > When

Re: [gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas Drueke
Thanks for hints, but no luck so far. Yohan, using xterm instead of konsole results in the same delay. Alan, hosts contains the hostname (FQDN) for eth0 and also alocalhost entry. Plus wireshark didn't show any network traffic during the delay (for both eth0 and lo). Is there any of the new serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote: On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every rele

[gentoo-user] Google Inc. Could Be Compliant to the Chinese Government in Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC)

2010-09-20 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 o f Singapore
Article: Google Warns of China Exit Over Hacking Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126333757451026659.html I don't think it is that easy to hack if you are using SSL connections and very strong passwords. How long would it take supercomputers to perform a brute force attack if you are using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas Yao
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > You cannot install the package provided by vmware.com.  You have to use the > Gentoo ebuild.  With layman, add the "vmware" overlay and install > vmware-workstation from there.  Before you do that, make sure you cleaned > your system fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order > any, I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image that had > GCC 4.3* rather than 4.4. Funny enough, firefox worked just fine. I did some > searchin

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/21/10 12:41, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson mailto:b...@thehenderson.com>> wrote: I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order any, I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image that had GCC 4.3* ra

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread András Csányi
On 21 September 2010 00:23, Beau Henderson wrote: > On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote: >> >> On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon  wrote: >>> >>> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András >>> Csányi did opine thusly: >>> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-20 Thread Jake Moe
On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday 16 September 2010 12:01:43 Jake Moe wrote: >> On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: > Jake Moe wrote: >> Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-20 Thread Adam Carter
Im using the vmware installer on gentoo sucessfully. Seems that 7.1.1 on 2.6.34 is a bit smoother on the install than .35 but it still works. Iirc you just need to set init script stuff > > You cannot install the package provided by vmware.com. You have to use the > Gentoo ebuild. With layman

[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Lie Ryan
On 09/19/10 18:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Firefox 4 indeed is smoother (probably due to the new animations, >> probably because none of the plugins I used are compatible yet, but >> maybe it is just faster); but it is definitely more memory hungrier than >> before. In Fx3, it usually took around ~

[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Lie Ryan
On 09/19/10 19:04, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Apparently, though unproven, at 07:45 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Lie >> Ryan >> did opine thusly: >> >> >>> On 09/19/10 09:22, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >>> On 18 September 2010 15:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Is it