Re: [gentoo-user] recovering pam.d directory

2012-08-09 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On August 8, 2012 04:22:28 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:24:17 + > > Marcello Varisco wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > By incident I removed the pam.d directory containing all pam modules > > from command line. Is there a way to recover the removed directory? > > any help is appr

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/09/2012 07:24 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: > Am 08.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: > I have a problem compiling binutils. > Full build log can be found here http://smash-net.org/temp/build_log.txt > > I tried tha vanilla flag and diabled zlib as suggested via google > search, but neither

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:22:25 -0500, Dale wrote: > I used something called Gparted to partition this monster. This is > temporary tho. What should I be using to partition this thing? What is > the best, and easiest, tool for me to use? I have been using cfdisk in > the past but it doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:22:25 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I used something called Gparted to partition this monster. This is >> temporary tho. What should I be using to partition this thing? What is >> the best, and easiest, tool for me to use? I have been using cfdisk in >> t

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:35:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Do not use cfdisk on 2TB+ drives, it gives bad alignment. Use gdisk or > > cgdisk with GPT partition tables. Create a 1MB partition at the start > > of type EF02, which keeps backward compatibility, then partition as > > normal. > > > > Note that

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:35:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Do not use cfdisk on 2TB+ drives, it gives bad alignment. Use gdisk or >>> cgdisk with GPT partition tables. Create a 1MB partition at the start >>> of type EF02, which keeps backward compatibility, then partition as >>> n

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting apvlv running (My "excellent adventure")

2012-08-09 Thread meino . cramer
Walter Dnes [12-08-09 05:11]: > Earlier this year, my ISP changed their billing notification emails > from application/pdf to application/octet-stream. Trying to view it > from mutt showed binary gobbledygook. After some flailing around, I > found out that I had to put an entry into .mailcap,

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting apvlv running (My "excellent adventure")

2012-08-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/09/2012 02:06 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Walter Dnes [12-08-09 05:11]: >> Now epdfview is masked for removal in a few weeks. apvlv is the >> recommended lightweight alternative. After some screwing around and >> discovering an obscure bug in the apvlv ebuild, I finally got apvlv up

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read > somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back > again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think > if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible t

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-09 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > >> I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read >> somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back >> again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think >> if you do it like over a dozen time

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:53:27 -0500 Dale wrote: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > > > >> I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I > >> read somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all > >> 0's then back again that it is very hard to get any data back o

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-09 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-08-08-libreoffice-3-6-0.html As someone said, a lot of legacy code is being removed/cleaned/simplyfied. Kernel could be an issue when it comes to swappiness, but not when it comes to the amount of ,memory that a given version of $CC will use to compile a

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-09 Thread Philip Webb
120809 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-08-08-libreoffice-3-6-0.html Yes, I read that c 2 hr ago (smile). > As someone said, a lot of legacy code is being removed/cleaned/simplified. It doesn't explain why I saw the same effect with Firefox 14.1 : p

[gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-09 Thread walt
This has been slow and painful so far. First, the build stops repeatedly because of zero-length library files. I can restart the ebuild manually and each iteration builds one more (real) library. I've been doing this iterating for hours and I think I may have gotten past that part, but the build

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-09 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > This has been slow and painful so far. > > First, the build stops repeatedly because of zero-length library files. > I can restart the ebuild manually and each iteration builds one more > (real) library. I've been doing this iterating for hours and I think > I may have gotten past

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.08.2012 22:36, schrieb Alex Schuster: > No, I just built it today, in the usual time of about 2.5 hours. ~1 hr here :-P (I *had* to say that ;-) )

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-09 Thread Jacques Montier
2012/8/9 Stefan G. Weichinger > Am 09.08.2012 22:36, schrieb Alex Schuster: > > > No, I just built it today, in the usual time of about 2.5 hours. > > ~1 hr here :-P > > (I *had* to say that ;-) ) > > > Hello, No problem building libreoffice-3.6.0.4. About 1h 38 min. Best regards -- Jacques

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:19 PM, walt wrote: > This has been slow and painful so far. > > First, the build stops repeatedly because of zero-length library files. > I can restart the ebuild manually and each iteration builds one more > (real) library. I've been doing this iterating for hours and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting apvlv running (My "excellent adventure")

2012-08-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:07:38PM +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote > Strange, I didn't have to add that USE for apvlv to build. > Looks like it should be pulled in by the ebuild: > > $ grep xpdf-headers /usr/portage/app-text/poppler/poppler-0.20.2-r1.ebuild > IUSE="cairo cjk curl cxx debug doc +int

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-09 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 09.08.2012 10:04, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: > On 08/09/2012 07:24 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: >> Am 08.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: I have a problem >> compiling binutils. Full build log can be found here >> http://smash-net.org/temp/build_lo

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-09 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
It could be anything. Maybe some orphaned process was running in the background and leaking ram, or something. It's futile to speculate now about that. Also, the -recently added- "pgo" USE flag could have something to do with that. Not sure, since I didn't bother to investigate it's true purpose o