Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 20:44:07 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to > > dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine > > but now I see it's on every machine I've l

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and lvm

2013-01-06 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 06 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Friday 04 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood > >> > >> wrote: > >> > Having observed all the ranting, I thought I would try sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 03 January 2013 18:22:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > I do not know who shat into the brains of the kdepim devs that they fucked > up kmail in this unbelievable broken way. Most people do not need akonadi > - or nepomuk. Everything worked GREAT. Now most shit only works half way, a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
> On 4.9.3 you are still experiencing something similar. Hmmm. Indicates > to me a high probability of a systemic problem with the projects > approach, something that is unlikely to ever get really fixed. In my > opinion kdepim2 is vastly over-engineered and an attempt to solve a > problem that doe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mick wrote: >> Maybe this post will save someone else some time. > > Thanks Mark, but why do we have to make this file changes ourselves? Isn't it > a bug? > > PS. I also have cd & dvd /dev links missing. > -- > Regards, > Mick I'd say it's a bug. Waiting for it

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 Jan 2013 15:11:35 Francesco Talamona wrote: > > On 4.9.3 you are still experiencing something similar. Hmmm. Indicates > > to me a high probability of a systemic problem with the projects > > approach, something that is unlikely to ever get really fixed. In my > > opinion kdepim2 is va

Re: [gentoo-user] Implicit udev dependancy in Gentoo? and workaround.

2013-01-06 Thread Norman Invasion
On 24 December 2012 22:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm asking questions here before filing a bug/reature-request, to make > sure I have my ducks in a row. I did a big update a couple of days ago. > As per the user in... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7168984.html > I too ran into a situatio

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 11:57:10AM +, Mick wrote > > It will, but only partially. It seems that the list is long and it > is getting longer and longer! Check this out: > > whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep ^route > > (as advised by https://developers.facebook.com/docs/A

[gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist Or something like that (it scrolls by very fast and openrc doesn't seem to log anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of > adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: > > fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist > > Or something like t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 6. Januar 2013, 23:59:21 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of > adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: > >fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist > > Or somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of > adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: > > fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist > > Or something like t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mick wrote: > >>> Maybe this post will save someone else some time. >> Thanks Mark, but why do we have to make this file changes ourselves? Isn't >> it >> a bug? >> >> PS. I also have cd & dvd /dev links missing. >> -- >> Regards, >> Mick >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote: > > I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a > good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it > was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. I don't have, and have > not had, /dev/cdrom or dvd on th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote: > >> >> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a >> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it >> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. I don't hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:53 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a >>> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a >>> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it >>> was. The new devices for CD/D

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On 04/01/13 17:09, Mick wrote: > On Friday 04 Jan 2013 04:13:21 Randy Barlow wrote: >> On 01/03/2013 12:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Does anyone recommend a mail client that doesn't rely too heavily on the >>> mouse? I much prefer to navigate, reply etc with the keyboard. I've >>> seen Evolutio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: >> On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote: >>> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it was. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/2013 09:10 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've got Thunderbird to connect to my ISP and fetch new messages, > but I now have another, large problem. It won't import my 25,000 or > so messages from kmail, nor even its filters. I do not wish to los

[gentoo-user] Install from USB stick; here's how

2013-01-06 Thread Walter Dnes
For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml * My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, except when I boot from a USB stick. The stick will become /dev/sda and the harddrive becomes /dev/sdb * My desktop's harddrive is also /

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash

2013-01-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +, Mick wrote > On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot dd > > directly to a device, for obvious reasons. > > Yes, also tried it as root. No change. BTW, with the devic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Dale wrote: > This links goes to a specific post in the thread. Don't scroll or you > will have to dig. The one to look far if it messes up is the post by > NeddySeagoon. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6362608.html#6362608 > > More info: > > http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 06 January 2013 19:22:16 Mick wrote: > WOW! The fact that any KDEPIM devs consider this migration torture even > remotely acceptable must be a clear sign of advanced insanity! O_O > > Thank you very much for your detailed instructions. It seems that kmail2 > requires the full KDE de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash

2013-01-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 Jan 2013 03:13:30 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +, Mick wrote > > > On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot > > > dd > > > > > > directly to a device, for obvious r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Dale wrote: > >> This links goes to a specific post in the thread. Don't scroll or you >> will have to dig. The one to look far if it messes up is the post by >> NeddySeagoon. >> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6362608.html#6362608 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:43:51 -0500 Randy Barlow wrote: > That seems like it will likely be tricky. I don't know a lot about > kmail, but I've got two ideas that might work: > > 1) Depending on what kmail can do, you might be able to set up a > maildir or mbox folder with kmail, and have kmail tr