On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19:42PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox.
>
> It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more.
>
> After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes up with so
> many blocks, use
On 08/24/2015 04:47 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 5:17:53 PM Rod wrote:
On 08/23/2015 05:02 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 4:35:12 PM Rod wrote:
On 08/23/2015 03:59 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 3:26:24 PM Rod wr
Dale wrote:
> Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> Interesting that it didn't pull baloo so you must have it installed?
>>
>
> For some reason the quoting didn't quite work right. Hm.
>
> It appears I do. Now you going to make me have to go find out what
> pulled that in, then what pulled in what
On Monday 10 August 2015 11:16:08 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> > On Monday 10 August 2015 09:13:01 Dale wrote:
> >> I might add, sync is taking a LONG time again. Of course, my DSL is a
> >> bit slower than some folks. At least the bumpy road g
On 08/24/2015 08:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> Is syncing not yet sorted out? A fortnight later I'm still getting something
> like 24000 manifests synced every day, and about a week ago I got all the
> change-logs too.
>
That was expected... one more time. Hopefully it shouldn't happen agai
Thanks, Dale, for your point of view.
But since I'm not the only user (my wife is forced to use it, too ;-) )and
I am the only one that knows how to use a command line session, for
instance, I still want to try to make this semantic desktop thing to work.
Thanks, again, and
Best Regards
Francisco
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone advise me which iso to use? And which profile to set for
> general use in a vbox, hopefully to allow a `no sweat' emerge to a
> full OS.
As others have pointed out you probably just need to update your gcc
and all will be well, o
2015-08-24 9:14 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares :
> Thanks, Dale, for your point of view.
>
> But since I'm not the only user (my wife is forced to use it, too ;-) )and
> I am the only one that knows how to use a command line session, for
> instance, I still want to try to make this semantic desktop thin
Hello, Harry,
Long time, no see!
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19:42PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox.
> It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more.
> After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:41:48AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> And a note to everybody else on the list: take it easy on the poor
> guy. People used to other distros are used to doing things like
> blowing away their installs every other year with a fresh install.
> Release-based distros get peo
Alan Mackenzie writes:
> I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
> stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
> reinstalled months earlier than I did.
Thanks for the frank suggestions and noted lack unix hero
talk... hehe.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie writes:
>
> > I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
> > stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
> > reinstalled months earlier than I did.
>
> Thanks for the frank
On 24/08/2015 15:17, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Harry,
>
> Long time, no see!
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19:42PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox.
>
>> It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more.
>
On 24/08/2015 15:35, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie writes:
>
>> I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
>> stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
>> reinstalled months earlier than I did.
>
> Thanks for the frank suggestions and noted l
Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes:
> My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox.
Hello Harry. Gentoo has the handbook for it's main install. A bit of a drag
but good for for a refresher or leaning.
Rich put up an excellent set of VM gentoo install instructins [1]:
>
On Monday 24 August 2015 08:12:28 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 08/24/2015 08:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Is syncing not yet sorted out? A fortnight later I'm still getting
> > something like 24000 manifests synced every day, and about a week ago I
> > got all the change-logs too.
>
> That was
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie writes:
>>
>> > I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
>> > stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
>> >
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On 24/08/15 23:59, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>> Alan Mackenzie writes:
>>>
I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Re
2015-08-24 10:13 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares :
>
>
> 2015-08-24 9:14 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares :
>
>> Thanks, Dale, for your point of view.
>>
>> But since I'm not the only user (my wife is forced to use it, too ;-)
>> )and I am the only one that knows how to use a command line session, for
>> instanc
On 08/24/2015 09:47 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 24 August 2015 08:12:28 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> On 08/24/2015 08:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> Is syncing not yet sorted out? A fortnight later I'm still getting
>>> something like 24000 manifests synced every day, and about a week ago
Alan McKinnon writes:
Working thru all the guff with all you posters patient help would
probably have been the best but between posting and seeing answers
(suring the morning in the wee hours). I jumped stupid and starting
uninstalling some of the blockers.
So, I've made the mess considerably w
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:46 AM, James wrote:
>
> Hello Harry. Gentoo has the handbook for it's main install. A bit of a drag
> but good for for a refresher or leaning.
>
> Rich put up an excellent set of VM gentoo install instructins [1]:
My main goals with those notes (I wouldn't call them inst
On 24/08/2015 16:46, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
>
> Working thru all the guff with all you posters patient help would
> probably have been the best but between posting and seeing answers
> (suring the morning in the wee hours). I jumped stupid and starting
> uninstalling some of
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Rod wrote:
>
> USE="-* ...
I have not been following this thread but why do you have this setting?
> # grep snort /etc/portage/package.use
> net-analyser/snort active-response flexresp3 gre mpls
That's a typo in the category name, it's sup
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
> In any case, the notes as they currently stand are not something I'd
> recommend to a new user. They're fine for experienced users looking
> for the "short version." When I get them integrated into the handbook
> I think it will be an overall improvement and u
On 2015-08-23, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> That's quite normal - electrolytic caps are the only electronic
> components that can be considered to "wear out". Apart from batteries
> of course :-)
And various forms of non-volatile memory (EEPROM, NAND flash, etc.)
that can withstand a limited number er
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> Or you can get a binary package from anywhere else you trust.
>
My personal favourite: chroot into a stage3 and quickpkg gcc. Then copy to
your install and voila.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:36 AM, James wrote:
> Are you going to roll out some "notes" on putting
> raid-1::btrfs onto HD? Or just the VM install?
>
The notes should work just fine for installing that on an HD. Is
there something you found missing in them?
The only thing they aren't targeted a
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> So, I've made the mess considerably worse... maybe unsolvable since I
> have no gcc now and so no way to grind out the builds plus other
> truly boneheaded uninstalls that appear to have rendered my system
> unusable just like the li
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:08:55 -0400
Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sunday, August 23, 2015 2:25:47 PM walt wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200
> > bitlord wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote:
> >
> > > > I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentione
On Monday, August 24, 2015 11:31:04 AM Francisco Ares wrote:
> 2015-08-24 10:13 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares :
>
> >
> >
> > 2015-08-24 9:14 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares :
> >
> >> Thanks, Dale, for your point of view.
> >>
> >> But since I'm not the only user (my wife is forced to use it, too ;-)
> >> )a
On Monday, August 24, 2015 5:33:34 PM Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Rod wrote:
> >
> > USE="-* ...
>
> I have not been following this thread but why do you have this setting?
There may be some valid reasons for it, but if you don't know the implications
o
On 24/08/2015 18:49, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>>
>> Or you can get a binary package from anywhere else you trust.
>>
>
> My personal favourite: chroot into a stage3 and quickpkg gcc. Then copy to
> your install and voila.
>
I knew there was a way t
Does anyone have an opinion to offer on bug 501468?
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501468
It's been annoying me for a week now with this message:
!!! existing preserved libs:
>>> package: www-client/firefox-40.0.2
* - /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozalloc.so
* used by /usr/lib64/thunde
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 9:58:43 AM Dale wrote:
> Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Dale wrote:
> >> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >>> On Monday 10 August 2015 09:13:01 Dale wrote:
> >>>
> I might add, sync is taking a LONG time again. Of course, my DSL is a
> bit sl
On Monday, August 24, 2015 9:31:38 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Does anyone have an opinion to offer on bug 501468?
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501468
>
> It's been annoying me for a week now with this message:
>
> !!! existing preserved libs:
> >>> package: www-client/firefox-40.0.
On 24/08/2015 22:04, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Monday, August 24, 2015 9:31:38 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> Does anyone have an opinion to offer on bug 501468?
>>
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501468
>>
>> It's been annoying me for a week now with this message:
>>
>> !!! existing pr
Has it happened to you?
A user saved a message reply as a draft and came back after lunch to continue,
only to discover that half the response was missing. Given that some of it
was the result of a two hour investigation I had my hands full trying to
pacify them.
Why was part of the draft los
On 08/25/2015 05:05 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Monday, August 24, 2015 5:33:34 PM Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Rod wrote:
USE="-* ...
I have not been following this thread but why do you have this setting?
There may be some valid reasons for it,
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> [1] Reminds me of an old joke:
>
> Q: What's the second worst sound you can hear a sysadmin make?
> A: Uh-oh
> Q: And the worst sound?
> A: Oops
>
> Looks like you had an oops moment there
I have quite a few of those Uh oh moments. I think top on my list tho is
oh crap.
On Monday, August 24, 2015 10:42:28 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 24/08/2015 22:04, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Monday, August 24, 2015 9:31:38 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> Does anyone have an opinion to offer on bug 501468?
> >>
> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501468
> >>
> >> It'
On Monday, August 24, 2015 8:58:56 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Monday, August 24, 2015 10:42:28 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 24/08/2015 22:04, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > > On Monday, August 24, 2015 9:31:38 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > >> Does anyone have an opinion to offer on bug 501468
On Monday, August 24, 2015 9:31:38 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Does anyone have an opinion to offer on bug 501468?
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501468
>
> It's been annoying me for a week now with this message:
>
> !!! existing preserved libs:
> >>> package: www-client/firefox-40.0.
On Monday, August 24, 2015 10:28:36 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Monday, August 24, 2015 9:31:38 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Does anyone have an opinion to offer on bug 501468?
> >
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501468
> >
> > It's been annoying me for a week now with this messa
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