[gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-10 Thread Jörg Schaible
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote: >> On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs >> >> kdel

[gentoo-user] Re: log messages

2010-02-17 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Harry, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > >> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 00:36:42 Harry Putnam wrote: >>> Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail): >>> >>> Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent >>> >>> Feb 16 09:38:48 r

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS-PDF failing

2010-03-09 Thread Jörg Schaible
Dirk Uys wrote: > Hi > > I'm getting the following error from /var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log when I try > to print to a PDF printer: > > [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non fatal) > (/var/spool/cups-pdf/dc_u/HOWTO__Install_Cups-PDF_-_Page_4_- _Ubuntu_Forums.pdf) > > I tried changing p

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: CUPS-PDF failing

2010-03-10 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dirk, Dirk Uys wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jörg Schaible > wrote: > >> >> Look into /etc/cups/cups-pdf. The individual spool directories must have >> proper access rights (like .ssh in your home) and match the UserUMask >> setting. Otherwise c

[gentoo-user] Re: OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> >>> Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my >>> harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to >>> somethings better than "ts" (transport str

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine users backup libjpeg.so.62.0.0

2009-10-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > MAKE SURE TO BACKUP libjpeg.so.62.0.0 and libjpeg.so.62 (a symlink to > libjpeg.so.62.0.0) No. Simply emerge jpeg-compat to get back a stable system. > My older machine was getting flakey so I migrated to my newer machine. > I updated the new machine to the la

[gentoo-user] Re: eclipse portage package

2009-11-25 Thread Jörg Schaible
Chuck Robey wrote: [snip] > Mark, I could be responsible for this (the fact that it seems that neither > of the things I really wanted to know are covered) because sometimes I am > not clear in what I'm asking, so let me try again. > > I need to get an up-to-date version of eclipse working on m

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-27 Thread Jörg Schaible
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote: >> kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except >> for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packages. >> It had kde-meta-3.5.10. Is there some syntax or a better >> method to insure all the kde-3.5.x packages are removed, >> without

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-28 Thread Jörg Schaible
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 23:07:25 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote: >> >> kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except >> >> for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packag

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-28 Thread Jörg Schaible
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 13:59:38 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > On Friday 27 November 2009 23:07:25 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James

[gentoo-user] fonts in gitview

2012-01-19 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is hardly readable. I am normally working in a KDE4 environment. Than

[gentoo-user] Re: KMail

2012-02-11 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 07:47:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: >> > I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. >> > After spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to >> > g

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts in gitview

2012-02-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how > to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when > this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is > hardly reada

[gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Jörg Schaible
Philip Webb wrote: > 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: >>> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie >>> ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, >>> but there's no sign of 'contr

[gentoo-user] Re: what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-26 Thread Jörg Schaible
Philip Webb wrote: > 110325 Alex Schuster wrote: >> Philip Webb writes: >>> In /var/log/ there is a file wtmp , which is 24 MB & owned by utmp >>> Can anyone explain what it's for & whether it cb safely deleted ? >> It tracks logins, you can use the 'last' command to show its contents. >> If

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts.

2011-11-26 Thread Jörg Schaible
Stayvoid wrote: >> Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts > That didn't work for me. /usr/local/share/fonts > >> Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME} > Could you be more specific?

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

2011-11-26 Thread Jörg Schaible
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems > to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a > nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a > while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is u

[gentoo-user] Re: Tcl in your system...

2011-11-29 Thread Jörg Schaible
Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., >> automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. > > At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in > T

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Jörg Schaible
Al wrote: >> Al, >> >> Do everyone a favor. Go use Gmane and tell us what exactly >> you'd be able to do that Gmane does not already do. >> It's archived, search-able (via keywords) and many, many >> other very cool features. > > I do you favour and confirm that it is a very cool web interface to

[gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard

2010-09-16 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alex, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: > Hi guys, my installation was a success ;-). Everythink works fine, > expect my keyboard ;-(. > I got a "Cherry GmbH CyMotion Master Linux Keyboard" but, unable to > tip something in. So i have to access my system by ssh. i already > install evdev, so now th

[gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Edward, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >> Do you have some custom css stylesheets that override the default or something? >>> >>> Nope. Not that I know of. I presume I'd have to do something I'd

[gentoo-user] Re: Freemind - big can of worms

2010-11-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dirk, Dirk Uys wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I wanted to install freemind, did a emerge -uavNDt freemind, this is what > I get: [snip] > The indentation is a little weird in the pasted output, but as far as I > can deduce freemind wants dev-java/fop, fop wants > dev-java/avalon-framework and av

[gentoo-user] Re: In search for different variant of terminus-font

2010-12-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Frank, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hi list > > A few months back I switched to Debian (due to hardware problems) and came > back a few weeks ago. But ever since I came back, my terminus font in > KDE’s Konsole looks different and I don’t know why. It seems I have > installed a different varia

[gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a device first. Since my computer has an internal media bay (and my moni

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems that anything that

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Stroller, Stroller wrote: > > On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> ... >> And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where >> /etc/fstab is located ? > > The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. > > I'm not saying

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jörg Schaible > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it se

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alan, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg > Schaible did opine thusly: > >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, >> Stroller did opine thusly: >> >> >>> I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or >>> so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of >>> describi

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alex, Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, >>> Stroller did opine thusly: >>> I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dale, Dale wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: >> that approves my tests ... :-/ >> >> Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched >> arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the >> wrong one. It seems there is a

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Neil, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:47:28 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> What really annoys me is, that I had no problems with this in kernels >> before 2.6.35 :-/ > > Have you tried diffing the configs to look for a potential cause? Yes, but I c

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Andrea, Andrea Conti wrote: >> Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched >> arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 > > Try disabling CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC ("Asynchronous SCSI scanning" under > SCSI options). While it is not a solution, this might somewhat reduce > the rando

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Dale, >> >> Dale wrote: >> > Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> that approves my tests ... :-/ >> >> >> >> Had to boot this morning 5 times,

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-10 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: > I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work > fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs > seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I > get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using th

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-11 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jake Moe wrote: > On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Jake, >> >> Jake Moe wrote: >> >>> I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work >>> fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs >&g

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Joe, Jake Moe wrote: > On 01/13/11 20:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:33:09 Jake Moe wrote: >>> On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: [snip] >> Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of >> garbage? >> >> As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Jörg, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jake Moe wrote: > >> Yeah, the wav file played fine. At least, it started out fine; I only >> listened to the first 15 - 30 seconds to make sure it sounded ok, and >> then assumed the rest was fine, since nothing else had even gotten that >> far. > > Be caref

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> > There is a set of red-book deviations that is called "cactus >> > datashield" >> > >> > cdparanoia will not extract more than 40 seconds from such a "CD" >> > regardles

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother Scanner

2012-10-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Silvio, Silvio Siefke wrote: > Hello, > > i have a Brother MFC 7320 Printer, Scanner and Fax. Printer is installed > perfectly, scanner want not work. I try as user and as root, but xsane > found not the scanner. > > gentoo-desk ~ # sane-find-scanner -q > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9, pr

[gentoo-user] xserver update: tilde no longer dead key

2012-11-23 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi folks, it seems the latest xorg-server update also changed the German standard keyboard layout, since the tilde is no longer a dead key. I verified that the standard variant is still used, I have no ~/.Xkbmap or /etc/X11/Xkbmap or (Xmodmap or Xresources), so the standard must have changed.

[gentoo-user] Re: xserver update: tilde no longer dead key

2012-11-23 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi folks, > > it seems the latest xorg-server update also changed the German standard > keyboard layout, since the tilde is no longer a dead key. I verified that > the standard variant is still used, I have no ~/.Xkbmap or /etc/X11/Xkbmap > or (Xmodmap

[gentoo-user] Re: xserver update: tilde no longer dead key

2012-11-23 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jörg Schaible wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> it seems the latest xorg-server update also changed the German standard >> keyboard layout, since the tilde is no longer a dead key. I verified that >> the standard variant is still used, I hav

[gentoo-user] Re: problem starting "openvpn" after recenet upgrade

2012-12-27 Thread Jörg Schaible
Joseph wrote: > I'm having problem starting openvpn after recent upgrade. > > When I try to start it I get a normal respond: > > openvpn.client_clinic_atom start > * Starting openvpn.client_clinic_atom ...[ ok ] > * WARNING: openvpn.client_clinic_atom has started, but is inac

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: problem starting "openvpn" after recenet upgrade

2012-12-27 Thread Jörg Schaible
Matthias Hanft wrote: > Joseph wrote: >> >> Yes, you are correct. Rebuilding openvpn worked; thank you. > > As far as I have seen, you can set USE="iproute2" for OpenVPN which > seems to use iproute2 instead of net-tools - should avoid your problem, > too. If iprout2 is relocated, it will fail f

[gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2017-12-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, Am Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:07:08 -0500 schrieb John Blinka: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> How do I skip grub and continue? >> >> > emerge --skipfirst --resume This is unfortunately really dangerous, because "emerge --resume" will recalculate the order of the

[gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no longer switch to SDDM on VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usual. If I boot with the last stable kernel 4.12.12 anything is back to normal and the login s

[gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2017-12-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:00:47 +0100 schrieb Marc Joliet: > Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017, 10:45:41 CET schrieb Jörg Schaible: >> Hi, >> >> Am Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:07:08 -0500 schrieb John Blinka: >> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-25 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Raymond, Am Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:59:32 -0800 schrieb Raymond Jennings: > That sounds like a possible issue with your X configuration. > > Did you double check /etc/conf.d/xdm and the like to make sure that your > VT is indeed set to 7. Content of /etc/conf.d/xdm === %< == CHECK

[gentoo-user] Howto unmask use flag

2017-12-27 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, how can I unmask a use flag masked in profiles/base/package.use.mask? If I set the flag for the package in / etc/portage/package.use it is simply ignored. Concrete example: My /etc/portage/package.use contains the line: dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin:9 doc gentoo-vm source However the flag 'gen

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto unmask use flag

2017-12-27 Thread Jörg Schaible
Found it. I have to create my own package.use.mask file in /etc/portage/profile that reverts the setting. Am Thu, 28 Dec 2017 02:10:36 + schrieb Jörg Schaible: > Hi, > > how can I unmask a use flag masked in profiles/base/package.use.mask? If > I set the flag for the pack

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2018-01-01 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hello Kai, Am Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:48:09 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow: [snip] > If I remember right (many months ago), I fixed it by changing one line > in /etc/sddm.conf: > > [X11] > ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp -keeptty > >This is where

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2018-01-01 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alan, Am Sat, 30 Dec 2017 02:18:12 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon: [snip] > It's probably a dodgy kernel point bersion, 4.14 is problematic. [snip] > If you want to fix the bugs, then by all means soldier on. But if your > intent is to have a working system that boots, probably drop using >

[gentoo-user] oracle-jdk-bin-11

2018-07-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, is someone aware of the existence of an ebuild for Java 11 e.g. somewhere in the overlays? Or has someone already crafted one and is willing to share it? Cheers, Jörg

[gentoo-user] Re: oracle-jdk-bin-11

2018-07-24 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi James, On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:13:14 -0400 james wrote: > On 07/21/18 11:10, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is someone aware of the existence of an ebuild for Java 11 e.g. >> somewhere in the overlays? Or has someone already crafted one and is >> willing to

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-04-03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> Have you read the news item? > > Yes. I found it rather confusing. > > It refers to a "new format" for rules, but the examples use the exact > same format as the old rules. > > It talks about how 80-net-name-slot.rules need

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:38:28 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > Have you read the news item? >> >> Yes. I found it rather confusing. >> >> It refers to a "new format" for rules, but the examples use the exact >> same format as the old rules. > > Poor choice of term

[gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jarry wrote: > On 06-Apr-13 19:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >>> STOP SPREADING THIS FUD >> >>> It did not happen to pretty much everybody. It happened to people who >>> blindly updated thignsd and walked away, who did not read the news >>> announcement, who did not read the CLEARLY WORDED wiki art

[gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Jörg Schaible
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 06.04.2013 21:33, schrieb Mick: >> On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: > After updating our systems w

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just built libreoffice-3.6.6.2 and it took 2 hours 10 minutes on my > 2.6 GHz quad core Athlon 2. It used to take about an hour. > > Watching the build, it became evident that the first 50 minutes or so > was taken up by several hundred mkdir operati

[gentoo-user] Re: Bind stole my /

2015-11-09 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Jarry, Jarry wrote: > On 08-Nov-15 17:58, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jarry wrote: >>> Hi Gentoo-users, >>> >>> I noted one strange thing today: It seems one of my servers lost "/"! >>> >>> vs5-dns ~ # df >>> Filesystem1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted o

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

2015-11-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/11/2015 21:35, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Ongoing installation. I looked at 2 instances of >> "emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-server" and the order was somewhat different. >> Here are a couple of outputs, just a few seconds apart. Is this a bug >> or a feature? See attachmen

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

2015-11-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/11/2015 10:29, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On 11/11/2015 21:35, Walter Dnes wrote: >>>> Ongoing installation. I looked at 2 instances of >>>> "emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-server" and t

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

2015-11-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/11/2015 10:48, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On 12/11/2015 10:29, Jörg Schaible wrote: >>>> Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] >>>> Hmmm. And how can you then ever use >>>> >>>>

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

2015-11-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:48:48 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >>> > Hmmm. And how can you then ever use >> >> >> >> emerge --resume --skip-fist >> >> >> >> if not even the first build is deterministic? I s

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS issue

2015-11-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Francisco, Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, all. > > My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many > applications now support native translations. > > And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT" > (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any d

[gentoo-user] Re: Bind stole my /

2015-11-18 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jarry wrote: [snip] > vs5-dns ~ # df -a > Filesystem1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 - - -- / > proc 0 0 0- /proc > tmpfs308188 420307768 1% /run > dev 10240 0

[gentoo-user] Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

2016-12-13 Thread Jörg Schaible
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for quite > a while, but something's upset the wallet system so that my password is no > longer recognised when I start KMail-2. This is what I've tried: > > 1.Re-created a blank /home par

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

2016-12-13 Thread Jörg Schaible
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:10:31 AM Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > Hello list, >> > >> > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for >> > quite a while, but something's

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

2016-12-14 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 11:35:33 Jörg Schaible wrote: [snip] >> No, that's the point: If you enable it, all kwallet-4 based apps will >> fail. At least until 5.7. I've not tested 5.8 yet. >> >> Cheers, >> Jörg > > This is what wo

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

2016-12-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 14 Dec 2016 09:08:11 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 11:35:33 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> [snip] >> >> >> No, that's the point: If you enable it, all kwallet-4 based apps will >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

2016-12-16 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > On Thursday 15 Dec 2016 14:02:39 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Wednesday 14 Dec 2016 09:08:11 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> Mick wrote: >> >> > On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 11:35:33 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> [snip] &g

[gentoo-user] boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

2017-02-01 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... nothing. See yourself: - emerge tells me that boost is for whatever reason blocked - I cannot find any entry for this in /etc/portage/** - eix does not show any kind of mask for 1.62.0-r1 - none of the installed packages

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

2017-02-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Neil, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:47:29 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> > now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked >> > by ... nothing. >> >> Same here. I don't know why, but the way I solved it is by unmerging >> boost and then trying the update

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

2017-02-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dale, Dale wrote: [snip] > If it helps any, this is what I have. > > > root@fireball / # equery l -p boost boost-build > * Searching for boost ... > [-P-] [ ] dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0 > [-P-] [ ] dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0 > [-P-] [ ~] dev-libs/boost-1.58.0-r1:0/1.58.0 >

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

2017-02-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 02/01/2017 04:21 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... >> nothing. See yourself: >> - emerge tells me that boost is for whatever reason blocked >> - I

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

2017-02-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Marc Joliet wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2017 00:21:29 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... >> nothing. See yourself: >> - emerge tells me that boost is for whatever reason blocked >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

2017-02-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Dale wrote: [snip] > Portage lock? Sometimes, my brain does that too. lol Hehe. > I thought about it after I hit send but figured you would get the > thought, maybe you had one or the other in a mask/unmask file or > something that resulted in a conflict? I was sort of thinking it but > did

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

2017-03-19 Thread Jörg Schaible
tu...@posteo.de wrote: [snip] > Hi Kai (that's a rhyme! :) > > I have installed Virtualbox already and use the Linux Image I > installed there for banking purposes only. Feels more secure. > > I would prefer the WIndows-in-a-(virtual)box-solution) as you > do -- if I would own a Windows install

[gentoo-user] Re: Mysterious encodig problem...

2017-04-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > it seems, that I have an encoding problem...which is triggered > (only???) somewhere in the chain fetchmail=>procmail=>neomutt with vim. > > ...and it only effects single and double quotes. > > I am living in Non-Ascii-land (germany). Therefore I have > som

[gentoo-user] Re: konqueror:5 - why couldn't it be more like konqueror:3 ?!!

2017-04-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > OK, I know life moves on, but this move has been a retrograde step for me. > My konqueror:5 recently updated seems to have a number of problems and > > features I am not happy with. Grateful for any pointers to address these. > In no particular order. > > 1. The Bookmarks Toolba

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

2017-05-22 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Peter, Peter Humphrey wrote: [snip] > Have you seen https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595618 ? It says > that "Qt plugins compiled with gcc-4 are incompatible with > expected to anticipate that. On the other hand, some kind of notice could > be issued, and bug 618922 is pursuing that.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

2017-05-22 Thread Jörg Schaible
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 22 May 2017 09:49:01 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Peter, >> >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> > Have you seen https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595618 ? It says >> > that "Qt

[gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

2017-05-22 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hello Kai, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Mon, 22 May 2017 19:33:55 +0200 > schrieb Jörg Schaible : > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: [snip] >> > >> > I can only suggest you read bug report 618922 if you haven't >> > already, including following its ref

[gentoo-user] Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-07 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 06 Jun 2017 16:35:40 you wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I've updated a number of kde (plasma) packages, including kde- >> frameworks/kwallet-5.34.0-r1. A depclean action wanted to remove >> kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1 and I let it do its tha'ng. >> >> Following a new login I

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Mick, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 02:04:44 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Tuesday 06 Jun 2017 16:35:40 you wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> I've updated a number of kde (plasma) packages, including kde- >&

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 13:21:56 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> > Yes, this seems to be the problem. Starting Kmail does not launch >> > kwalletd5 and as a consequence kmail starts asking for each email >> > account password separately. >> > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 16:56:21 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Thursday 08 Jun 2017 13:21:56 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> > Yes, this seems to be the problem. Starting Kmail does not launch >> >> > kwalletd5 and as

[gentoo-user] akonadi-server upgrade desaster

2014-12-17 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi folks, it seems there's no way for me to upgrade my akonadi-server 1.11.0 to 1.12.x or 1.13.x. I am using an external MySQL for years, but it fails to upgrade the tables nor will it recreate them without errors if I drop them all. All I can do is to downgrade to 1.11.0 again and restore the

[gentoo-user] Re: akonadi-server upgrade desaster

2014-12-18 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 17 Dec 2014 19:13:03 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> it seems there's no way for me to upgrade my akonadi-server 1.11.0 to >> 1.12.x or 1.13.x. I am using an external MySQL for years, but it fails to >> upgrade the ta

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Stefan, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 03.02.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: >> I've never had qtwebkit fail to build (at least not recently), what's >> the exact error? Can you post the output of `emerge --info >> dev-qt/qtwebkit` as well? > > hmmm, yes, I would like to ... but now

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-06 Thread Jörg Schaible
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 05.02.2015 17:59, Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 04/02/15 08:07, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: >>> >>>> Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often &

[gentoo-user] Re: HP scanner is no longer found

2014-03-24 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dale, the scanner part of my Brother DCP stopped suddenly also one month ago. My troubles were caused by the upgrade from sane-backends-1.0.23 to 1.0.24-r1. Downgrading immediately led to a working scanner again. [snip] Cheers, Jörg

[gentoo-user] Re: How to control SLOT?

2014-05-16 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2014 13:44:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 16/05/2014 14:38, Mick wrote: >> > After all these years I still can't find my way around SLOT management >> > needed for enlightenment. >> > >> > I want to emerge the latest available in the tree, which right now >> > happen

[gentoo-user] Re: Checking the reason for (-useflags) in brackets

2014-06-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
"man emerge" would have been even faster ;-) meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [14-06-21 12:36]: >> On 21/06/2014 11:19, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > for some applications I want to activate some USE flags, which are >> > disabled by default. >> > >> > Some of those

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching current java-vm for a single application

2016-02-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Leonard, Leonardo Guilherme wrote: > Hello. > > I'm using OpenJDK JVM regularly on my machine instead of Oracle's one, > primarily because of the infinality patches and because I prefer open > source software. > > There are some applications, though, that do not play ball with it > (namely,

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching current java-vm for a single application

2016-02-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Leonardo, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > If all what script is doing is executing "java", just add the right > JRE to your PATH as first element. Try something along: PATH=`java-config --select-vm=oracle-jdk-bin-1.8 -o`/bin:$PATH SenchaCmd Cheers, Jörg

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching current java-vm for a single application

2016-02-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi James, James wrote: [snip] > I suggest you file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. Gentoo's java environment > has/is undergoing major surgery and stability is a transient experince > with java on gentoo, for the last decade. If you have ideas how to privide > a patch (even a miniscule bandaid) I'd su

[gentoo-user] Re: java.awt.AWTError

2016-02-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Helmut, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > when emerging sci-geosciences/josm- I get a Java error : > > > java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the > value of the DISPLAY variable. > > > This is on a local machine using DISPLAY :0 > > Would anybody please

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