Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> for. When are they going to start considering the environment? > > > > What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still > > believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ? > > I am stupid enough. > >Wonko > > ++me

[gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
h I'll probably keep kdelibs because I like a few of their games. Similarly for gnome. But I wonder what I should do about the rest. Ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer > > important to me. I have remained out o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:41 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > > > > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > >> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> >>> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> > problem on my end. Can you confirm that this happens on your system too? > > Happens here too. My error file is 38M > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > I wanted to make sure first that this isn't some sort of configuration Me++ -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
nload still works. i can also ping the > web site. i really have no idea how to troubleshoot this. even 'curl' > cannot get the web page. it feels like all tcp connections are > blocked. > > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4. > > > -- > Best Regards, > David

[gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-aDNvu" denies there's any work to do, and revdep-rebuild reports health. Still no mouse. Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I can work with it, but it's still essentially headless. Anybody run into this state recently? If there's a quick fix, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Kaddeh wrote: > have you tried emergeing x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and > x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse on their own without xorg? > > Cheers > > Kad > > I'm not quite sure what that means. If you mean emerging them while X is down, I had to do that when X wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Kaddeh wrote: > >> have you tried emergeing x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and >> x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse on their own without xorg? >> >> Cheers >> >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there were some >> packages that would not install, so I was carefully emerging what I could >> and filed a bug about one in parti

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 12 May 2010 21:21:25 Dale wrote: > > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale > > <mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > > Have y

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
fferent but you do need > the line tho. > > I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev", and adding either of the others makes X go back to not starting at all. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mick > michaelkintz...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>On Wednesday 12 May 2010 21:21:25 Dale wrote: >>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale wrote: > > > Mine has xf86-* drivers as well. OP, do you have your setting in > > > make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale wrote: >> > > Mine has xf86-* driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 16:43:48 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick > wrote: > > > On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > > Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev, and > noticed >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:45:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick > wrote: > > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, walt wrote: > On 05/16/2010 08:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick > michaelkintz...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
tion: 1) Exactly what client-side and server-side flags are you telling us to set. The names have me somewhat overwhelmed. 2) Is there a connection between NX and SSH? Could you point me at some setup docs (if they don't come automatically). -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
0.97-r9(06:16:18 AM 03/03/2010)(ncurses -custom-cflags -netboot -static) Homepage:http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description: GNU GRUB 2 boot loader -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
For some reason, the latest x86 stable p7zip wants to force me to remove 'odbc' from wxGTK. This seems wrong, and I'm masking it out for the moment, but I'm wondering what justification there is. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Hibernating with TuxOnIce works sometimes, but sometimes resuming stops > with some "Opening LUKS. Killed." message, or the suspend image is ignored > and a normal boot happens. > > - I have a Radeon HD 3200. I tried the radeon drivers instead of ati- > drivers (fglrx), but did not get acceleration ([dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion > failed (libdri too old)). But thats's still be best result I ever got with > tose drivers. I removed the blocking ati-drivers and updated to xorg 1.8, > then radeon worked with acceleration. But when I move the mouse onto the > panel in KDE4, X dies instantly without anything in syslog except for a 'X > server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly' message. > > - mplayer sometimes play videos with colors totally messed up, like if > some parameter like brightness or gamme was set realyl really high, so > sometimes nothing at all can be seen. > >Wonko > > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:44:41 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" > wrote: > > For some reason, the latest x86 stable p7zip wants to force me to > > remove 'odbc' from wxGTK. This seems wrong, and I&#

[gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the application won't do anything else until the scrolling is finished, and the scrolling for a very tall page can take a couple of minutes. I keep trying to remember that dragging the "thumb" still works as expected, but clicking is an old habit that's hard to drop. Am I the only one seeing this? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's weird. > > > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > starts > > heading in the right direction in

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
sn't changed much, if at all, since I started using mailing lists around 1985. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] vim(1) barks at root, and no other

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
adically during editing. I haven't seen any pattern to what I'm doing when it happens. Anybody have a clue where it's coming from? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
- unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator), and something similar if I attempt to use /etc/issue. Looking at /bin/login with strings(1), I find a format string that would produce this output. Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and the greeting? -- Kevi

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing > at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. > So now it has the line > MOTD_FILE /etc/motd > for insta

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
r logins. For the window manager, I imagine I'm stuck with tweaking /etc/profile, or some such, depending on the shell (always bash on this machine). It just seemed perverse that the one way I found to make them work also makes something emit error messages. Grrr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo XCB

2010-07-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rld.com (David W Noon) > == > I put -xcb in the USE variable of /etc/make.conf, and did an emerge -aDNvu. Everything works, and cairo no longer complains. Ignoring it would probably have worked for me too, but it would have left me worrying. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
7;t, and the list of files for "kcontrol" contains *no* files of that name, and only one directory (under HTML) of that name. So how to I run the darned thing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t there's always something... Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN netstat: no support for `AF INET (sctp)' on this system. treat init.d # Any ideas? Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tomas Krasnican wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > As of today, my apache2 web server seems to refuse to start. I've tried > > a system reboot, to no avail -- > > connections are refused on port 80. > > I think that

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
apache2 # And that's a DNS listener, an NTP listener, and firefox as a client, not a listener. Though it makes me want to track down 1e100.net and find out who they are. I'll see about strace. > If that fails I'd strace the startup manually. > > -- > > Kyle > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 14:24 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > As of today, my apache2 web server seems to refuse to start. I've > > tried a system reboot, to no avail -- > > connections are refused on port 80. > > > > In /etc/init.d it looks li

Re: [gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> xhost SI:localuser:root > > Thanks -- that was what I was trying to remember, so I just emerged it. Looks like something I should be able to do in my .bashrc and just forget about. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >> then the X app is not limited to using only IP but can choose whichever >> transport it deems best. Of course the usual safety caveats apply. If >> others are on your host, they'll have X access.

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
those connections look normal. I don't know what the usual module list is, so I guess I have to go trolling throught the init.d scripts to figure it out, unless somebody knows a better way. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
g and remain executable by all. So there must be some new thing to do besides defining a ScriptAlias directory. Anybody know what it is? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [snip] > However, my configs contain a few ScriptAlias directories, which are full > of python programs. They are not being executed, but > served up in source code form, even though they have an initial shebang and > rem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
uld be .py or possibly .python, not .cgi or .pl. I see hints that the same sort of thing can still be accomplished, and I'd rather do that than break my RCS version sequence because of a name change. I'll report back. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
be best. Anyway, I'm going to be exploring. Do you have cgi working on apache2 (2.2.15), and if so, how things are arranged? I'll be trying to make a cgi out of a hello world in C, to see if my current config can CGI at all. If not, I'll be trying to back out config changes. What a mess! -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
se to look? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
See SOLVED thread [snip all] -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I may have found the root of the problem: examine the following output of > an eix query on apache, and note that the cgi stuff seems to be turned off > in the installed version. > [snip snip] > The installed versi

[gentoo-user] GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
#x27;; printf("Key: %s", longbucket); value = gdbm_fetch(control, key); memcpy(longbucket, value.dptr, value.dsize); longbucket[value.dsize] = '\0'; printf(", val: \"%s\"\n", longbucket); free(value.dptr); nextkey = g

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t; ...excepting, of course, "sudo bash -l" which means you've given away > the keys to the kingdom. > > I actually prefer "sudo su -" -- as long as I'm giving it away! :o) -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, walt wrote: > On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > ... > > Now I find that not only >> do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C >> program that uses the distributed >> libgdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:30:40PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill Longman > wrote: > > > I actually prefer "sudo su -" -- as long as I'm giving it away! :o) &

Re: [gentoo-user] python modules

2010-08-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
king). You can use an overlay for ones you cannot otherwise find, but then all maintenance is yours to do. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Help interpreting firefox e-log message

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t. I understand there's a kernel patch of the same name, but it's not in the source tree (AFAIK). -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ke-0.9.4.ebuild<http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=229397> ? WTF? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in >> Gentoo. >> It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
100 (rev 0d) 07:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0d) The 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel does not bring them up, and a manual attempt to do so in /etc/init.d errors out with a claim the interfaces do not exist. Anybody else seen this or can give guidance? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm just trying kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 and having the same trouble I had > with 2.56.30-r4, so now I need to ask if I'm alone in this. > > I copied my .config from my 2.6.28-gentoo-r5, did "make oldconfig&q

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 13:04:37 schrieb Arttu V.: > > On 9/13/09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 09/13/2009 01:48 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'

Re: [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess

2009-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
gt; > You (and anyone else, actually) might also want to add > > Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > to the Section "InputDevice" of your keyboard. This will reenable > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for killing X. > > This is interesting, and I'd like to try it, but my xorg.conf does not have an "InputDevice" section, or anything specific about keyboards or mice. How should I add this safely? ++ kevin > For me, X started to work again after removing ~/.Xauthority. > > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Large update blocked

2009-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
omerge') (and 18 more) ('installed', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-news-20080320', 'nomerge') pulled in by app-admin/eselect-news required by world For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Large update blocked

2009-10-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
nality is taken over by eselect itself. > > I had the same thing a while back. The above is correct. Remove > eselect-news as the functionality is now in eselect. > > The sleep deprivation must have been worse than I thought. I was interpreting 'world' as if it were 'system'. My bad. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no modeline. I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1024 resolution. Do I need to go back to the days of modlines? Xorg.conf is attached. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD xorg.conf Descripti

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 19:21:46 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > > My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no > modeline. > > I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Samstag 17 Oktober 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I normally stay logged in forever, even after updates. I'm both busy and > > lazy. However, the Xorg flurry seemed t

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Richard Marza wrote: > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Kevin O'Gorman > *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:42 PM > *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 20:58:00 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Modifying the monitor section made no noticeable change. There's still a > > 24-pixel bleed off the right edge to begin with. I can fool with >

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Richard Marza wrote: > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Kevin O'Gorman > *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:58 PM > *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 21:26:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > On Saturday 17 October 2009 20:58:00 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Richard Marza wrote: > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Kevin O'Gorman > *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 3:26 PM > *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Richard Marza wrote: > Original Message - > > *From:* Kevin O'Gorman > *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 3:42 PM > *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg >

SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
SOLVED On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Sat, 10/17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: === > > It's a flat panel. > === > > In that case I'd first try the monitor's own auto-adjust feature. > Usually this is available by pressing some &qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
SOLVED On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Sat, 10/17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: === > > It's a flat panel. > === > > In that case I'd first try the monitor's own auto-adjust feature. > Usually this is available by pressing som

[gentoo-user] OT? How to capture error messages from glibc

2009-10-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
want all of this scripted and ironically script(1) does not seem to play nice with scripts. I also know that this is about to tip me into the abyss of session leaders and controlling terminals, but I'll try to be brave. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
eal sender domain to form localhost.kosmanor.com -- which does not exist -- causing a bounce from my email provider. It's better than nothing, because the headers tell me which package is at issue, and I can look up the elog entry. But it could be better. Anybody have a fix? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE 3.5. Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5, no 4*. The only change I noticed was in the background of the login dialog. One guess is that the flood of newl

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure > > where it's happening, but "localhost" is being gl

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 18:13:19 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > This seems like a good idea, but they are all bouncing. I'm not sure > > > where it&

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-11-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname > > > in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. > > > I have no idea how t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ges. > After downgrading, I needed to rebuild about 300 packages, including all of > KDE4, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice. > > Quite amazing how much damage a bug in a small package like this can have > on a source-based distro... > For which reason I'm quite happy to be runn

[gentoo-user] What's happening to six-0.5.3?

2010-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
dergone an upgrade in a few years, but it was still entered in the Computer Olympiad in 2009. It didn't win, but made a fair showing. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just imagine it, or has something else happened? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:53:21 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. > I > > just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did > I &

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Jan 2010, at 03:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. >> I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I >> just

[gentoo-user] Python kerflooie = portage kaboom; need help or advice

2005-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
raceback > > > !!! Failed to complete python imports. There are internal modules for > !!! python and failure here indicates that you have a problem with python > !!! itself and thus portage is no able to continue processing. > > !!! You might consider starting python with verbose fla

[gentoo-user] Re: Python kerflooie = portage kaboom; need help or advice

2005-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Nevermind. It seems to have fixed itself. I have no idea how, because I did not emerge anything and I did not reboot or restart anything. Go figure. ++ kevin On 5/26/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the portage here just died of a python bite. Skipping t

[gentoo-user] Emerge suddenly blocked

2005-06-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
oth empty, I don't think it's anything I did. How can I get this working again, or is this a momentary glitch that will go away by itself? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge suddenly blocked

2005-06-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/7/05, Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 12:24 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > This morning I can no longer emerge world. It says (in part) > > > > > treat root # emerge -aDvu world && etc-update > > > >

[gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ence. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the Python, and java-config is just cryptic and undocumented enough for me to prefer to *not* learn it well enough to answer this myself. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
s a looser typing of functionally similar entities (the primitives and their wrapper classes). - Generics (type-safe containers) (not really an intro topic, but I'll be teaching a second course too). - True enum - C-style printf, and varargs (ya!) ++ kevin - Iter

[gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Bottom line: I still cannot get these. Details at the bottom. On 6/13/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To answer several questions from several people: > 1) I thought java 1.5 wasn't there because it was not found by > emerge -s java > e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
tc/portage/package.unmask >=dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.99 >=dev-java/sun-sdk-docs-1.4.99 treat 1.5-bundles # Did I miss something? On 6/13/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zac Medico schreef: > > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > >>Here's what it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > As I pointed out before, I already did those. Again, here are 'cat's > > of the files, > > which nevertheless do not allow an emerge: > > > > treat 1.5-bundles # ca

[gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
x27;ll tell them too... ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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