[gentoo-user] Re: konsole refresh laggardly

2010-05-03 Thread Remy Blank
Xi Shen wrote: > my system is gentoo amd64, kd 4.3, compiz. i just updated the world. > in konsole, no matter if the system is busy or not, the screen do not > refresh sometimes. i will have to move the window, or select some > content in the konsole to force it refresh. > > my graphic card is nvi

[gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Remy Blank
> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Remy Blank
Colleen Beamer wrote: > How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X? Boot from a live CD, then perform a chroot into your system as described in the Gentoo handbook[1] or on the Gentoo wiki[2], then you should be able to emerge as if you were running your system normally. -

[gentoo-user] Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-06 Thread Remy Blank
I upgraded xorg-server to 1.7.6 (and the few associated packages) a few days ago, and since then I seem to spuriously loose some key presses when typing fast. This only happens in X, not on the console. The box is a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. I have already re-emerged all necessary drivers (xf86-

[gentoo-user] Re: Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > evdev? Right, I was trying to avoid that. But you were probably right. I have upgraded to xorg-server-1.8 and switched to evdev for the keyboard and mouse, with udev autodetection. This seems to have solved the issue. Of course, now we'll never know if switching to evde

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-29 Thread Remy Blank
Mick wrote: > Is there a cleverer option I can add to rsync so that it only copies new > files, overwrites older versions of the same and only deletes any files or > directories that have been deleted from the source directory? See the --modify-window option in the rsync man page. In particular,

[gentoo-user] xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

2010-06-24 Thread Remy Blank
xorg started segfaulting here on startup, at the point where it should detect input devices: [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_INTEL_swap_event [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: GLX_EXT_t

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

2010-06-25 Thread Remy Blank
Remy Blank wrote: > Some version info: > > xorg-server-1.8.1.901 > xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 > udev-149 > gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 > > Has anyone seen anything similar? Any idea how I could either work > around the issue or debug it? I have tried strace but couldn

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

2010-06-25 Thread Remy Blank
James L wrote: > Turn off all power management software. > My guess is it is going into one of the power saving modes that ends up > crashing it. Thanks for the suggestion. The only "power management software" that I have installed is the cpufreq ondemand governor, which shouldn't use the power sa

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-08 Thread Remy Blank
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m > file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured > on eth0? bash? No, I'm not joking. The file is a bash script, and hence can just be sourced by another bash script, which coul

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

2009-10-10 Thread Remy Blank
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > no, never. Is consolekit running? [Completely OT] Not knowing what ConsoleKit was, I had a look at the documentation. The first chapter has the following gem (second section): Defining the Problem To be written. Quite typical: write the

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-19 Thread Remy Blank
Mick wrote: > I've added -mysql in /etc/portage/package.use for x11-libs/qt-sql but > it makes no difference. You should add -mysql for the package app-office/akonadi-server instead. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-20 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody > appreciates how difficult it was. Yes, oooh yes... :-) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: where can I find USE flags description?

2009-11-19 Thread Remy Blank
Jarry wrote: > Where can I find their > description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for? > Is it something for vmware? emerge gentoolkit euse -i vmmouse -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-11-20 Thread Remy Blank
Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > After 5 minutes you will fight anyone who would try to take > it away again to the death. Seconded. I moved a normal HD install to a 160GB G2, and, well, you just don't imagine how much your day-to-day work is IO bound. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP dig

[gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-08 Thread Remy Blank
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Agreed. The elog message strikes me as merely an enthusiastic endorsement of > cool shiny new stuff from an over-zealous maintainer who doesn't quite grasp > how slow traction can be in the real world While that may be true, and even though he did make a few mistakes in th

[gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-08 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Where is USE_PYTHON documented? I see no mention of it in man make.conf, > make.conf.example or the portage elogs. In /usr/portage/eclass/python.eclass ;-) To be honest, I wanted that feature so badly that I dug through python.eclass as soon as I saw arfrever mention it. F

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-15 Thread Remy Blank
Jarry wrote: > Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Boot a live CD, mount a source partition to /mnt/src, a destination partition to /mnt/dst (with the right options, e.g. "acl" and "user_xattr" if you use them), then: rsync -avHAX /mnt/src/ /mnt/dst (The slash after "src"

[gentoo-user] Re: subversion broken

2005-05-31 Thread Remy Blank
Greg Donald wrote: > All of my subversion repositories are broken for the second time in > less than a month. I haven't even used them in about a week or more. > The machine hasn't crashed, nothing I can think of that would cause a > problem has occured. (snip) > I already tried rebuilding apr,

[gentoo-user] Re: 3 Disk server setup - recommendations?

2005-06-03 Thread Remy Blank
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > Should i leave the SCSI disk out of raid/lvm, and install the system on > it, with the user data going to the RAID on top of the 2 IDE disks? (i > quite inclined to do this). Or, would it be OK to stick all of the 3 > disks into a RAID5?, (but i dont' really feel comfortabl

[gentoo-user] Re: Error when emerging dialog

2005-06-03 Thread Remy Blank
Jules Colding wrote: > USE="-qt -kde gtk2 gtkhtml gnome hal cdr unicode bzip2 doc emacs examples > tetex" > > Everything went well until dialog was to be emerged. The output is > below. The error went away when ncurses was emerged manually. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67524 http://bug

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV > frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for > default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems > that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find > what's

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) > LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0 > > > Since it's a desktop machine it would seem t

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: >I got back to looking at this item this evening. dmesg is now full of this: > > pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 > syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 > syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 > kjournald(869): WRITE block 1

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:10:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: >>>myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode >>>2 >> >>Mine says 0 (cause I'm on AC right now) >> >>on Battery it changes to 2 > > > What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. It seems to be

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:07:58 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: >>>What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. >> >>It seems to be the value configured in /etc/laptop_mode/ >>laptop_mode.conf: > > > I have no su

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-10 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/9/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Alternatively, you could setup syslog-ng to send the logs to another >>machine. > >I don't know about this. I seem to have gone backwards: > > 1) If I turn off syslog-ng then it

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Composte & DRI

2005-06-24 Thread Remy Blank
Holly Bostick wrote: > But this whole episode has at least gotten me to finally upload my own > key, so I've (hopefully) signed this message. > > Can you all get the key (since I know the list doesn't have it, it's a > good test as to whether I've done it right)? Yep, works here. -- Remy Rem

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-06-30 Thread Remy Blank
Ron Nelson wrote: > Go in to the properties for each folder you want it to show new messages > in, under General Information click the box that says: Check this folder > for new messages. > That should take care of it. This mostly does it. However, I found that Thunderbird still sometimes misses n

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-07-01 Thread Remy Blank
Nagatoro wrote: > Remy Blank wrote: > >>This mostly does it. However, I found that Thunderbird still sometimes >>misses new messages in subfolders, and only finds them when you click on it. >> >>I'm not sure if this is a Thunderbird or a courier-imap pr

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-07-01 Thread Remy Blank
Jonathan Nichols wrote: > It's Thunderbird, for one... > > Add this to user.js (create it if it doesn't exist) > //mozilla thunderbird: check all imap folders for new mail. > user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true); I have that in my user.js, with a comment saying that this only ap

[gentoo-user] Re: Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-04 Thread Remy Blank
Bob Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:46:43 +0200 > Benjamin Fritzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>My Ati 9600 in my Inspiron works perfectly in 16:10 with the Ati-drivers. >> > > I doubt that. Maybe at 16x9 - 1600 x 900, but not 1600 x 1024. Or perahps > Dell paid ATI to support that one

[gentoo-user] Re: Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Remy Blank
David Morgan wrote: > emerge wtf > wtf sol Thanks for the tip! Typically *nix: small program, does only one thing but does it well. I like the man page. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Determining the current runlevel

2005-07-19 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a way > to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a script. I > can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but that fails if > the runlevel was subsequently changed with rc. # c

[gentoo-user] Re: "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-21 Thread Remy Blank
Yahya Mohammad wrote: # losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/diskimage # fdisk -l /dev/loop0 (example) Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-27 Thread Remy Blank
Steve wrote: I'm one of the (many) people who has opportunists trying usernames and passwords against SSH... while every effort has been made to secure this service by configuration; strong passwords; no root login remotely etc. I would still prefer to block sites using obvious dictionary atta

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1426 (76478-76527)

2008-03-06 Thread Remy Blank
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212484 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

2008-04-14 Thread Remy Blank
Grant wrote: postup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = "wlan0" ]]; then IIRC, the equality operator is "==", not "=". HTH. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm now testing app-backup/boxbackup, which seems good so far. Please report your findings on the list! I'm not all too happy about my current solution (rdiff-backup locally to a filesystem over dmcrypt, loopback-mounted from a file, followed by an rsync over ssh to a rem

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the local server and then using rsync. It makes sense to have a copy of the backup locally and only use the much slower option of restoring

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-19 Thread Remy Blank
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's why I use rdiff-backup. Yes, me too, but *inside* the encrypted container. - If you have disconnection during the rsync step (happened to me last nigh

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-19 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's a potential problem with any form of backup, local or remote. The truly paranoid would use two different backup methods on two physica

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Remy Blank
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION > /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 > .5.ebuild > DESCRIPTION="Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg" > > Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, so > I looked in the emerg

[gentoo-user] Re: * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue

2009-05-16 Thread Remy Blank
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > by the way, if i'm booting w/o the initrd, i get a kernel panic because > he is not able to mount/find the raid system -- something with > "superblock not found". I assume you have set the partition type of your RAID components to "fd" (RAID autodetect)? -- Remy s

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing python packages for different versions

2009-06-15 Thread Remy Blank
Florian Philipp wrote: > How am I supposed to work around this? I install all Python versions I need from portage, then use virtualenv[1] to create environments with different versions of Python, where I install the needed packages with easy_install. Not as simple as using Portage, but it works.

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Remy Blank
Paul Hartman wrote: > My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: > > 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) > 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to > advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... > 3. They "hijack" DNS, making every inval

[gentoo-user] Re: bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-03 Thread Remy Blank
Mike Edenfield wrote: > I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts, > which of course is playing havoc with portage. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279915 The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would think breaking Python for all ~x86 is a ma

[gentoo-user] Re: bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-04 Thread Remy Blank
Mike Edenfield wrote: > Though I dunno what that means for Gentoo/FreeBSD. It means that relying on linux-only, non-POSIX compliant behavior is a very bad idea ;-) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Cloning movie DVDs with dd - only works after accessing disk with another command?

2009-08-10 Thread Remy Blank
This is just a wild guess, but could the decryption keys be stored in the DVD drive? Playing the disc with mplayer retrieves the keys (using libdvdread) and sets them in the drive. From that point, the disc is readable by all means. When you change the disc, the keys are not valid anymore. As I sa

[gentoo-user] Re: crashing X.org

2009-08-13 Thread Remy Blank
Pat wrote: > I have interesting problem. When I running a video (using mplayer) and > another window partially overlap the video window the X.org crashes > (better say restarts) and the login screen appears. > > The log is clean. The graphics card is intel i915 (or i945?). Using: > xf86-video-inte

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Gentoo article "info" question

2008-12-26 Thread Remy Blank
Grant Edwards wrote: > On my installation 'info kqemu' runs the Gnu info utility, > which doesn't seem to know anything about kqemu. What "info" > program is the Wiki talking about, and where does one get it? A shot in the dark: qemu has a console that can be reached with Ctrl+Alt+2. I would assu

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-07 Thread Remy Blank
Danis Petkakis wrote: > hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power > saving scheme as far as hard disks are > concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not > being accessed after a defined > period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-07 Thread Remy Blank
Danis Petkakis wrote: > ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as > if the disk is in sleep > mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up > again... That's why I mentioned laptop-mode-tools. If configured properly, it ensures that the driv

[gentoo-user] Re: why xorg-server needs an old gcc?

2007-07-21 Thread Remy Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > icephere ha scritto: >> When I remove "fglrx" from VIDEO_CARDS, the old gcc is not required by >> emerge anymore... weird > > Probably the proprietary fglrx module is still not GCC-4 compatible. - From the ati-drivers ebuild, you can s

[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Remy Blank
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: > Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, > but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep > update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause > broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a d

[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Remy Blank
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: > That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things > right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think? The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In your case, it will be when you decide to update LIB (because you w

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge reporting different number of ._cfg....s

2007-08-10 Thread Remy Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Artim wrote: > emerge has been reporting +1 more > ._cfg then I find when I run find. > This has just started happening. I noticed the same thing, emerge reports one more file to be updated than etc-update finds. It's an off-by-one bug in the

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves everything > you want to, and more, without the compromises. There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to have an initrd (or initramfs). From what I remember, this has always required m

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Remy Blank
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Gentoo it's easy to get away with not using an initramfs. Everything > is built from source and you roll your own kernel so we don't need to > jump through the boot time hoops that a binary distro must to be able > to support everything and boot. > > You will always ha

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:30:55 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: >> There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to >> have an initrd (or initramfs). > > Sshh! Don't tell the systems I've been running on LVM for years that

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Remy Blank
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> Do you even need one? > > Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a > laptop) also be encrypted. Right. I think I might have confused the necessity to have an initramfs for LVM and the need to have it for an encrypted root. OTOH, if you pu

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Remy Blank
Alan McKinnon wrote: > You have software compiled in the kernel, not as a module the, right? Correct. > A reduce might be a different case altogether. BUT, it's not an > especially different operation to a defrag on Windows, and I have yet > to see a Windows admin debate whether he should defra

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Remy Blank
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank: >> Could you give me a pointer? > > Can't remember when e2fstools were dropped from Gentoo, but resize2fs is > part of e2fsprogs. I actually meant e2fsprogs. Bad manual copy/paste operation.

[gentoo-user] Re: apache2 2.2.x fails to start due to mod_dav_svn.so

2007-09-20 Thread Remy Blank
Daevid Vincent wrote: > Thank God I have daily backups of all my /etc dir. Put it under Subversion and you'll be even better off. > Someone in that link above offered a solution: > > # for i in $(qdepends -CNQ www-servers/apache); do emerge $i; done > > However, I don't have this "qdepends" thi

[gentoo-user] Re: NFS mount fail

2007-09-27 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Marzan wrote: > I get this error when mounting an nfs share: > > mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking >Either use "-o nolocks" to keep locks local, or start statd. > > > Anyone know what the problem might be? I followed the gentoo-wiki nfs > guide @

[gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Remy Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users with a > public key in their ~/.ssh can login. This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real problem is that your logs fill with failed log

[gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > It' one of those things[1] that you put off using because it looks > complicated. then you get round to trying it and wish you'd done so much > earlier. > > [1] Screen falls into this category too. I can confirm about screen, I use it everywhere now. But I've yet to try LVM

[gentoo-user] Re: Online photo album software in Portage?

2007-10-26 Thread Remy Blank
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:55 -0700, Grant wrote: >> Can anyone recommend a photo album package either in Portage or an >> overlay? jalbum looks good but it doesn't seem to be in either: >> >> http://jalbum.net > > even though it's not in portage, I'd highly recommend you try

[gentoo-user] Re: Where did HP Ink Jet support run off to?

2008-05-18 Thread Remy Blank
It seems that I cannot find where this support has run to for my home office PSC 1610 All-in-One printer. I think you're looking for hplip: # emerge -s hplip Searching... [ Results for search key : hplip ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-print/hplip Latest version available: 2.7.10

[gentoo-user] Re: Automatic network configuration for USB connected device

2008-09-07 Thread Remy Blank
Dan Johansson wrote: The above worked like a charm on my desktop but on my notebook it fails to autoaticly bring up the usb0 interface. If I do '/etc/init.d/net.usb0 start' on the notebook everything works as expected (this I don't have to do on the desktop). Any suggestions where to look? Yo

[gentoo-user] Re: I am a "f*****g retard". Can you help me?

2008-09-16 Thread Remy Blank
I don't think it was ever discussed as anything but an option, but I could be even more confused than you... Looks like the disease is spreading, now your signature script is even more confused than you ;-) Good database, though! -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

[gentoo-user] Re: preventing a module from being loaded

2007-02-10 Thread Remy Blank
(Sorry if this appears twice, but I sent the message three hours ago and it hasn't appeared on the list yet) marco restelli wrote: > Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while > I have been using ndiswrapper. I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the module by

[gentoo-user] Re: preventing a module from being loaded

2007-02-10 Thread Remy Blank
marco restelli wrote: > Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while > I have been using ndiswrapper. I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the module by udev as follows: Find out the module alias used by udev: cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias (Repla

[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Remy Blank
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > /me is looking for a new favorite file system. ZFS? -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Remy Blank
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >> ZFS? >> > > You say troll, I say possibility; I'll certainly consider it. Actually, I would be very interested in using ZFS for my data. The "troll" was more about the fact that the ZFS license was explicitly designed to be GPL-2 incompatible, hence preventi

[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Remy Blank
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > RAID-3?/5/6 can self-repair like this, but the checksumming is done at the > stripe, rather than inode level. AFAIK, RAID-5 doesn't self-heal except for the specific case where a bad block is detected by the hardware, so the RAID driver knows which drive has the b

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Remy Blank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers > serving a given IP. dig -x 123.45.67.89 HTH. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -pv vs emerge -DuNpv

2007-04-19 Thread Remy Blank
Daniel Iliev wrote: > So, "emerge -pv gentoo-sources" wants to install the new kernel source, > while "emerge -DuN world" doesn't. How come? Is gentoo-sources in your world file? $ grep gentoo-sources /var/lib/portage/world If not, the behavior you see is normal. Just add "sys-kernel/gentoo-sour

[gentoo-user] Re: Backup /sys ?

2007-05-04 Thread Remy Blank
Florian Philipp wrote: > Should I even try to backup sys? Is it important for rebuilding the system > after rm -rf / ? No, /sys is like /proc, it's dynamically create by the kernel. And please, don't hijack threads, i.e. don't reply to another arbitrary message, but post a new one. -- Remy

[gentoo-user] xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-04 Thread Remy Blank
I have noticed xorg-7.2 just went stable. I am currently using 7.1 with the stable binary ATI drivers ati-drivers-8.32.5 and the kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5. Has anybody with the same configuration done the update? Does it work for you? (Yes, I know, binary drivers suck. I'm not trying to star

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
Thanks for the feedback. Grant Edwards wrote: > I couldn't get 8.32.5 to build with 2.6.16, so I upgraded to > 2.6.20. 8.32.5 wouldn't build with that kernel version so I > tried the "testing" version of ati-drivers. Yes, b.g.o has quite a few bugs open for ati-drivers related to 2.6.20, that's

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
James wrote: > blocks B x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking > x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0) That's because none of the current ati-drivers work with xorg-server-1.3. > One thing that I as never really comfortable with is this make.conf > entry that I ended up using shich I gleaned from sev

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs

2007-05-16 Thread Remy Blank
Francisco Rivas wrote: > 2.- Remy have you some problem with your configuration or it's only to know? My original question was meant to get feedback *before* doing the update. I updated yesterday, and everything works well. So there's no question anymore. -- Remy signature.asc Description: Ope

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs

2007-05-16 Thread Remy Blank
Remy Blank wrote: > Just for posterity: I have updated to xorg-7.2 and everything works > perfectly well. Ok, maybe I was a bit too quick on that one. I had to reboot today, and suddenly DRI stopped working. I had to unmask and emerge ati-drivers-8.35.5 to get it back. Pretty minimal maint

[gentoo-user] Peace, please [WAS: Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs]]

2007-05-18 Thread Remy Blank
Hi people, I sure didn't expect a simple thank you to people spending lots of their time ensuring that I can save mine, degenerate into a flamewar. Now, we all know about this, don't we? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 For those who don't, I'll summarize here: -

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? I have used "rsync -avH" in the past (-H preserves hardlinks), and with

[gentoo-user] Re: Transparent network compression

2007-07-02 Thread Remy Blank
Florian Philipp wrote: > Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host? > > My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline > adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has > got an option for using lzo but I would like to

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Remy Blank
Stroller wrote: > What am I doing wrong or misunderstanding, please? Rename your file to "essential_defaults.sh". Only files with a ".sh" extension are sourced (assuming you are using bash). -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: less file.html

2012-05-12 Thread Remy Blank
Stroller wrote: > When I run `less file.html` the rendered webpage is shown, not the source. It > is as if lynx had been invoked, rather than less. As a workaround, you can use: less signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 update: re-emerge of cracklib failed, how can I fix it?

2011-03-26 Thread Remy Blank
Jarry wrote: >File "setup.py", line 22, in > from setuptools import setup, Extension, find_packages > ImportError: No module named setuptools Try re-emerging setuptools. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-06 Thread Remy Blank
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Is it possible to map the CAPSLOCK to simply nothing? I use the following: Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,caps:none" -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-06 Thread Remy Blank
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Thank you for all the nice ideas -- for some reason I like the > xorg.conf method best :) And while you're at it, add the following lines to your /etc/conf.d/local.start, so that caps lock is disabled on the console, too: # Disable caps lock loadkeys < signature.as

[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

2011-05-15 Thread Remy Blank
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I am using python2.7. No, you're not. > * Building failed with CPython 3.2 in distutils_building() function ^^^ Check what "eselect python list" shows you, and what USE_PYTHON is set to in make.conf. -- Remy signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

2011-05-15 Thread Remy Blank
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Here is eselect python list > [1] python2.7 * > [2] python3.2 > > I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf. Everything seems to be in order, then. The symptoms look very much like: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366879 (Look at the duplicates for the sy

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: kernel parameters

2011-06-27 Thread Remy Blank
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Can anyone point me to the parameter concerned? I can't find it with grep. Could it be CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP? -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: apache-2.2.20 - upstream config files reappear in /etc

2011-09-14 Thread Remy Blank
Florian Philipp wrote: > I guess it was just happened through an oversight because of the rushed > release. I just removed those files without ill effects. Indeed, these files seem completely useless on a Gentoo system. I have filed a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382997 -- Remy

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3 has landed

2011-11-26 Thread Remy Blank
Vishnupradeep wrote: > Is that true, Gnome 3 available for gentoo. can i emerge it ? You know, you don't need to ask us for permission ;) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-27 Thread Remy Blank
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > I use VirtualBox on a Mac but can it run headless? Any other proposals? Yes, see the documentation for VBoxHeadless. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: ignore previous msg (Hotplugging not working)

2010-08-30 Thread Remy Blank
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I plugged into the desktop and looked on the laptop. Thanks for sharing, that made my day :) (Probably because I can so easily imagine that happening to me.) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Not head, not tail, maybe belly

2010-09-22 Thread Remy Blank
Al wrote: > I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display > a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. How about combining both? Show 10 lines starting with line 20: tail -n +20 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

  1   2   3   >