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

2010-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
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 >> kdelibs compiled with USE="semantic-desktop" and cannot be told to not >> use it. But I do not

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

2010-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:04 PM, 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

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

2010-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote: >> >> OK, after reading several articles from the given starting point, I now >> understand why semantic-desktop wastes so much cpu, memory, and storage >> (r

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

2010-02-11 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> Yes, I can organize my files to the point where I rarely ever use >> find. Just because you can't, is not a reason to slow down everybody >> else's desktop. > > Is this ignorance

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:46 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I hope you're not right here. ;-) The hardware is spanking brand new; > so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming. > > Are there any handy utility programs around to test RA

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Roy Wright
Another thing to try, change compile flag to -J1 (MAKEOPTS="-J1" emerge ...) Last time I built up a system there were a couple of packages that couldn't handle parallel compiles. HTH, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-04 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > This notebook is nazgul, not because I'm a LOTR fan (which I am) but because > it ties in nicely with the BOFH image I've been cultivating for years > Thanks for bringing back old memories, it's been almost two decades since I read BOFH. ;

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Roy Wright
Since you already merged it in: # equery depends mysql then unmerge or correct USE flags for dependent apps. To have portage error out instead of merging mysql in the future: # echo "dev-db/mysql" >/etc/portage/package.mask/I_said_no_mysql HTH, Roy

[gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-08 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, OK, installed KDE 4.4.1 on an older box (BE-2400 4GB ~x86), seems to be working pretty good. But am having trouble trying to figure out the kde way to configure a network (cups on a kubuntu system) printer. From system_settings, Printer Configuration, the Server Settings are all disabl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-08 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:54 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Roy, without being presumptuous, I would say that using D.E. (Desktop > Environment) tools for printing are not the best because of > inconsistency in layout and authentication problems. My suggestion is > to open up your web browser and use l

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Sounds to me as though you haven't set CUPS up right on the machine > connected to the printer. You need it to allow other machines on your > network to print, and maybe to administer CUPS if you want to move > printer administration to anoth

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-16 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone here worked out how to filter out syslog messages using syslog-ng > v3? The old syntax doesn't work (well complains bitterly about performance > and says to use regex), and no matter what I try I cannot get the new synt

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Apr 12, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Hinko Kocevar > wrote: On 04/12/10 11:31, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar > wrote: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-15 Thread Roy Wright
Argh. Just have to vent a little. Bring up a new install on a system whose system disk died and was replaced with an SSD. OS installed no problems. Recovered my RAID5 and LVM JBOD volume (a GIANT THANK YOU to the mdadm and lvm2 folks!). Then first "weekly" update hits the libpng12 issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing [TEMP SOLN]

2010-05-16 Thread Roy Wright
On May 16, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Chris Walters wrote: > On 5/15/2010 11:06 AM, Roy Wright wrote: >> Argh. Just have to vent a little. >> >> So on to my list a applications to be installed. Firefox check, openoffice >> check, handbrake...crap. Handbrake is one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] update-desktop-database gives ... lacks MimeType

2009-09-15 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When I do I get dozens of lines of applications lacking a MimeType key. Here are the first few. allan gottlieb # update-desktop-database --verbose Search path is now: [/usr/local/share/applications, /usr/share/ applications] Could not crea

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

2009-09-26 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:11 PM, David Juhl wrote: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers? I can't seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot. grep -i dns /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example The short answer is something like: dns_servers_eth0="192.168.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-29 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 090929 Paul Hartman wrote: What's missing from the 3.x series ? A much longer list of schemas, start root console, search (see above), set window geometry (inside Konsole or when starting it: see my bug list). Starting a root (or any othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Different desktop wallpapers in KDE4?

2009-09-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 30. September 2009 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, I think I saw a statement on this list that it's possible to set a different wallpaper on each desktop in kde-4.3.1, but now I can't find it, and I can't see how to do

Re: [gentoo-user] about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:07 AM, hp_sebastian wrote: On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:42 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: How to make eix search an overlay too. The manpage for layman says: You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on http://overlays.gentoo.org by using "eix". Emerge t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 03 October 2009 20:20:47 Harry Putnam wrote: Roy Wright writes: update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries will include overlays. Ha.. no

Re: [gentoo-user] help with tinydns setup

2009-11-07 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:49 PM, James wrote: All, I'm trying to set up a DNS server here for a lab environment. Thoughts? Ideas? I use dnsmasq as my home dns/dhcp server. It was super easy to configure. You might want to give it a look. HTH, Roy

[gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-08 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background: Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run "eselect opengl set nvidia" again. This could fix it, as I had a similar problem. The old eselect did something wrong, but I can't remember exactly because it went somehow long yesterd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/09/2009 11:18 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run "eselect opengl set nvidia" again. This could fix it, as I had a similar proble

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-10 Thread Roy Wright
Unmerged all of x11, then installed xorg-server-1.6.5 and it is working now. One of the issues I hit is that python-3.1.1-r1 can not be installed with the tk use flag due to cyclic dependencies when installing xorg (portage insists on installing python before libX11 so python[tk] fails as

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 11:46:50 Roy Wright wrote: One of the issues I hit is that python-3.1.1-r1 can not be installed with the tk use flag due to cyclic dependencies when installing xorg (portage insists on installing python before

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 09 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:31 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Since upgrading to Xorg-x11-7.4-r1 , Xterm & Xpdf are very slow to open: Xterm takes c 6 sec to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-11 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 11, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: So my advice is: pick and branch and stick with your own kind. It's far fewer headaches in the long run. And "unstable" isn't really unstable, it's "untested". There's a difference. Also keep in mind that it's the ebuild that is "unte

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:23:11 Marcus Wanner wrote: Hi, As you have all noticed by now, I am currently upgrading my system to ~x86. About 220 of the 238 packages were built correctly, but when it got to xorg-server-1.6.5, it crashed com

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Disable (either temporary or permanent) the "xinerama" USE flag. Me or Alan? OP As a suggestion for a work around for the compile issue. If you temporarily disable xinerama, then

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:36:51 Marcus Wanner wrote: Now I can't get ANY version of xorg-server to compile, now emergeing any of them starts with: Error: Unrecognized option: --impl-headers

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Spoke too soon...now I'm getting this: ../doltcompile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../ include-DHAVE_ssing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict- aliasing -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CI/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/ include/h

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS poor performance, high system load

2009-11-24 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Hal Martin wrote: Hello all, Sorry if it seems like this is a repeat question, but I've gone through my Gentoo list for the past 2 years and none of the answers provided for previous threads on this seem to work for me. Here's the situation: /etc/exports: /m

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

2005-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
in /boot/grub/grub.conf, did you change your kernel root? kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 HTH, Roy Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote: >yeah I did that as well. >grub is not the problem as far as I can tell. >I get the boot menu just fine. >my system stops when it tries to (re

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1. When told to turn off or reboot the computer, KDM now exits to a console login prompt instead of shutting down. Any ideas? Overall 3.4.1 is feeling more stable. The only seg faults have been on shutdown. Konqueror wo

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-06-04 Thread Roy Wright
The shutdown problem is because /sbin/halt is missing. Emerging baselayout restored /sbin/halt. Have fun, Roy Michael W. Holdeman wrote: >On Saturday 04 June 2005 12:49 am, Roy Wright wrote: > > >>Howdy, >> >>I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour betw

[gentoo-user] Where to find ebuild info?

2005-06-04 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Over the past few months since my first gentoo install, I have yet to discover how do I find out the current state of masked ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they masked, and 2) any known issues with the build. I can look up the package on packages.gentoo.org, but can't find this

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Roy Wright
OK, I give. How do you configure media? I tried: * Add New | Web SideBar Module ** Name = Media ** URL = media:/ But this gives a "An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL media:/." when clicked. TIA, Roy Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:36:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wright
system default. Thank you, Roy Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:31:52 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > > > >>OK, I give. How do you configure media? >>I tried: >>* Add New | Web SideBar Module >>** Name = Media >>** URL = media:/ >>But thi

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

2005-06-13 Thread Roy Wright
I left the default java as blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 so emerging doesn't break, then set my Eclipse up to run using sun-jdk-1.5.0.03 (/usr/bin/eclipse-3 -vm /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.03/bin/java). I usually launch my programs via a script and for now just specify the jre in the script. BTW, 1.5 offers a re

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE 3.4.1

2005-06-15 Thread Roy Wright
First unmask the top level package, example: echo "kde-base/kdebase-meta ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Then just run this script, example: unmask.pl kdebase-meta You might want to save a copy of package.keywords then compare the two for sanity before emerging. Have fun, Roy Janne

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE 3.4.1

2005-06-16 Thread Roy Wright
) version. To downgrade, remove the entries from the package.keywords file. HTH, Roy Fernando Meira wrote: > Will this way prevent an emerge -uD world to downgrade the KDE version? > > Thanks, > Fernando > > On 6/15/05, *Roy Wright* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >

[gentoo-user] emerge weirdy

2005-06-25 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Just had a weirdy. I was emerging unison on my home server. I was lazy and instead of walking the 6 feet to do it from the console, I just opened a konsole from my workstation. Got the following error: 386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-scan gdk-pixbuf-scan.o -rdynamic ../gdk-pixb

[gentoo-user] Grub issue finally resolved. Thank you

2005-06-26 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I've been lurking on the grub threads here while trying to get grub working for the past couple of months. Let's skip my trials with w2k on s/w raid (that os is now archived ;), lilo on a USB memory stick, 30+ hours of research, trials, errors, and reboots. The directions for creating a

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions

2005-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
Another option is to just compile the framebuffer into the kernel. That's what I did. Graphics support: [*] Support for frame buffer devices <*> VESA VGA graphics support VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) ---> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) VESA defau

[gentoo-user] OT - Thunderbird Drag and Drop

2005-07-01 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I've tried every search permutation I can think of without luck so am hoping someone here might have a good reference. I'm working on a java app where I'd like to be able to accept Thunderbird attachments as XDnD drops. Thunderbird attachments are dropped as x-moz-url mime types that are

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Distfile Cache

2005-07-04 Thread Roy Wright
I followed these directions. Works nicely. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror Have fun, Roy Kurt Guenther wrote: >I have serveral machines that all update from a mirror. Is there a >portage cache that would allow a single machine to fetch updated >packages and let itself and ot

[gentoo-user] Internal dynamic IPs

2005-07-05 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I have two machines that are regularly moved between two sub-nets. One a gentoo desktop, the other (boo hiss) that sorry excuse for an operating system laptop. Now the two subnets are my hardware VPN at home, and the office. Both machines need DHCP. I also have a third box (gentoo) at h

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread Roy Wright
Here's a perl script to display the einfo lines of packages to be merged. Just run it with the same options you will use for emerge. Example: einfo -uDN world >einfo.txt emerge -uDN world less einfo.txt You will probably want to save the output to refer to after emerging. Enjoy, Roy #!/

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa issues

2005-07-09 Thread Roy Wright
You are probably building it into the kernel and trying to load it as an alsa module. Do one or the other. I.e., if you want it built into the kernel, then remove it from /etc/modules.d/alsa #options snd-intel8x0 index=0 If you want it as a module, then set CONFIG=SND_INTEL8X0=M in /usr/src/linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-09 Thread Roy Wright
Thanks for the extension (checking for ewarn & eerror). I'm still getting a handle on gentoo ;-) I borrowed a portage.cron script from off of this list and run it under cron.daily. One of my changes to the script is to run einfo (I also pull down the files so they are ready for compile after I r

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Roy Wright
emerge --pretend --changelog will display the change log(s). I usually do emerge -uDNv world -pl then if I like it, just delete the -pl to do the merge. Have fun, Roy Myk Taylor wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

2008-01-11 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, emerge sys-libs/lrmi then from a console run: vbetest this will display the video modes your graphics card supports. Note I had differing results running from an xterm, so I suggest running from a console with X stopped. You might want to look at using uvesa: http://dev.gentoo.org/~s

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-19 Thread Roy Wright
Marko Kocić wrote: > I noticed that in most cases after I boot to windows, when I reboot > back to linux I can't connect. > When I reboot back to windows, net is up. > > When it fails I noticed that it send DHCP requests, but doesn't get a > response. > > I tried dhclient, dhcpd and pump, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction. [snip] I'm currently planning to implement an similar approach for Linux (at least virtual block devices). You might want to check out Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-16 Thread Roy Wright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just built a new box (previous one's motherboard fried) and decided to just start from scratch with gentoo ~x86. Tried the 2008.0 beta 1 liveCD but it didn't like my gpu (nvidia 8600GTS) so just did a stage3 install via ssh from another box using t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-16 Thread Roy Wright
Grant wrote: >> An oc'ed cpu needs a lot more power&generates a lot more heat. Both can >> damage >> the CPU AND the mobo (too much power might fry a regulator, or cook a cap). >> Or it might overload the PSU - and then everything is possible. A damaged >> mobo or psu can take a lot of stuff w

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies when USE=gnome and emerging world

2008-04-16 Thread Roy Wright
Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2008 April 16 Wednesday 09:28:48 PM +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> When I do "emerge -DuvatN world", I get an error to the effect, >> that there are circular dependencies. Please see below. >> >> I'd like to know, if anyone else ran into this problem and how it >>

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 17 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Because you didn't read the elog messages. >> it is still not ok to remove /etc/conf.d/net. That is extremly >> stupid. > > This one caught me too, and I DID read the elog message plus the upgrade > guide. /etc/conf

[gentoo-user] Need simple smtp sendmail

2008-04-18 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, It's been three years since I last set up mail on my workstation which I'm replacing after a motherboard failure. One of the pieces I'm missing is what do I need to allow processes like portage and mdadm send notification messages to my email account. IIRC, I had something that just forwa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need simple smtp sendmail

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-04-18, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> mail-mta/ssmtp, which is generally installed by default. > > Or, if you need to support multiple e-mail accounts: mail-mta/msmtp. Thank you! The key was knowing it was ssmtp that I needed to configure. I then fo

[gentoo-user] Raid5 not assembled after boot

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, This is the first time I've played with a software raid and it looks like I'm missing a part. The raid5 consists of three AHCI 1TB drives (sdb1,sdc1,sdd1) assembled as /dev/md1 and formatted ext3. The raid is just a data drive mounted on /var/media. Here's the array line from /etc/mdadm.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: >> Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no >> attempts to start the array until I manually try. >> >> Any hints on what I'm missing? > > Personal experie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Question re: UUID

2008-04-21 Thread Roy Wright
Michael Schmarck wrote: > Correct. UUIDs are universally unique (as the name already "suggests" *g*) > and thus, there cannot be a clash. Not quite true, drives in a RAID have the same UUID. Here's my raid5 for an xxample: # blkid | grep mdraid /dev/sdb1: UUID="bf59d132-8b98-7d9c-c526-af1cfb835fa

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root

2008-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Take a look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Mounting_Iso_Files HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-26 Thread Roy Wright
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days > now. Anyone else having problems with the list? > If you are using Thunderbird, check your junk folder. This happened to me. I added the mail lists to my address book and everything is working

Re: [gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-27 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:56:43 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > >>> I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 >>> days now. Anyone else having problems with the list? > >> If you are using Thunderbird, check your jun

[gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum required. I have both P

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread Roy Wright
Albert Hopkins wrote: > I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular "fake" HW > RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't > supported by the kernel. Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I had hoped. I'm finding: * Intern

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Roy Wright
I have several Belkin UPSs which over the years have only let me down once (we had a power substation fire which did some really funky things to the AC for a couple of minutes, afterward my motherboard on one computer "protected" by a Belkin UPS was dead). My main complaint with the Belkins is the

Re: [gentoo-user] VLC use flags request

2009-04-10 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Roy Wright wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I've been having trouble with VLC (saving from disc, h264+a52) and think >> it's related to the set of use flags so was hoping some kind soul with a >> functiona

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 02:19:47 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Paul Hartman >> >> wrote: >>> The only app I am really disappointed with is Amarok 2. Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get Amarok 2... Personally the change over to dolphin is

[gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-22 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few months of single monitor suffering. But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. OK, should just need to set the background im

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a >> screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right >> half of the right monitor. > > KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: > > For now you can open a "run" dialog and type "kdesu systemsettings" to > have the admin options enabled for editing. That works great! Thank you, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] USB barcode scanner

2009-05-03 Thread Roy Wright
dhk wrote: > I have a 2-dimensional usb bar code scanner that I'm trying to get > working ( This is the exact one if interested: > http://www.barcodesinc.com/metrologic/ms1690.htm ). It scans, but > nothing gets displayed. How can I get the focused window/terminal to > understand that the device

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-13 Thread Roy Wright
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 11:25:07 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > >> Furthermore, how to unmerge all of KDE:3.5, e.g. >> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:3.5 >> does not work. > > paludis --uninstall --with-dependencies =kdelibs-3.5.9 > If you have openoffice installed, it

Re: [gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

2009-05-14 Thread Roy Wright
Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > Most KDE4 itself is always > responsive, but not the panel. Konqueror, Kontact and such sometimes freeze > when I open a new page/mail. In race cases konqueror also freezes while > displaying a page, after parts were already rendered. I replaced my media lan's

Re: [gentoo-user] Whats better for crossplatform applications?

2009-05-31 Thread Roy Wright
On May 31, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: May be, it's not a "only Gentoo" question, but I want to write and start applications under Gentoo and Windows. I saw Tcl/Tk library in work (as example OOMMF: http://math.nist.gov/o

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually cha

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: Hi there! My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. [...] The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the se

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've just completed first part of a fresh install. [snip] What I see on reboot: Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text begins scrolling by and never stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 10, 2009, at 2:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Use of sed

2009-06-23 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse down a directory tree? And while I'm at it, how do I change the field separator from / to enable me to search on that character? maybe something like:

[gentoo-user] finding qt plugins?

2009-06-28 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: "After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should recompile the packages providing these plugins... "Packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
format. --nocolor,-C Turn off colored output. (This option is also passed to portage.) --pretend,-p Do a dry-run. It is recommended to do a dry run first: $ qt-rebuild -p To create a set file: $ qt-rebuild -s -p > /etc/portage/sets/qt-rebuild == Copyr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Roy Wright wrote: == Installation $ emerge ruby rubygems $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com Hi, $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com ERROR

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 30, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Roy Wright wrote: == Installation $ emerge ruby rubygems $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com Hi, $ sudo gem install royw-qt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Roy Wright writes: OK, it's verified and ready now. Please try again. Will not install for me. It gives the following error ERROR: Error installing royw-qt-rebuild: royw-qt-rebuild requires commandline (>= 0.7.10, runtime)

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS issues.

2009-07-01 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: Two questions: How do I fix the shutdown sequence to unmount NFS drives before the network is shutdown? How do I tell NFS to simply give-up after X attempts (for other times when the NFS server simply may not be there anymore and I *jus

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4, dev-python/sip and dependency graph

2009-07-05 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Dale wrote: Hi all, I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now. Total: 238 packages (2 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 117 new, 117 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, walt wrote: I have no libdri.so anywhere on my system. Eselect shows nvidia and xorg-x11; I tried both, it did change some symlinks, but never created one for libdri.so... I'd be more worried about this than the keysym errors. I have xorg- server-1.6.1.902

Re: [gentoo-user] random reboots

2009-07-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 10, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 10 Juli 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: My system reboots at seemingly random times. Usually, this happens during keyboard or mouse input. I have been using kernel 2.6.30-r2. Often this happens when using firefox, but not exclus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openoffice fails on qt_plugins_3.3rc

2009-07-18 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 18, 2009, at 7:48 PM, James wrote: I have: rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jul 7 22:50 .keep_x11-libs_qt-3 -rw--- 1 root root0 Dec 30 2008 .qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock -rw--- 1 root root 3.8K Jul 17 08:13 qt_plugins_3.3rc so now I have -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jul 7 22:50 .k

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-23 Thread Roy Wright
kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running on my macbook). On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Summary: Any suggestions for a file merge tool? Details: I'd like to try just actually manually merging bookmarks.html files from different computers. Diff

[gentoo-user] /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

2009-08-02 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay then renamed them to the new version. I then downloaded the ruby-gnome2-all-0.19.1.tar.gz, placed it in /usr/portage/distfiles, then used "ebuild ruby-... digest" fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

2009-08-02 Thread Roy Wright
On Aug 2, 2009, at 5:49 AM, ABCD wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay then renamed them to the new version. I then downloaded the

[gentoo-user] /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

2009-08-03 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay then renamed them to the new version. I then downloaded the ruby-gnome2-all-0.19.1.tar.gz, placed it in /usr/portage/distfiles, then used "ebuild ruby-... digest" fo

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

2009-08-03 Thread Roy Wright
Oops, sorry for the duplicate post. On Aug 3, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay

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