[gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-16 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all small testing mail Greeting's alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMQGJHAAoJEB8n+SuWCkjv96IIALzEF5v5CP5lUpY+i8X

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-16 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hello & Welcome :D Yeahr, some question. How good is Gentoo for a Samba AD environment? I want to install my Gentoo at the work, and for my Data i have to connect to AD. How good will work this with a Gentoo :> ? Greetings Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-19 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 16.07.2010 20:18, schrieb Neal Hogan: > I'd start a new thread ;-) Thank you, and that me now what to me? xD Greeting -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-20 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 19.07.2010 16:38, schrieb Neal Hogan: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:19 AM, alex wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Am 16.07.2010 20:18, schrieb Neal Hogan: >>> I'd start a new t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-30 Thread Alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > echo "app-office/openoffice-bin ~*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Well, just a note that ~* isn't necessary. Just: echo app-office/openoffice-bin >> /etc/portage/package.keywords would also do

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID controller

2009-02-15 Thread Alex
Mick wrote: Hi, Hi All, I am thinking of installing Gentoo on a Dell box with this RAID controller: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/PERC5/en/UG/HTML/chapter1.htm Has anyone got experience with this hardware? What will I need to include in the kernel? Will I need any fan

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-22 Thread Alex
bout this graphic card. greetz alex -- We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ot dvd authoring

2007-03-09 Thread Alex
and make a little textmenu. the only thing which not worked by me, is to create an animated menu. > thanks in advance no problem at all greetz alex -- * IMPORTANT: 217 config files in /etc need updating We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage date

2007-03-09 Thread Alex
c, cause > maybe it's enough for what I want, but I don't know how to find it... > > is there any way? > newer versions of portage write an logfile in /var/log/emerge.log There you can see when the last sync was. Another way is to look at the timestamps of the files in /usr

[gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
/etc/portage/package.use, /etc/make.conf I've read about some issue with 64 bit System, so maybe someone has an idea? Greeting from Germany Alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 13:09, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:00 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did > opine thusly: > >> Hi, >> >> i need win32codes to play some Videos and i try it now for some day

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 13:44, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:32 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did > opine thusly: > >> Am 01.11.2010 13:09, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >>> Apparently, though unproven, at 14:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 14:13, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:51 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry > Putnam > did opine thusly: > >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> >> >> [...] >> > What shell are you using? > What is the output

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> Run 32bit mplayer with win32codecs in a 32bit chroot Some other question to this, you mean doing a chroot32? Is there great different between chroot32 and a normal chroot doing it? Greetings from Germany Alex -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 15:10, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:58 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did > opine thusly: > >>>> Run 32bit mplayer with win32codecs in a 32bit chroot >> >> Some other q

Re: [gentoo-user] usb error log spam

2010-11-04 Thread alex
;> no, it's not: >> CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set >> That also why, i think this more a error message than a debug > > Make sure you have the line HALD_VERBOSE="no" in /etc/conf.d/hald. > > -- > Fatih > is the only one t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge dev-python/python-dateutil-2.1 failed (compile phase)

2012-08-14 Thread Alex
On 08/14/2012 02:49 AM, Cinder wrote: > I'm at a loss, as to how to solve this problem. Any advice would be > greatly appreciated > > # emerge --info '=dev-python/python-dateutil-2.1' > Portage 2.1.10.65 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, > glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.3.8-gentoo x86_64) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Alex
ade for this kind of problem ( data's were not in the documentroot) greetz alex -- * IMPORTANT: 217 config files in /etc need updating -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-20 Thread Alex
On Friday 19 August 2005 15:18, Grant wrote: > sort -u links.txt | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do wget -c $i > && break; done' How about this instead, $ wget -ci links.txt It always did the job for me :) -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-20 Thread Alex
might work :) sorry but i can't be much of a help, my bash scripting knowledge is limited... -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Alex
f.d, /etc/init.d. at the end of /etc/conf.d/local.start and then do $ rc-update add local default -- Cheers, Alex. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-22 Thread Alex
w of them for each package, so it might be downloaded after-all :) Those error could be some bad urls in the ebuilds. Just a guess, I don't know... -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
---> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --->[*] IDE Taskfile Access boot with your new kernel and enjoy your movies ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpo1qB3cnILR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
tml -- Cheers, Alex. pgpxFMIMNbQNu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcpdump warning in emerge world -u output

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
> >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > > Anyone here know what this means or what I might need to do. You dont have to do anything, it's not a problem. QA notices are addressed to ebuild developers. :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpHHC9ZykwUY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
ine it's on settings--> xine engine options --> media-->expert options tab --> dvd.raw_device ) Also if you have upgraded from a pre-1 xine-lib you should have removed your old configurations. Well your xine.log looks normal (too me) Sorry but I cant be of more help here... Good

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
t a guess... -- Cheers, Alex. pgpKYBBI0d6B0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:56, Nick Rout wrote: > also, does mplayer still play dvd's? or a previous version of xine-lib? -- Cheers, Alex. pgpBj0F3amf7f.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 21:33, Makurin Roman wrote: > В сообщении от Понедельник 29 августа 2005 04:22 Alex написал(a): > > On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:56, Nick Rout wrote: > > > also, does mplayer still play dvd's? > > > > or a previous version of xine-lib?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
- comments begin with # - one DEPEND atom per line - relational operators are not allowed - must include a version . . . . == -- Cheers, Alex. pgp1Wuoz2CIGV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
.provided to a newer one only if you see it pulled as a dependency. Just enter the latest version available in portage and you should be ok for a long time :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpIO3m3MtbGm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:32, Ric de France wrote: > Any suggestions on what could be the problem? Any comments greatly > appreciated. Is it the same as this one? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103860 -- Cheers, Alex. pgpqHbxniI6qX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
your world file) and wait for the fix to be synced into portage. :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpxN9LJKQsZF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 16:51, Michael Kintzios wrote: > What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that > it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting? # mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0 -- Cheers, Alex. pgphQj8fBbRIL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-31 Thread Alex
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 06:06, Makurin Roman wrote: > The problem has gone with xine-lib-1.1.0-r2 :-) Yay! :) the devs know better ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp11riY59DLC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Alex
y with 2.4 headers. -- Cheers, Alex. pgp0FbrYaGhUB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge toggling arts, kdelibs, kwin between 3.4.1 and 3.4.2

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
dd it to your package.keywords. HTH :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpcaLgdfz3XX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is man-pages-de package installed?

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
he trick: > > echo sys-apps/man-pages -nls >> /etc/portage/package.use Indeed :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpZ8pa9VOp22.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is man-pages-de package installed?

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
r if that breaks a dependency in /etc/portage/package.provided (if they don't exist create them :) ) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpeuYGqVN1Cs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?

2005-09-05 Thread Alex
. Either way, if you encounter problems because of that you can bypass it by adding the following lines in your grub.conf map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) This will (virtually) swap your hard drives. -- Cheers, Alex. pgp62JKxMwwxr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-05 Thread Alex
On Monday 05 September 2005 23:06, John Dangler wrote: > Or, does anyone have another recommendation for cd/dvd graphical frontend > in gnome? How about gnomebaker? it's in portage. I've used it a bit and it looked pretty good (though not as good as k3b :) ) -- Cheers, Alex. p

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Alex
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 13:35, John Dangler wrote: > where do I get eix? # emerge eix ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpFOR7XMpdKt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-08 Thread Alex
rts this, as from 0.30 I think, with eix-sync. :) but as Nick said those are the tools of the devil and not the way real Gent'men should do it ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpA4ShLOigtD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] jack-audio-connection-kit-0.100.0 ??

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
ild the new digest thing, you no longer need to > > ebuild /long/path/balh.ebuild digest wow thanx for that :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp3DwrmtHlAW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] instalation and mount cdrom

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
On Friday 09 September 2005 02:49, Alvin ONeal Jr wrote: > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom this should be: # mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -- Cheers, Alex. pgpVcQBTNcBWY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update whole system and all applications

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
lags changed -- Cheers, Alex. pgp3OqlsxtFmF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update whole system and all applications

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
On Friday 09 September 2005 09:12, Frank Schafer wrote: > # emerge --update --deep --newuse world > # emerge --depclean > # revdep-rebuild yeap, that would be the coplete prosedure :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpnqy1uOGLK5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread Alex
t; if I need it. > Thanks. You can take a look at a recent thread called "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question". There was a discussion there about the same thing :) HTH -- Cheers, Alex. pgpNTAVfv3WH8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
hich are slower and smaller, can be faster than applications which are bigger and faster. Please correct my, if I'm not right. Thanks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: ...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? I run out of resources ;) thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance! mcc Yes you can, if you're not emerging something. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
r was that it took a lot less > time to compile with -Os compared to -O3. The time I need to compile isn't my problem, and if it would, I think I could easy use -O0 ;) BTW, is gcc 4.1 faster than 3.4? I've some benchmarks about gcc4, but not compared with 3.4. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
if it's a real difference. Thank you! Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. "time bzip2 -9 foo

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-26 Thread Alex
Alex wrote: Now I'm emerging -e world with -Os. When it is finished, I'll mail you the results. Hi, now I have a -Os-system and it isn't faster. So now I'll emerge the whole system again, but with -O3. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache/php: chroot?

2006-07-24 Thread Alex
And are there some other services, which can be chrooted > like bind? should work without any problems, like the most of the other standard internet services. try and have a look ;-) greetz alex -- * IMPORTANT: 217 config files in /etc need updating -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Alex
lls the scripts up.sh and down.sh during de/activation. I simply put a appropriate "ln" command at the end of these scripts. Sure not the best solution, but if you only have a few machines it is good and simple enough. -- regards alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Openssl 1.0.1c/d have serious issues?

2013-05-23 Thread Alex
ch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.0.1-ipv6.patch epatch_user #332661 -- regards alex

Re: [gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Walt Rarus writes: > WALRUS ~ # whoami > root > WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ > ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: > Permission denied > total 12 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog > -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version

2010-02-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Laurent Kappler writes: > I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in > portage is 6.5.7. > > How could I do that?? Look in the attic [*] for old ebuilds. Looks like 6.4.7.0 is not available, so maybe you will download 6.4.8.3 which is the nearest version. Put the ebuild

Slow list? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version)

2010-02-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Wow, seven mostly similar answers. Is the list becoming slow? When I posted about an hour after the question was posted, there were no answers yet. Let's see how long this post takes to arrive. Usually it's just a matter of a few minutes. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron, bash, and java interacting badly?

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Walt Rarus writes: > I have a java (clojure, actually) program which is invoked via a bash > script. When the script is invoked from the shell, the java program > always runs and succeeds. However, when the script is invoked via a > cron job, the java program always runs and crashes with a null po

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Whoops? > Have you synced lately? According to mine it is not masked or > keyworded and should install without changing anything. I synced last > night and I get this: You're probably running an x86 system, whil

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: > Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: > > Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just > > look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical > > sector size is? > > Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no rel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Stefan G. Weichinger writes: > Am 17.02.2010 20:10, schrieb walt: > > Are you using ext4 on the hard drives also? For how long? > > phew, for quite some time ... I'd have to think a while ... > AFAIK there is no way to read that info from the fs > > "formatted on 2009-06-." or something ;-

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Enrico Weigelt writes: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their > > farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer > > for. When are they going to start considering the environment? > > What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is any

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Renat Golubchyk writes: > My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help > her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a > regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and > time consuming. I thought some screen sharing software

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Schuster
James Homuth writes: > I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after > reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently > have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. > But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purpo

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

2010-02-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from > > running out of disk space. A little research showed that an > > odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in > > some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-25 Thread Alex Schuster
roun...@hotmail.ru writes: > roun...@lister ~ $ sudo emerge -vp equery > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "equery". [...] > So what package is it part of? wo...@weird ~ $ equery belongs /u

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

2010-02-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Thursday 25 February 2010 00:10:18 Alex Schuster wrote: > > This KMail window has spell checking which is nice to have. But when > > I open the spell checking dialog in order to add words to the > > dictionary, I always have to start at the very b

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > Do I just watch the logs looking for problems? I have no way of > knowing right now whether this was a disk problem that's going to come > back, a 1 time deal due to power, or something else entirely. > > As these cheap machines that don't use RAID what's the right way to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
BRM writes: > > > If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply > > > deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a -- > > > depclean will take care of it. > > > > > You *do* keep your world file tidy, don't you? :P > > > > That would be the easiest method. If

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kyle Bader writes: > > I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a > > bad choice anyway. But as always, rtfm is good advice! Thanks (not > > sarcastic, except to mock myself). > > Another option other than rsync or dd is to use tar: Yeah, that's what I usually do.n T

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: >Yes, I do use smartctl on some other machines although I'm not very > good about it and your write-up is helpful so thanks for that. > >My wife's machines is older and and I don't think SMART is > supported on her drive. Note the lack of a * on the SMART line in > hdp

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Okay, but it still states: > >> *SMART error logging > >> *SMART self-test > > > > So maybe smartctl -t long /dev/hda still works? Just give it

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > I'm still using etc-update, which seems adequate except when squid is > upgraded, but I thought I'd try cfg-update. Problem though: it demands > dev-util/xxdiff which doesn't exist. What's a suitable substitute? Whatever you like. Just edit the MERGETOOL definition in /et

Re: [gentoo-user] aclocal failing on all emerges

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: > All fail when aclocal is trotted out. I don't see recent threads here > about it... googling turns up a herd of bugs involving aclocal but > then newest is 2008. > > The newest threads here that even mention aclocal date around Jan 20. > > I didn't change the compiler (gc

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

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster wrote: [KDE4 problems] > And so on. But it's not so bad I cannot work with it (well, sometimes > it is, and then I have to fix it, like when the password dialog no > longer accepted passwords), and so I keep using it, waiting it to > become really stable and usa

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > - utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping > /dev/sda stays /dev/sda always Good idea. Or use LVM. > - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need > portage on its own, maybe /var as well?) I like to have many partitions. When m

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

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I > > cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve > > this. And there are these annoying things. L

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small > > > cluster size maybe. > > > > I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. > > The data I

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I > > > use. > > > > I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from > >

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

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Monday 01 March 2010 16:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > And another weekend of KDE4 trouble. I rebooted after some upgrades, > > along those were Qt and MySQL. Now, plasma-desktop crashed, also > > when restarting it on the command line. > > [sni

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > That's right, they should both be in /var. > > I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted > read-only (think thin clients that mount it over NFS). Any idea why it's different with Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from > > the notail option in reiserfs? Did you change the block size? > > You mean the other way around, right?

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

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 13:27:45 Alex Schuster wrote: [RANT RANT RANT] > > Ah, I see the problem. It mainly scans /data/mp3/incoming, a > > directory I have NOT selected as collection folder (but most other > > directories in /data/mp3 are se

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

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > > Wasn't Agrajag the toothless wonder that kept getting accidentally > > killed by Arthur Dent? > > Yes, all my hostnames are HHGTTG characters. Agrajag never crashes and > has only died once... so far. Uh, makes me wonder if I am along your hosts, too? Wonko

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

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:) Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I > > > > use. > > > > > > I thought the small files of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I > > > > use. > > > > > > I thought the small files of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
text console with Alt-F1 (the additional Ctrl key was also not needed) and back. Alex Schuster writes: > The next test gives 93 seconds, that's nice. What is not so nice is that emerge -a --depclean took over half an hour of CPU time, needing half a gigabyte of memory. WOW. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/bin/post_sync - not found by `equery b`

2010-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > I have this /etc/portage/bin/post_sync file on a couple of systems, > and strangely `equery b /etc/portage/bin/post_sync` doesn't tell me > what package it belongs to. I might guess `eix`, but who knows? It's part of portage, and it's called after a sync of the portage tree. >

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

2010-03-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster wrote: > Alex Schuster writes: > > Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. > > Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:) But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if you don't have KDE4 or

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

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: > I see 1 improvement & 2 regressions so far; > NB I don't use the desktop (that's Fluxbox), only some apps. > > Konsole has lost its 'fixed GNU' font, which now calls up something > nasty (yes, I know there's an entry in the list, but it's a different > font). I've switch

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

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now? > I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still > using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all but > I can't use it as r

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

2010-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > >> I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still > >> using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all > >> but I can't use it as root at all. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > I'm going to assume that you're not being facetious, however I'm > amazed you don't know `screen`. Everyone should know `screen`! It's > amazing, and I can't believe that if you had tried it then you > wouldn't have it installed. I sure you'll wonder how you lived without > it.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:26, Alex Schuster wrote: > > ... > > I want to add one thing: I suggest changing the defscrollback value > > in /etc/screenrc from 100 to something much larger, I have 10. > > If not, you can only scroll back 100 lines, whi

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get: > >Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' Cool. Didn't know about this yet. > Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time I fire up top, > even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
o0o.atlantis@gmail.com writes: > Same thing here, nothing was highlighted and my .toprc looked like > yours I added Def, Job, Mem and usr in the file and it's fine now. > The question is why is the file not having the right syntax? > here: > top: procps version 3.2.8 on amd64 I tried with sy

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