Re: [gentoo-user] Server standby

2009-09-15 Thread Massimo Gengarelli
AFAIK, waking up from standby is controlled by hardware, you can't control such events. As for the WOL (Wake on Lan), you _must_ have an ethernet adapter which supports it, usually they have a connector that must be linked to the motherboard. In this way, your ethernet card will be always on and to

[gentoo-user] Server standby

2009-09-15 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I try to set up my server such that it can go to standby state if it has not been used for a while and can be wake up when there are some events such as that come keyboard, mouse, or it is great if it can wake up from LAN request. I try to google for a while and have not found any useful in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman [09-09-12 20:42]: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont > > want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management. > > One thing, which is a must-have of windowmanagers I want to use > >

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Crístian Viana
but in that case the "#" character is inside a string, so it wuldn't be considered a comment. I was thinking like "//" in Java: it can be anywhere in the line, but if it's inside a string it's not considered a comment marker. but thanks again for the information :) On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread meino . cramer
Jacob Todd [09-09-16 03:55]: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > Hi, > ... > > -- NOT tiling > > May I ask why not tiling? Simply answer: I dont like it. :) mcc > unless you're doing office work (spreadsheats, > powerpointers, money laundering

[gentoo-user] Re: python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > emerge -Pa python should get rid of it if it's not in world. Otherwise > you'll need emerge -Ca python:2.5. Hello Neil, I'm still working this angle. It seems to clean up more, but, it's like I'm having to make several more attempts that one would expec

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do this remotely?

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:36:17 -0700 Grant wrote: > I recently had the problem described here: > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70884 > > The solution worked. Now I'm being told the same system is having the > same problem, but I'm away from there. Is there a way to fix it > remote

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> Hi, > ... >>  -- NOT tiling > > May I ask why not tiling? unless you're doing office work (spreadsheats, > powerpointers, money laundering and the like), the WIMP paradig

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, ... > -- NOT tiling May I ask why not tiling? unless you're doing office work (spreadsheats, powerpointers, money laundering and the like), the WIMP paradigm isn't efficient. -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak

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

2009-09-15 Thread Dale
Roy Wright wrote: > > 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/s

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] Can I do this remotely?

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 23:36:17 Grant wrote: > I recently had the problem described here: > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70884 > > The solution worked. Now I'm being told the same system is having the > same problem, but I'm away from there. Is there a way to fix it > remot

[gentoo-user] Can I do this remotely?

2009-09-15 Thread Grant
I recently had the problem described here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70884 The solution worked. Now I'm being told the same system is having the same problem, but I'm away from there. Is there a way to fix it remotely? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mick writes: > >> Subsection "Display" > >> Depth 24 > >> Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > >> Virtual 2048 1536 > >> ViewPort0 0 > >> EndSubsection > >> EndSection > >

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:51 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: > thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always > stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they > were. Title="### Look at me! ###" Is there a comment in there? The general convention is that if

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Walker
Crístian Viana wrote: > www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world For it to be a valid comment, the '#' MUST be the first character on the line. That's always been the convention. A FEW programs will recognise the '#' elsewhere in the line as the start of the comment but you should NEVER EVER rely

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Crístian Viana
thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they were. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Neil Walker wrote: > Crístian Viana wrote: > > www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world > > For it to be a valid comment,

[gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

2009-09-15 Thread Crístian Viana
hi, I have a Gentoo amd64 and I noticed portage doesn't ignore comments totally on the file /etc/portage/package.keywords (don't know about the other portage config files). if I have the following line on portage.keywords: www-client/mozilla-firefox portage unmasks the Firefox ebuild for my arch

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

2009-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My system is running fine as far as I can tell, but reading a msg in this group raised my curiosity about update-desktop-database. 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 14 September 2009, Thomas Kahle wrote: >> Hey, >> >> >  Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for >> >  a replacement which should >> >  -- be widely configurable via ascii files >> >  -- be as far as possible cont

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 September 2009, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hey, > > > Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for > > a replacement which should > > -- be widely configurable via ascii files > > -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard > > -- be also useable with the

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> Yes, that's what it is. I too have USE="-xcb" for libX11 > > I have xcb use flag enabled and haven't encountered any problems (and > nothing had to be rebuilt). libX11-1.2.2 > > Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:04:23 Fabrice Delliaux wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:21:50 +0200 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Here it stores alotta info about the binary packages - for instance > > with what useflags they were compiled. This info is not in the > > archives, which only contain th

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 00:04 +0100, Stroller wrote: > On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:20, Matthias Langer wrote: > > > Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running > > Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in > > connection with normal PC hardware, but they are

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:54 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag 14 September 2009 09:20:08 schrieb Matthias Langer: > > Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running > > Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in > > connection with normal PC hardwa

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Yes, that's what it is. I too have USE="-xcb" for libX11 I have xcb use flag enabled and haven't encountered any problems (and nothing had to be rebuilt). libX11-1.2.2

Re: [gentoo-user] python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:29:42 + (UTC) James wrote: > So is it OK to unmerge python 2.5? Or do I still need it? > > > I still get old garbage wanting python 2.5 with > emerge -p @preserved-rebuild > > How to proceed is most welcome news to me. Put it to package.mask and run emerge, it sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is >>> not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the >>> wallpapers packaged w

[gentoo-user] Re: python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread James
Dale gmail.com> writes: > You wouldn't happen to have that slot of python in your world file would > you? nope, world file only contains this entry relate to python: dev-python/sip James

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-15 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk (Stroller) writes: >On 14 Sep 2009, at 16:27, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: >> ... >> AMD64, reiser, sata (3ware)... strange >I have had some weirdness recently with a 3ware 9500-S & 2.6.30- >gentoo-r4, but since you still haven't told us ANYTHING about the

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:19:01 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from >> another machine (BINSERVER), >> emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world >> doesn't update packages whi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome default file associations broken

2009-09-15 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Hi, Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 23:26:45 schrieb walt: > On 09/13/2009 12:32 PM, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > > Where are the global defaults anyway, if you want to change the order, > > maybe? Where could you globally prefer acroread over evince and gedit > > over xemacs? > > Try running update-desk

Re: [gentoo-user] python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:29:42 + (UTC), James wrote: > Installed versions: 2.5.4-r2(2.5) > 2.6.2-r1(2.6) > > > So what's pulling in python 2.5? World? emerge -Pa python should get rid of it if it's not in world. Otherwise you'll need emerge -Ca python:2.5. -- Neil Bothwi

Re: [gentoo-user] python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread Dale
James wrote: > Python and Java have taken me days to clean up on an > old, mostly unattended system. > > > << SNIP >> > > > So what's pulling in python 2.5? > > equery depends dev-lang/pythondev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 > Searching for packages depending on > dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2... > > Nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:05:30 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Still it would incur an etc-update event, wouldn't it? Then, an > absent-minded user (e.g. myself) could overwrite configuration when > subversion gets upgraded. Yes, Gentoo gives you the gun, it's up to you to make sure it's not poin

[gentoo-user] python cleanup

2009-09-15 Thread James
Python and Java have taken me days to clean up on an old, mostly unattended system. I'm almost done, but have an issue, I've not seen before. emerge -p @preserved-rebuild [ebuild R ] dev-db/libpq-8.1.11 [ebuild R ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.8 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 [2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Still it would incur an etc-update event, wouldn't it? Then, an absent-minded user (e.g. myself) could overwrite configuration when subversion gets upgraded. I was thinking of maybe creating an /etc/apache2/modules.d/471_mod_dav_svn.conf, which I could then freely modify. Amit Neil Bothwic

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:16 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Is there an alternative mechanism to modifying a package-owned file? It's in a CONFIG_PROTECTed directory (/etc) so it won't be overwritten by a package update. It's safe to modify it. -- Neil Bothwick Sometimes too much to drink is

[gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. Would appreciate someone's view on the following: I want to configure SVN access via apache. This requires some modifications to /etc/apache2/modules.d/47_mod_dav_svn.conf (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/svn-book.html#svn-ch-6-sect-4.2) Since the file is owned by dev-util/subversion,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:19:01 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from > another machine (BINSERVER), > emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world > doesn't update packages which are upto-date on BINSERVER > but not

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:21:50 +0200 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Here it stores alotta info about the binary packages - for instance > with what useflags they were compiled. This info is not in the > archives, which only contain the files. No, informations about environment are included in tbz2 pac

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 15. September 2009 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from > another machine (BINSERVER), > emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world > doesn't update packages which are upto-date on BINSERVER > but not upt

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from another machine (BINSERVER), emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world doesn't update packages which are upto-date on BINSERVER but not upto-date on the local machine. What's the role of the file /usr/portag

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread KH
Krzysztof Poc schrieb: Great thanks to all of you for immediate help. "emenrge -n" solved the problem. By the way "gcc-config -l" shows: [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [5

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Krzysztof Poc
Great thanks to all of you for immediate help. "emenrge -n" solved the problem. By the way "gcc-config -l" shows: [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: >> Subsection "Display" >> Depth 24 >> Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" >> Virtual 2048 1536 >> ViewPort0 0 >> EndSubsection >> EndSection >> >> [...] > > Sure, but we're talking about setting modelines and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Massimo Gengarelli
Please, *do not* send HTML emails in the list, as they looks like below. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:00:41PM +0200, Krzysztof Poc wrote: > HelloI found that "emerge --depclean" removes the packages > that are necessary for my system:gcc-4.1.2font-cursor-misc />font-misc-miscI have also gcc-3.4.6-r

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 12:22:59 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 13:00:41 Krzysztof Poc wrote: > Hello > > I found that "emerge --depclean" removes the packages that are necessary > for my system: gcc-4.1.2 > font-cursor-misc > font-misc-misc > > I have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2. > After unmergin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Boris Fersing
2009/9/15 Krzysztof Poc : > Hello > Hi, > I found that "emerge --depclean" removes the packages that are necessary for > my system: > gcc-4.1.2 > font-cursor-misc > font-misc-misc > > I have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2. > After unmerging gcc-4.1.2 I cannot compile

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread KH
Krzysztof Poc schrieb: Hello I found that "emerge --depclean" removes the packages that are necessary for my system: gcc-4.1.2 font-cursor-misc font-misc-misc I have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2. After unmerging gcc-4.1.2 I cannot compile anything of course. Af

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2009-09-15 Thread Krzysztof Poc
HelloI found that "emerge --depclean" removes the packages that are necessary for my system:gcc-4.1.2font-cursor-miscfont-misc-miscI have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2.After unmerging gcc-4.1.2 I cannot compile anything of course.After unmerging font-misc-misc I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:34:32 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything > > was wrong because emerge @preserved-rebuild failed on most packages, > > so I then RTFMed, ran the commands from that web page and all was > > fine. Konq

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read : > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:34:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > I'm following the recipe on > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml > > > > which results in > > > > emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xcb-proto x11-libs/libxcb > > emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xproto x11

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Jorma Airola
Ward Poelmans wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51, Jorma Airola wrote: > > >> Same here, no breakage on my laptop or desktop. >> >> I have used dev-util/lafilefixer few time with "--justfixit" option >> few times,could that be the reason for smooth upgrade? >> > > Did you remove the l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as I have just bitten by it, have a look at > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 > > > > before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) > > > > since this breaks

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 11:01:11 Ward Poelmans wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51, Jorma Airola wrote: > > Same here, no breakage on my laptop or desktop. > > > > I have used dev-util/lafilefixer few time with "--justfixit" option > > few times,could that be the reason for smooth upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Boris Fersing
I didn't have any big problem neither. After uprading to libxcb-1.4 a lot of packages failed to compile. I searched for warning messages with elogv, followed the upgrade guide and now all is fine. regards, Boris On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:31, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, H

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected > >> by this upgrade :-) > > > > I had some breakage, but nothing significa

[gentoo-user] Re: *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any X11-application (including your browser to look at the URL above) Such an update

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51, Jorma Airola wrote: > Same here, no breakage on my laptop or desktop. > >  I have used  dev-util/lafilefixer few time with "--justfixit" option > few times,could that be the reason for smooth upgrade? Did you remove the lib "libxcb-xlib.so" or is it still there? W

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Jorma Airola
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > > >>> To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read : >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected >> by this upgrade :-) > > I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything > was wrong because emerge @prese

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected > by this upgrade :-) I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything was wrong because emerge @preserved-rebuild failed on most packages, so I t

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read : > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml > > Since my browser got broken, too, this took some ti

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:38:41 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> The above URL doesn't help either, >> so any help to 'survive' is appreciated. > > Did you read the elog message when you emerged the new version? Yes, I did ... but > > libxcb-xlib.so is n

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:38:41 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 15 Sep, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as I have just bitten by it, have a look at > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 > > > > before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) > > > > since this breaks any X11-

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:38:41 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > The above URL doesn't help either, > so any help to 'survive' is appreciated. Did you read the elog message when you emerged the new version? libxcb-xlib.so is no longer shipped by ${PN} but was kept on your system While your

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 Sep, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > as I have just bitten by it, have a look at > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 > > before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) > > since this breaks any X11-application (including your > browser to look at the URL above) > > Such an

[gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any X11-application (including your browser to look at the URL above) Such an update should be DOUBLY MASKED !!! And the messages co