Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DLNA saga

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:55 +, James wrote: > Hello Folks, > > > In a previous thread I was curious about DLNA and anyone's experiences > with it. DLNA is definitely a new MicroSoft Infection! > > > As it turns out, a very bright (savant) EE friend of mine shared his recent > experience wi

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 09:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:51:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > True, it's been on todo for a while. It's no longer an issue for me > > > now as I use a Mi-Fi 3G modem, which connects to the computer via WiFi > > > instead of having a dong

Re: [gentoo-user] Updateing kills metadatabase

2010-02-04 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick [10-02-05 04:04]: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:14:56 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > qsearch > > search: Updating ebuild metacache ... > > search: initialize_flat(): opening > > '/usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x' failed: Permission denied > > search: initialize_flat(): Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Updateing kills metadatabase

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:14:56 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > qsearch > search: Updating ebuild metacache ... > search: initialize_flat(): opening > '/usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x' failed: Permission denied > search: initialize_flat(): You should run this command as root: q -m The me

[gentoo-user] Updateing kills metadatabase

2010-02-04 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I reported this before and it was suggested, that my harddisc/filessystem may be corrupted. Now I am sure that is not and I am beging for help again ... :) After doing a (as root): ionice -c 3 nice -19 eix-sync && emerge -pv --verbose --update --deep world and than a (as user) qsearch se

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22:13/02/04/10, Leon Feng wrote: > ??? 2010/2/4 05:45:00???Harry Putnam ??? > > After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils > > broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another > > revdep-rebuild and it f

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 17:54:06 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/4/2010 6:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > How about a portage feature request? > > > > The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf > > file which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in @syste

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/4/2010 10:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:14:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about giving the same warning when unmerging a dependency of @system as you do when unmerging a package directly in there. Either way, you risk breaking the system. Ar

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Doug Hunley
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 13:11, Harry Putnam wrote: > Where does one find find lafilefixer? emerge dev-util/lafilefixer -- Douglas J Hunley, RHCT doug.hun...@gmail.com : http://douglasjhunley.com : Twitter: @hunleyd Obsessively opposed to the typical.

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010 23:45:00 Harry Putnam wrote: >> After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils >> broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another >> revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing. >> >> Anyone seen someth

Re: [gentoo-user] VGA-out & screen aspect ratio

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Grant wrote: >>> I've only ever used my laptop's VGA-out into 4:3 screens and it always >>> works great.  I've now plugged it into a 16:9 screen for the first >>> time, and it still displays 4:3 on that screen and on my laptop.  Is >>> there a way for it to detect t

Re: [gentoo-user] VGA-out & screen aspect ratio

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:17:25 -0800, Grant wrote: > Is there a slick way to restart xorg without rebootin /etc/init.d/xdm restart -- Neil Bothwick Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] VGA-out & screen aspect ratio

2010-02-04 Thread Grant
>> I've only ever used my laptop's VGA-out into 4:3 screens and it always >> works great.  I've now plugged it into a 16:9 screen for the first >> time, and it still displays 4:3 on that screen and on my laptop.  Is >> there a way for it to detect the proper aspect ratio?  Maybe it >> depends on th

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/4/2010 10:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:14:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about giving the same warning when unmerging a dependency of @system as you do when unmerging a package directly in there. Either way, you risk breaking the system. Aren't all deps of packag

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/4/2010 6:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about a portage feature request? The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf file which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in @system. Without the setting, python does not get included in @system. Since

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:13:20 +0800, Leon Feng wrote: > I have seen this for weeks, but since I upgrade to portage-2.2* at the > same time, do not know whether it is related. My revdep-rebuild out is > listed below, anyone has a solution? Are you also running the testing gentoolkit? Otherwise you'r

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:14:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > How about giving the same warning when unmerging a dependency of > > @system as you do when unmerging a package directly in there. Either > > way, you risk breaking the system. > > Aren't all deps of packages in @system themselves alre

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi Leon, have you really run lafilefixer --justfixit and some time, ago, I had problems because of dangling symlinks, so I've run symlinks -dr /usr (which remove all dangling symlinks in /usr/**/*) Then re-emerge sys-devel/binutils again I hope this helps,m Helmut. On 4 Feb, Leon Feng wr

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Leon Feng
在 2010/2/4 05:45:00,Harry Putnam : > After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils > broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another > revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing. > > Anyone seen something similar or have an idea what might be the problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 15:37:17 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:05:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > How about a portage feature request? > > > > The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf > > file which means the system uses portage, therefore python

[gentoo-user] OT: DLNA saga

2010-02-04 Thread James
Hello Folks, In a previous thread I was curious about DLNA and anyone's experiences with it. DLNA is definitely a new MicroSoft Infection! As it turns out, a very bright (savant) EE friend of mine shared his recent experience with DLNA: QUOTE: I would suspect that anything designed to just "w

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:05:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > How about a portage feature request? > > The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf > file which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in > @system. > > Without the setting, python does not get inc

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Mariusz Ceier
W dniu 04.02.2010 12:45, Willie Wong pisze: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:59:14AM -0800, Steven wrote: >> I tried all, and nothing seemed to solve the problem. >> I'm at a loss as to what this could be. >> When it says "requires -liberty" is liberty part of a package? I am not >> sure what it means

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:59:14AM -0800, Steven wrote: > I tried all, and nothing seemed to solve the problem. > I'm at a loss as to what this could be. > When it says "requires -liberty" is liberty part of a package? I am not > sure what it means by -liberty and were to acquire it. The library's

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf build fails

2010-02-04 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:15:01 +0100 Daniel Wagener wrote: [...] > had this today this morning, solved it by unmasking > app-text/xpdf-3.02-r4 after finding this: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293588#c5 Thanks!! I always forget to look in bugs.gentto before asking here :-) Cheers! -- A

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf build fails

2010-02-04 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:43:46 +0100 Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi all, > > after last update, I ran revdep-rebuild and this is the package I have > to rebuild: > > [...] > * All prepared. Starting rebuild > emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 > .. > > but it fails: > > [...] > GlobalParams.cc:2

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 12:14:52 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:54 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> The bad thing is, since python is not a "system" package, it > >> doesn't even save the last compiled binary > >> in /usr/portage/packages/All/ if you only have buildsys

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf build fails

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 12:43:46 Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi all, > > after last update, I ran revdep-rebuild and this is the package I have > to rebuild: > > [...] > * All prepared. Starting rebuild > emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 > .. > > but it fails: > > [...] > GlobalParams.cc

[gentoo-user] xpdf build fails

2010-02-04 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, after last update, I ran revdep-rebuild and this is the package I have to rebuild: [...] * All prepared. Starting rebuild emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 .. but it fails: [...] GlobalParams.cc:2227: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ GlobalParams.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:54 -0600, Dale wrote: The bad thing is, since python is not a "system" package, it doesn't even save the last compiled binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ if you only have buildsyspkg in make.conf. It does portage but not python. That'

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09:58/02/04/10, Mariusz Ceier wrote: > W dniu 04.02.2010 08:15, Steven pisze: > > I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks > > > > revdep-rebuild -p > > > > * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild > > > > * Checking reve

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Stefan Schulte
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:58:42AM +0100, Mariusz Ceier wrote: > W dniu 04.02.2010 08:15, Steven pisze: > > I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks > > > > revdep-rebuild -p > > > > * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild > > > > * Checking reverse dependencies > > * Pac

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:54 -0600, Dale wrote: > The bad thing is, since python is not a "system" package, it > doesn't even save the last compiled binary > in /usr/portage/packages/All/ if you only have buildsyspkg in > make.conf. It does portage but not python. That's because python is no lo

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:46:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > A command line argument (--force?) would be fine, but you can't > > complain it's annoying when you have just complained that portage > > doesn't do this. > > I didn't make that complaint... Sorry, that comment was aimed at Dale. I kn

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:51:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > True, it's been on todo for a while. It's no longer an issue for me > > now as I use a Mi-Fi 3G modem, which connects to the computer via WiFi > > instead of having a dongle sticking out the side waiting to be knocked > > off. > > And

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Mariusz Ceier
W dniu 04.02.2010 08:15, Steven pisze: > I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks > > revdep-rebuild -p > > * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild > > * Checking reverse dependencies > * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package > * update > * will b

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 02:04:36 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:29:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Taken more globally, maybe portage should warn whenever you are > > > trying to remove a package that is a dependency of anything in > > > @world. > > > > Could be useful if im

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 03:26:49 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Unfortunately, that sounds all too realistic. I gave up trying to use > > suspend some time ago after battling with wirelss and graphics hardware > > that wouldn't suspend/resume reliably. But with 4G of RAM here, I find it > > doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 09:15:36 Steven wrote: > I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks > > revdep-rebuild -p > > * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild > > * Checking reverse dependencies > * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package > * upda