Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-27 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Xavier Parizet wrote: On 02/25/2010 02:56 PM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? Well i'm using NFS for a while now, and i just checked: nothing like this is running on my nfs server. Do you have a "special" reason for asking ? (i mean a bug or wei

[gentoo-user] How to set the DefaultColorDepth?

2010-02-27 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, I'm trying to get Thief "The Dark Project" working under Wine. It seems it's having trouble switching to 16bit colour mode (I'm in 24bit colour mode normally) so I wanted to try and set the colour depth to 16bit. This used to be fairly easy as you could change this in xorg.conf but this f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread ubiquitous1980
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man >> pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal >> user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going >

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread ubiquitous1980
Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980 > wrote: > >> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man >> pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal >> user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering wh

[gentoo-user] Which is worse: Power fail during hibernation or powerdown ?

2010-02-27 Thread Holla
Hi, I am wondering which is worse: if the power were to fail when the system is preparing for hibernation (after the hibernate command) or when the system is powering down ? Here is the background for this.. I am in the process of configuring NUT (networkupstools.org) on my gentoo system. For th

[gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going on. Thanks. Some ENV variables a

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man > pages, they are covered in "ESC".  This does not occur when using normal > user accounts or the root account through su.  Wondering what is going > on.  Thanks. > >

[gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread ubiquitous1980
If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going on. Thanks.

[gentoo-user] aclocal failing on all emerges

2010-02-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I've run into something here on an OS that was installed from scratch only a week or so ago. emerge -vuDNp world shows only 8 pkgs (on a todays sync). But none of them will install even with --skipfirst and --keep-going All fail when aclocal is trotted out. I don't see recent threads here ab

[gentoo-user] Re: kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-27 Thread James
YoYo siska gl.ksp.sk> writes: > Panel and desktop settings are in .kde/share/config/plasma* files > removing just them (ideally when logged out of kde) should bring the > default desktop/panels back.. sorry for the delayed response. This worked perfectly. thx, James

[gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-02-27 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but when i tried to change the lcd brightness by dragging the handle on the 'power management

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, KostyaSha wrote: > The same annoying thing. > What is doing `kdebugdialog`? you can turn messages on and off. Turn all of them off (there is a switch for that) you are are spared all the crap.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-27 Thread KostyaSha
The same annoying thing. What is doing `kdebugdialog`?

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.33 and Nouveau

2010-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/27/2010 11:29 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:39:19AM -0800, walt wrote: On 02/27/2010 09:22 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: Hey guys Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the nouveau > drivers. And it went pretty well (unti

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging util-linux

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Hi, I am using gentoo since one month. Today I tried an emerge --update system after an emerge --sync. However, I got an error emerging util-linux. I am using a custom compiled vanilla kernel from kernel.org. uname -a says: L

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging util-linux

2010-02-27 Thread linux
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:22:54AM +0100, li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am using gentoo since one month. Today I tried an emerge --update system > after an emerge --sync. > However, I got an error emerging util-linux. > > I am using a custom compiled vanilla kernel from kernel.org

[gentoo-user] problem emerging util-linux

2010-02-27 Thread linux
Hi, I am using gentoo since one month. Today I tried an emerge --update system after an emerge --sync. However, I got an error emerging util-linux. I am using a custom compiled vanilla kernel from kernel.org. uname -a says: Linux laptop 2.6.32.8 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 27 04:25:19 CET 2010 i686

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2 fails to emerge on a multilib profile

2010-02-27 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/27/10, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 27 February 2010 19:04:09 walt wrote: >> On 02/27/2010 10:04 AM, Mick wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I am trying to install Gentoo on a i7 x86_64 arch machine and libgamin >> > fails when I try to emerge syslog-ng (it's a dependency of it). This >> > is my fir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.33 and Nouveau

2010-02-27 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:39:19AM -0800, walt wrote: > On 02/27/2010 09:22 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > Hey guys > > > > Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the > > nouveau > > drivers. And it went pretty well (until) I had to start X. > > > > I've attatc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-27 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:40:17 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: > > reload() { > > ebegin "Reloading evolone_agi configuration" > > start-stop-daemon --signal 1 > > --pidfile /var/run/evolone_agi.pid eend $? "Error reloading > > evolone_agi" } > Thanks ... good info. How does the script b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2 fails to emerge on a multilib profile

2010-02-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 February 2010 19:04:09 walt wrote: > On 02/27/2010 10:04 AM, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to install Gentoo on a i7 x86_64 arch machine and libgamin > > fails when I try to emerge syslog-ng (it's a dependency of it). This > > is my first 64bit machine, so I am not sur

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

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Dale To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical

[gentoo-user] Backups...

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
Well, now that I've got my systems cleaned up, and KDE3 removed, I'm tackling another project I've been meaning to do - backups. Here's my basic plan: - I've got a directory on my server that I want to synchronize several systems with (some linux, and one Windows). - I want clients to push the b

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

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world > >> because the critical packages aren't in there? > > indeed I did. > >> At least I am not the

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

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical packages aren't in there? indeed I did. At least I am not the only one that

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2 fails to emerge on a multilib profile

2010-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2010 10:04 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install Gentoo on a i7 x86_64 arch machine and libgamin fails when I try to emerge syslog-ng (it's a dependency of it). This is my first 64bit machine, so I am not sure if I have made more mistakes than usual (LOL). This is the error:

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Friday 26 February 2010 23:44:03 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Where I'm weak is the part where the custom script checks if the >> daemon is running, before the script itself starts. That part would >> need to be something pretty fool proof... maybe just grep ps output >> for

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.33 and Nouveau

2010-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2010 09:22 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: Hey guys Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the nouveau > drivers. And it went pretty well (until) I had to start X. I've attatched my xorg log. I have next to no idea what to do with the error. Cool. I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-27 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 27 February 2010, BRM wrote: > Stage 1 focuses solely on loading Stage 2, > and has historically been limited to a total size[1] to 512 bytes, It's actually less than that, because the first 64 bytes of sector 0 contain the partition table, so the maximum size of a stage1 bootloade

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

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: > Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world > because the critical packages aren't in there? indeed I did. > At least I am not the only one that leaves out the NOT sometimes. The difference is, I don't blame it on hal :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: walt > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: > >> From: Mark Knecht > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: > >>> Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? > >> Who cares what cylinder it's on, and > >> w

[gentoo-user] dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2 fails to emerge on a multilib profile

2010-02-27 Thread Mick
r 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2/work/gamin-0.1.10' make: *** [all] Error 2 * ERROR: dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2 failed: * emake failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile * environment, line 4734: Called _eapi2_

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM, walt wrote: > On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: >> >> - Original Message >> >>> From: Mark Knecht >>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? > >>> Who cares what cylinder it's on, and

[gentoo-user] eGalax Touchscreen

2010-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: My netbook has a eGalax Touchscreen. Does anyone have experience with them? (a) I first tried their driver at http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eGalaxTouchDriver/linuxDriver.htm but it crashes the computer when logging out from X. I may play with it a bit more to see if I am doing something

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.33 and Nouveau

2010-02-27 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
Hey guys Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the nouveau drivers. And it went pretty well (until) I had to start X. I've attatched my xorg log. I have next to no idea what to do with the error. Thanks in advance :-) -- Zeerak Waseem X.Org X Server 1.7.5 Release

Re: [gentoo-user] Showing installed packages that aren't in portage tree(s)

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Just what I needed. Thanks! Let me also add that the output has changed. I tried to clean up

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

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really ran 'emerge --depclean', which i

[gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mark Knecht On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? Who cares what cylinder it's on, and who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn't matter to us users.

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.33 + KDE + Hibernation

2010-02-27 Thread Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Hello fellows, I'm trying to confirm a bug with kernel 2.6.33 (gentoo-sources) in order to fill a bug to upstream. After the update, I'm having a very weird behaviour with hibernation (suspend- to-disk). If I'm only at console with KDM opened, I can successfully hibernate my system and resume i

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

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:45:03 -0600, Dale wrote: > If it starts to > remove something that you know you want to keep, then you need to > figure out why that entry was there and what can be put in the world > file to keep the things you do want. And while you can edit world by hand to remove stuff

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

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big > no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really > ran 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove > now that I've got that clea

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

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:53:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > emerge -C does the same. It's just that I find it easier to edit the > world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in > there) if I want to clean up stuff. If you don't want to delete > something from world by

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

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:11:11 -0600, Dale wrote: > I ran into this a long time ago and I added this to my make.conf so > that I don't forget. Try running this: > > emerge -uvDNa --with-bdeps y world > > Then see what that does. That added bit makes it look deeper into > dependencies. Like you

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:52:15 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > This is one place where those quake-like terminals comes in handy. I > use tilda, for KDE there's yakuake. Basically they allow you to press > a single key and a terminal pops down from the top of the screen. Yakuake is absolutely sup