Re: [gentoo-user] Re: netbook

2010-11-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:31:08AM +, James wrote > Thanks for all the good view pionts on hardware. Do *NOT* get a machine with a Poulsbo video chip. It "supported" one version of the linux kernel at release time, with a proprietary blob. No updates since. And as we all know, kernel upgr

Re: [gentoo-user] Command-line wicd?

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 11 November 2010 02:35:21 Jake Moe wrote: > On 05/11/10 04:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 04 November 2010 17:22:28 Neil Bothwick wrote: [...] > >> Personally, I USE="eth0" when installing Gentoo on a laptop. > > > > I see what you mean. I'll do that. Thanks all. > > j...@a

Re: [gentoo-user] Command-line wicd?

2010-11-10 Thread Jake Moe
On 05/11/10 04:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 04 November 2010 17:22:28 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> Wicd also has an X use flag. I've just tried emerge -p wicd on a >> headless (and Xless) box and it didn't try to pull in any X related >> packages. You'll have to try >> >> USE="-X -gtk -qt4"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:18 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Dale wrote: According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I rarely use swap unless I a

[gentoo-user] Re: DNSSEC

2010-11-10 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > My first spot of advice would be to use unbound as your caching servers - Yes, I'm going to play around with unbound first. > PowerDNS is a fine auth server. If it suits your needs I'd recommend you try > it first. I don't know about it's DNSSEC abilities

[gentoo-user] Re: netbook

2010-11-10 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > This isn't such a problem with 10" netbooks where the keyboards tend to > be around 92% of full size. On the other hand, my old Eee PC 900 didn't > work well with my fat fingers (the fat fingers are on both hands, not > just the other one). Thanks for all

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-10 Thread Grant
> Grant, you need to stop being paranoid.  I am surprised you even > worked up the courage to let slip on here, in public, that you even > have a sooper dooper sekrit project. This seems to be the general consensus. You see, I don't have a computer science degree and about 75% of what I know abou

Re: [gentoo-user] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE

2010-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:20 -0500, dhk wrote: > Lately I've been getting this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. It only happens > when I'm logged into my home amd64 box from my office x86 box. I use > ssh -X ip.add.res.s to log in. Have you tried using -Y instead of -X? -- Neil Bothwick Voting Democ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:18:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > According to the manpage, this only tells which directories should > > be config-protect'ed. What I need is that these files should be put > > under some prefix (w/ the same hierachy/names) instead of renamed > > to ._cfg*. > > What v

[gentoo-user] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE

2010-11-10 Thread dhk
Lately I've been getting this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. It only happens when I'm logged into my home amd64 box from my office x86 box. I use ssh -X ip.add.res.s to log in. Everything seems to work and save fine except for the error message and not being able to run an x-application remotely. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: > * Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, > > Enrico > > > > Weigelt did opine thusly: > > > * Remy Blank wrote: > > > > Put your /etc un

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico > Weigelt did opine thusly: > > > * Remy Blank wrote: > > > Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control > > > system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Coert Waagmeester wrote: > My setup is one 32bit pc with gentoo and another 64bit pc with gentoo > > I managed to get this going on the 64bit with a 32-bit chroot, distcc, > and crosstools Why do you need an 32bit chroot if you're going to use an crosscompiler anyways ? > Just make sure you

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -o a.out.64 test.c > > gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -m32 -o a.out.32 test.c > > gr...@kraken ~ $ file a.out.* > > a.out.32: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 > > (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux > > 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Is there a toolchain already setup for cross-compiling 32-bit > executables on a AMD64 system, or do I have to do all that cross- > compiling magic by myself ? crosstool-ng If you want a build system for crosscompiling, you might like to look at Briegel. cu --

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
sure sorry about the HTML ... :) On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Benyamin > Dvoskin did opine thusly: > > > Hi , > > > > When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: > * Remy Blank wrote: > > Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control > > system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and directory > > permissions in there

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Benyamin Dvoskin did opine thusly: > Hi , > > When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and > package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. > some are colored in red , some blue > > what are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:18 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: > Dale wrote: > > According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in > > use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I > > rarely use swap unless I am compiling somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Remy Blank wrote: > Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control > system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and directory > permissions in there as well. Is there a way to tell portage to conf-protected files under some prefix ? This would allow easy inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > Hi , > > When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and > package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. > some are colored in red , some blue > > what are the differences ? It's a little confusing but you

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I found git has a cvsimport command, but it complained that cvs didn't > recognize the server command, and some hints I saw of requiring cvs 2 > made me pause ... all I can see is cvs 1.12. echo "dev-vcs/cvs server" >> /etc/portage/package.use && emerge -1 cvs > I

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

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Harry Putnam wrote: > Just to close this thread... a reboot swept away all `ls' problems so > still not sure what caused it, but am happily having normal experience > with `ls' once again. Might well be that the reboot caused an fsck run, which fixed the problems. cu --

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Selon Dale: I would try it with sandbox disabled. FEATURES="-*sandbox*" It may work. Certainly worth a shot I guess. Bingo! For some reason, FEATURES="-*sandbox*" emerge nss did'nt work (sandbox still used) when replacing FEATURE="...usersandbox"

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. some are colored in red , some blue what are the differences ? Thanks, Benny From the emerge man page: [ebuild U ] sys-devel/

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread KH
Am 10.11.2010 21:37, schrieb Benyamin Dvoskin: > Hi , > > When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency > and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. > some are colored in red , some blue > > what are the differences ? > > Thanks, > Benny Hi, for me red is

[gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-10 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. some are colored in red , some blue what are the differences ? Thanks, Benny

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I rarely use swap unless I am compiling something huge, OOo comes to mind, or have a LOT of images open with GIMP. I did check to make sure tho. My

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:40 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: > On 10/11/2010, at 6:04pm, Dan Johansson wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18.17:19 Stroller wrote: > >> On 8/11/2010, at 2:02pm, Dan Johansson wrote: > >>> ... > >>> After updating from dev-la

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread meino . cramer
Coert Waagmeester [10-11-10 18:40]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >Hi, > >it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system > >(AMD64). > >But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get > >an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? > >Than

[gentoo-user] Swing !

2010-11-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am a little confused. I am compiled SuperCollider3 from source. When started, it complains of not finding "swing". As far as I know, Swing is part of the java sdk. Is it? Or what can trigger this message? Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Stroller
On 10/11/2010, at 6:04pm, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18.17:19 Stroller wrote: >> >> On 8/11/2010, at 2:02pm, Dan Johansson wrote: >>> ... >>> After updating from dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 to dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2 I am >>> no missing the suidperl binary. Some of my perl

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18:05:40 Paul Hartman wrote: > 2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen : > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman > > > > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > Last night I took it to full charge, put in memtest86+ boot CD and the > system lasted 9 minutes before battery was drained. So

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Dan Johansson
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18.17:19 Stroller wrote: > > On 8/11/2010, at 2:02pm, Dan Johansson wrote: > > ... > > After updating from dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 to dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2 I am > > no missing the suidperl binary. Some of my perl scripts _need_ this > > "feature". Any suggestion on

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.11.2010 17:44, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: > I haven't read the entire thread and I don't intend to. The whole > concept is so bizarre that I could not read it without thinking of the > worst most evil bosses and environments I have worked on, and none of > them even come close. > > It does

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Stroller
On 8/11/2010, at 2:02pm, Dan Johansson wrote: > ... > After updating from dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 to dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2 I am no > missing the suidperl binary. Some of my perl scripts _need_ this "feature". > Any suggestion on how to be able to execute perl-scritps "suid" (except > downgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

2010-11-10 Thread Mick
On 9 November 2010 23:30, Stroller wrote: > > On 9/11/2010, at 4:04pm, Alex Schuster wrote: >> ... >>> I need to mention here that the machine is a laptop which I use >>> regularly on train journeys (bumpy ride).  The drive has a Seagate >>> G-Force Protection™ which is meant to park the head in c

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Hartman
2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen : > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was >> manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all >> those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after w

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Petri Rosenström
Hi, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was > manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all > those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I > did a few days wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.11.2010 06:56, schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2010-11-09, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Well, there are two ways to go here: > >> 1. Modularize what you have. Give every developer only the source he >>is supposed to work on and binary interfaces (libs + header files >>for C/C++) and doc

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-10 Thread felix
I haven't read the entire thread and I don't intend to. The whole concept is so bizarre that I could not read it without thinking of the worst most evil bosses and environments I have worked on, and none of them even come close. It does remind me a bit of what I have read about "computers" back i

Re: [gentoo-user] suidperl missing after update to perl 5.12.2-r2

2010-11-10 Thread Dan Johansson
On Monday 08 November 2010 20.18:22 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 08.11.2010 15:02, schrieb Dan Johansson: > > Hi, > > > > After updating from dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 to dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2 > > I am no missing the suidperl binary. Some of my perl scripts _need_ > > this "feature". Any suggestion

[gentoo-user] [OT] rsync question

2010-11-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the following behaviour of rsync puzzles me. I have the following situation /Athis is a symlink ! /A this is a real directory now cd /A rsync -auHz -ni --rsh=ssh --delete --exclude='/A/' :/ . shows that it's going to delete the folder /A Can anybody plea

Re: [gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay SOLVED

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, I see the gns3 overlay link is broken http://code.gns3.net/gns3-overlay/file/ec6bc595d263/gns3-overlay-docs.txt Do any of you use gns3? what is the recommended way of installing it on gentoo? Regards, Coert Waagmeester My bad, I found it after some mor

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using consolekit?

2010-11-10 Thread walt
On 11/09/2010 05:08 AM, 李健 wrote: I don't know how to solve this, but I hope the following messages may help you. >>> Messages generated by process 14982 on 2010-10-18 23:54:00 CST for package sys-auth/polkit-0.96-r1: WARN: postinst If you don't use GDM or KDM for logging in, you must start yo

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was > manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all > those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I > did a few days worth of u

Re: [gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay SOLVED

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:52:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: My bad, I found it after some more googling in the zugaina overlay. Eix is able to search overlays, installed and otherwise, for packages. In this case it shows that sunrise has a newer version that zuigana.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-10 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Dale : > I would try it with sandbox disabled. > > FEATURES="-*sandbox*" > > It may work. Certainly worth a shot I guess. > Bingo! For some reason, FEATURES="-*sandbox*" emerge nss did'nt work (sandbox still used) when replacing FEATURE="...usersandbox" by -sandbox & launching emerge -u

Re: [gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay SOLVED

2010-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:52:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > My bad, I found it after some more googling in the zugaina overlay. Eix is able to search overlays, installed and otherwise, for packages. In this case it shows that sunrise has a newer version that zuigana. -- Neil Bothwick WinEr

[gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, I see the gns3 overlay link is broken http://code.gns3.net/gns3-overlay/file/ec6bc595d263/gns3-overlay-docs.txt Do any of you use gns3? what is the recommended way of installing it on gentoo? Regards, Coert Waagmeester

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-10 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:45, Stroller wrote: > > On 9/11/2010, at 9:03pm, Fatih Tümen wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 22:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> The language of this list is English. You might be lucky and find >>> someonewhounderstands French and knows the answer to your problem, but