Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blockage

2011-03-28 Thread Eray Aslan
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:16:48PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > How do I get out of this? Re-sync your tree. Temp breakage when virtual/mta was added to the tree. Sorry about that. -- Eray

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New bugzilla has broken search?

2011-03-28 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/29/2011 07:11 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Either I'm doing something wrong, or the new bugzilla version at bugs.gentoo.org really sucks at searching. Let's for example go here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi?format=specific and select "All" for "S

[gentoo-user] Re: New bugzilla has broken search?

2011-03-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/29/2011 07:11 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Either I'm doing something wrong, or the new bugzilla version at bugs.gentoo.org really sucks at searching. Let's for example go here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi?format=specific and select "All" for "Status". Then search for "k

[gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

2011-03-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on the guest but it works on the host. Recently I decided to re-emerge virtualbox with the USE flag pulseaudio to try to get sound working. After the e

Re: [gentoo-user] New bugzilla has broken search?

2011-03-28 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Either I'm doing something wrong, or the new bugzilla version at bugs.gentoo.org really sucks at searching. Let's for example go here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi?format=specific and select "All" for "Status". Then search for "kde-base/kdelibs". It takes a *lot*

[gentoo-user] New bugzilla has broken search?

2011-03-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Either I'm doing something wrong, or the new bugzilla version at bugs.gentoo.org really sucks at searching. Let's for example go here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi?format=specific and select "All" for "Status". Then search for "kde-base/kdelibs". It takes a *lot* of time to complete, and w

Re: [gentoo-user] The difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'

2011-03-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 22:26, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am 28.03.2011 16:50, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > Hello list! > > > > Please bear awhile with the Gento n00b here... > > > > If I have a package 'xyz-1.1.0' already installed, and there's a newer > > 'xyz-1.2.0', what's the difference between

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blockage

2011-03-28 Thread Xi Shen
try unmerge 'ssmtp' first, then update world, then emerge ssmtp if necessary. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > How do I get out of this? > > $ emerge -uptDN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies ... done! > [

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-forensics/chkrootkit finds INFECTED binaries on ~amd64

2011-03-28 Thread walt
On 03/28/2011 07:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: I just got an email from cron on my ~amd64 machine, containing these lines: Checking 'find'... INFECTED Checking 'netstat'... INFECTED Took me a few minutes to deduce that sys-forensics/chkrootkit was the

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:55 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > Apparently not everyone who uses kmail has the problem. > Maybe it's the people who use html mail? > Neil Bothwick's posts often have the "==20", but usually just one or > two. Some posts are positively riddled with them, to the point o

[gentoo-user] Circular blockage

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
How do I get out of this? $ emerge -uptDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [nomerge ] app-admin/sudo-1.7.4_p5 [nomerge ] virtual/mta-0 [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8 USE="ipv6 ssl -maxsysuid (-md5sum)"

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:25:41 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > Such a burden, being exceptionally competent, isn't it? If you say so... :-) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future"

2011-03-28 Thread Alexey Mishustin
28 марта 2011 г., 1:57:34, Volker Armin Hemmann пишет: > just two of guesses: > you don't sync the resulting correct clock to hwclock > or > /etc/adjtime is full of crap. If this happens again, remove that file. 28 марта 2011 г., 1:26:28, Alex Schuster пишет: > Maybe hardware and software clock

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 22:10:30 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: > On Monday 28 of March 2011 21:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > you do have turned on the spell use flag? > > Which and where ? Maybe I missed it ? > Thank you in advance. it is just he use flag 'spell'. kdelibs need it. Maybe more pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
On Monday 28 of March 2011 21:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > you do have turned on the spell use flag? Which and where ? Maybe I missed it ? Thank you in advance.

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:38:51 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: > On Monday 28 of March 2011 20:22:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > systemsettings 'local' or 'regional' or whatever it is called in your > > language. 'Regionales' in german. > > > > Spell check > > > > enable it. > > Thank you, I did ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe > wrote: >> In linux.gentoo.user, Peter Humphries wrote: >>> On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: >>> But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the "==20" crap polluting

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, Peter Humphries wrote: >> On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: >> >>> But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the >>> "==20" crap polluting all the kmail users' messages. Almost. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
On Monday 28 of March 2011 20:22:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > systemsettings 'local' or 'regional' or whatever it is called in your > language. 'Regionales' in german. > > Spell check > > enable it. Thank you, I did make it, but this not work. I install the English version of my system, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:02:17 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: > Hello, > > what I need to install or set to enable spellchecker in KDE (in kwrite, > kate, kile, kmail)? I set LINGUAS="en" and I install enchant, aspell, > aspell-en, but this didn't work in these applications, so what to do elese > to ena

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, Peter Humphries wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > >> But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the >> "==20" crap polluting all the kmail users' messages. Almost. > > Would you mind sending me an example of this from me and my k

[gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
Hello, what I need to install or set to enable spellchecker in KDE (in kwrite, kate, kile, kmail)? I set LINGUAS="en" and I install enchant, aspell, aspell-en, but this didn't work in these applications, so what to do elese to enable spellchecker ? Greetings, Andrzej

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the > "==20" crap polluting all the kmail users' messages. Almost. Would you mind sending me an example of this from me and my kmail? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > --20cf3054aa33c36405049f87abd7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 28 March 2011 10:11, Mick wrote: > >> On Monday 28 March 2011 09:43:47 JM wrote: >> > to-posting? >> >> Neil meant to say "top-posting": >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postin

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 26 March 2011 23:46:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: > So LVM takes a bunch of disks or arrays and lets you combine them in ways > you want them (not ways the hardware forces you to have them). And > that's all it does I also find it handy for creating more partitions than the standard hardwar

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

2011-03-28 Thread Roman Zilka
KH (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:22:55 +0200): > I do have python-2.7 and python-3.1 emerged. I just took al look in > /usr/lib64/ and I can find trace of python2.4 python2.5 python2.6 > python2.7 python3.1 . Are those folders (2.4; 2.5; 2.6) needed anymore? > If no, why are the still there? Is there anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] The difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'

2011-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.03.2011 16:50, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > Hello list! > > Please bear awhile with the Gento n00b here... > > If I have a package 'xyz-1.1.0' already installed, and there's a newer > 'xyz-1.2.0', what's the difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and > 'emerge xyz'? > > The latter I saw also

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:22 AM, KH wrote: > Am 25.03.2011 05:48, schrieb Paul Hartman: >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dale wrote: >>> And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6?  I don't >>> think we want to break something, portage in particular.  ;-) >> >> I have no

[gentoo-user] The difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'

2011-03-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Please bear awhile with the Gento n00b here... If I have a package 'xyz-1.1.0' already installed, and there's a newer 'xyz-1.2.0', what's the difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'? The latter I saw also pulled in and installed the latest version. So, I am confused

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-forensics/chkrootkit finds INFECTED binaries on ~amd64

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: > I just got an email from cron on my ~amd64 machine, containing these lines: > > Checking 'find'... INFECTED > Checking 'netstat'... INFECTED > > Took me a few minutes to deduce that sys-forensics/chkrootkit was the source > of those messages.  I ran c

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

2011-03-28 Thread KH
Am 25.03.2011 05:48, schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dale wrote: >> And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6? I don't >> think we want to break something, portage in particular. ;-) > > I have no trace of python-2.6 on my system at this point and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 update: re-emerge of cracklib failed, how can I fix it?

2011-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:34:29 +0200, Mr. Jarry wrote: > BTW, when we are at the subject, is it possible to switch to python 3.x, > and get rid of python 2.x completely? I noticed there are still both > versions of python installed: 2.7.1 and 3.1.3... Possible, yes. Advisable, no. Many (most?) Pyth

Re: [gentoo-user] Xulrunner 2.0 seems to demand Alsa : any advice ?

2011-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.03.2011 20:51, schrieb Philip Webb: > Wanting to try Firefox 4.0 , I tried to emerge Xulrunner 2.0 > & ran into this problem : > > root:526 profile> emerge -pv xulrunner > ... > net-libs/xulrunner-2.0 [1.9.2.15] USE="-alsa -crashreporter% > -custom-optimization dbu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 update: re-emerge of cracklib failed, how can I fix it?

2011-03-28 Thread Mr. Jarry
Apparently, both methods work. But I agree your way is easier... BTW, when we are at the subject, is it possible to switch to python 3.x, and get rid of python 2.x completely? I noticed there are still both versions of python installed: 2.7.1 and 3.1.3... Jarrry On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:13 PM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread JM
On 28 March 2011 10:11, Mick wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2011 09:43:47 JM wrote: > > to-posting? > > Neil meant to say "top-posting": > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > > and > > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > > (there are many links if you google about netiquette and usen

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:43:47 +0100, JM wrote: > to-posting? > > Am I using the wrong email address for replying to the list? > > Please excuse my ignorance :) No, I'm using a new netbook with a less sensitive keyboard than the old one. I meant top-posting. > > On 28 March 2011 09:32, Neil Bot

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 March 2011 09:43:47 JM wrote: > to-posting? Neil meant to say "top-posting": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style and http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html (there are many links if you google about netiquette and usenet etiquette). BTW, some typos like Neil's are allowed

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread JM
to-posting? Am I using the wrong email address for replying to the list? Please excuse my ignorance :) On 28 March 2011 09:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:23:15 +0100, JM wrote: > > > You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the > > troublesome packages? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm and write caching

2011-03-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 March 2011 09:11:51 Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > Running a box with 2x1TB software raid disks. > A while back I read up about disk write caching and it's pros/cons. > > I then decided to disable it on my box. > Edited /etc/conf.d/hdparm and added -W0 for sata_all_args. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:23:15 +0100, JM wrote: > You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the > troublesome packages? Yes, by setting in in portage.accept_keywords. BTW - to-posting is frowned upon on this list. -- Neil Bothwick Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and so

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread JM
You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the troublesome packages? On 27 March 2011 22:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrote: > > > You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing: > > > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge --update --deep

[gentoo-user] hdparm and write caching

2011-03-28 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Running a box with 2x1TB software raid disks. A while back I read up about disk write caching and it's pros/cons. I then decided to disable it on my box. Edited /etc/conf.d/hdparm and added -W0 for sata_all_args. And added it to the default runlevel. It works, on bootup it turns off w

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-forensics/chkrootkit finds INFECTED binaries on ~amd64

2011-03-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 March 2011 22:09:00 walt wrote: > I just got an email from cron on my ~amd64 machine, containing these lines: > > Checking 'find'... INFECTED > Checking 'netstat'... INFECTED > > Took me a few minutes to deduce that sys-forensics/chkrootkit was the > source of those messages. I ran