Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:46:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:22 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Mick did > opine > > thusly: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 21:32:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 21:34 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did > > > > > > opi

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 06:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:01 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick > did opine thusly: > >> On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic >> > Alan, but

[gentoo-user] open-vm-tools "FATAL: Module vmblock not found"

I've emerged open-vm-tools, but why does startup now showing "FATAL: Module vmblock not found." ? That said, system boots okay. It's a virtualized (cloud) server on top of VMware vSphere Cloud. When I created the VM, I specified using PV-SCSI instead of LSI Logic. Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Op

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

On 05/17/2011 11:51 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Valmor de Almeida > mailto:val.gen...@gmail.com>> wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > Hello, > > > > What controls the screen output to an external monitor > connected to a > > laptop du

Re: [gentoo-user] Double mount entry?

-- 8< -- lots of snippage -- >8 -- Thanks everyone for the answers! I had thought my system had gone mad. Apparently not. :-) Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 05/17/2011 11:20 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Valmor de Almeida > > wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > What controls the screen output to an external monitor connect

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

I don't know if this is considered hijacking this thread or not but I have a similar issue getting my kde to remember its screen layout. Two screens with different resolutions and kde just will NOT remember what I tell it to do. Is there some secret X mojo I have to do to the X configuration files

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

On 05/17/2011 11:20 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Valmor de Almeida > wrote: > > > Hello, > > What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a > laptop during boot or when just using a plain console witho

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a > laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X > server running? Before a recent update the output would just > automatically go to a

[gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X server running? Before a recent update the output would just automatically go to an external monitor when one is connected. Now it does not; not sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011/5/17 Florian Philipp > Am 17.05.2011 22:22, schrieb Mick: > > It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the > > boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try > to > > explain: > > > > In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an applicati

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

William Hubbs wrote: Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and av

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

William Hubbs wrote: Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and av

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:35:30 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 17.05.2011 22:22, schrieb Mick: > > It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the > > boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try > > to explain: > > > > In KDE4.5 if I were to maximis

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 22:09:41 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 21:22:56 +0100, Mick wrote: > > In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was > > positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy all of > > the real estate in the left monitor only.

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

Apparently, though unproven, at 00:22 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 21:32:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 21:34 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did > > > > opine thusly: > > > On 17 May 2011 08:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I c

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

Am 17.05.2011 22:22, schrieb Mick: > It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the > boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to > explain: > > In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was > positioned say in th

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

Apparently, though unproven, at 22:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: > It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the > boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to > explain: > > In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of a

Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

> "I" == Indi writes: Leafnode works fine here. I> Output of xinetd -d Looks fine. In addition to the other reply's suggestions, does running /usr/sbin/leafnode from a root shell work? Have you run fetchnews at least once? -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

On Tue, 17 May 2011 21:22:56 +0100, Mick wrote: > In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was > positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy all of > the real estate in the left monitor only. If the application was in > the right monitor, it would m

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 09:17:45 Yohan Pereira wrote: > i generally kill knotify and kded when they misbehave and haven't > encountered any noticeable problems after doing so. Yes, same here. Once I kill them, no problem thereafter. They don't seem to me to be related to some process running pur

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

Apparently, though unproven, at 21:34 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: > On 17 May 2011 08:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 08:23 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did > > opine > > > > thusly: > >> eukit >= 1.0.999 > >> ehal > >> ) were not met: > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message

Hi, Walt. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:07:38AM -0700, walt wrote: > On 05/16/2011 02:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > Would somebody please help me. > > In every program in Gnome, there is a help menu. When I click on any of > > them, I get the wierd error message: > > Couldn

[gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to explain: In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy all

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 17:57:42 Blakawk wrote: > As far as i remember, i don't see why modification times will enter in > the md5sum computation process, as they are not part of the file but of > the filesystem's inode... it's definitely possible to compare two > binaries on two different syst

[gentoo-user] Re: ldd -r /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 = undefined symbol:

On 05/16/2011 02:06 PM, Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, does anyone knows how to solve it? > Reemerging did nothing > > ldd -r /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 (snippage) > undefined symbol: _ZN5QHashIi15QHashDummyValueE13detach_helperEv > (/usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2) > undefined symbol: _ZN5

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

On 17 May 2011 08:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 08:23 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine > thusly: >>   eukit >= 1.0.999 >>   ehal >> ) were not met: >> >> No package 'ehal' found > > e17 from svn works fine here. > > What version are you trying to install? These

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: > So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the > same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is > weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and available to > the us

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

On 17/5/2011, at 4:52pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > ... > What you want to do is: find the bug. Or, y'know: just `emerge -e world` and see if it goes away. I know this is a bit of brute force & ignorance, but: 1) if the bug goes away when you recompile everything then it was a difficult b

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

On 17/5/2011, at 11:43am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On 2011-05-17, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> grep "GET /Tmp/Linux/G" | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v | >>> \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc >>> >> ... >> awk does pattern match

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message

On 05/16/2011 02:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > Would somebody please help me. > > In every program in Gnome, there is a help menu. When I click on any of > them, I get the wierd error message: > > Couldn't display help > The specified location is not supported > > Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

Leonardo 2011/5/17 Paul Hartman > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. > > > > Still, on one of these machines KDE cr

[gentoo-user] Re: Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

Helmut Jarausch igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. > How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations. Tricky problem. Maybe set up the good machine to buil

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

On Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines K

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. > > Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- > kde-authenticatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

Good day, Helmut! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. "Nearly identical" is a bit like "slightly pregnant". How about ma

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 09:49:52 Paul Hartman wrote: > Have you been looking at my computer?? ;) As if I'd admit that over an open forum? ;) -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

Hello, On Tue, 17 May 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: >grep "GET /Tmp/Linux/G" | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v | \ >awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc useless use of ... awk '/GET \/Tmp\/Linux\/G/{ips[$1]++;}END{print length(ips);}' \ /var/log/apache2/access_log I add each access to ips

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. > > Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- > kde-authenticatio

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > Imagine a system that's been kept updated for over 10 years and a new kernel > comes out every month (on average) > You could end up with 120 of these, and then it would be 912MB... Have you been looking at my computer?? ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

On 2011-05-17, Alex Schuster wrote: > Juan Diego Tascón writes: > >> I have always wondered if there is a way to do awk '{ print $1}' using >> only builtin bash functions when you only have a one line string > > str="one two five" > > # remove all from the first blank on, but will not work with >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:58:20 +0100, Mick wrote: I'm beginning to think that openrc goes back to the "old" Linux way. In other words, it uses the init levels instead of softlevels. Yes, this seems to be the case, although not in a clear way (otherwise why is sof

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Juan Diego Tascón writes: > >> I have always wondered if there is a way to do awk '{ print $1}' using >> only builtin bash functions when you only have a one line string > > str="one two five" > > # remove all from the first blank on, but wil

[gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. On the other machine there is no probl

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild?

fe...@crowfix.com writes: > At any rate, it seems kind of odd. What is the proper way of using > module_rebuild?It seems to me there are two cases, and maybe that > is why this script has this odd code. If you have just built a brand > new kernel, you might want to rebuild the module list fr

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

Juan Diego Tascón writes: > I have always wondered if there is a way to do awk '{ print $1}' using > only builtin bash functions when you only have a one line string str="one two five" # remove all from the first blank on, but will not work with # other whitespace echo ${str%% *} or # set $1,

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On 2011-05-17, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> grep "GET /Tmp/Linux/G" | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v | >>> \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc >>> >>> In true grand Unix trad

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 16 May 2011 20:55:39 Dale wrote: root@smoker / # du -shc /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/ 7.6M/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/ 7.6Mtotal root@smoker / # It's not much but it could help. Imagine a system that's been kept updated for over 10 years a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > > Okay - that's not entirely KDE's problem; though it would have helped a > > long way with the KDE4 transition if they kept a few people working on > > those issues. > > How would you feel if you were a KDE dev told "we're all going to play

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

On 2011-05-17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> grep "GET /Tmp/Linux/G" | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v | >> \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc >> >> In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more >> effective tha

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:40:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 09:16 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick > did opine thusly: > > > While we are nitpicking: > > > > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, > > > That should be "greatest writer

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and a Mobile Phone

On 05/17/2011 06:10 AM, Dave Kuhl wrote: > I had mail forwarding turned on, so my replies to gentoo-user were getting > kicked. Hopefully adding myself and then replying will keep this the same > thread. > > > > > > From: Florian Philipp > To: gentoo-user@l

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

Apparently, though unproven, at 11:21 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:35:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost > > Roeleveld > > > > did opine thusly: > > > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:1

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:19:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:22:35 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) > > > > [nipick] "even form me"? :P [/nitpick] > > I think we should both be more careful with our typing when nit-

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:35:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost > Roeleveld > > did opine thusly: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer > > > > Who do you clas

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:22:35 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) > > [nipick] "even form me"? :P [/nitpick] I think we should both be more careful with our typing when nit-picking :( -- Neil Bothwick COMMAND: A suggestion made to

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On Tue, 17 May 2011 09:29:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, > That should be "greatest writer", the other fellow was not the greatest > - he merely wrote soap operas. I don't know what you mean, unless you mistakenly assumed I was referr

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:58:20 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I'm beginning to think that openrc goes back to the "old" Linux way. > > In other words, it uses the init levels instead of softlevels. > > Yes, this seems to be the case, although not in a clear way (otherwise > why is softlevel=nonetwork w

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer > > Who do you class as the greatest English writer then? Paula Nancy Millstone Jennin

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

i generally kill knotify and kded when they misbehave and haven't encountered any noticeable problems after doing so. I hate it when i forget to check for these two before starting an overnight portage update. also heres a blog post related to the kded problem i seen on planet kde recently. ht

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer Who do you class as the greatest English writer then? > , so that should be > telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) [nipick] "even form me"? :P [/nitpick] -- Joos

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote: > > ... > > Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition > only, ... > > > > So how do i proceed? Is it; > > 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get the boot code (so b

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

Apparently, though unproven, at 09:16 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: While we are nitpicking: > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, That should be "greatest writer", the other fellow was not the greatest - he merely wrote soap operas. -- alan do

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:33:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > grep "GET /Tmp/Linux/G" | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v | > \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc > > In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more > effective than that > awk does pattern matching, o you

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: should be > referred to using the neuter form of pronouns, i.e. "it", as befitting > their overall contribution to humanity. > > You see what I did there? You see how I recovered with a witty reposte > without even blinking an eye? It take

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 fails to build from svn

Apparently, though unproven, at 08:23 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: > I had no problem building it on another gentoo box, but this one is > giving me a headache. > > All packages build fine until the last package enlightenment and then > it fails complaining about ... hal! > [s