Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 09 Jan 2014 16:10:11 walt wrote: > #cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf > PORTDIR_OVERLAY='/usr/local/portage' You're short of the rest of the definition. Here's mine: $ cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" /var/lib/layman/owncloud-client $PORTDIR_OVERLAY " Of course there's no

Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:10:11 -0800 walt wrote: > I'm a layman noob, so I'm probably making a noob mistake here. Can > you spot the error for me please? No problem, let's find wally ... I mean ... the error. :) > #ls -la /var/lib/layman/ > total 312 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:23

[gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-09 Thread walt
I'm a layman noob, so I'm probably making a noob mistake here. Can you spot the error for me please? #ls -la /var/lib/layman/ total 312 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:23 . drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 Dec 13 15:11 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 9 15:16 .keep_app-portage_layman-

[gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread James
Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at> writes: > yesterday I started to upgrade an older gentoo server at a customer. It > has only been updated now and then as they tend to save money and rarely > contact me ... > I would like to avoid to have to drive there so it would be great to be > able to fix

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about History file

2014-01-09 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > I do know that once, long ago, I tried to get bash to do proper command > logging for our general-purpose gateway hosts that have 500+ users. It > was a nightmare and I eventually concluded that history, logging and > such things are 100% the province of the us

[gentoo-user] Re: GSOC discussion

2014-01-09 Thread James
Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuzetsu.co.uk> writes: > On 07/01/14 14:35, Vladimir Romanov wrote: > > Wow. Can i try to do this task (aside of GSOC, simply because it's > > interesting)? Well, it's just a "raw idea" that needs quite a bit of further thought. Basically, you need a mentor and a project to w

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:01:28 +0100 Tamer Higazi wrote: > I want to update the system and then world, but still have a lots of > blocks and don't know how to solve that. There is only _one_ block: [blocks B ] The above block stopping resolution. -> A too low backtrack value stopping

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 03:47:43PM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote > Hi! > > I don't want gnome3. I am very happy with Gnome 2. How can we keep that?! > > I would change the profile even. > > I am on systemd profile and my profile list is: > > Available profile symlink targets: > [1] default/

Re: Portage & Python3 - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:59:16 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > Is there any plan to eventually move portage to python3? It isn't like > python3 hasn't been out for a while now... ;) USE="python3" emerge -1 portage I've been sing that for a long time, but this is Gentoo, it is up to the individual to de

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Tamer Higazi
I tried, and I get still blocks, independently which PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET I make use of! http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=hVLKC1J5 Any ideas ?! Tamer On 01/09/14 13:34, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:01:28PM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote: >> I want to update the system and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi! I don't want gnome3. I am very happy with Gnome 2. How can we keep that?! I would change the profile even. I am on systemd profile and my profile list is: Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/amd64/13.0 [2] default/linux/amd64/13.0/selinux [3] default/linux/a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Confusion about slot conflict

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 Jan 2014 12:31:52 I wrote: > I'm having a similar problem on my local LAN server, an Atom box. I sync > daily, and I've just synced again to make sure (31000 files, yet again, > nearly all in metadata). > > The Atom's packages directory is NFS-mounted in a 32-bit chroot on my > wor

Re: [gentoo-user] disable numlock on netbook

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 09 Jan 2014 11:21:36 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I'm going to let sleeping dogs lie and leave this issue alone for now. > If I'm lucky it won't recur :-) I like the reference to dogs and curs... -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday 09 Jan 2014 12:34:03 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:01:28PM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote: > > I want to update the system and then world, but still have a lots of > > blocks and don't know how to solve that. > > > > emerge error output: > > http://pastebin.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 12:29, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:16:01 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> I only have python 2.7 / 3.2 / 3.3 now installed. > > Bear n mind that portage will stick with python2, whatever your > eselect settings, unless you emerged it with the python3 USE f

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:01:28PM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote: > I want to update the system and then world, but still have a lots of > blocks and don't know how to solve that. > > emerge error output: > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XTKQHUjk > > On the gentoo forums nobody could help me. > > Per

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Ralf Ramsauer
What I try to do in such cases (I know this is not the best solution, but it always works quite good) is to uninstall all packages that cause problems. After the world update, you can reinstall those. In your case, i would try to uninstall - libreoffice - qt* - all blocking packages But this

[gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Tamer Higazi
I want to update the system and then world, but still have a lots of blocks and don't know how to solve that. emerge error output: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XTKQHUjk On the gentoo forums nobody could help me. Perhaps here any ideas ?!

Portage & Python3 - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-09 6:29 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Bear n mind that portage will stick with python2, whatever your eselect settings, unless you emerged it with the python3 USE flag. I have wondered... Is there any plan to eventually move portage to python3? It isn't like python3 hasn't been out for

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update 2.16 > 2.17 - python relocation error at end of emerge

2014-01-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-09 4:24 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 08/01/2014 20:03, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2014-01-08 11:54 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I just updated glibc to 2.1.17, and got the following error at the very end of the emerge: /usr/bin/python2.7: relocation error: /lib64/libresolv.so.2: symbol __sendmms

Re: [gentoo-user] updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:16:01 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > I only have python 2.7 / 3.2 / 3.3 now installed. Bear n mind that portage will stick with python2, whatever your eselect settings, unless you emerged it with the python3 USE flag. -- Neil Bothwick WINDOWS: Will Install Needles

Re: [gentoo-user] updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 11:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > glibc-2.17 *builds* OK (emerge -B) but does not install ... when I > read correctly it does not find the class eutils.class (which is there > ...). Additional: I would not mind staying with 2.16 ... as I run with it right now, it is only porta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Did you try www.sysresccd.org/ version 3.8.1? I'm not sure if it is > based on > glibc-2.17, yet. 2.15-r3 ... just booted it in a VM and looked it up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 11:15, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > You can't test all of memory, especially not low memory. > But if you had a problem with some chip mapped to low memory > I doubt Linux would even boot. > Furthermore, memtester locks pages, i.e. it disables paging. > So the machine might not be very

Re: [gentoo-user] updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 08:07, schrieb Mick: > If dev-lang/python:2.7 does not allow you to emerge glibc then use > eselect to switch --python2 to an older python available in that > box and try emerging glibc with that. You may have to repeat this > until successful (hopefully) with dev-lang/python:2.7.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/09/2014 10:59:45 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > You can use sys-apps/memtester without physical access to the machine. > I had cases where memtester found errors which memtest86 didn't. > One of these cases was a machine which probably ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > You can use sys-apps/memtester without physical access to the machine. > I had cases where memtester found errors which memtest86 didn't. > One of these cases was a machine which probably had a cache coherence > problem > since the error showed up on

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update 2.16 > 2.17 - python relocation error at end of emerge

2014-01-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/01/2014 20:03, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2014-01-08 11:54 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> I just updated glibc to 2.1.17, and got the following error at the very >> end of the emerge: >> >>> /usr/bin/python2.7: relocation error: /lib64/libresolv.so.2: symbol >>> __sendmmsg, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not def

Re: [gentoo-user] disable numlock on netbook

2014-01-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/01/2014 22:05, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 01/05/2014 01:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> I have Gentoo on a first gen Acer Aspire One. The teeny keyboard doesn't >> have a numpad, it's simulated by using the right-hand bunch of keys and >> you engage it with Fn-F11 >> >> It's recently started boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/08/2014 11:39:21 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 08.01.2014 19:47, schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2014-01-08, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Looking forward to some clever suggestions ;-) > > Well, I'd start by running memtest86 overnight just to eliminate the > possibility of marginal m