Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 Mar 2015 03:53:57 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:49:54 PM walt wrote: > > I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com > > using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. > > > > Anyone else see the same with firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] getting blocks for system and world update not resolved

2015-03-17 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 5:11:25 AM Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi people! > I have problems getting these blocks at a system update solved... > > I executed: > emerge --backtrack=30 -fuDN @system @world > > > Any ideas ?! > > ... > ... > ... > [blocks B ] (" virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:49:54 PM walt wrote: > BTW, I tried the latest firefox in a Win7 virtual machine and I was > shocked to see that firefox was updating itself when I was logged in > as an unprivileged user (i.e. *not* an Administrator). Are the idiots > at M$ *really* that stupid? They

Re: [gentoo-user] getting blocks for system and world update not resolved

2015-03-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 09:11 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi people! > I have problems getting these blocks at a system update solved... > > I executed: > emerge --backtrack=30 -fuDN @system @world > > > Any ideas ?! > > ... > ... > ... > [blocks B ] (" virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.670.0) > [block

[gentoo-user] getting blocks for system and world update not resolved

2015-03-17 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people! I have problems getting these blocks at a system update solved... I executed: emerge --backtrack=30 -fuDN @system @world Any ideas ?! ... ... ... [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:49:54 PM walt wrote: > I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com > using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. > > Anyone else see the same with firefox-36? > > BTW, I tried the latest firefox in a Win7 virtual machine an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 06:15 PM, walt wrote: > On 03/17/2015 05:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: >> Mozilla installs a >> privileged service that auto updates its software. > > Interesting. I didn't know about 'privileged services' in Windows. > I hope M$ grants these 'privileges' carefully. You mean the user.

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread walt
On 03/17/2015 05:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > Mozilla installs a > privileged service that auto updates its software. Interesting. I didn't know about 'privileged services' in Windows. I hope M$ grants these 'privileges' carefully.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
On 03/17/2015 07:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Anyone else see the same with firefox-36? BTW, I tried the latest firefox in a Win7 virtual machine and I was shocked to see t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: > I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com > using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. > > Anyone else see the same with firefox-36? I haven't tried, honestly. But I have had problems with Firefox not including

[gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread walt
I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Anyone else see the same with firefox-36? BTW, I tried the latest firefox in a Win7 virtual machine and I was shocked to see that firefox was updating itself when I

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2015-03-13 um 15:11 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:55:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >>> See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid >>> having to update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID >>> device. >>> >>> % mount | grep boot /dev/md0 on /bo

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/03/2015 22:16, Dale wrote: >> Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: > Your basic problem is that you have static and static-libs in USE. When > applied to lvm, a whole bunch of blockers kick in and you ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:42 AM, German wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:03:21 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> Canek had asked whether you were using systemd and therefore logind. >> Since you're using openrc, perhaps you should check whether installing >> consolekit is a fix because it's the precursor

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/03/2015 22:20, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> I've gotten to the point where I can make sense of portage output (it >> took a while!) but I have no idea how to explain how I do it :-) >> Portage makes a very fundamental blunder - it exposes the underlying >> implementation in the outpu

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/03/2015 22:16, Dale wrote: > Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: Your basic problem is that you have static and static-libs in USE. When applied to lvm, a whole bunch of blockers kick in and you get what you got. So take

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread German
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:14:03 +0200 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2015, at 21:52, German wrote: > > > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:39:46 +0200 > > Matti Nykyri wrote: > > > >>> On Mar 17, 2015, at 19:33, German wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:16:42 +0200 > >>> Matti Nykyri wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: man portage (latest version?)

2015-03-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/17/2015 03:08 PM, James wrote: > > >> It will probably be in EAPI6 under a different name, but I don't >> think there's any code written yet. > > Is there a preliminary doc on EAPI6? I know there is still some > unfinished business therein, but, the sooner we can start reading > the bett

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > I've gotten to the point where I can make sense of portage output (it > took a while!) but I have no idea how to explain how I do it :-) > Portage makes a very fundamental blunder - it exposes the underlying > implementation in the output. The odds are very slim the average u

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Dale
Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> Your basic problem is that you have static and static-libs in USE. When >>> applied to lvm, a whole bunch of blockers kick in and you get what you >>> got. So take them out of USE. >>> >>> USE="static st

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Mar 17, 2015, at 21:52, German wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:39:46 +0200 > Matti Nykyri wrote: > >>> On Mar 17, 2015, at 19:33, German wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:16:42 +0200 >>> Matti Nykyri wrote: >>> >> On Mar 17, 2015, at 18:11, German wrote: >> >> Don't

[gentoo-user] Re: man portage (latest version?)

2015-03-17 Thread James
Michael Orlitzky gentoo.org> writes: > $ git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git > Then, from within the repo, > $ man man/portage.5 FANTASTIC! > Search for "repos.conf". Yep, lots of excellent, current info! > The epatch_user function comes from eutils.eclass (you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread German
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:39:46 +0200 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2015, at 19:33, German wrote: > > > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:16:42 +0200 > > Matti Nykyri wrote: > > > On Mar 17, 2015, at 18:11, German wrote: > > Don't hit your head to a brick wall. A small strace to the

[gentoo-user] Re: man portage (latest version?)

2015-03-17 Thread James
Michael Orlitzky gentoo.org> writes: > $ git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git OK so in the /usr/local/portage dir I started this process. Its downloading at a blistering 20-30 KiB/s. I about to call the ISP, but in the the mean time here are a few more comments. Wow

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/03/2015 20:10, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Your basic problem is that you have static and static-libs in USE. When >> applied to lvm, a whole bunch of blockers kick in and you get what you >> got. So take them out of USE. >> >> USE="static static-libs" has it's uses, it's great f

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Mar 17, 2015, at 19:33, German wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:16:42 +0200 > Matti Nykyri wrote: > On Mar 17, 2015, at 18:11, German wrote: Don't hit your head to a brick wall. A small strace to the login process reveals that login set things as you tell it to in /

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Your basic problem is that you have static and static-libs in USE. When >> applied to lvm, a whole bunch of blockers kick in and you get what you >> got. So take them out of USE. >> >> USE="static static-libs" has it's uses,

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Your basic problem is that you have static and static-libs in USE. When > applied to lvm, a whole bunch of blockers kick in and you get what you > got. So take them out of USE. > > USE="static static-libs" has it's uses, it's great for building rescue > disks, busybox and m

Re: [gentoo-user] man portage (latest version?)

2015-03-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/17/2015 01:41 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html > > (vintage feb_2014) > This seems to be the latest version of the portage man page I can > find that is publicly published. Are there any more recent > versions, publicly published?

[gentoo-user] man portage (latest version?)

2015-03-17 Thread James
Hello, https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html (vintage feb_2014) This seems to be the latest version of the portage man page I can find that is publicly published. Are there any more recent versions, publicly published? What is(are) the best doc(s) on repos.conf and epat

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc->systemd command comparison

2015-03-17 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:20:45 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 03/17/2015 06:56 AM, Bob Wya wrote: > >> I've not seen any that are OpenRC specific... But this one is pretty > >> decent for SysVInit vs. systemd... > >> http://linoxide.com/li

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread German
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:16:42 +0200 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2015, at 18:11, German wrote: > > > >> Don't hit your head to a brick wall. A small strace to the login process > >> reveals that login set things as you tell it to in /etc/login.defs > >> > >> In this file change the line:

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/03/2015 19:01, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 17/03/2015 03:43, Dale wrote: >> >> [...snip] >> >>> root@fireball / # emerge -uvaDN world -t >>> >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >>> >>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>> [nomerge ] lxde-base

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc->systemd command comparison

2015-03-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 03/17/2015 06:56 AM, Bob Wya wrote: >> I've not seen any that are OpenRC specific... But this one is pretty >> decent for SysVInit vs. systemd... >> http://linoxide.com/linux-command/systemd-vs-sysvinit-cheatsheet/ > > Yeah I found one simi

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Mar 17, 2015, at 18:11, German wrote: > >> Don't hit your head to a brick wall. A small strace to the login process >> reveals that login set things as you tell it to in /etc/login.defs >> >> In this file change the line: >> TTYPERM 0600 >> To: >> TTYPERM 0620 >> >> And your problem is fi

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/03/2015 03:43, Dale wrote: > > [...snip] > >> root@fireball / # emerge -uvaDN world -t >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> [nomerge ] lxde-base/lxde-meta-0.5.5-r4::gentoo >> [nomerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-17 Thread Mick
I managed to recover the files on the CD! I used ddrescue which eventually was able to read the media and then ran photorec to retrieve the jpeg photos from the rescued image. ddrescue could not read the CD every time, but reinserting a few times on my laptop managed to start reading it. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread German
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:53:44 +0200 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2015, at 12:47, German wrote: > > > > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 + > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: > >> > Forget about "chmod 770". Better do a "chmod g+rw". :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:15:38 + (UTC), James wrote: > > >EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources @dev-java " > NOw this is strange. Today it only wants to delete a few packages: > > All selected packages: =dev-lang/vala-0.26.2 =dev-java/junit-4.11 > =dev-java/jmock-1.1.0-r2 =dev-java

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't locate Net/IMAP/Client.pm

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 04.03.2015 um 16:51 schrieb Michael Orlitzky: On 03/04/2015 05:16 AM, hw wrote: You could try app-portage/g-cpan and seeing if that will install it. I believe I read a few months ago that it's in need of maintenance, but I'd expect it to work in most packages. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/e

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread German
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:03:21 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 AM, German wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 01:16:32 +0100 wrote: > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> So it seems that after login you first have to chmod 770 the tty > >>> before you do a su - user (user have to be in group tty

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't locate Net/IMAP/Client.pm

2015-03-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/17/2015 11:35 AM, hw wrote: > > For now, I've installed the missing module with cpan. Are we actually > supposed to run cpan as root to be able to put the required files into > the library directory? > You aren't supposed to use CPAN at all, it will break stuff. Here's an ebuild for dev-p

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-17 Thread German
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: > > > > Forget about "chmod 770". Better do a "chmod g+rw". :-) > > > > Tried it, it also doesn't stay permanently. OK, no solution :( > > The correct solution is a udev rule, but it a

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc->systemd command comparison

2015-03-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 06:56 AM, Bob Wya wrote: > I've not seen any that are OpenRC specific... But this one is pretty > decent for SysVInit vs. systemd... > http://linoxide.com/linux-command/systemd-vs-sysvinit-cheatsheet/ Yeah I found one similar to that, but located elsewhere. Maybe if I have some time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 02:25, James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > >>> I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that >>> it will updated but not depclean out those packages. > >> A set can be simply a list of packages in a file in /etc/portage/sets. > > > Ok so I

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-17 Thread James
Bruce Schultz gmail.com> writes: >>> emerge --depclean -p case (1) > >EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources @dev-java " NOw this is strange. Today it only wants to delete a few packages: All selected packages: =dev-lang/vala-0.26.2 =dev-java/junit-4.11 =dev-java/jmock-1.1.0-r2 =de

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc->systemd command comparison

2015-03-17 Thread Bob Wya
I've not seen any that are OpenRC specific... But this one is pretty decent for SysVInit vs. systemd... http://linoxide.com/linux-command/systemd-vs-sysvinit-cheatsheet/ On 17 March 2015 at 01:58, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > > Hey al

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng requiring logrotate?

2015-03-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 Mar 2015 09:25:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/03/2015 11:23, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > > > wasn't there some option for syslog-ng to do log rotation by itself, or > > are we supposed to have logrotate installed along with it? > > the latter metalog does its own rotation, syslog-ng req

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng requiring logrotate?

2015-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/03/2015 11:23, hw wrote: > Hi, > > wasn't there some option for syslog-ng to do log rotation by itself, or > are we supposed to have logrotate installed along with it? > the latter -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng requiring logrotate?

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Hi, wasn't there some option for syslog-ng to do log rotation by itself, or are we supposed to have logrotate installed along with it?

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/03/2015 03:43, Dale wrote: [...snip] > root@fireball / # emerge -uvaDN world -t > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [nomerge ] lxde-base/lxde-meta-0.5.5-r4::gentoo > [nomerge ] x11-misc/pcmanfm-1.2.3::gent