[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders

2010-09-02 Thread Jim Cunning
On 09/01/2010 10:44 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: Hi, I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with very large folders (thousands of archived messages). IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x t

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders

2010-08-31 Thread Jim Cunning
I decided to give thunderbird (and its integrated calendar, lightning) a try after having some troubles with kontact corrupting and deleting events on a webdav calendar. I initially tried thunderbird 3.0.4 (which I think didn't actually have the calendar integrated--not really significant), and

[gentoo-user] Kontact folder and memory issues

2010-06-16 Thread Jim Cunning
I have recently started to experience two annoying issues with kontact/kmail. Sometime after an emerge world update in the last couple of weeks, kontact has started consuming huge amounts of RAM and swap. Currently "ps" for kontact shows: USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
On Friday 07 May 2010 17:04:22 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an > > emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails. I now > > have just the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit: > > [...] >

[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails. I now have just the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 [4.

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Nepomuk can't find database backend

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Cunning
On Friday 16 April 2010 12:42:44 Mark Knecht wrote: [...] > > So if I'm clear about this, you have a stable AMD64 system with ~AMD64 KDE? > > If you upgraded from KDE 4.3 did you try deleting all the old KDE > configuration stuff and starting new? I've not had your problems with > nepomuk but I r

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk can't find database backend

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Cunning
On Thursday 15 April 2010 14:01:02 Jim Cunning wrote: > I have KDE 4.4.2 installed on an AMD64 system. On login, I get the popup > "Nepomuk was not able to find the configured database backend 'sesame2'. > Existing data can thus not be" > > I have installed: &

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly [SOLVED]

2010-01-20 Thread Jim Cunning
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 02:57:30 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > For Konqueror, you turn it of in the Web Browsing section of the > > settings, the last item. I don't use KMail but I expect this will affect > > KMail too, or KMail will have a

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-19 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:50:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail. > > IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you > > to the link labelled D > >

[gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-19 Thread Jim Cunning
I have noticed for a long time, and continuing with KDE 4.4, that kmail/kontact shows a bunch of small popup window boxes, each containing a single letter, whenever it's displaying a message and the control key is pressed and released. Another depression/release of the control key removes the

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30

2009-10-20 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 07:15:45 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning wrote: [...] > > vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. > > Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel > &

[gentoo-user] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30

2009-10-19 Thread Jim Cunning
I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 and now cannot build the vmware kernel- modules-1.0.0.15-r2 that I need for vmware-workstation-5.5.9. I've seen references on google searches that kernel-modules-1.0.0.25 will work for vmware-5.3 up to vmware-6.something. vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *

[gentoo-user] Strange sunbird segfault

2009-10-18 Thread Jim Cunning
I normally keep mozilla-sunbird calendar running on my desktop. Occasionally, I find that it has disappeared and when I attempt to restart it, it fails with a segfault. It has happened twice now that I have been unable to restart sunbird for a matter of several hours, and then with no other ch

Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] mozilla-sunbird segfaults

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:52:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:12:45 Jim Cunning wrote: > > I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging > > out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:10:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, you wrote: > > On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > > > > I recently upgraded to KDE

[gentoo-user] mozilla-sunbird segfaults

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event

Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > > I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could > > have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I > > logg

[gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-12 Thread Jim Cunning
I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to "kontact", but I canno

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails SOLVED

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Cunning
On Friday 18 September 2009 02:50:03 Arttu V. wrote: > On 9/18/09, Jim Cunning wrote: > > Trying to emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails with the following error: > > === > > checking for sh... /bin/sh > > checking Python bindings f

[gentoo-user] Emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Cunning
Trying to emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails with the following error: === checking for sh... /bin/sh checking Python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2>=2.10.0)... configure: error: T

[gentoo-user] How to get an old ebuild

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Cunning
I am currently running kernel 2.6.25-r7 and have an emerge that fails because it can't find a Makefile for the kernel. I somehow no longer can run genkernel, or emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r7. I would rather not upgrade my kernel at this point--how can I find/emerge this slightly o

[gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Cunning
I am trying to install KDE 4.2 or 4.3 on a stable KDE 3.5.10 system, following the guidelines in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml, and the emerge fails with the following blocks: --- [blocks B ] net-wireless/bluez-libs ("

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Jim Cunning
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 14:07:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > please consider searching the email archives for this list in the future. > The phonon mess has been explained only a few days ago. > > as a kde user you want media-sound/phonon > all you need to know: > http://ben.liveforge.org/2009/

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
On Monday 04 May 2009 18:10:50 Saphirus Sage wrote: > Jim Cunning wrote: > > I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented > > characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard > > layouts and can get the proper characters displa

[gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl- sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped working corre

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Cunning
I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are simply de

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Cunning
On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > > I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is > > beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned > > two 1T disks into RA

[gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Cunning
I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, make them bootable and abandon booting from the 250G disk. I know I'll