[gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. KDE System Settings has a menu for setting a compose key, but tests with 'left-control' & 'pause' in Kons

[gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86 laptop, wicd stopped working, and no wicd was not updated neither was any other network related packages. Today after a reboot my wireless network refused to start from wicd, starting it manually works. This is a part of the w

[gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Thursday night, I emerged some packages Thu Feb 23 23:26:44 2012 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.6.3-r300 Thu Feb 23 23:29:44 2012 >>> www-client/midori-0.4.3 Thu Feb 23 23:45:36 2012 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.49 Thu Feb 23 23:52:50 2012 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.5.9 Thu Feb 23 23:53:45 2012 >>> sys-

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100 Dan Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86 > laptop, wicd stopped working, and no wicd was not updated neither was > any other network related packages. Today after a reboot my wireless > network refused to s

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:34:01AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100 > Dan Johansson wrote: > > After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86 > > laptop, wicd stopped working, and no wicd was not updated neither was > > any other n

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: > In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . > > Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, > but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. > > KDE System Settings has a menu fo

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 26 February 2012 10.52:58 Willie WY Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:34:01AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon > squawked: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100 > > Dan Johansson wrote: > > > After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86 > > > laptop, wicd s

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: >> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . >> Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, >> but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. >

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 07:44:37 schrieb Philip Webb: > 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: > >> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë > >> . > >> Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vi

[gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Jörg Schaible
Philip Webb wrote: > 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: >>> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie >>> ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, >>> but there's no sign of 'contr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > I get "Unrecognized command" from savedefault in grub: > > grub> savedefault --default=1 --once > Error 27: Unrecognized command Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb understands this? The documentation does not mention the --default option I think. > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
Willie WY Wong wrote: > On Thursday night, I emerged some packages > << SNIP >> > Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is > needlessly calling dhcpcd? > > Cheers, > W This may not be it but worth taking a look at. /etc/rc.conf From that file: # rc_hotp

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread walt
On 02/26/2012 01:35 AM, Willie WY Wong wrote: > Gee-Mi-Ni init.d # grep dhcpcd /etc/init.d/* > /etc/init.d/dhcpcd:command=/sbin/dhcpcd > /etc/init.d/dhcpcd:pidfile=/var/run/dhcpcd.pid > /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant: before dns dhcpcd net > > uh, apparently none of them? The net.lo script does

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the resident old fart around here > I beg your pardon. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:32:43AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > This may not be it but worth taking a look at. /etc/rc.conf From that > file: > > # rc_hotplug is a list of services that we allow to be hotplugged. > # By default we do not allow hotplugging. > # A hotplugged service is on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:35:30AM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked: > The value of ${IFACE} is set (I think) by looking at the ".lo" > or ".eth0" file extension of net.lo or net.eth0 (or whatever > symlink you created when you installed gentoo). If you don't > have a net.whatever symlink to net

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked: > Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is > needlessly calling dhcpcd? Apparently the culprit is /etc/init.d/netmount I am not sure how it got into the default run level, since I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Grant
>> I get "Unrecognized command" from savedefault in grub: >> >> grub> savedefault --default=1 --once >> Error 27: Unrecognized command > > Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb > understands this? The documentation does not mention the --default option > I think. > >> I re

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I'm the resident old fart around here > > > > I beg your pardon. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a fast connection, I bet *I'll* be the new resident old fart at 50 years of

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote: > On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote: > > On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE > > > 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
120226 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . >> Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, >> but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. >> KDE System Settings has a menu for setting a co

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2012, 21:14:21 schrieb Grant: > >> [snip] > >> > >> I'm amazed but disconnecting and reconnecting the IDE and power cable > >> fixed it. Which is your favorite tool for testing a HD's integrity > >> with and without S.M.A.R.T. support? > > > > [I] gnome-extra/gsmartcontro

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: > On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote: > > > On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood > > wrote: > > > > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running > > > > KDE 4.8.0 and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > > Have a look at 'info grub', 'Booting' -> 'Making your system robust', > > especially section 4.3.2 'Booting fallback systems'. That's what I > > used in order to test new kernels remotely. > > > >        Wonko > > I like that better. Where do you execute 'grub-set-default 0'?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 08:05:23 PM IST, Grant wrote: >>> I get "Unrecognized command" from savedefault in grub: >>> >>> grub> savedefault --default=1 --once >>> Error 27: Unrecognized command >> >> Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb >> understands this? The documentation do

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:19:54 +0100 Willie WY Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY > Wong squawked: > > Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript > > that is needlessly calling dhcpcd? > > Apparently the culprit is /etc/init.d/

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:36:49 -0600 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I'm the resident old fart around here > > > > > I beg your pardon. ;-) Yes Dale, *I* am the resident old fart. *You* are the hal breaker and finder/destroyer of stupid software. We discussed all this and agreed mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:41:41 -0600 John wrote: > On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > I'm the resident old fart around here > > > > > > > > I beg your pardon. ;-) > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:33:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Yes Dale, *I* am the resident old fart. I feel a Spartacus moment coming on... -- Neil Bothwick An expert is nothing more than an ordinary person away from home. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
Further investigation shows that both in Mandriva & in Gentoo the file ~/.kde4/share/config/kxkbrc has a line 'Options=compose:lctrl', so for some reason Kwrite & Kate are not recognising that setting. -- ,, SUPPORT ___

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread walt
On 02/26/2012 06:17 AM, Willie WY Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:35:30AM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked: >> The value of ${IFACE} is set (I think) by looking at the ".lo" >> or ".eth0" file extension of net.lo or net.eth0 (or whatever >> symlink you created when you installed gentoo).

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 26 February 2012 15.19:54 Willie WY Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong > squawked: > > Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is > > needlessly calling dhcpcd? > > Apparently the culprit is /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 26 February 2012 17.52:13 Dan Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2012 15.19:54 Willie WY Wong wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong > > squawked: > > > Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that > > > is >

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 26 February 2012 13.43:13 Dan Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2012 10.52:58 Willie WY Wong wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:34:01AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon > > squawked: > > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100 > > > Dan Johansson wrote: > > > > After running an

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to > download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available > methods, it's the most recent. But beware that you will still need to > download almost all

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread James Broadhead
On 26 February 2012 17:10, John wrote: > On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > >   > >> Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to >> download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available >> methods, it's the most recent. But beware th

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:10:50 -0600 John wrote: > On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > > > Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to > > download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the > > available methods, it's the most rece

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dan Johansson squawked: > > Yes, that was it, killing the dhcpcd made it possible to bring the > > interface up and associate with the AP. > > As openrc was one of the packages upgraded yesterday (0.9.8.4 -> 0.9.9.1) I > > assume (guess) tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:31:23PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > Here's what I've found after much up & down-grading and rebooting: > > First, I've had netmount in the default runlevel for ages and it's > worked for ages even though it does nothing. > Second, openrc has been launc

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:10:50 -0600 > > John wrote: > > On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > > > Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to > > > download the stage3 as these are bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:36:49 -0600 > Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> I'm the resident old fart around here >>> >> >> >> I beg your pardon. ;-) > > > Yes Dale, *I* am the resident old fart. > > *You* are the hal breaker and finder/destroyer of stupid softwar

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
John wrote: > On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> I'm the resident old fart around here >> >> >> >> I beg your pardon. ;-) >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > > Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a fast connection, I bet > *I'll* be the new > reside

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv compilation problems

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: > I'm having trouble compiling mythtv-0.24.1. > > The build log is attached. Can anyone help me decipher what is going > on? > > mythtv-0.23.1_p27077 compiles OK. Probably the same problem they are talking about here: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2011-October

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Henson Sturgill writes: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Alex Schuster > > wrote: > > > Now I'd also like to use Midori, as a lightweight browser for using > > > Google+. The reason is that when I open Google+ in Firefox, I am > > > also logged in at Google when I using other tabs with Youtub

[gentoo-user] local layman repository missing files

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I haven't been able to emerge sci-libs/dcmtk from the science overlay for a while, due to a missing dcmtk-asneeded.patch in the files directory. In fact, the whole /var/portage/layman/science/files directory was missing. I fixed this by removing and adding the science overlay again: l

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > In Firefox you can create multiple profiles. Each profile will have > its own set of cookies, bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc. To > open 2 firefox windows with 2 different profiles at once, launch it > with: > > firefox -P -no-remote Thanks Paul, that's what I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-26 Thread Dale
Dan Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2012 17.52:13 Dan Johansson wrote: >> On Sunday 26 February 2012 15.19:54 Willie WY Wong wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong >>> squawked: Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initsc

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-26 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/25/2012 06:05 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 25, 2012 10:34 AM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to > the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount during boot > with an er