Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:04:35 -0400 Frank Peters wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700 > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate > > /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want > > installed. > > AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:17:53 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the > > rescue system and chroot to it, rerun grub and reboot. Doesn't sound > > like much of a problem to me. > > It would be for me. I have my system partitioned out pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > I been reading up on this beast too. The commands and such appear to be > specific to Gentoo OR at least different from Kubuntu. My money is on > Kubuntu being weird. On my bro's Kubuntu I run grub-update but on > Gentoo it is grub-mkconfig or s

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate > /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want > installed. That's how I'd do it, except by using emerge -n instead of editing the file by hand. emerge -cp emerge -n any pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:17:53 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the >>> rescue system and chroot to it, rerun grub and reboot. Doesn't sound >>> like much of a problem to me. >> It would be for me. I have my system p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I been reading up on this beast too. The commands and such appear to be >> specific to Gentoo OR at least different from Kubuntu. My money is on >> Kubuntu being weird. On my bro's Kubuntu I run grub-update but on >> Gen

[gentoo-user] Remove

2012-07-06 Thread Robert Herr
On 7/6/12 2:05 AM, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Topics (messages 139628 through 139677): [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed 139628 - Alex Schuster [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed 139629 - Philip Webb [gentoo-user] Failed to emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate > /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want > installed. > > Good luck, > Mark Answering from computer now. A couple of ideas: 1) Copy one of my world files to your /var/li

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Doug Hunley
> AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the > world file and other associated files. This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and friends), so it just makes sense to have 'world' in there ;

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 07/06/2012 09:00 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:41 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> Hi, >> I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but >> os. >> Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything >> disappeared in portage's world

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux and the Higgs

2012-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.07.2012 23:22, schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2012-07-05, Frank Peters wrote: >> Linux was used to find the Higgs: >> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/w2ly6/new_boson_found_by_linux/ >> >> I am not really surprised, but what does disturb me is that the >> distros used in the effort wer

[gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] New udev-186 breaks pulseaudio[FIXED]

2012-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/05/2012 08:48 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:40:15 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had >>> to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that >>> did build against libudev.so.1 and now had to be reb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] New udev-186 breaks pulseaudio[FIXED]

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:44:56 -0700, walt wrote: > > Sync again, this has been fixed, at least for lvm2 and > > system-config-printer-common, I don't use pulseaudio. > > All better now, including pulse. I suppose if I'd updated later > in the same day I wouldn't have hit this bug. I clearly n

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Wiki test page?

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Dnes
I've got USB devices automounting on mdev and I'd like to set up a page on wiki.gentoo.org, describing the steps, and link to it from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev Is there a way to play around on a test page and import it to the final destination? Another option might be to simply work on

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:35:23 -0400, Robert Herr wrote: > On 7/6/12 2:05 AM, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > Topics (messages 139628 through 139677): [massive snip] This list is for two type of people: Those who can read documentation well enough to be able to enjoy Gentoo. Those wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove

2012-07-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 Jul 2012 21:28:08 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:35:23 -0400, Robert Herr wrote: > > On 7/6/12 2:05 AM, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > Topics (messages 139628 through 139677): > [massive snip] > > This list is for two type of people: > > Those who can r

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 Jul 2012 05:09:08 Christopher Lemire wrote: > **This is what my laptop's screen with a newly installed Gentoo system > running twm to test X looks like (attached image). It's distorted with > overlapping and mirrored image. I have a Dell Latitude C800 with the video > card. > > http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Wiki test page?

2012-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > I've got USB devices automounting on mdev and I'd like to set up a > page on wiki.gentoo.org, describing the steps, and link to it from > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev Is there a way to play around on a > test page and import it to the final destination? Another opti

[gentoo-user] network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems

2012-07-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have one network (a linksys) to which all my devices are attached. I have two laptops running ~amd64 and one desktop running amd64. I have one scanner, an hp officejet 7310 that is (wired) ethernet attached. When I try xsane from either laptop I receive the popup saying that no devices are foun

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Lemire
I tried disabling r128 and building the raedon driver into the kernel. However, I am getting the message raedon module not found. It's not a module. It's built into the kernel. Xorg.0.log. I mistakenly typed raedom, but then fixed it to raedon, so if you see that in log, I corrected it and tried st

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Christopher Lemire writes: > I tried disabling r128 and building the raedon driver into the kernel. > However, I am getting the message raedon module not found. It's not a > module. It's built into the kernel. Xorg.0.log. I mistakenly typed > raedom, but then fixed it to raedon, so if you see that

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Lemire
After using a modified version of this: http://www.baltimoremick.com/blog/2008/08/25/dell-latitude-c800-display-problems-with-ubuntu/ For some reason, it says Driver "ati". I changed that to r128 and a few other things in there. Then, I emerged emerge -av x11-drivers/xf86-video-r128 And the pict