On Monday 08 February 2010 01:02:39 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Walt Rarus writes:
> > WALRUS ~ # whoami
> > root
> > WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/
> > ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild:
> > Permission denied
> > total 12
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 00:20:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo!
>
> I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It
> only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel
> in a trial run. :-)
>
> However, I'm now trying to get X up and running.
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 01:22:31 Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:47 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > I now only need to figure out the best way to configure LVM over this to
> > get the best performance from it. Does anyone know of a decent way of
> > figuring this out?
> > I go
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 03:29:50 Dale wrote:
> Well, actually, if hal would have worked I wouldn't have cared if it
> uses xorg.conf at all. That was the point of using hal. Thing is, I
> followed the howto and it didn't work. The fact that the config files
> are in xml only became a pr
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:36:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new
> version?
> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they
> go to different slots.
> Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope wit
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 11:38:52 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:24:36 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > > hal is a classic "Second System Effect" case
> > >
> > > But I thought we thrashed this to death a while ago and all agreed to
> > > never speak of this abomination again, while we a
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 12:32:11 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 10 Feb, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:36:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new
>
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:57:57 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:32AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
>
> > but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to communicate
> > with one another and removing it can stop your desktop working as
> > it should.
>
> Then how did
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 17:33:46 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:39:14PM -0500, dhk wrote:
> >> Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed? Try installing it.
> >
> > No, as it happens, I didn't. When I tried
> >
>
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 19:22:01 BRM wrote:
> - Original Message
>
> > From: Volker Armin Hemmann
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 12:18:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only
> > ~x86)??? ALSO:
> > from
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 18:37:00 Mark Knecht wrote:
> > gcc rebuilds itself twice to ensure that the binary is built with the
> > same version as the result, and verifies that the last two are bit-wise
> > identical. Then building the toolchain, then building the rest of world
> > gives you e
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 22:51:00 Stroller wrote:
> On 10 Feb 2010, at 20:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > ...
> > The qt- subpackages are very much alive and stable:
> >
> > $ eix qt-gui
> > [I] x11-libs/qt-gui
> >
> > Available ver
On Thursday 11 February 2010 09:31:21 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:18:43PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
>
> > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:57:57 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > > but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to communicate
> > > > with one another and removing it c
On Thursday 11 February 2010 13:50:54 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:31:26AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
>
> > On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote:
> > > IMO, mandatory semantic-desktop is a very good reason to find another
> > > desktop manager (even after being
On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:40:09 Walt Rarus wrote:
> I have a java (clojure, actually) program which is invoked via a bash
> script. When the script is invoked from the shell, the java program always
> runs and succeeds. However, when the script is invoked via a cron job, the
> java program al
On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:19:57 dhk wrote:
> How do I find out the missing keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee?
>
> I tried dev-java/sun-j2ee ~amd64 java in /etc/portage/package.keywords
> and tried adding ACCEPT_LICENSE="sun-bcla-j2ee" to /etc/make.conf.
dev-java/sun-j2ee ~*
>
> Below is
On Thursday 11 February 2010 16:32:02 Dale wrote:
> Can you nice the thing too? That would work. I set emerge to 5 and I
> can't even tell that emerge is running most of the time. There may be
> times when I can but it is rare.
>
> I just don't get this thing that indexing is a resource hog.
On Thursday 11 February 2010 16:56:51 dhk wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:19:57 dhk wrote:
> >> How do I find out the missing keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee?
> >>
> >> I tried dev-java/sun-j2ee ~amd64 java in /etc/portage/pa
On Thursday 11 February 2010 19:58:25 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> With this command or similar, I made my directory and one file in /
> unreadable:
>
> for entry in $(find $HOME); do $entry >> found; done
>
> the same of output for ls is similar:
>
> -k?x?B?{U?I?3s??
> ???N???Q
> ?ܝw?Ϭw?
On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:09:33 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
> > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> Whoops?
SeaMonkey.
Dale has his eyes set on holding the world record to be the last KDE-3.5 user
left standing with the longest continual uptime for
On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:09:28 Mark Knecht wrote:
> Can someone comment on why I do or do not want to include config files
> when making quickpkg files?
>
> Seems like there is the issue of hand edits being saved which would be
> a good reason to keep them. I'm not overly worried about some
On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:06:50 dhk wrote:
> Another question about this.
>
> Where's a good place to set J2EE_HOME (/opt/sun-j2ee-1.3.1/) and
> JAVA_HOME? Should it be in each user's profile? If I wanted to set
> them globally for all users should they go in /etc/profile ?
How many users
On Thursday 11 February 2010 21:47:33 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:18:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) and ls things there, perhaps the
> > garbage dumped to the screen in your for simply upset the terminal
> > emulatio
On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:37:00 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alan McKinnon
wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:09:28 Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> Can someone comment on why I do or do not want to include config files
> >>
On Thursday 11 February 2010 23:40:37 Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> True, but even those using Openbox, icewm, etc. were introduced to the
> mess that HAL is, and also to dbus. Sure you can choose not to have
> hal/dbus/*kit, but then you also choose not to use a growing number of
> apps that seem t
On Friday 12 February 2010 00:10:06 dhk wrote:
> My /usr/bin/java was linked to run-java-tool, don't know what that is.
> # ll /usr/bin/java
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 11 11:20 /usr/bin/java -> run-java-tool
That's correct. It's a man-in-the-middle thing installed by the java
configurator,
On Friday 12 February 2010 00:13:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > One thing I haven't found so far is what to put in make.conf to get
> > the buildpkg feature to include the configs. It's easy at the command
> > line. Where's the documentation on how to actually use this the right
> > way automat
On Friday 12 February 2010 00:26:56 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:32:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > In which case, running reset in the affected terminal should clear
> > > it.
> >
> > Every time I've tried to tell people to do that, the
On Friday 12 February 2010 00:58:52 dhk wrote:
> I put /usr/bin/java back the way it was.
> ln -s /usr/bin/run-java-tool /usr/bin/java
>
> I set the CLASSPATH, got it from java-config --runtime
> export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.18/jre/lib/resources.jar:
> /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.18/jre/l
On Friday 12 February 2010 00:56:33 Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:53:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> >> Particularly when your wm can handle all the inter-app
> >> communication that is necessary without dbus.
> >
On Friday 12 February 2010 01:10:58 Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> But honestly, I don't have a solution to the problem, what I can however
> say is that my browser and my mail app, are pretty deft at realizing that
> their attempts to access a server, are in vain, without any network
> manager to te
On Friday 12 February 2010 00:56:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Friday 12 February 2010 00:13:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > > One thing I haven't found so far is what to put in make.conf to get
>
On Friday 12 February 2010 01:18:33 Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:58 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> > With this command or similar, I made my directory and one file in /
> > unreadable:
> >
> > for entry in $(find $HOME); do $entry >> found; done
>
> er... you just executed ever
On Friday 12 February 2010 04:24:33 walt wrote:
> On 02/11/2010 03:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > And don't start with sockets. That will result in a nightmare. dbus is a
> > clean solution to a huge problem. Apps have to talk to each other. The
> > only way to keep it sane is
On Friday 12 February 2010 02:02:27 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > You owe me a year's subscription from your employer for that
> > wise-crack. Postage paid by sender, naturally.
>
> This year, I seem to be working mainly for the Inland Revenue. I'll give
> them your address :P
How odd. I do the same w
On Friday 12 February 2010 01:51:40 Dale wrote:
> By the way, just installed KDE 4.4 and I still can't open a file with
> Dolphin as root.
You are not supposed to do that. Dolphin runs as you.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
On Friday 12 February 2010 01:49:18 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote:
> > Am Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:18:42 +
> >
> > schrieb Neil Bothwick :
> > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:03:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote:
> > > > IMO, mandatory semantic-desktop is a v
On Friday 12 February 2010 01:52:37 Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:31:26 +0100, Alan McKinnon
>
> wrote:
> > On Friday 12 February 2010 01:10:58 Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> >> But honestly, I don't have a solution to the problem, what I can however
>
On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser
> > or mail app that they are offline?
>
> Why does the app need to know? Browsers normally have an online/offline
> menu selection
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo,
>
> My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
>
> The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
> the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead.
>
> Then I got another co
On Friday 12 February 2010 11:16:22 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know how to check if a package is installed using a script/
> shell.
>
> Unfortunately eix -I -q CAT/PACK
> produces a return code of 0 irrespectively if CAT/PACK
> is install or not.
>
> I'd like to say
>
> fo
On Friday 12 February 2010 12:15:13 Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick
>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> >> But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't
> >> dependent of the DE, to require a depend
On Friday 12 February 2010 11:46:33 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > Hi, Gentoo,
> > >
> > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unsta
On Friday 12 February 2010 11:42:26 Graham Murray wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote:
> >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> >> > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a
> >> >
On Friday 12 February 2010 14:43:30 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > failures in b11 of 32 bit words.
> >
> > I'll try unplugging and replugging these.
>
> No help. :-(
>
> No matter how I plug in the RAM (4 combinations of 2 sticks into 2 pairs
> of slots) it is always b11 which fails and always at a
On Friday 12 February 2010 21:55:29 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo!
>
> As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
> As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One
> non-functioning binary is probably GCC.
>
> What I'd like to do is reinsta
On Saturday 13 February 2010 00:52:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote:
> > >> Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
> > >
> > > tar up /etc.
> >
> > Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't
> > been tes
On Friday 12 February 2010 21:23:41 pk wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser
> > or mail app that they are offline?
>
> I don't have a network connection manager and I don't need that function
> in a browser, mail client o
On Friday 12 February 2010 21:38:21 pk wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 1. Say stuff it and build a print server into your app. We stopped doing
> > that when DOS fell out of fashion.
> > 2. Support all possible print systems. lpr anyone?
> > 3. Or just use IPC and let
On Friday 12 February 2010 22:14:53 pk wrote:
> > and because of that dbus is a great solution. Single solution for a wide
> > range of problems. Which is pretty much anti-bloat.
>
> Great solution to what? What problems?
As has been mentioned multiple times before by multiple people:
The probl
On Saturday 13 February 2010 08:39:53 Walter Dnes wrote:
> Sorry about the delay replying. I'm having major problems upgrading
> to kernel 2.6.31-r6.
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:53:08PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
>
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:31:21 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > XMMS follow
On Saturday 13 February 2010 12:31:08 Willie Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:25:07PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > It's a simple bash script. There's no magic. Take a peek at it.
>
> Heh, somehow it didn't occur to me that might be the case. Thanks.
>
> So after reading the script,
On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:43:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > There you go. Most likely one little transistor that went belly up.
> > Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no
> > surprise at all.
>
> Oh, don't be like that! You're saying, like, another "little" tra
On Saturday 13 February 2010 14:07:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > I agree with the concept that people who don't want KDE dependancies,
> >
> > e.g. dbus, shouldn't use KDE apps. Therefore, I avoid amarok, kaffeine,
> > kplayer, etc. What got me started in this thread was the fact that what
On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:51:05 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Thanks! In the end, I just used the gcc I had on the system anyway; it
> wasn't broken. I first did 'emerge -e gcc', which took an hour, then did
> 'emerge -e world', which took ~2 hours 30 mins.
>
> I was being a bit paranoid. The r
On Saturday 13 February 2010 22:43:39 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP
> > > wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs.
> > >
>
On Sunday 14 February 2010 13:02:48 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > I highly recommend drivers to gain the skill of driving a vehicle
> > crash-style without a clutch. Comes in useful sometimes.
> >
> >
> >
> > :-)
>
> the point was not stick but unsyncronized ;)
I know. I just felt like tossin
On Sunday 14 February 2010 16:40:01 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > Just to bring this back to your original statement of Unix philosophy.
> > IPC on modern desktops conforms exactly to the Unix philosophy.
>
> On dbus, everything's a file ?
You are either ignorant, or trying to be a jackass. Either w
On Sunday 14 February 2010 20:44:32 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > no, but with static exes you have to recompile everything
> > everytime a security bug is found.
>
> That's the job of the distro buildsystem. Ah, and that dramatically
> minimizes the chance that things br
On Sunday 14 February 2010 22:10:05 Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>Mostly in support of (I think) KDE I have poppler installed which
> seems to cause eix-test-obsolete a little indigestion. It sees
> virtual/poppler as installed but says they are not in the database.
>
>Do I have a problem here
On Monday 15 February 2010 05:49:23 German Lopez Cortina wrote:
> Error ffmpeg installing
Please report with the build error.
It's earlier than the bit you quoted, you need to examine the output to find
it.
>
> make: *** [libavcodec/x86/dsputil_mmx.o] Error 1
> * ERROR: media-video/ffmpeg-0
On Monday 15 February 2010 00:04:21 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Stroller
>
> wrote:
> > On 14 Feb 2010, at 20:31, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> ...
> >> poppler isn't in my world file:
> >> ...
> >> Are you suggesting the I unmerge poppler and then do a
> >> revdep-rebuild (
On Sunday 14 February 2010 22:37:03 dhk wrote:
> dhk wrote:
> Ok, I think the problem is in the rt.jar file. The beginning of the
> error is as follows:
>
> # /opt/sun-j2ee-1.3.1/bin/j2ee -verbose
> J2EE server listen port: 1050
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> com
On Monday 15 February 2010 21:23:54 walt wrote:
> Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1?
>
> 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what
> options I give it, including no options.
>
> Strace shows that nfs.mount is passing a weird-looking IP
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:09:22 Hung Dang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I could not find poppler-utils package which has pdfimages command. Does
> anyone know which package I should install to have pdfimages installed?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Hung
It's part of poppler now, and things have been re-or
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 09:20:15 Grant wrote:
> Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
> depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
> apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
> them.
>
> - Grant
app-portage/genlop
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 23:10:57 Grant wrote:
> >> Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
> >> depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
> >> apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
> >> them.
> >>
> >> - Grant
> >
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 00:36:42 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail):
>
> Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent
>
> Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467065] hdc: status error:
> status=0x00 { }
>
>
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:21:22 Mick wrote:
> However, the point has been well made by many. KDE4 is not KDE3.x and
> with KDE4 you get the full enchilada because that's what the developers
> have produced. Since I do not have the ability (or time) to fork KDE4
> into my own flavour I wil
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 08:49:28 Harry Putnam wrote:
> I have caught the freeze in the early stages before completely losing
> the network when just mouse and keyboard became unresponsive, was able
> to ssh in and noticed that restarting hald held off the freeze for
> some (again unspecified)
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:25:25 Andzrzej Styczeń wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am newbie to Gentoo. I yesterday install it and uff it works :-).
>
> Today I try to install kde on amd64 architecture but I obtain error. I do
> the following:
>
> # emerge --sync
> # emerge kde-meta
>
> * Error: cir
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 16:57:34 Crístian Viana wrote:
> the "qt4" useflag isn't enabled by default, right? that'd be a big
> 'default' problem to people installing KDE.
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:25:25 +0100, Andzrzej Styczeń wrote
On Thursday 18 February 2010 08:47:47 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> I am having issues using the weather forecast plasmoid in KDE 4.3. It
> will not allow me to show the weather for Perth in Australia using the
> BBC or other sources.
As someone else posted yesterday, upgrade to 4.4
--
alan dot mcki
On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:15:52 Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm looking for a solution to the following problem.
>
> My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help
> her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a
> regular basis, becau
On Friday 19 February 2010 01:34:36 sean wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> My son just purchased a Sansa Clip+ and from what I read it is
supposed
> to be accessible in Linux, it would look like a USB drive for drag and
> drop.
>
> Anyway, I updated the firmware to the latest, and set the USB mode o
On Friday 19 February 2010 02:15:49 sean wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Do you do yet the obvious first step, which is to plug in it and see what
> > happens?
> >
> > If so, what happened?
> > If not, do so, then post what happened.
>
> That I had tried.
On Friday 19 February 2010 16:47:09 walt wrote:
> On 02/19/2010 05:44 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> >dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10 (!java6? =virtual/jdk-1.5*)
> >
> > (java6?>=virtual/jdk-1.6) ...
> >
> > My 'make.conf' has 'java', but not 'java6',
>
> I'm thinking that !jav
On Sunday 21 February 2010 16:16:51 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote:
> > On 21 February 2010 14:03, Volker Armin Hemmann
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote:
> > >> I know that some of you have been using reiser4 for some years now.
> >
On Sunday 21 February 2010 11:44:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> It's not possible to use Amarok with the "embedded" USE flag with the
> newly released MySQL 5.1. Why is that? Can we expect it to work at
> some point?
Do you mean it doesn't work, or the upgrade is dogdy with blocker messages
tha
On Sunday 21 February 2010 18:18:18 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 February 2010 11:44:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > It's not possible to use Amarok with the "embedded" USE flag with the
> &
On Monday 22 February 2010 00:56:47 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> So, I need pdftk to build some documents, so I emerge it and it tells me
> that I need to update my USE flags and rebuild gcc with gcj support.
>
> So, I do. I added gcj to my global make.conf and ran the emerge, and gcc
> was rebuilt
On Monday 22 February 2010 05:28:14 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 21/02/10 Stroller said:
> > It's using the old version of gcc, because you haven't told it to use
> > the new version.
> >
> > The output you posted specifically told you to run:
> > gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4
> >
On Monday 22 February 2010 12:57:27 Stroller wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2010, at 07:54, daid kahl wrote:
> > ...
> > As far as I know, solid state devices are much more susceptible to
> > solar flare damage, particularly if you are outside. This is not
> > exactly common, but hey. Of course I also have a
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 22:06:04 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:22:10PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 02/23/2010 07:42 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > >> [...]
> > >>
> > >> You got me with that one :) Just because I don't have this problem
> > >> doesn't mea
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 16:46:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/24/2010 04:28 PM, Crístian Viana wrote:
> > there was a recent discussion about this on this mailing list:
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_13c6d27e4216e91ed3c4800fe42b8e
> > 95.xml
> >
> > it seems only Kmail ne
On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> BRM wrote:
> > I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage,
> > preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having
> > konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in
> >
On Thursday 25 February 2010 14:11:38 Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to start some specific services during boot up in a
> sequential order ?
> for example
>
> 1)tomcat
> 2)mysql
> 3)dns server
Yes, the init scripts support the notion of a service depending on another
service,
On Thursday 25 February 2010 15:56:28 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> e.g. 'lockd'?
> If so, which ebuild installs it?
> 10x,
>
> Amit
I went looking for rpc.lockd and couldn't find it either ;-(
I fully expected ti to be there so a lot of hunting in /etc/init.d ensued.
Then I remember something about
On Thursday 25 February 2010 17:15:36 Ward Poelmans wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:51, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > It looks interesting, and no program is that good that alternatives
> > should never be considered, but I really like the way BaclupPC works.
> > Everything is handled by the server
On Friday 26 February 2010 20:40:40 Harry Putnam wrote:
> ALERT [ This is a slightly rewritten repost from
> `gmane.[...].perl.beginners', where it got no responses]
> ---- ---=--- -
>
> My subject line is probably not really that
> good at des
On Friday 26 February 2010 23:12:18 Joseph wrote:
> I'm trying to re-emerge package kbarcode but it keeps complaing:
> that the source repository could not be determined
>
> emerge -pv kbarcode
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [eb
On Friday 26 February 2010 23:08:58 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/26/2010 10:32 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful
> >> lot of debug messages on stderr? When I start
On Friday 26 February 2010 23:44:03 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Where I'm weak is the part where the custom script checks if the
> daemon is running, before the script itself starts. That part would
> need to be something pretty fool proof... maybe just grep ps output
> for the daemon?
Maybe I'm misund
On Sunday 28 February 2010 07:06:43 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> >> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man
> >> pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal
> >> user
On Saturday 27 February 2010 20:40:17 Harry Putnam wrote:
> In the back of my mind there was a reason on opensolaris, that the
> script would fail if the fifo was empty... Then once data comes the
> script isn't listening. Or syslog won't write or something similar.
>
> I also have an opensolaris
On Sunday 28 February 2010 23:27:57 William Hubbs wrote:
> > 7 years ago a veteran Linux user taught me to always use su - for the
> > very reason you stated.
>
>
> Actually, you are safe with either "su -" (without sudo) or "sudo -i".
> "sudo su -" is chaining "su -" on top of sudo, and is re
On Monday 01 March 2010 00:57:17 William Hubbs wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:16:14AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > "sudo su" and "su" have a fundamental difference, vital in corporate
> > networks:
> >
> > The former uses the use
On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards
> > compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that
> > comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost always
On Monday 01 March 2010 03:47:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:07:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Don't read my post as literally meaning they must type the 7 characters
> > "sudo su". Read it more as "use any feature of sudo you feel like to
On Monday 01 March 2010 11:08:27 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > my setup here is a running Postix MTA which stores all incoming mail
> > into a single file (per user) in mbox format (/var/spool/mail/$USER)
> >
> > I'
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