[gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am using LVM heavily, but I decided to not use it for some additional, smaller hard drives I use for backups and that I do not want to spin up every time I do LVM stuff, like pvscan, lvscan, vgchange. As all devices are scanned in this case, I edited the filter in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf:

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:05:12 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about > [gentoo-user] LVM filter question: > > [snip] > > > filter = [ "r|/dev/nbd.*|", "r|/dev/sdd|", "a/.*/" ] > > > > This should reject /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to > stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo > systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What > can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier? I

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon wrote: > My best suggestion is to create a maximal primary partition as /dev/sdd1 > and use that as your LUKS volume. That way, LVM will receive the > partition details from udev and *might* not bother re-reading the > partition table (but don't bet big bucks on it). OK, I tried tha

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > I'm not able to ssh to any domain, although IPs work. I get: > > $ ssh example.com > ssh: Could not resolve hostname example.com: Name or service not known > > I can ping domains no problem, and web browsing works. I've tried > rebooting and re-emerging openssh. I am connected

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > > Anything in nsswitch.conf? It seems to be used by ssh, but not by the > > host command. Which is new to me. > > nsswitch.conf looks straighforward and should be default. I get a lot > of output from those straces. Can you tell me what to look for? For 'strange' things :) Lik

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Ruskin writes: > What package provides host? > I'm amazed I don't have it. net-dns/bind-tools Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: [interrupted emerges] > That's when I use ebuild instead of starting the emerge from scratch. > Let's say I'm emerging libreoffice and the machine goes down (shudder). > > After fixing the problem I would try the following: > #cd /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/ > #ebuild ./libr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: > While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a > certain version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and > tried >= package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to > ignore it and the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my o

Re: [gentoo-user] How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?

2011-07-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan asks: > How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge? The list of files belonging to a package can be found in /var/db/pkg//-/CONTENTS. > I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and > I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?

2011-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Francisco Ares writes: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Dale wrote: > > Mick wrote: > >> Every time after you emerge xorg you're meant to remerge its drivers > >> (evdev being one of them). Usually there is some elog message telling > >> you to run > >> > >> qfile to find what is need to be r

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Here we go again. New thread, same problem. I'm compiling info over a > period of time here so bear with me. Info alert: [...] > Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there > and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash. Maybe some > third

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk writes: > A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon > dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. > I was going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages > with march native > Firstly would you recco

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > I'd also try other video drivers, like nouveau or nv. I think you did > > not do this yet, sorry if I just overlooked it. They may not work as > > well as the nvidia-drivers for you, but this way you can rule out the > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>> I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so >>> long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use >>> them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] NEW idea: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > OK. New theory here. This came about in another thread about the > shiney new kernel, that isn't new by the way. Anyway, look at this crap: > > root@fireball / # ls -al /home/dale/ > total 640 > drwxr-xr-x 61 dale users 2672 Jul 23 10:14 . > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 208 Ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> I wasn't thinking of systems with that much memory. Like you, I'd expect >> your system to be faster, even if not by much, using tmpfs. > That's what I was expecting too. It is confusing for sure. Years ago, I used tmpfs, and it was slightly faster, but o

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe > > here. > > I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the > time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gb

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > >> Alex Schuster wrote: > >>> I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run > >>> KDE here. > >> > >> I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png > > You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen. That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :) But even if it were, I gue

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 default theme at fresh install

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon: writes: > I only know of 2 e17 users here. I was an Enlightenment user for years, before I finally gave KDE 3.something a try. I ran it under the Gnome environment, but only one of my 3x3 vortual desktops actually showed the Gnome desktop. Which I liked, I did my multimedia stuff t

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh >> in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start >> NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophi

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: >> Dale writes: >>> Alex Schuster wrote: >> >>> http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png >>> >>> You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When asked why > he did this he replied, "Why? Does it matter?" Hey, I'm also wearing mis-matched socks right now :) But of course I always wear a wrist-watch. A digital one. > Well, I still can't answer his question..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: > >> I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not >> actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? > > Easy. "emerge --fetchonly " first, then start the real work. I have acron jo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > On 07/28/2011 01:14 PM, Dale wrote: >> walt wrote: >>> Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'? >> >> Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this >> machine is a LOT faster, I had to come up with something good for it >> too. Fireball is it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: >> >>> I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not >>> actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? >>> >> Easy. "emerge --fetchonly" first, then start the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > And I could play the ancient spacewars game once again. > > Star Control? Wing Commander? hmm :) No, those came later. It's a clone of the probably very first computer action game: http:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > >> But if you emerge something and it has to be fetched first, is that > >> counted in the time genlop shows or not? That is the question. I > >> don't think it is counted but I'm not sure. &

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 30.07.2011 01:06, schrieb Dale: > Michael Mol wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dale wrote: >>> While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos? That is the >>> biggest thing I use that drive for. I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other >>> shows that are now gone. Anyway, wha

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 emake failed configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-corefonts

2011-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Carlos Sura writes: > I'm using Gentoo LVM2, ~AMD64, and I'm trying to install: > media-gfx/imagemagick. [...] > * ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 failed (install phase): > * emake failed > * > * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info > =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0',

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: > On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 04:50:40 PM Grant wrote: > > Can I reserve 0% for root on my USB hard drive which is only used for > > backups and does not contain an OS? > > Yes: > > mke2fs -m 0 /dev/usb-drive Although a value > 0 helps against fragmentation. And when rdi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > >> > Can I reserve 0% for root on my USB hard drive which is only > >> > used for backups and does not contain an OS? > >> > >> Yes: > >> > >> mke2fs -m 0 /dev/usb-drive > > > > Although a value > 0 helps against fragmentation. And when > > rdiff-backup has failed because it ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
victor romanchuk writes: > > Both machines contain "distcc" in FEATURES. It's not using > > -march=native. I've tried various -jN values with no real difference > > in performance. -jN in make.conf's MAPEOPTS variable I assume, not as argument to emerge, which does something different. It also h

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that > before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed > things. > > Would LVM somehow prevent these sort of things from happening? LVM > doesn't affect inode usage, does it? AFAIK you will

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrea Conti writes: > > AFAIK you will gain more inodes when you increase the size. > > Only because by unless you specify a value mke2fs allocates a number of > inodes proportional to the size of the filesystem, with the default > being 1 inode every 16kB (see /etc/mke2fs.conf). > > But for ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
victor romanchuk writes: > >> i had noticed that distcc is peevish about CFLAGS: these should be > >> compatible on both client and server. in my case i made these > >> similar on both machines (laptop is core2duo and desktop is > >> core2quad; both are running amd64 arch) > > > > I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-6 & thunderbird-6 compile issues

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > Anyone else having issues building firefox-6 and thunderbird-6? I just built firefox-6 this night on ~amd64. These are my USE flags: Installed versions: 6.0{tbz2}(02:52:51 24.08.2011)(alsa crashreporter dbus ipc libnotify linguas_de linguas_en methodjit startup-not

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi loses mails

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > I am about to get on a damn plane to Germany, find me the entire > collection of KDEPIM devs and shoot every last one of those fuckers > dead. dead. dead. dead. Uh-oh. I hope writing this did not put you on some terror list already. > Then blow up the repo so this POS wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > On 08/24/2011 01:05 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote: > > equery belongs /usr/include/plasma/service.h > > > > if you dont have the equery program install it by emerging > > > > app-portage/gentoolkit > > Seems there is always an alternate way of answering any portage question. > I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi losing mail

2011-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Wednesday 24 Aug 2011 23:30:16 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I also discovered that kmail2 doesn't do changing of IMAP folders at > > all, it seems to be strictly read-only. I can create folders in that > > area to my heary's content, nothing shows on disk. This works fine here. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cblas libraries

2011-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
denis cohen writes: > I recently removed some packages like blas-reference, cblas-reference, > and lapack-reference to get emerge to run (some blocking issues). I unmerged eselect-cblas and eselect-blas when I had similar problems, and I think also {blas,cblas}-reference. The eselect packages go

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-svcdir mount where from?

2011-08-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Konstantinos Agouros writes: > I do not have rc-svcdir in /etc/fstab. I know it comes with openrc but > I would need the mount line or an fstab entry for it. A grep in > /etc/init.d didn't help. You need to look into /lib/rc/sh/init.sh, the mount_svcdir() function: /lib/rc/sh/init.sh: mount -n -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage index?

2011-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Nowadays, if you mix vinegar and baking soda, you are accused of making > a bomb. They called it fun 20 or 30 years ago. lol > > I still want to know what Spencer puts in the camera film thingys and > makes it pop off. It was liquid and what looked like a pill or > something. E

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Tue 23 August 2011 18:17:17 Stroller did opine thusly: > > On 23 August 2011, at 07:27, Joost Roeleveld wrote: [...] > > > And I don't really see the point of D-BUS on a server either. > > > All the services that need to talk to each other already have > > > working comm

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Schreckenbauer writes: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 13:56:44 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > Alan McKinnon writes: [...] > > > What's your objection to dbus? It gives you a standard message > > > bus, is small, light, consumes minimal resour

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cblas libraries

2011-08-30 Thread Alex Schuster
denis cohen writes: > I've unmerged cblas* blas* gsl, synced, and "emerge -uDN world "also > without success (also tried cblas-external USE flag but could not see > it with eix). What's your problem with the world update? Adding --tree to the emerge command might show what pulls in what. I had t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant Edwards writes: > On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: b) old school pc-speaker in your computer [...] >> I think it just made the generic "beep" (or a beep short enough and >> low enough in tone to sound similar to a click) >

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with dump

2011-09-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: > I noticed that the last two (daily) dumps have been bad (too short, > unreadable by restore). > > I tried to remerge app-arch/dump both 0.4.44-r1 (which I had before) > and o.4.44. Both failed in the compile phase (details below). > This seem a little frightening to me.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the "error" messages during boot?

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: > I rebooted a Gentoo system, and as I watched the boot-up messages, > some "error"s appeared when it's starting the services. However, the > screen scrolled too damn fast for me to read them. > > Where can I find the logs on the services? If you set rc_logger="YES" in /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Graham Murray wonders: > Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today > is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has > rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, > then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:34:22 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so > > the cups USE flag has been removed. I would have preferred if the > > ebuild got a -r2 so I could simply

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan Mackenzie writes: > Hi, Alex. > > Graham Murray wonders: > > > > Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? > > > Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD > > > world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use > > > flag change

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. > > This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox > > print dialogs allow to set print feat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Sebastian Beßler wrote: > > > > Am 07.09.2011 00:39, schrieb Hartmut Figge: > >> Sebastian Beßler: > >> > >>> metatron@Shao ~ $ equery s firefox > >>> * www-client/firefox-6.0 > >>> Total files : 3779 > >>> Total size : 89.42 MiB > >> hafi@i5 ~ $ equery s seam

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very > early in my system's lifetime. Huh? What does genkernel have to do with NVidia drivers? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Wow, what a big thread. While I also do not really like udev requiring /usr at boot time, I also understand that there are some arguments pro doing so. But then, I wonder what the big deal is. If an initramfs is now required for people using a separate /usr, then let's all use an init

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: > The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the > idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs > will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot > partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to co

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > David W Noon writes: > > > >> The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think > >> the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the > >> initramfs will be many times larger than

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: > On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I > > simply use genkernel. With CLEAN="no" and MRPROPER="no", it uses my > > /usr/src/linux/.config and does not change

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:41:07 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > > > David W Noon writes: > > > > > The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think > > > the idea i

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I know one thing, BSD is secure as heck. I installed it once on a old > rig and typed the password in wrong during setup. I never could get > into that thing again. I had to start over. That's what you thought :) Normally, all you have to do is to boot in single user mode, th

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > pk wrote: > > On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > >> When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I > >> simply use genkernel. With CLEAN="no" and MRPROPER="no", it uses my > >> /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: > My update world today produced > > [nomerge ] dev-java/icedtea-6.1.10.3 USE="hs20 nsplugin nss > webstart xrender -cacao -debug -doc -examples -jamvm -javascript -nio2 > -pulseaudio -systemtap -zero" [nomerge ] > dev-java/ant-nodeps-1.8.1 [ebuild NS]

Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Schreckenbauer writes: > On Saturday, 10. September 2011 16:50:30 Alex Schuster wrote: > > What you need to do is to tell portage you accept the license by > > putting the >=dev-java/... line into /etc/portage/package.license. Or > > you could add the --autounm

Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Schreckenbauer writes: > Thanks. The difference is, that package.license is per package. > So one could set ACCEPT_LICENSE in make.conf and override this setting > for some packages in package.license. > Now I wonder, what the use-cases would be? > Why would one accept a specific license f

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:54:58 -0500 > > Dale wrote: > > > >> That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall > >> seeing some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That > >> was about a year ago so it may have changed. Just had

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200 > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this > > only me? At least I know by now that you are the South Africa guy. > Alan's girlfriend says that Alan and Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db gone: possible opportunity to switch profile

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Francisco Ares writes: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:41:39 -0300 > > Francisco Ares wrote: > > > I have managed to delete /var/db. I know this was a very stupid > > > thing to be done, but now it is done and /var/db is gone for good. For

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Keith Dart writes: > === On Fri, 09/09, Alex Schuster wrote: === > > What I fear much more is when good old grub is no longer supported > > and I have to use grub2, which I tried to understand, but failed. > > Ya, it's horrid. But the {sys,ext}linux bootloader is still

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Keith Dart writes: > === On Sun, 09/11, Alex Schuster wrote: === > > Interesting. What are the advantages? > > Mainly that it's simpler, as a bootloader should be. However it does > have some nice features, such as making nice looking, interactive > menus. You can al

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Colquhoun writes: > Looking at "initramfs" as a modern Linux replacement for the > "bootable / partition" of traditional Unix systems does make some > sense, even though I think it could be made simpler. > > Fot those opposed to initramfs, would you also object to /boot being > 1) a mandit

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Francisco Ares writes: > Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during > boot? This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would be worse). But this might change - the upcoming cha

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: > What about the following as a gentoo-solution: > > As long as filesystem-support for /usr is in the kernel, why can't > "/usr" be mounted right after "/"? > > Eg. instead of worrying with an init*, why not edit the boot-scripts to > have "/usr" mounted before udev and c

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only > > me? Whoops, which should be: I tend to confuse Alan _with_ Neil. But then, both may be right. > No, it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > But what you guys don't seem to realize is that /lib and /bin and > /sbin was the original hack: everything really should go into /usr, > because now (with an initramfs) we can do what we were not able 30 > years ago. We not need anything in /, really. You do have a

Re: [gentoo-user] kde login file ?

2011-09-13 Thread Alex Schuster
James writes: > When you run kde-4 on gentoo and use the kde-login-manager app > are the login sessions recorded into a permanent or temporary file? > > I looked in /etc/kde ; /var/log/kdm.log and xdm.log > and have found nothing. > > I did find /var/log/wtmp, but it is not in a human > read

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4

2011-09-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Moritz Schlarb writes: > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 pyconfig.h > /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4/image//usr/include/python2.5/pyconfig.h > emake failed > * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 failed (install phase): > * emake altinstall maninstall failed [...] > Doesn't make much sense

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: > Thunderbird works fine, if you're ok to do things Thunderbird wants to > do things. > The last time I tried it, it decided it wants to have copy of all the > email from my IMAP-server locally. I ran into this, too. I sort of like the feature, but it's better to do the sy

Re: [gentoo-user] TMux urxvt and Unicode

2011-09-16 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > How can I make pstree make work in tmux with the above mentioned > options? Open a screen sesson in tmux :) No, I don't know a real solution. Simply setting the TERM variable back to xterm does not help. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] TMux urxvt and Unicode

2011-09-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: > On Sep 16, 2011 7:47 PM, "Alex Schuster" wrote: > > > > meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > > > > > How can I make pstree make work in tmux with the above mentioned > > > options? > > > > Open a screen sesson in tmu

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:03:20 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > A word of advice when starting from scratch, give your VG(s) unique > > names. I've seen what happens when someone takes a drive from > > one Fedora system and puts it in another, so there are tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 09/18/2011 11:27 PM, walt wrote: > > On 09/18/2011 09:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I came across some ebuilds that result in: > >> > >> * QA Notice: command not found: > >> * > >> * /etc/portage/bashrc: line 3: epatch_user: command not found > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 09/18/2011 11:50 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Do these ebuilds also need to apply the patches, or do you just want > > to get rid of the error message? > > It's just the error message. Which means this isn't an issue for now. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > > > alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to > > > run a daemon or server. Just playing music. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > And, as an Amarok user... searching my collection, finding song texts, > > rating songs, wikipedia information for artist, album or a specfic > > song, tagging, easy sorting of playlists, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing kernel config parameter

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > Having just upgraded gcc from 4/4/5 to 4.5.3-r1 I recompiled > binutils-2.21.1-r1. Then, while emerging -e system, I got this: > > * Messages for package sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1: > > * CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be. > > But: > > $ grep SU

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs "stable" enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > On 21-Sep-11 21:55, Doug Hunley wrote: > >>> I'd like to ask if anybody here has already some experience >>> with Btrfs? Is it usable (although not officialy stable)? >> >> I use it as my main fs here and have had no issues. Having said that, >> there is NO functional fsck at this

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r3

2011-09-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Wednesday 21 Sep 2011 23:02:02 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to install Graphviz but I get: [...] > > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > > cannot find -lpng14 [...] > > Is there something I can do about this? Or is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - krdc full screen view does not allow remote windows' task bar interaction

2011-09-29 Thread Alex Schuster
fra...@gmail.com writes: > When I move the mouse down to the task bar area, the mouse pointer > changes from the remote machine native shape to the local desktop shape, > showing visually the fact that I can not click on any task bar icons. Does the same happen when using rdesktop? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, > but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only > for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I > power disk off when not needed (and "on" again when needed) > in order to save a little power and

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Niccolò Belli writes: > Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: > > !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. > > > !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. This is somewhat surprising, but intended and correct, it has been discussed here some months ag

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health

2011-10-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: > That said... I am not aware that to be a Gentoo user, one has to be > celibate... :-P But it helps. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
luis jure writes: > hello boys [1], [...] > [1] sorry if there are any girls out there, but i think i have never seen > any female names on this list... I see one :) Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
luis jure writes: > on 2011-10-16 at 22:03 Alex Schuster wrote: > >>> [1] sorry if there are any girls out there, but i think i have never >>> seen any female names on this list... >> >> I see one :) > > yes, so do i, now, after sending my last message

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp is not up to date yet: > I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants > to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for ~~~ ~~~ > the first time so I doubt he values

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild > about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were > showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this > point in the life of a desktop PC so I added both flags to make.con

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Mark Knecht writes: >>> I don't recall seeing any discussion about this.Was there?? >> >> There was a message on the gentoo-announce list on Sept. 30th: [...] > Interesting. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
András Csányi writes: > I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I > decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile > Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me > what is needed more? No, I think the debug USE flag has another pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > On 28-Oct-11 17:24, Michael Mol wrote: > > lsmod -k > > > > Find the line for the Realtek device > > > > lsmod -vn > > I do not understand. lsmod does not have "-k" or "-vn" switches. lspci was meant. Wonko

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