[gentoo-user] xypic wants ruby?

2010-04-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
provides xy-pic. Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? I currently have no use for it. I can't begin to imagine why this particular programming language should be a must... Nothing in the use flags suggests a clue, for me anyway... Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] xypic wants ruby?

2010-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> provides xy-pic.  Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? > > Probably because it installs a heck lot more than just xypic? The full > list gives &g

[gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
be reconfigured... Thanks for any hint on how to kill this nasty pest. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100 Jorge Almeida > wrote: > >> How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a directory >> with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing KDE keyboard shortcuts

2005-05-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi All: Currently in KDE one can switch between virtual desktops using the Ctrl+Fn keys. How do I change it to the Alt+Fn keys? Control Center --> Regional & Accessibility --> Keyboard Shortcuts --> Shortcut sequences -- Jorge Almeida -

[gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
Each time I close Acrobat Reader 7, I get a *really annoying* message asking whether I want to enable JavaScripts, which I don't and won't. This happens no matter what document has been read, or even when no document at all was opened. Anyone knows a way to disable this *feature*? -- Jor

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 17 May 2005, ZeeGeek wrote: On 5/17/05, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Each time I close Acrobat Reader 7, I get a *really annoying* message asking whether I want to enable JavaScripts, which I don't and won't. This happens no matter what document has been read,

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
whether I'll give up using Acrobat Reader. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: Just go to .adobe/Acrobat/7.0/JavaScripts and transform glob.settings.js into a symbolic to /dev/null hope that helps It certainly does! Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split ones. Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. The problem seems to be the same as in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-344889-highlight-kde+slow+redraw.html (but no answer there...) Any idea? -- Jorge

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split ones. Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. The problem seems to be the same as in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-344889-highlight-kde

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Openbox supports multiple desktops. You can replace the default kde window manager (kwin) with openbox: http://icculus.org/openbox/docs.php?page=build.html#install-kde Zac Browsing the documentation, it seems it doesn't support setting the background

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, not kde, but mozilla is slow? Slow redreaw of gtk is known. Do you have enough ram? If you need swap, kde is dead slow. Is RenderAccel on? Is KDE prelinked? It's not a RAM problem (512M, and top shows it's not leaking somewhere). KDE is n

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
gets were being shown _before_ the main window... Search google for gtk and slow and you'll find a lot ;) RenderAccel is set in your xorg.conf - if you have nvidia. Ati Radeon 7500. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: But it wasn't noticeable before... It looks as if the several widgets were being shown _before_ the main window... So, if I understand you correctly, some mozilla controls get drawn long before the titlebar? Is that

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Think i can't of great help here, but at least twice when i had slow graphical performance solved it by re-emerging some packages and xorg-x11 once (i assume you have run 'revdep-rebuild' ;) As it seems your main DM is KDE it's likely that there may be

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Have you tried renaming your .kde3.4/ dir temporarily (while logged out of KDE)? And removed all kde and mcop junk from /tmp? Have you unmerged the old kde ebuilds? And done --depclean? And revdep-rebuild? No. I think a deep cleaning is in ord

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Something that's still unclear to me: is the problem with kde, mozilla, or both? If you experience the same problem with mozilla under openbox then your troubles have nothing to do with kde. OTOH, if you there's no problems under openbox then the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-19 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: You might take a walk through the KDE option menus and disable anything that says "drop shadows", "transparency", or most other eye-candy. I had done that already. But I like eye-candy, or I might as well use a minimalistic wm... (I didn't get shadow

[gentoo-user] error in gconf ebuild?

2005-07-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
this status message. !!! FAILED prerm: 1 I emerge sync'ed just a few moments before... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] error in gconf ebuild?

2005-07-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
pity that a "classic" bug keeps crawling. Thanks for the reply. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] bork bork

2005-07-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
rid of the installed version (which makes "revdep-rebuild -p" unhappy)? And is portage on fire or is it just my system? Please, some fire-fighting help! -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bork bork

2005-07-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge -C arson - just like any other package. emerge uses the ebuild in /var/db/pkg when unmerging, so it doesn't matter if the package has been removed from portage. Yep. Thank you (). -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bork bork

2005-07-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
x27;m trying to do--not easy when one has a lot of broken dependencies. But emerge -C did it, following Neil's reply. Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
o way to unset the ugly thing. I tried make menuconfig and make xconfig. I tried commenting out that line. The line in grub.conf: kernel (hd1,2)/boot/linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hdb3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31a pci=usepirqmask -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: My guess is that you just don't have the appropriate framebuffer drivers configured in "Device Drivers->Graphics Support". With the Gentoo sources, I recommend at least CONFIG_FB_VESA=y and CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y. If you do you I have CONFIG_FB_VESA=y

Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I upgraded from kernel 2.6.11 (gentoo-sources r4) to 2.6.12 (r6), and lost my framebuffer console. No console whatsoever, actually, but xdm starts OK. Checking .config, I see # Console display driver support

Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Oh, and also, FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE should be =y Well, that made it! :) Seems ok (I have the same thing). Looking at the Kconfig file in drivers/video/console, I find: config VGA_CONSOLE bool "VGA text console" if EMBEDDED || !X86 depen

[gentoo-user] locale nightmare

2005-07-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
d on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C") Writing in vim gives all sorts of silly output. What to do? Something to emerge? Some kernel config problem? Why didn't /etc/env.d/02locale exist? I compiled glibc without the userlocales USE variable, so all locales should exist... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] enscript

2008-01-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
ldn't find a hint in Google... Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
is not set # # QoS and/or fair queueing # # CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y # # Network testing # # CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN is not set # CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set # CONFIG_IRDA is not set # CONFIG_BT is not set # CONFIG_AF_RXRPC is not set CONFIG_FIB_RULES=y -- Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Norman Rieß wrote: > Jorge Almeida schrieb: > > Anybody managed to get shorewall working with gentoo-sources 2.6.22-r5? > > I upgraded from 2.6.20, and there went the firewall. I used oldconfig > > > I had similar problems. I solved them with

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > "--" means you can't deselect (because its pulled by something else...) Yes. But it was not so before, with 2.6.20. > > > Have you recompiled iptables? I recompiled iptables once after emerging 2.6.22. Should I do it every time I make some changes to

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Try every netfilter option as module. If the problem continues, perhaps you'll Everything is already as module... > like to ask on shorewall's mailing lists if there are know issues with 2.6.22. Will do. > > BTW: a quick Googling shows netfilter is som

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: > No problems on multiple systems built using oldconfig and not rebuilding > iptables. OK, that means it's not some problem related with gentoo-sources patches. > > In the kernel I turn everything on by default and build it modular - > this might be the cau

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, David Snider wrote: > > > > > Anybody managed to get shorewall working with gentoo-sources > > > > > 2.6.22-r5? > > > > > I upgraded from 2.6.20, and there went the firewall. I used oldconfig > > > > > > I recently updated to 2.6.22-r5. Shorewall seems to be workin

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, David Snider wrote: > > > Here's my .config > Thanks, David. Your configuration works for me. Meanwhile, I ended up by selecting all modules in my former config, even those that are plainly irrelevant (according to the help in menuconfig) and shorewall now starts OK. I jus

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, William Kenworthy wrote: > Checking the obvious: you have gone through and manually checked that > the modules are still being built? > Yes. > There has been some renaming going on within netfilter that just using > oldconfig misses a few (leaves them unselected, but didnt as

Re: [gentoo-user] unsubscrube

2007-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On 10/12/07, Karl Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > unsubscrube Tri agane. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] man mount ?!

2007-11-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
unbindable mountpoint are just ignored in my (updated) system. Any idea? -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
correct System.map?) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 4 February 2007 13:45, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > I was under the impression that it is necessary to install Nvidia > > drivers. Is this correct? > > If the link is not in place, nvidia-drivers will not build. >

Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have no idea how I could do that, I just would build the kernel using .config. I suppose it's not important, but a unhappy message about it sometimes appear in the boot messages... Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Mark wrote: > On 04/02/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have no idea how I could do that, I just would build the kernel using > > .config. I suppose it's not important, but a unhappy message about it > > sometimes appear

[gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
in a curses screen. Any idea? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Graham Murray wrote: Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm unable to select which OS to boot at the grub screen, because the up and down keys simply stopped working, so it always boots the default. This never happened before. I already re-emerged and r

RE: [gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub [SOLVED]

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: -Original Message- From: Jorge Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2007 11:40 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub No. And the hardware is not new, nor is this a f

[gentoo-user] adjustment console/X

2007-03-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
both cases, but with VESA the problem is the same. Is there some workaround? Some way the coax the system into using the correct physical dimensions in X and VC? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] adjustment console/X

2007-03-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
eo=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the appropriate line in grub.conf, and Modes "1280x1024" in xorg.conf. The update frequency is set to 60Hz (recommended for this monitor) in the Control panel of KDE. 1280x1024 is the native resolution of the monitor. Thanks, Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] finding current X mode

2007-03-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
Is there some utility to find which mode (in X) is the current one? It would be usefull to find out which mode looks better, when switching with Ctrl-Alt-KeypadPlus... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] finding current X mode

2007-03-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 18:13 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: Is there some utility to find which mode (in X) is the current one? It would be usefull to find out which mode looks better, when switching with Ctrl-Alt-KeypadPlus... In the days of LCD

Re: [gentoo-user] finding current X mode

2007-03-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 20:07, Jorge Almeida wrote: xdpyinfo displays the dimensions/resolution, which is the native resolution of the LCD monitor. But it says nothing about the refresh rate in use... Not 100% sure, but I seem to remember that

RE: [gentoo-user] adjustment console/X [SOLVED]

2007-03-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: -Original Message- From: Jorge Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 March 2007 11:20 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] adjustment console/X I don't know what "VESAFB-TNG statement&q

[gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-03-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
I would like the default permissions for directories created by a particular user to be 1775. Is there some way to achieve this? I think umask doesn't deal with the sticky bit. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote: I would like the default permissions for directories created by a particular user to be 1775. Is there some way to achieve this? I think umask doesn't deal with the sticky bit. I did a few simple

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote: Could you rig it so these users will only create new dirs in a certain place, like /tmp or /var/tmp? If so, would a cron job running every 10 minutes or so running this command be good enough? find

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Are your users running Windows? Is so, you can configure Samba to create directories with sticky bit set. No, linux-only. Regards, Norberto Thanks, Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
whether g+s'ing the directory gives the effect you want. It doesn't, but it would be the same problem, as to umask or similar. Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

2007-04-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I would like the default permissions for directories created by a particular user to be 1775. Is there some way to achieve this? I think umask doesn't deal with the sticky bit. umask is a MASK. The application sug

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't switch to a console after logging in to KDE.

2007-04-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
weird behaviour? What happens when you press Ctrl+Alt+F1 with a konsole in the foreground? Does it write something, as if you had pressed regular keys? If so, I had a similar problem. The culprit was inside xorg.conf (Section "InputDevice", Option "XkbLayout"). I had to change

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
/.maildir/.Suspect/ -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
again. So I'm interested in recommendations. What did you switch to? I use Shorewall. It's well supported and works well. I don't know a thing about iptables and still I've had a firewall in my workstations since I started using Linux. -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCPCD and nameserver

2010-08-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
> > I'm trying to get my nameserver setting to stick in resolv.conf when I > restart the network or reboot.  Layman will not work with my ISP's DNS > server for some crazy reason.  Anyway, I have this in /etc/conf.d/net file: > Dale, if I understood correctly, you want to set the contents of /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCPCD and nameserver

2010-08-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Dale wrote: >> I don't know about dhcpcd, but I'm using dhclient, and it works like this: >> $cat /etc/resolv.conf Oops... It was "cat /etc/conf.d/net"... >> config_eth0=("dhcp") >> modules_eth0=("dhclient") >> dhcp_eth0="nodns" >> > > I kept playing with this

Re: [gentoo-user] Straight from the horse's mouth

2012-08-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
t that, contrary to what > he thinks, he actually isn't the only human on the planet? > Take off all his mirrors? Cruel and unusual punishment, I know... Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Straight from the horse's mouth

2012-08-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
the xorg stuff in the WiKi. It mentions the evdev driver as critical, but at the Notes at the bottom you say "evdev need udev to be built". Can you clarify this? Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Straight from the horse's mouth

2012-08-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> I'm confused about the xorg stuff in the WiKi. It mentions the evdev driver >> as >> critical, but at the Notes at the bottom you say "ev

[gentoo-user] common flags for 2 cpu?

2012-08-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
the ones of the computer that will do the compiling. I'm guessing the produced binaries are compatible with cpu with different --param flags. Is this right? TIA Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] common flags for 2 cpu?

2012-08-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 17.08.2012 10:58, schrieb Jorge Almeida: >> >> 1) Is this strategy right? If so, any other flags to add? (or any >> flags to remove from the list?) >> >> 2) The --param flags are the ones of the compu

Re: [gentoo-user] common flags for 2 cpu?

2012-08-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 17.08.2012 19:57, schrieb Jorge Almeida: >> I read in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-895104.html : >> atom >> Intel Atom CPU with 64-bit extensions, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSSE3 >> instruction set su

[gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
kages. What to do? app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.3 in chroot xz 5.0.4 in host system (Archlinux) TIA Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> # tar -xJvf /usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.16.tar.xz >> xz: (stdin): Cannot allocate memory >> >> The box has 2G ram + 1G swap. I'm installing Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 22.08.2012 20:52, schrieb Jorge Almeida: > > This should not happen, especially on such a small archive. I've tried > `strace xz -t m4-1.4.16.tar.xz` and looked for calls to mmap (e.g. > memory allocations). They ne

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Florian Philipp >> wrote: >>> Am 22.08.2012 20:52, schrieb Jorge Almeida: > > My bet is that it's an incompatibil

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> >> My bet is that it's an incompatibility between the Arch kernel and the >> version of gli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xz memory hungry?

2012-08-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 22/08/12 21:52, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> > > > You should file a bug about this. Whoever put that xz there surely has no > idea that this is happening. > > Not Gentoo nor xz fault (see other messages in thread). Thanks J.A.

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> Well, I found the problem: ulimit problem. Not the first time this crap bites >> me, but I always forget. I just wish this was better documented, somewhere. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> > >> Last time I had a problem like this I spent a lot of time googling about >> ulimit/setting_limits/etc and found _nothing_ worth mentioning. This time I >> run "ulimit -v unlimited", but the question is who put the former values >> the

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Blakawk wrote: > On 23/08/2012 12:14, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > In /etc/security/limits.conf you can put any limits that can be set using > ulimit command so they are kept between reboots. > OK, but I'm not using PAM for anything, so the

[gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND

2012-08-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
rify this? TIA Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND

2012-08-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:09:47 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> The API is not documented. I _assumed_ that the >> program /path/to/logprocessor reads logs from STDIN and does whatever >> it wants with them. > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND

2012-08-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:16:57 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > The point is you pass the name of the logfile as a variable, you do not > use STDIN. > Yes, that part was clear after your previous mail. Thanks again J.A.

Re: [gentoo-user] WM that does not require policykit, consolekit, and gudev

2012-09-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
policykit, and consolekit? > I think openbox doesn't require any of that crap. I'm sure openbox is an excellent WM. If you're a keyboard person, it's easily customizable. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] course of gtk3 (a nice rant)

2012-11-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:03 PM, julian wrote: > https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes/ > GoblinOS... Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
ome (sic) "a master of UNIX very soon", an "expert of all kinds" with "master knowledge" after self-learning (sic) "Linux 3 years ago"? Yet, he couldn't spend one hour learning good manners and another one learning English. Cheers Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:38 PM, pk wrote: > On 2012-11-11 13:24, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> or later, but isn't it a nice coincidence that this perl is a product of the >> same totalitarian mindset that is determined to poison Linux? > > Can't we just calm dow

Re: [gentoo-user] uefi gpt grub2

2012-11-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:11 PM, john wrote: > > Does syslinux work with uefi/gpt? > Currently, not with uefi MO, it seems. But it works fine with gpt partitioning on MBR motherboards. Just follow the Arch Linux WiKi. No reason to submit to the grub2 silliness :) Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
Anyone knows how to dig into /sys to find the serial number of a device (say, a USB pen)? I few days ago I found by trial and error something like $ cat /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:06.1/usb2/2-4/2-4:1.0/host13/target13:0:0/13:0:0:0/block/sdc/../../../../../serial which gave me E68911000519 Now

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Marco Bonfiglio wrote: > > > 2012/11/29 Jorge Almeida >> >> Anyone knows how to dig into /sys to find the serial number of a device >> (say, >> a USB pen)? I few days ago I found by trial and error something like >> $ cat

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:57:46PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> Anyone knows how to dig into /sys to find the serial number of a device (say, >> a USB pen)? I few days ago I found by trial and error something like >> $

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:31:10PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> >> It is a matter of programming, not looking. I need a program that creates the >> symlink when the device is plugged in. Think mdev (more precisely, a

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:31:10PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote > > > I have a couple of scripts that automount USB devices under mdev. See > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev for the general setup, and > https://wiki.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:28:01AM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote > >> When a pen is inserted, this is what is set: >> >> DEVNAME=sdd > > This is almost exactly what I remember from when I was > writing/testi

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:07:11 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> This is indeed the device I meant, and the serial number is the >> "E68911000519" substring. But this symlink exists because udev created >> i

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-12-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:58:10AM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> > >> I thought of keeping data-- (key,value) = (serial_number, >> custom_name_of_device)-- in

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-12-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:58:10AM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote >>> By the way, I don't suppose there is a mailing list to talk about these >>> matters (m

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: WHAT?! No tagline? J.A.

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
somehow. Good luck. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ucspi-unix alive?

2006-10-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
is just my bad luck or something more permanent? And is there any alternative to ucspi-unix? (The compilation went without any problem. My system is really up to date, and revdep-rebuild had no requirements.) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this normal? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

  1   2   3   4   5   6   >