Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-30 Thread lee
Stroller wrote: On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran "mke2fs /dev/sda1" instead of "mke2fs /dev/hda1". When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which tool to diagnose wireless connection problem?

2012-10-11 Thread Lee
On Oct 11, 2012 10:25 AM, "Chris Stankevitz" wrote: > > Hello, > > I never really understood wireless in linux, it has always "just > worked". I use wicd although I don't really even know what that > means. I have no clue what is a wpa supplicant, ndis, etc. > > I now have a problem. Please poi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-03 Thread Lee
And if it's confusing for the 'bit jockeys' on this mailing list what do you think will be the effect on the casual user? This could have been handled better, imho. What happened to that documentation mojo Gentoo is known for? The post-install notes are a real head scratcher. On Apr 3, 2013 9:40 A

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd (localhost:631) trouble

2013-09-03 Thread Lee
Just a shot in the dark, but have u tried printer mgmt from hp-setup instead of cups? There is an ASCII alternative to the qt interface included in hplips. On Sep 3, 2013 5:01 PM, wrote: > On a reboot the cups main page appears in firefox (it is the plain, > non-qt version, which I have used succ

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 failed to start

2013-10-02 Thread Lee
Usually this indicates a lack of kernel support. I would check kernel .config or menuconfig to ensure all your Broadcom support has been enabled. if you know which modules are involved you can use modprobe to check them out (see if they're loaded or unavailable or whatever ). Good luck!

Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Lee
On Oct 15, 2013 12:35 PM, "Alexander Kapshuk" wrote: > > I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. > > Is that normal? > > What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do > that? > > Thanks. > > IIRC there's a default profile in /etc or /usr som

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts?

2015-04-01 Thread lee
Urs Schütz writes: > On 03/29/15 06:23, lee wrote: >> walt writes: >> >>> On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> >> As to fonts, I highly recommend "Source Code Pro" and "Source Sans Pro". &g

[gentoo-user] what to use for a pppoe client?

2015-04-04 Thread lee
Hi, I need a pppoe client, no server part necessary, to replace the black-box router because that thing sucks. Which package would you recommend? There seem to be at least two I could use: net-dialup/ppp net-dialup/rp-pppoe I'd like to see some connection statistics, i. e. the connection sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-04-04 Thread lee
Fernando Rodriguez writes: > On Sunday, March 29, 2015 12:23:00 PM lee wrote: >> Philip Webb writes: >> What's the last time you pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del and it actually worked? >> It's a legacy thing from times when freezes/crashes were common and whe

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-04 Thread lee
symack writes: > the only thing is when we try to boot with xen, it gets to the prompt and > then reboots > by itself. The following message is what differs between normal gentoo and > xen kernel > > Mar 31 06:32:18 test kernel: [0.138644] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, > While evaluating Slee

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-04-04 Thread lee
"Walter Dnes" writes: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:43:12PM +0200, lee wrote > >> That leaves the question why a user who isn't even logged in should >> be able to reboot, which IIRC they can by default with Ctrl+Alt+Del. >> Such users shouldn't be al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-04-07 Thread lee
Fernando Rodriguez writes: > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 2:41:12 PM lee wrote: >> I always can't remember which keys to press with that, so I have it >> disabled. >> >> And when the keyboard is unresponsive, it won't work. > > It will in many ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-04-07 Thread lee
Rich Freeman writes: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:41 AM, lee wrote: >> >> Oh I mean the *default*. We should not need to change the inittab to >> have it disabled by default. >> >> Isn't commenting out the whole line sufficient? >> > > Uh, comm

Re: [gentoo-user] what to use for a pppoe client?

2015-04-07 Thread lee
Heiko Baums writes: > Am 04.04.2015 um 14:32 schrieb lee: >> Which package would you recommend? There seem to be at least two I >> could use: >> >> >> net-dialup/ppp >> net-dialup/rp-pppoe > > I used rp-pppoe. I found it easier to configure. p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-04-07 Thread lee
lee writes: > Living in the past is not onwardly a good default. s/is not onwardly/seldwhen is/

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-14 Thread lee
hydra writes: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee wrote: > >> symack writes: >> >> Other than that, unless you really do need full virtualization: I'm >> finding Linux containers to be far more manageable than virtual >> machines, and much more ef

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-04-14 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:21:38 +0200, lee wrote: > >> > It will in many cases (probably most). Usually it's xorg that >> > "freezes" the keyboard, in those cases ctrl-alt-sysrq-r followed by >> > ctrl-alt-f1 should get you to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-04-14 Thread lee
Emanuele Rusconi writes: > On 8 April 2015 at 23:47, lee wrote: >> >> Neil Bothwick writes: >> >> > On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:21:38 +0200, lee wrote: >> > >> > > How do you remember these keys? >> > >> > BUSIER backwards,

[gentoo-user] beep

2015-04-14 Thread lee
Hi, when the pcspkr module (or how it's called; I haven't compiled atm) is loaded, somehow the built-in speaker is used to sometimes beep. There also seems to be the option to play this beep via the sound card --- which usually sounds nicer. How is this done? Do I need to load a different modu

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-23 Thread lee
hydra writes: > You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream > documentation? What information are you missing from there? Maybe we can > add the missing pieces for Xen being more accessible and easier to use, > what do you think? :) I mean the documentation they have o

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-23 Thread lee
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On 8 April 2015 14:43:02 GMT-07:00, lee wrote: >>hydra writes: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee wrote: >>> >>>> symack writes: >>>> >>>> Other than that, unless you reall

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-24 Thread lee
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:03:53 PM lee wrote: >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >> >> >> > I disagree. Been using Xen for over 10 years now and find it very easy to >> > use. The documentation could be better

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-24 Thread lee
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:02:24 PM lee wrote: >> hydra writes: >> > You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream >> > >> > documentation? What information are you missing from there? Maybe we

[gentoo-user] how to update spamassassin with sa-update

2015-04-26 Thread lee
Hi, installation notes for spamassassin say you need to do the rule updates yourself by running 'sa-update'. Now I'd do that with a crontab entry, and I don't want to add it to root's crontab. As what user should I run it, and where do I put the crontab entry for it? -- Again we must be afrai

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-05-01 Thread lee
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On Friday, April 24, 2015 10:24:06 PM lee wrote: >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >> > On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:02:24 PM lee wrote: >> >> hydra writes: >> >> > You mean the documentation at Gentoo abo

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-05-01 Thread lee
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On Friday, April 24, 2015 10:23:01 PM lee wrote: >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >> > On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:03:53 PM lee wrote: >> > Do you have anything that you find insufficiently documented or is too >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-03 Thread lee
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee wrote: >> >> Neil Bothwick writes: >> >> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:49:54 +0100, lee wrote: >> > >> >> > I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the j

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-03 Thread lee
Rich Freeman writes: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee wrote: >> >> To me it is one of the good reasons, and an important one. Plain text >> can usually always be read without further ado, be it from rescue >> systems you booted or with software available on dif

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-03 Thread lee
Marc Joliet writes: >> Can you do all that with the binary files created by systemd? I can't >> even read them on a working system. > > What Canek and Rich already said is good, but I'll just add this: it's not > like > you can't run a classic syslog implementation alongside the systemd journal

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-09 Thread lee
Tom H writes: > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:57 AM, lee wrote: >> Canek Peláez Valdés writes: >>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee wrote: >>>> >>>> I can't even read them on a working system. >>> >>> If that's true (w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-05-09 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:06:33 +0200, lee wrote: > >> >> > > How do you remember these keys? >> >> > >> >> > BUSIER backwards, or bookmark >> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key in your pho

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-09 Thread lee
Rich Freeman writes: > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:14 AM, lee wrote: >> Marc Joliet writes: >> >>> Personally, I'm probably going to uninstall syslog-ng, because journalctl is >>> *such* a nice way to read logs, so why run something whose output I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Lee
On May 24, 2015 3:33 AM, "behrouz khosravi" wrote: > > Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. > So I am going to use console based tools mos

[gentoo-user] which keymap and keyboard setup

2015-06-05 Thread lee
Hi, which keymap are we supposed to use for a keyboard that has 122 keys? And which keyboard type are we supposed to specify? There's pc_102, pc_105 and whatnot; is there such a thing as pc_122, too? So far, I plugged the keyboard in (it's USB) and it has a layout I can expect (which is kinda am

Re: [gentoo-user] which keymap and keyboard setup

2015-06-07 Thread lee
Alan Mackenzie writes: > Hello, Lee. > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 11:33:47PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Hi, > >> which keymap are we supposed to use for a keyboard that has 122 keys? > > I think you might have to roll your own. As a warning, this can't be > don

Re: [gentoo-user] which keymap and keyboard setup

2015-06-07 Thread lee
Alan Mackenzie writes: > Hello, Peter > > On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Saturday 06 June 2015 11:22:45 Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> > :-) I have a Filco mechanical keyboard, which works well. Does your new >> > keyboard need more desk space than a standard on

Re: [gentoo-user] which keymap and keyboard setup

2015-06-07 Thread lee
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Saturday 06 June 2015 11:22:45 Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 11:33:47PM +0200, lee wrote: >> > BTW, this keyboard is awesome. It's just as if you had a Model M, but >> > still new, and there isn't anyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4th ::+ 5th

2015-07-04 Thread Lee
On Jul 4, 2015 10:30 AM, "James" wrote: > > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > > > > why should anybody celebrate anything? > > Volker::=media-sound/mixxx > > Even you can have tons of pals, just spin some tunes, amplify, > do a little voice over and shake it down...baby!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer margins

2015-07-06 Thread Lee
HPLIP installs several executables. Have you made sure you have started the correct setup program? As I recall, these settings ARE included in the hplip setup for my printer, which is an older 3 in 1. On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I finally got around to ordering some

Re: [gentoo-user] xen: How to enable a non-existant USE flag? (xen doesn't work)

2015-07-25 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:42:00 +0200, hw wrote: > >> > Of course, there may be a very good reason why this flag is masked on >> > no-multilib profiles, in which case you will not only see why but get >> > to keep the resulting shrapnel. >> >> I would say it is wrong to di

Re: [gentoo-user] xen doesn't work

2015-07-25 Thread lee
hydra writes: >> However, you don't have >>> hvm/qemu enabled so that's why your HVM guests won't start up. >>> >> >> Indeed that was the problem. Once I found that out, I finally was able to >> get it to work. It's quite frustrating when you follow the documentation >> and yet things just don

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread lee
Daniel Frey writes: > Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one > I've lost. + Buy good hardware. + Never store anything on only a single disk (with very few exceptions). + Do not put swap partitions on single disks, either. + Disks always come in pairs at least.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-25 Thread lee
Matthew Marchese writes: > Hi all, > > I see that you've found stager. I'd like you to share your thoughts on > what a perfect installer Gentoo could do. The Debian installer is the best one I've seen so far. If you're thinking towards Redhat, the Fedora installer can't even do partitioning, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

2015-08-01 Thread Lee
On Jul 30, 2015 11:23 AM, "Alan Mackenzie" wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > Over the course of the last 24 hours, Firefox 38.1.0 became stable in > portage, so I merged it in. > > What a mistake! > > All my existing configuration (including for NoScript+), all my > bookmarks, all record of previous v

Re: [gentoo-user] !!!!

2015-08-20 Thread Lee
This has operator error written all over it especially given this operator's level of maturity. On Aug 18, 2015 1:32 PM, "Jeff Smelser" wrote: > What did you update? Nothing I remember recently came out to break like > this. > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Like a stu

[gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

2015-09-01 Thread lee
Hi, I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last message I can see being that udevevents are being processed. This happens with an NVIDIA GTX770 connected to a 4k display via a display port cable, and only when the monitor is configured to use display port 1.2 rather than 1.1. With 1

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

2015-09-01 Thread lee
writes: > lee wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last message I can >> see being that udevevents are being processed. >> >> This happens with an NVIDIA GTX770 connected to a 4k display via a >> displa

[gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-03 Thread lee
Hi, since quite a while, seamonkey and its relatives are completely broken when it comes to use self-signed certificates. They just refuse the connection to the server, blocking you from accessing your email. Is there still no solution for this problem? I'm totally fed up with it by now. At wo

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-03 Thread lee
Fernando Rodriguez writes: > On Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:53:39 PM lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since quite a while, seamonkey and its relatives are completely broken >> when it comes to use self-signed certificates. They just refuse the >> connection to the se

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-04 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Friday 04 Sep 2015 08:54:19 Peter Weilbacher wrote: > >> Are you sure that diving right into about:config is the best way? In >> SeaMonkey, take a look under Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> >> Certificates. Under "Manage Certificates..." you can import your own >> certifica

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-04 Thread lee
Fernando Rodriguez writes: > On Friday, September 04, 2015 9:50:43 PM lee wrote: >> Mick writes: >> >> > On Friday 04 Sep 2015 08:54:19 Peter Weilbacher wrote: >> > >> >> Are you sure that diving right into about:config is the best way? In &

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-05 Thread lee
Fernando Rodriguez writes: > On Saturday, September 05, 2015 1:05:06 AM lee wrote: >> >> >> >> It doesn't work. I've imported the certificate now at home, and no >> >> matter what trust I set or whatever I do, I cannot connect, and I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-05 Thread lee
Fernando Rodriguez writes: > On Saturday, September 05, 2015 1:05:06 AM lee wrote: >> In this case, I happen to have full physical access to the server and >> thus to the certificate stored on it. This is not the case for, let's >> say, an employee checking his work-em

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-05 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Saturday 05 Sep 2015 02:08:47 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: >> On Saturday, September 05, 2015 1:05:06 AM lee wrote: >> > In this case, I happen to have full physical access to the server and >> > thus to the certificate stored on it. This is not the c

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-06 Thread lee
Fernando Rodriguez writes: > On Saturday, September 05, 2015 6:09:36 PM Mick wrote: >> On Saturday 05 Sep 2015 14:06:27 lee wrote: >> > Fernando Rodriguez writes: >> > > On Saturday, September 05, 2015 1:05:06 AM lee wrote: >> > >> In this case,

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-06 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Saturday 05 Sep 2015 22:40:09 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: >> >> Since it lets you open the exception dialog but just hangs when downloading >> the certificate I wonder if it has something to do with your OCSP settings. >> Check that they match mine: >> >> security.OCSP.GET.enabl

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-06 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Saturday 05 Sep 2015 17:22:24 lee wrote: >> Mick writes: >> > On Saturday 05 Sep 2015 02:08:47 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: >> >> On Saturday, September 05, 2015 1:05:06 AM lee wrote: >> >> > In this case, I happen to have full phys

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-06 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Saturday 05 Sep 2015 14:06:27 lee wrote: >> Fernando Rodriguez writes: >> > On Saturday, September 05, 2015 1:05:06 AM lee wrote: >> >> In this case, I happen to have full physical access to the server and >> >> thus to the certifica

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-13 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Sunday 06 Sep 2015 15:29:25 lee wrote: > [...] >> >> Is it possible to create a certificate that doesn't use either but a >> wildcard only? I don't understand why or how an fqdn/IP in a >> certificate could or should be relevant at

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-13 Thread lee
Fernando Rodriguez writes: > On Sunday, September 06, 2015 4:29:25 PM lee wrote: > [...] >> >> When creating the certificate, I have used the fqdn the host does >> actually have and knows itself by (because I needed to fill in the >> fields, and it seemed most rea

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-13 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Sunday 06 Sep 2015 03:45:26 lee wrote: >> Mick writes: >> > On Saturday 05 Sep 2015 14:06:27 lee wrote: > >> >> What's the solution for a server which can be reached by different fqdns >> >> and IPs? What if the

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-13 Thread lee
lee writes: > Well, I've made a bug report about this: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202128 They suggested to try with seamonkey 2.35. I tried and found that 2.35 (and 2.38 beta) work fine. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that da

[gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-19 Thread lee
Hi, how could I solve these updating problems: emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world * IMPORTANT: 4 news

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-20 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0200, lee wrote: > >> emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-20 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> how could I solve these updating problems: >> >> >> emerge -j 8 -a --updat

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread lee
Rich Freeman writes: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote: >>> >>> dev-libs/boost:0 >>> >>> (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >>> pulled

Re: [gentoo-user] how to solve this dependency problem?

2015-09-26 Thread lee
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Sunday 22 February 2015 00:35:59 lee wrote: > >> how would I solve this dependency problem: >> >> media-libs/openjpeg:2 >> >> (media-libs/openjpeg-2.1.0:2/7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> conflicts with >

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread lee
Rich Freeman writes: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:24 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:25:34 lee wrote: >>> So I decided I'd better ask what to do. It's hard to believe that we >>> are seriously expected to remove lots of softw

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread lee
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:25:34 lee wrote: >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> > On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> how could I solve these updating problems: >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-27 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 20/09/2015 17:28, lee wrote: >> Neil Bothwick writes: >> >>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0200, lee wrote: > [...] >>>> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been >>>> pulled !!! into

[gentoo-user] /dev/shm in a Linux container

2015-09-27 Thread lee
Hi, when updating a guest in an LXC, emerging python pointed out a problem with a broken /dev/shm. So I found out how to mount /dev/shm in the container and updated. However, I'm wondering how secure that is, and I wonder if I should leave it mounted or disable the mount. It might be a very bad

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-27 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 26/09/2015 11:47, lee wrote: >> Rich Freeman writes: >> >>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Alan McKinnon >>> wrote: > [...] >> It gives the same results (after syncing again), plus a message that >> wasn't t

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-27 Thread lee
Rich Freeman writes: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 9:51 AM, lee wrote: >> | >> | (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> pulled in by >> | (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot) >> | >

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-28 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 27/09/2015 21:17, lee wrote: > > > > [big snip] > >>> Seems to me you are thinking like a human (because you are one) and not >>> > seeing portage's limits. Portage has no idea what would solve the issue >>> > so

Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread Lee
On Sep 29, 2015 11:17 AM, wrote: > > Alan Grimes wrote: > > > > > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you because > > it's absolutely silent... > > "The Scream" is painted by Edvard Munch. Van Gogh (not Gough!) is well > known for his paintings of sunflowers and cypresses.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread Lee
I saw 'Irises' in person at the Getty, and it took 5 min before I could lift my jaw off the ground... On Sep 29, 2015 11:26 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > On 2015-09-29, Alan Grimes wrote: > > > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you > > because it's absolutely silent... >

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-29 Thread lee
Alec Ten Harmsel writes: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:52:41AM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> >> > On 27/09/2015 21:17, lee wrote: >> > >> > Fellow, I'm done with you, really. >> > >> > You hold onto your

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

2015-09-29 Thread lee
writes: > lee wrote: > >> writes: >> >> > lee wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last message I >> >> can see being that udevevents are being p

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-29 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > Patches are always more welcome than suggestions. "Fix it!" is never as > welcome as "here's how". I think it was Canek who said "code talks". Do you have an example for such a case? My experience has disproved this claim, and I've even seen people fixing stuff multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

2015-09-29 Thread lee
writes: > lee wrote: > > [...] >> I finally got a cable that works. It's from Delock and says 82771 on >> the back of the package where the EAN code is. I like it, it seems to >> be good quality, and most importantly, it works. > > Then you really had luc

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-10-03 Thread lee
Alan Mackenzie writes: > Hello, Lee. > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 08:45:10PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Neil Bothwick writes: > >> > Patches are always more welcome than suggestions. "Fix it!" is never as >> > welcome as "here's how". I t

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-10-03 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:45:10 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick writes: >> >> > Patches are always more welcome than suggestions. "Fix it!" is never >> > as welcome as "here's how". I think it was Canek who

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

2015-10-03 Thread lee
lee writes: > writes: > > [...] >>> However, I can see the BIOS and the boot manager menu, then during >>> booting, the screen goes black and the monitor says "no signal" >>> (probably when the nvidia module is loaded). So I logged in blind

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Lee
'modprobe -r pcspkr' should remove the offending beep. On Oct 20, 2015 9:10 AM, "Alan Mackenzie" wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps > at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. > Just what is this beep s

[gentoo-user] pppoe questions

2015-11-06 Thread lee
Hi, finally I got set up pppoe, which turned out to be surprisingly easy. It's working fine, though I'm getting a warning when the pppoe interface is brought up: heimdali init.d # service net.ppp0 start * Bringing up interface ppp0 * Starting pppd in ppp0 ... [

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe questions

2015-11-07 Thread lee
Alon Bar-Lev writes: > On 6 November 2015 at 17:28, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> finally I got set up pppoe, which turned out to be surprisingly easy. >> It's working fine, though I'm getting a warning when the pppoe interface >> is brought up: >&g

[gentoo-user] git and apache

2015-11-07 Thread lee
Hi, does anyone know how to put a copy of a local repo onto a web server (apache) so that the repo can be pulled via http? The instructions I'm finding suggest to init a bare repo --- into which I can't get the files because when I try to pull from the source repo, I only get 'fatal: /usr/libexec

openrc questions (Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe questions)

2015-11-08 Thread lee
Alon Bar-Lev writes: > On 7 November 2015 at 20:21, lee wrote: >> Alon Bar-Lev writes: >> >>>> How does pppoe work together with shorewall and bind? >>>> >>>> When I stop the net.ppp0 service, shorewall is automatically stopped as >>

[gentoo-user] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

2015-11-19 Thread lee
Hi, does anyone know what happened to the 'Ingress Qdisc' kernel option mentioned on [1], and what the replacement would be? I'm trying to follow [2] to set up some simple traffic shaping with the intention to improve VOIP quality. [1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping [2]: http://

Re: [gentoo-user] What X fonts do I really need?

2015-11-22 Thread lee
"Walter Dnes" writes: > After I got xterm working properly on the new install, I looked at my > list of installed fonts and did some hacking... and slashing... and got > down to this... > > [i3][waltdnes][~] grep media-fonts /var/lib/portage/world > media-fonts/dejavu > media-fonts/font-bh-luci

Re: [gentoo-user] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

2015-11-22 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Thursday 19 Nov 2015 14:53:26 lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> does anyone know what happened to the 'Ingress Qdisc' kernel option >> mentioned on [1], and what the replacement would be? >> >> I'm trying to follow [2] to set u

Re: [gentoo-user] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

2015-11-23 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:14:36 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > I'm using 4.1.12-gentoo and it contains Ingress Qdisc. Look for >> > NET_SCH_INGRESS: >> > >> > grep -i SCH_INGRESS /usr/src/linux/.config >> > # CONFIG_N

[gentoo-user] emerging squid indefinitely

2015-11-23 Thread lee
Hi, emerging squid doesn't seem to ever finish: [...] >>> Emerging (9 of 9) net-proxy/squid-3.5.6::gentoo >>> Jobs: 8 of 9 complete, 1 runningLoad avg: 0.37, 0.61, 0.53 What would I look at, without interrupting emerge, to find out what's going on?

Re: [gentoo-user] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

2015-11-23 Thread lee
Todd Goodman writes: > * Peter Humphrey [151123 07:15]: >> On Monday 23 November 2015 12:11:36 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > On Monday 23 November 2015 12:29:42 lee wrote: >> > > Neil Bothwick writes: >> > > > Grepping .config proves nothing. If a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging squid indefinitely

2015-11-23 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 23/11/2015 17:02, lee wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> emerging squid doesn't seem to ever finish: >> >> >> [...] >>>>> Emerging (9 of 9) net-proxy/squid-3.5.6::gentoo >>>>> Jobs: 8 of 9 compl

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging squid indefinitely

2015-11-24 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 23/11/2015 23:04, lee wrote: >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> >>> On 23/11/2015 17:02, lee wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> emerging squid doesn't seem to ever finish: >>>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging squid indefinitely

2015-11-25 Thread lee
walt writes: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:39:01 +0100 > lee wrote: > >> >> ... > > >> Well, ok, the file is still locked. >> >> 'group-' looks like a backup, and 'group.lock' contains 10563, which >> is the pid of groupadd.

Re: [gentoo-user] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

2015-11-25 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 23/11/2015 22:31, lee wrote: >> Todd Goodman writes: >> >>> * Peter Humphrey [151123 07:15]: >>>> On Monday 23 November 2015 12:11:36 Peter Humphrey wrote: >>>>> On Monday 23 November 2015 12:29:42 lee wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-25 Thread lee
waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: > I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in > a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards. > The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable > for me, but I did want to keep root on its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging squid indefinitely

2015-11-25 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 25/11/2015 13:30, lee wrote: >> walt writes: >> >>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:39:01 +0100 >>> lee wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> ... >>> >>> >>>> Well, ok, the file is still locked

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