Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Mark
2009/4/22 Anthony Metcalf : > Chris Lieb wrote: >> I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things >> that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason.  For >> example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text: >> >> "prog" >> >> the prog is given a

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/phasex

2009-04-23 Thread Mark
2009/4/22 Kelly Hirai : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > this package appears to be a porn site now. what do we do? > > kelly Lots of copies on mirrors: http://www.filewatcher.com/m/phasex-0.11.1.tar.gz.391539.0.0.html Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-20 Thread Mark
w them access after the fact. Still I would be of the opinion that you are safe. Thanks Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-05 Thread Mark
certain packages under the LFS method will not install. Thanks Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites "/etc/resolv.conf" automatically

2007-04-20 Thread Mark
h0="-R" (-R = Prevents dhcpcd from replacing existing /etc/resolv.conf file.) Mark PS: Please remeber topposting kills kittens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy/Paste Functionality in Konsole

2007-05-25 Thread mark
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 10:52 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: > I have just recently switched over to KDE and started using Konsole, and I > was > wondering something. > > I really like the copy/paste functionality you find in the Linux console and > in PuTTY where you just highlight the text you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are *.so library files executable?

2011-06-05 Thread Mark
was in the past). Thanks Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Escaping a "*" in bash script

2006-10-08 Thread Mark
27;select * from table' Or you can \* it. query="select \* from table" Stepping away from bash and into MySQL for a second, why are you selecting *? See google for the debates :) Thanks Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync

2006-10-15 Thread Mark
On 15/10/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: May I undo an emerge --sync? Thanks Sergio Not a solution .. but the mirrors normally hold older snapshots of portage, for instance: http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/snapshots/ Just an idea. Thanks Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Mark
. Then rebuild. emerge -e world At which point you should probably just go have a sleep. Good luck Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and coldplug blocking each other!

2006-11-25 Thread Mark
he coldplug ebuild it shows the conflict. # conflicts with udev now. RDEPEND="!>=sys-fs/udev-089" Currently I have udev-087-r1 and coldplug-20040920-r1 installed. It would be my suggestion not to install udev-103 currently (it is marked as ~x86). Thanks Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and coldplug blocking each other!

2006-11-25 Thread Mark
Thanks again, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No update-eix-remote

2006-12-13 Thread Mark
counterintuitive. And there is me going way OT. Yay! Mark On 13/12/06, Douglas Linford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And what do you mean, "Please don't toppost"? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] New Macs

2006-01-12 Thread Mark
I got an email from Apple this morning announcing the new Intel-based Macs. I was wondering if anyone knew whether one of the Gentoo Intel flavors would run on those systems or whether that would be a whole different build -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia hangs Xorg

2006-03-01 Thread Mark
i had the same problem, even when i would switch back to VT1 it would be a black screen, so i uesed the drivers from nvidia.com and it worked fine, seems to be a problem in portage On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:48 +0100, Jonatan Antoni wrote: > Hy there, > > I'm playing around with the nvidia kernel-

[gentoo-user] Xorg, nvidia drivers and MX4000

2005-08-18 Thread Mark
ons have worked yet. If anyone has some suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg, nvidia drivers and MX4000

2005-08-18 Thread Mark
in rc.conf and see if that helps. Thanks for the ideas! I'll drop back in after a while when kde finishes installing :-) On 8/18/05, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21:01, giovedì 18 agosto 2005, Mark wrote: > > > the same result: namely when I type startx, I

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-19 Thread Mark
I have a TDK indi DVD. It works perfectly. I would also add that I have excellent results with LG products as others have mentioned. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Mark
server since it's on a different network? Or is there a different/better solution?-- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-23 Thread Mark
ECTED]> wrote: No.Look into a split DNS setup:http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2001/00288013.htmlOn Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Mark wrote:> Can I specify different DNS servers for each of my two physical interfaces > to use? One nic is configured for DHCP, and the other is static. The DHCP>

[gentoo-user] Multi-services box

2005-09-29 Thread Mark
kages play well together on the same piece of hardware? I'm very open to suggestions, including separate hardware if it's necessary. Thanks!-- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

[gentoo-user] making my own router

2005-10-06 Thread Mark
rdware firewall. We have money invested in it, but does it buy me anything now that we are creating the 2 separate subnets? Should I just sell it and let the Gentoo box be the firewall as well? Thanks for any insight, as always.-- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

[gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel

2005-10-11 Thread Mark
clude it...http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml Thanks-- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

[gentoo-user] vnc

2005-10-24 Thread Mark
there are some common mistakes made not mentioned in the article that I might check for? Alternatively, is there a better solution for remote access to my Gentoo box I should be looking at? Thanks!-- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

[gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Mark
DNS records (MX). We have a top-notch firewall already in place, but this is the first step we've taken toward making anything available inbound, so I'm cautiously optimistic.-- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hylafax & e-mail

2005-10-31 Thread Mark
yes, I looked at them. The question wasn't really how-to as much as to get some real world feedback. Wikis while usually helpful tend to be full of errors IMHO. Thanks, MarkOn 10/31/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark gmail.com> writes:> Has anyone set up a Hylafax server

[gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Mark
system to manage eth0 and eth1 from the GUI? Thanks! -- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Mark
ntrol center you should find a tool to do so; it formerly was astandalone tool called knetworkconf.Best regards    ce-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Mark
his past sunday, KNetworkConf lives now in the official KDE CVS and probably will be part of KDE 3.5 :)You can find it under kdereview/knetworkconf module for now. Later insome point in time it will be moved to kdenetwork or kdeadmin corepackages.«Best regards ce--gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Mark
ht way, but you can't stop us > thinking that defending those *wrong* ways are somewhat arrogant. > > Again, good luck with your server maintenance. > > -- Joe > > -- > There are 3 kinds of people in the world: > Those who can count, and those who can't. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-14 Thread Mark
I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I can't boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) will I have to run to get access to the fstab to fix it? (I'm assuming I have to re-mount & chroot but I don't know specifically what to do). Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-14 Thread Mark
Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls all I see is boot and lost+found Did I make a bigger mess than I thought? On 11/14/05, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-14 Thread Mark
hmmm. I think I'll start over on this one. I must have gone astray in the instructions somewhere. Thanks for trying to help guys! Mark On 11/14/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Mark wrote: > > > Well, I thought so too. So I

Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD

2006-05-22 Thread mark
300GB as a main hdd isnt a good idea, if the drive dies you lose all the data and your install. pickup a nice 60GB one at wallmart or something and use the 300 for data or make partitions so you wont lose everything, buit the 300GB should work fine in gentoo - Original Message -

[gentoo-user] portal package?

2006-07-07 Thread Mark
t as "turn-key" as possible as I'm not a developer. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. (I know I can do something like this just with an ftp server, but I'm trying to make it look a little more attractive as well) -- Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Mark
Look for: set textwidth= Or shorthand: set tw=... If you set this to 0 .. then it will not wrap. You can do this on a per file basis with the vim modelines: # vim:set tw=0: As suggested look in the rc files. Thanks Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Mark
ined on the next mount. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
.keywords sys-kernel/gentoo-sources ~amd64 sys-apps/portage ~amd64 sys-apps/sandbox ~amd64 app-cdr/cdrtools ~amd64 x11-misc/read-edid ~amd64 sys-kernel/rt-sources ~amd64 media-sound/alsa-tools ~amd64 games-action/extreme-tuxracer ~amd64 media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit ~amd64 dev-php5/php-gtk ~amd64 media-tv/huludesktop ~amd64 m...@firefly ~/Desktop $ - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I thought I'd have a play with a mind mapping program, so I tried to >> install freemind on this ~amd64 box. This is an excerpt fr

[gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
rent delay I just see the hard drive light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I wait for things to complete the data is there but I haven't tested it extensively. Is this a bad drive or am I somehow using it incorrectly? Thanks, Mark gandalf TestMount # time tar xjf /mnt/Te

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 15:06:37 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Runs for me. I don't know how to use it but the GUI comes up and it >> allows me to start creating something. > > Hmm. After switching to iced-tea I ge

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Alexander wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive >> light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I wait for things >> to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 07 Februar 2010, Alexander wrote: >> On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >    Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive >> > >> > light turned

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:27:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> 4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! >> >> Pros: Quiet, cool-running, big cache >> >> Cons: The 4KB physical sec

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:27:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> 4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! >> >> Pros: Quiet, cool-running, big cache >> >> Cons: The 4KB physical sec

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
driver got loaded and it's showing up as hda instead of sda? I found that on one of my machines recently. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >> Hello again List, >> >> $ sudo  fdisk -l >> >> Unable to seek on /dev/sda >> >> What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but a

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> sorry to have forgotten is but simply do >> >> df >> >> and see what it says is mounted > > $ df > Filesystem        

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 01:42:18PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>    OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me >> sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using >> default value

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 18:12:58 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> What do you see with java-config -l ? > > $ java-config -L > The following VMs are available for generation-2: > *)      IcedTea6-bin 1.7 [icedtea6-bin] &g

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
e (Nuremberg, Germany). > > You are not the only person who finds that decipherable. I don't understand it and actually I don't even use them unless they are already where they need to be. hald runs default in rc-update and things just work. I've done two new AMD64 installations this week and things seem to be working fine so far. I'm using evdev in make.config for X mouse and keyboard. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
r that device to be discovered and run automatically I would have had to use stuff that's marked ~amd64 which I generally don't do and in this case didn't because it became a waterfall of things getting unmasked. So, if you're supported it will work. If you're not because this is new hardware then you still need xorg.conf. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > >> Hi Willie, >>    OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me >> sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 19:36:49 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I actually meant to try the lower case L. Mine shows some ant stuff >> which I think you were having trouble with, at least in the compile >> messages? &

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
ives and things but I cannot or have not proved it. On the other hand there's a _long_ history in the pro-audio area of seeing problems with dbus messing up the operation of Jack audio and many of us including me leave dbus turned off. Go figure! - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far: > > 1) Since we don't use sector 63 it seems that fdisk will still tell > you that you can use 63 until you use up all your primary partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
ion, quoted below. I don't think I need what the 'bugs' author perceives as the advantages of fdisk so I think I'll try to focus a bit more on cfdisk. Interestingly cfdisk was the tool Willie pointed out when he kindly took the time to educate me on what was going on physically.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
distros to have to learn this stuff to get good performance. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
ile(s) /usr/bin/startxfce4 in *... ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 (/usr/bin/startxfce4) firefly ~ # m...@firefly ~ $ cat .xinitrc exec startxfce4 m...@firefly ~ $ Do and emerge -pvDuN @world/revdep-rebuild -ip and make sure you are really clean. It should work but the info above should allow oyu to get it running. I didn't need to do anything special here. Hope this helps, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 firefly ~ # On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > firefly ~ # which startxfce4 > /usr/bin/startxfce4 > firefly ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/startxfce4 > [ Searchin

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
As best I can tell so far none of the Linux tools will tell you that the sectors are 4K. I had to go to the WD web site and find the actual drive specs to discover that was true. As far as I know so far there isn't a big improvement to be had when the sector size is 512B. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:54 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > >> > When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2 >> > month

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:39:14PM -0500, dhk wrote: > >> Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed?  Try installing it. > > No, as it happens, I didn't.  When I tried > >    # emerge xfdesktop > > , the compiler threw a segfault.  It does t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 17:33:46 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Is it just me? On a new install I always still to an emerge -e @world >> once I get to a working text based boot and I've done any modification

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
se? > > The message posted to Gentoo-dev suggests that Qt3 is going away right about > NOW, but this doesn't seem to add up to what I'm seeing. > > Thanks in advance for any comments, > > Stroller. > > > I seem to have them both installed with only my old v

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
ld to fix up mythtv-0.21 with qt-4 using whatever it has ffor qt3-support? I'm __really__ not ready to upgrade my whole MythTV setup 0.22 if 0.21 requires qt-3 and the qt3 support stuff in qt4 doesn't work. That would be very painful for me even given 6 weeks. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:30:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I seem to have them both installed with only my old version of MYthTV >> requiring qt-3.3.8 > > That's easy then, switch to MythTV 0.22, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> Again, I cannot see the 0.22 gives me anything I care about but >> there's no way to know until I commit to making the change. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark > > if everything works, why

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > firefly ~ # emerge -pvg =x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 Ah, instead I should use emerge --usepkg =x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 No errors or warnings. Nice! Now Myth works no matter what happens in portage to qt... Thanks, Mark

[gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
n see that might be a good reason not to. If I don't save them and then after a crash want to use binary packages to get a machine running quickly it seems like I'd want to include everything I could. What would the more experienced user do for the single-user desktop type user? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:09:28 Mark Knecht wrote: >> Can someone comment on why I do or do not want to include config files >> when making quickpkg files? >> >> Seems like there is the issue of hand edits

Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:37:00 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:09:28 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Can someone comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
command >> > line. Where's the documentation on how to actually use this the right >> > way automatically? >> > >> > >> > >> > - Mark >> >> when you use buildpkg feature the packages contain the virgin unedited >> configs  as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
O config files included. You have to use quickpkg --include-configs =NAME to get the configs, at least from what I can see from the messages it produces when it runs. There is another option to limit the configs to only the unedited ones. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:31:15 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> > There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far: >> > &

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Knecht
nce for the help! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > > +1 for memtest86. Since it's new hardware possibly your CPU fan isn't well seated? Failures while compiling sound like heat to me. Failures at random times sound like heat, PSU and memory problems. Hope tis helps, Mark

[gentoo-user] poppler vs virtual/poppler & eix-test-obsolete

2010-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
of database problem, etc.) or is this some sort of ebuild problem that will likely get worked out over the next few weeks? Thanks, Mark firefly ~ # eix -Ic poppler [I] app-text/poppler (0.12.3...@02/14/10): PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base firefly ~ # equery depends =app-text

Re: [gentoo-user] poppler vs virtual/poppler & eix-test-obsolete

2010-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 14 February 2010 22:10:05 Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>    Mostly in support of (I think) KDE I have poppler installed which >> seems to cause eix-test-obsolete a little indigestion. It sees >> virtual/po

Re: [gentoo-user] poppler vs virtual/poppler & eix-test-obsolete

2010-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 14 Feb 2010, at 20:31, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> ... >>  poppler isn't in my world file: >> ... >>  Are you suggesting the I unmerge poppler and then do a >> revdep-rebuild (or emerge -DuN @world

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
true... Since this thread started and you help (me at least1) understand what I was dealing with I got in contact with Mark Lord - the developer and maintainer of the hdparm program. I was interested in seeing if we could get hdparm to recognize this aspect of the drive. He was very interested and as

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-16 Thread Mark Knecht
les. I would strongly suggest you give it a try... 2) Under /proc/asound/card0 (or whatever card you are using if you have more than 1) do you see any pcm directories? 3) Post back a little more info? cat /proc/asound/cards aplay -l aplay -L lsmod Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mark, > > >> VERY strange that you don't see pcm as a mixer control... > > I've got alsamixer 1.0.21.  Could it be that it choses its controls > according to the capabilities of the sound card? > O

[gentoo-user] CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
apps remotely. On my machine running Gnome I didn't find any global configuration for printing in the system menus. I typically run XFCE so I'm not deeply familiar with what Gnome offers in terms of printer setup. Thanks in advance, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt wrote: > On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >>    I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office >> apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and >> Firefox for insta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 23 Feb, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt wrote: >>> On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>>    I'm looking around in vain fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:34 AM, walt wrote: > On 02/23/2010 09:39 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.11 >> # Written by cupsd on 2010-02-23 11:32 >> >> Info HP LaserJet M1522nf MFP >> Location Local Printer >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:21 AM, james wrote: > Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > >> the one binary thing on the system that comes >> to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff >> I'm building that isn't! > > > Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:21 AM, james wrote: >> Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: >> >>> the one binary thing on the system that comes >>> to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, wrote: > james wrote: > >>> >>> Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> > the one binary thing on the system that comes >>> > to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff

[gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
the screen. I assume that I need to list the contents of the tar file to figure out how to untar but I'm really not sure. How do I best proceed? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Mark Knecht schrieb: >> Hi, >>    I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to >> moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I >> used to do the tar comm

[gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
, a 1 time deal due to power, or something else entirely. As these cheap machines that don't use RAID what's the right way to go? emerge -e @world and then wait for the next event? Do nothing and wait? We've got decent personal data backups as well as basic /etc data. Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> Do I just watch the logs looking for problems? I have no way of >> knowing right now whether this was a disk problem that's going to come >> back, a 1 time deal due to power, or some

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >>    Yes, I do use smartctl on some other machines although I'm not very >> good about it and your write-up is helpful so thanks for that. >> >>    My wife's machines

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alex Schuster >> wrote: > >> > Okay, but it still states: >> >>          *    SMART error logging >> >>          *    SMART

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> The machine _mostly_ crashed while running badblocks. I say mostly >> because the mouse is still alive but I can no longer ssh in and cannot >>

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On the other hand, because I have reasonably good user backups > (although no real system backups) right now if I bite the bullet and > build the machine then when my wife gets it back it's hopefully going > to be mor

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:38 AM, daid kahl wrote: > On 26 February 2010 12:33, Mark Knecht wrote: >> So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and >> played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night >> due to some sort of corrup

Re: [gentoo-user] Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
der it's on, and who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn't matter to us users... Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM, walt wrote: > On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: >> >> - Original Message ---- >> >>> From: Mark Knecht >>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there really any need for t

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