Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/12/2011 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:54 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Dale did opine > thusly: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> The pattern I see is that of selecting only changes that failed and >>> implying they are the norm. >>> >>> Why not add other improvem

Re: [gentoo-user] Will the next auto-build stage tar ball include OpenRC update?

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/12/2011 9:27 PM, 刘勇泰 wrote: 2011/5/12 Thanasis mailto:thana...@asyr.hopto.org>> on 05/12/2011 03:43 PM Indi wrote the following: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 02:40:02PM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:12:30 dong l wrote: >>> 个人经历,baselayout的

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/12/2011 8:06 PM, Felix Miata wrote: In the pages preceding http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 it seemed as though the process would be easy enough, having built up some experience working in chroot lately to fix fubar'd Fedora and Mandriva rpm database disa

Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/14/2011 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon /etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and that Odd. Not on my system, it's not. I bet it is: kutulu@basement ~ $ ls -l /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/14/2011 12:01 PM, Indi wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:37 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: True, just be aware that if you enable gtk *globally* you will end up building the gtk interface for absolute

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/1/2011 5:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, Indi did > opine thusly: > >> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:01AM +0200, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Personally, I'd be livid if portage were to remove my carefully crafted >>> work from time

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/2/2011 10:40 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:49 AM, András Csányi wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Something strange happen here. I have seen few things in Linux world >>> but this is very new for me! >>> >>> I have this f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/22/2011 9:33 AM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 06/22/2011 02:18 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Uninstall sci-libs/blas-reference I guess. And probably whatever depends on it. Please do an "emerge -pv --depclean blas-reference" and post the output so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/22/2011 11:35 AM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If >> not, then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R". Do you need the >> package(s) that this brings up? If not, continue --depclean those >> until you reach something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote: > When I did that, it complained that cantor was built with no backend. > Did you get the same thing? It said this here: > > WARN (postinst) > > You have decided to build cantor with no backend. > To have this application functional, please do one of below: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/23/2011 1:04 AM, Dale wrote: > Mike Edenfield wrote: >> On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote: >>> You have decided to build cantor with no backend. >>> To have this application functional, please do one of below: >>> # emerge -va1 '='k

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/23/2011 6:22 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 16:50:10 Dale wrote: > >> If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put the thing back tho. Some KDE >> packages depend on things that seem to need it enabled. > > Looks like it's only packages that are pulled in by kdeedu-meta

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/23/2011 6:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:06:00 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations. Without autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to do. With autounmask it shows what needs to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/23/2011 8:31 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:14 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional (USE=-R) that falls squarely into the "if you aren't sure if you need it then you probably don't&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/24/2011 8:03 AM, Todd Goodman wrote: * Mike Edenfield [110623 18:34]: It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional (USE=-R) that falls squarely into the "if you aren't sure if you need it then you probably don't" category. So for most

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/25/2011 8:04 AM, Dale wrote: We restructured the dependency chain for fortran support, which includes a compile test now. The failure can be seen above. The Problem was in short, USE=fortran was enabled by default for linux arches, but people tend to disable it. Depending on gcc[fortran] d

[gentoo-user] KDE4 & NetworkManager applet?

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
I've just switched my laptop over to KDE4 to see how it feels on the smaller screen, and I can't find the KDE equivalent of nm-applet. KDE 3's knetworkmanager doesn't compile for me, and when I run the GNOME nm-applet it adds and then immediately removes itself from the notification area. I u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/26/2011 4:01 PM, Dale wrote: Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Juni 2011, 10:28:47 schrieb Dale: Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Try euse -I fortran. If anything besides gcc pops up, you should have one. That doesn't appear to work like it should then. I get this: root@fir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/10/2011 5:20 AM, john wrote: Had a pesky invasion of little insects behind my screen. Of which a lot have seemed to stop moving. Think I'll a get sealed tft next time. I'll try sucking them out with a hoover. Damn things, tft was 350 pounds, you think it should have anti critters device.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/22/2011 9:53 PM, CJoeB wrote: Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7. However, I would lose practically as much as losing my first born! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/23/2011 7:47 AM, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 07:25:42 Mike Edenfield wrote: I seem to recall a case where a user wiped their drive clean and installed Ubuntu or some such. The laptop went faulty and the person asked for it to be repaired/replaced under warranty, only to be told

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/23/2011 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo, only to learn that the wireless card was faulty. And since I could no

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

2011-09-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/10/2011 5:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:19:10 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: From my understanding, the dev is not listening. That is another thing that bothers me. When devs stop listening to users, that causes

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

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/11/2011 8:28 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said: I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr and /var will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot. Hmm, that doesn't smell right to me. What I think you

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

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/12/2011 3:12 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote: If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon? Is the Fedora dev aware of non-Fedora installations? He is, because a Gentoo user/dev explicitly pointed out the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/12/2011 1:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Well, I'm a hacker. udev is free source, therefore fair game. I don't intend to put up with this nonsense without a fight. As far as I can make out, this is just one guy, Kay Sievers, who's on a power trip. Are there any indications at all that he

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/13/2011 10:40 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:50:13PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: it works for you, because your udev-rules need nothing from /usr/* It's *not* udev requiring /usr, it's the scripts triggered by the rules. Ah. OK. Maybe I've misunderstood

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/13/2011 8:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:38:30 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: Well, I'm a hacker. udev is free source, therefore fair game. I don't intend to put up with this nonsense without a fight. As far as I can make out, this is just one guy, Kay Siev

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 01:36:56 PM Dale wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > But that's the thing: we (you and me) don't see the situation the same > > way. To me, the proposed changes are for the better. > > You are one of very few that feel this way. You are probably correct that

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: > > I would estimate that the vast, vast, vast majority of users are those > > such as myslelf, who have no opinion whatsoever, and eit

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/15/2011 8:22 PM, Michael Mol wrote: I don't show an ebuild for eclipse (I see dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj, dev-java/eclipse-ecj and dev-util/eclipse-sdk). Last time I poked eclipse, it was a royal pain using any *DT unless one downloaded it as a packaged deal. Version dependencies were a pain.

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources...what?

2011-09-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/22/2011 5:51 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: El 22/09/11 22:20, Michael Mol escribió: My question is...what kinds? Well mainly the PaX and the grsecurity patches. I also heard there is a WIP in bringing RSBAC back again too. Does gentoo-sources include the SELinux

Re: [gentoo-user] Apologize to everyone for my nonprofessional

2011-10-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 10/15/2011 4:42 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Which one? That /var is not going into /? It's not disinformation, it is th true. If not, please be so kind of showin one single developer reference that says so. One. Single. One. Email, blog post, wiki, you choose it. But one single one. I d

[gentoo-user] XEmacs build hangs loading update-elc.el

2011-10-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
I'm trying to build XEmacs on my laptop (Hardened ~amd64), and it appears to be stuck near the end trying to load and/or execute "update-elc.el" (it's been on this step for approaching 6 hours now). This happens every time I attempt to build xemacs (I've re-synched and restarted the build multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/6/2011 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: Mine is like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4547936 Aug 22 03:53 /boot/bzImage-3.0.3-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4548640 Sep 1 07:19 /boot/bzImage-3.0.4-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5162752 Oct 12 21:49 /boot/bzImage-3.0.4-2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5167840 Oct 13 00:05

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/9/2011 2:04 AM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 09 Nov 2011 02:43:43 Mike Edenfield wrote: On 11/6/2011 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: Mine is like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4547936 Aug 22 03:53 /boot/bzImage-3.0.3-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4548640 Sep 1 07:19 /boot/bzImage-3.0.4-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/9/2011 8:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:47:07 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: Are you saying then that every time you download new source files you have to create or cp new localversion* files in /usr/src/linux/ for this auto-numbering to work? Yeah, though I wouldn&#

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

2011-11-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/25/2011 10:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 26 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 26.11.2011 01:28, schrieb Sebastian Pipping: It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages not of any use to me: around 200MB in total. Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of?

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

2011-11-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/27/2011 1:10 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 11/26/2011 07:32 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: Can anyone explain what is going on ? Different packages include different levels of support for filtering their installed localization messages, typically one of "install everything"

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/11/2011 1:10 PM, James Broadhead wrote: On 11 December 2011 10:41, Andrea Conti wrote: On 27/11/11 16.36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: sys-apps/openrc-0.9.6 is just... gone? Not even masked, but completely gone from portage. FYI, sys-apps/openrc-0.9.7 is out. Apparently, the solution to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/16/2010 2:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! > > Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? > > All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas > flash player exist c

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-08-18 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/17/2010 3:49 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> USE only affects optional dependencies. euse -I hal will list packages >> that have a hal USE flag while emerge --depclean -pv sys-apps/hal will >> show those that depend o it. > > I've just experimented a bit with that a

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2010-08-19 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/19/2010 9:33 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: >> On the other hand LINGUAS is still a general variable AFAIK and not >> portage specific. > > LINGUAS is strictly portage-specific. It's used to control the > compile-time inclusion of languages and/or locales for packages which > have that kind of optio

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2010-08-19 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/19/2010 9:53 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: > But is the following generalization correct? > > * LINGUAS is the compile time setting (for multiple languages) > * LANG is the runtime setting (for the current language). Yes, as long as you're aware that LINGUAS support is recommended, but optional. A

[WAY OT] Parenthese, was Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/20/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > As to the thingies, I enjoyed discovering that to many people a > parenthesis is not a glyph or punctuation mark, but instead the contents > of the language set aside in one way or another. I had always regarded > parentheses as the round glyphs (),

Re: [gentoo-user] 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/24/2010 4:53 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: > I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been > searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle > emerges for 32bit programs on the 64bit install. > > I have found some references to using -bin for 32

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/24/2010 5:46 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: On 8/24/2010 5:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There is no such package. There are only very few -bin packages. In other words, "-bin" is not a magic string you append to package names. As for Wine, the ebuild changed recently to offer both 64

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/7/2010 5:56 AM, Al wrote: > It would be as simple as this: > > 1.) enter "news.gentoo.org" as news server to thunderbird > 2.) select the groups you want to read > > 2 steps not more. That is far more simple than subscribing to a mailing list. You're skipping all the steps that start with "

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout --> openrc ?

2010-10-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 10/23/2010 5:03 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:50:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You're mixing two different definitions of stable. Portage 2.2 is certainly reliable, but it is anything but stable with a new version coming out every day at the moment,. I'm waiting for tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update dev-lib/nss

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/9/2010 6:45 PM, Stroller wrote: On 9/11/2010, at 9:03pm, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 22:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: The language of this list is English. You might be lucky and find someonewhounderstands French and knows the answer to your problem, but the odds arenotgood.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/15/2010 11:05 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > It's LGPL licensed. The GUI is a bit ugly but it has a lot of > functionality and can handle cases in which the Windows defragger > doesn't work. That mostly happens when the disk is nearly full. Since we're *way* off topic as it is: mydefrag isn'

[gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Edenfield
Is there something special about the file name /etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I log in. As far as I can tell this is the only filename that gets this wierd treatment: platypus kutulu # ca

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike > Edenfield did opine thusly: > >> Is there something special about the file name >> /etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/18/2010 3:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Maybe you had the bad luck to install an awesomely dodgy ebuild. Here's what > it should be: > > # ls -al /etc/bash_completion.d/java > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 27 03:08 /etc/bash_completion.d/java -> > /usr/share/bash-completion/java Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-20 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/20/2010 10:04 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit >>> Something seems wrong. Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run. Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to remove it. > Installed vers

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/21/2010 9:41 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > To summarize > > 1. All is running fine but. > > 2. deplcean wants to remove hal and when it does xdm will not run. Is it just xdm that doesn't run? That is, if you disable xdm and log in via the console, can you run startx? It's possible that

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/27/2010 10:20 AM, Marc Blumentritt wrote: Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr, /var, /tmp and

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +, Mick wrote: > Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and locations > are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have found all > these > back and forth changes to fdi's, xorg.conf.d and what have you, unnecessary > and an

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 19:02 +, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:40:18 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +, Mick wrote: > > > Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and > > > locations are require

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling debugging symbols only for specific packages

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/10/2011 1:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Is there a way to enable debugging symbols only for some packages? I > need to do that for about 15 packages. Currently, all I can do is edit > make.conf all the time when emerging one of those and add "-g" to CFLAGS > and "splitdebug" to FEATURES.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get /dev/cdrom

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/12/2011 11:11 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > OK, for several years I have not had a /dev/cdrom. My workstation has > an internal cd-rom drive, which gets mapped to /dev/hda, and an external > DVD+R drive, which is mapped to /dev/sr0. When I look > at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to get /dev/cdrom

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/12/2011 11:31 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Michael Sullivan writes: > >> OK, for several years I have not had a /dev/cdrom. My workstation has >> an internal cd-rom drive, which gets mapped to /dev/hda, and an external > > If you're using a recent kernel, it's probably udev which refuses to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to get /dev/cdrom

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/12/2011 12:13 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Mike Edenfield writes: > >> On 1/12/2011 11:31 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >>> Michael Sullivan writes: >>> >>>> OK, for several years I have not had a /dev/cdrom. My workstation has >>>> an intern

Re: [gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 12:33 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:19:38 Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351829 > > So it is. That was quick. I don't agree with his suggestion, which seems > to imply requiring all KDE systems to be built with

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/21/2011 1:07 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've noticed that for quite some time now that ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL > support been shown as deprecated when configuring a kernel. > Unfortunately, that support is the only way I've never been able to > get ATAPI CDROMs to work. > > Are we all supposed to r

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/21/2011 2:48 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > My ASUS board offers: > RAID > IDE > AHCI > > The help to both kernel options mentioned above is saying (beside > other things): "If unsure, say N". Which kernel options are you specifically looking it? There isn't a single option that I

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/21/2011 3:05 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > solfire:/root>dmesg | grep -i ahci > ahci :00:11.0: version 3.0 > *0* ahci :00:11.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 > *1* ahci :00:11.0: irq 78 for MSI/MSI-X > *2* ahci :00:11.0: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/21/2011 3:30 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mike Edenfield [11-01-21 21:28]: >> On 1/21/2011 2:48 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >>> My ASUS board offers: >>> RAID >>> IDE >>> AHCI >>> >>> The help to both ker

RE: [gentoo-user] Python TK

2012-07-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Silvio Siefke [mailto:siefke_lis...@web.de] >> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:36:37 -0400 >> Michael Mol wrote: >> >> > Just don't use "-march=native" when cross-compiling. :) > Now i use native. Is there a problem, i know from FreeBSD, there on ML have > say me i should use. Using "-march=na

[gentoo-user] courier-imap cannot find courier-authlib

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Edenfield
I recently upgraded my courier setup (imap and authlib): basement lib64 # eix -Ic courier [I] net-libs/courier-authlib (0.65.0-r1@11/01/2012): Courier authentication library. [I] net-mail/courier-imap (4.8.0@11/01/2012): An IMAP daemon designed specifically for maildirs. After I was finished, the

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2013-01-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 6:08 PM > > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:56:52 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > In case you haven't noticed, since Windows 7 (or Vista, forget which) > > Microsoft has even went the distance of splitting betwee

RE: [gentoo-user] Ekopath compiler failing to build - something about glibc development files

2013-01-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
> On 13 January 2013, at 06:53, Andrew Lowe wrote: > ... > From all of the above, I think the important part is that I need to > install some "glibc developement files". A google search doesn't point me in > the direction of what these might be. According to "eix glibc", I have debug > turned

[gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys

2013-01-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
At some point recently, one of my systems has begun having problems allocating pseudo-terminals via the UNIX98 pty scheme. I am using the same kernel configuration I've had for years, and running the latest ~amd64 version of all the relevant packages. The problem manifests itself on any program tha

RE: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:49 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:46:22 -0500 > "Mike Edenfield" wrote

RE: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys

2013-01-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Humphrey [mailto:pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org] > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:51 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys > > On Sunday 27 January 2013 04:46:22 Mike Ed

[gentoo-user] dhcpd always shows "crashed" even though it's running

2015-09-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
For some reason, whenever I check the status of my startup scripts, dhcpd registers as "crashed". However, dhcpd is up and running and working fine. Normally I don't worry about it, but on those occasions where dhcpd does stop working, it's hard to tell if it's "fixed" or not. What makes rc-st

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd always shows "crashed" even though it's running

2015-09-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/3/2015 8:59 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Thursday, September 03, 2015 8:09:02 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: What makes rc-status think something is crashed, and how can I fix this? basement log # rc-status -v | grep crashed dhcpd [ crashed ] basement log # ps aux | grep dhcpd root

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd always shows "crashed" even though it's running

2015-09-05 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/4/2015 3:06 AM, Mick wrote: You can increase its verbosity in /etc/init.d/dhcpcd, so that the logs show more of what is happening to cause the crash. Also, here at least, I have /run/dhcpcd/ with its subdirectories as well as /run/dhcpcd-enp11s0.pid both owned by root:root, but this is a

[gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
I've recently taken an old Windows XP system and rebuilt it to run Gentoo. Since then, I've been having issues using any type of USB input device (which is particularly bad, since it has no PS/2 input ports). After some indeterminate period of time, the input device simply stops responding. Typica

RE: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 7:53 PM > Am 14.08.2014 um 03:52 schrieb Mike Edenfield: > > I've recently taken an old Windows XP system and rebuilt it to run Gentoo. Since > > then, I've been having iss

RE: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-19 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 8:01 PM > > Am 17.08.2014 um 12:33 schrieb Mick: > > On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 02:56:58 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > > >> When I `modprobe -r ochi_pci` while the system is o

RE: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-20 Thread Mike Edenfield
(BTW: I'm terribly sorry for the horrid formatting and duplicate mails; I'm stuck using Outlook until I get this resolved) > From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:55 PM > > Am 20.08.2014 um 02:28 schrieb Mik

RE: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:41 PM > you said you used 6 different kernel versions - which one? Did you use > vanilla or gentoo sources? And... maybe config? I've used all gentoo-sources so far, but I can give vanilla a try. Acc

RE: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 11:59 AM > > Am 22.08.2014 um 02:05 schrieb Mike Edenfield: > > > From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:41 PM

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?

2014-12-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:46 PM > On 16/12/2014 20:05, walt wrote: > > On 12/15/2014 11:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> /tmp is still very much in use and very much needed, it isn't going > >> anywhere soon. The FHS has something inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot up error messages. Init thingy needed now??

2015-02-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/8/2015 10:35 AM, Dale wrote: would build correctly, both compile and create the init thingy. So, I now have a couple kernels that have a init thingy, testing with that, Has anyone ever pointed out that "init thingy" actually takes more effort to type than "initramfs" or "initrd"?

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