Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Colquhoun
back to provided the warning reappears. > > What's wrong? Did any change of the system installation I made break > portage? ... but everything else seems to work fine. > > ... but thx for that fast try to help. Have you tried making an ebuild for 1.16 and putting it in

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but "startx" works

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
re" and didn't find a thing up to now. > > > > Any hint? > > > > Thanks again > > > > Francisco > > Well, I had consolekit up an running and didn't know that, sorry. > > There is no xdm log, and the only two entries already mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Colquhoun
k, correct? You could try moving iso9660 to the top in /etc/filesystems, so it gets tried first. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
146508292 127278184 19230108 87% /home /dev/mapper/vg00-backup 398266496 338484192 59782304 85% /backup -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~e

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
t same issue still... The only use flag for > openssl now is zlib. What did you recompile? There may still be a library using the "sse2" flag. Have you tried using the "--newuse" or "--reinstall changed-use" emerge flags? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://an

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
need to boot from a live CD of some sort to be able to umount the partitions and check the underlying directory, but it might be worth it there is still space unaccounted for after a reboot. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] A DNS question.

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ay need to be configured with a list of "these DNS names are also the local server" to operate correctly, but this should not be a huge burden. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing 'eth0' with 'wlan0'

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Colquhoun
t; in /etc/conf.d/net I have: > > dhcpcd_eth0="-t 10" > > Which will timeout eth0 after 10 seconds, thus making the system boot > time faster. Or, install sys-apps/ifplugd and have it taken care of automatically. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.drop

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
the > > command prompt on exit. > > If you want the VT behaviour also in X, then alias less to > 'TERM=linux less'. (There's probably a better way, but this works.) 'less -X' works when I try it. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.drop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
VM goes bad, you lose everything, not just the data on that single disk. Actually, that is not necessarily true. When you create the logical volume you can specify that it is mirrored onto multiple physical drives, assuming you have enough space on more than one drive. See the "-m, --mirrors Mirr

Re: [gentoo-user] less file.html

2012-05-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
EN="|lesspipe %s" Run 'less --help' or 'man less' for more info # I would interpret the "don't do anything fancy" caveat on LESSIGNORE to mean that wildcards may not work. Some experimenting on my system shows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Gnome3

2012-06-17 Thread Paul Colquhoun
a weather radar for Perth, along with the local forcast. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR703.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/forecasts/map.shtml More radar locations can be found at http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/radar/ -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Colquhoun
pvcreate really > complaining about? What active 'filter = ' lines do you currently have in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf? Does it have something like 'r|/dev/hd.*' in it to hide all the IDE devices from LVM? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
xfce) > > anyway, it seems i'm getting closer... a big thank you to all that have > been following this thread, i hope i'll be able to resolve this last > issue... If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:10:37 luis jure wrote: > on 2011-02-27 at 11:32 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > >If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in > >/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. > > mmm... i don't have this file (or th

Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

2011-05-19 Thread Paul Colquhoun
oh in one > of the configs fouling it up. > > Sorry for the noise! Good to see you fixed the problem. Just in case you want to upgrade to the latest version, I have attached a tar file of my ebuild for leafnode 2.0.0_alpha20090908 which I have been running for some time with no problem

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

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
long in /lib{32,64}/modules or /sbin Having udev able to execute arbitrary code during boot looks like yet another large security hole opening up. At least keep the code it can execute tied down to the directories that were set up for this purpose. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://an

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

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ut I'm sure that the 2 passes could talk to each other and sort that out fairly simply. Or possibly just add a whole new service to use just for hooking software packages into system events. Although this would probably end upneeding to be a udev clone anyway. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, U

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
Of course, nowdays you can do the maintanence from a bootable CD or a minimal shell running from within an initramfs, so that problem has multiple solutions. My major worry is that udev is happily running arbitrary scripts from arbitrary locations early in the boot process, and is actively try

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
oes LSB say to this new directory? > > Nothing really, they just document current common practice. We might > request an update to LSB after it is used for a while and has shown > that it is what we want." > > He does not know, if the thing he designed is the thing he wa

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

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
mail servers, DNS servers, etc. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install music player without graphic ?

2011-10-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
don't know why the USE I set have no effect. > I only want to listem music under console , no > more fuither , so how to figure this out ? Try installing mpg123 -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Colquhoun
Try `date --help' for more information. Now set a value to $1 and see what happenes... $ set -- 'Ha Ha' + set -- 'Ha Ha' $ th 1321251520 + date -d @Ha Ha 1321251520 date: extra operand `1321251520' Try `date --help' for more information. $ set +x All the 'alias' process does is simple text substitution. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ou can copy the ebuild to your own private overlay ( /usr/local/portage ) make your changes there, and bump the version number slightly. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

[gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
P.S. This is an AMD64 motherboard, so a 64 bit kernel is needed. Thanks. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED)

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and > > needs a > > kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED)

2011-11-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:16 PM Dale wrote: > Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > >> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > >>> Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs,

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ght that the profile would try to pull in a lot more of KDE than you have shown. -- Paul Colquhoun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Colquhoun
artx on a different display. > > startx -- :1 > > Once X is up: > > xrandr > shows 1280x1024 as being the highest resolution. > > > xrandr -s 2048x1536 shows: > > Size 2048x1536 not found in available modes > > The xfce display setting tool

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
I'm using server 0.au.pool.ntp.org server 1.au.pool.ntp.org Try the equivalent for your location, or there are 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org and so on. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I turn off xterm console restore?

2011-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
" is the important option, as it stops 'less' doing the terminal setup required for the oputput hiding. It seems that the affected programs all check the 'PAGER' environment variable and run their output through 'less'. Try just setting the 'LESS' en

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Copy directories in a special manner

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
last point gives me headaches. Scanning both directory after > 'cp -u' has done its job may take as long as a "blind copy" from > 'source' to 'target' after 'target' was initially removed. > > Is there any "lean method" to do

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

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
So, instead of fixing udev properly, by making the failures visible (as they probably should have been from the start) or even re-queueing the events to be run after the rule files are avaiable, the developers took the easy (for them) way out, and told the rest of the world to do things their

Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

2012-12-28 Thread Paul Colquhoun
As to system recovery, nowdays I ususlly do that by booting from a live CD/DVD so I have access to all the tools when I need them. Which reminds me that I need to update my rescue DVD to the latest version... -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Recurring reiserfs error

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
s not overlap with another? fdisk -l /dev/hda and check that no 2 partitions are using the same disk blocks. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ould love to learn why this is allowed. In my experience, it > happens quite often. Well, --changed-deps is also there for when you change USE flags on your system to activate (or deactivate) software features. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/podracer doesn't name downloaded podcasts

2018-02-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
sage/bcd7c0ae62e60a0583f10ae3daf > 7f0e4 Have you looked at the ID3 tags for the files? If they are properly tagged with the name, its an easy script to pull the ID3 tag and use it to rename the files. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?

2018-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
o do that seems to be impossible, as everybody wants to > assume that dynamic deps work. I just tried this to see what was happening, and adding "--with-bdeps n" cut the number of recompilations right back, even when I still had "--deep" as one of the options. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] repair FAT-fs

2018-03-02 Thread Paul Colquhoun
installed but I can not run: dosfsck - it doesn't exist. Try 'fsck.vfat' instead. There is also 'fsck.fat' or 'fsck.exfat', at least on my installation. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

2018-05-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
didn't bother saving the > script I made. Argh! > > Dan You can add an alternate regular expression that matches the blank lines, but the '-o' switch will still stop that match from being printed as it is an 'empty' match. The trick is to modify the data on the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

2018-05-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Saturday, 12 May 2018 12:05:47 PM AEST Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Saturday, 12 May 2018 9:16:52 AM AEST Daniel Frey wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to do something relatively simple and I've had something > > working in the past, but my brain just doesn&

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages

2018-06-30 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ight be better, as it would let you unmount the directory after emerge has finished. You may need to add that to your execution $PATH variable in .bashrc ~/bin/emerge #!/bin/bash mount /usr/portage/packages emerge $* umount /usr/portage/packages -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker

2013-06-17 Thread Paul Colquhoun
meta-backup" solution... :) ) > > Ciprian. Have a look at 'tripwire'. It's primarily an intrusion detection tool, but it does the job by recording file meta-data and checksums, then checking to see if they have changed. I can't remember if it handles ACL'

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-07 Thread Paul Colquhoun
se to use growisofs for > creating the >10G isofs. > > I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Makeing /dev/rtc1 accessible as soon as possible - how?

2013-08-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
It is extremly accurate in comparison > with rtc0. > > rtc0 is accessible with system boot - rtc1 is not (current state). I know this might be obvious, but just in case: Have you checked to see if the dud RTC can be disabled in the BIOS? Or completely remove its drivers from the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange new behavior from the "mount" command

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
the disk device (e.g. be suid root) for this to work. One can set such a label for ext2, ext3 or ext4 using the e2label(8) utility, or for XFS using xfs_admin(8), or for reiserfs using reiserfstune(8). On the other hand, using '-l' on my machine didn't appe

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail-2 duplicates

2015-07-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ir folders. Quite a few get left in the 'new' directory instead of being moved to 'cur'. I havn't checked to see it these correleate with duplicated messages at all. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] 69.99 != 69.99

2015-08-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
l sees them as entirely different. > > Why can't it print the number as it is, or at least as it is compared, > like it should? If it would, one could see at once what the problem is. Your print values are coming from the original variables. The numeric comparison does an internal con

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
pulled in by > > > > media-video/ffmpeg:0/52.55.55=[vdpau] required by > > > > (media-libs/mlt-0.9.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > ^^^ > > These are unimportant, it is simply portage telling you it is not > updating some packages to the latest a

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

2015-10-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo > > > So doesn't this tell portage not to upgrade to it? Why does it still > schedule it for merge? > > > Thanks a lot, > Marat Try adding "--autounmask-keep-masks y" to your emerge command line, to stop it

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to tty01 (serial port) in simple straight forward way...?!?

2014-10-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
tput of the script is connected to the serial port? Try adding "> /dev/tty01" to the end of the echo/printf command lines and see if that helps. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package

2018-10-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
Apart from the package.mask syntax error, there is also an emerge flag you might want to try: --autounmask-keep-masks y I added this when emerge kept asking me to unmask stuff I had manually masked. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
it:]] > [0-9]+ > [0-9][0-9] Not quite. A trailing '+' means "1 or more of the preceding item", while a trailing '*' means "0 or more". [0-9]+ would match any string consisting of only digits, no matter how long, but not an empty string.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ng like to do the trick? > echo 198.088.062.01 | sed 's/\.0/./g' > 198.88.62.1 In a word, no. echo 198.088.0.01 | sed 's/\.0/./g' 198.88..1 -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] kworker using 100% cpu

2019-03-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
isable > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe16 > > Yes, I had to do the same and repeat after each boot. I can't recall if I > added this in a script so I didn't have to run it manually each time. /etc/sysctl.conf is interpreted at boot as an automatic way of doing th

[gentoo-user] LVM2 problem, meta data format change?

2019-05-17 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ke the same thing to me, so I was wondering if anyone here had encountered a similar problem? The next step is to try and find how to update the on-disk lvm meta data so the later versions understand it, hopefully without having to rebuild my system from scratch. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
is why good RAID systems have a background task that regularly reads and checks every block of every disk, to avoid undetected errors. Hot Spares are also a good safety measure, along with monitoring software that alerts you when the spares have gone live. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM2 problem, meta data format change?

2019-05-28 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 5:14:42 P.M. AEST Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Hi Paul, > > as an LVM user without deeper knowledge, stumbled upon your question without > any reply yet, and my fear was to run into the same when updating lvm2. > On 5/17/19 2:26 PM, Paul Colquhoun wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
t; > However, the dd command failure sounds suspicious - as I understand > > it dd should not fail unless the disk has run out of space. > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what > I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. It would pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpopper

2019-10-14 Thread Paul Colquhoun
's entice config file is: # cat /etc/tpop3d/tpop3d.conf listen-address: 127.0.0.1 mailbox: bsd:/var/spool/mail/$(user) auth-pam-enable: true auth-pam-mail-group: mail It runs as a service, started from systemd. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-31 Thread Paul Colquhoun
at happens when you start it from a command line? That should give some error messages. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] File timestamps got confused...why?

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Colquhoun
114 return values from the original message look like they are just the raw returned data. (See 'man time.h' for more information) In 1999 or earlier this just gave you the correct 2-digit year value so yes, this does like like a Y2K problem, if not a very serious one. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] MEGA sync problems

2021-10-08 Thread Paul Colquhoun
y to add the 4nykey overlay, which contains megasync, then emerge -a megasync just like other portage programs. If you still get any crypto-related errors, have a look for the recent news item "*2021-07-23-libxcrypt-migration*" eselect news list will get you a list. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ers can do. 2) Remind us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously dislike it. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
grivation. Try updateing on a regular schedule, at 1 or 2 week intervals, and see if your experience improves. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
r your drives, without needing to cobble something together. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
/Guide > > My /etc/locale.gen has been... > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > C.UTF8 UTF-8 > > ...for a long time. Are you missing a hyphen in "C.UTF8"? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED... THE HARD WAY] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-27 Thread Paul Colquhoun
s your whole current system again, to make sure everything is up to date and has the current set of Use flags. Skips all the initial installation steps, and keeps all your /etc config customisations. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical h

Re: [gentoo-user] Another day without clues.

2023-04-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
o see if it prints any usefull error messages? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Paul Colquhoun
nknown address type (examples > of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix") Have you tried starting it with: strace chromium to get debugging info on each system call. I might show you where the bad server address is coming from, as it will list all the files that a

Re: [gentoo-user] ip_change_notifier - empty IP address

2023-06-28 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ep to allow for network > issues. # Retry if the IP address is empty retry_count=0 while [[ -z "$NEW_IP" && $retry_count -lt 3 ]]; do ((retry_count++)) sleep $retry_count NEW_IP=$(get_ip_address) done -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Read date input from text file problem

2023-08-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
Y}" +%F ) > echo ${xtoday} > > Running the script produces three lines of output... > > 2021-08-14 > "August 14, 2021" > date: invalid date ‘"August 14, 2021"’ > > What am I doing wrong? The date in the text file shoudn't have the quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me understand this emerge error message.

2023-08-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
> > Thanks for the help! In the USE flsgs you have: gnutls -openssl In the CURL_SSL flags you have: openssl -gnutls These 2 are contradicting each other. One says use gnutls instead of openssl, the other says no, use openssl instead of gnutls. Pick which option you want to use, and adjust th

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain packages refuse to use binary from build save, the -k thing.

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Colquhoun
some updates in > another thread a while back, I unmerged those and Kicad which I think > used opencascade. It did update some video stuff the other day. I feel > some package is out of sync with some other package and hope a reinstall > will fix it. Otherwise, could be a bug in

Re: [gentoo-user] Open source network monitoring / intrusion detection recommendations?

2023-12-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ions. > > Cheers, > Mark I haven't used any of them, but this article lists 6 options. I'd already heard of Kali, but you might find what you are after here: https://www.comptia.org/blog/linux-distributions-for-ethical-hacking-and-pen-testing -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
immediately to the right, left, above or below the other screen. When positioning to the right or left, the top edges are aligned. When positioning above or below, the left edges are aligned. The Relative form specifies the o

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-21 Thread Paul Colquhoun
( ${accum2} + ${dataarray[2]} )) > accum3=$(( ${accum3} + ${dataarray[3]} )) > accum4=$(( ${accum4} + ${dataarray[4]} )) > accum5=$(( ${accum5} + ${dataarray[5]} )) > accum6=$(( ${accum6} + ${dataarray[6]} )) > accum7=$(( ${accum7} + ${dataarray

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile, gcc-13.2.1_p20240210 fails to build. ATTN: Peter Humphrey.

2024-03-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
oot, messing up won't matter. > > Maybe Peter will see this, update and try again. May help him as well. I had the gcc compile fail, but was successful after removing the "objc" use flag. Unfortunately, it seemd to be required by app-arch/unar during step 16, rebuild worl

Re: [gentoo-user] yt-dlp no longer downloads from youtube

2024-06-01 Thread Paul Colquhoun
e that broke something. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. It's working for me. Can you post a full command line that isn't working? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: htt

Re: [gentoo-user] yt-dlp no longer downloads from youtube

2024-06-02 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sunday, June 2, 2024 4:06:59 P.M. AEST John Covici wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:19:37 -0400, > > Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Sunday, June 2, 2024 1:34:20 A.M. AEST John Covici wrote: > > > The great program yt-dlp no longer will download from youtube. It >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 5.3

2015-12-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc:4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8::gentoo sys-devel/libtool:2.4.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r1::gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
gcc-4.9 but I had to use the > workaround I described above. I disabled the 'jit' flag for gcc, and 5.3.0 compiled cleanly. Now to turn the flag back on and see if that works. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 14:00:55 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:40:48 walt wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:18:27 -0500 > > > > Alan Grimes wrote: > > > Hey, thanks for putting out gcc 5.3... > > > > > > Unfortunately, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-30 Thread Paul Colquhoun
9>5 step, although I had some that would build with 4.8 but not 4.9. > > > > I have an application which I would like to compile with gcc > > > >> 5.x just to see if that's even possible. I could switch, try it, and > >> then switch back. > > > > Exactly, run gcc-config, compile/emerge the program, run gcc-config again. > > And what about ccache? Will it use the new version automatically and > detect that the compiler version has changed so that files in the cache > need to be recompiled? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

2016-04-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
hhh! > > Thanks for any HELP in advance! May the source be with you... > Best regards, > Meino Be careful upgrading boost & boost-build. I updated to 1,60.0 a little while ago, and akonadi stopped working until I went back to version 1.58.0 This also stopped anything that depends o

Re: [gentoo-user] xdg-open opens pdf with gimp

2016-06-07 Thread Paul Colquhoun
pens it. Try running: xdg-mime query default application/pdf to see what the default application is for that mime type. Then you can run xdg-mime default insert-your-application-here application/pdf to change the application that opens that mime type. -- Reverend Paul Col

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic IP address services.

2016-11-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
t; hosts in case I need to add more. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, I've been using noip.com for years with no problems. There is even an up to date version of their client in portage. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for techni

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic IP address services.

2016-11-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:54:20 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 06:17:07 Stroller wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a free dynamic IP address service. > > > > I've used DynDNS in the past, but I think they discontinued their free > > accounts. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ckages are dependencies of one of the other packages, and prefer the one highest on the ladder. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

[gentoo-user] meson build woes

2020-08-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
wrapper 'distutils-r1_run_phase' 'distutils-r1_python_compile' * environment, line 846: Called distutils-r1_run_phase 'distutils-r1_python_compile' * environment, line 1210: Called distutils-r1_python_compile * environment, line 1079: Called esetup.py '

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
as unmet requirements. - dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.62.6::gentoo USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8" The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_6 python_sing

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Freezing/unfreezing (groups of) processes

2021-02-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
n any > parameters in the command line? Someone else mentioned pgrep. It has an associated pkill command as well. Both appear to have a "-f" option to also search on the full command line. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro