http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257420 <pre>Hi, after updating baselayout from 2.0.3 to 2.1-r1 /run is mounted as tmpfs. But I can not find any mount-option for controlling how much memory is (or could be) used for it. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 8223848 224 8223624 1% /run I know it does not use 8GB right now, yet I'd like to reduce it to some lower value, not half of my physical memory. How can I do it? Can I simply add line in fstab like: none /run tmpfs size=128m 0 0 ??? Jarry </pre> Jarry 2012-05-26T19:46:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257415 <pre>I'm debating whether I should hire an expert programmer for $X/hour, or a company of expert programmers for $2X/hour. It makes sense from a financial perspective to hire programmers directly, but I wonder if there are benefits to hiring a really good company. I'm sorry this is OT, but I bet you guys have some seriously good insight on this. Thanks, Grant </pre> Grant 2012-05-26T11:26:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257410 <pre>Each night (at midnight) I make backups of files that changed the previous day, and on the first of the month I make full backups of important directories (/home, /etc, etc etc). Each morning I do maintenance on the partial backup from the day before. I've noticed that since I upgraded to the 3* series kernel (at this moment it's 3.2.12) I've had problems with file-roller - I tell it to delete a directory (something I consider nonessential like ~/.thumbnails) and I says "Reading archive..." without actually deleting anything. I've found that I can delete ten files at a time, which can be really inconvenient when there are hundreds of nonessential files I need to delete. I don't think it's tar - I can go into my terminal window and delete all the files I want with tar and it works perfectly; it just seems to be file-roller. Has anyone else experienced this? </pre> Michael Sullivan 2012-05-26T04:49:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257403 <pre>Hi, Ever since the last time Thunderbird was updated when I synced, the process does not die when I shut down Thunderbird. I have to kill it before I can start up Thunderbird again. Is anyone else experiencing this problem. Thought I would ask here before I complained to the Mozilla folks. Regards, Colleen </pre> Colleen Beamer 2012-05-25T22:16:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257398 <pre>Hello, the following happens in other occasions but i am sure just about this: every time i open facebook and enter anything into the search field and click any of the results epiphany freezes, then i can only force quit. I know this is not the best description but could anyone, please, suggest how to try to debug this? thanks Jakub </pre> Jakub Daniel 2012-05-25T17:55:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257391 <pre>Hello list! When I run revdep-rebuild, it keeps repeating the same steps over and over again. Here is what I mean: * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr * Checking dynamic linking consistency [ 36% ] * broken /usr/lib32/libavdevice.so.53.4.100 (requires libpulse-simple.so.0 libpulse.so.0) [ 100% ] * Generated new 3_broken.rr * Assigning files to packages * /usr/lib32/libavdevice.so.53.4.100 -&gt; app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs * Generated new 4_raw.rr and 4_owners.rr * Cleaning list of packages to rebuild * Generated new 4_pkgs.rr * Assigning packages to ebuilds * Generated new 4_ebuilds.rr * Evaluating package order * Generated new 5_order.rr * All prepared. Starting rebuild emerge --c</pre> 1126 2012-05-25T12:41:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257381 <pre>hi, all, I want to read some newsgroup so emerged net-nntp/slrn. Then I uncompressed "/usr/share/doc/slrn-0.9.9_p1/slrn.rc.bz2" and modify username/hostname/realname, then saved as $HOME/.slrnrc. After that, I run wenpincui&lt; at &gt;Gentoo ~ $ slrn --create -h news.newsgroup.com.hk slrn 0.9.9p1 Loading /usr/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl Reading startup file /home/wenpincui/.slrnrc.***Warning: Unable to find a unique fully-qualified host name. slrn will not generate any Message-IDs. Please note that the "hostname" setting does not affect this; see the "slrn reference manual" for details. Using newsrc file /home/wenpincui/.jnewsrc for server news.newsgroup.com.hk. Connecting to host news.newsgroup.com.hk ... Unable to make connection. Giving up. Run-Time Error slrn fatal error: Failed to initialize server. My question is: Am I using slrn correctly? </pre> wenpin cui 2012-05-25T03:30:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257374 <pre>I seriously screwed up my system this week, and broke myth. Now I'm trying to emerge media-tv/mythtv-0.24.1_p20110524 since my old myth version is no longer supported (the ebuilds aren't even still around). The emerge goes along fine until it gets to this part: mythrender_opengl.cpp: In function 'int __glCheck__(const QString&amp;, const char*, int)': mythrender_opengl.cpp:38: error: 'gluErrorString' was not declared in this scope make[2]: *** [mythrender_opengl.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.24.1_p20110524/work/MythTV-mythtv-347cd24/mythtv/libs/libmythui' make[1]: *** [sub-libmythui-make_default] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.24.1_p20110524/work/MythTV-mythtv-347cd24/mythtv/libs' make: *** [libs] Error 2 Most of our TV watching is off Myth. We only have one show that we follow that's currently in season and that's on Monday, so I'd really like to have this working by then. Can anyone help me? -Michael Sullivan- </pre> Michael Sullivan 2012-05-24T15:53:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257366 <pre>Hi! I have some program which I am using in a thin client which has Gentoo stage 3 root fs (kernel 2.6.39.4), lets call it system A. I've also compiled that program chroot-ed in this stage 3 fs from my personal computer. I have an other thin clients which have older system (B) on it which is older linux kernel 2.6.16.27. Library version which are needed are of course different and for that reason my program can not be run in this sistem. System A: Linux redondo 2.6.39.4 #18 Mon Mar 19 13:14:32 CET 2012 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux /lib/libc-2.12.2.so gcc version 4.0.3 System B: Linux carlos 2.6.16.27 #1 Sun Mar 25 11:09:40 CEST 2007 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux /lib/libc-2.3.6.so gcc version 4.0.3 Shared libraries that my binary uses are (in system A): linux-gate.so.1 =&gt; (0xffffe000) libpthread.so.0 =&gt; /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf76d6000) libuuid.so.1 =&gt; /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xf76d1000) libstdc++.so.6 =&gt; /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf75da000) libm.so.6 =&gt; /lib/libm.so.6 (0xf75b2000) libc</pre> Marko Košmerl 2012-05-24T13:15:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257365 <pre>So, wpa_supplicant never worked fine. It's been giving me headache since day zero, but I've been -mostly- able to handle it in one or another way. Yesterday I rebooted (I rarely do), and another horror story begun. Now I am getting this messages at init: Código: INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * Restoring Mixer Levels ... [ ok ] * Starting D-BUS system messagebus ... [ ok ] * Starting metalog ... [ ok ] * Starting ConsoleKit daemon ... [ ok ] * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * mark_service_inactive: unknown applet * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... ... * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start * Starting cupsd ... [ ok ] * ERROR: cannot start fail2ban as net.wlan0 would not start * ERROR: cann</pre> Jesús J. Guerrero Botella 2012-05-24T10:50:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257339 <pre>I bought this desktop 4-core machine during the coolest part of the year and until very recently I could barely hear the CPU fan except for about one second during power-up when the fan spins way up and then quickly slows down. Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of the fan noise, but I can't tell if the fan is beginning to fail (the noise sounds a bit harsh to me) or something is merely controlling the speed appropriately. The machines BIOS has no settings whatever concerning the fan or temperature warnings, etc. so I have no idea how to find out the CPU temp. The k10temp kernel module loads automatically at boot with no errors, so I just hope something (somewhere) is taking care of this stuff automatically. But I'm only hoping, not knowing. Any ideas how to find out for sure? </pre> walt 2012-05-23T23:37:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257338 <pre>I've noticed a lot of overt participation on this list by gentoo devs[1], especially in scenarios where they're explaining rationales and reasoning behind changes that affect users. I'd just like to say thank you for the work you guys do. Thank you for the work you guys do. There. I said it. *Goes back to work* [1] Perhaps they were already participating, and I didn't notice they were devs. </pre> Michael Mol 2012-05-23T19:10:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257330 <pre>Hi, I recently bought a new notebook ASUS U31SG which has a nvidia GT 610M graphic card, I always get blank screen (X is running) no matter how i tune the xorg.conf, if there is no xorg.conf, X will be running smoothly with WM, though the monitor resolution is a bit lower. Anyone meet the same problem or know how to fix it? Many thanks in advance. Driver version: nvidia-drivers-295.53 Here is my current /etc/X11/xorg.conf, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "</pre> du yang 2012-05-23T15:59:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257315 <pre> I'm not really a fan of automount, but I understand that lots of people are. I'm trying to get it fully functional under mdev, and then do a write-up on the wiki page. A Google search turns up lots of examples of code. However, the examples are for embedded devices, and they assume the only user is root. I've got the automounting and autounmounting working. Everybody can read the mounted USB stick, but only root can write. I've tried pmount with the umask option, but it doesn't help. Assume the scrpt gets passed MDEV="sdb1" # # Create the directory in /media mkdir -p /media/${MDEV} # # Change permissions to allow read+write by all chmod 777 /media/${MDEV} # # Mount the directory in /media pmount --noatime --umask 000 /dev/${MDEV} But after the mount... user2&lt; at &gt;aa1 /media $ ll total 3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 May 22 19:02 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 May 21 20:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 May 16 01:42 sdb1 Every directory and file belongs to user:group root:root. On the US</pre> Walter Dnes 2012-05-23T00:26:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257313 <pre>I just updated about a week's worth of stuff including an xfce4 update. After rebooting, my desktop colors and widgets are all kinda weird. I've seen this sort of thing before but I'm not sure what causes it. qt stuff acts like this sometimes until I do some sort of a qt config, but this is just about everything including firefox and chromium. Is that enough info to point me in the right direction? - Grant </pre> Grant 2012-05-22T18:59:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257309 <pre>Lately, I've been having some issues with segfaults when running startx and it's been pretty persistent. Xorg.0.log and emerge --info are available at https://gist.github.com/2766926 . Kernel config is available at https://gist.github.com/276943 . I've tried downgrading, but &lt;=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.2 fails to compile due to incomplete structs. Is this more a driver or a hardware issue? -- 001100 m0shbear 010010 011110 andrey at moshbear dot net 100001 andrey dot vul at gmail 101101 110011 </pre> Andrey Moshbear 2012-05-22T06:02:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257308 <pre>Hello, Today during an emerge -Dauvt world, portage asked me to update a bunch of Ruby USE flags and install a bunch of new RUBY projects. Here is a snippet: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=PK8ubZeB Normally I just give portage the green light to install whatever it wants, but the USE change request caught my eye. Question: Is is true that the RUBY dependencies listed in the above paste link are entirely due to adding documentation support (specifically rdoc)? If so, can I tell portage to not install the rdoc stuff? I have USE=-doc already. Thank you, Chris </pre> Chris Stankevitz 2012-05-22T03:52:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257304 <pre>Hello, have someone installed XFCE in Version 4.10 and can me tell, has same with the windows which are now in the back of the menupanel? Screenshot: Old: http://silviosiefke.de/img/ext/old.png New: http://silviosiefke.de/img/ext/new.png They are others Relation in Screenshots, one is my Netbook, other is my normal Notebook. Regards Silvio </pre> Silvio Siefke 2012-05-21T22:09:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257284 <pre>After a recent update of dev-libs/libffi from version 3.0.10 to 3.0.11 the ebuild log suggests to run: # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5' and once finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to delete the old libraries, like so: # rm '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5' However by querying: equery b /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 * Searching for /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 ... dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5) we see that /usr/lib64/libffi.so.5 is reported as belonging to dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11. Is that normal? </pre> Thanasis 2012-05-21T17:28:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257263 <pre>I love my Gentoo-devs, but what is the train of thought here? skype-2.2.0.35-r1 was ~amd64 yesterday. It's installed and working fine. Today 2.2.0.35-r99 is ~amd64, which is perfectly fine, but they've completely removed -r1 and now I'm required to unmask emulation packages that only came out today? That doesn't seem quite right... Why did they completely get rid of -r1? That should stick around for a little while after -r99 becomes ~amd64, shouldn't it? - Mark c2stable ~ # eix -I skype [U] net-im/skype Available versions: (~)2.2.0.35-r99^ms {{pax_kernel qt-static}} Installed versions: 2.2.0.35-r1^ms{tbz2}(06:37:28 AM 02/29/2012)(-pax_kernel -qt-static) Homepage: http://www.skype.com/ Description: An P2P Internet Telephony (VoiceIP) client c2stable ~ # emerge -pvDuN &lt; at &gt;world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20120520 [20120127] USE="-development" 33,929 k</pre> Mark Knecht 2012-05-21T14:46:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/257259 <pre>Hi everybody, I updated udev from 171-r5 to 171-r6 and now i get several udevd boot message as : udevd[1389]: can not find '/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules': No such file or directory udevd[1389]: can not find '/lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules': No such file or directory ...................... and so on. /lib is a symlink pointing to /lib64. /lib64/udev/rules.d is ok with all the rules that udevd does not find at boot. Is it because /boot, / and /usr are on separate partitions ? Thank you for your help. Best regards, -- Jacques </pre> Jacques Montier 2012-05-21T09:15:39 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user