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I did: Code: # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world after 8 hours of upgrade no mouse no keyboard... on kernel loading says: failed to load udev among other errors running kernel 3.2.12-gentoo | Did you upgrade the kernel, too? Did you build your own kernel or use genkernel? Are you using stable (2.1 series) or testing (2.2 series) Portage? - John |
I've installed SLiM and followed this guide, but whenever I try to log in it just dumps me to a black desktop with a cross cursor. I have my settings set exactly as they are in that guide, so I really don't know what I could be doing wrong here. startx normally works perfectly when I didn't have SLiM, so this should be... | I have SLiM set up to use my ~/.xinitrc file. If you don't select a session type in the SLiM login screen (via F1 I think) then it will just run the .xinitrc file with no command line parameters. If you select a session type in SLiM then that session type will be sent as the first command line parameter to .xinitrc. I ... |
Just finished the xorg-server install from the guide using the nouveau driver for my Nvidia GeForce Ti 4600. This is a first time X setup and after reconfiguring the kernel and emerging xorg-server as in the guide, startx failes with the following. Everything was compiled into the kernel directly so there are not going... | did you give xorg something to do? startx won't work unless it has something to display. Try X -retro. If I recall correctly the vesa and fbdev errors are harmless. |
This is a weird one. I never used to have this problem with Epiphany (now "Web"). I am running a (~x86) system, so was wondering if my misfortune may have something to do with the latest webkit-gtk updates? I am asking just in case anyone else is running into this. I have run revdep-rebuild, and nothing. Running epipha... | emerge --info Code: emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.58 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.3.1-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.3.1-gentoo-i686-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_E5400_@_2.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Mo... |
Does anybody know how to convert numbers to words in in LibreOffice spreadsheet? I was using OpenOffice spreadsheet and I had a function in there "CVT" that convert number to words. I'm not sure if it was part of some kind of Macro or not. | http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/numbertext |
Hi, I can log in to gnome3 as a new user I've created, but not as my main user, which has gnome2/kde/xfce cruft in the hidden files. I have conky writing itself to the screen and starting on startup, as you can see it just before gnome3 crashes and I get the fail whale with sliders. I presume this is a legacy from gnom... | long shot? is the other user in the video group? gnome3 uses 3d "effects" |
Hi all, does anybody use Nvidia TwinView and two displays? I have problem that when i run NVIDIA X server settings tool, it recognizes monitors, but when i enable second monitor, it is allways set to be the primary, but i want it secondary. After some unspecified switching of monitor modes, or position, it gets changed... | It looks that it works... Thanks. |
Hi I just migrated back to gentoo after using for long time ubuntu distro. However I couldn't solve one problem which is affecting my box from the succesfull emerge of gnome3.2 and other programs. I just need a good torrent client and my favorite is deluge. However when I try to run it I get a segfault. I was trying to... | Did you get python-updates and forgot to run python-updater? |
Why is Enigmail incompatible with Thunderbird 12.0.1? | Found it - thanks. |
Hi there, first of all, I'm not sure this has to do with KDE. Yesterday I run the usual Code: sargon ~ # emerge -pvuD world and got three packages to update. I then procedeed with the update, but it stopped with the second package (dev-lang/php-5.3.13). I then noticed a strange behaviour because a hard disk that is not... | why not take a shotgun approach: 1) log into a terminal 2) finish update 3) run revdep-rebuild 4) check KDE 5) if it still fails to start rebuild ksmserver Nothing in the core of KDE requires php to function. Its not the problem. |
Is there a terminal based on QT similar to Konsole? yakuake and konsole too much to compile... | There's a live ebuild of QTerminal in the Qt overlay. I don't know of any others. |
Hi, a couple of days ago I did a rather big update world, with the result that fonts across all applications and menus do look horrible now: the main impression is their blurryness, it looks as if they would stand on a reflecting surface, there is this kind of shadowy reflection beneath every letter Anyone knows what m... | I kinda "solved" it by switching back again to nvidia-drivers: fonts look better, but yet far from perfect! :-\ Problem seems to be xfce4 (4.10) or compiz or even my crappy dell 2209WA monitor or any combination of these. gw |
Hello guys , This is my first install of Gentoo , so please forgive my noobness Informations: In my xorg.conf.d directory , only one config file is generated , and it is 10-evdev.conf I have some problem with Xorg , when i do startx , it starts then stop , but thats when i dont have xterm or twm , when those are instal... | It appears that your computer has both Intel and NVidia graphics. If it is an Optimus laptop, chances are that only the Intel part is connected to the displays. So see if enabling I915_KMS in your kernel and installing xf86-video-intel makes a difference. |
Hello, I have this problem on my Gentoo : Code: # emerge -av net-im/empathy Result : Code: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-libs/cloog-ppl-0.15.10 [ebuild N ] net-libs/farstream-0.1.2 USE="introspection msn python -test -upnp" [ebuild N #] net-libs/telepathy-farstream-0.2.3 USE="-examples -python" [ebu... | Up ? nobody has an answer? |
Hi I recently upgraded to ktorrent 4.2.0. The app starts up, and I can add torrents, but they never start downloading. I tried it with a random torrent ( Ubuntu's disk ) with no luck. Logs from ktorrent are as follows: Code: Fri May 4 16:51:16 2012: Saving 0 chunk downloads Fri May 4 16:51:16 2012: Saving list of peers... | I got it working again. N[/list]ot 100% sure what fixed it though: I did: Restart recompile glib and dbus_glib. downgrade to Ktorrent 4.1.3 and now it works. Go figure. I think it might have to do with my hostname that also changed, but KDE didn't seem to know about it. (Still used my old hostname everywhere. Restart f... |
Hi everyone i have just re-installed gnome from scratch but now when i try to activate minimize/maximize button to the different panels nothing appears (still the cross to only close the panel/window) Another issue that confused me i want to use french language but even though i select it in the system settings everyth... | Finally i have solved my problem with locale-gen commandline ade05fr wrote: Hi everyone i have just re-installed gnome from scratch but now when i try to activate minimize/maximize button to the different panels nothing appears (still the cross to only close the panel/window) Another issue that confused me i want to us... |
I'm using currently x11-base/xorg-X11 should I switch it to x11-base/xorg-server ? I've noticed that Gentoo documentation prefer xorg-server over X11 Do I need to un-install x11 to switch it to xorg-server? I want the transition to go smooth as this is a remote machine. | by reading through the description. xorg-x11 is a (legacy) meta-package, while xorg-server only pulls in the required parts. downside of using plain xorg-server, is that you need to install some tools and fonts separately. just be sure that ALSA_CARDS, VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES are correctly setup in your make.conf... |
I upgraded X11, nvidia, and xfce4 today. Did a 'revdep-rebuild'. The upgraded xfce4 is dog slow. Watching it draw application windows is like watching slow-scan tv. Did an original install of 'lxde', and it has no speed problems drawing windows or anything else. I prefer 'xfce4', so I'd like to get it back to its origi... | Upgrade to nvidia 295.49 - thread . |
Would anyone know why urxvt is only transparent when shading=100? If it's 99, 101, or anything other than 100, there is no transparency at all. Code: *background: #000000 *foreground: #ffffff URxvt*font: xft:Terminus:size=14 URxvt*urlLauncher: firefox URxvt*perl-ext-common: default,matcher,tabbed URxvt*urlLauncher: /us... | I would, but I'm using Fluxbox and no compositor... |
I'm having a problem with a dri error and I'm not sure where to go from here. I'm using a radeon 9800xt have this bit in my Xorg.0.log Code: [ 3968.641] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM [dri] Disabling DRI. Here's some more info: glxinfo | grep "render" Code: direct rendering: Yes OpenGL... | Pastebin the whole xorg log and check your kernel settings in regard of drm, kms and framebuffer console. Post 'emerge -1pv mesa xf86-video-ati libdrm'. |
Ok here is my issue, i just switched from kde to xfce. Before i deleted kde the kmix application worked perfectly in xfce. After i un-installed kde and reinstalled kmix the slider bar no longer works with kmix. My question being is there a way to find out what programs i need to keep installed too keep this functionali... | just in case anyone else is wondering about this i finally found an answer that works for me i gave up on kmix and used the xfce-extra/xfce4-volumed and x11-misc/xbindkeys to map the slider to amixer commands |
I just moved from a 32bit gentoo to 64bit gentoo on different hardware. I copied over /home/, etc/cups/, /etc/password Only two printers show up in firefox, thunderbird , evoluiton, and gimp ('Print to file' and 'Print to LPR'), but no cusp managed printers. From kde app (Okular) I can print fine. I use KDE as my deskt... | Solved it. During the install I had had to either set net-print/cups -gnutls or net-dns/avahi -gtk in /etc/portage/package.use Now it is not necessary, and after setting: net-print/cups gnutls and remerging, all the printers are in all gtk apps. |
Hi there, I use KDE 4.8.2 as a DE, but after the recent upgrade, no application tabs are displayed on the panel and I have to recur to Alt+Tab to move between running applications. Any suggestions? Thanks | Yes you are right. Everything is fine now I must have removed it by mistake. Thanks |
I recently noticed that xfce 4.10 is released. when I check my portage tree, xfce 4.10 ebuild file is laid aside xfce 4.8 in directory "/usr/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-meta" but no matter what I tried such as running "emerge -uDN world" or "emerge -pv xfce-meta", it only find xfce 4.8, but not xfce 4.10. It seems that I s... | woofie wrote: Hi, you should put Code: xfce-base/xfce4-meta ~(arch) where arch is your architecture into your /etc/portage/package.keywords because xfce4.10 is in testing before move to stable. I thought it's stable. I didn't add anything about xfce in this file. by the way, I only have package.accept_keywords, I think... |
I've been noticing lately that my virtualbox-bin install doesn't recognize my usb port as usb2 - it is seen as usb1. I installed virtualbox-bin quite some time ago and I believe at the time it was because I was having difficulty with virtualbox (not bin). I see when looking at the help in virtualbox that I may need to ... | well, researched it a bit more and just went for it. I first did an "export" from the menu of the virtualbox manager GUI. Then unmerged the -bin version and emerged the regular virtualbox. Had to hit env-update on the root shell then log out and log back in for the virtualbox GUI to work. Then did a GUI import. The win... |
Hi, I noticed this problem a little while ago and not found a fix yet. None of the weather plasmoids will update or find any cities. I normally use yawp. It currently shows no forcast and trying to add a new city gives a box saying "yawp is retrieving cities from the internet, please wait". This message will stay there... | Have just updated to KDE 4.8.3 and logged out/in and now all plasmoids are working fine again. |
From times to times desktop does not show up after entering startx. When it happens, I switch to console mode as root and typing starts brings up twm. Where can I look at in order to know about ? | But what does show up? Nothing or the X.org server without the Xfce desktop? If nothing then maybe you press the "Enter" key too long. At least I had so. |
As the subject says, I'm having corruption in clementine, texmaker, and vlc that I suspect comes from one of the qt-* packages, as these packages have similar dependencies (in this case qt-gui): Code: # equery g =media-sound/clementine-1.0.1-r1 | grep qt [ 1] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.8.0-r3 [ 1] x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.8.0-r2 [ ... | Finally solved, but with no idea how / what was wrong: Re-built all of qt*-4.8.0, same corruption. Masked >=qt*-4.8.0, emerge qt*-4.7.2, same corruption. Masked >=qt*-4.7.2, emerge qt*-4.7.2, same corruption. Masked >=qt*-4.6.3, emerge qt*-4.6.2, same corruption. Nixed all of qt-*, resync portage, emerge -vaDNu world, ... |
Hi Everyone, I've installed kde-meta and have got kde up and running. I'm getting an error about the power management system and configuration. The image below shows the error I get when I click on System Settings/Power Management; http://bayimg.com/Oaofhaadg When I go and have a look in System Settings/Startup and Shu... | Works now, not sure exactly what I did right but it is working. |
Hi I am in the process of upgrading my KDE install. All is going well: KDE 4.8.1 is installed, and runs. KDM starts up without problems. My plasma workspace works (non python widgets anyway.) However when calling Code: emerge kde-base/pykde4 I get the following output: Code: ..snip >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling ... | After your last upgrade of sip, did you do what the ebuild suggests and rebuild/upgrade PyQt4 as well? |
Hi, today I've signed up on my gentoo whit gnome 2.32 and the task bar appear only in the english language; in italian there're no bar and no contestual menu. I don't want to remove the .config folder and re-setting all again... I've a chance? how? Thanks in advance. | I haven't used Gnome for a long time, but what I do remember is that sometimes deleting the .config dir was the only way to solve certain problems. This is true sometimes for programs that have nothing to do with Gnome. Obviously, don't delete the entire .config folder, just the .gnome(2) or sometimes even the .gconf s... |
During a recent world update, some Xfce packages were upgraded. My desktop will now not start. I usually start it using the 'startx' command at the console. I now get dumped back to the console with this message: "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 63: exec: xterm: not found" This is my /etc/env.d/90xsession file: ~ $ cat /e... | Are you using testing, as in, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" system? emerge gentoolkit revdep-rebuild Are you using Portage 2.2? emerge @preserved-rebuild Is everything installed? emerge -v xfce4-meta |
Good day, When I emerge kaffeine or krename I receive the following error: Code: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-video/kaffeine-1.2.2 * kaffeine-1.2.2.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking kaffeine-1.2.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/media-video/kaffeine-1.2.2/work >>> Source unpa... | Problem is solved, I stumbled over the following variable in my /etc/make.conf: KDE_HANDBOOK=optional I found no documentation about what this does (or where I did get it from, must have typed that in myself) so I removed it. Without that line in make.conf kaffeine and krename did emerge successful. All my own fault |
Efter logging into KDE4 my system becomes sluggish for at least 10 minutes. The problem seems to be akonadi_agent_launcher eats 1.7GB of my 2GB memory. The processor is heavily loaded simultainiously. The parent process to akonadi_agent_launcher is akonadi_control. Does anyone have the same problem? Any cure? | Quote: Does anyone have the same problem? Yes there exists a set of kde users who have the semantic desktop features enabled. Quote: Any cure? Yes, set -semantic-desktop as a global use flag and recompile. Be aware that some packages like kmail requires akonadi et al to function. However most kde apps do not and they o... |
As root, when I echo -e "\a" at a console or in X, I get a beep. As user, when I echo -e "\a" at a console, I get a beep, but not in X. That is, when in X as a user I cannot get the PC speaker/system bell to beep. Any ideas why this might be? Regards Fog_Watch. $ Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-1... | Out of curiosity, as the pro audio for Gentoo guy, what do you want the PC speaker beep in X for? |
Hello, I have got the following problem (it's not actually a real problem, but it is related to too much luxury ): I've installed four desktop environments on my system... By names, Gnome 3, KDE, XFCE and LXDE. I use this system as a productive desktop computer and for demonstrating all the different DEs to Linux newbi... | Go to system settings (in kde) -->default applications ----> window manager and choose "use the default window manager (kwin) This should get compiz off of kde unless for some reason the compiz icon has got started in kde in which case it may seize control and start compiz If this is the case kde will restart the icon ... |
Hopefully someone can help me. I have a fileserver that is suddenly experiencing X crashes. I can still log in via SSH but once X crashes I cannot log in locally even if I kill X from ssh. I see conky segfaulting, but it has happened without conky running: Here is the emerge-info: Code: Portage 2.1.10.49 (default/linux... | _SerEga_ wrote: You can delete xdm from runlevel default so X will not trying to start. Or you can use single or nox kernel options or enter at interactive boot mode: pressing "I" Try to remember what you done, before it happened? Try to reinstall conky, nvidia-drivers, glibc(libpthread-2.13.so) and run memory test, li... |
I'm currently at KDE-PIM 4.4.11.1 + KDE 4.8.2, but now seriously considering to switch from KMail1 to Thunderbird. The import of the addresses went fine, now I'm planning to import the mails from the $HOME/Mail directory (copy within KMail the mails from each subfolder into a new folder created in mbox format, copying ... | IMAP was a good hint, although my local user-mode-linux-image courier-IMAP wasn't recognized my Thunderbird - gah. Nevertheless yes - I made a lot of backups and unmerged KMail1 few minutes ago. Thx. |
Hi everyone i have just installed gnome 3.4 but i have a little problem i dont have the french displayed event though i have choosed in my user session the french settings. why ? thanks | Starting with Gnome 3, you have to write your default keyboard layout to your xorg-config. Check http://oleeekchoff.blogspot.de/2012/01/gentoo-howto-setting-default-keyboard.html Quote: Add Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall" MatchIsKeyboard "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" ... |
Hi, I would like to arrange my virtual desktops in a 2 by 4 rectangle. Right now I am having 8 desktops in one row, which isn't that great. As I mentioned in the title: I am using openbox. greets cmdic | Yes, you'll need to use a pager applications to do this. I remember reading that in the Openbox FAQ. |
Hi Everyone, I have just installed KDE after a fresh install this week and everything was working fine. When I booted into KDE BlueDevil came up as it detected my logitech bluetooth mouse (M555b). Everything was sweet and the bluetooth mouse has just stopped working and so has BlueDevil. I have tried using bluez but I ... | Well Everything is back to normal. My mouse is working fine. All I did first was remove acpid from runlevel default. I stopped the service first just to test it out, then removed it from the runlevel and rebooted and bluedevil works and the mouse works. Now I am left wondering, what do I need acpid for? It seems the pr... |
Hi I am using an 'xfce4 Desktop Environment' and have just modified the applications menu using the LXMenuEditor. When I have finished I would like to backup these modified menu files, where will I find these? percy | percy_vere_uk wrote: Hi I am using an 'xfce4 Desktop Environment' and have just modified the applications menu using the LXMenuEditor. When I have finished I would like to backup these modified menu files, where will I find these? percy ~/.local/share/ ~/.local/share/applications/ ~/.config/ ~/.config/menus/ http://wik... |
I just tried emerging cinnamon, and it seems the ebuild tries to have cinnamon depend on gnome-menus-2.30.5, while it also depends on gnome-control-center which pulls gnome-menus-3.2.0.1. This is creating a conflict where the ebuild's requirements are impossible to meet. Could someone remove the old 2.30.5 dependency a... | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-916970-highlight-.html |
Hi all, I noticed an unusually high amount of cpu usage by lxdm-binary today on three computers. Everything was normal yesterday so I have no clue what could have caused this. The last time genlop shows activity for lxde-base/lxdm-0.4.1-r4 is Tue Mar 13 15:22:50 2012 and Thu Aug 4 09:03:42 2011 for lxde-base/lxde-meta ... | Hi, i thought i'd let you know that i found a fix for the problem. I fetched a patch from Ubuntu, updated the ebuild for lxdm-0.4.1-r4 and now cpu-usage is back at a sane state. I attached everything to the bugreport |
Hi. I'm trying to configure X to use the mtrack multitouch driver for the trackpad instead of evdev. However, X doesn't seem to be using my custom configuration. I don't have an xorg.conf. I have no custom configurations worth mentioning (they're not relevant). I've got 00-device.conf, 10-evdev.conf and 20-synaptics.co... | Solved. Evdev seems to be grabbing the device. Commented out the relevant sections in 10-evdev.conf and put my mtrack configuration in 09-mtrack.conf The driver loads now and responds to configuration changes. |
Hi. I've finally finished installing Gentoo and now I'm working on turning it into a usable desktop system. xorg-server emerges with no noticeable problems but when I run startx, I get an error. Something like "Fatal server error: no screens found." The laptop is a Macbook Pro (model 6,2). I have Gentoo dual booting wi... | Hi, It seems Xorg is trying to load intel drivers and thus it binds to the intel HD Graphics adaptator (and it uses VESA for you nvidia card, at first sight). I guess you could put that in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-device.conf (create it if it doesn't exist) : Code: Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia GPU" Driver "nouvea... |
Hello, I've encountered a new problem. My gnome 3 works fine now, thanks for your help, but when I try to run guake (a drop down terminal for gnome based on python un gtk) it doesn't start. Trying to run it in from the gnome-terminal showed me an error that it couldn't import the module pygtk; I could fix this by addin... | Do you still have the pythonpath set? |
I connected to windows share using gnome's "Connection To Server" capability. As far as I can tell, this share is not mounted anywhere. It is inaccessible from a command prompt. It lives in a special place (which I believe might be called gnome-vfs) that is accessible only by special gnome-aware softare. In contrast Ub... | SOLVED Code: ~ $ tail -n 2 /etc/portage/package.use # Enable nice mounts in gnome gnome-base/gvfs fuse |
I burned a dvd and wanted to mount it as usual (as simple user): Code: mount /mnt/cdrom which always worked. But now I get this: Code: mount /mnt/cdrom/ mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE library. Either mount th... | Normally, root is the only user allowed to mount things anyway. All the DE's and WM's with automount setups go through a few hoops to avoid bugging you for a root password when they automount. For troubleshooting, you should definitely su and mount as root. If you then have no further trouble, you may have to do things... |
Hello, I find a bit strange that some packages (like net-libs/gtk-vnc) have hard dependency on pulseaudio. The reason is that in my Arch installation I am running gtk-vnc related packages (like vinagre) happily without pulseaudio installed. It would make more sense to me to have pulseaudio as optional USE flag (I do no... | gtk-vnc-0.5.0-r1 has a pulseaudio USE. cheers |
Hi I have had this posted on Gamers & Players now for a few weeks {Post subject: pysolfc not working} so far no response. I have spent quite some time using search engines but so far have been unable to resolve this. I would very much like to get this sorted so any help would be appreciated ........... I have just inst... | See: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-919060-highlight-.html |
Hi there. I am having some problems with the screen brightness of my laptop. The function keys work perfectly and I can change manually the brightness of the screen, either with the function keys or the software slider in the KDE power manager. If the laptop is unplugged and I plug it, the brighness change to the value... | Ok, I managed to solve it. It seems there is an error with the power manager of KDE. If in the configuration file, brightness section, a value of 0 is set, it will ignore it, so the solution is very simple: either use the slider in the systemsettings menu to set another value or, if we want to set the minimum, manually... |
Hi guys. I have a problem with my gentoo. When I don't do anything for a 10 minutes, screen become black and I don't want it. What I can do ? | GTXcube, You can also try xset s off (or 0) or xset s 3600 for an hour delay. You can check your settings with xset -q |
in one of mine gentoo-boxes (and only in one), kde fails to start with this error: Code: aspi2 cloc3 # cat .xsession-errors startkde: Starting up... /usr/bin/startkde: line 284: 2438 Istruzione non consentita qdbus > /dev/null 2> /dev/null startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus? in system logs I read this:... | Dorsai! wrote: Do you use bin packages on this machine that are compiled on another? yes. I'm using a gentoo usb-key produced on another system. up to the next upgrade everything was looking fine. what may it be happend now? |
Is akonadi substituted with some other package? After emerge -uDN world, it seems I can not have kde-base/akonadi-4.4.11.1 kde-base/libkdepim-4.4.11.1 and kde-base/kdepim-common-libs-4.7.4 at the same time. This is the problem: Code: # emerge -p akonadi These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating... | Found this: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906968-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html |
Hi, after kde-4.8.1 upgrade I've discovered in my three IMAP accounts that all new mails are received completely empty. I try to read theme with 2 computer, one is Gentoo and other is win7 but mails contents are irremediably lost. After I stop my akonadi-server all new mails arrives OK while after restarting akonadi-se... | waiting an help I try to stop akonadi, delete ~/.local/share/akonadi and ~/.config/akonadi and try to start akonadi and then kontact but now kontact does not start anymore. ~/.local/share/akonadi results empty while ~/.config/akonadi contains Code: -rw-r--r-- 1 ##### ##### 31 9 apr 15.20 agent_config_akonadi_imap_resou... |
Hi, I emerged Gnome 3.2 from the official portage tree. When I'm trying to run gnome-session (same result via GDM or startx) a gnome-shell panel appears for a moment twice and then an error «Oh no! Something has gone wrong» appears. Here is what dmesg says: Code: gnome-settings-[31853]: segfault at b157cdc0 ip b157cdc0... | I used to have the same problem and solved it by enabling USE=introspection globally. |
installed kdebase-meta, and then i'm installing the pieces i need. installed kmix, and it does not show any volume information on the panel [IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/2q9yw6a.png[/IMG] but if I click the "Mixer" button, it shows, and controls!, the audio volume just fine [IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/1o3giw.png[/IMG] th... | hum.. since i installed kmix before pulseaudio, i'm now trying Code: # emerge -uDNa kmix These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse-0.10.30 [ebuild R ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.14-r6 USE="pulseaudio*" [ebuild R ] media-plugins/gst-pl... |
Hi All, My company has been kind enough (or mean enough) to provide me with a MacBook Pro (8.2, late 2011) for work. I followed this wiki article for the installation: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Apple_Macbook_Pro There are still a lot of things that are not working, but the most important is the Touchpad. Xorg.0.lo... | Since you linked my thread, I might as well tell you, my touchpad is working, albeit I'm using the mtrack driver (xf86-input-mtrack in portage). I just got 3finger swiping to work, yesterday, so everything except 4finger swiping currently works for me. Edit, now that I read over the documentation again, somehow 3&4 fin... |
Hi, I have a problem with firefox, it recently started to behave realy badly, it eats all my memory (4GB), eats swap and then freeze the system of course. Sometimes it does that when I have a lot of tabs opened, and sometimes it does that with only one tab, and it does that also with pages that don't have flash at all.... | Are you sure it's firefox? Do you have a 'top' dump when it's happening? I have several Intel machines (stable version) from 945G to Sandybridge and don't have an issue with it leaking memory (and able to run World of Warcrack on each, so MESA/DRM works fine)... I have not updated to 11, still at 10.0.3 or something li... |
Hi guys, I've a problem. I can't set my language on gentoo with XFCE. This is my locale.gen: Quote: localhost ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen # /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your system # # The format of each line: # <locale> <charmap> # # Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/loc... | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/it/guide-localization.xml |
Anyone else getting the following error after upgrading to Firefox 11.X? Code: firefox: relocation error: /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so: symbol SSL_AuthCertificateComplete, version NSS_3.13.2 not defined in file libssl3.so with link time reference I've tried removing .mozilla to no avail. Versions I'm running are: Code:... | Hi, Already done that.. I'll keep digging. |
hi there, i followed all suggestions which are made here : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml and remerged xorg-drivers,xorg-server and nvidia-drivers after that, but i still receive a black screen when starting "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new" i can see no EE messages in xorg.0.log so help on this is very app... | Teegrins, Mgiese ! Have you tried starting X without xorg.conf at all? If that fails, try a xorg.conf with only the following content: Code: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" Option "Coolbits" "5" EndSection Note that you may want to remove the Code: Option "Coolbits"... |
Presumably this is first and foremost an Xorg configuration issue. I want to be able to specify which of two GPU:s Xorg should use. Since earlier I have a nvidia GPU in my machine which has been running with KMS, nouveau and X. Today I added another radeon GPU for experimenting with VGA passthrough (under xen-4.1.1). T... | Solved it by trial and error, but I don't really know what's happening. Lspci (still) says this: Code: 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5430 Series] 41:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) But in /var/log/Xor... |
I recently got problems with start up of KDE, after upgrading my system to KDE 4.7.4 and xorg-server to 1.11.2-r2. Boot goes fine and X starts with xsession kdm. The final part of the KDE start up sequence leaves a black screen and just the mouse pointer on the screen. My ./.xsession-errors 10 last lines shows : Code: ... | I have also found in /var/log/kdm.log Code: klauncher (2800) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server. kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting! kdmgreet(2794)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned initialize() D-bus call failed: "Not connected to D-Bus ser... |
I've recently rebuilt a computer that previously ran Gentoo fine and it is now exhibiting a very strange problem. If I start or restart services such as ntp, vsftp or sshd using the command /etc/init.d/ntpd restart I get the following output: Code: gbrice-laptop ~ # /etc/init.d/ntpd restart * Stopping ntpd ... [ ok ] *... | lemmingman, Not knowing what was changed when you rebuilt the computer is it possible that persistent udev net rules is the cause? check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules for the entries. If they're not correct you can either edit it or delete and reboot in which case the file will be recreated. Good luck |
I have the Citrix ICA Client installed. With every other distro I've used, I had to tweak it a bit for my use. By that, I mean I follow the link on the webpage of my company and let it download a file named 'launch.ica'. I can then "Show in folder" from the menu provided by Chromium. I get my file manager opened and ch... | OK. So I now have this working like I want. I created a '.desktop' file in '/usr/share/applications' and then was able to change the file opening as I have been accustomed to doing in other distros. That solved the problem, but I'm not sure it was the best way. There's still the problem of not being able to enter the c... |
Hello everybody. I emerged the next program: arduino, but ican't run it. I ran #arduino from a terminal and i obtained Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported ./arduino: línea 20: 11596 `trap' para punto de parada/seguimiento java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.su... | Solutioned. Incompatibility with oracle-jre-bin-1.7 Solved installing sun-jre-bin-1.6 and #eselect java-vm list Available Java Virtual Machines: [1] icedtea6-bin system-vm [2] oracle-jre-bin-1.7 user-vm [3] sun-jre-bin-1.6 #eselect java-vm set user 3 (for my case) Salutes! |
Well, I used the depclean option a couple of days ago to clean my system; it has been running fine since 2009 and I thought maybe it would have some software that wasn't necessary. I migrated to Gnome 3.2 some weeks ago and everything was OK, but once emerge finished its job I couldn't get into gnome-shell anymore. The... | cibonato, depclean can do a job on you that's for sure. That happened to me (not quite that bad though) a while back. Code: emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --complete-graph=y --ask @world fixed it for me Good luck |
I'm getting USE errors whilst trying to install Xfce, in particular "unmet requirements" and "REQUIRED_USE" flags. I can't find references to either of these, and would much appreciate some advice as to what to do or where to find docn. Here is 'cat /etc/portage/package.use': x11-base/xorg-server udev dev-libs/libxml2 ... | I believe that media-libs/libcanberra wants the alsa flag. You can use /etc/portage/package.use, but for alsa you might want that system wide. |
Anyone that knows how to set this up so that it works? Code: 10:39:20 sedrik@Series9:~ â« xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/inconsolata/ 10:37:59 sedrik@Series9:~ â« xlsfonts | grep inconsolata -misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 -misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 -misc-inconsolata-medium... | Did you try Code: urxvt -fn 'xft:inconsolata' ? Not sure if that works also for urxvt since I'm not using that x11-term but I have Code: *faceName: xft:Consolas:pixelsize=11.5 and it works for all the terminals that use .Xresources ... HTH swimmer |
solved by emerging sudo package and mounting swap correctly Hello, I have another problem about the power control on xfce4 I did what the site tell us to do ( http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce ) which is Configuring policykit daemon. I also created another file for suspend/hibernate and udisk mounting authority. However... | hibernate is solved, pb is due to the incorrect swap mounting. but restart and shutdown are still impossible. |
I recently rebuilt my desktop, and when I start up my X session, it ignores my preference for using fvwm. I notice under gconf-editor, in desktop -> gnome -> applications -> window_manager -> current, the "Long description" field reads, "Window manager to try first. This key has been dprecated since GNOME 2.12" (I'm ru... | as far as i remember, there is a file ~/.wmrc created at login with the chosen DE/WM. But I don't remember if the content is just "KDE"/"awesome" or if it's something like key=value. I can't look right now. I use KDM as login manager. The global setting is in /etc/env.d/90xsession. EDIT: 90xsession is not commented |
Hi I have installed lxde-meta but I think my panel not are so nice that I want? Can you tell me how I can get a nice LXDE panel? Thanks! | Different people has different visions on nice. |
Hello, I had to update akonadi-server from v1.6.2-r1 to the now stable v1.7.1. As a result I'm not able to read any mails using kmail anymore . I see all headers, but I can't open any mails, can't reply, etc. I'm using cyrus-imap as a local imap server and kmail is talking to it. After updating akonadi-server to v1.7.1... | Problem fixed (with help from the kde.org forum): Adding Code: binlog_format=row after the first [mysqld] section in ~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf fixed it. akonadi now starts without any problems. Seems to be an old MySQL problem, no idea why I'm the only one that was hit by it... If anyone is interested, the corr... |
i'm trying to move it to reduce writes to my sda SSD. i have a raid array on this machine. i tried moving it there using a symbolic link. upon reboot openRC says it can't recreate /var/log as the file already exists. difficult to search on this. any ideas? | Some applications are probably still holding their open file handle to the old drive. Either restart those applications or reboot (of course you'd need to add the bind entry to fstab). |
I was wondering if it were possible to have apps run under kdesu maintain the l&f of the apps running as a regular user. Not a huge priority but it would be nice to have apps like porthole or netmap look consistent with the rest of my desktop. | Code: kdesu systemsettings Let's you change root's l&f. |
Hi, I am having trouble starting X after a fresh install on a machine running a Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]. The relevant errors seem to be: Code: [ 11899.373] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) [ 1... | You need to provide the part of Xorg log where intel driver is failing, put entire log into pastebin if in doubt. Also, what is the meaning of "I have trouble", is it like you start the X and it drops back to shell? |
Hi all, I just have installed my first Gentoo. Then I have installed gnome-light, thinking that it was the 3.2.1 version, but I got the 2.3 version. I saw that the 3.2.1 has not been stabilized yet. Is it enough to add gnome-base/gnome-light to the accept.keywords file and then launch "emerge --update world" ? Or do I ... | Thanks a lot, it worked well In order to fix dependencies problem, I had to unmerge gdm before upgrading gnome-light and then emerge again gdm (unmasking it also) after the installation of gnome-light. |
Strange. It said: Error org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.NotPrivileged: Not Authorized Code: dbus-send --print-reply \ --system \ --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" \ /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager \ org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart ➜ ~ git:(master) ✗ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START T... | Code: ➜ ~ git:(master) ✗ ck-list-sessions ➜ ~ git:(master) ✗ ck-list-sessions is null.. |
Hi, I'm new to Gentoo. The installation of Gentoo, X and Gnome completed sucessfully ! The first thing I did was configuring the touchpad with the GUI. Then, as I'm french, I had to configure the keyboard. With the GUI, I selected "Français (latin-9)" but unfortunately, it was unefficient. Much to my surprise, I didn't... | apinsard, Do you have your INPUT_DEVICES= set correctly in /etc/make.conf ? |
I recently did a "emerge world" update and after it was done updating , i installed drivers for x11-xorg and then tried to reboot and no xdm or x when i type "startx". Im currently using sysresccd and when trying to chroot into my system im getting the following error: Code: chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash chroot: failed ... | snakeo2, You are trying to chroot from a 32 bit environment to a 64 bit environment, or vice versa. SystemRescueCD boots 32 bit by defualt. To boot into 64 bit you have to ask it. Read the menu when it boots. You cannot chroot from 32 to 64 bit, 64 bit to 32 bit is possible but you don't need it. |
Hi, new to Gentoo, with the nelp of some kind guys here I could manage to install xorg-server and gnome. At the moment I am dealing with keyboard problems. Ordinarily I use a Type Matrix Bépo keyboard. I had no pb with other distros like Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSuse. To use the keyboard on Gentoo I choose System --> Preferen... | Please forget this. Seems to be alright now: |
Hi, that happens since a couple of month and i have no clue why. Quote: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hallo *, Sie haben die Zahlungsart f =C3=BC r Ihre Bestellung The bold part should be displayed as ü but thats not the case. What could be wrong o... | Are you sure that you have proper font for displaying your messages? Also, check your locale. Just run 'locale' in the terminal emulator. Is your locale something like en_US.UTF-8 (or de_DE.UTF-8 )? |
Skype crashes few second after starting, with message in console: Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so" I was trying to emerge caps-pulgins, but then skype crashes with message: /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 skype-2.2.0.35-r1, ~amd64. Any suggestions? | Can you check if this folder does exist on yourfs? Code: ~/.Skype/Logs if not create it. cause i had skype crash about 3-5 seconds after i logged in and creating the Logs folder did help me. |
Hi, guys, I hope you can help me. I have just installed gentoo in my laptop, a fresh new installation, system, kernel, xorg, kde and chromium, and I have problems with the last one. When I try to load any page, it just shows a white screen, no matter what page I try. However, when I move the mouse over the window, it c... | Sounds like your kernel does not support shared memory. |
Desktop icons jump down when I run applications with the other resolutions than I have currently. I do want keep my desktop in 1280x1024. Do want notice that not all games "break" my desktop icons order. On example, Counter-strike does it only when I change resolution in it. Ie the order is broken when a switching is d... | Thanx, netfab. I unmasked my xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.9.0 and xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.9.0 and installed them. Now I don't fear different resolutions in games. |
I've had a problem with my Xorg for a while now where I cannot change keyboard focus (not with the mouse nor with alt-tab ). I have been trying to figure out what is wrong with my system from trying different versions of ati-drivers (unfortunately the opensource ones don'T like my graphicscard at all) to checking and r... | audiodef wrote: LordVan wrote: If anyone had this issue before and knows what it could be please let me know as it is really irritating to basically only be able to use one window at a time .. How do you use two windows at the same time? let me rephrase that to: I can only use the first window I open and not swap focus... |
Hey all, just did fresh install on new laptop and all went well. running ~arch, kernel 3.2.9. here is problem. gnome3 is in fallback mode and I have looked at all logs and everything seems OK. It has been a while since I have built a box but maybe someone could help. I have followed docs and searched forums and googled... | dmesg is very clear, firmware couldn't be loaded. Do you actually have a /lib/firmware/radeon/r600_rlc.bin? The way you have stuff configured, it needs to be there at the time you compile the kernel, it'll them be compiled into the kernel. If you don't have it, install either radeon-ucode or linux-firmware, then recomp... |
Hi all, I have a little problem with gnome-terminal-3.2.1, for at least two days scrolling the terminal using mouse wheel doesn't work anymore, it works only typing SHIFT + PAG UP/DOWN. Any ideas? Thanks | Teegrins, yellowhat . Did you update/change anything during this time? Also, does the wheel actually work with anything else? I have no experience on gnome-terminal specifically so those are the only thoughts I can offer for the time being. |
ibus-1.3.9 works ok before. But it does not work anymore after I update my system.(ibus-1.4.1) So I uninstall it, and I want to reinstall it .. But error happens: Code: Package ibus-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ibus-1.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH envi... | rootor wrote: audiodef wrote: When I do eix ibus, I don't see a version less than 1.2.0. What does eix ibus show for you? Have you synced lately? exi? sorry, I can't understand ... It is a tool to search and query ebuilds, portage incl. local settings, ext. overlays, version changes, and more. Code: app-portage/eix Ava... |
Before I get flamed... I have followed Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide , The X Server Configuration HOWTO , and Gentoo nVidia wiki . I have been at this for 3 days, compiling kernels, adjusting menuconfigs, recompiling, installing nvida-drivers, removing nvidia-drivers, installing nouveau drivers, removing nouveau drivers, d... | What card is this. app-text/wgetpaste can post logs for you from CLI. |
I've gotten Gentoo installed on my Sony Vaio VPC-F1190X (if the model matters), and I've gotten both X and the Nvidia drivers working; however, I can't use my mouse or keyboard whenever X is running. I've installed gnome and my system will boot to the gdm, and the cursor to log in is flashing, but I can't move the poin... | Check the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log for how the keyboard and mouse are being handled. In xorg.conf try deleting everything except Code: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GT 330M" EndSection |
Hello I am setting up Gentoo for the first time. The instructions were pretty clear and I got all the way up to configuring X. When I do the -configure, I get "The number of created screens does not match the number of detected devices" and then it fails. I used genkernel to build my kernel. I searched and I found this... | X -configure does not work with KMS. Make sure that you have configured the kernel as in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml (genkernel --menuconfig). Then set your login manager in /etc/conf.d/xdm and run /etc/init.d/xdm start. |
Hello, My gnome terminal doesn't support xterm-256color I have emerge xterm, but it doesn't help anything. Code: tom@NextZone ~ $ export TERM='xterm-256color' tom@NextZone ~ $ clear 'xterm-256color': unknown terminal type. tom@NextZone ~ $ A little puzzle. | Do you have: /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color From the ncurses package. |
I'm using "slim" on both computers and it seems to me they both have the same configuration but on one of them "ck-list-sessions" is showing that tty7 is started twice. Code: ck-list-sessions Session4: unix-user = '1001' realname = '(null)' seat = 'Seat5' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = ':0.0' x11-displa... | Solved! It turned out in /etc/slim.conf I had: Code: ... login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session #login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session ... and it should be other way around: Code: ... #login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /usr/share... |
After recently emerging Xorg my Swedish keyboard works as expected except for one thing: I lack Swedish "åäö" in x11-terms/terminal, instead I get only "???". I DO get the proper "swedish" positions of keys such as /, & and ~, what I miss is åäö - this suggests it might be a font issue rather than a localization issue.... | Well, have you checked your locale? Is it set to UTF-8? The font could be the problem, but most of fonts provide glyphs for European languages. So, I would start with checking the locale. What is the output from 'locale' command? |
This link http://qt-project.org/wiki/OnlineCommunities doesn't like my Firefox 10.0.1 (content shifted to the right side of my panel) . Anybody else has problems with it ? | Etal wrote: Maybe it's some addon causing trouble? yes ( http://ompldr.org/vZDB5dg ) unfortunately I cannot narrow it to the guilty addon |
semantic-desktop is causing me grief. akonadi sucks all my cpus until I kill its three sequential processes. To alleviate that problem I'm trying to disable semantic-desktop in my USE var, but it doesn't work. I changed the var did an emerge -DNuv world and then once I tried the revdep-rebuild I got this message: Code:... | Well unfortunately just changing the use flag does not go smoothly. I had to emerge -C some stuff and then run depclean to get portage to stop trying to pull that stuff. Here is a list of programs that would be installed if I reset the semantic-desktop: dev-db/libiodbc-3.52.7 dev-libs/shared-desktop-ontologies dev-db/v... |
Hello I just finished install x11 and xorg then, I unmerge ati-driver and install the close souce driver by following the guide http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fglrx and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml but when I ran # eselect opengl set ati it doesn't work. I found that there is no ati option in the list of op... | pd1986 wrote: Hello I just finished install x11 and xorg then, I unmerge ati-driver and install the close souce driver by following the guide http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fglrx and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml but when I ran # eselect opengl set ati it doesn't work. I found that there is no ati option in ... |
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