albright, you are a genius.

You have fixed numerous Kmail2 bugs in 1 fell-swoop. Many many thanks from me too.

Dave.

That's good to know. Shame sysvinit has to installed as unstable. I'm currently stuck with a repeatedly failing emerge of pam_mount but that's another story...

Ah okay, I've removed pam_mount from /etc/portage/package.keywords and things seem to be moving along a bit, however I still have 200 packages to emerge and it fails to emerge the stable version of pam_mount because of a bug in it! (It's this one in case anyone cares: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin ...

After I do emerge -v util-linux it says:
Surely I don't have to run an unstable system to get this working?

I tried the ~x86 emerge idea but that had no effect on my emerge --update world.

I've tried "emerge --update sys-apps/sysvinit sys-apps/util-linux" but it didn't change anything. I've also tried booting into a Live CD and unmerging the packages and re-merging them but that didn't work either.

Here is the output of my emerge:


pickle dave # emerge --update --deep --newuse ...

I get this every time I log in ever since I upgraded to KDE 4.6 from 4.4.

I also have an Nvidia Nforce 2 chipset.

How do we get sound working?

Thanks,
Dave.

Hi, thanks for the microcode tip however I run an AMD processor and as I understand it the microcode update would only improve the performance of the chip and is not designed to fix bugs.

I'll check the server logs tonight, however by chance yesterday I noticed that the PC crashed when Kmail was ...

Tried disabling compositing but it still locks up.

Cheers anyway.

Dave

Thanks for the tip. I assume you are referring to a proprietary HP application that resides in the system tray? Sadly I don't have any of those.

Dave

It locked up again with only alt-tab and alt-f1 working for a few keypresses. I sshed in and after entering my username it hung up. You can hear a brief disc access after the username is enter.

Exactly the same happens when I am logged in locally; you go to alt-f1 console, enter the username (any ...

Hmm, I dismissed this idea before due to the networking complexities but maybe I could use putty on my phone to ssh in over the local network. I'll give it a go.

Thanks,
Dave

Hmm, something is afoot. I am running a stable (not ~x86) KDE system too. I have never had a crash on Windows (I dual boot) despite using the system resources in a similar way.

I have Nvidia graphics so for the time being unless there are better suggestions, I'm putting the issue down to a dodgy ...

It turns out that Nepomuk is already disabled and in the memory section it's listed as limited to 50MB. My PC has been more stable in the last few days, but probably because it hasn't been left turned on for so long.

Thanks for the tip though.

Dave

Hi, I think that is a good suggestion.

How can I get Strigi to log somwhere to tell me it's started? My system log is so sparse of information that it's hard to tell what went wrong, and of course if I can't even type in a password so what are the changes of the error being logged to disk?

Dave

I'm using a quite old Nvidia 5800 card. It's worked fine for the last 5 years. Maybe it _is_ on its way out? It doesn't feel hot though, and there was a time a couple of years ago when I did get crashes because it was bunged up with dust and it got really hot. (It doesn't get hot now)

Dave

Hi, should have mentioned I've cleaned all the dust off the CPU heat sink and also the dust off the graphics card but thanks for the suggestion.

Dave

Hi, I'm running the latest stable KDE (4.4.5) and all of a sudden my computer seems to be locking up at random.

KDE seems to freeze although I can alt-tab between windows for a bit before it degrades and I can't do anything except move the mouse icon.

If I then do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a command ...

Thanks a lot. That fixed it.

I have exactly the same problem. revdep-rebuild wants to build a package that does not exist and that apparently no other packages depend upon anyway!!!

Here is the output as you asked since the original poster has not replied:

equery depends emul-linux-x86-qtlibs
[ Searching for packages ...

Thanks for the tips as always. I solved this problem by simply deleting /usr/bin/python2.5-config. I don't why this works but it does. tdb now emerges fine.

In python2.5-config the first line specifies the interpreter as /usr/bin/python2.5 which is why it fails because I no longer have this file on my system.

The question is, why is my system using python2.5-config?

If I look inside the python-config script it points correctly to 2.6:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Gentoo python-config wrapper script

[[ "${EPYTHON}" =~ (/|^python$) ]] && EPYTHON="python2.6"
python_config="${EPYTHON/python/python-config-}"
"${0%/*}/${python_config:-python-config-2.6}" "$@"

I've tried redoing eselect but that didn't fix it. I've also tried python-updater which I killed after a while because it wasn't finding any more programs and just seemed to have stopped doing anything. Here's the output of python-updater:

* Starting Python Updater...
* Main active version of ...

Hi, please could someone help me with a problem I've had for a good few months now. When I do a global update emerge tries to compile tdb but fails with the following errors shortly after the build starts:

Compiling tools/tdbbackup.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,-O1 -o libtdb ...