• Nagstamon Opening Twice on KDE Plasma login

    calendar Dec 12, 2022  · nagstamon kde fedora gentoo
    Nagstamon Opening Twice on KDE Plasma login

    For quite a while I've been having an issue where Nagstamon opens twice on my Fedora laptop ( edit: also just had this problem on my Gentoo desktop ) when I login. I've finally gotten around to investigating it properly and found the cause and a solution. First of all - the problem: I have Nagstamon set to run on login …


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  • file not recognized: File truncated

    calendar May 11, 2012  · compile error Gentoo pulseaudio

    While attempting to upgrade one of my Gentoo Linux machines to the latest version of PulseAudio ( media-sound/pulseaudio-2.0 ) today I encountered the following error: libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libprotocol-cli.soT …


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  • Printing to Google Cloud Print using CUPS

    calendar Oct 15, 2011  · cloud cups Gentoo Linux mac printing
    Printing to Google Cloud Print using CUPS

    I previously blogged about allowing printing to local printers via Google Cloud Print on Gentoo , and recently I have been looking at the opposite of this – printing to Google Cloud Print from Linux. The main reason to want to print to Google Cloud Print is for future compatibility with printers within Linux – it means …


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  • error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'G_CONST_RETURN'

    calendar Sep 30, 2011  · compile Gentoo glib Linux pango

    After upgrading a few packages on one of my Gentoo machines, I was greeted with repeated errors like this one, whilst trying to emerge Avahi: /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-script.h:132: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'G_CONST_RETURN' /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-script.h:133: error: …


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  • GlusterFS 3.2 on Gentoo

    calendar Sep 22, 2011  · cloud Gentoo GlusterFS Linux

    I’ve been looking at cloning ( or somehow maintaining synced ) file-systems between multiple servers, and after looking at other solutions ( regular rsyncs, inotify etc ), a clustered file-system seems to be the best solution. GlusterFS looks to be a popular Open Source based solution, however there doesn’t seem to be …


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  • configure: error: keyutils.h header not found.

    calendar Sep 1, 2011  · compile Gentoo Linux nfs-utils

    Just upgraded net-fs/nfs-utils to nfs-utils-1.2.3-r1 on my Gentoo machine, and came across this error: checking for keyutils.h... no configure: error: keyutils.h header not found. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/net-fs/nfs-utils-1.2.4/work/nfs-utils-1.2.4/config.log * …


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  • Adding a hostname to Logrotate email subjects

    calendar Jul 31, 2011  · Gentoo Linux logrotate

    I have logrotate running on my virtual servers ( both local and Amazon EC2 based ) and configured to send myself all log files by email daily. They are all running virtually the same configuration, and this makes it difficult to work out which log file is tied to which machine. The simplest way to fix this, is to …


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  • Hosting a Gentoo Layman repository on Amazon S3

    calendar May 24, 2011  · Gentoo Linux s3

    I’ve recently had to create a lot of custom Gentoo ebuilds, and distribute them out to separate machines. Luckily Gentoo has the layman system for adding experimental overlays, so we can use this to add our own custom one, hosted on Amazon S3. Setting up the repository is a two part process – creating the actual …


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  • Google Cloud Print on Gentoo

    calendar May 24, 2011  · cloud Gentoo google Linux printing

    Google have recently released their Google Cloud Print service . It is currently built into Google Chrome on Windows and Mac, but unfortunately it is not yet available officially for Linux. Fortunately there is an unofficial open source project on Github, called cloudprint . It is fairly new, so isn’t yet in the Gentoo …


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  • EC2 Micro Instance Clock Drift

    calendar Apr 23, 2011  · amazon ec2 Gentoo Linux

    Recently I’ve been experimenting with the Amazon Free Tier micro instances (one is running this blog). After running an instance for a few days I noticed that the clock seems to drift quite heavily ( more than 10 minutes over 24 hours ). The most obvious fix to any clock drift is to install and configure ntp – however …


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