[gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Martin S
I admit - I'm adicted to fonts. Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? I need to see what the fonts look like and be able to install what's not installed. I found Fontlinge which isn't in portage and consists of a gazillion dependencies. Any more?Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-31 Thread Makurin Roman
В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 17:28 Alex написал(a): On Saturday 27 August 2005 20:57, Roman Makurin wrote: What I need to do ? :-) I've been looking for the same thing for some days now... The good thing I just found a solution (well at least it worked for me :) ) You have to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Frank Schafer
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open.

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems

2005-08-31 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Sounds like bad memory. Run memtest86? On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Joshua Armstrong wrote: They are syncing from the same mirror. I haven't tried changing mirrors though. If it helps, when I read the kernel logs I notice that during the time it's syncing, I see a lot of readlink() failed: I/O

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Nagatoro
For a _great_ place to read about ebuilds go to: http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ It has next to everything :) -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Martin S wrote: Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what the fonts look like Gfontview Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd Xfontsel (both part of Xorg). and be able to install what's not installed. Well, this is Gentoo, so you use 'emerge' to install things

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Martin S
What I'm looking for is something like http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/xfonter.html or http://www.neuber.com/typograph/index.html Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2005 16:31, bshlists wrote: On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way you generate the initramfs. If you compile it into the kernel (instructions on the Wiki; see How-to fbsplash), it will start up

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:38 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Destromy
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:38 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:42 +0800, Destromy wrote: ping broadcast ? now we are going in circles. not every device responds to ping - its optional in linux and people often turn it off because of various DOS attacks based on icmp. also some OSes don't seem to respond to broadcast ping,

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-31 Thread Stuart Howard
Thank you the the hwclock tip it will solve my problem exactly. Unfortunatly it seems my problems were deeper and beyond the scope of this thread really, the loss of time was due to something within the kernel that I built last week I also realised that my hard disk performance had fallen

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:40 -0400, Sean Higgins wrote: It exists as an option with dispatch-conf, as do options to automatically replace files if the only differences are whitespace and comments. But, it does not automatically do an update if the original file has not changed. That

[gentoo-user] [OT]: shm problem: ** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list - urgent help needed

2005-08-31 Thread Christian Fischer
Hi all. I've crashed shm with a perl-script (IPC::Shareable). shmget returns IPC::Shareable::SharedMem: shmget: File exists, if I remove all shared memory segments created by the app with ipcrm I get the following glibc error: ** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list Nothing helps

[gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the network problem: first thing to know - have you updated your config files with etc-update or dispatch-conf? I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it doesn't really archive all of etc now. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get LVM2 off a drive?

2005-08-31 Thread Petteri Räty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: I did an experiment with LVM2 to see how it worked, but I put it inside of partition 3. I then wanted to remove it and put it in partition 4 instead. (More like Neil's setup.) However, the system keeps finding the old vg1 volume

[gentoo-user] rsnapshot is deleting the very stuff it is supposed to backup

2005-08-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Following a major update world. My rsnapshot scripts are deleting the files they are supposed to backup. I've made no changes in my own conf files other than to add the version notation: config_version1.2 After seeing errors that seemed to indicate it was no needed. Something has

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Ric de France
On 8/30/05, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 August 2005 13:09, Ric de France wrote: What is the bug suggesting to do to fix it: a) Wait for the fix to be sync'ed into portage? b) Emerge gst-plugins-flac? It's (b) Or you could do $ emerge --oneshot gst-plugins-flac (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:42:51 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: first thing to know - have you updated your config files with etc-update or dispatch-conf? I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it doesn't really archive all of etc now. Have you enabled rcs in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-31 Thread Alex
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 06:06, Makurin Roman wrote: The problem has gone with xine-lib-1.1.0-r2 :-) Yay! :) the devs know better ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp11riY59DLC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Alex
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:59, Ric de France wrote: Anything else you could suggest, or do I just track the bug and see wait for when the fix gets implemented? Do you use 2.4 or 2.6 linux-headers? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68087 It seems that this problem exists only with 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-31 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Matt, on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 14:54:46, you wrote: I'm not trying to do anything complicated like protect a LAN or include a DMZ or run an ftp server or anything like that. I'm just looking for a quick and easy way to add another layer of protection to my desktop by closing all unused

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: ... what about arp? If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know what the mac address isthen you're stuck. Of course, if it's a small, home

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Ric de France
On 8/31/05, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:59, Ric de France wrote: Anything else you could suggest, or do I just track the bug and see wait for when the fix gets implemented? Do you use 2.4 or 2.6 linux-headers? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68087

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: El 30/ago/2005 a las 22:36 -0300, Holly me decía: Normally what one would do is place all modified ebuilds in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... Thank you very much. You should take advice from Nick and make it a howto. I'm surely going to translate to spanish and put it in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 05:50 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: ... what about arp? If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know what the mac address

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Anthony Walters
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? if it is pingable then

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Nick, on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 20:30:14, you wrote: arp will rely on the box having actually done something within arp's cache period. What's more, ARP resolves IP addresses to MAC addresses and the IP address is what the OP wanted to find out in the first place. I'd try in this order: 1.

[gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy, looks like my first impulse about an update... IE, that it would be a pita is coming true... hehe Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the network problem: hostname and domainname migrated from /etc to /etc/conf.d Has /etc/domainname just moved to /etc/conf.d or is it a new filename

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 050831 Martin S wrote: Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what the fonts look like Gfontview Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd Xfontsel (both part of Xorg). and be able to install what's not installed. Well, this is Gentoo, so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Frank Schafer
If some other machine wants to communicate with some second other machine ... say secmachine.homenet.com it connects to the DNS server of homenet.com. (This step won't be done if IP addresses are in use. The DNS server then sends the IP address to firstmachine.homenet.com or firstmachine uses the

[gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:42:51 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: first thing to know - have you updated your config files with etc-update or dispatch-conf? I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it doesn't really archive all of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-31 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 18:42, Harry Putnam wrote: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the network problem: first thing to know - have you updated your config files with etc-update or dispatch-conf? I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-31 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
I'm not trying to do anything complicated like protect a LAN or include a DMZ or run an ftp server or anything like that. I'm just looking for a quick and easy way to add another layer of protection to my desktop by closing all unused ports. Go to gentoo-wiki.com and search for newbie

[gentoo-user] Any exper or experienced rsnapshot users here, please read

2005-08-31 Thread Harry Putnam
My rsnapshot conf files consist of: /etc: rsnapshot_Mail.conf rsnapshot_Etc.conf rsnapshot_Home.conf rsnapshot_News.conf There run at all the normal intervals. hourly, daily, weekly, monthly Suddenly following a full update with world -u from a well out of date system, all these

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Or, if there's some way to 'modularize' mutt, you could look into turning the patch into a 'plugin' (if such things exist, I know nothing about mutt), so that it would be optional to those who wanted to use it. Or you could add a USE

[gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done some googling

Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Andrew Lowe wrote: I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done

[gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-08-31 Thread Adrian
Greetings; When I try to run pixie I get the following result: Wed Aug 31 06:23:19 ~ skippi $ pixie pixie: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdpstk.so.0: undefined symbol: DPSDefaultErrorProc I tried to re-emerge pixie in order to see if that gave me any useful error messages. It emerged quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

2005-08-31 Thread Destromy
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is.

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Or, if there's some way to 'modularize' mutt, you could look into turning the patch into a 'plugin' (if such things exist, I know nothing about mutt), so that it would be optional to those who wanted to use it.

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 31/ago/2005 a las 03:37 -0300, Nick me decía: no no, you put the epatch command in your ebuild file (your own version that you put in PORTAGE_OVERLAY.) Then the patch gets applied to the mutt source file before compilation. Ah... Already did that! In my modified ebuild what i did was to

RE: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-08-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
pixie: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdpstk.so.0: undefined symbol: DPSDefaultErrorProc A google search for libdpstk indicates that this is a core library for x11 with some references to it being obsolete. I've got one for my xorg-x11 install, so it must not be too obsolete... A google

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 31/ago/2005 a las 08:39 -0300, Holly me decía: The probelm here is (likely) that the name of the package (for the purposes of the ebuild) is 'mutt-conan', not mutt. The format for an overlay folder (like Portage) is cat-egory/package-name/package-name.and-version.ebuild so your

[gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label = Single root = /dev/hda3 append=S read-only but it boots to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:53:21 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Have you enabled rcs in the config? This makes it backup the changes, so you can roll back. No, I just used it sort of blindly... Not the best way to operate Gentoo :( I was under the conception that the archiving mechanism did a

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:42:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But do you know the answer to Nick's question about what I said earlier? In a 'conflict' between two ebuilds of the same name and version, one in Portage and one in the overlay, does the choice of which one is used if I emerge the

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-08-31 09:25:48 -0400 (Wed, Aug), Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label = Single

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X100P clone

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Walter Willis [gentoo-user] [Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:42:07PM -0500]: yes include : #rc-update add zaptel default #rc-update add asterisk default and after #rc-update del asterisk # reboot and reboot normality, charge modules etc, etc. login in gentoo linux and :

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

2005-08-31 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:08PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: You should use rc-update to run the startup script. Local is for commands that you want run, not really a great way to run other startup scripts. The command you want is probably `rc-update add rc.firewall default`. -Mike

[gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
The script /etc/conf.d/rc contains the following lines : # RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE allows you to have different /etc/conf.d files # based on your runlevel - if a conf.d file for your profile does not exist # then we try and use the default one. # To enable runlevel selection at boot,

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Bert Buchholz
On Wed 31.08 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? You can always do that by appending init=/bin/sh (for example) to the kernel line when booting, so when lilo comes up, you append this text to the

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:42:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But do you know the answer to Nick's question about what I said earlier? In a 'conflict' between two ebuilds of the same name and version, one in Portage and one in the overlay, does the choice of which one

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-31 Thread bshlists
On August 31, 2005 04:02 am, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 30 August 2005 16:31, bshlists wrote: On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way you generate the initramfs. If you compile it into the kernel (instructions on

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:25:48 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? Yes. Append softlevel=single to kernel boot parameters. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Mariusz P?kala wrote: On 2005-08-31 09:25:48 -0400 (Wed, Aug), Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: The script /etc/conf.d/rc contains the following lines : # RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE allows you to have different /etc/conf.d files # based on your runlevel - if a conf.d file for your profile does not exist # then we try and use the default one. # To enable runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Say 'Hello, to my little friend' arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done already)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Martin S
And of course, you can download fonts from any of those font collection pages on the net and extract/copy them into /usr/share/fonts/TTF(assuming they're truetype, naturally), run fc-cache and they'll work fine. I had an attack of fontmania recently myself, looking for 'nice'fonts that weren't

[gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums, etc., but they seem to be split on whether this box uses acpi

Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:40 -0400, John Dangler wrote: How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread James
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: James schreef: Say 'Hello, to my little friend' arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done already)? Hello Holly, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Christoph Gysin wrote: Andrew Lowe wrote: I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember

[gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. I had emerged Apache and nagios; I edited commonapache.conf putting the following lines: ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/nagios/sbin/ Alias /nagios/ /usr/nagios/share/ Directory /usr/nagios/sbin AllowOverride

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
does apache have read-access to the nagios sub? I've done nagios on redhat, and will hopefully be doing it on gentoo soon. On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:02, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. I had emerged Apache and nagios; I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Crossman
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:50 +, James wrote: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: James schreef: Say 'Hello, to my little friend' arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to

[gentoo-user] WEP woes

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Smith
Im having a heck of a time getting wep to work with either iwconfig or wpa_supplicant, ive followed the how-to, read over the wiki pages, and looked at the example file in /etc and i still cannot get it to let me connect with WEP, i can see the AP, get the freg/voltage etc, but i cant get an ip

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Bert Buchholz wrote: On Wed 31.08 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? You can always do that by appending init=/bin/sh to the kernel line This gets the same result as 'append=emergency',

Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Yep; every one has reading and executing permitions on all nagios tree (snip) On 8/31/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does apache have read-access to the nagios sub? I've done nagios on redhat, and will hopefully be doing it on gentoo soon. On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:02,

[gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

2005-08-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
[quote] Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high memory. [/quote] I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
what's in the /var/log/httpd/error_log for that attempt that fails? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread James
Allan Spagnol Comar allan.comar at gmail.com writes: I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. Hello Allan, You might want to consider 'jffnms' as it has many more feaures than nagios. it's in portage, currently masked. YMMV James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread Bruno Lustosa
I had an issue with Nagios on Gentoo, and it the ebuild putting the config file in the wrong directory. Check this out: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103060HTH,-- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477Rio de Janeiro -

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). It's the normal (root) shell prompt. You

RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Renat~ Good Call!! I found a little block of text on tux where someone had apm loaded by default, and, after adding acpi, had nothing working. As I read through the text, the poster mentioned looking in modules.autoload.d several times and seeing nothing being added (they didn't add anything

[gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've just recently (the last 4 or 5 days) been experiencing some lock-ups on Firefox. As far as I can tell these seem to come only when visiting certain web pages that have more multimedia content. When Firefox locks up it can be killed from a terminal and restarted. There are no messages

Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Smith
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the applets are showing properly in gnome now! Thanks to you and Holly for the patient replies

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Daldrup
Hello Gentoo-Users, I've recently done an emerge -tuvD world and dhcpcd was updated from version dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r11 to version 2.0.0. The emerge went fine, no error message, no note to update config-files, everything seemed to be fine. But at the next reboot, I wasn't able to get an IP adress,

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/31/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks - I'll do this when I get home tonight. But a question remains.Why didn't it work even if not the proper way of doing it? Why did a restart of the /etc/init.d/local script work properly? I really couldn't say why it didn't work unless

RE: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Nick~ so far, here is what's in my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file - ac b44 battery button fan processor thermal ipw2100 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt ieee80211_crypt_wep ieee80211_crypt_ccmp ieee80211_crypt_tkip nvidia #iptables -- This BORKS ipw right now... 8/29 : JD John -Original

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

2005-08-31 Thread Sergio Polini
Christoph Daldrup: I've recently done an emerge -tuvD world and dhcpcd was updated from version dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r11 to version 2.0.0. The emerge went fine, no error message, no note to update config-files, everything seemed to be fine. But at the next reboot, I wasn't able to get an IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Thank you all; I found the error on apache config; I had allowed the /usr/nagio/share directory and it work; I will give a look at jffnms as well to check it out On 8/31/05, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had an issue with Nagios on Gentoo, and it the ebuild putting the config

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Daldrup
Am 31.08.2005 18:44 schrieb Sergio Polini: I emerged -uvDN world on Sunday and dhcpcd 2.0.0 is masked. According to http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?dhcpcd-2.0.0 , it isn't anymore, at least for amd64, x86 and sparc. ;) On my local system, it ist masked through the package.mask file

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember. Thanks Volker. I'll give it a try. I'm still interested in the

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: Is this a behaviour that a significant portion of the mutt userbase might want? Or are you just weird ;) ? Well, you use thunderbird, so maybe you're more like a mouse user. Yes, but I'm getting over it. Also I need to know how to work with at least one CLI email

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). It's the

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Hanson
Qiangning Hong wrote: Antoine wrote: When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Add the following line into prefs.js of your Thunderbird profile: user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, firefox); I

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

2005-08-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ow Mun Heng wrote: [quote] Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember.

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread capsel
please check it this is a flash animations proble. if it is then set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=yes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:06:17 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: When you think about it, the very name overlay indicates that this is how it should work. I suppose there's no way to avoid there being *some* issue-- this way, you have to actively watch Portage to see if today is perhaps the

[gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld started 050831 15:47:30 Can't

[gentoo-user] Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i

2005-08-31 Thread Luigi Pinna
Has someone this card? I tried to configure it but no chance :-( I found a pair letters about patch but for old kernels. I cannot access to device. I don't know what I need exactly: the device (dvb and analog) are in /dev Any tip? Thanks, Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Crossman
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:20 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in

Re: [gentoo-user] Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i

2005-08-31 Thread Oliver Friedrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luigi Pinna wrote: Has someone this card? I tried to configure it but no chance :-( I found a pair letters about patch but for old kernels. I cannot access to device. I don't know what I need exactly: the device (dvb and analog) are in /dev Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Tim Igoe
Michael Sullivan wrote: I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:37 +0100, Tim Igoe wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called

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