[gentoo-user] Network problem

2007-02-12 Thread Roman Naumann
Hi, I have a problem with my ehternet connection and would be pleased if someone could help me: I emerged some things (don't ask me what exactly...) and am unable to ping anything now. The ip-address and co. are alright, I can just boot another operating system on my pc (sabayon or windows) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would go with Hammann with Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU. Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how major an effect

RE: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Rea
Often this is the case especially with many so called good deals. A lot of the power supplies coming out of China are built for selling and not for performance. In my own experience I have found Corsair Modular Power Supplies to have reliable capacitors and provide steady amps. Expect to pay

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem

2007-02-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:54:42 +0100 Roman Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ifconfig eth0 gives me this: Link encap: UNSPEC HWaddr 44-4F-C0-00-14-31-AC-10-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 [...] I'm pretty sure the Mac-Addr is too long.. that's weird, Also, when using Sabayon, the first line

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 February 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I've given up on the consumer electronics industry being able to consistently build high quality power supplies for ANYTHING that plugs into the mains. The normal build quality is terrible, and the ability of the designer to do the job

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: While I generally agree, not *all* manufacturers provide rubbish for us... e.g in the current context Zalman PSUs are very good quality (robust and quiet), and if you hunt around a bit even some of the less spectacular

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem

2007-02-12 Thread Roman Naumann
On 2/12/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:54:42 +0100 Roman Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ifconfig eth0 gives me this: Link encap: UNSPEC HWaddr 44-4F-C0-00-14-31-AC-10-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 [...] I'm pretty sure the Mac-Addr is too long..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-12 Thread Shawn Singh
Grant, Maybe going forward (if you're not doing so already), one tool I've found to be useful in the past was AIDE. While it certainly won't prevent a break-in, it can certainly be useful when trying to find out what changed on your system. Later, Shawn On 2/12/07, Paul Sebastian Ziegler

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-12 Thread Shawn Singh
Grant, I figured I should add this note. I'm recommending AIDE as something if you get to the point where you feel like you've been hacked, you've done your post-mortem, and are ready to rebuild, upon your rebuild AIDE might prove to be handy in the future. It'd probably be useless on a system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:58:49 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A good rootkit will install a ps that won't show the 'bot processes. The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be installed as well. Looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
I recommend you look into memtest86 to check your ram, it's provided as a boot option on the gentoo boot cds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend you look into memtest86 to check your ram, it's provided as a boot option on the gentoo boot cds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dan, Quite correct Funnily enough I had an Ubuntu LiveCD to hand with it on, so I used that

Re: [gentoo-user] First time kernel compiler experiencing some problems

2007-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:50:31 +0200 Vlad Dogaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, after a couple of failed attempts some time ago, I actually ended up with a kernel that boots. However, I am experiencing some problems which I think are at least in part due to my perhaps incomplete kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Matt Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just power off because they get too hot. Matty. Jeff Rollin wrote: On 12/02/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:32:47AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dan Farrell squawked: I can see in an xfce4 panel plugin that there is constantly a small amount of incoming/outgoing traffic to/from the affected system when there is no reason I know of for it. netstat doesn't show anything that

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 12. Februar 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would go with Hammann with Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU. Many people neglect to realise how important a

Re: [gentoo-user] First time kernel compiler experiencing some problems

2007-02-12 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 2/12/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I manged to solve the problem by not compiling nvidia framebuffer support. Now even the nvidia-drivers work. Other than that, and a bit offtopic, too, today has been both very fun and incredibly educational (but a bit sore on the eyes).

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:46:42 +0300, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for you): http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html Nice link, thanks. Re reading German: 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 February 2007, Matt Richards wrote: I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just power off because they get too hot. The thing with memtest is that it does (mostly) predictable tests,

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.5

2007-02-12 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Thanks for all answers. It is always better to be sure to not break something, if you update the toolchain... Regards, Marc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007, Matt Richards wrote: I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just power off because they get too hot. The thing with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-12 Thread Grant
A good rootkit will install a ps that won't show the 'bot processes. The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be installed as well. Looking through /proc/≤pid is probably still reliable. Hello Grant,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for you): http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html Luckily, I own the same enermax they tested... -- F everyone's I,

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent

2007-02-12 Thread Justin Patrin
On 11/21/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Mick wrote: They are only stored in locked memory; they are never on disk unencrypted. Anyone that can read locked memory can access them, but this is very few users/processes on Linux -- and besides those same users

[gentoo-user] OT: migrating Seamonkey to another computer

2007-02-12 Thread James
Hello, I'm moving my primary workstation from one system to another. I use seamonkey for web browsing and reading email. Everything is fine, except the Mail folders can boxes do not show up. Recrusively everything looks to be fine, but the mail folders do not load up when the email application

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: migrating Seamonkey to another computer

2007-02-12 Thread Dale
James wrote: Hello, I'm moving my primary workstation from one system to another. I use seamonkey for web browsing and reading email. Everything is fine, except the Mail folders can boxes do not show up. Recrusively everything looks to be fine, but the mail folders do not load up when the