Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Hex Star
Hello, you probably have a recent chipset (blanking on name currently) which is recent such that support is not yet present in the linux kernel...

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Hex Star
There is no harm in doing so :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? I have install Red Flag.But it 's i686 but not x86_64,so I can't chroot from the Red Flag to install Gentoo. 2007/10/7, Hex Star [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, you probably have a recent chipset (blanking on name

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices attached to it that the livecd cant deal with. The cure was to boot from a redhat 7 livecd and install from that. Worked fine. Also, dell has a legacy mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Dan, Dan Farrell wrote: AFAIK you are correct, this is a bug in a few of the initscripts that don't behave sensibly if the root fs is network mounted. thx for your answer a raised a bug report with the number: 194967. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
071007 Chuanwen Wu wrote: The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? You have an informed reply re your Dell, which I don't know, but more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my current system 4 years

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: 071007 Chuanwen Wu wrote: The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? You have an informed reply re your Dell, which I don't know, but more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my

[gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
Hi All, Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have repeatedly failed to log in? I am looking here at a server which over the last week is being attacked daily with random usernames. So the only constant in these repeated attempts is not the username, but the IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Elias Probst
Am Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007 11:40:10 schrieb Mick: Hi All, Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have repeatedly failed to log in? I think you're looking for: net-analyzer/fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.org) Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number:

RE: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Joost van Surksum
If you have iptables available in your kernel, a quick manual step could be to block all traffic incoming from that IP address. A statement like the following could work: iptables -I INPUT -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -j DROP (This drops all traffic coming from IP address XXX... effectively, it simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
071007 Florian Philipp wrote: Philip Webb schrieb: more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my current system 4 years ago -- or the simple but powerful System Rescue ( http://www.sysresccd.org/ ), which I plan to use when I install Gentoo on

[gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional allows flexibility for unforeseen

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:33 -0700 Hex Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no harm in doing so :) If you say such things, please add a short explanation what makes you think that. After all this isn't IRC. In fact, I would not suggest doing that. While kernel developers do their best

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Elias Probst wrote: Am Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007 11:40:10 schrieb Mick: Hi All, Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have repeatedly failed to log in? I think you're looking for: net-analyzer/fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.org)

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
Never had a problem with LVM. On a mythTV box with LVM, started with 80GB IDE, then added in a 300Gb IDE, then a few months later another 300mb, sata this time. Basicly transparent to Myth I have avoided LVM on laptops before now because its extra complexity and I'll never add multiple disks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/10/7, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices attached to it that the livecd cant deal with. The cure was to boot from a redhat 7 livecd and install

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Sonntag, 07. Okt 2007, 10:40:10 +0100 schrieb Mick: Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have repeatedly failed to log in? I am looking here at a server which over the last week is being attacked daily with random usernames. So the only constant in

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:07 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: 2007/10/7, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices attached to it that the livecd cant deal with.

[gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer

2007-10-07 Thread pat
Hello, Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: *** Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available. Enable it at

Re: **SPAM** [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer

2007-10-07 Thread Łukasz Dudek
Dnia 2007-10-07, o godz. 15:45:50 pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): Hello, Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: *** Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. Enable it at compilation.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:33 -0700 Hex Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no harm in doing so :) If you say such things, please add a short explanation what makes you think that. After all this isn't IRC. In fact, I would not

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer

2007-10-07 Thread pat
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: pat schrieb: Hello, Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: *** Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested audio codec family

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/10/7, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:07 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: 2007/10/7, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello William Kenworthy, Basicly, there still doesnt seem to be a compelling reason to go 64bit for a desktop at the moment. Doesn't that rather depend on your intended use of the desktop? Some apps benefit greatly fro the 64 bit environment. -- Neil Bothwick The best antiques are old

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:13:21 +0800 Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes - there are (were?) a few incompatibilities still with 64 bit os'es that dont exist with 32 bit. Basicly, there still doesnt seem to be a compelling reason to go 64bit for a desktop at the moment. Servers are a

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional allows

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:06:41 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the linux-headers and the kernel are completly off -sync. There is no harm in using headers with a higher/lower version number. But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems.

[gentoo-user] Re: Perl module problem

2007-10-07 Thread Moshe Kamensky
Hi, Does /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm exist? What is the output of perl -le 'print foreach @INC' By the way, I run urxvt fine with the Scalar::Util that comes with perl. do you have something like /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/List/Util/Util.so Moshe

[gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Remy Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users with a public key in their ~/.ssh can login. This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real problem is that your logs fill with failed log

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Philip Webb schrieb: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? snip Simple pros and cons? Pro: snip - You loose bit performance, but not much, you won't feel it without benchmarks. I very much doubt this. LVM is one extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Remy Blank wrote: Mick wrote: I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users with a public key in their ~/.ssh can login. This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real problem is that your logs fill with failed

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? The majority of folks around here will have used LVM :-) I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer

2007-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 October 2007, pat wrote: Hello, Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: *** Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested audio codec family

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Hex Star
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Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Mick wrote: Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have repeatedly failed to log in? You can also have a look at denyhosts... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems. Could you give an example? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 8. Oktober 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems. Could you give an example? ok, example. I might be totally wrong, so don't believe me: The splice system call was added with

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 07 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: - You loose bit performance, but not much, you won't feel it without benchmarks. I very much doubt this. LVM is one extra layer between the filesystem and the physical disk and it basically consists of a mapping

[gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a solution for it: since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i don't have a usable desktop till i type metacity into some terminal.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread felix
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:26:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: A total non-issue in my experience. I've never had an LVM problem yet, but maybe I'm just lucky. The one thing you do need to be aware of it that you require LVM support at boot time or shortly thereafter. So either compile it

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Hex Star
You should take note of the error message that occurs when you experience this problem and paste the error msg here

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:25 -0700, Hex Star wrote: You should take note of the error message that occurs when you experience this problem and paste the error msg here well, that would be indeed a very good idea; however, i don't start gnome from a terminal but from gdm and i don't know where to

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 01:50 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a solution for it: since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i don't

[gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Hi! I just upgraded from Apache 2.0.x to 2.2.6 and am working out kinks. Right now I see * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting apache2 ... [ !! ] There is nothing in /var/log/messages and /var/log/apache2/error_log shows [Sun Oct 07 22:51:36

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow wrote: I see a package called mime-types, but it seems to install /etc/mime.types and not /etc/apache2/mime.types... Help? I found a temporary solution by symlinking /etc/apache2/mime.types to /etc/mime.types, but that doesn't seem like the correct way to go... -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Tim
Randy Barlow wrote: Randy Barlow wrote: I see a package called mime-types, but it seems to install /etc/mime.types and not /etc/apache2/mime.types... Help? I found a temporary solution by symlinking /etc/apache2/mime.types to /etc/mime.types, but that doesn't seem like the correct way to