AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-08 Thread Zimmerling, Alexander
I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private Hi, I have the same problem here. Deleting the files help, but not for long. After 3-4 Logins without any problem, the problem returns. regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gthumb scroll wheel cycles through images

2007-10-08 Thread Thufir
Shouldn't the scroll wheel in gthumb cycle through, browse, the images rather than change the magnification on a specific image? Can this be changed? I found Ubuntu references on this, nothing gentoo specific. thanks, Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-08 Thread Thufir
I seem to have the permissions wrong in fstab. On boot I do have an icon on the desktop for the LVM volume, which can be browsed as root, but not as a user. I want read/write permissions to the LVM volume as user thufir (or any user, really). Can this be done? arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ #

[gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, My apache2 worked fine until lasta Friday I update it to 2.2.6. Now, when I try to access my drupal site, I see this error in firefox: You don't have permission to access / on this server. and looking error log file: Directory index forbidden by Options directive:

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb ext Thufir: I seem to have the permissions wrong in fstab.  On boot I do have an icon on the desktop for the LVM volume, which can be browsed as root, but not as a user. I want read/write permissions to the LVM volume as user thufir (or any user, really).  

[gentoo-user] HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, my current default gcc is of version 4.1.2 but I would like to switch to version 4.2.1. As root (only) I can do gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.1 but this switch is lost after re-login. Furthermore I cannot switch in non-root mode. (BTW I'm using the zshell) Many thanks for a hint,

[gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Extra benefits of LVM: You won't need this right now for your simple desktop with one drive, but it's good to know what else LVM can do: Snapshots. Well, I disagree. This feature is also very useful on a single drive setup. Reason why: Backup. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 October 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Extra benefits of LVM: You won't need this right now for your simple desktop with one drive, but it's good to know what else LVM can do: Snapshots. Well, I disagree. This feature is also very

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Steve Dommett
On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: My apache2 worked fine until lasta Friday I update it to 2.2.6. Now, when I try to access my drupal site, I see this error in firefox: I'm just guessing, but Apache 2.2.6 removed index.htm from the list of default index files. It may be possible

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:52:41 +0100 Steve Dommett wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: My apache2 worked fine until lasta Friday I update it to 2.2.6. Now, when I try to access my drupal site, I see this error in firefox: I'm just guessing, but Apache 2.2.6 removed

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Steve Dommett
On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! Have you run revdep-rebuild, or even simply manually re-emerged PHP after updating Apache? not sure if all those dir should be empty... could you please confirm? I have only php.ini,

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:43:08 +0100 Steve Dommett wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! Have you run revdep-rebuild, or even simply manually re-emerged PHP after updating Apache? Both, I always do a revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:27:16 +0200 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why so many changes in this upgrade?¿? You'd best ask the Apache devs. I thought the changelog for 2.2.6 was quite short myself. Well, it was more a rhetorical question, but thanks for your reply :-) A number of

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Alfredo Perez
Thank you Fernando for the info. I followed your instructions and now my pen gets mounted. :)) Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Thanks On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:55:15PM -0300, Fernando Antunes wrote: On 10/5/07, Fernando

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Desktop settings Behaviour Desktop Icons Choose File/launcher icons -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Fernando Antunes
On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Fernando for the info. I followed your instructions and now my pen gets mounted. :)) Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Thanks Sorry, I don´t know how to do

[gentoo-user] Re: HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-08 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: Hi, my current default gcc is of version 4.1.2 but I would like to switch to version 4.2.1. As root (only) I can do gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.1 but this switch is lost after re-login. Furthermore I cannot switch in non-root mode. (BTW I'm using the

[gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with Broadcom 4306 wireless chips... I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but trying to get it done automatically is troublesome... I setup a softlevel named wireless. I deleted the net.eth0 hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Alfredo Perez
Thank you Liviu Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez wrote: Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Desktop settings Behaviour Desktop Icons Choose File/launcher icons -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-08 Thread Thufir
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:05:56 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. Mount it, (recursivly) change the group of the top level directory and give group write permissions, then add all users which should have full access to that group (they need to logout/login to change their group membership

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

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Barlow
Tim wrote: Change the TypesConfig directive in Apache2 to the location of your mime.types file (in this case, /etc/mime.types). So I ended up just clobbering my configs and starting over with the default ones because lots of things were being weird. Now I just have to figure out how to do a

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Barlow
Arnau Bria wrote: You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! I actually just did this upgrade as well, and also found php not to work (and revdep-rebuild didn't catch it). Re-emerge php and look in /etc/apache2/modules.d for the mod_php file. If you've got that and

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:11:30 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with Broadcom 4306 wireless chips... I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but trying to get it done automatically is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb Thufir: On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:05:56 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. Mount it, (recursivly) change the group of the top level directory and give group write permissions, then add all users which should have full access to that group (they need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: This question Is LVM a good idea? keeps cropping up on mailing lists. I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. If you haven't used it, it looks like a questionable extra complexity, which could bite

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:44:21 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, example. I might be totally wrong, so don't believe me: The splice system call was added with 2.6.17 and corresponding headers. If you build an application that has optinal (on compile time) support for

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:25:23 +0200 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! I'm looking for some info in gentoo wiki and I think I have all fine: APACHE2_OPTS=-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SSL -D PHP5 in conf.d/apache And you have

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:08:40 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether the software compiled against newer headers will still work depends solely on the kernel. In your example, when you also decide to run a 2.6.10 kernel, then the software relying on newer features (due to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Philip Webb, If you haven't used it, it looks like a questionable extra complexity, which could bite your fingers unexpectedly for little real gain. It' one of those things[1] that you put off using because it looks complicated. then you get round to trying it and wish you'd done so much

[gentoo-user] which binutils?

2007-10-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Something that has bothered me ever since I had some version inconsistencies way back in the dark days ... now a new binutils update is in (not listed below) bunyip ~ # binutils-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16.1 * [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.17 [4]

Re: [gentoo-user] which binutils?

2007-10-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 02:56:06 W.Kenworthy wrote: Something that has bothered me ever since I had some version inconsistencies way back in the dark days ... now a new binutils update is in (not listed below) bunyip ~ # binutils-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16 [2]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: This question Is LVM a good idea? keeps cropping up on mailing lists. I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. If you haven't used it, it looks like a questionable extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Liviu Andronic writes: So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the lost RAM data to be recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology and know-how recover it? In other words, is this a serious breach in

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-10-08 Thread John Blinka
Not an elegant solution, or one that sheds any light on the nature of the problem, but this process worked for me: 1) Removed everything from the default run level except for the system logger and net.eth0. 2) Rebooted and started nfs by hand successfully after the reboot. Added nfs

Re: [gentoo-user] which binutils?

2007-10-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 03:24 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 09 October 2007 02:56:06 W.Kenworthy wrote: Something that has bothered me ever since I had some version inconsistencies way back in the dark days ... now a new binutils update is in (not listed below) bunyip ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] which binutils?

2007-10-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 04:12:10 W.Kenworthy wrote: On a mixed stable/unstable x86, which binutils should one generally use? So why do you use multislot at all? On a previous job (long ago now) I was switching gcc's and needed multislot. Now I dont. I presume if I remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Jim Burwell
Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: This question Is LVM a good idea? keeps cropping up on mailing lists. I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. If you haven't used it, it looks like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Dale
Jim Burwell wrote: Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: This question Is LVM a good idea? keeps cropping up on mailing lists. I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits and have yet to find a valid downside for general use.