Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, Mick wrote: I haven't used gpart, or parted for this job, but have successfully used testdisk. yeah, testdisk worked for me too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread hkml
Miernik wrote: No, read this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html Thanks for the link: now I know that my ideas of how copying works are close to reality. I will continue looking for a solution. If I find something, I will post it here. Cheers, Heinz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] Konqueror background has light and dark stripes

2007-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, New notebook with reinstall. After merging konqueror-3.5.8 I find that in file manager view it has the usual horizontal alternating background highlights, i.e. top line has a white background, next line should have a light grey background (just enough contrast to guide the eye when

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread hkml
Alex Schuster wrote: Klipper (the KDE clipbboard) has a setting to keep the content of clipboard and current selection separately. I thought this could only be used to force the behaviour you experence, but maybe it works the other way around for you and lets you disable it. Thank you for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror background has light and dark stripes

2007-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:27:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: k However, I find I have a very dark blue (almost black) background where I'm used to light grey It's been so long since I configured Konqueror from scratch I have no idea where to set this. I've gone through kcontrol and

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm mostly the same way myself. The data was provided to me in a CSV file which made me think about spreadsheets. I really didn't expect to get an answer when I wrote the Open Office user's list but the response I got was very detailed and probably took me less time to do implement what I asked

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 16 November 2007, Bryan Whitehead wrote: This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the clipboard. My point is that text which I did not *specifically* highlighted should never be placed in the clipboard (whether primary/secondary/whatever). Real life example:

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 05:28 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks for all the answers. They were interesting. Actually your answer was the most interesting. As a programmer, I'm always looking for a programmatic way of solving such problems. I would have never thought of using a spreadsheet (I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Progress kind of :-/ I set SANE_BACKENDS to hp, and was able to compile the sane-backends package. Two files were changed and flagged via etc-update. The first was /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, which added a bunch of scanners and commented out hpoj. Since hpoj is part of the hplip package, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
The scanner is an HP PSC-750xi SANE_BACKENDS is set to hpaio in make.conf. What should it be set to? Jeff On Friday 16 November 2007 04:44:54 am Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:36:46 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I do not seem to be able to update a lot of my system, because

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-16 Thread pepone.onrez
Thanks for all your answeres, finaly i have to reinstall the box, I have not fisicall access to it , and maintance stuff test with same of this recovery tools and there aren't able to recovery the partition table. BTW testdisk seems that is not in the minima install disk, maybe can be interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:36:46 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I do not seem to be able to update a lot of my system, because sane-backends fails to compile. That only stops you updating sane-backends, not the rest of the system. You can skip this and continue a world update with emerge --resume

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread hkml
Bryan Whitehead wrote: X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text, so the first method is not a hack (sorry), however, many X11 applications do not bother with the first method. For example, xterm doesn't have an edit, copy, or paste on all flavors of unix - try using them in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text, so the first method is not a hack (sorry), however, many X11 applications do not bother with the first method. For example, xterm doesn't have an edit, copy, or paste on all flavors of unix - try using them in dtterm on Solaris and you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror background has light and dark stripes

2007-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 16 November 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:27:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: k However, I find I have a very dark blue (almost black) background where I'm used to light grey It's been so long since I configured Konqueror from scratch I have no idea where

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Success. I updated hplip, which replaced the /etc/sane.d/dll/conf hpoj line with hpaio. Now all is working once more :-) Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Neil Jeff On Friday 16 November 2007 09:00:06 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: Progress kind of :-/ I set SANE_BACKENDS to hp,

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Nov 15, 2007 5:58 PM, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 071115 Mark Knecht wrote: I have a data file with data that changes infrequently. The file lists only the day the data changes. There are only 144 lines representing 23 years of data. There are three values for the data - 1, 0

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
It boils down to underneath everything is Xlib and the guts of X. The guts of X have many ways to do the same thing and the result is QT, GTK, KDE, GNOME, etc all end up messing with a different piece of how X should handle cut/paste. As another post points out - there seems to be 2 different ways

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo dedicated servers

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Shields
On Nov 16, 2007 12:20 PM, pepone.onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I need to rent 3 dedicated servers that mus be run gentoo. Currently i working with ran.es and i have serious problems with is maintance stuf, They format the mbr of one of the servers when i say it that bot my server

[gentoo-user] Gentoo dedicated servers

2007-11-16 Thread pepone.onrez
Hello all I need to rent 3 dedicated servers that mus be run gentoo. Currently i working with ran.es and i have serious problems with is maintance stuf, They format the mbr of one of the servers when i say it that bot my server with a gentoo live cd to correct a error in grub.conf. Like i don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting pepone.onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW testdisk seems that is not in the minima install disk, maybe can be interesting have it in the minimal install disk. it should be in a rescue disk, but not really a minimal install disk - would sort of redefine the meaning of minimal to include

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo dedicated servers

2007-11-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Mark Shields wrote: There a few dedicated hosts listed on the Gentoo website on the right column. I have a server with tek.net. I'm more than satisfied! - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Apoye la

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Solaris and then you can't paste it into something else? For example, I highlight in firefox, but it doesn't paste in my xterm... and my xterm doesn't seem to like any combination of Ctrl-V, etc xterms shouldn't intercept Ctrl-V to the clipboard.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-16 Thread Jonathan R. Haws
Why not go Seamless with a VM? That works great for me. That way you can forget about the dual boot. Just set the VM to run on startup and you can access any Windows program from within Gentoo. Works great, speed is just as fast as when booting to XP.

[gentoo-user] portage rsync error

2007-11-16 Thread Mick
Hi All, Made some changes in my LAN and now when I try rsync between my LAN portage server and a client I get an error regarding /.Trash-0: == 2007/11/16 21:05:39 [22026] rsync: opendir /.Trash-0 (in gentoo-portage) failed: Permission

[gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, following that Core2Duo-thread from a few days ago I now set up a new installation of my current 32bit-x86-setup on a second 64bit machine. I started a fresh install with the amd64 cd, used CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and emerged everything fresh from the world file on the 32bit machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror background has light and dark stripes

2007-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:50:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Try Kcontrol-Appearance Themes-Colours (I now, it's a devious place to hide colour settings :) Select the last item in the Widget Colour popup, Alternate Background in Lists. sigh I'm going to revoke my own geek card. I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage rsync error

2007-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:12:17 +, Mick wrote: Made some changes in my LAN and now when I try rsync between my LAN portage server and a client I get an error regarding /.Trash-0: == 2007/11/16 21:05:39 [22026] rsync: opendir /.Trash-0

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-16 Thread maxim wexler
--- Jonathan R. Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not go Seamless with a VM? That works great for me. That way you can forget about the dual boot. Just set the VM to run on startup and you can access any Windows program from within Gentoo. Works great, speed is just as fast as

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Mick
On Friday 16 November 2007, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: #zgrep 64 /proc/config.gz CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_64BIT=y [...] Now I wonder why free -m still shows only 3.2 GB of RAM when I have 4 gigs in the box ... Do I have to set/remove some specific kernel-flag in /usr/src/linux/.config ?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:49:37 -0800 Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if it is from the gentoo guys, I find it less annoying than the default editor being nano instead of vi... :) yeah, no kidding. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Mick schrieb: On Friday 16 November 2007, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: #zgrep 64 /proc/config.gz CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_64BIT=y [...] Now I wonder why free -m still shows only 3.2 GB of RAM when I have 4 gigs in the box ... Do I have to set/remove some specific kernel-flag in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage rsync error

2007-11-16 Thread Mick
On Friday 16 November 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:12:17 +, Mick wrote: As a result rsync fails. Any idea what this is about? PS. The file in question looks like this: == # ls -la /usr/portage/ total

Re: [gentoo-user] portage rsync error

2007-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:36:04 +, Mick wrote: Hld on! I think I know what happened. I used Konqueror as root to delete some redundant source files from distfiles. I might have pushed some into Trash as opposed to deleting them completely. I take it it's alright to just delete

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Found this on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4331153-highlight-.html#4331153 If your main memory =4G, the memory address from 3G to 4G still reserved for PCI and some other onboard devices. No matter your OS is 32bit or 64bit. The only way is add main memory more then 4G Looks like an

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Is it enough to add CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y Doesn't seem so, added this and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G, no difference. Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:14:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: If your main memory =4G, the memory address from 3G to 4G still reserved for PCI and some other onboard devices. No matter your OS is 32bit or 64bit. The only way is add main memory more then 4G Looks like an explanation

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:07:59 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is it enough to add CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y Doesn't seem so, added this and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G, no difference. CONFIG_HIGHMEM is for x86, not x86_64. -- Neil Bothwick Everything else being equal, fat people use more soap.

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Joshua Schmidlkofer schrieb: Two things here - Not all systems reserve the memory the same way. I have 4GB x86_64 dells which have 3.8GB usable. Moved that partition's content to the Core2Duo (with another board), now it boots and shows 3.8 GB also. This satisfies me, thanks. ;-) Thank

[gentoo-user] gentoo as a baseline to build a secure server OS ...

2007-11-16 Thread Albretch Mueller
Hi, ~ I wonder if this is more of a gentoo-security, gentoo-catalyst or gentoo-hardened question, but I am trying to use gentoo as a baseline to build a secure server OS (including SELinux, ...) and burn it as a CD. ~ Could you give me some directions about how to achieve this? ~ Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Saturday 17 November 2007, Bryan Whitehead wrote: As an example, it looks like the Firefox/Mozilla people want to enforce the first way. So people like me (who love highlighting and clicking) get pissed off because the behavior is changed in JUST firefox. It doesn't feel consistent. That

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a baseline to build a secure server OS ...

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Shields
On Nov 16, 2007 9:18 PM, Albretch Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ~ I wonder if this is more of a gentoo-security, gentoo-catalyst or gentoo-hardened question, but I am trying to use gentoo as a baseline to build a secure server OS (including SELinux, ...) and burn it as a CD. ~

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Jonathan R. Haws wrote: Why not go Seamless with a VM? That works great for me. That way you can forget about the dual boot. Just set the VM to run on startup and you can access any Windows program from within Gentoo. Works great, speed is just as fast as when booting to XP. that has to

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Doesn't seem so, added this and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G, no difference. Stefan after you add something to .config, are you doing a make oldconfig ? it should automatically, but I do just to make sure -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-16 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: Graham Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not think it will be that simple. The problem is that once you chroot to /mnt/gentoo all subsequent commands (including emerge and gcc) will be looking for /lib/libc.so.6 and /lib/ld-linux.so.2 neither of which

[gentoo-user] dev-libs/apr-0.9.12 pulled back by revdep-rebuild

2007-11-16 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, How do I find out why apr-0.9.12 and apr-util-0.9.12 are pulled back when using revdep-rebuild? What I have currently is: --- -emerge --search apr Searching... [ Results for search key : apr ] [ Applications found : 10 ] *