Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Alan E. Davis schrieb: thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for your response, Sebastian: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Sebastian Beßlerwebmas...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Use a live-linux from usb-stick or CD, mount your root, chroot into it and give revdep-rebuild a try. That should help. I think you are telling me to use Gentoo Live CD

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-07 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Several of you suggested /etc/init.d/xdm start or so to get it (re)started. It doesn't work. Instead the start-stop daemon complains of not being able to stat /usr/bin/xdm which doesn't exist. And no I didn't mispell it. I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-07 Thread Grant
I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data? $ eix ^ntop [I] net-analyzer/ntop Available versions: 3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6 ssl tcpd} Installed versions: 3.3.9-r2(14:11:46

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-07 Thread Grant
I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? NoScript and AdblockPlus, for

[gentoo-user] Windows-only wireless AP?

2009-07-07 Thread Grant
I'm trying to connect to a WPA2 wireless router via wicd, but I can't get past the authentication. The owner insists the password is correct. I've spoken to the administrator and I was told the router will connect Windows systems, some Mac systems, but no Linux systems. Does this amount to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows-only wireless AP?

2009-07-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 10:34:07 Grant wrote: I'm trying to connect to a WPA2 wireless router via wicd, but I can't get past the authentication. The owner insists the password is correct. I've spoken to the administrator and I was told the router will connect Windows systems, some Mac

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-07 Thread Grant
I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? You should try Opera Turbo

[gentoo-user] Re: Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-07 Thread Grant
I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? - Grant Can anyone offer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:08:01 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I think you are telling me to use Gentoo Live CD specifically, and mount my installed / (on /mnt/gentoo?), chroot into it (as described in the install docs) and run revdeb-rebuild. Is revdep-rebuild part of the live cd? It doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:32:28 +0100, Stroller wrote: nethogs will show active network activity That is REALLY cool. I can't believe I never knew about this before. +1 - this looks really useful. -- Neil Bothwick This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software installed in the chroot. However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurses, in which case you need some kind soul with a similar setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 07/07/2009 Alan E. Davis(lngn...@gmail.com) wrote On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software installed in the chroot. However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
As I type, the system is booting, after untarring a Sabayon package of ncurses into the / partition, mounted in a parallel ubuntu setup. The system has booted, and I am typing this message from it. Thank you everyone. Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:54:52 +1000 Alan E. Davis wrote: thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-07 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:22:26 -0500 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:10:23 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: As I type, the system is booting, after untarring a Sabayon package of ncurses into the / partition, mounted in a parallel ubuntu setup. Now you need to emerge the proper Gentoo package to get your database consistent with what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 06 July 2009, Stroller wrote: On 5 Jul 2009, at 18:29, Daniel D Jones wrote: ... What I'd like is a button on my KMail toolbar that, when pressed, forwards the selected email to a specific email address and moves the email to the Spam folder. Any help in configuring this

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Robin Atwood wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Stroller wrote: On 5 Jul 2009, at 18:29, Daniel D Jones wrote: ... What I'd like is a button on my KMail toolbar that, when pressed, forwards the selected email to a specific email address and moves the email to

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Robin Atwood schrieb: Correction: you want sa-learn --spam for the training with the pipe- through filter action. You can train a spamassassin running on an server by running sa-lern --spam on the client? Thats new to me, but thats maybe because I don't use KMail and don't know the

[gentoo-user] networkmanager stopped working after upgrade

2009-07-07 Thread Pupino
Hello everybody, i've made a system upgrade and networkmanager stopped working (or at least i think that's the problem). I use wicd to connect to my wireless ap and now it hangs on telling validating authentication. The packages involved in the upgrade that might be responsible (imho) are:

[gentoo-user] compiling seamonkey

2009-07-07 Thread James
Hello, The outgoing email system in Seamonkey has recently stopped working. Googling, I have found some threads that it may be related to the latest version of GCC.. Incoming email works but outgoing never leave the system and seamonkey locks up, once outgoing mail is sent. If I do not send

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
Yes. It's working. It emerged without complaint. Thank you for the useful advice. I am very pleased that this system is working now. Alan Davis ...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces. --

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling seamonkey

2009-07-07 Thread William Kenworthy
rattus ~ # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.2 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednossp [8]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optimizations for low-bandwidth IMAP?

2009-07-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Jul 2009, at 11:05, Grant wrote: I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-07 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:22:26 -0500 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: Correction: you want sa-learn --spam for the training with the pipe- through filter action. You can train a spamassassin running on an server by running sa-lern --spam on the client? Thats new to me, but thats maybe

[gentoo-user] [obscenely OT] A good SMTP server?

2009-07-07 Thread brullo nulla
Hi, Since when I live in UK, I have troubles with my SMTP servers. It seems that everyone has the nice habit of changing my header/sender. At least: - The Virginmedia one changes the sender with its own mail address - The Gmail one does the same. Since I have several email addresses for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Robin Atwood schrieb: man sa-learn :) metat...@darkstation ~ $ man sa-lern Keine Handbuchseite für sa-lern This is a client, spamassassin runs on my server. So spamassassin isn't installed here, and with this no sa-lern. Greetings Sebastian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: man sa-learn :) metat...@darkstation ~ $ man sa-lern Keine Handbuchseite für sa-lern This is a client, spamassassin runs on my server. So spamassassin isn't installed here, and with this no sa-lern. I understand the

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Etaoin Shrdlu schrieb: On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: man sa-learn :) metat...@darkstation ~ $ man sa-lern Keine Handbuchseite für sa-lern This is a client, spamassassin runs on my server. So spamassassin isn't installed here, and with this no

[gentoo-user] Re: compiling seamonkey

2009-07-07 Thread james
William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: rattus ~ # gcc-config 9 * Switching native-compiler to i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 ... OK, I know this, I guess what I'm asking for is the wisdom of doing so? If after I do this, recompile seamonkey and it does not work, then just switch back.

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling seamonkey

2009-07-07 Thread Dale
James wrote: Hello, The outgoing email system in Seamonkey has recently stopped working. Googling, I have found some threads that it may be related to the latest version of GCC.. Incoming email works but outgoing never leave the system and seamonkey locks up, once outgoing mail is sent. If

Re: [gentoo-user] networkmanager stopped working after upgrade

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:58:23 +, Pupino wrote: Hello everybody, i've made a system upgrade and networkmanager stopped working (or at least i think that's the problem). I use wicd to connect to my wireless ap and now it hangs on telling validating authentication. The packages involved in the

Re: [gentoo-user] [obscenely OT] A good SMTP server?

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:56:33 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: Since when I live in UK, I have troubles with my SMTP servers. It seems that everyone has the nice habit of changing my header/sender. At least: - The Virginmedia one changes the sender with its own mail address - The Gmail one does the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optimizations for low-bandwidth IMAP?

2009-07-07 Thread Grant
I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? - Grant Can anyone offer

[gentoo-user] Re: compiling seamonkey

2009-07-07 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: You can compile Seamonkey with the old version but it COULD cause problems with the libraries it depends on. It may work fine tho. It is worth a try. Just select the old compiler and re-emerge seamonkey. Done Seamonkey works now. Also worth noting, I

[gentoo-user] xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have a new install (not an upgrade) of xorg-server (1.5.3-r6) and xorg-x11 (7.2), to which I added xset (1.04) so I can add a font path. The fonts in question are in ~/AMRITA/SITE/fonts/TrueType. When I run xset fp+ fonts/TrueType from ~/AMRITA/SITE I get the following error: xset:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: compiling seamonkey

2009-07-07 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: You can compile Seamonkey with the old version but it COULD cause problems with the libraries it depends on. It may work fine tho. It is worth a try. Just select the old compiler and re-emerge seamonkey. Done Seamonkey works

[gentoo-user] Getting Cardreader running on Asus F3SC

2009-07-07 Thread Marco
Hi all, I'm trying to get my SD-card reader running on my Asus F3SC notebook. http://www.linlap.com/wiki/asus+f3sc tells me that I have to load modules sdhci and mmc_core. ~# modprobe mmc_core ~# modprobe sdhci ~# lsmod | grep mmc_core mmc_core 34496 1 sdhci ~# lsmod | grep sdhci

[gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-07 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, we have several open bugs on app-accessibility/festival and app-accessibility/speech-tools. These packages have been around for a long time, and upstream appears, at least so far, to be dead (my maintainer says that he has been unable to

Re: [gentoo-user] networkmanager stopped working after upgrade

2009-07-07 Thread Pupino
2009/7/7 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:58:23 +, Pupino wrote: Hello everybody, i've made a system upgrade and networkmanager stopped working (or at least i think that's the problem). I use wicd to connect to my wireless ap and now it hangs on telling validating

[gentoo-user] Re: compiling seamonkey

2009-07-07 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: If everything is working fine, I would leave it like it is. Just keep in mind that it is compiled with the old gcc in case something funny starts to happen. OK Agreed. thx. James

Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-07 Thread Dale
William Hubbs wrote: All, we have several open bugs on app-accessibility/festival and app-accessibility/speech-tools. These packages have been around for a long time, and upstream appears, at least so far, to be dead (my maintainer says that he has been unable to contact them). These

Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-07 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:49:22AM -0500, Dale wrote: Wasn't they going to put speech software on the install CD? I read they was on -dev a while back. If this is not stable and being maintained, how they going to put it on the CD? Yes, that

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-07 Thread Jarry
W.Kenworthy wrote: Try MAKEOPTS=-j1 - the default is still j2 if you just delete the variable. Ive also seen this a lot recently. Serialising the make process into one thread helps. I do not know if -j2 is default, but I just tested it once again: with -j2 gcc compilation failed. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] [obscenely OT] A good SMTP server?

2009-07-07 Thread brullo nulla
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:56:33 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: Since when I live in UK, I have troubles with my SMTP servers. It seems that everyone has the nice habit of changing my header/sender. At least: - The Virginmedia one

[gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread walt
On 07/07/2009 08:34 AM, Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I have a new install (not an upgrade) of xorg-server (1.5.3-r6) and xorg-x11 (7.2), to which I added xset (1.04) so I can add a font path. The fonts in question are in ~/AMRITA/SITE/fonts/TrueType. When I run xset fp+ fonts/TrueType from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg confusion and no glxinfo

2009-07-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 04:23 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 04:39 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote: On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote: I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello walt, walt w41...@gmail.com writes: Do you have a fonts.dir in that directory? If not, you need to run mkfontdir in that directory. Yes: ~/AMRITA/TEST $ ls ../SITE/fonts/TrueType/ -l total 572 -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 88408 Apr 19 2003 dour45w.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 80676

Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:23:55 -0500 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: William -- Thanks VERY much for asking here. Seeing the post on -dev, I wanted (as is often the case) to reply, but... :( This is much better: Here, no replies could be taken as a pretty good sign no one cares. ;-)

[gentoo-user] 0pen0wn - Supposed SSH exploit

2009-07-07 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Does anyone have any kind of information about this 0pen0wn exploit? For what I've read, so far, nothing has been confirmed, so there's still a chance it may be a hoax. Check this out: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6742 That post was made today and if you google 0pen0wn, only 5 results

[gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread walt
On 07/07/2009 11:12 AM, Roger Mason wrote: Hello walt, waltw41...@gmail.com writes: Do you have a fonts.dir in that directory? If not, you need to run mkfontdir in that directory. Yes: ~/AMRITA/TEST $ ls ../SITE/fonts/TrueType/ -l total 572 -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 88408 Apr 19 2003