Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:03:50AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote I don't understand, why are you using sudo to run pmount when its core purpose is to be run by normal users? % whatis pmount pmount (1) - mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user A normal user can pumount *WHAT

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:50:27 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I don't understand, why are you using sudo to run pmount when its core purpose is to be run by normal users? % whatis pmount pmount (1) - mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user A normal user can pumount *WHAT

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: glibc detected memory corruption

2012-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:05:23 +0200 Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:51:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:41:20 +0200 Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Hi List Every once in a while, my mplayer can't play a video from

[gentoo-user] sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Doing, e.g., sshfs -o transform_symlinks -o Cipher=blowfish numa-sv:/Save /numa-sv works just fine. df shows numa-sv:/Save 148976776 102070872 40882408 72% /numa-sv grep /numa-sv /etc/mtab shows

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:03:50AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote I don't understand, why are you using sudo to run pmount when its core purpose is to be run by normal users? % whatis pmount pmount (1) - mount arbitrary

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Doing, e.g., sshfs -o transform_symlinks -o Cipher=blowfish numa-sv:/Save /numa-sv works just fine. df shows

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:19:19 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: A normal user can pumount *WHAT THAT SAME USER* has pmounted. Now try for a general solution. The general solution is using something like udisks+polkit. That is a true general solution; otherwise you end up like the

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:19:19 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: A normal user can pumount *WHAT THAT SAME USER* has pmounted. Now try for a general solution. The general solution is using something like

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 16:19, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: The general solution is using something like udisks+polkit. I have troubles with that combo for a month or so ... seems as if polkit-0.107 somehow is responsible for stuff not mounted here. ~amd64 btw, gnome-3-context. udisks comes (/is

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 13.09.2012 16:19, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: The general solution is using something like udisks+polkit. I have troubles with that combo for a month or so ... seems as if polkit-0.107 somehow is responsible for

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 18:41, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: It doesn't, but I was under the assumption it was because I'm using systemd. Since I installed gnome-shell-3.4 this has stopped working; my findings can be seen on the bug to freedesktop.org:

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 13.09.2012 18:41, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: It doesn't, but I was under the assumption it was because I'm using systemd. Since I installed gnome-shell-3.4 this has stopped working; my findings can be seen on

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 13.09.2012 18:41, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: It doesn't, but I was under the assumption it was because I'm using systemd. Since I installed gnome-shell-3.4 this has stopped working; my findings can be seen on

[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/09/12 14:37, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Since two days I think, I have the same problem. Not with sshfs, but with NTFS-3G, which uses FUSE. I can mount as user, but I can only unmount as root. I've no

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012, 17:18:38 schrieb Daniel Frey: So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x series. My old 2.6.x kernel was working fine, but of course I decided to try to update it anyway, knowing there were problems with suspend and a few other

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I actually hadn't thought about downgrading polkit, since it was working with the same version in GNOME 3.2. Or maybe it was a fluke (the bug is reproducible, but sometimes I need to try several times). I will

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 19:29, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: $ /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --replace --no-debug I think you want debug ... so: $ /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --replace right? No additional output here, tried clicking user-menu (upper right) as mentioned in your bug-report ... I fixed it

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 19:31, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Oh, BTW; I just run /usr/sbin/libvirtd --verbose as my user before starting boxes; everything works. It also works invoking qemu by hand. I rebuilt libvirt without the polkit-USE-flag. Standalone box for myself, unix-auth is enough ... IMO. S

[gentoo-user] modem configuration

2012-09-13 Thread Kraus Philipp
Hello, I have got a modem US Robotics 5637 and I would like to use it with Hylafax+. Hylafax works fine, all clients can create jobs, but now I would like to configure / test the modem. Can anybody explain me how I can test / configure my modem. I have installed minicom and the modem is setup

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 19:48, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I actually hadn't thought about downgrading polkit, since it was working with the same version in GNOME 3.2. Or maybe it was a fluke (the bug is

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: glibc detected memory corruption

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: VO: [gl] 320x240 = 320x240 Planar YV12 *** glibc detected *** mplayer: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x01957a60 *** try with -vo xv to see if perhaps it is gl-related... Sometimes I have videos crash mplayer using

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 13.09.2012 19:48, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I actually hadn't thought about downgrading polkit, since it was working with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:33:55 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Since two days I think, I have the same problem. Not with sshfs, but with NTFS-3G, which uses FUSE. I can mount as user, but I can only

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: glibc detected memory corruption

2012-09-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:25:26PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: VO: [gl] 320x240 = 320x240 Planar YV12 *** glibc detected *** mplayer: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x01957a60 *** try with -vo xv to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
No progress yesterday. Today, I carefully checked the Kernel .config installed 3.4.9 , in case there was something new in 3.5.3 : I have 3.4.0 in this machine, where the mouse works. Then I started looking a Udev in this machine to see what mb missing there. Back in the new machine, I was

[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/09/12 22:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:33:55 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Since two days I think, I have the same problem. Not with sshfs, but with NTFS-3G, which uses FUSE. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: No progress yesterday. Today, I carefully checked the Kernel .config installed 3.4.9 , in case there was something new in 3.5.3 : I have 3.4.0 in this machine, where the mouse works. Then I started looking a Udev in

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
120913 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: When I had switched off was replugging connections, I found that I'd plugged the mouse into a different USB slot : the previous one -- similar to the one in this machine -- was 2.0/1.1 , the

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Yes, the 3.4.9 .config has nearly all of those. However, I'm not sure that your logic is the right way round (smile): something is telling Kernel + Udev to recognise only a 3.0 mouse, whereas Mageia/SR recognise a 2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:05:36 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It appears to be the kernel module AFACT. I tried every version of fuse going back to 2.8.6, all with the same problem. Then I tried it on a box still running a 3.9.6 kernel and it worked as it should. This can't be it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:19:19AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: A normal user can pumount *WHAT THAT SAME USER* has pmounted. Now try for a general solution. The general solution is using something like

Re: [gentoo-user] modem configuration

2012-09-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:08:10PM +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote Hello, I have got a modem US Robotics 5637 and I would like to use it with Hylafax+. Hylafax works fine, all clients can create jobs, but now I would like to configure / test the modem. Can anybody explain me how I can test /

[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/09/12 02:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:05:36 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It appears to be the kernel module AFACT. I tried every version of fuse going back to 2.8.6, all with the same problem. Then I tried it on a box still running a 3.9.6 kernel and it worked as it

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
120913 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Yes, the 3.4.9 .config has nearly all of those. However, I'm not sure that your logic is the right way round (smile): something is telling Kernel + Udev to recognise only a 3.0 mouse, whereas

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/13/2012 10:37 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012, 17:18:38 schrieb Daniel Frey: So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x series. My old 2.6.x kernel was working fine, but of course I decided to try to update it anyway, knowing

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/12/2012 05:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I switched to 3.0 more than a year ago (I use vanilla-sources). Never had a problem with suspend and/or hibernate; I'm now running kernel 3.5.3. You didn't specify how do you suspend. pm-utils? dbus-send to upower? echo mem /sys/power/state?

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/12/2012 09:49 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x series. My old 2.6.x kernel ... FYI Linus Torvalds says there was no change between 2.6 and 3.0. A quote:

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote The effect is quite bizarre it was the gods who saved me : if I hadn't happened to plug the mouse into the neighbouring port, I could have spent days struggling to find out what was wrong even taken the mobo back to the store as

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-09-13 20:56, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 13.09.2012 19:48, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I actually hadn't thought