Re: [gentoo-user] help

2008-07-03 Thread Hal Martin
Erik Ohrnberger wrote: help Certainly, where/in what do you require it? -Hal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2008-07-03 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/7/3 Erik Ohrnberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: help That is a nice song from The Beatles [1] =) Regards, Richard. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibX3TejlZE -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Help with battling alsa-lib versions

2008-06-11 Thread Walter Dnes
If I emerge whichever version of alsa-lib-1.0.16 is current, mplayer, audacious, and anything else that relies on alsa don't play audio. However, Realplayer (bleagh) and anything that works off of OSS emulation still works. If i put... =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14_rc1-r1 ...into

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with battling alsa-lib versions

2008-06-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: If I emerge whichever version of alsa-lib-1.0.16 is current, mplayer, audacious, and anything else that relies on alsa don't play audio. However, Realplayer (bleagh) and anything that works off of OSS emulation still works. works perfectly

[gentoo-user] Help deciphering mysql update errors

2008-06-06 Thread reader
Sorry to include so much of the last of emerge output on an update of mysql but not so easy to see what the real problem is. Maybe someone here will recognize it: Following and emerge -vuD world... at mysql: Tail of mysql build: [...] ../../././bdb/dist/../mutex/mut_pthread.c:66: error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Help deciphering mysql update errors

2008-06-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:16:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to include so much of the last of emerge output on an update of mysql but not so easy to see what the real problem is. emerge with USE=-berkdb. There's a bugzilla report on this. -- Neil Bothwick What is about L'waxana Troi

[gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being completely separated from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and instead using [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thank you, GoDaddy!). I'm going to see if the BBB is

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being completely separated from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and instead using [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:39:25 -0400 Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On many other lists, I've already done it be identifying one person who could access the lists in question, and make sure that chuckr.org no longer existed. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get the full list of

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:39:25 -0400 Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On many other lists, I've already done it be identifying one person who could access the lists in question, and make sure that chuckr.org no longer

[gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root

2008-04-23 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, I'd like to mount an ISO image from the command line as non-root user. Here are my attempts, each failing with the only root can do that error message: $ mount -o loop image.iso /mnt/ mount: only root can do that $ mount -o user,loop image.iso /mnt/ mount: only root can do that $ mount -o

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root

2008-04-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Mike Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What can I do to be able to mount an arbitrary ISO image to an arbitrary mount point from the command line as non-root user? fuse-iso ? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root

2008-04-23 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Norberto, On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can I do to be able to mount an arbitrary ISO image to an arbitrary mount point from the command line as non-root user? fuse-iso ? While fuse-iso would certainly do this for me, I was hoping it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root

2008-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Take a look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Mounting_Iso_Files HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root

2008-04-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
ext Mike Mazur schrieb: While fuse-iso would certainly do this for me, I was hoping it's possible with the mount command directly. sudo mount ... HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try testdisk. It's ncurses-based and easy to use. It saved my sorry arse twice. ACK. If *just* the partition table is lost, but no damage inside the individual partitions, testdisk can easily reconstruct it but looking for superblocks (even w/ FAT).

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - is the photorec able to search data in this partition table corruption level? Read the tool's homepage. But I'm pretty sure it just looks at the bits on the drive and saves any collection of said bits which match specification for a jpeg, doc c

[gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread pat
Hello, My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical drives. Which SW should I use to recover the original

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:01:08PM +0100, pat wrote: My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:01:08 +0100, pat wrote: My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical drives.

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread pat
Couple of other questions and situation update: - there were not writes to the disk - this is good I think - the original disk division was 120GB (NTFS) and 40GB (FAT32) - the fat was the first one - and now the sizes are different (the first one around 30GB and the rest) - is the photorec able to

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 23 March 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). Liviu gparted is always the first choice in situations like these.

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Mar 2008, at 12:18, pat wrote: Couple of other questions and situation update: - there were not writes to the disk - this is good I think Yes. - is the photorec able to search data in this partition table corruption level? Read the tool's homepage. But I'm pretty sure it just

[gentoo-user] Help applying a qt patch

2007-12-04 Thread Grant
I've set the ebuild up in an overlay and added: epatch ${FILESDIR}/qt-4.3.1-r1_gcc3.4_compile_fix.diff to the ebuild alongside other patches, but the patch always fails with this: ^[[31;01mACCESS DENIED^[[0m rename: /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-4.3.1-r1.ebuild patch: Can't rename file

Re: [gentoo-user] Help applying a qt patch

2007-12-04 Thread Andrey Vul
On Dec 4, 2007 5:40 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set the ebuild up in an overlay and added: epatch ${FILESDIR}/qt-4.3.1-r1_gcc3.4_compile_fix.diff mv ${FILESDIR}/qt-4.3.1-r1_gcc3.4_compile_fix.diff /qt-4.3.1-r1_gcc3.4_compile_fix.diff

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-29 Thread forgottenwizard
On 16:32 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:52PM -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: On 08:31 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33

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

2007-09-28 Thread John Blinka
On 9/25/07, Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:07:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote: Did as you suggested. softscripts.old reappeared and no change in inability to start nfs automatically, or by hand. Hm, does `rc default` give you and output? Is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-28 Thread Patrick May
I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-28 Thread Mark Shields
On 9/27/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-28 Thread forgottenwizard
On 08:31 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-28 Thread Patrick May
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:52PM -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: On 08:31 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-27 Thread forgottenwizard
On 15:15 Thu 27 Sep , Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware just for things to turn out that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. Analogue or DVB? I've used a Freecom DVB dongle with Gentoo (amd64 and ppc) and it worked well. For a

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. Analogue or DVB?

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-27 Thread forgottenwizard
On 17:24 Thu 27 Sep , Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with

[gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-26 Thread forgottenwizard
I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this, but I need help finding a chipset for an admitedly cheap tuner. The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile, and I can't seem to find the chipset for this card, but mostly just results on

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-26 Thread Szénási István
Hi! I don't know if it helps, but I looked at the windows driver and it's name (in the inf file) is tridvid -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this, but I need help finding a chipset for an admitedly cheap tuner. The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:25 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data relevant to the chipset (for example, what it is and who made it ;) ) Also take the :

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-26 Thread forgottenwizard
On 08:43 Thu 27 Sep , W.Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:25 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data relevant to the chipset (for example, what

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware just for things to turn out that it doesn't work in Linux. take your laptop into the

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

2007-09-25 Thread John Blinka
Hi, Bogo, Your experience is similar in nature to mine. What I didn't post is that nfs isn't the only daemon that wouldn't start, and that for a month or two I've had to cajole and threaten my box - generic x86 - to get various daemons to start - all by hand, of course. All of this mystery

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

2007-09-25 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:07:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote: Did as you suggested. softscripts.old reappeared and no change in inability to start nfs automatically, or by hand. Hm, does `rc default` give you and output? Is the softscripts.old gone afterwards? Cheers, Emil. -- Emil Beinroth

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

2007-09-24 Thread John Blinka
On 9/23/07, Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: - ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/ [snip] drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later removed by

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

2007-09-24 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, John Blinka wrote: I think it happens when booting, but I see this message in the system log: Sep 23 21:12:01 tobey rc-scripts: ERROR: cannot start nfs as rpc.statdcould not start John, I've hesitated to join this thread because I haven't felt I've been able to throw

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

2007-09-23 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:58:45PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: And I guess you are using nfs3? I really don't know. Where would I look to determine whether I'm using 3 or 4? If you don't know, then you are certainly running nfs3. nfs4 uses 'nfs4' as fs_type in fstab, as opposed to nfs3 which

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

2007-09-23 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:24:42AM -0400, John Blinka wrote: Try `/etc/init.d/nfs --debug start`, that ought to give us some output to work on. The output is rather long - 1830 lines, so it's in the attached file. Ok, there are some funny things in there. Please also post the output of

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

2007-09-23 Thread John Blinka
Ok, there are some funny things in there. Please also post the output of the following commands. - find /var/lib/init.d/ -name nfs | xargs ls -lh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 21 13:20 /var/lib/init.d/failed/nfs - /etc/init.d/nfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 21 13:16

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

2007-09-23 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: - ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/ [snip] drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later removed by /sbin/rc - which is run numerous times at boot. So this

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

2007-09-23 Thread Alex Schuster
John Blinka writes: Not a stupid question - I've been known to overlook the obvious. But I've been running the same kernel for quite some time, and nfs has worked before on that kernel. However, on tobey: I had a similar problem recently after an update. Some of the shares did still work,

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

2007-09-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:12:35 -0400 John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that should be /etc/init.d/nfsmount start. /etc/init.d/nfs is for nfs server. I''m confused by your answer, because tobey is the server, and /etc/init.d/nfs fails on tobey. Perhaps I don't understand

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

2007-09-22 Thread Emil Beinroth
Hi, what version of portmap, nfs-utils and baselayout are you running? Have you tried reinstalling those 3 to make sure the config files and init scripts are up to date? Please post the output of `rc-status -a` and `rpcinfo -p tobey`. They might be helpful for diagnosing the problem. And I guess

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

2007-09-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:45:47 -0400 John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all, I have 2 gentoo machines, lotus and tobey. tobey is an nfs server to lotus. Today I upgraded tobey, and now nfs doesn't work. Previously, it worked for years. The symptoms are: 1) mount -v /mnt/tobey

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

2007-09-22 Thread John Blinka
On 9/22/07, Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, what version of portmap, nfs-utils and baselayout are you running? Have you tried reinstalling those 3 to make sure the config files and init scripts are up to date? Please post the output of `rc-status -a` and `rpcinfo -p tobey`. They

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

2007-09-22 Thread John Blinka
that should be /etc/init.d/nfsmount start. /etc/init.d/nfs is for nfs server. I''m confused by your answer, because tobey is the server, and /etc/init.d/nfs fails on tobey. Perhaps I don't understand something - wouldn't be the first time! John

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

2007-09-21 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I have 2 gentoo machines, lotus and tobey. tobey is an nfs server to lotus. Today I upgraded tobey, and now nfs doesn't work. Previously, it worked for years. The symptoms are: 1) mount -v /mnt/tobey on lotus returns mount: RPC: Program not registered 2) /etc/init.d/nfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the current terminal. If you are accessing via

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/18/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 18 June 2007 12:22:59 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 6/18/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Ken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 6/18/07, *Neil Bothwick* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 18. Juni 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop labelled sysreq. What is it? print -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Help needed 2007.0 automount

2007-06-11 Thread Indran D Govender
Hello All I have just installed gentoo 2007.0 and for most parts of it, I am very happy. There is 1 issue that I need help with. 1. Automounting of CD's and DVD's Hald and dbus are set to default run levels. gnome-mount is installed I am part of the plugdev and cdrom groups And I

Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed 2007.0 automount

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 10:03 +0200, Indran D Govender wrote: When I insert a disk, I get the error Cannot mount Volume hmm, I've had this too. Try some simple things first: log out and back in (of gnome); check /etc/fstab entry allows a user to mount cdrom; make sure gnome-volume-manager is

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 June 2007, b.n. wrote: Run into that too. Exactly same situation -KDE, OO.org, heavy graphical editing (resizing images in Impress etc.), mouse moving but nothing responding, etc... Identical bug. I attributed the cause to the Beryl SVN I'm always running, so I didn't feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:52:35 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 June 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:   2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup.  I'd love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. top will tell you which process is hogging the resources and also let you kill it with the 'k' hotkey My X also locks

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. This kind of lockup is usually an error in the video driver, forgetting to drop a software lock after some operation and then on the next operation waiting

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:51:49AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Well, yes. But be aware of the fact that - depending on the configuration, this *might* not work when issued

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread b.n.
Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
070604 Philip Webb wrote: 070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually while I'm editing something heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register and even the three-finger

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When

[gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just in case your X-Server is still responding AT ALL you can always try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill it. This will work up to a certain level of hanging. Then simply restart it by typing startx. Otherwise ssh into your

RE: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Kevin O'Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:17 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Ken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Dale
Stratos Psomadakis wrote: O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread deface
' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Stratos Psomadakis

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Sunday 03 June 2007 17:16, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always snip However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Dale
deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Or,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/3/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 6/3/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/3/07, Guillermo A. Amaral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine because

[gentoo-user] Help playing simultaneously splitted videos (sort of)

2007-05-13 Thread Javier Krausbeck
Hi there, I've been asked something strange. I have to take a video input and split it in three parts, sending it to three outputs simultaneously. The first thing I thought of was creating a pipe, sending there the video and trying to read from there. I did my firsts tests with mplayer, but as

Re: [gentoo-user] Help playing simultaneously splitted videos (sort of)

2007-05-13 Thread YoYo Siska
Javier Krausbeck wrote: Hi there, I've been asked something strange. I have to take a video input and split it in three parts, sending it to three outputs simultaneously. The first thing I thought of was creating a pipe, sending there the video and trying to read from there. I did my

[gentoo-user] Help With Cron

2007-04-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format %T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S --link /tv/pretty However it fails to run and I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Help With Cron -- SOLVED

2007-04-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 4/10/2007 3:20 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format %T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S --link

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': All in all, the odds are tipping in favour of ext4 I

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 March 2007 02:19:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That said, I'm very encouraged about ext4, and will probably migrate some unimportant data over to that filesystem in near future and perform my own bonnie++ tests. How do you

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 29. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I think you misread me. I'm interested in ext4, and disappointed in NameSys' handling of reiser4. I love the *idea* of reiser4, but being able the resize the filesystem is *mandatory* for my setup, and I don't get that with

SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi lug Here's hoping the problem is solved, thanks to all (especially Alex) for the help. Jeff. I have successfully compiled a few things, so it looks like the problem IS solved. Thanks again where due. Ignore the following if you don't like minirants. 1. Frankly, I'm not impressed with

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': Ignore the following if you don't like minirants. (My reply probably needs the same disclaimer.) 1. Frankly, I'm

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