Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

On Monday 17 September 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > I've been having this problem on one of my machines for a while. As a > user or as root I cannot run chage: > > $ chage -l marduk > chage: can't open password file > > I've looked at /etc/p

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

On Thursday 25 October 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension. While one might agree or disagree about that, IMHO the problem now is that the options in /etc/default/useradd are ignored. If I run useradd -D it shows GROUP=100, but runn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:29 -0500, Eric Martin wrote: > Why copy? when stuff gets updated you'll have to copy again. I'd > suggest making a symlink. Also, I see the timestamps and sizes are the > same, but are the md5's the same? If not, these aren't the same file. > Copy is what the emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:16 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: > I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without > starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the 'nox' kernel parameter is > passed. I poked around the CD a bit to figure out how that's done but > failed. Does the kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux/Standards-friendly mobile phone

On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:29:21 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well after acquiring my first very own mobile phone only three years > ago I've come to destroying it last night. So now I'm in the market > for a new phone. I'd prefer something Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 16:31 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > Yessir, it does... > > > > dev-libs/pwlib-1.10.10-r1 USE="alsa ldap sdl ssl v4l xml -debug > > -ieee1394 -ipv6 -oss -sasl -v4l2" >

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Albert Hopkins wrote: >> Doesn't Gmail support SSL? My email provider provides support for SSL >> connections (via HTTP, LDAP, & POP). >> >> If that's the case then it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc & modules args

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 08:35 +0200, gigli wrote: > Hi > > I upgraded to openrc on my gentoo system, i use it as a mythbackend + > desktop. I need to pass an argument to the module dvb_usb_dib0700 to > activate the low noise amplifier, but i can't get it to work. > /etc/conf.d/modules looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view. -- Albert Einstein

[gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

; "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

The post that I made was satire. Its porpoise was to inspire a laugh, a chuckle, at most a humorous response. Not a debate. Debates are for serious people. Look the fact is every day: * A dolphin is killed * A cow is killed * Someone litters * Someone is killed/tortured

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +, Grant Edwards wrote >> >> Shouldn't you symlink /etc/localtime to the the appropriate >> file in /usr/share/zoneinfo? That way when the zoneinfo files >> get udp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

On Friday 06 July 2007 19:28, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 18:04 +, James wrote: > > I do not have NTFS enabled in the kernel. The wiki on ntfs3g said not > > to: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g > > Likely because they mutual

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

globally in > /etc/ssh? It's zsh, not zssh. Zsh is a shell, like Bash but better, so you'd put the same in .bashrc to use it with Bash. -- Neil Bothwick "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

On Thursday 23 June 2011 07:18:38 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said: > > > Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ? > > > > Shouldn't it work similarly? > > Eg. start an appliance and install u

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

Albert Hopkins writes: > Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script > that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs. I've > fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image. My tiny input isn't much... the big thanks goes to y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

Harry Putnam wrote: > Albert Hopkins writes: > > > On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > > > >> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I > >> fear my kernel line may be out of date. > >> > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

arted looking around and thinking exactly > what Albert says is not a proper response, and wondering if ecryptfs > might be a better choice. Not at the moment, although I have used it from time to time and it does what it should without fuss. > Also after seeing no responses or any pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig

Albert Hopkins wrote: On Friday, July 22 at 18:42 (-0500), Dale said: I sort of hate to hear there are no major changes. I was hoping for a fix on my kernel panic problem. Oh well. I'll upgrade anyway. Maybe it will help. Fixing a kernel bug is not considered a "ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig

On Saturday, July 23 at 01:10 (-0500), Dale said: > I was hoping since it was a whole different numbering scheme that it > was > a major change. That was the reason for my question. I didn't know > if > this was major or a normal update or something else. I was hoping > for > something li

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

On Sun 31 July 2011 12:08:01 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Sunday 31 July 2011 09:54:07 Albert Hopkins wrote: > > Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem. > > He's asking why upgrading world or system doesn't include upgrading > porta

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

On Sunday, July 31 at 21:23 (-0500), Jeremy McSpadden said: > Better to run make oldconfig. It merges the changes. > > -- > Jeremy McSpadden > def...@uberpenguin.net > > > > > On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (fo

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK+ & HTML5 broadway

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 21:39 +0200, Michal Sroka wrote: > Hello, > I would like to run my gtk applications over web-browser using Alexander > Larsson's gtk+ broadway option > http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/ > > 1 Have

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does raise same questions on > the amount of testing done before release. Yes, it's ~arch and > rc_parallel is explicitly marked "experimental", but it's not expected > to be completely and consistentl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Nov 30, 2011 12:51 AM, "Albert W. Hopkins" wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > > I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be > > completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. > There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken > instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard. > Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo in kernel config ?

Apparently, though unproven, at 22:34 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > On 09/11/2010 11:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010, > > Albert > > > > Hopkins did opine thus

Re: [gentoo-user] ark-4.4.5-cli7zip.patch - Digest verification failed

On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 18:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] > >>> Verifying ebuild manifests > > !!! Digest verification failed: > !!! /usr/portage/kde-base/ark/files/ark-4.4.5-cli7zip.patch > !!! Reason: Failed on RMD160 verification > !!! Got: 285b725e7542b78815f0f909a65b4b6ec20cee89 > !!! Expec

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

On 11/17/2010 05:13 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 17.11.2010 13:54, schrieb Albert Hopkins: >> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:52 +0100, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >>> Am 17.11.2010 10:19, schrieb Joerg Schilling: >>> >>>> This is why find -exec + exists since 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:06 +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: [...] > I've begun this thread because of my difficulties with running some > OpenGL applications, e.g. Americas Army, on my Xgl. If you'd like to > read any details you can take a look at first posts of this topic. Then you probably don't wan

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:48 +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Despite being a Gnome fan, I've been using few KDE apps, such as Amarok > and Kile. I've emerged them on my Gentoo desktop with a Gnome > environment. Unfortunately I'm not able to force a KDE apps to display > Polish diacrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

o it can be fixed. At that > point ( a normal installation CD), Gentoo can take it's > rightful place as a major distro I chose Gentoo to get away from the major distros. There is plenty of competition in that market. Let Gentoo be Gentoo and not Yet Another Ubuntu [TM]. * Substitute "cook" with whatever you please ;-) -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] profile upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1

> -Original Message- > From: Albert Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:42 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] profile upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1 > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 11:22 -0400, de Alm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I try to avoid emerge -e world because > > 1: It is time consuming. > 2: It may still not work after all that time. > 3: It is too much like the Gentoo equivalent of a reinstall and you > are >none the wiser as to why it fixed something

[gentoo-user] messagebus keeps 0wning my files

I've had this problem for a while now but it's finally driven me mad. I have a directory with some local mercurial repos. I'm the only user who touches these repos. Things will go fine for a while, and suddenly I'll do a commit and then hg will die with abort: Permission denied: on one of the

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

And to answer the original statement: the kde overlay often puts the ebuilds in before the sources themselves hit the mirrors. And the .xz compression format is the successor to the .lzma format, if I recall correctly...you should have xz-utils on your system.Chris ReffettOn Jul 12, 2010, Albert

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 08:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > why is it always vim users who get their panties in a knot about > nothing? > You are likely wrong about this. I'm willing to bet that a lot of people, even people responding to this thread, are vim users. However most of us know h

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel GM965

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 14:51 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 19:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > > > You also can remove all "InputDevice" sections as those are > > controlled > > > by hal. > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memory(gray matter) needs jog

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:05 -0700, walt wrote: > > I'm not sure why your system needed to be checked for each boot... > > Boy, my 'little gray cells' need a tonic, too. I've been using ext3 > (i.e.with journaling) for so long I can't even remember using ext2. > > Wasn't it normal in the old days

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

Thank you both for your quick response. I'll probably end up taking the virtual machine approach. I may also try some sort of chroot solution... I'll see how much of a hassle vmware is. 2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann : > On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > &

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

On Monday 16 November 2009 21:16:29 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:01 +0100, Loupy wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where > > some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them. > > S

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

wpa_supplicant" ) Or maybe I should just run an rc.local script. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgp4r9UwhWhPw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 20:06 -0800, BRM wrote: [... way too much background info removed] BREVITY! We don't want to have to read about what you had on your sandwich for lunch or the fight you had with your girl to get to the meat of what you're trying to say ;-). Since you didn't paste the link t

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:01:03 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On 19/12/09 Albert Hopkins said: > > > Create an local overlay. Put the ebuild in there. > > I'll need to read up on how. The section on overlays left me with the > impression that overlays

Re: [gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of > anything better. > > I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall > > So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when > I test what all gets i

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 05:17 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her > > mach

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

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Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > > >>> sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to >>> see if that is your problem. >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="custom-optimization"

Albert Hopkins schrieb: > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:30 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> I'm wondering how to interpret the custom-optimization use flag which >> has become much more common in the recent weeks/months. >> >> I mean, I unde

RE: [gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages

mit-krb5-1.6.3-r6', 'merge') ('installed', '/', 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.8', 'nomerge') pulled in by sys-fs/e2fsprogs required by world sys-fs/e2fsprogs required by system >=sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.34 required by ('installed&#

[gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.8 and compiz -> hard locks

Am I the only one experiencing this? I upgraded xf86-video-intel to 2.8.0. After this and other upgrades I noticed my X/GNOME/compiz session kept locking up. It took me a while to deduce it down to the intel driver. Basically what happens this.. shortly after going into X and launching compiz t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 13:58 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > xen requires your cpu support hardware virtulization. and i only heard > it support windows, but i do not know how well it supports. > Both statements are so very far from the truth: Firstly, PV Xen guests require no hardware virtualization supp

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 08:01 -0800, Grant wrote: > I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm > planning on going through the normal installation process except for > copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the > corresponding partition on my new drive. Is th

[gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

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Re: [gentoo-user] resolving this block

it's masked. Shouldn't the newer gtk+ flag the fact that it obsoletes the need for gail? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgptYcNBZfQN8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with Xorg 7.2 and i810

Hi, 2007. 09. 15, szombat keltezéssel 07.16-kor Albert Hopkins ezt írta: > I am running xorg-server 1.4, xf86-video-i810 2.1.1, and compiz-fusion > on a couple of machines and they seem to be running fine. Granted, > I haven't updated fusion in a few days (and now I'm afr

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:30 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote: > This is just triage, but what are the permissions on /etc/passwd? $ /bin/ls -l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1404 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/group -rw--- 1 root root 1389 2007-06-30

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb ext Thufir: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:35:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > And then you'll hate us and say we > > all suck (j/k I hope > > you suck ;) > > I'm moving the Windows partition from the slave hdd to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:03 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I > need some special functionality. > > I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making > daily full and hourly incremental backu

Re: [gentoo-user] Console with color graphics capabilities?

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:45 +0100, Matthias Kramm wrote: > Hi All, > > now this is a bit off topic, but I'm looking for an X11 > console which can display images intermingled in the normal > text flow. > > The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for: > http://www.quiss.

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:52 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is > running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config: > > X11Forwarding yes > > On machine A I have in ssh_config: > > ForwardX11 yes > > I can ssh from

Re: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd)

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:08:53PM -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd > > ... > > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd > > --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY > > --- > > LOG FILE =

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:24 +, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on > > this and would not like to mess it up: > > > > I have cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > [...] > > now I have another issue, because my > > microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I can get > > playback > > throug

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

On Sunday 17 August 2008 08:29:29 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: > > So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but > > I > > understood absolutely nothing. :-( > > > > Could anyone explain to me in

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:54 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > To back myself up: > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > > > import random > > > > for i in range(1,1): > >if random.random() < 0.001: > >print "rare" > >if malformed < beast: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

on 02/21/2007 08:39 PM Albert Hopkins wrote the following: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:58 +, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > [...] >> I hate to be a nasty evil person and say this, but I will anyway - this has >> no place on a Gentoo mailing list IMO. Post it in th

Re: [gentoo-user] aRTs is driving me nuts!

On Monday 26 March 2007 23:34, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 23:06 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I'm convinced that I am too tired to understand this because I noticed > > I have > > been missing out words in my response (sorry!). Would you mind > > simp

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: > > I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just > > crashed. > > > > I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the > > drive to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending console messages on Users

On Monday 28 May 2007 20:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:52 +0100, Mick wrote: > > What is the way to send a console warning to anyone logged on a machine > > before I reboot it? > > shutdown(8) does this for you. In addition there is wall(1).

Re: [gentoo-user] No torrent upload

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Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

On Saturday 30 April 2011 22:18:12 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 30.04.2011 22:09, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Saturday 30 April 2011 21:56:19 Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Am 30.04.2011 21:12, schrieb Thanasis: > >>> on 04/30/2011 09:57 PM Albert Hopkins wrote t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

On Friday, July 1 at 14:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for > several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there. > That's why I asked... didn't know where to look... dumb perhaps but > just didn't cross my mind.

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

On Thursday, July 7 at 19:15 (+0100), john said: > > I am trying to start virt-manager but when I start the daemon > > /etc/init.d/libvirtd i get > > * Starting libvirtd ... > /usr/sbin/libvirtd: error: Unable to initialize network sockets. > Check /var/log/messages or run without --daemon f

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

On Friday, July 8 at 21:22 (+0100), john said: [...] > LOL Well I was up and running but now when trying to create VMs I get > (have done upgrade of around 20 packages) > > Uncaught error validating install parameters: Must pass a VirtualDevice > instance. > > Traceback (most recent call last

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:31:45 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > I wasn't suggesting that. But when the main reason for sticking with > > the > > older option is that you have a working system with data in it, the > > loss > > of both of those is a good time to in

Re: [gentoo-user] mysqld invoked oom-killer

On Friday, July 22 at 11:46 (-0700), Grant said: > That's what I'm curious about. If some swap is good, why isn't more > better? Paul has demonstrated that a Linux system will put at least > 10GB to use and probably much more given the opportunity. Disk space > is so cheap, why isn't everyone

[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does raise same questions on the amount of testing done before release. Yes, it's ~arch and rc_parallel is explicitly marked "experimental&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500 >> "Albert W. Hopkins"  wrote: >> >>> But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find >>> bugs, then you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

James Wall wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500 "Albert W. Hopkins"wrote: But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find bugs, then you aren't testing hard enough :P Or m

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. >> There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken >> instructions one ca

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 08:58 -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > Here is the reason of your problem. Try to mask vmware-player > > That does not seem to be enough. > > Looking at the ebuilds, I have found the following: > > > > # grep > vmware-modules > /var/lib/layman/vmware/app-emulatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Setup for two graphical logins on one machine

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 12:53 +0100, Markus Oehme wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've got a somewhat exotic wish: I want to have two graphical logins on my > box. Currently I'm using /etc/init.d/xdm to start slim which in turn starts > an XFce session after login. All of this happens on vt7 (reachable v

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

Albert Hopkins napisał(a): > Then you probably don't want to use GDM or any other DM as they are > primarily designed to "manage" displays that are already selected. What > you want is more of a chicken-and-egg issue for a display manager. > > What you likely need i

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel 82865 owners - do you have X-Video support?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [NOTE] New default behavior in latest nfs-utils (1.3.2-r1)

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge BUG?

; world file. Did you copy the original over in the first place? Did you try adding something to it and used > instead of >> (you shouldn't do either, use emerge -n, but people do). -- Neil Bothwick "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

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Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

o them. I suspected there was something in package.use, but we need to know what. Those references should probably be removed but no one can say for sure without seeing them. -- Neil Bothwick "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." (Albert Einstein) pgpfX6NSv3rV7.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 13:15 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: [...] > Wow, Albert, this looks very, very cool. I have heard of using 'make' > and creating your own make files to do things like this, but after a few > minutes of perusing these files I realize this is just way over my head,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

o use for LVM. Pretty much every major "server" OS has volume management (including Windows) because a lot of users at that level need it. Linu LVM, I think, is very similar to HP-UX LVM at the command level. Anyway YMMV. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem building statically linked e2fsprogs

Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 22:34 +0200, Maarten wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: # ldd e2fsck/e2fsck linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8033000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7edb000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb8034000) Ehm, exactly. So yes, it uses less lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending console messages on Users

They were manually disconnected. Let them figure out what happened when they get back. As for webmin and phpadmin users... well those people are administrators... shouldn't they already know? I wouldn't want a fellow admin bouncing a server without tapping me on the shoulder

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

that fix a particular issue you're experiencing, etc.). Of course a lot of the big shops use "enterprise" solutions like Red Hat Network or Red Carpet/Zenworks. I don't think you're going to find a "hard" rule if that's what you're looking for, but hopefully you'll get enough responses to be able to come up with your own. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

Try appending md=3,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3 to the kernel command line parameters. On 04/04/2010 01:45 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 16:07 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel >> and starts booting but th

RE: [gentoo-user] Portage + checksums

Thanks. Do you know if someone makes a change to a copy of apache hosted on a public mirror, will the sync between the servers determine that it's corrupted (via 'bad' checksum) on the public side and replace it? -john -Original Message----- From: Albert W. Hopk

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:26 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: No, I was tempted to try genkernel, but again, OCD got the best of me; I like Gentoo because I tell it what I want and need, and it does that and nothing else. Genkernel, in my understand, does everything (and

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

On 06/26/2010 09:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

Am 26.06.2010 22:56, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:54 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Is it time already to set "-hal" in make.conf and get rid of hal? > > I have some packages that still need hal.. or at least to use them the > way I use

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