Re: [gentoo-user] Audio and permissions.

2005-09-10 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 22:46 -0700, gentuxx wrote: As root # gpasswd -a username audio Replace username with (you guessed it) your username K. I'll give that a shot. Is that a logout/login situation? yes, and running id username will confirm that you are in the audio group :-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] jack-audio-connection-kit-0.100.0 ??

2005-09-10 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 09:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge --digest jack-audio-connection will build the new digest thing, you no longer need to ebuild /long/path/balh.ebuild digest first. Neat, when was that added? dunno, i picked it up from a games ebuild writing howto.

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted NFS via ssh tunelling

2005-09-10 Thread Bryan Whitehead
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:29:18 +0200 (CEST) Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always get this error: mount: localhost:/usr/portage failed, reason given by server: Permission denied Attach NFS port of Server (2049) to local port

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted NFS via ssh tunelling

2005-09-10 Thread Bryan Whitehead
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I can do a nfs mount, but for security i would like to do it over ssh. I always get this error: mount: localhost:/usr/portage failed, reason given by server: Permission denied without the ssh tunnel i have no problems. There are no firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client starting before net.eth0

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:13:47 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: I'm willing to gues that in the OP's case the ifplugd is not setting the provide net flag correctly and/or it is setting the flag before a cable is actually connected. In any case it's probably down dirty with the gentoo networking

[gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Generic question - why is package.provided located in /etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits when profile changes come along? It seems to me that if I take responsibility for a package, such as jack-audio-connection-kit, that I wouldn't want the system to

[gentoo-user] mysql no longer working :-(

2005-09-10 Thread Antoine
Hi, I didn't use mysql for a while and it has stopped working! I try and start it and all I get is tux ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql status * status: stopped tux ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql start * Starting mysqld (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) ... . * MySQL NOT started, proceding anyway [ ok ] tux ~ #

[gentoo-user] Suspend2 and hibernate problem.

2005-09-10 Thread Paweł Madej
Hello, I got emerged suspend2 kernel sources and compiled with such options: [*] Power Management support [ ] Power Management Debug Support [ ] Software Suspend

[gentoo-user] halt hibernate on usermode

2005-09-10 Thread Paweł Madej
I try to resolve such a problem: I can halt my computer only if i login to root console and do # halt User on which i work is in wheel group but i cannot do halt from it How to make it possible to halt from wheel group user? And the same thing on # hibernate Thanks for any help Paul --

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql no longer working :-(

2005-09-10 Thread Antoine
This is most annoying! I have not modified anything (though have been trying to install rt and some other trouble ticket systems) but it seems pretty dead. A remerge did nothing. I ended up getting rid of the databases I had before (including one that rt tried to create) and reinitialised

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/php

2005-09-10 Thread Kurt Guenther
dev-lang/php-5.0 popped up as one of my updates, so I dutifully deleted dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php, and emerged this package. Now, I can't find a suitable mod_php, and portage wants to reemerge dev-php/php-4.4.0. Seems like a catch-22, so I'm going to mask dev-lang/php for the moment.

[gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread Pupeno
Hello, Is it possible to make an image of my whole 40GiB HD into a file in another, bigger HD, including all my partitions, grub, everything. I want to re-install this computer, but I want to be able to go back easily if I need it. Thanks. -- Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://pupeno.com) Vendo:

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
Is it possible to make an image of my whole 40GiB HD into a file in another, bigger HD, including all my partitions, grub, everything. I want to re-install this computer, but I want to be able to go back easily if I need it. This can be done using tar, dd or partimage. Best regards

[gentoo-user] Printing Problem

2005-09-10 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Well, I'm progressing with Gentoo. I now have it on my main computer and am *very* pleased. I even managed to get my Radeon 8500 graphics card working with 3D acceleration. However, I am having problems with getting printing to work. I

[gentoo-user] Analog acquisition

2005-09-10 Thread Luigi Pinna
Hello! I have a lot of problems with my TV card I can see TV (but only with tvtime and not with xawtv or kdetv), but I can't use teletext (for example with alevt) or to select a external source like S-Video. How can I find the problem? Without xawtv I don't know other system from S-Video to

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-10 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Dave, * Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], Friday, September 9, 2005, 4:23:07 PM: Dude, trying to use iptables directly was your first mistake. no, it wasn't. I have written some small example script http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=377447 that (IMO) is quite modular... Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread Alex
On Saturday 10 September 2005 16:49, Pupeno wrote: Hello, Is it possible to make an image of my whole 40GiB HD into a file in another, bigger HD, including all my partitions, grub, everything. I want to re-install this computer, but I want to be able to go back easily if I need it. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing Problem

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:55 AM, C. Beamer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Well, I'm progressing with Gentoo. I now have it on my main computer and am *very* pleased. I even managed to get my Radeon 8500 graphics card working with 3D acceleration. However, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

2005-09-10 Thread Tony Davison
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:24, Holly Bostick wrote: snip Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is rsync.europe.gentoo.org, and I don't see any documentation that indicates that that has changed or become deprecated or invalid, but maybe it has. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/php

2005-09-10 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Kurt Guenther wrote: dev-lang/php-5.0 popped up as one of my updates, so I dutifully deleted dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php, and emerged this package. Now, I can't find a suitable mod_php, and portage wants to reemerge dev-php/php-4.4.0. Seems like a catch-22, so I'm going to mask

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:58:44 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: Is it possible to make an image of my whole 40GiB HD into a file in another, bigger HD, including all my partitions, grub, everything. I want to re-install this computer, but I want to be able to go back easily if I need it.

[gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Frank Schafer
... or which distribution to install during less than 4 days? Hi list, as I wrote yesterday I planned to complete installation after work (started ``emerge --emptytree system'' in the morning). When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge --emptytree system'' failed at

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question ----- Disk image post

2005-09-10 Thread Stuart Howard
In case you missed it On 9/7/05, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi waltdnes, on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote: Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money on a UPS.

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Chris Boot
On 10 Sep 2005, at 16:15, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Generic question - why is package.provided located in /etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits when profile changes come along? It seems to me that if I take responsibility for a package, such as

Re: [gentoo-user] Proliant 3000

2005-09-10 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I got the smartStart, but it won't let me set up for IDE boot. When I try to set-up the BIOS it will let me change most settings but says this system does not support IDE HD. Hence I was think ing I would boot on a floppy and have it find the kernel and set them machine up to use the HD. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge --emptytree system'' failed at package 28 of 186 python-fcksum-1.7.1 i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc bla...bla ^ | +- ! gcc-config error: could not run/locate i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc My guess is that during the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

2005-09-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 18:00 +0200, Jes__s Garc__a Crespo wrote: Hi! I don't understand why gpm was included in the Gentoo base system. It was not in there before and I didn't find information about the reasons. But I could tell you my case: I installed Gentoo in my dedicated server in EEUU (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio and permissions.

2005-09-10 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 22:46 -0700, gentuxx wrote: As root # gpasswd -a username audio Replace username with (you guessed it) your username K. I'll give that a shot. Is that a logout/login situation? yes, and running id username

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/php

2005-09-10 Thread Kurt Guenther
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: dev-lang/php-5.0 install both cli and apache2 stuff. Similar question has been answered already on this list, search that. I saw the discussion w/ last post 2 days ago. It didn't answer my question because there is no mod_php for 5 and php-5.0 didn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Proliant 3000

2005-09-10 Thread Ted Ozolins
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I got the smartStart, but it won't let me set up for IDE boot. When I try to set-up the BIOS it will let me change most settings but says this system does not support IDE HD. Hence I was think ing I would boot on a floppy and have it find the kernel and set them

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 and hibernate problem.

2005-09-10 Thread Harald Arnesen
Paweł Madej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hibernating and resuming works flawlessly but one thing. When i do: # hibernate i got everything stopped but there is no power off on my laptop. Thing is a bit weird because when i do: # halt it turns off power i also got emerged hibernate-script and

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/10/05, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Sep 2005, at 16:15, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Generic question - why is package.provided located in /etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits when profile changes come along? It seems to me that if

Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

2005-09-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Jes__s Garc__a Crespo (aka Sevein) schreef: Hi! I don't understand why gpm was included in the Gentoo base system. It was not in there before and I didn't find information about the reasons. But I could tell you my case: I installed Gentoo in my dedicated server in EEUU (I am from Spain)

[gentoo-user] Re: HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps

2005-09-10 Thread capsel
I solved this problem. Guilty was gcc-2.3.5.* (don't remember version). Last night I upgraded all system and I removed hardened flag. Before this I tryed to compile older versions of grub but configure script failed with error saying something about 0200 address and compiler. Now everything works

[gentoo-user] alsactl prob fixed --thanks m.k.

2005-09-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hi Mark, I didn't realize you had answered my email until I looked into the archive. Don't know the protocol for answering an email once it's been deleted. Re-running alsamixer after rm asound.state and then alsactl store did the trick. Don't know why sound should fail for *all* players when

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:37 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge --emptytree system'' failed at package 28 of 186 python-fcksum-1.7.1 i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc bla...bla ^ | +- ! gcc-config error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
If you don't have the time to watch over the stage 1 build process, you can jump straight to a stage 3 then update packages from there. Well, that's the same ads installing Fedora (within 2 hours). With respect, that is NOT the same as installing fedora. This laptop has had fedora, suse,

[gentoo-user] server deployment

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
We're in the process of transitioning from 32-bit Redhat (7 I think) web/app servers to 64-bit gentoo web/app servers. One concern I've got is from a security standpoint, normally you don't deploy webservers with development tools on them. How do you guys handle this question with

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:26 -0500, John Jolet wrote: If you don't have the time to watch over the stage 1 build process, you can jump straight to a stage 3 then update packages from there. Well, that's the same ads installing Fedora (within 2 hours). With respect, that is NOT the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
I don't get You at this point. I'll have to start ''emerge --emptytree system'', wait until it crashes, run ''fix_libtool_files.sh'' and run ''emerge --emptytree system'' ones more, hoping that it won't crash this time? No, after the fix_libtool_files.sh run, you do the emerge --resume to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Justin Patrin
On 9/10/05, Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... or which distribution to install during less than 4 days? Hi list, as I wrote yesterday I planned to complete installation after work (started ``emerge --emptytree system'' in the morning). When I returned home from work I found in

Re: [gentoo-user] server deployment

2005-09-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:29 -0500, John Jolet wrote: We're in the process of transitioning from 32-bit Redhat (7 I think) web/app servers to 64-bit gentoo web/app servers. One concern I've got is from a security standpoint, normally you don't deploy webservers with development tools on

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 12:42 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: On 9/10/05, Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... or which distribution to install during less than 4 days? Hi list, as I wrote yesterday I planned to complete installation after work (started ``emerge --emptytree system''

Re: [gentoo-user] server deployment

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
On Saturday 10 September 2005 14:45, Edward Catmur wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:29 -0500, John Jolet wrote: We're in the process of transitioning from 32-bit Redhat (7 I think) web/app servers to 64-bit gentoo web/app servers. One concern I've got is from a security standpoint, normally

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 15:39 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: I don't get You at this point. I'll have to start ''emerge --emptytree system'', wait until it crashes, run ''fix_libtool_files.sh'' and run ''emerge --emptytree system'' ones more, hoping that it won't crash this time? No, after

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing Problem

2005-09-10 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks John, Boy, do I have egg on my face with the first issue! John Jolet wrote: On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:55 AM, C. Beamer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I emerged both hal and cups. Using kde's print manager, I was

Re: [gentoo-user] jack-audio-connection-kit-0.100.0 ??

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:11:50 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: emerge --digest jack-audio-connection Neat, when was that added? dunno, i picked it up from a games ebuild writing howto. Good thing you read it then, because it's not in the emerge man page :( -- Neil Bothwick [ Printed on

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Jan 1988 00:18:00 +0100, Frank Schafer wrote: The good news is that you'll only need to do this during the beginning when the system is being built from scratch; once you're up and running you normally won't need to do this again. I don't get You at this point. I'll have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:37:22 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: If you don't have the time to watch over the stage 1 build process, you can jump straight to a stage 3 then update packages from there. That's exactly what I did with my laptop. It arrived at 1pm and I needed it fully functional for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:39:18 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: I suppose the reason is that when setting up a system on the console, it helps to be able to cut-and-paste text with the mouse. While dhcpcd is useful for servers, it isn't needed during initial setup, whereas gpm is, even if it isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

2005-09-10 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 21:19 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:39:18 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: I suppose the reason is that when setting up a system on the console, it helps to be able to cut-and-paste text with the mouse. While dhcpcd is useful for servers, it isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. That seems to work and is indeed a much better place to put it. I did not see that in the man pages (is it there?) so I appreciate the pointer. It's buried in the portage man page. Basically, what you put in

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 10 September 2005 20:09, Frank Schafer wrote: ... or which distribution to install during less than 4 days? Hi list, as I wrote yesterday I planned to complete installation after work (started ``emerge --emptytree system'' in the morning). where did you get the idea that

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Zac Medico
Frank Schafer wrote: is better than Gentoo just now, ... because it's installable. I'd recommend a stage3 install. The lower stages are intended more as a means to create a stage3 than for anything else. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:30:28 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: Why does the OP think it is part of the base system? That's a very good question. Having a look at the default USE flags we can see, that: emboss Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite is part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread Scott Brady
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:49 am, Pupeno wrote: Is it possible to make an image of my whole 40GiB HD into a file in another, bigger HD, including all my partitions, grub, everything. emerge mondo-rescue Mondo is a can back up your linux server or workstation to a tap, CD-R CD-RW, NFS or hard disk

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/10/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. That seems to work and is indeed a much better place to put it. I did not see that in the man pages (is it there?) so I appreciate the pointer. It's buried in the

[gentoo-user] Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system?

2005-09-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system? bunyip ~ # emerge media-tv/mythtv -vp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-misc/lcdproc-0.4.5 +doc +ncurses +samba +svga 284 kB [ebuild N]

[gentoo-user] subscribe

2005-09-10 Thread Josh M. Anders
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Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
Josh M. Anders, MVP, MCSE+ Senior System Administrator UNIX Expert For all of that you'd think the guy would know how to subscribe to a mailing list ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Hoy
On Sep 10, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Dave Nebinger wrote: Josh M. Anders, MVP, MCSE+ Senior System Administrator UNIX Expert For all of that you'd think the guy would know how to subscribe to a mailing list ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list LOL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2005-09-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 11 September 2005 12:56 am, Paul Hoy wrote: On Sep 10, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Dave Nebinger wrote: Josh M. Anders, MVP, MCSE+ Senior System Administrator UNIX Expert For all of that you'd think the guy would know how to subscribe to a mailing list ;-) -- LOL VBG --

Re: [gentoo-user] panel error

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
Every time I log into gnome I get this annoying error: I've detected a panal already running, and will now exit. My wife tells me that she gets the same message when she logs into her account on this machine. Is there a way to remedy this problem? I checked the gentoo-user archives at GMane

Re: [gentoo-user] panel error

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/10/05, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A google search turned up another message: I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by purging /tmp and all the config files in my home directory. There is probably a better way but it was a new install and I didn't have my files

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio and permissions.

2005-09-10 Thread Bruno Gola
gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 22:46 -0700, gentuxx wrote: As root # gpasswd -a username audio Replace username with (you guessed it) your username K. I'll give that a shot. Is that a logout/login

[gentoo-user] Ideas for a mini-FAQ/HOWTO

2005-09-10 Thread Walter Dnes
I've been using Gentoo for several months now, and I've learned, sometimes the hard way, what to do and not to do. Here's the first draft of a mini-FAQ/HOWTO. It can stand alone. If there's another FAQ out there already, maybe the ideas here can be included in it...

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio and permissions.

2005-09-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:40:50AM -0700, gentuxx wrote OK, I tried that and I have/can verify that I am in the audio group. Logged out, then back in, even did a reboot. No joy. Now here's the weird thing. mplayer works fine, for both video (sound with movies) and audio (mp3s). But none

Re: [gentoo-user] Ideas for a mini-FAQ/HOWTO

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
Not to rain on your parade, Walter, but: 1) In /etc/make.conf set the following entry... MAKEOPTS=-j1 Do *NOT*, I repeat, do *NOT* use higher numbers. You are begging for problems if you do so. I use distcc in my compile farm and have most systems set to -j8 or above. I haven't run