Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 02 May 2009 06:21:20 Stroller wrote: On 1 May 2009, at 20:49, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels): http://gaydenko.com/tmp/shot01.png which I get periodically after few hours working under KDE - at some moment

[gentoo-user] Re: Mysql and utf8: Can't initialize character set utf-8

2009-05-02 Thread Galevsky
2009/4/30 Galevsky galev...@gmail.com: Hi, I have a problem with mysql 5.0.71-r1 and utf8 charset. snip and now my web sites can't connect to the DBs and I face the following error: Can't initialize character set utf-8 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/) Well can someone tell me if a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mysql and utf8: Can't initialize character set utf-8

2009-05-02 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/2/09, Galevsky galev...@gmail.com wrote: Well can someone tell me if a utf-8 gentoo box shoud have the file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/utf-8.xml ? AFAICT no and AFAICT nor should any other MySQL instance on any platform. According to sql/share/charsets/README those files are only for

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2009, at 03:55, Dale wrote: ... [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4#The_TAR_system I'm wanting to print this page, from the link above. Is it me or does some of the lines run off the edge of the margins and get lost? I have tried this in both Seamonkey and

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2009, at 09:39, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ... Looks like an overheating GPU to me. Do you have accelerated graphics on for those panels? I'll bet if you turn it off the problem will disappear. Say, bottom panel hasn't something special: std menu, lancelot, tasks, tray and clock. Can

[gentoo-user] gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
hi All I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,... I browsed source repositories - gentoo, gentoo-src, gentoo-x86 - could not find/identify it. Will appreciate any help in this. Nitin

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 2 May 2009, at 03:55, Dale wrote: ... [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4#The_TAR_system I'm wanting to print this page, from the link above. Is it me or does some of the lines run off the edge of the margins and get lost? I have tried this in both

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Nitin Kanaskar schrieb: hi All I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,... I browsed source repositories - gentoo, gentoo-src, gentoo-x86 - could not find/identify it. Will appreciate any help in this. Nitin I suppose with gentoo you mean portage, right? In that case

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 2 May 2009, at 03:55, Dale wrote: ... [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4#The_TAR_system I'm wanting to print this page, from the link above. Is it me or does some of the lines run off the edge of the margins and get lost? I have tried this in both

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-02, Nitin Kanaskar nitinv...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,... Gentoo doesn't have versions. Individual packages have versions. I browsed source repositories - gentoo, gentoo-src, gentoo-x86 - could not find/identify it. You're going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-05-02, Nitin Kanaskar nitinv...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,... Gentoo doesn't have versions. Individual packages have versions. I browsed source repositories - gentoo, gentoo-src, gentoo-x86 - could

[gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread James
I've recently discovered the awesomeness of mutt. (I may be a little late, but better late than never!) I'm use it for my work email. I have a rather complex and lengthy set of folders, and an equally complex procmail to go along with it. Mutt is blazing fast at opening mail folders and sorting

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-02, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-05-02, Nitin Kanaskar nitinv...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,... Gentoo doesn't have versions. Individual packages have versions. After a bit of googling, it looks like the snapshots/CDs

[gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Cunning
I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, make them bootable and abandon booting from the 250G disk. I know I'll

[gentoo-user] Re: any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-02, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: I've recently discovered the awesomeness of mutt. (I may be a little late, but better late than never!) I'm use it for my work email. I have a rather complex and lengthy set of folders, and an equally complex procmail to go along with it. Mutt is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older gentoo installations which i know have some vulnerabilities. If i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:14:45AM -0700, Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on

[gentoo-user] emerge --oneshot gcc-4.1.2

2009-05-02 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all I have to emerge gcc-4.1.2 to use with CUDA. However, I receive the following message. !!! 'gcc-4.1.2' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. What should I do to avoid of this problem? Thanks a lot Hung

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older gentoo installations which i know have some

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 02 May 2009 16:23:48 Stroller wrote: On 2 May 2009, at 09:39, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ... Looks like an overheating GPU to me. Do you have accelerated graphics on for those panels? I'll bet if you turn it off the problem will disappear. Say, bottom panel hasn't something

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --oneshot gcc-4.1.2

2009-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Hung Dang wrote: Hi all I have to emerge gcc-4.1.2 to use with CUDA. However, I receive the following message. !!! 'gcc-4.1.2' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. What should I do to avoid of this problem? Try: emerge --oneshot =gcc-4.1.2 (that is,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --oneshot gcc-4.1.2

2009-05-02 Thread Ivan Kazbanov
On Sat, 02 May 2009 11:27:11 -0600 Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I have to emerge gcc-4.1.2 to use with CUDA. However, I receive the following message. !!! 'gcc-4.1.2' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. What should I do to avoid of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --oneshot gcc-4.1.2

2009-05-02 Thread Xavier Parizet
Hung Dang a écrit : Hi all I have to emerge gcc-4.1.2 to use with CUDA. However, I receive the following message. !!! 'gcc-4.1.2' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. What should I do to avoid of this problem? emerge --oneshot =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 02 May 2009 19:14:45 Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --oneshot gcc-4.1.2

2009-05-02 Thread Hung Dang
Thanks all of you for the quick help. Thing seem to be OK now Have a nice weekend Hung Xavier Parizet wrote: Hung Dang a écrit : Hi all I have to emerge gcc-4.1.2 to use with CUDA. However, I receive the following message. !!! 'gcc-4.1.2' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
I just noticed gentoo linux security site - - www.gentoo.org/security/en/ which mentions some very recent vulnerability reports in latest gentoo packages. That means i can play with these new gentoo packages for vulnerability and exploit analysis. Nikos - please correct me if you think i am going

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:24:00PM -0400, Penguin Lover James squawked: I've recently discovered the awesomeness of mutt. (I may be a little late, but better late than never!) 7 year user of Mutt, and I cannot agree more. I'm use it for my work email. I have a rather complex and lengthy set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
Looking at all replies - I think working on older gentoo would most likely cause problems. I am thinking of going for latest livecd - 2008 release. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2009 19:14:45 Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4} arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Nitin Kanaskar nitinv...@gmail.com wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nitin Kanaskar (nitinv...@gmail.com) [02.05.09 19:15]: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread KH
Nitin Kanaskar schrieb: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older gentoo installations which i know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
KH wrote: Nitin Kanaskar schrieb: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older gentoo installations

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, make them bootable and

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsa sound

2009-05-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 01 May 2009 17:25:14 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have two machines desktop (x86_64) and laptop (i686), both with HDA Intel. On the laptop all is well. On the desktop playback is fine,

[gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
hi there! I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing it will be deleted on B. While rsync would leave

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Cunning
On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Jim Cunning wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: how do you do 10 with only two disks? You need four! the kernel is able to autoassemble - so you don't need an initrd - me I hate initrds. RAID10 = RAID1+0. It works fine with 2 disks. I was able to

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread James
Thanks for the response Grant and Willie! I'm not sure that the xfce4 mail watch plugin is going to be helpful. I currently have mutt configured as an IMAP client and I have yet to find a tool that can poll individual folders (or mailboxes) on a remote IMAP system. Because everything is remote,

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Anthony Metcalf wrote: Jim Cunning wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: how do you do 10 with only two disks? You need four! the kernel is able to autoassemble - so you don't need an initrd - me I hate initrds. RAID10 = RAID1+0.

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 May 2009 00:00:13 James wrote: I must admit that Thunderbird is pretty good about keeping tabs on the many mailboxes I have and updating me when something new pops up. From what I've been told, gbuffy is one of the few tools that actually does what I'm looking for, but as Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 02 May 2009 23:33:38 Simon wrote: hi there! I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
Thanks a lot Dale for your help. But I would go for other OS - debian, opensuse, fedora...- or recent gentoo releases. Thanks a lot all of you for your inputs. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: KH wrote: Nitin Kanaskar schrieb: Ok - I am not clear about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 May 2009 10:14:45 -0700, Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 May 2009 19:45:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: 2. All gentoo ebuilds ever shipped are in cvs or svn somewhere. It was Neil Bothwick or Iain Buchanan who recently posted a URL, with luck the right man will see this and report. There's a CVS link on the Gentoo home page, and you can

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 17:33 -0400, Simon wrote: hi there! I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Thanks a lot Dale for your help. But I would go for other OS - debian, opensuse, fedora...- or recent gentoo releases. Thanks a lot all of you for your inputs. How about a Mandrake 9.1? I may have that as well. LOL It's just a thought. I'm a pack rat so I keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
Thank you so much Dale again - but i would try to follow links given by Neil - thank you Neil - and chk in the cvs repositories. Really appreciate your willingness to help. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Thanks a lot Dale for your help.

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
If you are using ssh with unison, are you using the KeepAlive yes option in your ssh configuration? If not, add it, and your connection should not close from inactivity. If you are using direct sockets, unison will use a keepalive so it can timeout if the communication link is broken. Well i

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2009 16:23:48 Stroller wrote: On 2 May 2009, at 09:39, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ... Looks like an overheating GPU to me. Do you have accelerated graphics on for those panels? I'll bet if you turn

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: OK, as Stroller has suggested, I have cleaned heatsink, replaced heat- conducting paste and so on. Now it would be nice to have something for quick GPU load testing (instead of long-long KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: OK, as Stroller has suggested, I have cleaned heatsink, replaced heat- conducting paste and so on. Now it would be nice to have something for quick GPU load

[gentoo-user] Re: crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: OK, as Stroller has suggested, I have cleaned heatsink, replaced heat- conducting paste and so on. Now it would be nice to have something for quick GPU load testing (instead of long-long KDE session). Can anybody suggest an appropriate sw or, may be, some game with hard

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: OK, as Stroller has suggested, I have cleaned heatsink, replaced heat- conducting paste and so on. Now it would be

[gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-02 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, After a system/world update my user account dealmeida cannot be logged to or root cannot su to it. When su - dealmeida is issued at the root command prompt, it immediately returns to root. When login is at the console the motd appears (twice; why?) and then the session is closed. In

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: OK, as Stroller has suggested, I have cleaned heatsink, replaced heat- conducting paste

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After a system/world update my user account dealmeida cannot be logged to or root cannot su to it. When su - dealmeida is issued at the root command prompt, it immediately returns to root. When login is at

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-02 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After a system/world update my user account dealmeida cannot be logged to or root cannot su to it. When su - dealmeida is issued at the root command prompt, it immediately returns to root.

[gentoo-user] Re: any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-02, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: Thanks for the response Grant and Willie! I'm not sure that the xfce4 mail watch plugin is going to be helpful. I currently have mutt configured as an IMAP client and I have yet to find a tool that can poll individual folders (or mailboxes) on a

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 02 May 2009 20:52:39 -0400 Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: After a system/world update my user account dealmeida cannot be logged to or root cannot su to it. When su - dealmeida is issued at the root command prompt, it immediately returns to root. When login is at the

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2009, at 22:33, Simon wrote: ... I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing it will be

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread James
Alan, Thanks for the response. :) I've thought about doing something similar to this, but it's a last resort. I end up using mutt on various different workstations and it'd be nice to run everything locally. Obviously a solution where I'm fetching mail on every machine where I'm using mutt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread James
Grant, I've tried gbuffy but something breaks during the emerge. I've been tinkering with it but gave up a bit earlier (likely out of sheer laziness ;)). I don't really use gkrellm so I'd rather not start mucking with it. I actually do use xfce4, so I may give the mailwatch plugin a try.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jarry
Jim Cunning wrote: RAID10 = RAID1+0. It works fine with 2 disks. I was able to create it first with one drive missing and then add the second, which sync'ed without problems. Question is not does it work, question is does it make any sense? You can either create raid0 strip with two