[gentoo-user] glibc+ipv6 loopback resolving issues

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Hendrikx
Hi, I'm having some issues wih resolving of the loopback ip address with glibc's gethostbyaddr() / getnameinfo(). I have a setup with the following (abbreviated) /etc/hosts file: ==8 ::1 ip6-localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost ==8 When using gethostbyaddr() or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-02 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Monday 01 February 2010 19:57:52 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:08:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 06:03:10 David Relson wrote: G'day, I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and it's been working fine AFAICT. Over the weekend I noticed that my USB thumb drive is no longer automounting.

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-02 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Recently I bumped up the number of HDD on a relatively old system [snip] I had this on my stand-by machine discovered it was waiting for a broken CD drive; when I unplugged the drive, all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-02 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] Don't know about the server configuration on Gentoo.  I only run the client on my Gentoo box.  The server runs on a Debian machine and IIRC the Here are the steps I

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 12:47:46 David Relson wrote: I've been running unstable versions of portage for many months and currently have 2.1.7.17, which _is_ the newest non-masked version. Nevertheless, it isn't the latest version. To get that you need an entry in package.unmask; then

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Hendrikx
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 12:47:46 David Relson wrote: I've been running unstable versions of portage for many months and currently have 2.1.7.17, which _is_ the newest non-masked version. Nevertheless, it isn't the latest version. To get that you need an entry in

[gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/02/2010 02:29 PM, Momesso Andrea wrote: On Monday 01 February 2010 19:57:52 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app

[gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/02/2010 04:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] Don't know about the server configuration on Gentoo. I only run the client on my Gentoo box. The server runs on

[gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-02 Thread ubiquitous1980
Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen. At other times, the computer shuts down normally.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:03:10PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Is it safe to delete sysvinit and emerge openrc-0.6.0-r1? Am I likely to get myself into troubleif I do this? If so, how much and how deep? The latest version of sysvinit, 2.87-r3, is the one you should be running with openrc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-02 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: [snip]    users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper There is a % missing at the beginning of the line above. My x2go client/server is not working. It starts a session but immediately kicks me out. This is what

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 16:23:46 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Recently I bumped up the number of HDD on a relatively old system [snip] I had this on my stand-by machine discovered

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 14:47:46 David Relson wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:08:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 06:03:10 David Relson wrote: G'day, I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and it's been working fine AFAICT. Over the weekend I

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 17:34:42 Tom Hendrikx wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 12:47:46 David Relson wrote: I've been running unstable versions of portage for many months and currently have 2.1.7.17, which _is_ the newest non-masked version. Nevertheless, it

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I had this on my stand-by machine discovered it was waiting for a broken CD drive; when I unplugged the drive, all was well. I had a drive that had not been

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: The list of benefits from using latest unstable portage is very long. Portage is self-contained, unmasking it doesn't contaminate the system with legions of other unstable $STUFF So why has it continued to be marked 'unstable' for so long ? My long-standing policy

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/2/2010 3:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: No, you completely misunderstand what stable, unstable and masked mean. You are using stable (and call it unstable which is wrong). What you call masked is actually called unstable. Masked is something else entirely. Do not confuse these terms. They

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 23:37:33 Philip Webb wrote: 100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: The list of benefits from using latest unstable portage is very long. Portage is self-contained, unmasking it doesn't contaminate the system with legions of other unstable $STUFF So why has it continued

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 23:40:17 Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/2/2010 3:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: No, you completely misunderstand what stable, unstable and masked mean. You are using stable (and call it unstable which is wrong). What you call masked is actually called unstable. Masked

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 23:30:54 Philip Webb wrote: 100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I had this on my stand-by machine discovered it was waiting for a broken CD drive; when I unplugged

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 04:06:14 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 17:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 29 January 2010 16:26:42 Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't really care about any killswitch operation, but I'm interested in why I'm getting a . message. NetworkManager

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-02-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 30 January 2010 12:01:57 you wrote: On Friday 29 January 2010 22:04:44 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:19:46 +, Mick wrote: I checked another machine (of a similar build) which does not seem to have app-text/poppler emerged (only app-text/poppler-data,

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 17:10:26 ubiquitous1980 wrote: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen. At other times, the computer shuts down normally. Does it eventually shutdown after it lands you at the gdm login screen? I suffer similar symptoms with

[gentoo-user] VGA-out screen aspect ratio

2010-02-02 Thread Grant
I've only ever used my laptop's VGA-out into 4:3 screens and it always works great. I've now plugged it into a 16:9 screen for the first time, and it still displays 4:3 on that screen and on my laptop. Is there a way for it to detect the proper aspect ratio? Maybe it depends on the monitor's

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 02:06:14 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 17:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 29 January 2010 16:26:42 Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't really care about any killswitch operation, but I'm interested in why I'm getting a . message. NetworkManager

Re: [gentoo-user] VGA-out screen aspect ratio

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've only ever used my laptop's VGA-out into 4:3 screens and it always works great.  I've now plugged it into a 16:9 screen for the first time, and it still displays 4:3 on that screen and on my laptop.  Is there a way for it to

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 00:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 04:06:14 Iain Buchanan wrote: The 50k of messages all look like this: That's definitely not right. Even with full debugging enabled no app should emit that amount of logs. and yet with debugging disabled,

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 17:34:42 Tom Hendrikx wrote: As for the issue with openrc: =sys-apps/openrc-0.6.0-r1 depends on =sys-apps/sysvinit-2.87-r3, and both are in ~arch. Unmask both, emerge them, run etc-update and be fine. Portage's blocker list has

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 23:37:33 Philip Webb wrote: 100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: The list of benefits from using latest unstable portage is very long. Portage is self-contained, unmasking it doesn't contaminate the system with legions of other unstable $STUFF

[gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. (Or maybe Windows crashed or maybe VMWare crashed - I cannot tell.) Gentoo is still alive and I can log in and look around but the mouse on that computer but its mouse is frozen so I cannot do anything at its screen. It

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 14:47:46 David Relson wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:08:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 06:03:10 David Relson wrote: G'day, I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:12 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. (Or maybe Windows crashed or maybe VMWare crashed - I cannot tell.) Gentoo is still alive and I can log in and look around but the mouse on that computer but

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:12 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. (Or maybe Windows crashed or maybe VMWare crashed - I cannot tell.)    Gentoo is still

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:12 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. (Or maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Tue, 02/02, Mark Knecht wrote: === Thanks for your responses. === FYI, it is possible to control VMware from the shell. Use the vmrun tool. If the guest has vmware tools installed and is working properly you can do a clean shutdown. e.g. vmrun -T ws /path/to/vm.vmx stop soft --