Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-16 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Thanks all. Installing portage 2 and uninstalling some other package now I'm able to update the system. I've uninstalled xfce, firefox (??!) and kde. Now the update seems to proceed. Then I'll reinstall everything. However, I tried emerge belong on my system, but it gave me no output: #

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-16 Thread Dale
Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Thanks all. Installing portage 2 and uninstalling some other package now I'm able to update the system. I've uninstalled xfce, firefox (??!) and kde. Now the update seems to proceed. Then I'll reinstall everything. However, I tried emerge belong on my system,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-16 Thread Marco
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la in *... ] # Equery doesn't give any results because it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-16 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't know. Well, I'm not very expert about gentoo... I though it would query some kind of database to ask what package contains a certain file Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 August 2010 11:38:17 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.lahttp://libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la in *...

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 16 August 2010 10:38:17 Dale wrote: I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me many ages ago. I didn't either until you mentioned it, for which thanks. :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-16 Thread Nganon
On 16 August 2010 03:15, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com nganon%2bgen...@gmail.com writes: Hello all, My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I started to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-16 Thread Nganon
On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.comnganon%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

2010-08-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roman Dobosz gry...@op.pl wrote: Also, cdrecord doesn't work: # cdrecord -v -dev=4,0,0 /mnt/data/t.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode. cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/14/2010 12:32 PM, Jarry wrote: On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. well, these solutions are way bigger (iow: more resource intensive), since they run a

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 01:11 AM, Adam Carter wrote: why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore of the mbr. And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the new harddisk has a different size? Just tar up

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 schrieb Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org: Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig command? I can work around the issue by

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 08:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super light,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 09:07 PM, James wrote: Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sr0 I will try all types mentioned in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/16/2010 02:57 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: lots of good stuff snipped Which all goes to say you should resist the creation of any such lookup tool with every fibre of your being :-) Alan, if I ever get near your part of your continent, I'm going to buy you a beer

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/14/2010 12:32 PM, Jarry wrote: On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com  wrote: Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. well, these

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-16 Thread Jarry
On 16. 8. 2010 17:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com: That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests share the same kernel. This brings

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/16/2010 09:07 AM, Jarry wrote: On 16. 8. 2010 17:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com: That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

2010-08-16 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad

[gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-16 Thread Stéphane Guedon
I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser !

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

2010-08-16 Thread Roman Dobosz
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:29:45 +0200 joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: It seems that the workaround for the Pioneer firmware bug does not handle the multi-border case. So, it means, that this is hardware failure? Track Sess Type Start Addr End Addr Size

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-16 Thread Johannes Kimmel
On 08/16/2010 08:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-16 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Monday 16 August 2010 21:39:13, Johannes Kimmel a écrit : On 08/16/2010 08:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror,

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

2010-08-16 Thread Roman Dobosz
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:54:02 +0200 Roman Dobosz gry...@op.pl wrote: Vendor_info: 'PIONEER ' Identifikation : 'DVD-RW DVR-216D' Revision : '1.08' Damn. So this was really Pioneer (and partially my) fault. After firmware upgrading, cdrecord is working just

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for.

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I'm a newb in video, but it was suggested to me by someone who uses it, so I wanted to try. Mplayer comes with a program called mencoder, which will do your

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for.  I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/16/2010 12:47 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: nspluginwrapper currently doesn't allow flash player to work, don't know why... You could look at swfdec-gnome too.

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:00:49 -0700 schrieb Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com: On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 schrieb Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org: Is there any way to

[gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

2010-08-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, Gnome and KDE) in around 4

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote: On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.comnganon%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say,

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/16/2010 02:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

2010-08-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend Oh my, this is fast. server is an old PowerPC which takes

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

2010-08-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/16/2010 02:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all,    I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers.    Here's the setup: My desktop machine

[gentoo-user] Re: dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-16 Thread walt
On 08/15/2010 04:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running 64-bit Gentoo on an Intel 4-core i3 with an Intel integrated graphics controller. An excerpt from dmesg follows, with the video- related stuff. Note the two lines that I've split off. They mention the mtrr type mismatch and the

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  I'm running 64-bit Gentoo on an Intel 4-core i3 with an Intel integrated graphics controller.  An excerpt from dmesg follows, with the video- related stuff.  Note the two lines that I've split off.  They mention the

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2010 22:55:23 Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with Yahoo at these addresses: cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
r...@smoker / # netstat -p Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43577 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43438

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-16 Thread Thomas Yao
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. I have been using tar, star and rsync.  They all work and they can all make

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-16 Thread James
Bill Longman bill.longman at gmail.com writes: So, there are two problems but the most serious one right now is that you don't have the /mnt/cdrom directory. Make it. That will solve the first problem. Ok /mnt/cdrom built. The second is that you need to tell mount that the disk in your CD

[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-16 Thread dhk
Last week I got a message the my /var partition was almost full. Since it was 10G and I am using lvm2 I added 5G more to it. This evening I got the same message, now I had to investigate. When I did I found that /var/log/messages is huge. # ls -lh /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 12G

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 13 bytes Aug

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-16 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: r...@smoker / # netstat -p Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43577 http://192.168.1.2:43577

[gentoo-user] =www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264

2010-08-16 Thread Andy Wilkinson
I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and later than 6.0.472.33 no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg, and seem to lose support for h264 videos (test any non-webm, html5 video at youtube; it will never load). I've tried doctoring the ebuild to use the system-provided ffmpeg, which does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 Aug 2010, at 20:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
I just did a killall kopete and it did stop. Is there a way to see what it is sending/receiving? I'm talking like is it a jpeg, some other file or something else? rix portage # nmap -p 5050 -sV cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-17 11:27 EST Nmap

[gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-16 Thread CJoeB
Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. Things were so much

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. Things were so

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-16 Thread Hal Martin
A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it will provide. Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage I see that /usr/portage and /var/tmp are using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:28:21PM -0700, walt wrote Does your BIOS let you set the AGP aperture manually? Couldn't hurt to make it bigger if you're able. The comment about 'stolen memory' sounds a bit evil ;) The BIOS only has options for 32/64/128 megabytes. Intel cheaped out with the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

2010-08-16 Thread Petri Rosenström
I own a samsung and I don't recommend anyone to buy one. Nothing in particular wrong (brightness control not working by default), but I don't like it. Regards Petri Rosenström On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Fernando Antunes fs.antu...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM,