Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs

2006-06-21 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:38, Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi, I want to make copies of our PS/2 game CDs so that they can use the copies and we can put up the originals. They seem to either scratch real easy or they are really touchy about scratches. Does anybody here know of a way to do

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus checksum fail

2006-06-21 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:48, Kumar Golap wrote: I am trying to updat dbus to the latest and i get the following # emerge -uv dbus Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/dbus-0.62 to / checking ebuild checksums !!! Digest verification failed: !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Boinc setiathome on AMD64

2006-06-21 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 00:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone on this list using BOINC+setiathome on AMD64? If so, what was your process for getting it working? From what I can tell, the setiathome package in portage is out-of-date. Furthermore, the x86_64 BOINC+setiathome ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-21 Thread Robert Persson
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 22:49 Jean Magnan de Bornier was like: Yes Thanks! That's what I needed to know. -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-21 Thread David Klempner
* Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-21 00:15]: I upgraded yesterday to 2.6.17 and also noticed that there was no split option. Not thinking much of it I installed the kernel which works fine, except now /proc/kcore reports 897M, and `free` something to that effect too. So I take it

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-21 Thread David Klempner
* Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-20 16:51]: I figured it out. The VMSPLIT options are *not* available on 64-bit systems. (Phew. It's neither encroaching madness nor Alzheimer's.) Yeah... I suppose I wasn't paying close enough attention to what you were saying. :-) The VMSPLIT

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel cannot find files

2006-06-21 Thread Trenton Adams
thanks On 6/20/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 01:56, Trenton Adams wrote: Nope, those mirrors do not change anything. I tried to use default mirrors, and it only tried three mirrors. Don't know why it's not working. Very odd. They must have moved

[gentoo-user]

2006-06-21 Thread Christian Panten
Hello, after some update (I can't recognize with I made) I had some problems with kicker. The taskbar didn't return from automaticle blend out. After reinstallation of kdelibs and kicker I solved this problem. But there are also some problems remained. 1. Starting kde I get an error that

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus checksum fail

2006-06-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:18:06 -0600, Kumar Golap wrote: !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/sys-apps/dbus/dbus-0.62.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 3913 !!! Expected: 3863 sync again, this was fixed yesterday. If it still fails, try another

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip

2006-06-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:53:18 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: It seems that transcode ripping stopped short. The movie has 187351 frames, but only 152564 were ripped. This is most likely a problem with your transcode/libdvdread installation, resp. a problem with this specific DVD. I see this error,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-21 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi David, David Klempner wrote: Actually, I side with the kernel developers on this; the fact that they're hiding the VMSPLIT options is basically a subtle hint that they don't want people using them who don't *really* know what they're doing.

[gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went well until the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashing loggin box. I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am faced with not being able to loggin at all. This raises a few

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Caster
On 6/21/06, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went welluntil the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashingloggin box.I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am faced with not being

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went well until the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashing loggin box. I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am faced with

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from another box. As a last

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/6/21, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? In this case, all you need to do is boot without

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Paul Stear wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Daniel Iliev
Another way: If you use grub, you can edit the boot command line. Add init=/bin/sh to the end of the boot command line. Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The same method applies to lilo too. -- Best

[gentoo-user] Portage: missing pieces

2006-06-21 Thread Molle Bestefich
I think a piece might be missing from Portage. I'll depict my workflow as an example. I'm preparing to upgrade: # emerge --sync # emerge -Dp world [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking

[gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... Smells like a bug. cu --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:34, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... Smells like a bug. More

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Daniel Iliev wrote: Another way: If you use grub, you can edit the boot command line. Add init=/bin/sh to the end of the boot command line. Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The same method applies to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. Remember that the user must be in the cron group to be able to use cron/crontab. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:39, Alexander Skwar wrote: True. But with lilo, you've got to modify the lilo.conf (or what's it called?) and run lilo, don't you? Or can you modify the boot command line on-the-fly in the boot menu? Of course: after selecting an entry from the lilo menu, just

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. Correct. It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... No, that's not a fix. That's a break in.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 13:34 schrieb ext Enrico Weigelt: I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. Looks quite normal. It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... Or by

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:39, Alexander Skwar wrote: True. But with lilo, you've got to modify the lilo.conf (or what's it called?) and run lilo, don't you? Or can you modify the boot command line on-the-fly in the boot menu? Of course: after selecting an entry

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: missing pieces

2006-06-21 Thread Shaochun Wang
add virtual/xft ~x86 to /etc/portage/package.keywords On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: I think a piece might be missing from Portage. I'll depict my workflow as an example. I'm preparing to upgrade: # emerge --sync # emerge -Dp world [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Shaochun Wang
It's a dangerous action to change a program's setuid bit! -- Shaochun Wang(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've just emerge'd inetd, and this installed xinetd. How can I get inetd installed ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax:

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Nico Schümann
2006/6/21, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, no flame, but it's probably easier than with grub, where you have to explicitly press some key to modify the command line. I agree. I don't want to say anything like lilo is better (I personally prefer grub because I always forget to run lilo

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nico Schümann wrote: 2006/6/21, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, no flame, but it's probably easier than with grub, where you have to explicitly press some key to modify the command line. I agree. I don't want to say anything like lilo is

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 07:26, Mike Huber wrote: My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors is for memory address space (4Gigs of virtual memory space without PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like 128Terrabytes of addressable memory).

Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, hiya I've just emerge'd inetd, and this installed xinetd. How can I get inetd installed ? compile frm source, or get an outside-portage ebuild. google for inetd ebuild, for example. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman

Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-06-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 08:35, Christian Panten wrote: Hello, after some update (I can't recognize with I made) I had some problems with kicker. The taskbar didn't return from automaticle blend out. After reinstallation of kdelibs and kicker I solved this problem. But there are also some

Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/21/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just emerge'd inetd, and this installed xinetd. How can I get inetd installed ? inetd is a virtual package that is provided by xinetd now. anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! -- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 13:34 schrieb ext Enrico Weigelt: It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... Or by editing /etc/cron.allow Nah, doesn't help. Just have a look at /usr/bin/crontab. Smells like a bug. Works as

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:58, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hm - can you also *modify* the boot commands? Say, the boot command in lilo.conf contains vga=123 and now, for whatever reason, you want vga=ask - what to do? You pass vga=ask on the fly on the command line and this takes precedence

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Nico Schümann wrote: 2006/6/21, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, no flame, but it's probably easier than with grub, where you have to explicitly press some key to modify the command line. I agree. I don't want to say anything like lilo is better (I

Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14:18, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've just emerge'd inetd, and this installed xinetd. How can I get inetd installed ? Well, if you *really* want it [1]. I do agree with the others. You should just use xinitd as it is superior to inetd. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: missing pieces

2006-06-21 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/21/06, Molle Bestefich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a piece might be missing from Portage. I'll depict my workflow as an example. I'm preparing to upgrade: # emerge --sync # emerge -Dp world [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.1) [blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip

2006-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 04:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: I see this error, but usually near the start of the rip. I get rid of it by setting Grab subtitle preview images to No. Hm. I always see it at the end, and it makes no difference what I have the grab subtitle setting at. Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Grub, Hardened, and AMD64

2006-06-21 Thread Michael Crute
On 6/20/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: I am building a server (AMD Opteron 64) and as a matter of policy I always run the hardened profile on my servers. Now this is my first time doing an install on an AMD64 architecture with hardened and so far it has gone

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, Putting the users into the cron group fixed it. Okay, as it should be ;-o In all these years I never had a system which required this. For security reasons, this is not bad, so certain users can be both allowed to have an crontab but forbidden to edit it. But this is quite

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:04:04 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: You pass vga=ask on the fly on the command line and this takes precedence over whatever is in lilo.conf. The same happens for the root=, initrd=, ramdisk=, and other kernel parameters. What happens if something is wrong with your

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread fei huang
On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there ingentoo land.Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generallyunhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a mkfs /dev/sda1 (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 14:29 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: Or by editing /etc/cron.allow Nah, doesn't help. Just have a look at /usr/bin/crontab. Yes, you're right. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Nico Schümann
2006/6/21, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What happens if something is wrong with your initrd and you need to remove the initrd= option from the command line? I'd try things like initrd= for example. Maybe it's ignored. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
Having given up on dvdrip for ripping dvd's, i've since moved on to a howto I was pointed at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320

Re: [gentoo-user] (kcminit failing, arts hanging)

2006-06-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Christian Panten wrote: after some update (I can't recognize with I made) Run 'genlop -u --list --date 2 days ago' to see what you updated in the last two days, or whenever you started noticing the problems. Anything alsa-like in there? 1. Starting kde I get an error that kcminit failed.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs

2006-06-21 Thread Teresa and Dale
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:38, Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi, I want to make copies of our PS/2 game CDs so that they can use the copies and we can put up the originals. They seem to either scratch real easy or they are really touchy about scratches. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: What happens if something is wrong with your initrd and you need to remove the initrd= option from the command line? Good question! In this regard, grub is certainly better since it shows you the complete command line, and you can tweak

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:32:31 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: But this is quite inconvenient, if you have dozens of users and want to allow them all to edit their crontabs. egrep ^.*?:.*?:.*?:100: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | while read u do gpasswd -a $u cron; done will add all users from group

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs

2006-06-21 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/21/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:38, Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi, I want to make copies of our PS/2 game CDs so that they can use the copies and we can put up the originals. They seem to either scratch real easy or

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:37:27 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: What happens if something is wrong with your initrd and you need to remove the initrd= option from the command line? Good question! In this regard, grub is certainly better since it shows you the complete command line, and you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 16:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: egrep ^.*?:.*?:.*?:100: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | while read u do gpasswd -a $u cron; done will add all users from group GID 100 (users on this system) to the cron group. Well... awk -F: \$4~/^\ `awk -F: '$1~/^users$/{print $3}'

[gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?

2006-06-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there any tool for changing the colors of the linux console ? (or at least invert them). I'm currently sitting in the garden with my notebook, the sun is shining bright, and its really hard to read anything ... thx --

Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ? Wouldn't it make more

[gentoo-user] Help with nvidia fake raid.

2006-06-21 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi list, I have been trying for 5 days now to install a gentoo system on a nvidia mother board with fake raid, I already have a windows system on the machine that needs the raid and I want to install gentoo on it. I have followed instructions on

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Ian Porter
Hi Having given up on dvdrip for ripping dvd's, i've since moved on to a howto I was pointed at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder Not sure how much of a help it is, but ages ago I was playing about with linux avi/mpeg - dvd ripping etc.. and did write up a couple of notes on

Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/21/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ? The answer to this 'why' can be found here: http://www.xinetd.org/faq.html#why Wouldn't it

Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/21/06, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inetd is way too old. I tried googling for it, and I couldn't even find source downloads for it. Just to complement it, inetd _can_ be found in portage, in package sys-apps/netkit-base -- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nvidia fake raid.

2006-06-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi list, I have been trying for 5 days now to install a gentoo system on a nvidia mother board with fake raid, I already have a windows system on the machine that needs the raid and I want to install gentoo on it. I have followed instructions on

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-21 Thread David Klempner
* Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-21 04:12]: Sorry, but one thing remains unclear. Ignoring the fact that adding embedded extras to your kernel on a non-embedded system just to get the the VMSPLIT options is (in my opinion) confusing and unlogical, is this step actually needed

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-21 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:21 -0500, David Klempner wrote: * Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-20 16:51]: I figured it out. The VMSPLIT options are *not* available on 64-bit systems. (Phew. It's neither encroaching madness nor Alzheimer's.) Yeah... I suppose I wasn't paying

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo on an AMD 64bit portable

2006-06-21 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 20:34 +, James wrote: Hello, I've seen snipits of various issues related to running gentoo on a 64 bit amd processor. In particular, I'd like to get a 'low power' chip such as the Turion in a portable. I have a Turion MT-32 laptop (ABS Mayhem F-15 A40 which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nvidia fake raid.

2006-06-21 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
no, I do not have a separated boot partition because I just have 2 disks with the raid, so I cannot have the separated boot partition. But the boot starts and initrd and linuxrc are loaded ( apparently ). On 6/21/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi list, I

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:01:51 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts

Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread kashani
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ?

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with nvidia fake raid.

2006-06-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:34, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: no, I do not have a separated boot partition because I just have 2 disks with the raid, so I cannot have the separated boot partition. But the boot starts and initrd and linuxrc are loaded ( apparently ). Why not? Can you explain with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with nvidia fake raid.

2006-06-21 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I thought I had make clear before, lousy english . I had a separated boot partition but in the raid set, this was what I really mean on previous e-mail. sorry, anyway, I don´t know why it doesn´t work. once that the boot starts. :( On 6/21/06, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Try the script provided on my company's web site (http://www.SysEx.com.na) under Linux tips and tricks. It's tip #5. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline

Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Enrico Weigelt wrote: But this is quite inconvenient, if you have dozens of users and want to allow them all to edit their crontabs. Why is that inconvenient? Just put them in the appropriate group - where's the problem? Alexander Skwar -- Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?

2006-06-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any tool for changing the colors of the linux console ? (or at least invert them). Hm, you're really talking about the console? If you were talking about an xterm, it might be easier - at least with gnome-terminal, it's easy to change all the colors

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/16/06, Claudinei Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd created an initramfs wich mount the nfs share and do the pivot_root (actually switch_root from busybox) but the problem is exactly at this moment, 'cause when I try to do the switch_root and start the real init from the nfs share, the

Re: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] Vmware and Ctrl-E (power Off)

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting really frustrated. (googling didn't help cos not sure what to input as search string) I believe there is a Do you really want to shut down diaglog box somewhere. Can anyone let me know where that is?? In ~/.vmware/preferences, find

Re: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] Vmware and Ctrl-E (power Off)

2006-06-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:58 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 6/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting really frustrated. (googling didn't help cos not sure what to input as search string) I believe there is a Do you really want to shut down diaglog box somewhere. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pivot_root is specifically *not* allowed from an initramfs environment. What you want to do is simply mount the new root filesystem, chroot into it, and execute init. Something like: cd /new_root ; exec

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Rout
dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:48:34 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Try the script provided on my

Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/17/06, marco restelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works fine, but the touchpad. Indeed I have all the advanced features working: double click, scroll ... but using the touchpad when the CPU load is hight the mouse starts jumping around and clicking everywhere. I see two problems

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked

2006-06-21 Thread Hans Schou
Hi I have several Gentoo installations which works fine but this one id broken. When I do a: emerge xorg-x11 I get: Calculating dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked

2006-06-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hans Schou wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/21/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700 Hm, I'm pretty sure that it is well possible to pivot_root from an initramfs. Isn't that the whole point of pivot_root? But you may be right that it is not possible for NFS mounts, I never tried that

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/21/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email -1,000,000 points for not including the email... -Richard From - Thu Aug 18 13:01:31 2005 X-Account-Key: account1 X-UIDL:

Re: [gentoo-user] Using unencrypted wireless lan

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/20/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! To do some testing, I'd like to use my WLAN in unencrypted mode, ie. no WEP, no WPA. How would I configure that in my /etc/conf.d/net? essid_eth1=fishnet mode_eth1=managed But I think you really want to put this in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs

2006-06-21 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 6/21/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thing. I'm not going to sell the copies. Well, they really don't care about that... Yea, they just want to make us keep replacing the ones that get scratched. It's just a bonus for the security of making

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:29:26 -0400 fire-eyes wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 04:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: I see this error, but usually near the start of the rip. I get rid of it by setting Grab subtitle preview images to No. Hm. I always see it at the end, and it makes no difference

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:51:51 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email that I received from Andrew Morton that made it clear that Al Viro was opposed to pivot_root being used from an initramfs. (BTW, viro's comments are not

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:03, Nick Rout wrote: dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. It looked that way to me, however in every test I tried, after ripping it always said only X out of a total of Y frames were ripped, and it was always somewhere around 20 - 30%

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Mike Markowski
Norberto Bensa wrote: Mike Markowski wrote: Any ideas? Bueller? Bueller? Please post: $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst $ ls -l /boot $ sudo fdisk -l $ ls -l /dev/console $ ls -l /dev/initctl $ ls -l /dev/null Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is

[gentoo-user] Update: mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
Following the suggestion of some people here, I tried the following items, one at a time, and tried to encode again, and the symptoms never changed. a) Remerge x264-svn without threads support b) Remerge mplayer without custom-cflags or cpudetection CFLAGS I did find a forum entry (not

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/21/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chroot. OK, I definately stand currected. But I was pretty sure I once did this from initramfs. But that was admittedly back in the 2.6.10 days, I think. Yeah, I did it too! ;- Worked great until I tried to use fbsplash/bootsplash, which

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo on an AMD 64bit portable

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/16/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and usb-serial converter devices, but I have never used any of them so I need recommendations on alternative serial (rs232C) hardware. I have a USB to RS232 converter that I used to connect to a router. It works great. So I wouldn't worry about

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got No, /dev/initctl is a named pipe created when init runs... title Gentoo 2.6.17 root (hd0,0)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs

2006-06-21 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/21/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 6/21/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thing. I'm not going to sell the copies. Well, they really don't care about that... Yea, they just want to make us keep replacing the ones that get

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked

2006-06-21 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Hans Schou wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.2 (masked by: ~x86

[gentoo-user] Anyone using Yahoo as Postfix relay? (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply)

2006-06-21 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Has anyone here got a Postfix server set up to relay through Yahoo's SMTP service, please? Normally when I send mail, postfix on the server under the stairs connects directly to the addressee's mailserver (normal SMTP then) or uses my ISP's mailserver as a relayhost. Until

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Mike Markowski
Richard Fish wrote: On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got No, /dev/initctl is a named pipe created when init runs... title Gentoo

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync fails

2006-06-21 Thread Rafael Alfaro
Hi, I have and emerge --sync problem, (emerge-webrsync still works): emerge --sync Starting rsync with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage... Checking server timestamp ... building file list ... rsync: link_stat /root/300 failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync: link_stat

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