Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ow Mun Heng wrote: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sftp

[gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've seen mention of something called an ewarn, which makes me hope it's related to those messages that fly by when I'm doing a big emerge update. I always mean to go back and look at them, but they get scrolled off. A modest amount of googling turned up nothing I could understand. So: in

[gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I tried emerging eclipse. No joy. I went ~x86 on the unstable one that matches the version I use elsewhere, on the off chance that would work. No joy. It seems to be saying I should know how to set your generation-1 VM again which I don't. I have only Java 1.5 installed, which I gather is a

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: I've seen mention of something called an ewarn, which makes me hope it's related to those messages that fly by when I'm doing a big emerge update. It is. So: in plain English, is ewarn something I should know about? If the ebuild makes correct use of ewarn and

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ow Mun Heng schrieb: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) What do you mean? FTP through SSH? Or like the https? Those are two very different approachs! The first is called sftp, SSH File

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:02:10PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've seen mention of something called an ewarn, which makes me hope it's related to those messages that fly by when I'm doing a big emerge update. I always mean to go back and look at them, but they get scrolled off. In

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Thomas Cort
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, where can I read about it? http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/messages/index.html pgpGHgEziCyN1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Justin Krejci
On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:58 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 22:58 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in

[gentoo-user] revdev-rebuild uing wrong 'ebuilds' ...

2006-07-13 Thread Marc Koschewski
Hi folks, that's what I just saw when I did a revdev-rebuild on one of my machines: === ... broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgij.la (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la) broken /usr/lib/libpoppler-cairo.la (requires

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: d

2006-07-13 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: The biggest problem is I'm looking for a tool, gui, or automated approach to discover documents (html, xml, doc-book etc) that go with the myriad of software pacakges. I do not need a tool to parse my directories, I'm looking for a tool that saves me time by producing a unified

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [...] So: in plain English, is ewarn something I should know about? If so, where can I read about it? If it's what I supposed it is, do they get saved somewhere? take a look to enotice: http://www.fmp.com/enotice/ ++ kevin Cheers!

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried emerging eclipse. No joy. I went ~x86 on the unstable one that matches the version I use elsewhere, on the off chance that would work. No joy. It seems to be saying I should know how to set your generation-1 VM again which I don't.

[gentoo-user] Locate and Fix .text Relocations (TEXTRELs)

2006-07-13 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, this morning my akregator didn't want to weak up. So, I launched it from konsole and as I saw no output, I decide to rebuild it (I've been playing around with some use flags, adding, removing...) #eix akregator * kde-base/akregator Available versions: 3.4.3 3.5.2 ~3.5.3 Installed:

[gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Watson
Hi all, I've loaded Gentoo on a Compaq nx 6150 notebook which reports a Intel (R) Pentium (R) M Processor 1.73GHz Stepping 08 CPU at dmesg. For some reason the CPU seems to run very hot with a lot of fan activity compared to when I boot XP, plus overall performance seems slow in comparisom to XP

Re: [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP

2006-07-13 Thread Janusz Bossy
On 7/13/06, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason the CPU seems to run very hot with a lot of fan activity compared to when I boot XP, plus overall performance seems slow in comparisom to XP with Gnome freezing for a few seconds on occasion as though the system is stretched.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:56:36 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: This is a convenience thing for when I manually edit USE. That's all. I have this thing about commandlines/declarations/whatever that wrap around the edge of the screen. You can use backslashes to continue the USE declaration over

Re: [gentoo-user] Font missing after xorg upgrade

2006-07-13 Thread Alan E. Davis
I haven't checked lately, but when I upgraded to modular Xorg, the following font package was missing: media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc I was unable to run a program I'd compiled myself---xtide. Alan Davis On 7/13/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread Jacob Klitmøller
Hi Since Gnome 2.14 is marked stable I thought to upgrade :-) However when I try to emerge gnome I get [blocks B ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13) or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc /portage/package.mask is of no use since

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread Jacob Klitmøller
Hi Since Gnome 2.14 is marked stable I thought to upgrade :-) However when I try to emerge gnome I get [blocks B ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13) or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc /portage/package.mask is of no use since

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 12:08 +0100, Jacob Klitmøller wrote: Hi Since Gnome 2.14 is marked stable I thought to upgrade :-) However when I try to emerge gnome I get [blocks B ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13) or the other way around (mozilla blocking

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread Jacob Klitmøller
Hi Since Gnome 2.14 is marked stable I thought to upgrade. However when I try to emerge gnome I get [blocks B ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13) or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc /portage/package.mask is of no use since both

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread Jacob Klitmøller
Hi Jules Thank you very much - that did the trick. R. Jacob Jules Colding wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 12:08 +0100, Jacob Klitmøller wrote: Hi Since Gnome 2.14 is marked stable I thought to upgrade :-) However when I try to emerge gnome I get [blocks B ] www-client/seamonkey

[gentoo-user] Re: hardened: setuid

2006-07-13 Thread Mick
On 12/07/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not seen any indication of comprimise. Yes the system had redhat some years ago. It's entirely possible the same partition table was used and therefore these residual files are artifacts of a previous installation. My googling did not find any

[gentoo-user] virtual_mailbox_limit_maps problem

2006-07-13 Thread Niki Balov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a problem with my MTA system. I'm using postfix, mysql, amavisd-new, clamav, spamassassin and courrier. The problem is that i don't have virtual_mailbox_limit_maps in my main.cf, but when i run postconf it's there: virtual_mailbox_limit =

Re: [gentoo-user] weird behaviour - unable to connect to wireless router

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Fernando Meira wrote: I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success. The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys WPC54G. I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I think the problem is not from that. I did use

Re: [gentoo-user] Lirc problems

2006-07-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:14:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a serial reciever I found at Lirc.org a very few components. I emerge lirc with LIRC_OPT=serial. When it goes and compiles the lirc_serial module it fails. Can any one help kernel Gentoo-2.6.12-R9 lirc 0.8 What's the

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Justin Krejci
On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:31 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 22:58 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) It's

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
ftps and sftp are different things. sftp is a service offered by ssh; ftps is ftp over ssl, similar to https. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS Justin Krejci wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:31 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 22:58 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Ow

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual_mailbox_limit_maps problem

2006-07-13 Thread Niki Balov
I saw that when i comment the line content_filter = smtp-amavis:[localhost]:10024 in main.cf there is no call for virtual_mailbox_limit_maps. I looked amavisd.conf but didn't see anything strange. Suggestions? Regards, Niki -- Cyberly yours, Nikolay Balov mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Janusz Bossy
On 7/13/06, Justin Krejci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming you mean Microsoft Internet Explorer, you should check into a microsoft windows mailing list if this has nothing to Gentoo or even Linux at all. There are nice sftp/scp apps for windows - winscp works great. This is no Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
Janusz Bossy wrote: This is no Internet Explorer thing and this is exactly the place he should ask. The problem isn't that IE doesn't support sftp but we are looking for something on Gentoo that IE supports (possibly ftps or similar). I haven't heard about anything like that, but on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread William Kenworthy
If 2.14 is stable, why do I get: rattus ~ # emerge gnome -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.12.3 USE=cdr dvdr hal -accessibility 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB synced yesterday. BillK On Fri,

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
William Kenworthy wrote: If 2.14 is stable, why do I get: rattus ~ # emerge gnome -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.12.3 USE=cdr dvdr hal -accessibility 0 kB Maybe an old profile? Where does

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
William Kenworthy wrote: If 2.14 is stable, why do I get: rattus ~ # emerge gnome -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.12.3 USE=cdr dvdr hal -accessibility 0 kB But it's more probable, that you

Re: [gentoo-user] revdev-rebuild uing wrong 'ebuilds' ...

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:40 +0200, Marc Koschewski wrote: It wants to emerge the 'emerge.txt ENV.txt ldapdump.1146827010 ldapdump.1146827010.raw wlan0.txt' ebuils which are, however, just files within root's home directory. Thus emerge bails out with the above error. Maybe someone could have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:43 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: If 2.14 is stable, why do I get: ... Alexander Skwar -- rattus ~ # ls -al /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 2006-03-12 22:17 /etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:45 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: If 2.14 is stable, why do I get: rattus ~ # emerge gnome -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.12.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2006-07-13 Thread wieseltux23
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=pagescontinue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%3A80%2F On Sat, 14 May 2005 18:56:11 +0300 Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached

Re: [gentoo-user] Style Compile Error

2006-07-13 Thread wieseltux23
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=pagescontinue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%3A80%2F On Sat, 14 May 2005 19:49:49 -0700 Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian K wrote: Great! It worked thanks so much for your help, Peter. Turns out I typed it with the wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Sun SparcStation 5 (Gentoo LiveCD)

2006-07-13 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Grzegorz, on Saturday, 2006-07-08 at 07:57:07, you wrote: I decided to set up GenToo linux on Sun SparcStation 5. Since this computer is quite old (32 bit architecture, 170MHz CPU) I need a bit older version of Getoo (I do not think that this old hardware is supported by new versions). I

[gentoo-user] Build error: Gnome update

2006-07-13 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, while trying to update my Gentoo I came across this emerge gnome-panel . . . . . . checking for i386-pc-linux-gnu-g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if i386-pc-linux-gnu-g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if i386-pc-linux-gnu-g77 static flag -static works... yes checking if

[gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Jarry
Hi, I still can not get rid completely of MS-Windows, because I am forced to use some MS-Windows programs. So I am looking for some virtual solution, which I could use with my gentoo-workstation. Now my question is, what is generaly a better solution (stability, compatibility, hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: Gnome update

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Requested 'gnome-vfs-2.0 = 2.14.2' but version of gnome-vfs is 2.12.2 maybe this is apackage ordering problem and you have to install gnome-vfs first emerge --oneshot =gnome-vfs- 2.14.2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/13/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - to use Windows emulator aka Wine (I know, it is NOT emulator) - or to use PC emulator + Windows installed (like VMware) ??? IME wine still has a lot of stabilty and compatibility issues, at least for the things software I need to run. But it get's

[gentoo-user] Cron and Local Root Vuln

2006-07-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
There was a disclosure in bugtraq/full-disclosure on this issue. Main thread is here http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-July/047831.html Workround is here http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-July/047868.html Proof of concept is here

Re: [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/13/06, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to configure your system to scale down the CPU frequency when idle. Read this Howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml#doc_chap3 Btw, I recommend the simplest approach: 1. Build your kernel with the 'ondemand'

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
Richard Fish wrote: On 7/13/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - to use Windows emulator aka Wine (I know, it is NOT emulator) - or to use PC emulator + Windows installed (like VMware) ??? IME wine still has a lot of stabilty and compatibility issues, at least for the things software I need

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Rumen Yotov
Jarry wrote: Hi, I still can not get rid completely of MS-Windows, because I am forced to use some MS-Windows programs. So I am looking for some virtual solution, which I could use with my gentoo-workstation. Now my question is, what is generaly a better solution (stability,

Re: [gentoo-user] Locate and Fix .text Relocations (TEXTRELs)

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/13/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, after akregator compilation, I was looking for some warning and I found a message that toke me to I suggest to post the actual warning message[s], and your emerge --info output. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] SATA USB SCSI drives...

2006-07-13 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Hi everyone.. Running 2006.0, 2.6.15-r5 kernel 1U box, SATA boot drive (sda), and an attached USB drive (in theory, sdb) for on-site backup storage. Problem is--if the USB drive is plugged into the system when it reboots, the *USB drive* comes up as sda. Somehow I doubt changing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Peter Ruskin wrote: The free vmware-player will unfortunately refuse to work if you have more than one processor. Win4LinPro works pretty well (win4lin.com), is cheaper than vmware, but nonetheless pricy. Parallels Workstation (parallels.com) is much more reasonably priced, but won't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Daniel Iliev schrieb: The solution with the trial version the free player of vmware is just great! It never occurred to me so I'm using qemu. No doubt VMWare is the best but it costs (much) money. No, VMware doesn't cost money. Only VMware Workstation costs a bit of money (~250,- $) and ESX

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA USB SCSI drives...

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/13/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone.. Running 2006.0, 2.6.15-r5 kernel 1U box, SATA boot drive (sda), and an attached USB drive (in theory, sdb) for on-site backup storage. Problem is--if the USB drive is plugged into the system when it reboots, the *USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried emerging eclipse. No joy. I went ~x86 on the unstable one that matches the version I use elsewhere, on the off chance that would work. No joy. It seems to be saying I should know

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/13/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [...] So: in plain English, is ewarn something I should know about? If so, where can I read about it? If it's what I supposed it is, do they get saved somewhere? take a look to

[gentoo-user] Message from gtk+ ebuild:

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've got a perplexing message from the ebuild: I says there's a file/scipt/program at /etc/X11/gtk/gtkrc that I should remove. I have no such file. The message itself looks a bit garbled, so I'm wondering if I need to do anything. ++ kevin = Message begins: INFO: unpack

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA USB SCSI drives...

2006-07-13 Thread Andrew Frink
On 7/13/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone..Running 2006.0, 2.6.15-r5 kernel1U box, SATA boot drive (sda), and an attached USB drive (in theory, sdb) for on-site backup storage.Problem is--if the USB drive is plugged into the system when it reboots, the *USB drive*

[gentoo-user] vmware install fails

2006-07-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm giving vmware a try. I emerged app-emulation/vmware-workstation, which compiled without problems. The problem is with the script vmware-config.pl. I accepted the default location for C headers and I checked it corresponds to the current kernel. /usr/src/linux is the correct symlink, and

[gentoo-user] World-file and comments

2006-07-13 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I want to remove some files from the /var/lib/portage/World-file. Do I have to _remove_ the according entry or is it sufficient to comment it out with # or // or Thank you very much for any help in advance ! Keep hacking and have a nice weekend! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron and Local Root Vuln

2006-07-13 Thread kashani
Ow Mun Heng wrote: There was a disclosure in bugtraq/full-disclosure on this issue. Main thread is here http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-July/047831.html Workround is here http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-July/047868.html Proof of concept is here

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Kelly
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 06:04, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a long USE variable (starts with -*, so I enter stuff manually. At one point it got to be something like... USE=-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Jarry
Alexander Skwar wrote: No, VMware doesn't cost money. Only VMware Workstation costs a bit of money (~250,- $) and ESX Server is very expensive. But VMware Server and VMware Player are for free. Thanks for all answers... BTW, what's the difference between all those vmware-versions? Jarry --

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install fails

2006-07-13 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Thursday 13 July 2006 16:02, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm giving vmware a try. I emerged app-emulation/vmware-workstation, which compiled without problems. The problem is with the script vmware-config.pl. I accepted the default location for C headers and I checked it corresponds to the current

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 22:32, mercoledì 12 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: That symlink shouldn't be necessary, as far as I know. That you need it shows something is wrong with the way you've installed modular Xorg. I think so too! What must I do? An emerge -e world? No.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Steve Brenneis wrote: I am using -hardened and -pie right now. Minus pie? That's no USE flag. System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu Why 386 when your processor is 686? (You can't change this now, mind you; it would need a complete reinstall, as

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: No, VMware doesn't cost money. Only VMware Workstation costs a bit of money (~250,- $) and ESX Server is very expensive. But VMware Server and VMware Player are for free. Thanks for all answers... BTW, what's the difference between all those

Re: [gentoo-user] Before doing something wrong

2006-07-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: short question: Is emerge --clean the right way to remove unused stuff from my system You mean 'emerge --depclean --pretend'? Heed the warning and do an 'emerge -uND world' first. And if you're not feeling brave, quickpkg the stuff that's going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Update xorg-x11

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/13/06, Juliano Morais Barbosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try update my xorg-x11 I receive this message. First, please do *not* send multi-part HTML email messages to this list, especially composed with Microsoft Word which imposes it's idea of sane fonts sizes on the rest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Brenneis
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Steve Brenneis wrote: I am using -hardened and -pie right now. Minus pie? That's no USE flag. It was mentioned in one of the Gentoo forums online as a solution to the static library problem. I have to admit I never heard of it either. System uname:

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 08:14 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Ow Mun Heng schrieb: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) What do you mean? FTP through SSH? Or like the https? Those

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 16:19 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Janusz Bossy wrote: This is no Internet Explorer thing and this is exactly the place he should ask. The problem isn't that IE doesn't support sftp but we are looking for something on Gentoo that IE supports (possibly ftps or similar).

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA USB SCSI drives...

2006-07-13 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build USB support as modules, then they won't be available until after the root filesystem is mounted and udev is started. And that was the magic brain unblocker. :) Thanks, Richard! At that point, use udev rules to fix the USB drive's device node to something less

[gentoo-user] after upgrade to xorg-x11 version 7 key 'Alt Gr' doesn't work

2006-07-13 Thread Andreas Schoelver
Hi all ... I am not able to produce special intenational keys any more. (like @ | [] {} \ on my german keyboard) old option Option RightAlt ModeShift does not work any more. Thanks in advance Andreas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Update xorg-x11

2006-07-13 Thread Juliano Morais Barbosa
Hi Richard. Please see the error message. /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/l d: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../libX11.a when searching for -lX11

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: [OT: JOKE]virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
Jarry wrote: Hi, I still can not get rid completely of MS-Windows, because I am forced to use some MS-Windows programs. So I am looking for some virtual solution, which I could use with my gentoo-workstation. Now my question is, what is generaly a better solution (stability,

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install fails

2006-07-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Mauro Faccenda wrote: do you have something like noexec on your /tmp partition? Indeed, and that was it. Remounting solved the problem. Thank you. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problem with eth0 and rc-update

2006-07-13 Thread Manuel Pérez López
I do not know why my eth0 does not start right at default or boot time (or later). I have to restart it manualy everytime with '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart', and then (it is my gate to ADSL) my conection to internet is up. What's the problem? This is my rc-update show (I have 2 eth and 2 wlan)

Re: [gentoo-user] World-file and comments

2006-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
# works On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0200 (CEST) Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to remove some files from the /var/lib/portage/World-file. Do I have to _remove_ the according entry or is it sufficient to comment it out with # or // or Thank you very much for any help

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install fails

2006-07-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:02:37 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: $ /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl [snip] make: execvp: ./getversion.pl: Permission denied Are you running vmware-config.pl as root? You should be. -- Neil Bothwick NOTICE: -- THE ELEVATORS WILL BE OUT OF

Re: [gentoo-user] Update xorg-x11

2006-07-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Juliano Morais Barbosa wrote: Emerging (1 of 1) media-libs/mesa-6.4.2-r2 to / Creating Manifest for /usr/portage/media-libs/mesa Remove digest and assume-digests from your FEATURES. Those are meant for developers. You are undoing emerge's security check. And please don't top post.

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:33 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I do have vsftpd installed and it's what I'm using as the ftp server on a Gentoo Box. I'll go dig and see how to set it up. Found it on the wiki. Now, After it's set up, how do I test it? I don't see any additional ports being opened for

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install fails

2006-07-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:02:37 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: $ /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl [snip] make: execvp: ./getversion.pl: Permission denied Are you running vmware-config.pl as root? You should be. Yep. But the

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/fonts/TTF doesn't exist

2006-07-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 23:52, Richard Fish wrote: Looks pretty normal to me. At least it all matches my system. -Richard PS: Ok, so not _every_ directory in /usr/share/fonts needs a FontPath entry. :-P Phew! Just as I thought that something was amiss with my system. ;-) Note

Re: [gentoo-user] kde volume shortcuts

2006-07-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 13 July 2006 00:14, Mauro Faccenda wrote: If I press fn+down, it decrease the volume to 0%, but again, I cant hear any change on volume. The same happens with mute toggle. KDE shows that its muted/unmuted, but the sound goes on without any change. The kmix tray icon, doesnt

Re: [gentoo-user] after upgrade to xorg-x11 version 7 key 'Alt Gr' doesn't work

2006-07-13 Thread Nico Schümann
2006/7/13, Andreas Schoelver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all ... I am not able to produce special intenational keys any more. (like @ | [] {} \ on my german keyboard) old option Option RightAlt ModeShift does not work any more. Thanks in advance Andreas Hi Andreas, looks like wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Update xorg-x11

2006-07-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 13 July 2006 22:47, Juliano Morais Barbosa wrote: l d: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libX11.a when searching for -lX11 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ l d: cannot find -lX11 Try (re)merging libX11 and repeat above step. It should

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: [OT: JOKE]virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
Nico Schümann wrote: Actually, I'd never do dirty things like these. But I really don't know how the performance would be. I think, the host sets the performance limits. And if the host is kina trash (M$), then there is no use of it. By the way, I recently read about Vanderpool and Windows.

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-13 Thread W.Kenworthy
Yep, thats it. A sync this morning and its available - must have missed it by only a short time with the previous sync! I have been waiting for this to appear, and seeing someone ask that it had been stable, I assumed that it had been out awhile and I was missing out on the good stuff :) BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Lirc problems

2006-07-13 Thread gentoo
On Thursday 13 July 2006 07:57, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:14:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a serial reciever I found at Lirc.org a very few components. I emerge lirc with LIRC_OPT=serial. When it goes and compiles the lirc_serial module it fails. Can

OT: Re: [gentoo-user] Update xorg-x11

2006-07-13 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Richard Fish wrote: Your 11pt font looks absolutely ridiculous on my 133dpi screen. I'm not a typography expert, so correct me if I'm wrong, but should 11pt (being 11/72 by the DTP system) not be the same on any display or other device, regardless of resolution? Are

[gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3

2006-07-13 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, This happens: i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../.. -I../../../.. -I../../../../src -I../../../../src -I../../../../src/cut-n-paste-code -I../../../../src/cut-n-paste-code/goffice -I../../../../src/cut-n-paste-code/foocanvas -DORBIT2=1 -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0

[gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

2006-07-13 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hi List! I recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0, as it was unmasked in stable. However, I was given some font problems along with the upgrade. I haven't found anything on either Google or on bugs.gentoo.org, so I'm turning to the list now. My main problem is that xfs (the X font server, not

[gentoo-user] fvwm conf file request

2006-07-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I decided to bring some order to the chaos on my x-console. So I emerged fvwm. Anybody got a .fvwm2rc they'd be willing to let me use? Something simple, plain, not a lot of eye-candy. Just something to juggle a few xterms, nedit, firefox, xmms etc without having to sort through a

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3

2006-07-13 Thread Ryan Tandy
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: -O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-mem -fforce-addr -finline-functions -falign-functions=4 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 Hmm... do you get a different result with, for

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3

2006-07-13 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:03:45 -0700 Hi Ryan ! short question is there a way to change CFLAGS on-the-fly without hacking any *.conf files ? keep hacking! mcc Meino Christian Cramer wrote: -O3

[gentoo-user] LiveCD genkernel fails

2006-07-13 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to build a liveCD for a single-purpose test, and am having some issues getting the kernel to install. I actually think that this error is in the initrd generation, but I'm not totally positive. I've been using the instructions on the wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3

2006-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:03:45 -0700 Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meino Christian Cramer wrote: -O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-mem -fforce-addr -finline-functions -falign-functions=4

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3

2006-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
As a followup to my previous posting giving this same error with modest CFLAGS I should point out the following. 1. During the big upgrade of gnome-lite to 1.14, the following appeared. Subject: [portage] ebuild log for gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.0 on localhost.localdomain Date: Thu,

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3

2006-07-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 05:32:03AM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: short question is there a way to change CFLAGS on-the-fly without hacking any *.conf files ? # CFLAGS=-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe emerge gnumeric Or for more permanence (I know this is going way beyond what you asked,

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