Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Waring
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it against a bunch of

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman wont start

2007-07-05 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: mailman # /etc/init.d/mailman start * Starting mailman ... [ !! ] Obliviously something did not went as plan, but I can't seem to find anything in the log files (/var/log/mail.*). Am I looking the wrong place? If not where should I look? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/5/07, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an RPM package for a program I wanted, where

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread Thufir
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Try doing that with RPMs. Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more due redhat/ fedora using multiple repo's for liability/policy reasons, not

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1

2007-07-05 Thread Stefán István
csütörtök 05 július 2007 03.04 dátummal Rumen Yotov ezt írta: On (04/07/07 15:26) Stefán István wrote: Hello! I got the following error: * Failed Running automake ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * *

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 - SOLVED

2007-07-05 Thread Stefán István
szerda 04 július 2007 15.26 dátummal Stefán István ezt írta: Hello! I got the following error: * Failed Running automake ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/automake-24490.out !!! ERROR:

[gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 - SOLVED

2007-07-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think that maybe it is a bug in the portage. This package (gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1) should be dependent from automake-1.9.6-r2. If you think so, go to bugzilla and check, if that issue has been filed already. If not, go ahead and create a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman wont start

2007-07-05 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: mailman # /etc/init.d/mailman start * Starting mailman ... [ !! ] Obliviously something did not went as plan, but I can't seem to find anything in the log files (/var/log/mail.*). Am I looking the wrong place? If not

[gentoo-user] Re: Beryl, kde and updating

2007-07-05 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Novensiles divi Flamen schrieb: Since syncing the night before last beryl is no longer diplaying properly. I get the desktop, I get the cube, and I get window decorations on programs. But most programs display absolutely nothing inside the window decorations, and a few other programs (ie

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Galevsky
Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current

[gentoo-user] [OT] Storing ssh and gpg keys in USB flash drives

2007-07-05 Thread José González Gómez
Hi there, I would like to store my ssh and gpg keys in my usb flash drive, but I'm not sure what's the best way to do it: If I use vfat so I can also read them from Windows I have two problems: first you must mount your USB key with a 0077 umask, so ssh and gpg doesn't complain about key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:37:14 + (UTC) Thufir wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Try doing that with RPMs. Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more due redhat/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beryl, kde and updating

2007-07-05 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
Thanks for the tip. Turns out it was the newer i810 video driver, which also breaks dual monitor output. I downgraded back to 1.7.4 and normal operation is resumed. Would this be considered a reportable bug in the video driver? - Noven On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:24:02 Marc Blumentritt wrote:

[gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread sain yan
Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? and I install another kernel , Then write the file menu.lst at /boot/grub/menu.lst, But Grub DON`T read it when booting,Why?? anybody help me?

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007, sain yan wrote: Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? and I install another kernel , Then write the file menu.lst at /boot/grub/menu.lst, But Grub DON`T read it

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: Hi, [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst - grub.conf [14:01] concubine:~ $ So what? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Waring
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:51:10PM +0800, sain yan wrote: On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? The file you want is stored as: /boot/grub/grub.conf on Gentoo systems. You need to edit that file in order

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: 2007/7/5, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: Hi, [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst - grub.conf [14:01]

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
What I do is maintain two xorg.conf files: xorg.conf.home xorg.conf.work. Hm... that's what I wanted to avoid, since it's usually a PITA to maintain multiple instances of a config (I'm already doing this with sendmail...). Then I do not start X during startup. Instead I log into the console

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread Colleen Beamer
Thufir wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Try doing that with RPMs. Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more due redhat/ fedora using multiple repo's for

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Dominik Żyła
2007/7/5, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: Hi, [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst - grub.conf [14:01] concubine:~ $ So what? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar (model specs or just a unique binary value) at boot time, so I can invoke an appropriate script during system init. $ eix edid *

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:37:02 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: Yes, that's pretty close to what I'm doing right at the moment. But I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar (model specs or just a unique

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.21 and sundance.ko problems.

2007-07-05 Thread Dominik Żyła
2007/7/4, Dominik Żyła [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/7/4, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dominik Żyła wrote: Hi, I have 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX NIC and running Gentoo with 2.6.21 kernel. When I load sundance.ko there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.21 and sundance.ko problems.

2007-07-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:08:42 +0200 Dominik Żyła [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX NIC and running Gentoo with 2.6.21 kernel. When I load sundance.ko there is no interfaces available in my `ifconfig -a` output. Besides, all 4 interfaces are listed in `lspci` output.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/5/07, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an RPM package for a program I wanted, where

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 02:09:43 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: David Relson wrote: Why is emerge giving me 2.9.2 rather than the newer 2.10.0_rc1 ??? try emerge -upv claws-mail If you omit -u (means --upgrade), you will re-emerge currently installed version. -u means direct deps will

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted

2007-07-05 Thread Michael Niggli
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I posted earlier on this subject but scored no hits. I've been poking around on the Web for answers but so far without luck. When I plug the player into port and $dmesg, this comes up: SNIP Why won't it assign a drive, like /dev/sda? It does on another machine

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted

2007-07-05 Thread John covici
on Thursday 07/05/2007 Michael Niggli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I posted earlier on this subject but scored no hits. I've been poking around on the Web for answers but so far without luck. When I plug the player into port and $dmesg, this

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Galevsky
2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: -u means direct deps will be updated too and that the target (in this case claws-mail) won't be remerged unless there's an upgrade (or downgrade). Without -u it still merges the latest visible version of the target

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Gibbons
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:51:10 +0800 sain yan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? and I install another kernel , Then write the file menu.lst at /boot/grub/menu.lst,

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Don Jerman
On 7/5/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As I wrote in my first answer to this thread (which somehow didn't make it to the list, yet), the problem is (IMHO) with /boot not beeing mounted at all. Yes, if you followed the Gentoo install instructions closely /boot is not mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 05 July 2007 20:07:58 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -u means direct deps will be updated too and that the target (in this case claws-mail) won't be remerged unless there's an upgrade (or downgrade). Without -u it still merges the latest visible version of the target itself..

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Why are you posting this? Was I unclear about anything? Nevermind, man. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica ¿Su empresa consume demasiado ancho de banda? ¡Consulteme! Free (as

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted

2007-07-05 Thread maxim wexler
concerning USB settings, the same. But how about SCSI disk support? It It's there. CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y No help. OS finds the device and scans it but refuses to assign a drive letter. -mw We

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Storing ssh and gpg keys in USB flash drives

2007-07-05 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/5/07, José González Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I would like to store my ssh and gpg keys in my usb flash drive, but I'm not sure what's the best way to do it: If I use vfat so I can also read them from Windows I have two problems: first you must mount your USB key with a

Re: [gentoo-user] usb-storage detected but drive not assigned

2007-07-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:57:49 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I can't mount a usb music stick with a fat fs because a drive letter eg /dev/sda has not been assigned. Here's dmesg: snip usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2:

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin

2007-07-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:49:23 +0530 Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using qmail,qmail-scanner spammassassin in gentoo.. I typed up some notes while setting up SA enhancements. Maybe they'd prove useful to you:

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:40:20 +0200 Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am

[gentoo-user] Switching virtual desktops in KDE with Xinerama

2007-07-05 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
Hi Can I switch virtual desktops in KDE with Xinerama separately on each screen? I know that it can be done without Xinerama(by using two X11 screens), but I might have the ability moving windows between screens - with Xinerama I can this. Thanks for any suggestions -- best regards, Aleksey

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
I recently discovered 'savefallback' in grub which I did not know about. I'll assume you're using that but again, I haven't seen your grub.conf. Dan Farrell made an intresting point about boot log and showconsole, but I assumed you were already using that. But I still don't that will help you

Re: [gentoo-user] usb-storage detected but drive not assigned-FIXED

2007-07-05 Thread maxim wexler
Did you include modules for scsi disks? I think it's sd_mod. Well, I *thought* I did. Thanks Dan. Maxim Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Galevsky
2007/7/5, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:40:20 +0200 Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Galevsky
Sorry, I was building again my kernel image to confirm that It was not a stupid mistake. 2007/7/6, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I recently discovered 'savefallback' in grub which I did not know about. I'll assume you're using that but again, I haven't seen your grub.conf. Dan Farrell made

[gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?

2007-07-05 Thread Dan Farrell
Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. Any suggestions? I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which doesn't support the P-III instruction set completely. The computer boots and the

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Dale
Galevsky wrote: Thank you Dan, but I did it before, and boot.log remains empty. In fact, the new kernel boot turns on like grub couldn't find the kernel image SNIP and my grub.conf: ### START (grub.conf) sd-4421 boot # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # Customized boot procedure

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:44 +0200, Galevsky wrote: and my grub.conf: ### START (grub.conf) sd-4421 boot # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # Customized boot procedure default 0 timeout 1 #fallback 1 2 title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo_xen_dom0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen

Re: [gentoo-user] PPTP connection to Windows server 2003 vpn

2007-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:50 -0500, Karl Haines wrote: I've been following the guide at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_PPTP_VPN_client_%28Microsoft-compatible_with_mppe%29 Trying to get my vpn to work going from my linux laptop. That would really make the boss jealous! heh, vpn from my linux

Re: [gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?

2007-07-05 Thread Dale
Dan Farrell wrote: Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. Any suggestions? I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which doesn't support the P-III instruction set completely.

Re: [gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?

2007-07-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell wrote: Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. Any suggestions? I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based

[gentoo-user] Problems compiling ikvm

2007-07-05 Thread Martin Larsson
I'm trying to compile ikvm-0.34.0.2 but i fails with no errors. It looks as if javac doesn't get any input and therefore spits out usage information, much like typing javac on a shell prompt: [nant] /var/tmp/portage/dev-dotnet/ikvm-0.34.0.2/work/ikvm-0.34.0.2/classpath/classpath.build

[gentoo-user] memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

2007-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, slightly OT I know, but the usual excuses apply :) I'm running memtest from a live-cd on a P4 3GHz HT desktop, with two sticks of corsair VS512MB on an ASUS P4P800-X. It always freezes at the start of test 3. The cursor keeps flashing, and there is no display corruption, but I can't do

[gentoo-user] usb external drive

2007-07-05 Thread James
Hello, I use ivman with usb sticks and move them between windoze and linux systems without issue. I just got a FreeAgent usb 2.0 external disk drive and expected it to work just like a usb stick (not really sure why I had this expectation). It does not show up with a 'df' command, like a

[gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

2007-07-05 Thread James
Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp.com.au writes: I've swapped the sticks around, used either by themselves, tried different slots, - everything except completely different RAM. hello Iain, Not sure this is useful, but, if you can get the system to boot, you and look more closely at the memory

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted

2007-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: concerning USB settings, the same. But how about SCSI disk support? It It's there. CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y No help. OS finds the device and scans it but refuses to assign a drive letter. -mw

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext sain yan: Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? Because you didn't mount /boot? and I install another kernel , Then write the file menu.lst at