[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-19 Thread Remy Blank
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's why I use rdiff-backup. Yes, me too, but *inside* the encrypted container. - If you have disconnection during the rsync step (happened to me last

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-19 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's a potential problem with any form of backup, local or remote. The truly paranoid would use two different backup methods on two

[gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't find anything in the logs. How could I troubleshoot it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] module in use - by who?

2008-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
In general, is there an easy way to determine what is using a module? For instance, if I do lsmod and see that a module is in use by one process, how do I tell which process that might be? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gpgsm is giving me a headache

2008-04-19 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to import an SSL certificate into gpgsm/kleopatra and I cannot seem to be able to make it work: 1. Trying the CLI gives me: = $ gpgsm --import /media/sda/Personal/OpenSSL/Comodo/michael_email_comodo_080419.p12 gpgsm: gpgsm: GPG_TTY

[gentoo-user] Re: gpgsm is giving me a headache

2008-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to import an SSL certificate into gpgsm/kleopatra and I cannot seem to be able to make it work: 1. Trying the CLI gives me: = $ gpgsm --import

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't find anything in the logs. How could I troubleshoot it? lsof grep can tell you which files are accessed.

[gentoo-user] Re: Need simple smtp sendmail

2008-04-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-18, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been three years since I last set up mail on my workstation which I'm replacing after a motherboard failure. One of the pieces I'm missing is what do I need to allow processes like portage and mdadm send notification messages to my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't find anything in the logs. How could I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't find anything in If you use Kopete, check if you have statistics plugin enabled. If so, disable it. HTH,

[gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
I have a little Mac Mini - my first attempt at Gentoo on a PowerPC - that I brought up this week. It was (is) working but I'm not using it for anything yet. Just playing around with the machine. Nothing serious. This morning I wasn't paying much attention and wanted to do an emerge -DuN world.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need simple smtp sendmail

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-04-18, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mail-mta/ssmtp, which is generally installed by default. Or, if you need to support multiple e-mail accounts: mail-mta/msmtp. Thank you! The key was knowing it was ssmtp that I needed to configure. I then found:

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread forgottenwizard
On 11:27 Sat 19 Apr , Mark Knecht wrote: Question: Is there a way to recover from this? Try going into a LiveCD and either copy the coreutils from a stage, or try re-emerging it there. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 April 2008, forgottenwizard wrote: On 11:27 Sat 19 Apr , Mark Knecht wrote: Question: Is there a way to recover from this? Try going into a LiveCD and either copy the coreutils from a stage, or try re-emerging it there. Of course if you want more detail check previous

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: How do you mean I need to run lsof? Use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console quickly while KDE is shutting down and run it from there, exactly - and you do have to do it as root ;) lsof shows

[gentoo-user] Re: Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE=acl nls (-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr 3,670 kB [blocks B     ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B     ] =sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Justin
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE=acl nls (-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr 3,670 kB [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking

[gentoo-user] init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Gyuszk
Hello Gentoo users, I just can't fsck my root device because my Gentoo system don't allow me to remount it as readonly (mount -o ro,remount /dev/hda1). A rw-mounted device is unsafe to be fsck -ed. (AFAIK). When I go to tty1, login as root, do these: killall kdm, then init 1. It goes to

Re: [gentoo-user] init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:18:04PM +0200, Gyuszk wrote: 3.) Other solution? man shutdown: -F Force fsck on reboot. (I know, this one is not really intuitive) -- Work with computer has 2 phases. First, computer waits for the user to tell it what to do, then the user waits for the

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Gyuszk wrote: I can unmount my /boot and /home partitions but I just can't remount my root device to be readonly. (Linux says it is busy.) What should I do with this? 1.) Should I edit my Grub menu.lst to make a new entry with single ro kernel parameteres? 2.) Of

[gentoo-user] Raid5 not assembled after boot

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, This is the first time I've played with a software raid and it looks like I'm missing a part. The raid5 consists of three AHCI 1TB drives (sdb1,sdc1,sdd1) assembled as /dev/md1 and formatted ext3. The raid is just a data drive mounted on /var/media. Here's the array line from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, den 19.04.2008, 21:08 +0200 schrieb Mark Knecht: It doesn't seem the link to the Walter Dnes doesn't give the answer but suggests like you do that there is an answer out there. No. It's the Crippled system thread. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Gyuszk wrote: I can unmount my /boot and /home partitions but I just can't remount my root device to be readonly. (Linux says it is busy.) What should I do with this? 1.) Should I edit my Grub menu.lst to make a new entry with single ro

Re: [gentoo-user] init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:18:04PM +0200, Gyuszk wrote: 3.) Other solution? man shutdown: -F Force fsck on reboot. (I know, this one is not really intuitive) Thanks! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote: Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! Hindsight is a wonderful thing - but pretty useless in its timing. I don't know about the OP, but I usually discover that

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread CJoeB
Justin wrote: Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! I think you're being a little harsh. :-) Usually, unmerging a package that is blocking another package has, in my limited experience, always solved

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote: Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't really paying attention being sidetracked, and the shit

[gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion display error?

2008-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
I upgraded my KDE 3.5.9 laptop to use compiz-fusion. It works! But i have a display problem... My laptop lcd is 1280x800 native. KDE, without compiz, uses theentire display, no problems... However, once I start up compiz, I loose the right third of the screen. That is, the display get

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Thanks a lot! I'll give a deep look at the mentioned files. Anyway I think I'll set my fstab. Now all my partitions are set to never fsck at boot time. :) Supposing it's a ext2/3 partition you may also want to use tune2fs to set the check

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote: Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't really paying attention being

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot

2008-04-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no attempts to start the array until I manually try. Any hints on what I'm missing? Personal experience: 1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use only the latter (I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote: Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! You know, shit happens. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-19 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Thanks a lot! I'll give a deep look at the mentioned files. Anyway I think I'll set my fstab. Now all my partitions are set to never fsck at boot time. :) Supposing it's a ext2/3 partition you may also want to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: How do you mean I need to run lsof? Use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console quickly while KDE is shutting down and run it from there, exactly - and

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Question: Is there a way to recover from this? you should have busybox installed. Just create a symlink for every tool needed. ln -s bb ls and something like that. If even ln is gone, do it from busybox itself - it has everything needed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no attempts to start the array until I manually try. Any hints on what I'm missing? Personal experience: 1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Chris Brennan
I've found, keeping a backup kernel from my last update and loading busybox instead of the system has recued my ass on more then one occassion. Ironicly, I encounted this problem on both my Gentoo Desktop *and* my Gentoo Laptop roughtly a month to two months ago. At this time, there was no

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
080419 Volker Armin Hemmann Mick discussed: M a box running vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time M to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. VAH lsof grep can tell you which files are accessed. VAH Maybe it takes a looong time writing to kdm.log VAH something that sometimes make my shutdowns