Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote It's an office suite - I use it mostly to read documents other people send me, and because antiword is a little too minimal. I'm happy with abiword for word processing and gnumeric for spreadsheet stuff. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, SNIP the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me. I'm working with them, too. Just one question remains: I want to use udev. Do I have to create the md devices or does udev that for me? - Put the root partition on another RAID1 (I thought about putting the root filesystem into

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 19 October 2008 18:52:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: I main underlying reason seems to be that Qt now comes as split-ebuilds and Peter has some monolithic ones installed. It's similar to migrating KDE to split-ebuilds, but on a much smaller scale. Unfortunately there's no easy way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 19 October 2008 16:28:35 Alan McKinnon wrote: Repost the output of your emerge command using the -t option. Tip: tricky blockers often require that you post the output of 'emerge -t'. Otherwise all we know is THAT you have a block and no way to determine WHY it's happening. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] AutoFS with LDAP

2008-10-20 Thread Fred Elno
Yes I also use autofs with openldap. My setup is as this: the PDC is running on a gentoo box and provide system authentification with openldap to windows client and also gentoo client, I also use samba for filesharing between client and server. Because I don't want my users being able to see at

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-20 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:20 +0200 Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, SNIP the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me. I'm working with them, too. Just one question remains: I want to use udev. Do I have to create the md devices or does udev that for me? udev will do

Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 20 October 2008 12:26:11 Erik Hahn wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: For probably the first time ever, I just had a look at that. And I'm asking myself - why does OOo have nsplugins support at all? It's an office suite - I use it mostly to

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Unmerge x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 and try again. If you want to be on the safe side do a quickpkg =x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 before. The new qt-4.4.x split ebuilds can not live alongside the non split ebuild. -- Regards, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] AutoFS with LDAP

2008-10-20 Thread Mike
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:08:42AM +0200, Fred Elno wrote: Yes I also use autofs with openldap. My setup is as this: the PDC is running on a gentoo box and provide system authentification with openldap to windows client and also gentoo client, I also use samba for filesharing between client

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-20 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:24:11 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:20 +0200 Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, SNIP the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-20 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: For probably the first time ever, I just had a look at that. And I'm asking myself - why does OOo have nsplugins support at all? It's an office suite - I use it mostly to read documents other people send me, and because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: progress everywhere !

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 081019 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-10-19, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 October 2008 07:25:28 Philip Webb wrote: OO 3.0.0 compiled successfully in 2 h 29 m on this Core2 Duo machine, but needed

[gentoo-user] ivman alters /dev/null permissions

2008-10-20 Thread Carlos
Hi fellow gentoo users, I'm not sure if there are many of you that use ivman to automount devices, but I recently started to use it and had /dev/null permissions change to 0600. This broke X login sessions for non root users: -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied The two entries that appear to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:20 +0200 Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, SNIP the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me. I'm working with them, too. Just one question remains: I want to use udev. Do I have to create

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 October 2008 09:46:56 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 19 October 2008 18:52:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: I main underlying reason seems to be that Qt now comes as split-ebuilds and Peter has some monolithic ones installed. It's similar to migrating KDE to split-ebuilds, but on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:24:11 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:20 +0200 Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, SNIP

Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-20 Thread Erik Hahn
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:35:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008 12:26:11 Erik Hahn wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: For probably the first time ever, I just had a look at that. And I'm asking myself - why does OOo have

[gentoo-user] emerge world failing with No module name libxml2

2008-10-20 Thread Brian Wince
All, I am trying to use emerge -uDN world to upgrade from an older snapshot to 20081008 and I cannot seem to get past the issues with module libxml2. I have tried running python-updater -p and it complains about blocked packages which are older packages that I have not yet been able to get

Re: [gentoo-user] rsh failed

2008-10-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2008 05:37:52 schrieb Chuanwen Wu: So in a word, I can rlogin from localhost with common user(I meant not root) but not from remote machine 192.168.0.7. And I can't  use rsh at all. So anyone can help? What's in your ~/.rhosts and what are its permissions?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world failing with No module name libxml2

2008-10-20 Thread Joao Emanuel
2008/10/20 Brian Wince [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All, I am trying to use emerge –uDN world to upgrade from an older snapshot to 20081008 and I cannot seem to get past the issues with module libxml2. I have tried running python-updater –p and it complains about blocked packages which are older

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge world failing with No module name libxml2

2008-10-20 Thread Brian Wince
Brian try to upgrade or merge again the libxml2 package. After this, try again world update. -- {}s Joao Emanuel Thanks for the quick response. I had already emerged libxml2 and still got this. Brian -Original Message- From: Joao Emanuel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world failing with No module name libxml2

2008-10-20 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/20/08, Brian Wince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried running python-updater -p and it complains about blocked packages which are older packages that I have not yet been able to get updated via the emerge world. Would python-updater -i be of any assistance? It looks at slots rather

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge world failing with No module name libxml2

2008-10-20 Thread Brian Wince
That may work I will need to give it a shot later today and see if it helps. So the -I ignores the versions of packages installed and just fixes packages broken by a python upgrade, independent of the version? I guess I really do not understand what this means. I understand that slots can be used

[gentoo-user] Makehuman

2008-10-20 Thread Mike Diehl
Hello, I know that Bugzilla has an ebuild for MakeHuman, but I can't seem to get it installed on my system. Is there any word on when it will be in mainstream portage? TIA, -- Mike Diehl

Re: [gentoo-user] Prevent sshd from stopping?

2008-10-20 Thread Grant
One of my Gentoo systems is located in a separate building from the router. The wireless connection always seems to be strong, but periodically the services that depend on net.ath0 stop because it loses the connection. Issuing 'rc' always brings them back. Is there any way to prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-20 Thread Roy Wright
Nicola wrote: Hi! Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the same

[gentoo-user] squid with active directory

2008-10-20 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I have a gentoo box that acts as a firewall, router and squid proxy. I've been following a guide[1] to integrate squid authentication with our active directory domain. The guide is a little bit out of date and it doesn't seem to work for me. Authentication is refused to

Re: [gentoo-user] AutoFS with LDAP ***SOLVED***

2008-10-20 Thread Mike
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 01:31:00PM +0100, Mike wrote: Thanks Fred, I think I found the answer here: [bug on amd64 try this: $ CFLAGS=-DLDAP_DEPRECATED emerge autofs]. It's a 64bit system, so I will try remerging it with LDAP_DEPRECATED and see what happenes. Mike. Thanks again Fred.

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 09:56:48PM +0300, Liviu Andronic wrote MAKEOPTS=-j3 Change this to... MAKEOPTS=-j1 and re-run the build. You'd be surprised how often that is the problem. I run MAKEOPTS=-j1 on a Core Duo. It takes a few minutes longer than -j3 to update world, but it only takes

Re: [gentoo-user] squid with active directory

2008-10-20 Thread Matt Harrison
Let me clarify a little bit: Before attempting this integration, I had an acl line like this: acl internal src 10.194.217.0/24 And i'm allowing that like so: http_access allow internal I'm just not sure how to change this to allow access to authenticated users while prompting for those not

[gentoo-user] python-updater won't complete

2008-10-20 Thread python-updater
Hello, On a 586 machine, 600 MHz, 128 meg of ram. python-updater just sits: * Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 : and never completes. I tried several times, same result. The machine only an infrequently used web server, serving up about 6 static content web pages. Does python-updater

[gentoo-user] preserved lib question

2008-10-20 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I have some preserved libs that just don't want to go away. I've ran emerge @preserved-rebuild several times to no avail. I think the problem is with portage not recognizing that one of the libraries is symbolically linked to the other. Here they are: !! existing preserved libs:

[gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-20 Thread Mick
Hi All, Any idea why this happens: 150 Ok to send data. 100% |***| 224 MiB 46.74 KiB/s00:00 ETA 226 File receive OK. 235279855 bytes sent in 1:21:59 (46.70 KiB/s) local: xab remote: xab 227 Entering Passive Mode

Re: [gentoo-user] rsh failed

2008-10-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 21 Oktober 2008 05:09:38 schrieb ext Chuanwen Wu: The permission of /home/wcw is 755, and /root is 700. Looks good, but what about ~/.rhosts? BTW: Did you restart xinetd after installation of rsh? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

[gentoo-user] Openttd

2008-10-20 Thread András Csányi
Hi all! Few weeks ago I reinstalled my desktop and now I want to play with openttd but I wonder this package is masked. I saw the version of this package int the portage is 0.5.3 but on the openttd's website the latest stable version is 0.6.3. So I want to ask: what is the problem whit this

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Any idea why this happens: 150 Ok to send data. 100% |***| 224 MiB 46.74 KiB/s00:00 ETA 226 File receive OK. 235279855 bytes sent in