Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Nickolas Fortino
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs@nsn.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 + schrieb ext Grant Edwards: I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional installation step to populate the /dev directory when using recent stage3

[gentoo-user] mpich2 - how to get this one built?

2009-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has anybody a hint how to get sys-cluster/mpich2 (-1.0.8) emerged? I allways get ACCESS VIOLATION I've tried FEATURES=-sandbox and FEATURES=-userpriv but nothing helps. I'm using sys-apps/sandbox-1.3.2 which works fine except for this package. Is there any brute force method next to

Re: [gentoo-user] mpich2 - how to get this one built?

2009-01-21 Thread Justin
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: Hi, has anybody a hint how to get sys-cluster/mpich2 (-1.0.8) emerged? I allways get ACCESS VIOLATION I've tried FEATURES=-sandbox and FEATURES=-userpriv but nothing helps. I'm using sys-apps/sandbox-1.3.2 which works fine except for this package. Is

[gentoo-user] Couple of problems with x11-misc/slim

2009-01-21 Thread Man Shankar
Hello, In my effort to get a lightweight login manager, i have decided to use slim. However, i m having couple of problems with it: 1) ctrl-alt-bksp doesn't restart slim, kdm used to do it. A solution to this says that we should respawn slim on a VT in /etc/inittab. Does anybody know of

Re: [gentoo-user] mpich2 - how to get this one built?

2009-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Jan, Justin wrote: Helmut Jarausch schrieb: Hi, has anybody a hint how to get sys-cluster/mpich2 (-1.0.8) emerged? I allways get ACCESS VIOLATION I've tried FEATURES=-sandbox and FEATURES=-userpriv but nothing helps. I'm using sys-apps/sandbox-1.3.2 which works fine

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*

2009-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Peter Humphrey wrote: After reading a post here today I decided to investigate why I have several qt-4.4.2 packages on this workstation, when I don't have kde-4. It turns out that the SSL USE flag causes kopete-3.5.9 to pull in 14 qt-4.4.2 packages. This strikes me as somewhat odd. For the

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: I'm using the online denyhosts synchronization database, I think that may negatively affect how often it blocks hosts locally, because it waits until it does a remote sync to scan the local file. This is my theory. I like the idea of sharing my blocks and taking advantage of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: I'm using the online denyhosts synchronization database, I think that may negatively affect how often it blocks hosts locally, because it waits until it does a remote sync to scan the local file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:35:08 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I disabled the network sync but denyhosts still takes forever before denying... each IP is able to do hundreds of attempts before getting added to the hosts.deny file. I use sshutout to add the address of repeated attempts to iptables.

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs@nsn.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 + schrieb ext Grant Edwards: I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional installation step to populate the /dev directory when using recent stage3 snapshots? One usually

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/21 Norberto Bensa nbe...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Norberto Bensa nbe...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, do you know where's qt-copy in portage/layman? I've added qting-edge and kde-crazy, but neither have it. I guess it is @qt-all-live-kde in qting-edge, isn't it? I

[gentoo-user] Aborting due to QA concerns: textrels

2009-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has portage become stricter? Since emerging portage-2.2_rc23 I get several failures saying * ERROR: media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20090121 failed. * Call stack: * misc-functions.sh, line 717: Called install_qa_check * misc-functions.sh, line 234: Called die * The specific

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.net wrote: 2009/1/21 Norberto Bensa nbe...@gmail.com I believe theres a qt-copy in the THE overlay, although i havent had a chance to confirm it. Yup. layman qting-edge has the set @qt-all-live-kde which is qt-copy from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/21 Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs@nsn.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 + schrieb ext Grant Edwards: I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional installation step to populate the /dev directory when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote: But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up with problems such as no console during startup. IIRC thats because /dev should be populated on startup by

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-20, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-20, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from source on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often be the cause of build

Re: [gentoo-user] Aborting due to QA concerns: textrels

2009-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Jan, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:47:44 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: * The specific snippet of code: * die Aborting due to QA concerns: ${die_msg} * The die message: * Aborting due to QA concerns: textrels, * Is the just

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote: But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up with problems such as no console during startup. IIRC

Re: [gentoo-user] Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800

2009-01-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Chris Thomas schrieb: I have a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 tv card and I wanted to know how to get it working in Gentoo. I'm most concerned with the analog tv and radio features. Thanks. -Chris Does this guide help? http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Hauppauge_WinTV_HVR-1800 signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Better way than ifplugd?

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, For years I've been using ifplugd for hotplugging of ethernet cables. However, in powertop I see eth0 showing tons of wakeups when these are not plugged in. Is there a newer/better way to do automatic enable/disable of an interface when the cable is plugged in or unplugged? I think the

[gentoo-user] screen resolution and aspect ratio change

2009-01-21 Thread Thufir
I have very vanilla hardware and when I just booted the resolution appears lower (icons bigger, jpg's blurry) and the aspect ratio is off (icons are taller than usual). The screen resolution is currently 960x600, which I don't recall ever having even heard of. If it was 1020xwhatever, which I

[gentoo-user] bzflag worbles after recent upgrades to workstation

2009-01-21 Thread James
Hello, I'm pulling out my hair here. BZflag-2.0.12 use to work great on Gentoo. The kernel (1.6.27-r7-gentoo) has not changed. However for about a week now, after a bunch of updates, xrog*, evdev etc etc, it has very high lag and jitter over the net. I can reboot the same system and play

[gentoo-user] Slot Nightmare

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've been fighting this for two days now: catherine ~ # emerge -uD world Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-arch/cpio-2.9-r2 [2.9-r1] [ebuild U ] net-misc/dhcpcd-4.0.7 [4.0.2] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/mpfr-2.3.2 [2.3.1_p1] [ebuild N] dev-perl/yaml-0.65 [ebuild NS ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009 17:48:27 schrieb Grant Edwards: Then all the stage3 tarballs I've ever seen are broken. They either contain 5000+ entries, or nothing but these: Yes they are. Having 5000+ entries in there while udev is in used is just stupid. I'm glad they've fixed that know.

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: The shared list of attackers doesn't have anything to do with it. Denyhosts checks the logs every X seconds. I think 30 by default, not sure. In that time, there can be many more attempted logins

Re: [gentoo-user] screen resolution and aspect ratio change

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 17:16 + schrieb Thufir: I have very vanilla hardware and when I just booted the resolution appears lower (icons bigger, jpg's blurry) and the aspect ratio is off (icons are taller than usual). The screen resolution is currently 960x600, which I don't recall

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot Nightmare

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:31:36 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/poppler-0.6.3-r1', 'merge') pulled in by app-text/poppler required by world Why have you got poppler in world? -- Neil Bothwick Windows NT is the OS of the future and always will be...

[gentoo-user] Re:FIXED: bzflag worbles after recent upgrades to workstation

2009-01-21 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I'm pulling out my hair here. BZflag-2.0.12 use to work great on Gentoo. The kernel (2.6.27-r7-gentoo) has not changed. However for about a week now, after a bunch of updates, xrog*, evdev etc etc, it has very high lag and jitter over the net.

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009 17:48:27 schrieb Grant Edwards: Then all the stage3 tarballs I've ever seen are broken. They either contain 5000+ entries, or nothing but these: Yes they are. Having 5000+ entries in there while udev

[gentoo-user] Strange 'uname -r' output

2009-01-21 Thread Grant
Does anyone know why I get strange output like this: # uname -r 2.6.25-hardened-r132.6.11-hardened-r1 I should be booted into 2.6.25-hardened-r13. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange 'uname -r' output

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:39:07 -0800, Grant wrote: # uname -r 2.6.25-hardened-r132.6.11-hardened-r1 I should be booted into 2.6.25-hardened-r13. Do you have anything set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION or a localversion* file in /usr/src/linux? -- Neil Bothwick Q: How many builders does it take to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 20.01.2009, 19:37 + schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2009-01-20, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:02 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may be futile :) Not if he's got plenty of

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot Nightmare [SOLVED]

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 18:10 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:31:36 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/poppler-0.6.3-r1', 'merge') pulled in by app-text/poppler required by world Why have you got poppler in world? I don't know, but I unmerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: The shared list of attackers doesn't have anything to do with it. Denyhosts checks the logs every X seconds. I think 30

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange 'uname -r' output

2009-01-21 Thread Grant
# uname -r 2.6.25-hardened-r132.6.11-hardened-r1 I should be booted into 2.6.25-hardened-r13. Do you have anything set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION or a localversion* file in /usr/src/linux? Sure enough I had '2.6.11-hardened-r1' set for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION for some reason. It's blank now. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange 'uname -r' output

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:47:44 -0800, Grant wrote: Do you have anything set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION or a localversion* file in /usr/src/linux? Sure enough I had '2.6.11-hardened-r1' set for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION for some reason. It's blank now. Did you write this OS or what? I just

[gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

2009-01-21 Thread Dan Farrell
Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. Also updated

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

2009-01-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of reconfigurations, including moving from

[gentoo-user] Re: Failed to emerge media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18a

2009-01-21 Thread Guillermo Garron
Hi, Sorry for top-posting, but I needed to let you know that after upgrading the Kernel from 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 to 2.6.27-gentoo-r8, I was able to compile it! thanks! On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Guillermo Garron guillermo.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have tried to make a full upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

2009-01-21 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:47:57 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

2009-01-21 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of

[gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-21 Thread Grant
Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html ? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-21 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:37:23 pm Grant wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html ? - Grant I couldn't see any videos on that page... although the one at: