Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where is my automounting coming from?
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [16.03.09 02:43]: Grant wrote: When I plug my USB cell phone into my laptop I get an icon on my xfce4 desktop which mounts the volume if I double-click it. The icon doesn't appear on another Gentoo laptop and I can't figure out why. I thought it was Thunar volume management, but that isn't installed on either system. Does anyone know what causes the icon to appear? I also don't have gnome-volume-manager installed. It's XFCE that does this. But for it to work, it needs HAL and D-Bus. So make sure those also installed. Furthermore, the device must *not* have an entry in /etc/fstab. Since when? I have entries for all my USB sticks in my /etc/fstab and it works fine. Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de pgpFpUV40y8Qh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:48:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:01:38 -0700, Grant wrote: Any better way to manage the connection than 'wvdial' and ctrl+c ? I've used Kppp with simlar settings. If you can do it with wvdial, it can also be done using gentoo net.* init scirpts. For example this is the wvdial.conf for my gprs phone: [Dialer Defaults] #Modem = /dev/ttyACM0 Modem = /dev/rfcomm0 Baud = 460800 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,ip,internet.wind,,0,0 ISDN = 0 Modem Type = Analog Modem Carrier Check = no Phone = *99***1# Username = wind Password = wind And this is the equivalent part in my /etc/conf.d/net config_ppp2=( ppp ) link_ppp2=/dev/rfcomm0 username_ppp2='wind' password_ppp2='wind' pppd_ppp2=( noauth defaultroute usepeerdns ) phone_number_ppp2=( *99***1# ) chat_ppp2= ABORT '\nBUSY\r' ABORT '\nERROR\r' ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r' ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r' ABORT '\nNO DIALTONE\r' ABORT '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r' '' '\rAT' TIMEOUT 12 OK ATZ OK 'AT+cgdcont=1,\IP\,\internet.wind\' OK 'ATDT\T' TIMEOUT '60' CONNECT '' TIMEOUT '5' '~--' '' So, instead of using wvdial I just run /etc/init.d/net.ppp2 start and /etc/init.d/net.ppp2 stop. --- TopperH http://topperh.blogspot.com pgpKE5zzwmkAF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: Unless I'm mistaken, mpd uses gstreamer, right? So, have you checked that you have gst-plugins-ogg emerged? So, this would imply a buggy ebuild? Yes, you are mistaken. mpd does not need to use gstreamer. To the OP, I don't think it can be strictly a versions issue. I run mpd-0.13.2 on my desktop, and ogg-vorbis (pretty much my entire music collection is in this format) plays just fine. On my laptop I use 0.14.2, it is stable enough (and has some nice features), so you can go ahead a try it if you wish. W -- The true significance of Sacajawea's involvement in the Lewis and Clark expedition: It was the first documented trip in history where men asked a woman for directions and followed them, allowing them to arrive at their destination. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 829 days, 11:52
Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:15:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: Hello, When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there is no sound. Mps has been built with the following use flags: Use flags: (aac) (alsa) (-ao) (-audiofile) (-avahi) (flac) (-icecast) (iconv) (ipv6) (-jack) (-libsamplerate) (-mikmod) (mp3) (-musepack) (ogg) (-oss) (-pulseaudio) (unicode) (vorbis) The use flags look alright, I think, the only differences are: -ipv6 +mikmod +musepack on my desktop. But yet I have a lot more support codecs then you do: [09:13 AM]wwong ~ $ mpd --version mpd (MPD: Music Player Daemon) 0.13.2 Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Warren Dukes warren.du...@gmail.com This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Supported formats: mp3 mp2 ogg oga ogg flac wav au aiff aif m4a mp4 mpc amf dsm far gdm imf it med mod mtm s3m stm stx ult uni xm Supported outputs: alsa I am not quite sure whether some sort of auto-detection at build-time gives me those formats. Hum, along that line, you can try the 0.14.2 version as suggested by the devs. At the very least you get more configuration options. W -- Herry Edsel Smith of Albany, NY: Born 1903- Died 1942 Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 829 days, 11:57
Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: Unless I'm mistaken, mpd uses gstreamer, right? So, have you checked that you have gst-plugins-ogg emerged? So, this would imply a buggy ebuild? Yes, you are mistaken. mpd does not need to use gstreamer. To the OP, I don't think it can be strictly a versions issue. I run mpd-0.13.2 on my desktop, and ogg-vorbis (pretty much my entire music collection is in this format) plays just fine. On my laptop I use 0.14.2, it is stable enough (and has some nice features), so you can go ahead a try it if you wish. I uploaded this album to my mp4 player, and it hung when I tried to play it. So there may be something wrong with the encoding. The strange thing is that mplayer plays it just fine. I'll try to make some time to translate some mp3 file to ogg and see what happens. W -- The true significance of Sacajawea's involvement in the Lewis and Clark expedition: It was the first documented trip in history where men asked a woman for directions and followed them, allowing them to arrive at their destination. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 829 days, 11:52
Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:19:54 -0400 Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: The use flags look alright, I think, the only differences are: -ipv6 +mikmod +musepack on my desktop. But yet I have a lot more support codecs then you do: ... Supported formats: mp3 mp2 ogg oga ogg flac wav au aiff aif m4a mp4 mpc amf dsm far gdm imf it med mod mtm s3m stm stx ult uni xm musepack is responsible for the mpc, the rest are module-file formats, usually used for the great 8-bit music. There's just many of them, often from different platforms. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] simple A/V recording software to grab Internet seminar?
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Jake Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:28 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going to take some sort of seminar over the net and asked me if there was a way for him to record it - both audio and video. I don't know how the seminar will be given, but my dad's in his 80's, isn't Gentoo knowledgeable and if this is going to work what ever the software is would have to be pretty easy to use. Anyone have any ideas about how to record everything on his screen along with any audio? Thanks, Mark media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop or media-video/qt-recordmydesktop Another good one. Thanks! - Mark I've never been able to get sound to work with RecordMyDesktop even though it appears to support it... are there any tricks?
Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:16:40PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: I uploaded this album to my mp4 player, and it hung when I tried to play it. So there may be something wrong with the encoding. The strange thing is that mplayer plays it just fine. I'll try to make some time to translate some mp3 file to ogg and see what happens. You can also try playing the file using ogg123. W -- S: oh, he's got this weird philosophy worked out, in which he does whatever he wants, and doesn't worry about whether it will make other people happy W: self serving utilitarianism under the misuse of Adam Smith W: case number 539 (Ad paid for by W. Emotional Troubles? Relationship Problems? Generally Depressed? Leave your name, phone, and AIM handle. I will get back to you ASAP.) Sortir en Pantoufles: up 829 days, 14:30
Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files
On 16 Mar 2009, at 13:16, Damian wrote: ... The strange thing is that mplayer plays it just fine. ... That's a bit inconclusive, because mplayer seems very forgiving. You can put completely invalid codecs into a container format and mplayer will just be all ok, I can work out what this is. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:16:40PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: I uploaded this album to my mp4 player, and it hung when I tried to play it. So there may be something wrong with the encoding. The strange thing is that mplayer plays it just fine. I'll try to make some time to translate some mp3 file to ogg and see what happens. You can also try playing the file using ogg123. I've tried, and they play just fine. W -- S: oh, he's got this weird philosophy worked out, in which he does whatever he wants, and doesn't worry about whether it will make other people happy W: self serving utilitarianism under the misuse of Adam Smith W: case number 539 (Ad paid for by W. Emotional Troubles? Relationship Problems? Generally Depressed? Leave your name, phone, and AIM handle. I will get back to you ASAP.) Sortir en Pantoufles: up 829 days, 14:30
Re: [gentoo-user] simple A/V recording software to grab Internet seminar?
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Jake Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:28 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going to take some sort of seminar over the net and asked me if there was a way for him to record it - both audio and video. I don't know how the seminar will be given, but my dad's in his 80's, isn't Gentoo knowledgeable and if this is going to work what ever the software is would have to be pretty easy to use. Anyone have any ideas about how to record everything on his screen along with any audio? Thanks, Mark media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop or media-video/qt-recordmydesktop Another good one. Thanks! - Mark I've never been able to get sound to work with RecordMyDesktop even though it appears to support it... are there any tricks? Exactly the problem I'm having. Additionally it won't record video from MythTV which I think is probably getting written directly to the graphics adapter. Anyway, sound is the first problem to solve. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection
Hi again. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:42:55 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dan. No matter what I do, I can't get the other laptop to communicate with my laptop. It can ping the router which is between us, but it can't get to the other side. I've got dnsmasq and shorewall running on my laptop. Any idea what the problem could be? Yes; the problem is probably the routing tables. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A and user B are both me, but with different UIDs on the different machines.) You could use ACL as has been suggested; you could also just set the uids of the (same) user on these machines to the same thing. Using the same uid across boxes is a really good idea if you have users on each box anyway.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dan Farrell d...@spore.ath.cx wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A and user B are both me, but with different UIDs on the different machines.) You could use ACL as has been suggested; you could also just set the uids of the (same) user on these machines to the same thing. Using the same uid across boxes is a really good idea if you have users on each box anyway. I wonder if you could share and mount it using samba/cifs or something, which allows fudging of the UID/GID ...
[gentoo-user] udev-140
A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails and everything thereafter fails. I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what I had to do. I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails and everything thereafter fails. I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what I had to do. I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening. me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome.
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails and everything thereafter fails. I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what I had to do. I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening. me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome. Hey guys , always read post emerge messages!! Portage always tells me when to update config files! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
On Monday 16 March 2009 21:30:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails and everything thereafter fails. I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what I had to do. I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening. me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome. I'll say :-) Actually, sometimes I think MKNOD was really cool and just do everything static. I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
On Montag 16 März 2009, Justin wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails and everything thereafter fails. I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what I had to do. I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening. me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome. Hey guys , always read post emerge messages!! Portage always tells me when to update config files! yes, but that does not help you in case of an accidental power failure before you had a chance to update the config files.
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: yes, but that does not help you in case of an accidental power failure before you had a chance to update the config files. power failure is always something extra ordinary! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009 21:30:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails and everything thereafter fails. I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what I had to do. I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening. me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome. I'll say :-) Actually, sometimes I think MKNOD was really cool and just do everything static. I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations. PuTTY on Symbian only does SSH but it seems to do it well enough. Running it full-screen with the smallest font is actually not so bad, even on my 240x320 screen. Being able to connect to my computer wherever I have a cellular signal is convenient... typing with T9 on a numeric phone keypad, not so much... but that's the phone's fault, not PuTTY's. :P I've been meaning to set up a simple menu script that allows me to run all of my common tasks with phone-friendly keystrokes. emerge -uDvptN blah blah blah really sucks to tap out on the 0-9 keys :) Thank god for bash command history...
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations. Putty itself isn't too bad if you look at it as a Windows app. It can never be anything other than a Windows app and as such is restricted to how Windows apps must behave. And therein is the problem - I'm way too used to openssh, I want a command line to fire up my ssh client, I want to 'ssh m...@there' in a console and it must work. I don't want to have to poke around in a vast tree structure to enter my options - I know what they are, I just want to type them. Without a mouse. So Putty doesn't really suck in isolation. It does work and can really operate any different way. *Using* Putty on it's host platform sucks to someone who is used to much more efficient way to accomplish the same task. PuTTY on Symbian only does SSH but it seems to do it well enough. Running it full-screen with the smallest font is actually not so bad, even on my 240x320 screen. Being able to connect to my computer wherever I have a cellular signal is convenient... typing with T9 on a numeric phone keypad, not so much... but that's the phone's fault, not PuTTY's. :P I've been meaning to set up a simple menu script that allows me to run all of my common tasks with phone-friendly keystrokes. emerge -uDvptN blah blah blah really sucks to tap out on the 0-9 keys :) Thank god for bash command history... On Symbian it's a life saver when all other methods fail. Again, Putty is OK, using the device is actually what sucks. I still can't find a pipe character! And the screen is almost unreadable (it wasn't three years ago...) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: udev-140
On 2009-03-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations. Putty itself isn't too bad if you look at it as a Windows app. It can never be anything other than a Windows app That's odd -- the Linux version works fine for me. http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty-0.60.tar.gz -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I hope I bought the at right relish ... z visi.com...
[gentoo-user] are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?
Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB Conflict: 3 blocks Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Since it offers to merge and there are no B's in the list, I assume this version of portage resolved the blockage. However, there are nearly a hundred packages and some of them are important so I would like to confirm that it is OK to let portage merge these. thanks, allan
Re: [gentoo-user] are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB Conflict: 3 blocks Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Since it offers to merge and there are no B's in the list, I assume this version of portage resolved the blockage. However, there are nearly a hundred packages and some of them are important so I would like to confirm that it is OK to let portage merge these. thanks, allan One of the big steps which are in the newer portage is version is the enhanced blocker resolution. So uit should go easy with your update. I am running the gnome-2.24* package since along time and i was always fine. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
Justin wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: yes, but that does not help you in case of an accidental power failure before you had a chance to update the config files. power failure is always something extra ordinary! It's not here. Our power goes out sometimes just because the wind is blowing. I think it is about time for them to start trimming trees again. Trees and power lines don't go together to well. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection
Hi again. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:42:55 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dan. No matter what I do, I can't get the other laptop to communicate with my laptop. It can ping the router which is between us, but it can't get to the other side. I've got dnsmasq and shorewall running on my laptop. Any idea what the problem could be? Yes; the problem is probably the routing tables. I moved the WAN from wlan0 to ppp0 and things started working. I guess I must have made some other change at the same time. Thanks a lot for your help. This is a really slick setup. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:34:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: And the screen is almost unreadable (it wasn't three years ago...) Pixels shrivel with age ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Fasten your seatbelt ... I wanna try something. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations. Putty itself isn't too bad if you look at it as a Windows app. It can never be anything other than a Windows app and as such is restricted to how Windows apps must behave. And therein is the problem - I'm way too used to openssh, I want a command line to fire up my ssh client, I want to 'ssh m...@there' in a console and it must work. I don't want to have to poke around in a vast tree structure to enter my options - I know what they are, I just want to type them. Without a mouse. So Putty doesn't really suck in isolation. It does work and can really operate any different way. *Using* Putty on it's host platform sucks to someone who is used to much more efficient way to accomplish the same task. Have you tried simply using openssh on Windows? Or is cmd.exe really the problem? I prefer Putty because I can more easily copy and paste, resize the window, scrollback, etc. versus the cmd.exe shell (which is basically useless). I'm sure there are alternative windows command shells (or you can use rxvt or something with cygwin) PuTTY on Symbian only does SSH but it seems to do it well enough. Running it full-screen with the smallest font is actually not so bad, even on my 240x320 screen. Being able to connect to my computer wherever I have a cellular signal is convenient... typing with T9 on a numeric phone keypad, not so much... but that's the phone's fault, not PuTTY's. :P I've been meaning to set up a simple menu script that allows me to run all of my common tasks with phone-friendly keystrokes. emerge -uDvptN blah blah blah really sucks to tap out on the 0-9 keys :) Thank god for bash command history... On Symbian it's a life saver when all other methods fail. Again, Putty is OK, using the device is actually what sucks. I still can't find a pipe character! And the screen is almost unreadable (it wasn't three years ago...) Well the good thing about not having QWERTY is that all of the special characters are simple to access (on a pop-up menu) :) Paul
[gentoo-user] Re: are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB Conflict: 3 blocks Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Since it offers to merge and there are no B's in the list, I assume this version of portage resolved the blockage. However, there are nearly a hundred packages and some of them are important so I would like to confirm that it is OK to let portage merge these. thanks, allan It should be ok, and as there are 3 blocks, you will probably find three instances of [blocks b ] (note the lowercase b), which are automatically resolved (usually) by an [unmerge ] line further down (or up, if you are using --tree). This corresponds to the new behavior, which automatically fixes problems like the old e2fsprogs/com_err/ss/e2fsprogs-libs blocker, without breaking anything (well, the system may be in an inconsistent state if you loose power at *exactly* the wrong time, but that can happen anyway during a merge, even without this new behavior). PS: I hope I didn't ramble on too much... this was going to be much longer, and less coherent. - -- ABCD -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm+35EACgkQOypDUo0oQOpZ9ACeKsemyDPiGoB6ndNNSA2KU6qP a40AoLZuz6X72pIC4L4lREs7AIb/Muo2 =ilvV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?
At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:01 -0400 ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB Conflict: 3 blocks Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Since it offers to merge and there are no B's in the list, I assume this version of portage resolved the blockage. However, there are nearly a hundred packages and some of them are important so I would like to confirm that it is OK to let portage merge these. thanks, allan It should be ok, and as there are 3 blocks, you will probably find three instances of [blocks b ] (note the lowercase b), which are automatically resolved (usually) by an [unmerge ] line further down (or up, if you are using --tree). This corresponds to the new behavior, which automatically fixes problems like the old e2fsprogs/com_err/ss/e2fsprogs-libs blocker, without breaking anything (well, the system may be in an inconsistent state if you loose power at *exactly* the wrong time, but that can happen anyway during a merge, even without this new behavior). PS: I hope I didn't ramble on too much... this was going to be much longer, and less coherent. Thank you and justin. I did look for the B' (but was looking for capital B) and didn't find it. After justin's msg, I let the emerge go and it has finished successfully. Thanks again, allan
[gentoo-user] Procmail mail ownership
Since late February any mail delivered to folders other than inbox using procmail have been given ownership of root:mail instead of david:users as it was previously. A new version of procmail was installed on 21 Feb so I'm assuming thats caused this issue. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Cheers, Dave.
[gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon
Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to 2.24. Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently). This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login, I can get in and work, but whenever I try systempreferencesappearance I get a dialog box saying that gnome-settings-setting cannot be started. Although I can get to the appearance dialog, various fonts are too big and can't be changed. Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks, allan
