Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Valmor de Almeida schrieb: Hello, After a system/world update my user account dealmeida cannot be logged to or root cannot su to it. When su - dealmeida is issued at the root command prompt, it immediately returns to root. When login is at the console the motd appears (twice; why?) and

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 May 2009 02:58:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: I thought glxgears was a GPU test not a CPU test. it tests almost nothing from the gpu - and the resulting fps are very depent on the CPU.. so... The only thing glxgears tests is if OpenGL is

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 3 May 2009 00:06:54 -0400 James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: I've thought about doing something similar to this, but it's a last resort. I end up using mutt on various different workstations and it'd be nice to run everything locally. Obviously a solution where I'm fetching mail on every

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 May 2009 06:06:54 James wrote: Alan, Thanks for the response. :) I've thought about doing something similar to this, but it's a last resort. I end up using mutt on various different workstations and it'd be nice to run everything locally. Obviously a solution where I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 May 2009 11:44:39 Mike Kazantsev wrote: It's certainly an alternative, however, if I can't find anything else that works. I've read much criticism of imap protocol, but with such widespread adoption I doubt there can be anything more versatile at the moment. Well, James'

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 May 2009 04:53:41 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sat, 02 May 2009 20:52:39 -0400 I don't know about motd, but the rest looks like pam problem to me, if you're using pam, of course. Try 'euse -i pam' to see if it's enabled. If that's the case, first of all I'd suggest to check

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-03 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Florian Philipp wrote: A low hanging fruit: Maybe the user wrote 'exit' or 'exec' into her .bashrc By the way: Which shell is defined in /etc/passwd? .bashrc is fine. The shell is /bin/bash Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread James
Ahhh yes, screen! Good idea. ;) I'll have to think about how to implement this because I'm not certain I'll have access to one single server from all the different locations I know I'm going to be using mutt as a mail client. :) Definitely geeky to boot! Good idea indeed! -j On Sun, May 3,

[gentoo-user] Canon PowerShot A400 Gentoo

2009-05-03 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
Hello all! When I used Ubuntu :)), I got files from my camera by F-Spot. Now I compiled f-spot (http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/F-Spot), but now camera does not see PC and F-Spot does not see camera too. What it need for work? Thanks! -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver

Re: [gentoo-user] Canon PowerShot A400 Gentoo

2009-05-03 Thread Dale
Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: Hello all! When I used Ubuntu :)), I got files from my camera by F-Spot. Now I compiled f-spot (http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/F-Spot), but now camera does not see PC and F-Spot does not see camera too. What it need for work? Thanks! I have a Canon

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread James
Bingo. Mutt works great as an IMAP client (which is rather interesting because, to the best of my knowledge, mutt did not support IMAP until somewhat recently, and quite a bit after it first appeared). I personally do everything via IMAP -- no worries about switching mail clients and having to

[gentoo-user] Re: any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-03, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: I actually do use xfce4, so I may give the mailwatch plugin a try. You'll probably want to use the SVN version -- it's got several fixes that I don't think are in the released packages. Certainly lame that it opens a new connection every time it

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 May 2009 16:03:50 James wrote: Ahhh yes, screen! Good idea. ;) I'll have to think about how to implement this because I'm not certain I'll have access to one single server from all the different locations I know I'm going to be using mutt as a mail client. And there's not a

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 3 May 2009 12:05:43 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Well, James' problem is not the use of IMAP per se, rather that he can't find a mailbox monitor that works right with IMAP. For him, that's a little bit of a deal-breaker You're right, my bad. I should probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --oneshot gcc-4.1.2

2009-05-03 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 02 May 2009 20:34:02 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Hung Dang wrote: Hi all I have to emerge gcc-4.1.2 to use with CUDA. However, I receive the following message. !!! 'gcc-4.1.2' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2009 02:58:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: I thought glxgears was a GPU test not a CPU test. it tests almost nothing from the gpu - and the resulting fps are very depent on the CPU.. so...

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
Or you can create raid0 with partitions on both drives (sda1+sdb1) and mirror it on the second set of partitions on the same drives. But then you do not have any protection from total disk failure you'd normally expect from raid1. Only some very little protection against a sector failure.

Re: [gentoo-user] Canon PowerShot A400 Gentoo

2009-05-03 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
I added CAMERAS... string in make.conf and installed gtkam, but it says that no cameras found too... Later, when I connected camera to computer, it disables camera's screen, but now it works. USB port works and lsusb see them: sh-3.2# lsusb Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0951:1602 Kingston Technology Bus

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Yahya Mohammad
I've got several hard-core network engineer users with the same problem. They solved it in a neat way, by running mutt in a permanent screen session on a server I provided for the purpose. Getmail is now not necessary as I deliver their mail to that machine. Working on the LAN and from

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
How long is unison taking to check for changes? I can usually reconcile changes in my home directory (approximately 45G, 125,000 files) in less than 10-15 seconds between my slow laptop drive and a remote machine. However, if you are syncing with a Windows machine, expect the sync to be much

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5976 http://kitenet.net/~joey/svnhome/ http://www.google.com/search?q=homedir+version+control Hey thanks Stroller, I'd be interested in these solutions, but i dont have enough space to copy everything in double (keep a backup). So what i do, and this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Canon PowerShot A400 Gentoo

2009-05-03 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
Thanks, Dale, after your letter I found some solution :) I unmerged libphoto and downloaded it's latest version from http://www.gphoto.org/ and images are downloading by gphoto2 and gtkam. But when I works not under root any program cannot get access to /dev/ttS0. Changing permissions to 777 for

Re: [gentoo-user] Canon PowerShot A400 Gentoo

2009-05-03 Thread Masood Ahmed
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: You also may want to make sure you have the correct CAMERAS= line in make.conf. I have CAMERAS=canon ptp2 in my make.conf. I think ptp2 is the one that it actually uses. My Canon EOS400D works fine in Ubuntu. But I was not able to get F-Spot to detect it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Frox iptables ftp proxy

2009-05-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:02:38 -0400 D.H. derrick...@comcast.net wrote: I'd like to set up an ftp proxy on my home firewall so I can scan for viruses using clamd. I found frox. Which looks like it will do what I want. I've pretty much used the default install which makes frox listen on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --oneshot gcc-4.1.2

2009-05-03 Thread Hung Dang
I need gcc-4.1.2 because CUDA examples are failed when compiled with gcc-4.3.3 or at least I could not make it work with CUDA. Now I have the new problem that I could not compile gcc-4.1.2 with gcc-4.3.3 and it seem hard to solve this problem. Does anyone here in our forum could make CUDA work

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running gnome on ~amd64?

2009-05-03 Thread walt
Ivan Kanakarakis wrote: I use Gnome on ~amd64 and everything is working fine. I don't use pulse audio, just alsa. I also had those issues with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.35 as Paul said. Other than that I can't think of something right now... That was the problem, thanks guys! I can't

[gentoo-user] nanosleep broken on ~amd64?

2009-05-03 Thread walt
By accident I noticed that the configure script for one of the gentoo packages (I think maybe it was coreutils but I can't remember) gives different results on ~x86 and ~amd64. The script uses a test for working nanosleep that I've included below. Could someone else compile the test and confirm

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-03 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 10:32 -0400, Simon wrote: How long is unison taking to check for changes? I can usually reconcile changes in my home directory (approximately 45G, 125,000 files) in less than 10-15 seconds between my slow laptop drive and a remote machine. However, if you are syncing

Re: [gentoo-user] nanosleep broken on ~amd64?

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Sun, 03 May 2009 14:14:38 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: By accident I noticed that the configure script for one of the gentoo packages (I think maybe it was coreutils but I can't remember) gives different results on ~x86 and ~amd64. The script uses a test for working nanosleep that

Re: [gentoo-user] nanosleep broken on ~amd64?

2009-05-03 Thread Arttu V.
walt wrote: Could someone else compile the test and confirm that it returns 119 on ~amd64 instead of 0? It returns 119 on an semi-ancient Athlon64 3200+ box here as well. Could kernel HZ-settings affect the outcome? This box has CONFIG_HZ=250, but tomorrow I can try on another amd64 which

Re: [gentoo-user] Canon PowerShot A400 Gentoo

2009-05-03 Thread Dale
Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: Thanks, Dale, after your letter I found some solution :) I unmerged libphoto and downloaded it's latest version from http://www.gphoto.org/ and images are downloading by gphoto2 and gtkam. But when I works not under root any program cannot get access to /dev/ttS0.

[gentoo-user] USB barcode scanner

2009-05-03 Thread dhk
I have a 2-dimensional usb bar code scanner that I'm trying to get working ( This is the exact one if interested: http://www.barcodesinc.com/metrologic/ms1690.htm ). It scans, but nothing gets displayed. How can I get the focused window/terminal to understand that the device should be

Re: [gentoo-user] USB barcode scanner

2009-05-03 Thread Roy Wright
dhk wrote: I have a 2-dimensional usb bar code scanner that I'm trying to get working ( This is the exact one if interested: http://www.barcodesinc.com/metrologic/ms1690.htm ). It scans, but nothing gets displayed. How can I get the focused window/terminal to understand that the device

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-03 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mike Kazantsev wrote: I don't know about motd, but the rest looks like pam problem to me, if you're using pam, of course. Try 'euse -i pam' to see if it's enabled. If that's the case, first of all I'd suggest to check etc-update. Then look through /etc/pam.d, especially system-* files. There

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-03 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2009 04:53:41 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sat, 02 May 2009 20:52:39 -0400 I don't know about motd, but the rest looks like pam problem to me, if you're using pam, of course. Try 'euse -i pam' to see if it's enabled. If that's the case, first of all I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] nanosleep broken on ~amd64?

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: Could someone else compile the test and confirm that it returns 119 on ~amd64 instead of 0? It returns 119 on an semi-ancient Athlon64 3200+ box here as well. Could kernel HZ-settings affect the outcome? This