[gentoo-ppc-user] xfce battery monitor hasnt worked in a while

2009-09-02 Thread mattmatteh
does anyone know why the battery monitor/icon for the xfce4 dock doesnt work anymore ? i noticed it stopped working a while ago but didnt really missing it. ( mostly leave it plugged in lately) matt

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Dale wrote: Hi, I use Yahoo messenger with Kopete as the GUI part of it. I keep getting this little error message and it is getting on my nerves here. This is what it keeps sending: [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-3.5.10-r4 USE=crypt

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 09:52:23 Dale wrote: I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record: (01:17:17) Yahoo! Admin: You are using an older version of Yahoo! Messenger that is no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 09:52:23 Dale wrote: I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record: (01:17:17) Yahoo! Admin: You are using an older version of Yahoo! Messenger

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:16:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone. I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at checking for working mkstemp. for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install AMD64. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 13:09:20 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 09:52:23 Dale wrote: I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record: (01:17:17) Yahoo! Admin:

Re: [gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12)

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 02:03:30 Alex Schuster wrote: Maxim Wexler writes: If, after running startx, I move to another terminal using ctr+alt+(f1-f6,f12), when I return to the X window, ctrl+alt+f7, I see nothing but a blank terminal, not even a cursor. I have to navigate to

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically

2009-09-02 Thread Xi Shen
where is the bash_profile? i cannot find it on my gentoo. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 01 September 2009 14:24:10 Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:09:12 +0800 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: every time i

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 13:09:20 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 09:52:23 Dale wrote: I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically

2009-09-02 Thread Xavier Parizet
Xi Shen a écrit : where is the bash_profile? i cannot find it on my gentoo. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 01 September 2009 14:24:10 Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:09:12 +0800 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 14:02:26 Dale wrote: Xi Shen wrote: where is the bash_profile? i cannot find it on my gentoo. r...@smoker / # locate bash_profile /etc/skel/.bash_profile /usr/portage/app-shells/bash/files/dot-bash_profile /usr/portage/media-tv/mythtv/files/bash_profile

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically

2009-09-02 Thread Dale
Xi Shen wrote: where is the bash_profile? i cannot find it on my gentoo. r...@smoker / # locate bash_profile /etc/skel/.bash_profile /usr/portage/app-shells/bash/files/dot-bash_profile /usr/portage/media-tv/mythtv/files/bash_profile /home/dale/.bash_profile /home/dale2/.bash_profile

[gentoo-user] How does one get off this list?

2009-09-02 Thread Pete Pardoe
How does one get off this list?

Re: [gentoo-user] How does one get off this list?

2009-09-02 Thread Xavier Parizet
Pete Pardoe a écrit : How does one get off this list? Send a mail at gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org to unsubscribe this list. You can have a help summary sending a mail at gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org . HTH. -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :C7DC

Re: [gentoo-user] How does one get off this list?

2009-09-02 Thread Neal Hogan
From the gentoo mailing list page: listname+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Pete Pardoepete.par...@gmail.com wrote: How does one get off this list?

Re: [gentoo-user] How does one get off this list?

2009-09-02 Thread Pete Pardoe
Thanks! Xavier Parizet wrote: Pete Pardoe a écrit : How does one get off this list? Send a mail at gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org to unsubscribe this list. You can have a help summary sending a mail at gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org . HTH.

Re: [gentoo-user] How does one get off this list?

2009-09-02 Thread Pete Pardoe
Thanks! Neal Hogan wrote: From the gentoo mailing list page: listname+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Pete Pardoepete.par...@gmail.com wrote: How does one get off this list?

[gentoo-user] Samba-3.3.7

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
samab-3.3.7 just hit the tree. To prevent a spate of I get these blockers mails, herewith a short howot. Hopefully it will get read. Samba-3.3.7 is a meta package that installs -libs, -client and -server packages instead of one huge monolothic samba package. Recent portage is smart enough

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:12:22 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:16:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone. I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at checking for working

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 16:13:12 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:12:22 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:16:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record: (01:17:17) Yahoo! Admin: You are using an older version of Yahoo!

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 installed but I use KDE 3. This is the

Re: [gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12)

2009-09-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
Completely black terminal, black terminal with text cursor or black terminal with mouse pointer? black on black

Re: [gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12)

2009-09-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
This may be a stupid idea, but did you try Ctrl-Alt-F8? Wonko term1 startx, full of X code term2-6, login term7, black on black term8-11, cursor term12, log

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Dale: Then again, Kopete forces me to re-enter my Yahoo password every time I restart Kopete too. It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password. Thing is, that screws up the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-09-02 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/01/2009 03:00 AM, Stroller wrote: On 31 Aug 2009, at 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/31/2009 05:00 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files They

[gentoo-user] Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)

2009-09-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to allow remote access (via ssh only) to a given machine. Unfortunately, my remote IP is dynamic and reverse lookup (e.g. specifying only_from = .skynet.be in /etc/xinetd.conf) doesn't work. So, I have to find out which IP ranges are used by a given internet provider (e.g.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Helmut Jarauschjarau...@skynet.be wrote: Hi, I'd like to allow remote access (via ssh only) to a given machine. Unfortunately, my remote IP is dynamic and reverse lookup (e.g. specifying only_from = .skynet.be in /etc/xinetd.conf) doesn't work. So, I have to

[gentoo-user] Re: Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)

2009-09-02 Thread walt
On 09/02/2009 07:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to allow remote access (via ssh only) to a given machine. Unfortunately, my remote IP is dynamic and reverse lookup (e.g. specifying only_from = .skynet.be in /etc/xinetd.conf) doesn't work. So, I have to find out which IP ranges are

[gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

2009-09-02 Thread Daniel Quinn
I have 3 Sheevaplugs (http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp) which all run ARM cpus. For the most part I've had very few problems setting these up to run Gentoo but now I'm trying to have one of them run Mencoder to record CBC's The National from an MMS stream and I'm having this

[gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
We are looking to set up a cluster that uses MySQL, UltraMonkey and yours truly Gentoo. Where best to check first then the group of the O.S. of choice. Anyone have any feedback, comments, advice etc... please send them this way. We are looking to set it up for free as in beer so which MySQL

Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

2009-09-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:28:10 +, Daniel Quinn expendabl...@danielquinn.org wrote: I have 3 Sheevaplugs (http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp) which all run ARM cpus. For the most part I've had very few problems setting these up to run Gentoo but now I'm trying to have one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread kashani
Nick Khamis wrote: We are looking to set up a cluster that uses MySQL, UltraMonkey and yours truly Gentoo. Where best to check first then the group of the O.S. of choice. Anyone have any feedback, comments, advice etc... please send them this way. We are looking to set it up for free as in

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 21:11:20 Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Helmut Jarauschjarau...@skynet.be wrote: Hi, I'd like to allow remote access (via ssh only) to a given machine. Unfortunately, my remote IP is dynamic and reverse lookup (e.g. specifying

Re: [gentoo-user] Bogon List

2009-09-02 Thread Grant
I should have been more specific.  That link I posted discusses how blocking the Bogon List can cause problems as some of the IPs on the list come into use.  I'd like to not use it at all, and I'm wondering if I'm using it as part of a default setup of shorewall, apache2, or other software.  

[gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues

2009-09-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Fresh issue, might as well keep the same thread. Like I said before the Music Player Daemon is set to start in the default level, so as the netbook boot msgs scroll by I've been use to seeing the msg: Music Player Daemon started just before login. Now suddenly, for some reason I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
The database cluster will be the backend to our own Customer Relation Management System that needs to be scaled to size and performance. In terms of what is and not is avail in the portage tree can we not just build 5.1 from binary source how hard is this lb_curses etc The problem with MySQL 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
I should also point out that we are interested in load balancing and high availability. Regards, Ninus.

[gentoo-user] emerge luatex-0.30.3 fails

2009-09-02 Thread Strake
I am trying to emerge luatex, but it fails with the following message: * * ERROR: dev-tex/luatex-0.30.3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2620: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically

2009-09-02 Thread Xi Shen
thanks guy, i got it ;) On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 14:02:26 Dale wrote: Xi Shen wrote: where is the bash_profile? i cannot find it on my gentoo. r...@smoker / # locate bash_profile /etc/skel/.bash_profile

Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

2009-09-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Sep 2009, at 22:28, Daniel Quinn wrote: ... now I'm trying to have one of them run Mencoder to record CBC's The National from an MMS stream and I'm having this problem: Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported Are you able to play this on an x86 Linux box? If not, or if

[gentoo-user] What is the correct way to keep a /dev entry through reboots?

2009-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
I recently bought a USR5637 USB dialup modem for my 2nd PC. I chose it because it's small, and specifically claims to support linux. Following instructions at http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x332.html I * recompiled the kernel with CDC(ACM) USB modem support * tried mknod /dev/usb/ttyACM0 c

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct way to keep a /dev entry through reboots?

2009-09-02 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: I recently bought a USR5637 USB dialup modem for my 2nd PC. I chose it because it's small, and specifically claims to support linux. Following instructions at http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x332.html I * recompiled the kernel with CDC(ACM) USB modem support * tried