[gentoo-user] Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
Hello. Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I need the image again, but reading the image from disk does not give me an identical image to the original one. I have used the commands $ readcd -vvv dev=/dev/dvd f=image.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] lxappearance and commonbox-styles?

2009-11-17 Thread App Des
the themes you installed are for openbox (title bar and borders), those can be changed with obconf (emerge it if you don't have it). lxappearance changes the gtk and icon themes. (gnome-themes, gtk-engines-* etc) On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: I installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/11/17 José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com: With both commands, the resulting image is 99.9% identical to the original one. Is there anything I can do to get an image identical to the original one? What about mounting the iso and create it again from the mountpoint. -- Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] scrollback using framebuffer

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 07:48:21 Maxim Wexler wrote: CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=256 Identical to

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 04:35:23 Neil Walker wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I have to ask - what the blazes are those servers doing??? :-) HTTP, SMTP and IMAP, mostly. ;) Which raises another question I have to ask - why are those logging to wtmp? Do all your users have shell accounts

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 17.11.2009 09:09, schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: 2009/11/17 José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com: With both commands, the resulting image is 99.9% identical to the original one. Is there anything I can do to get an image identical to the original one? What about mounting the iso and

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:55:51 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: On 16.11.2009 14:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:05:18 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: - No need to logrotate with time based filenames. Hence, no need to kill -HUP the syslog daemon. No missed logs. Then how do

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/11/17 Sebastian Beßler webmas...@darkmetatron.de: What about mounting the iso and create it again from the mountpoint. That he has deleted the iso? Well, he then can create the iso again from the mounted DVD, without readcd or dd, but with the same program (mkisofs?) he used before. --

[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/17/2009 08:24 AM, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: Hello. Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I need the image again, but reading the image from disk does not give me an identical image to the original one. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009/11/17 Sebastian Beßler webmas...@darkmetatron.de: What about mounting the iso and create it again from the mountpoint. That he has deleted the iso? Well, he then can create the iso again from the mounted DVD, without readcd or dd, but with

[gentoo-user] Looking for a iCalendar (ICS), CalDAV, or WCAP-SERVER

2009-11-17 Thread Christian Könitzer
Hi, I installed Lightning in my Mozilla Thunderbird. Lightening supports iCalendar (ICS), CalDAV, and Sun Java System Calendar Server (WCAP). How can I install one of those Servers on my Gentoo Linux (HowTo?, Package?)? I searched with eix -S wcap etc. but did nothing found nor did I found a

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-17 Thread Eray Aslan
On 17.11.2009 10:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: Then how do you get the server to use the new logfile names each day/week? It creates and uses a new file each hour/day/etc. Perhaps, you missed the file(...) directive? I didn't miss it. My question was how to you get the process to USE the new

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 17 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 21:40:42 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? Sort of. I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection:

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 14:08:00 Eray Aslan wrote: You wouldn't miss a log messsage by sending a SIGHUP to your mail server, the logger woulsd keep running. When syslog-ng cannot process messages for whatever reason, it will buffer them. When the buffer is full, it will drop the

[gentoo-user] smime files opened with kmail

2009-11-17 Thread Mick
Hi All, I used to be able to decrypt, open and read smime files (pkcs7) with Kmail 3.5, but with Kmail 4.3 this is not working as expected. This is how it used to be: I would right click on the smime.p7m file and select open with kmail, which would open a new blank mail message with the

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:08:00 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: I didn't miss it. My question was how to you get the process to USE the new file. Unless you SIGHUP the process, it will continue using the config in pace when it started. Last sentence is correct. What you are missing is that the

[gentoo-user] Keyboard Mapping Issues

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
Hello, After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and undesirable behavior. It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode. Examples: During console login, the key-combination Shift+2 deletes the whole line, and Shift+3 is a backspace, rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-17 Thread Eray Aslan
On 17.11.2009 17:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: You wouldn't miss a log messsage by sending a SIGHUP to your mail server, the logger would keep running. When syslog-ng cannot process messages for whatever reason, it will buffer them. When the buffer is full, it will drop the messages. There is no

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
Is there some simple tool in portage to report 1) The local build date of an installed package 2) Display the emerge history?  Such tools would assist me in locating the problem, which I assume resulted from an upgrade. Sorry, I am looking at /var/log/emerge.log now. ~daid

[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-11-17, Jos? Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I need the image again, but reading the image from disk does not give me an identical image to the original one. I

Re: [gentoo-user] lxappearance and commonbox-styles?

2009-11-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
Oh, I understand now. I will look into obconf and the other packages you mentioned. Thank you! Marcus On 11/17/2009 2:45 AM, App Des wrote: the themes you installed are for openbox (title bar and borders), those can be changed with obconf (emerge it if you don't have it). lxappearance

[gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Yes, I have read this in /var/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit and I understand the risks. if has_version ''${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then eerror Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: eerror Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction die

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:25:02 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: How does sending a SIGHUP to smtpd increase the load on the syslog server? Ugh, smtpd? Where did that come from? There was no mention of smtpd in the thread. destination mail {

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 18:08:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: Hectic day at work? :) I' m not working today, decorating is even more stressful :( Sign in my local paint store: Husbands choosing colours must have a note from their wives I feel your pain. I redid a bathroom sink the other day

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/17/2009 10:40 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-11-17, Jos? Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I need the image again, but reading the image from disk does not give

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Monday 16 November 2009 21:40:42 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection: amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database selected on INSERT INTO images SELECT * FROM

[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-11-17, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: My guess is that he has a slow internet connection, he downloaded a large iso, burned it, deleted it, and now wants to get the iso back without downloading it again, but he has access to the checksum/filesize of the original iso from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
if has_version ''${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then  eerror Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:  eerror Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction  die aborting to save your system fi I want to do it anyway. I had a circumstance where I also had to downgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
Hey guys I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
I have a 20 inch aluminum imac:  uname -a Linux pyrope 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #9 SMP Sat Nov 14 14:04:55 NST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I'm using the in-kernel alsa drivers.  I have tried compiling into the kernel and as modules.  I cannot get

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
# emerge alsa-util alsa oss Sorry, that should be alsa-oss ~daid

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
# emerge alsa-util alsa oss ...and alsa-utils I should go to sleep...

Re: [gentoo-user] (SOLVED) lxappearance and commonbox-styles?

2009-11-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
Works great, thanks. I'm now running a great Marrina theme with some great gnome-themes-extras icons and a great ClearLooks window manager. No more Redmond! Marcus On 11/17/2009 2:45 AM, App Des wrote: the themes you installed are for openbox (title bar and borders), those can be changed

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

2009-11-17 Thread Dominic Kexel
I can recommend wicd, it's a nice and easy way to handle your wireless-setup and can be run either with a gui or curses. On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless i have

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 18:52:00 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: On Monday 16 November 2009 21:40:42 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection: amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

2009-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900, daid kahl wrote: I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either open or that I had the passwords for. The disadvantage of NM compared to wicd is it won't work

[gentoo-user] Re: amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-17 Thread Doug Hunley
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 17:19, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 21:26:02 Doug Hunley wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? I haven't had

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread Nagatoro
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 17.06.45 Alan McKinnon wrote: Yes, I have read this in /var/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit and I understand the risks. if has_version ''${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then eerror Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: eerror

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 18:57:21 daid kahl wrote: if has_version ''${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then eerror Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: eerror Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction die aborting to save your system fi I want to do it

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
So this is one of those times where why words come back to haunt me?? :-) What I think I shall do first, is downgrade binutils to 1.19.x and rebuild a few apps I've noticed that are affected. I think the odds of success are pretty good. If not, well, a reinstall-rebuild is the certain route

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-17 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: snip Amarok, it was nice knowing you. One day you might build and play music again on all sane systems out there. Meanwhile, I think I want to hear songs play so some other player is going on this machine and you

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/17/2009 11:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yes, I have read this in /var/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit and I understand the risks. if has_version ''${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then eerror Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: eerror Downgrading glibc is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 17 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yes, I have read this in /var/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit and I understand the risks. if has_version ''${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then eerror Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: eerror Downgrading

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: I can attest to xorg-server-1.7.1 working just fine here with latest nvidia- drivers in the tree on amd64 Update: no more crashes for 2 days now (ok, I wasn't working full days on the machine, but for several hours today, seems OK now). Maybe some of the newer updates

[gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Dale
Hi, KDE 4 was having issues with sqlite not working correctly. After reading about and people telling me that mySql works better, I installed mySql. Its big and all but at least it works. Anyway, I changed the USE flags and have -sqlite in my USE flag line. I want to get rid of sqlite on

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
091112 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 00:40:16 Alex Schuster wrote: Philip Webb writes: There is a problem somewhere it mb a small fix for my machine it wb nice to track it down if others are not experiencing it. Try 'strace xterm' in a terminal with long scrollback

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 23:53:01 Dale wrote: Hi, KDE 4 was having issues with sqlite not working correctly. After reading about and people telling me that mySql works better, I installed mySql. Its big and all but at least it works. Anyway, I changed the USE flags and have -sqlite in

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, KDE 4 was having issues with sqlite not working correctly. After reading about and people telling me that mySql works better, I installed mySql. Its big and all but at least it works. Anyway, I changed the USE flags and

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 17 November 2009 23:53:01 Dale wrote: Hi, KDE 4 was having issues with sqlite not working correctly. After reading about and people telling me that mySql works better, I installed mySql. Its big and all but at least it works. Anyway, I changed the USE

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: ... or it crashes again after I hit SEND for this message. SEND ;) and as I said: within minutes after SEND I clicked gwibber and BANG ... :-( S

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 00:22:08 Dale wrote: Some stuff uses sqlite for storage. If it works, leave it alone. Just because some parts of KDE koffkoff amarok koffkoff have issues with it doesn;t mean all of KDE has issues with it So basically I have to have it anyway? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 23:56:00 Philip Webb wrote: 091112 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 00:40:16 Alex Schuster wrote: Philip Webb writes: There is a problem somewhere it mb a small fix for my machine it wb nice to track it down if others are not experiencing it.

equery depends vs. emerge -pv --depclean atom (was: Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.)

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Dale schrieb am 17.11.2009 22:53: r...@smoker / # equery depends sqlite [ Searching for packages depending on sqlite... ] app-pda/libopensync-0.22 (=dev-db/sqlite-3) If you have this package installed and want to keep it you are forced to keep sqlite as it is a hard dependency. Meaning this

[gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread walt
On 11/17/2009 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: So this is one of those times where why words come back to haunt me?? :-) In another thread you just claimed that you plan to paint *one* bedroom. Speaking as a married man, I predict that you will be revisiting that one soon enough :o(

[gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: Namespaces - you don't need it? Kick 'em out. hmm, interesting ... ;-) for sure I also want to decrapify my kernel-config ... To disable namespaces I would have to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y ... correct? This is rather counterintuitive to me, as my main workstation

[gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I recently moved from a wired ethernet interface to wireless via ndiswrapper. I now have wlan0 interface, and configuring it by hand works fine. But, on boot, it's not coming up. The initscript gets as far as setting up the essid, but then says that it cannot configure it. That's the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-11-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 18 November 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: Namespaces - you don't need it? Kick 'em out. hmm, interesting ... ;-) for sure I also want to decrapify my kernel-config ... To disable namespaces I would have to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y ... correct?

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2009 00:22:08 Dale wrote: Some stuff uses sqlite for storage. If it works, leave it alone. Just because some parts of KDE koffkoff amarok koffkoff have issues with it doesn;t mean all of KDE has issues with it So basically I have to

[gentoo-user] Re: equery depends vs. emerge -pv --depclean atom

2009-11-17 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 17.11.2009 22:53: r...@smoker / # equery depends sqlite [ Searching for packages depending on sqlite... ] app-pda/libopensync-0.22 (=dev-db/sqlite-3) If you have this package installed and want to keep it you are forced to keep sqlite as it is a

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
091118 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 17 November 2009 23:56:00 Philip Webb wrote: Are you using Nvidia ? -- someone else mentioned that as a possible cause. Yes, nvidia-190.42-r3 I'll try downgrade nvidia tomorrow and see what happens I'm using 185 couldn't get 180 to compile with Kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Dale
James Ausmus wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, KDE 4 was having issues with sqlite not working correctly. After reading about and people telling me that mySql works better, I installed mySql. Its big

[gentoo-user] USB auto mounting

2009-11-17 Thread sean
Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager in place and that plugin is enabled. For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged in. I am not sure when this stopped working. My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:41 -0600, Dale wrote: Should I be turning some of those off as they are not needed? This is my oldest install so I bet some are not even needed or can be done away with. I most likely had a good reason for turning them on way back when but may not have a good

[gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

2009-11-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I ran emerge -avuDN world and came up with blocked packages which I eliminated by un-merging device-mapper and e2fsprogs-libs. When I rebooted was greeted by a maintenance console and the message libblkid.so.1 cannot open shared object file. A little googling later I realized that

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

2009-11-17 Thread Gmail
I had a similar problem before and I solved it by start my computer using boot CD then reemerge e2fsprogs-libs and sys-fs/e2fsprogs. Hung Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, I ran emerge -avuDN world and came up with blocked packages which I eliminated by un-merging device-mapper and

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

2009-11-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:46 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: Any one see a way past this impasse? I'm using ext2 with the journal option. Why didn't you mount/fsck all the filesystems from outside the chroot?

[gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but startx works

2009-11-17 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, All After several upgrades, now kdm (apparently) doesn't login my wife's user - or perhaps kde doesn't keep an open session for her: a few seconds after password, the login windows reappears. But the strange thing is that logging in a text console and issuing that old and good startx

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but startx works

2009-11-17 Thread Gmail
Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post your xdm and kdm log file. Hung Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, All After several upgrades, now kdm (apparently) doesn't login my wife's user - or perhaps kde doesn't keep an open session for her: a few seconds after

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but startx works

2009-11-17 Thread Francisco Ares
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Gmail hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post your xdm and kdm log file. Hung Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, All After several upgrades, now kdm (apparently) doesn't login my wife's user - or

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:41 -0600, Dale wrote: Should I be turning some of those off as they are not needed? This is my oldest install so I bet some are not even needed or can be done away with. I most likely had a good reason for turning them on way back when but

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:20:15 Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I recently moved from a wired ethernet interface to wireless via ndiswrapper. I now have wlan0 interface, and configuring it by hand works fine. But, on boot, it's not coming up. The initscript gets as far as setting

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 07:49:40 Dale wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:41 -0600, Dale wrote: Should I be turning some of those off as they are not needed? This is my oldest install so I bet some are not even needed or can be done away with. I most likely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:16:04 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: Namespaces - you don't need it? Kick 'em out. hmm, interesting ... ;-) for sure I also want to decrapify my kernel-config ... To disable namespaces I would have to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:09:35 walt wrote: On 11/17/2009 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: So this is one of those times where why words come back to haunt me?? :-) In another thread you just claimed that you plan to paint *one* bedroom. Speaking as a married man, I predict that you