Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3.4 crashing after login

2009-12-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 06 Dezember 2009 07:54:45 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Sonntag 06 Dezember 2009 01:27:49 schrieb Kenneth Prugh: Reports that downgrading hal to 0.5.13-r2 fixes the issue (it did for me). Good to know. And indeed, I have a fully functional KDE again. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-06 Thread Dale
daid kahl wrote: I could take a whole day typing in exactly what I do, but I assumed the otherwise intelligent subscribers to the list would realise that I add '-1' to those pkgs which are not in 'world'. My 'world' file contains 112 entries, incl 28 'sys' + 35 'kde'. Really, does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-06 Thread Graham Murray
Drew drew@gmail.com writes: Isn't the memory hole above 3GB present even in the 64bit systems? Something about the MMIO reservations for the PCI bus taking up the top gig of the first four Gigs? I do not know. What I do know is that the system I am using here at home has 6GB RAM, the one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-12-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Holger Hoffstaette schrieb: I read something of setting stripe-width=128 to fit the erase block size of 512 kB ... dunno if that makes sense. Is this for a RAID? I'll gladly admit to complete lack of practical experience wrt. stripe sizes and such. :) I simply read stuff like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 05 December 2009 16:26:48 I wrote: * The current test system had a series of KDE-4 problems, which I thought must have been caused by the patch bug, but simply remerging everything installed since then hadn't fixed them. Not only has it not fixed the earlier problems - now I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for x86 or AMD64 disassembler

2009-12-06 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 06 December 2009, David Relson wrote: Indeed, hexdump mbr would show me the bytes but I want to see the code as instructions. objdump works fine for ELF. Being greedy, the ideal tool would handle all 3 formats. The immediate need is pure binary (like the MBR). A couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3.4 crashing after login

2009-12-06 Thread Johannes Kimmel
Kenneth Prugh wrote: On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:26:32 +0100 Johannes Kimmel johannes.kim...@gmx.de wrote: There's a discussion on the forum about this issue currently at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6085003 Reports that downgrading hal to 0.5.13-r2 fixes the issue (it did for me).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: On 5/12/2009, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Anyway, don't do testing on the machine you use for everyday computing. If you want to get into testing, use a dedicated machine for it. I've been using a separate partition on an

[gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, folks! I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. The installation kernel with which I'm having problems is: Linux livecd

[gentoo-user] Going to multilib

2009-12-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Ok, so I have some apps that require 32 bit libraries, but I'm currently using a no-multilib profile. This page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml says: Warning: Currently you cannot switch from a no-multilib to a multilib-enabled profile, so think over your decision twice

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to multilib

2009-12-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 06 December 2009, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Ok, so I have some apps that require 32 bit libraries, but I'm currently using a no-multilib profile. Apologies, I sent an email meant for gentoo-amd64 to gentoo-user. Sorry for the trouble.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 December 2009 14:48:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and if so, what?), or is there something fundamentally wrong with the kernel configuration? Not sure if this is a kernel problem. Have you tried to set up a user account

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan Mackenzie schrieb: Hi, folks! I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. The installation kernel with which I'm having

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-06 Thread Philip Webb
091206 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2009 21:09:50 Philip Webb wrote: Please read what I said hopefully think briefly before responding. If the pkg is already in 'world', it's 'emerge pkg'; if not -- the more frequent case -- , it's 'emerge -1 pkg'. That keeps everything in

[gentoo-user] XDM authorization key matches an existing client!

2009-12-06 Thread pk
Hi, Recently I switched from Slim to XDM. Now I get this message (as in subject), whenever I try to start a particular SDL app. I tried playing with xauth but it doesn't help. Strange thing is I can start things like firefox and other apps, it's only xrick (classic game based on SDL) and some

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote Hi, folks! I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Alan Mackenzie schrieb: Hi, folks! I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop.  The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop system into this laptop to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Florian, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:59:00PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Alan Mackenzie schrieb: I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop system into this laptop to do the rest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:28:10PM +, Mick wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 14:48:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and if so, what?), or is there something fundamentally wrong with the kernel configuration? Not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Joshua, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:56:06PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Alan Mackenzie schrieb: I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop.  The reason is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote Hi, folks! I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop.  The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Boy Hartsuiker
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote Hi, folks! I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 December 2009 20:23:39 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Mick, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:28:10PM +, Mick wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 14:48:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and if so, what?), or is there something

Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

2009-12-06 Thread Kirill Lipatov
Solved! wine-1.0 starts all the wanted games like magic :) 2009/12/4 Ates attila.boc...@gmail.com Ki rill Lipatov wrote: The disabling of the in-game chat unfortunately doesn't help my problem 2009/12/3 Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com mailto:arttu...@gmail.com On 12/3/09, Kirill Lipatov

[gentoo-user] Using losetup loopback devices / filesystems - changes aren't written to disk?!?!?

2009-12-06 Thread Stroller
Ok, I'm really new to loopback devices / filesystems, so please forgive me if I'm doing something stupid here. It wouldn't be the first time. :/ I've created this loopback filesystem, by using `dd if=/dev/zero of=individual.files.img` (so named because I'm hope to copy a bunch of

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

2009-12-06 Thread Xi Shen
yes, i installed busybox into the initramfs i created my self. because i see the initramfs generated by genkernel uses it. i am using LVM, so i have to use a initramfs. are you suggesting that i should install all the GNU utilities into the initramfs? i think that would create a very large

Re: [gentoo-user] Using losetup loopback devices / filesystems - changes aren't written to disk?!?!?

2009-12-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
I tried repeating your experiment, sans NFS and NTFS, and while I did note that the modification timestamp on the file did not change, the contents of the file did (i.e. the filesystem changed). FWIW this is Debian bug #459703 (Google told me that). What I'm going to guess is happening in your

[gentoo-user] python-updater failure

2009-12-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So I ran a big emerge --update world and it picked up Python 2.6 from 2.5. It'd be nice if python-updater ran automatically when this happens but it doesn't, but gcompris failing to build was a nice reminder that it needed to be done. So I ran it... msoul...@anton:~$ sudo python-updater

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater failure

2009-12-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: So I ran a big emerge --update world and it picked up Python 2.6 from 2.5. It'd be nice if python-updater ran automatically when this happens but it doesn't, but gcompris failing to build was a nice reminder

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater failure

2009-12-06 Thread covici
Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: So I ran a big emerge --update world and it picked up Python 2.6 from 2.5. It'd be nice if python-updater ran automatically when this happens but it doesn't, but

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

2009-12-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 December 2009 03:00:29 Xi Shen wrote: yes, i installed busybox into the initramfs i created my self. because i see the initramfs generated by genkernel uses it. i am using LVM, so i have to use a initramfs. are you suggesting that i should install all the GNU utilities into the

[gentoo-user] Disk Space

2009-12-06 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, I was trying to understand about Disk Space issue on Linux Box. whenever the disk usage is 100%. Still i am able to login to the host using root user. How does it work. was curious to know. Thanks, Kaushal

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Space

2009-12-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 December 2009 08:56:36 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I was trying to understand about Disk Space issue on Linux Box. whenever the disk usage is 100%. Still i am able to login to the host using root user. How does it work. was curious to know. Thanks, Kaushal You have