Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-09 7:10 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: #cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY='/usr/local/portage' Shouldn't those be double quotes? #cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage Mine is: PORTDIR_OVERLAY= /var/lib/layman/gnustep

[gentoo-user] Re: Frustrating error message from layman [SOLVED]

2014-01-10 Thread walt
On 01/09/2014 05:43 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: you might want to start over by removing /var/lib/layman and emerging it again... Aha! Bitrot is not our friend :) I was running a very old version of layman, which yesterday I updated by emerging a new layman. Here's the catch: my old layman

[gentoo-user] overlays.gentoo.org down?

2014-01-10 Thread Tanstaafl
Anyone else experiencing this? I routinely eix-sync every day, and this morning the overlays started failing. emerge --sync works fine...

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays.gentoo.org down?

2014-01-10 Thread Johann Schmitz (ercpe)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.01.2014 17:06, Tanstaafl wrote: Anyone else experiencing this? I routinely eix-sync every day, and this morning the overlays started failing. emerge --sync works fine... http://infra-status.gentoo.org/ says it's down. -BEGIN PGP

[gentoo-user] NAT problem

2014-01-10 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is the the first time I'm dealing with wifi and the second time with NAT. I have a server (access point) with a ppp0 interface (internet), eth0, wlan0, tun0 and sit0. A dhcp server is listening on wlan0 and provides local ip addresses, dns

Re: [gentoo-user] NAT problem

2014-01-10 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/10/14 21:55, the wrote: Hello. This is the the first time I'm dealing with wifi and the second time with NAT. I have a server (access point) with a ppp0 interface (internet), eth0, wlan0, tun0 and sit0. A dhcp server is listening on wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] NAT problem

2014-01-10 Thread Kerin Millar
the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is the the first time I'm dealing with wifi and the second time with NAT. I have a server (access point) with a ppp0 interface (internet), eth0, wlan0, tun0 and sit0. A dhcp server is listening on wlan0 and provides local ip

[gentoo-user] MATE is great!

2014-01-10 Thread walt
If you love gnome2 you'll be thrilled when you install the gentoo 'mate' overlay. It's like coming home for the holidays and putting on your old fuzzy slippers :) I had to work around two minor problems before the whole package would build: 1) I had to remove the pulseaudio useflag for

Re: [gentoo-user] MATE is great!

2014-01-10 Thread Gevisz
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:35:07 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: If you love gnome2 you'll be thrilled when you install the gentoo 'mate' overlay. It's like coming home for the holidays and putting on your old fuzzy slippers :) I had to work around two minor problems before the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] NAT problem

2014-01-10 Thread Randy Barlow
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 09:55:32PM +0400, the wrote: I have a client that connects to my wifi, obtains an address via dhcp and ... can't acces almost all of internet sites. I was able to ping any web service I could think of, but I was able to use only google/youtube. I can do text/ image

Re: [gentoo-user] NAT problem

2014-01-10 Thread Mick
On Friday 10 Jan 2014 19:42:37 Kerin Millar wrote: the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is the the first time I'm dealing with wifi and the second time with NAT. I have a server (access point) with a ppp0 interface (internet), eth0, wlan0, tun0 and

[gentoo-user] Re: MATE is great!

2014-01-10 Thread walt
On 01/10/2014 01:19 PM, Gevisz wrote: I have switched from Gnome2 to Fxce4 without all that troublehacking in such a way that even my friend, who used to work as a system administrator, could not tell a difference when I showed him my previous Gnome2 and my current Xfce4 sessions. I like