[gentoo-web-user] Spam?

2006-05-15 Thread fire-eyes
Is anyone else getting flooded with spam in the form of fake paypal security notices? I've probably had 12 today alone. I can't tell if it's coming through the list or just pretending... -- When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing

[gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully slow under moderate to high CPU usage (such as compiling) or copying more than a few MB. GUI's become almost totally unresponsive and at times

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread fire-eyes
Andrey Falko wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 PM, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully slow under moderate to high CPU usage

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi, I had problems with CFS too. Similar to the one's you describe. Under heavy disk/cpu-load (like emerge and updatedb in parallel) the system was unresponsive. I changed the scheduler back to anticipatory and the problem was gone. Interestingly i also have a thinkpad, X30

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-11 Thread fire-eyes
Hmm, I don't know . . . The particular address I was trying to connect was definitely blocked. Other than not beeing able to connect with a browser, nc, httping and tcptraceroute confirmed it). Could it be an area/account specific block perhaps? When I questioned the owner he said that this

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-12 Thread fire-eyes
Collin: it may not be a 5-second rule. It may just be cutting it off after a certain amount of traffic has passed based on the protocol/port used. But I'm just speculating. Let's hear what fire-eyes has to say. -- - Mark Shields I don't have the pcap file yet ;) Not much I can do

[gentoo-user] Hibernate / Suspend Problems on a Desktop

2008-05-20 Thread fire-eyes
and over again to get this working. Any tips would be much appreciated. fire-eyes / Fieldy -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] Tip: Firefox: Mouse Wheel Left/Right for History

2008-05-22 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, Just ran across a nifty trick for firefox, and wanted to get it on the list, as well as searched by search engines. Hope this is useful. I enabled my mouse wheels left-right functionality, however, it was reversed to xorg. So I flipped it in xorgs config. Seamonkey got it right

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

2008-06-17 Thread fire-eyes
Platoali wrote: Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my poor laptop was rendering for hours to get my job done. So I decide to buy a

[gentoo-user] Errors with External eSATA Drive (DRDY ERR / ICRC ABRT)

2008-06-27 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I keep running into errors while using an external eSATA drive. I have searched for information regarding this issue, and there just is not much out there. The best information I've seen mentions that a user was having this issue, but it went away as long as the disk was connected to

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0.0.5

2007-07-24 Thread fire-eyes
Stratos Psomadakis wrote: i just did an update,and firefox 2.0.0.5 has been added to the tree(~ masked)... but i just read a post at slashdot.org that says about a password vulnerability of 2.0.0.5... here's the link: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/23/1450224 i just want to ask

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11: How To Calibrate Monitor Color?

2007-08-29 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using xorg 7.2.0 with open source drivers on an ati card. How would I calibrate my monitor? i.e. what a photographer or graphics person would want to to, do ensure I'm seeing accurate colors on my screen? (I hope these don't expire) xorg.conf: http://rafb.net/p/ONo2dK80.html Xorg.0.log:

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7.3: Xorg Overriding My Config File (loading GLX when I don't want it)

2007-09-15 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I'm using Xorg 7.3 and am trying to prevent loading of glx module (very unstable on my laptop). Commenting out Load glx doesn't stop it. Using Disable glx doesn't stop it. Doing the same for dri doesn't stop it. In fact the logs say for each of those, on one line that they are disabled,

[gentoo-user] Dell XPS 420 (Nvidia video card)

2007-12-24 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, Is anyone on the list using a Dell XPS 420 with an Nvidia card (I avoid ati)? I am curious as to how it is working out for you, as I am considering getting one. Also, if you went with their non-descript wireless card, did it work in linux? How about the onboard ethernet? I am interested

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread fire-eyes
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Robbins offers to take back Gentoo leadership. What about it ? Read http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/here-my-offer.html I've kept very quiet about Gentoo politics for a long time, but Daniel's blog has promoted

[gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

2005-12-28 Thread fire-eyes
I dropped my alsa issue into a pastebin, so I'm just going to lazily copy it here. Thanks for reading :) I am using kernel 2.6.14.4 , compiled myself and installed myself. I am using alsa-driver-1.0.10 and alsa-lib-1.0.10. When I try to start the alsasound script, I get pages of errors

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

2005-12-29 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: I drop[snip] Okay this has been resolved. I have been using alsa kernel drivers, and something along the way pulled in alsa-driver. Odd though, I can't figure out what, equery d alsa-driver shows nothing.. Reinstalling the kernel did the trick. Thanks for the reads

[gentoo-user] DVD movie playing issues

2006-01-22 Thread fire-eyes
I am having problems playing DVD movies. The Movies are: Bourne Identity Primus - Hallucinogenetics concert Both of these work on my desktop system, also running gentoo with the same USE flags in mplayer and xine. This is a brand new IBM Thinkpad T43, running gentoo. Here's what we get with

[gentoo-user] SOLVED sort of: DVD movie playing issues

2006-01-22 Thread fire-eyes
The dvd drive came regionless so I had to set it. Now I'm getting different software related issues, but at least it's not hardware anymore. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3 sound

2006-01-24 Thread fire-eyes
Cláudio Henrique wrote: I managed to have doom3 working on my system, but now the problem is with the sound. It is like the one of a robot. I have tried using alsa, but the problem remains. How can I fix this? []'s claudio. I see the same problem. Though I have only tried the demo. I see

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.5 hours!

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
Ernie Schroder wrote: I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new record. Oh yeah? I guess this is a good time to post my problem then and break that (other than this message). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] DHCP Timeouts

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign everything manually, there are no issues. Some ask if it's because association with the AP is taking too long, but I know it is not that, because I am manually

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: DHCP Timeouts

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign everything manually, there are no issues. Some ask if it's because association with the AP is taking too long, but I know

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing F1, for example. Does anyone out there happen to know how I can once again do this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx module with radeon driver

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Yee haw. I'm using xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1. I am using their radeon driver, and trying to get glx to load. It is my understanding that it now has 3d support (glx). However when I try to start glxgears, I get this: $ glxgears Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Error: couldn't get an RGB,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing F1, for example. Does anyone out there happen to know how I can once

[gentoo-user] USER ERROR: xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx module with radeon driver

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: Yee haw. I'm using xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1. I am using their radeon driver, and trying to get glx to load. It is my understanding that it now has 3d support (glx). However when I try to start glxgears, I get this: $ glxgears Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: I wrote a script a long time ago for resizing pictures uploaded to a certain directory on my server box. The script was supposed to check to see if any JPG files in the directory had not been resized, and if they hadn't, it was supposed to resize them. It did some

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 19:44, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-02 Thread fire-eyes
Jeff wrote: Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using it to 'optimize' their gcc/system. Anyone care to comment? Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread fire-eyes
Steve B. wrote: Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-04 Thread fire-eyes
Steve B. wrote: On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: Steve B. wrote: Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-05 Thread fire-eyes
I get console-switching back? Option DontVTSwitch Off in the xorg.conf This doesn't appear to work. Although I don't understand why I should need to specify a value for DontVTSwitch anyway. Is Off no longer the default? Thanks Robert I noticed this problem when I went to xorg 7 as

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-05 Thread fire-eyes
This problem is because of the keyboard layout. If you use KDE go to Control Center / Regional Accessibility / Keyboard Layout and select the right one for your keyboard. Thanks for the advice. I have done this, logged out of kde, and logged back in, however it still does not work at this

Re: [gentoo-user] light httpd

2008-07-17 Thread fire-eyes
chloe K wrote: Hi all what is the different between light httpd vs typical apache? how can i tun sysclt for httpd to increase performance thank you - Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread fire-eyes
KH wrote: Hi, I cannot reach: http://gentoo-portage.com/ http://gentoo-wiki.com Are those websites off the air right now? Does anybody know when they will be back? Are there any substitutes to those web pages? I still miss packages.gentoo.org as it used to be :-( see also:

[gentoo-user] 3Com 3C996B-T: Software shows 1000Mbps, get 100Mbps or less speeds

2005-04-13 Thread fire-eyes
Sorry if this is a repost, it seems to have disappeared into the bit bucket. I put a 3Com 3C996B-T 1000Mbps NIC in my system. It uses the tg3 (broadcom) driver, which I have compiled in. The kernel messages show the link at 1000. The light on the NIC shows this. The lights on the switch show

[gentoo-user] 3Com problem: solved

2005-04-13 Thread fire-eyes
Welp it was a routing issue. I made a specific routing entry for the system I was testing from, and it worked out to about 18 - 20MB/s. The limiting factor is the old scsi disks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com 3C996B-T: Software shows 1000Mbps, get 100Mbps or less speeds

2005-04-13 Thread fire-eyes
Ok, this is free advice and may or may not be worth any more than that -- I'm new here, but since nobody answered Is your kernel configured for 1Gb as-such under the networking? (In win now to do mail; not set up undel linux yet, so I can't check exactly what/where.) Also may need to

[gentoo-user] Umerge All Versions of KDE

2005-04-15 Thread fire-eyes
How do I unmerge all versions of KDE? I understand kde is a meta package, so emerge -C kde isn't going to do this (though I sure wish it would). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 18:17 +0200, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some

[gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on. I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is currently eth0 become eth1, and the NIC which is eth1 become eth0. Is this possible? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: fire-eyes wrote: I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on. I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is currently eth0 become eth1

[gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. I was told here about the netdev argument to the kernel. I tried about 9 different ways of using this, but the documentation isn't exactly as clear as

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:12 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:04 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. Perhaps you can try

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:33 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: fire-eyes wrote: Well, my fault for not mentioning. But I don't enable module loading support on servers, it is a security risk. Fair enough. I've done the same on my servers. What's the possibility of moving the cards around

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:14 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: fire-eyes wrote: My understanding was that ether= was for 2.4 kernels, in fact the docs for 2.6 say netdev= is the replace ment, but at this point i'm willing to try. Continuing the search, I've found this page: http

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:46 +0200, Bert Buchholz wrote: On Thu 21.04 10:04, fire-eyes wrote: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. Simply use nameif to name your NICs based

[gentoo-user] nameif segfault: SOLVED

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
Just wanted to pass on that nameif was the solution to my NIC device swapping issues. I had mentioned that it kept setfaulting, though it was indeed doing its job. I found a bugreport, and it turns out that if the config file you pass nameif has more than 3 lines, it segfaults. This is fixed in

[gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds

2005-04-22 Thread fire-eyes
I have installed a 1000Mbps NIC in my system. This is the system some of you read about me where I was trying to swap the names of eth0 and eth1 so maybe that has something to do with my problem. The light on the NIC shows 1000Mbps link, as does the switch it is connected to. Kernel messages show

[gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC problems solved

2005-04-23 Thread fire-eyes
First off, thanks to those who responded kindly, it is really appreciated. I feel very silly, but apparently the problem is the system itself. All this time I was testing for speed by connecting to it from another system, and fetching a file via ftp. I never PUT one until yesterday, and then I

[gentoo-user] Saving Space on Backups: rm -r /usr/portage/* ?

2005-04-25 Thread fire-eyes
I'm keeping a series of full system backups. However i'd like to remove anything portage related *that could be replaced by just an emerge sync*. can I just remove /usr/portage/* in these older backups? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Web Based Job Ticket System?

2005-04-29 Thread fire-eyes
I'm looking for a web based job ticket system. We use apache 2 and mysql currently, and also have php 4/5. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:32 -0500, kashani wrote: Is there something especially complicated about going into your settings in Thunderbird and setting gentoo.org as a domain that prefers text emails? He doesn't want to, it's his choice. It is also my choice to filter mails from him which are

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-05-09 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 03:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2005 21:42:55 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | There's quite a lot of messages today with zero subject, all I see is | [gentoo-user]. This gets confusing when you get a ton of mail a day. | It might

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:35 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: I'm using evolution 2.2.1.1. Up until today, in the lower left corner there were three buttons: Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and one other I forget. Today, I only see Mail and Contacts. This is rather alarming, as I use the Calendar features

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: Eh, looks like I found the problem. On STDOUT when starting evolution: evolution-2.2:6552): evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_Component:2.2': g_module_open of `/usr/lib/evolution/2.2/components

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:15 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: Eh, looks like I found the problem. On STDOUT when starting evolution: evolution-2.2:6552): evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_Component:2.2

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 15:14 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: Continuing this, I did a revdep-rebuild -p. It wanted to remerge evolution-data-server, but when doing that I get a flood of errors ending in this: /usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0

2005-05-11 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:53 +, James wrote: Hello All, OpenOffice 2.0 looks significantly enhanced. Does anybody have a guestimate or insight as to when it will be available, via emerge? Has anybody compiled OO 2.0 directly? If so what are your results and is it stable? As someone

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0

2005-05-11 Thread fire-eyes
By the way, I merged openoffice-bin 1.9.93 . I don't see the beta versions in the standard (non-bin) ebuild. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 16:21 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: Nope. It is there and it is disabled. The problem is that the program keeps asking whether I want to enable it! I have read a few things on this issue, though I do not use the product. It actually goes to a wider problem, where if

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:20 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Has it annoyed you enough yet to turn on JavaScript? Hopefully not, documents which have been written to do so can then litrally call home. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-05-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:51 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I _will not_ enable JavaSpook. What remains to be decided is whether I'll give up using Acrobat Reader. I guess I don't see what is special about Acrobat's own reader. I have problems with it because 1) It is Adobe 2) It is binary

[gentoo-user] pptpclient: Wants MPPE In Kernel, I can't Find it

2005-05-24 Thread fire-eyes
I'm trying to use pptpclient-1.6.0. On its home page it says I need MPPE support in the kernel and PPPD. For PPPD it was easy, a nice little USE flag. As far as MPPE support, it says that if I modprobe ppp-compress-18 and that works, I should be all set. However I get: Fatal: Module

[gentoo-user] Unable to unmerge php

2005-05-24 Thread fire-eyes
I am following this document http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-gentoo.phtml And when I get to emerging pptpconfig: # emerge -pv pptpconfig These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =dev-php/php-4.99.99 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to unmerge php

2005-05-24 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:15 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Think your first problem is that you are mixing php mod_php they are different things. Please run: emerge php -pv and post the output to see what version you have if any. PHP isn't slotted, so you could have either 4.3.x or 5.0.x

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:37 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, fire-eyes wrote: However, when I run it from cron as the same shell script (and redirect STDERR and STDOUT to files): ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found Is it running as root from

Re: [gentoo-user] Error when running ethereal through ssh tunneled X11

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:27 +0200, Chris Prior wrote: Try using ssh -Y instead of ssh -X. (or set trusted forwarding in ssh_config) Hrm. That did it. I'm curious, can you tell me a bit more than th eman page about what -Y is? It basically says it's trusted, but doesn't go any further. Thank

[gentoo-user] Cron job environmental differences: solved

2005-06-02 Thread fire-eyes
First off, thanks to those on the list who replied to my intitial problem, where it seemed that the environment for a script which cron was running was different from when it was run directly as root. I made the second line (after #!/bin/sh) source /etc/profile , and pow it started working.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub nonsense

2005-06-05 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 20:46 -0700, rob3 wrote: My $million advice. Go to www..gnu.org, and just download the Grub source and compile it. Just make a note somewhere on your copy of the Gentoo manual (you did print it out didn't you? haha) that grub is not in the emerge system. It's not? #

[gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx - Is there a client?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
Perhaps I'm confused here, but I'm looking int freenx. Using esearch freenx, this was the only item I found: net-misc/nxserver-freenx Now the name of it implies it's just a server, is the client in there too, or is this seperate? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx ; documentation?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't appear any documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no idea how to even set it up. Any pointers? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx ; documentation?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:52 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: --- fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't appear any documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no idea how to even set it up. Any pointers? You need to run

[gentoo-user] freenx-nxserver fun continued: nxproxy port

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
Okay so I got this nxserver stuff going fine. I can connect to the server machine over its ssh port. But then it seems that something called nxproxy is trying to connect from the client, to the server, on TCP port 5000. I've looked for documents or a config file for nxproxy, because I can't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba problems

2005-06-18 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 14:01 +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: Hi to everyone I have upgraded my gentoo system (emerge -Du system) and I included an upgrade even of GCC and other basic system programs. Now I have a problem with samba: /etc/init.d/samba start * samba - start: smbd ...

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all the config file updates???

2005-06-18 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:18 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I don't know about there being a manual but one way is to have etc-update show you the differences - that shows what's being taken out and what's added. That and full backups. A good idea, folks. Can save a lot of trouble. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get PHP to work with Apache2

2005-06-18 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:24 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: Apache2 is trying to download php files, not run them. What gives? You need to set the types up in apache's config. I haven't done this in a while so I don't quite remember. That and the way apache is configured in gentoo has changed wildly

[gentoo-user] Odd Ethereal Error

2005-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on system A. This has worked fine for a while, but now as you'll see in the screenshot, the buttons along the top are missing their graphics, and where you usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd Ethereal Error

2005-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:53 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on system A. This has worked fine for a while, but now as you'll see in the screenshot, the buttons along

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd Ethereal Error

2005-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 17:23 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:53:43 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on system

[gentoo-user] smartctl: target a signle disk of a scsi raid array, not the raid array?

2005-09-22 Thread fire-eyes
How do I use smartctl (smartmontools) on a single disk in a scsi raid array? I've done it before, I just forget how. /dev/sda is the entire array, not an individual disk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] udev-070: cannot find dvd drive

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I am using udev-070 and I cannot find my dvd drive. The kernel certainly finds it: hdd: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive However /dev/hdd doesn't even exist. Furthermore, neither do /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrom or /dev/cdrom or anything of the sort. Leaving me zero access to read

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
Zac Medico wrote: Your build logs show that in both cases you got segmentation faults when running perl. I suggest that you roll back to the last working version of perl that you had. Zac Well, it was the same version of perl actually, however I have remerged it and still run into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Check if your perl is compiled with ithreads USE-flag. I have it ON with no problems but there's an warning in it's description (if enabled). HTH.Rumen You're right, it is on. Which is interesting, because I had problems in the past with that, and I thought I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Check if your perl is compiled with ithreads USE-flag. I have it ON with no problems but there's an warning in it's description (if enabled). HTH.Rumen You're right, it is on. Which is interesting, because I had problems in the past

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread fire-eyes
I solved this issue. Rather, we solved this issue. I'd like to thank those who helped me, I am so happy. The problem was ithreads USE flag in both libperl and perl. Removing those, remerging libperl, running perl-cleaner all, then remerging perl, and again running perl-cleaner all, resulted in

Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)

2005-09-27 Thread fire-eyes
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, It seems that on two of my machines, after recent updates, I no longer have /dev/cdroms and therefore cannot mount CDs, etc. I can mount them by hand using the old style /dev/hda. The hardware works. It just seems that udev is now doing something different. Has

Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)

2005-09-27 Thread fire-eyes
Mark Knecht wrote: Done. In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are more old style. Wanna trade systems? :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newest version of OpenOffice (2.0rc1) in portage?

2005-09-29 Thread fire-eyes
John Lange wrote: I'd like to test the newest version of OpenOffice which is 2.0rc1. I have 1.1.4 installed currently. When I do emerge --search openoffice it does not show a 2.0 version as being available. Is this because I need to unmask something or because nothing past 1.1.4 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Newest version of OpenOffice (2.0rc1) in portage?

2005-09-29 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: Currently, those are only available with openoffice-bin. I am using 2.0.0rc1 right now. All you need to do is use the appropriate unmask in /etc/portage/package.unmask (you may need to create /etc/portage/ first: =app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.93 Looks like some clients

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread fire-eyes
Oliver Friedrich wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive? Hi Mark, well, its not Gentoo, but DBAN is specialy Designed for secure wiping... http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Give it a try... BeowulfOF There is also bcwipe (in

Re: [gentoo-user] [smp related] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-10-04 Thread fire-eyes
Iain Buchanan wrote: Not long ago, I griped about 2.6.13 being _very_ slow to boot and run. My original email is at the bottom. I've since recompiled the kernel without SMP and Hyperthreading, and the system is _much_ faster. So, there is a problem with 2.6.13 and SMP or Hyperthreaded

[gentoo-user] Evolution: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08144e90 ***

2005-10-14 Thread fire-eyes
When I try to run evolution-2.4.1, i get *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08144e90 *** on STDOUT and it doesn't start. It doesn't exit either, i have to ctl-c in the terminal. I got this with 2.2 as well. I have been completely unable to run evolution because of this. Any ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?

2005-10-15 Thread fire-eyes
Gentoo Shadow wrote: dear friends, 1) how to band(block) porno web url(s)+web contents using squid-cache server? 2) which filtering tool is de best for a internet-cafe? Have a look at Dans Guardian, it works with squid to do just that. I know of entire ISP's using it. I think the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread fire-eyes
Note: mkisofs (in cdrtools) is what you create the ISO with, growisofs is what you use to write the iso to DVD with. Yeah, I think growisofs is a confusing name, too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.12.1 won't start with xfce4-4.2.2 running as the same user

2005-11-05 Thread fire-eyes
I installed gnome 2.12.1. I am running xfce4 on display :0 . I tried to start gnome session on :1 via: startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 , however it bails with gnome-session: you're already running a session manager. Any ideas? I am not running another gnome session. I was able to do this in

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-18 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums, so I thought maybe someone here could help me with this. I wrote a Qt program. It compiles just fine, but when I try to run it

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-19 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:00 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums, so I thought maybe someone here could help me

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