[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4rc2 Network Manager Applet

2010-01-26 Thread Dave Oxley
Hi All, I've just installed KDE 4.3.95 from the kde overlay and was expecting the network manager applet to be installed by default but it doesn't appear to be. Does anyone know how I install this? Is it an ebuild that's not part of the @kde-4.4 set? Cheers, Dave.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4rc2 Network Manager Applet

2010-01-26 Thread Dave Oxley
It's ok I found it. kde-misc/knetworkmanager. I had a local ebuild that was overriding it which didn't compile and that was confusing me. Cheers, Dave. On Wednesday 27 January 2010 10:16:37 Dave Oxley wrote: Hi All, I've just installed KDE 4.3.95 from the kde overlay and was expecting

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.3

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Oxley
I'm trying to emerge kde-4.3 but get the following block that I've been unable to resolve. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers, Dave. [blocks B ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.8 (sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.8 is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.16) ('installed', '/',

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.3

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Oxley
I'd already looked for a later version of e2fsprogs-libs but there isn't one. Any other ideas? Cheers, Dave. Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:28:30 Dave Oxley wrote: I'm trying to emerge kde-4.3 but get the following block that I've been unable to resolve. Anyone have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.3

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Oxley
that util-linux no longer complains (as it likely finds a version of e2fsprogs-libs that it is happy with) On Wednesday 05 August 2009 10:37:51 Dave Oxley wrote: I'd already looked for a later version of e2fsprogs-libs but there isn't one. Any other ideas? Cheers, Dave. Alan

[gentoo-user] Procmail mail ownership

2009-03-16 Thread Dave Oxley
Since late February any mail delivered to folders other than inbox using procmail have been given ownership of root:mail instead of david:users as it was previously. A new version of procmail was installed on 21 Feb so I'm assuming thats caused this issue. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup

2008-12-17 Thread Dave Oxley
Holger Hoffstaette wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:01:20 +1100, Dave Oxley wrote: I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Oxley
I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to hard reset the server. This happened 3 times until I eventually reverted back to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Oxley
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi, as your post turned into the usual kde 4 is good/bad flamewar I will just try to answer the question: The people working on the overlay plan to bringt kde 4.1.1(not 4.1.0) into the tree. This will be released on next week and enter the tree hopefully shortly after that.

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Oxley
Stroller wrote: On 27 Aug 2008, at 05:28, Dave Oxley wrote: ... I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. ... Hi

[gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-26 Thread Dave Oxley
All, I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. So using fdisk I deleted partition 4 and recreated it from the same position

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-11 Thread Dave Oxley
. Cheers, Dave. Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008, Dave Oxley wrote: I've installed 9.4.2-P1 but http://www.doxpara.com/ says I'm still vulnerable. What more do I need to do? you need to install the updated tools to. Client and server side have to be fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Dave Oxley
I've installed 9.4.2-P1 but http://www.doxpara.com/ says I'm still vulnerable. What more do I need to do? Cheers, Dave. Mick wrote: Hi All, Have you seen this? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080709/ttc-us-it-internet-software-crime-e0bba4a.html and this? http://www.doxpara.com/ Is it

[gentoo-user] Snort

2008-07-03 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've installed Snort and BASE on my Gentoo server, which is also my the network router, by following http://lurker.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Snort. It's generated a fair number of alerts over the last few weeks so it looks like it's working. But how

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing my router

2008-06-29 Thread Dave Oxley
Daniel Iliev wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +1000 Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I want to do is setup my switch as a router. No can do. My switch is a SGE2000P which is also a layer 3 router. I'm a bit of a newbie on advanced networking but I think

[gentoo-user] Replacing my router

2008-06-27 Thread Dave Oxley
I have 2 Internet connections, 1 fast ADSL and 1 slow wireless as a backup. My router doesn't do automatic failover or even have support for multiple WAN connections so I thought I'd set up PPP connections on my Gentoo server that do PPPoE to the 2 modems which I connected directly to my

[gentoo-user] Firefox downgrade?

2008-05-19 Thread Dave Oxley
I've just upgraded to firefox 3rc1. I put the necessary in /etc/portage/package.* but it didn't appear when doing an update world. So I did an 'emerge -av mozilla-firefox'. This worked and you can see is still working: baldrick ~ # emerge -av mozilla-firefox These are the packages that would

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got KDE4 installed and running mostly fine. It loses some configuration on a log off and on and it shows 2 batteries rather than the 1 which is the only one the laptop has! But other than that switched to it by default now. How do I prevent a

[gentoo-user] KDE HAL - Tray icon

2007-07-30 Thread Dave Oxley
Just a simple question: Is there a try icon for unmounting removable hardware (USB sticks etc)? Currently I go into konquerer and browse to media://, right mouse click and click 'safely remove'. Its just a little annoying! Cheers, Dave. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE HAL - Tray icon

2007-07-30 Thread Dave Oxley
Mauro Faccenda wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 20:36, Dave Oxley wrote: Just a simple question: Is there a try icon for unmounting removable hardware (USB sticks etc)? Currently I go into konquerer and browse to media://, right mouse click and click 'safely remove'. Its just a little

Re: [gentoo-user] Email to Hotmail not working

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Walker wrote: Dave Oxley wrote: I am unable to send email to hotmail. I thought I had a misconfiguration in sendmail, but I have just tried a telnet (See below). Although I can send emails to hotmail without an error or undeliverable report

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Email to Hotmail not working

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Oxley wrote: I am unable to send email to hotmail. I thought I had a misconfiguration in sendmail, but I have just tried a telnet (See below). Although I can send emails to hotmail without an error or undeliverable report, none show up in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Seeger wrote: Concerning Number 2: You need to have gensplash enabled in the Kernel (which it is), and have emerged the splashutils packages. Also, you need to modify your grub.conf to use a framebuffer. Furthermore, you need to create an

[gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a EMT64 server that runs a mythtv backend as well as other things and a AMD64 mythtv frontend which has been running with its own hard disk and therefore install of Gentoo for sometime. I am looking at building another frontend without a disk

[gentoo-user] dhcpd and routes

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a Gentoo server that is running Cisco VPN software to connect to my companies VPN. I have setup the server as a NAT for the specific subnet required for the VPN and the rest of my traffic goes through my router (192.168.1.1). I currently have

[gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-01-31 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a MythTV frontend running Gentoo on an AMD 64bit with an Nvidia 6600 graphics card. I have had no end of problems with the graphics card (Xid errors). It crashes with a white line across the screen regularly when 3d goom is up when I'm

[gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild arcmsr driver but I cannot get it to boot. It says that it cannot find the root fs on sdc3.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
Douglas Linford wrote: Dave, This may sound goofy...but do you have any external drives connected to you box, ie, USB, ieee, or card readers? When I had my extenal USB hard disk turned on or my internal card readers connected when I booted Gentoo, boot would stop and it would say the same

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
Norberto Bensa wrote: Dave Oxley wrote: I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild 2.6.19 sucks. Not only it moved CONFIG_SATA_

Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles on samba and 2.6.18

2006-11-08 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:09:23 +1100 Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since upgrading to the 2.6.18 kernel I get this on my client machine when trying to emerge. I have distfiles mapped to a server samba share

[gentoo-user] distfiles on samba and 2.6.18

2006-11-05 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since upgrading to the 2.6.18 kernel I get this on my client machine when trying to emerge. I have distfiles mapped to a server samba share and this works if I boot back up into 2.6.17. Does anyone have any ideas how to stop this happening? Emerging

[gentoo-user] Tomcat won't start!?!?

2006-08-31 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just updated world on my server today and now Tomcat won't start. I have no idea why. When I start it I just get [!!]. I removed all the extra spaces from all the parameters and put an echo around the start-stop-daemon line and when I run the

[gentoo-user] DVB-S multiplex

2006-08-23 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know why the OptusC1-156E file that comes with dvbscan doesn't match what's defined on lyngsat.com? For example Fox Sports 1 (sid 3001) is listed on lyngsat as 12478 H, SR 27800, 3/4 but in channels.conf it is

[gentoo-user] Nucleus CMS

2006-08-21 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I want to install a blog on my web server and was going to install Nucleus CMS (http://nucleuscms.org/) as I've used it in the past but I can't find an ebuild. Is there an ebuild or is there a better package for blogging? Cheers, Dave. -BEGIN PGP

[gentoo-user] New Java system

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have the new Java system installed but I have a problem. I accidently removed net-dns/libidn when I did an 'emerge --depclean', but its required by Asterisk. When I try to emerge it I get the output below. Anybody know how I can fix this. Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] New Java system

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:59, Dave Oxley wrote: I have the new Java system installed but I have a problem. I accidently removed net-dns/libidn when I did an 'emerge --depclean', but its required by Asterisk. When I try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-emerge missing files

2006-06-26 Thread Dave Oxley
Rafael Castro wrote: On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Dave Oxley wrote: I left an emerge of Qt running at the weekend which downgraded my Xorg from 7.0 to 6.8 (I was missing virtual/x11 ~amd64 in package.keywords). When I came back to the machine I unmerged Xorg which deleted a load

[gentoo-user] Re-emerge missing files

2006-06-25 Thread Dave Oxley
I left an emerge of Qt running at the weekend which downgraded my Xorg from 7.0 to 6.8 (I was missing virtual/x11 ~amd64 in package.keywords). When I came back to the machine I unmerged Xorg which deleted a load of libraries that were installed with 7.0, but the system thinks they are still

[gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Oxley
I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating why on my server as it is most important that I get this machine up and running ASAP.

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Oxley
I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again. I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I wonder if this is causing the new udev a problem. Dave. Dave Oxley wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Oxley
Roy Wright wrote: Dave Oxley wrote: I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again. I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I wonder if this is causing the new udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network collisions

2005-10-05 Thread Dave Oxley
. James wrote: Dave Oxley dave at daveoxley.co.uk writes: Yeah, its a hub. I'll stop trying to set it to full duplex now. It is 40 times quicker in one direction than the other. Can you give me a hint where to go from here. Try connecting the 2 systems with only a 'cross-over

Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions

2005-10-04 Thread Dave Oxley
Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I had already tried power cycling my hub and it made no difference. Cheers, Dave. Mark Knecht wrote: On 10/3/05, Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have two Gentoo machines (specified as Server and Client for ease). The server

Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions

2005-10-04 Thread Dave Oxley
to Server (i.e. transmit) 7.383Mb/sec It is 40 times quicker in one direction than the other. Can you give me a hint where to go from here. Cheers, Dave. kashani wrote: Dave Oxley wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I had already tried power cycling my hub and it made

Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions

2005-10-04 Thread Dave Oxley
Its on board the motherboard. I could put a second NIC in but I don't want to waste the pci slot. This is an HTPC. Dave. Uwe Thiem wrote: On 04 October 2005 07:28, Dave Oxley wrote: Hi all, I have two Gentoo machines (specified as Server and Client for ease). The server networking

[gentoo-user] Network collisions

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Oxley
Hi all, I have two Gentoo machines (specified as Server and Client for ease). The server networking is working fine, but the client cannot receive without lots of collisions. The speeds I get are: Server - Client (i.e. receive) 170.3Kb/sec Client - Server (i.e. transmit) 7.383Mb/sec The cards