[gentoo-user] KDE4 + python3.1 == no system-config-printer-kde ?

2011-06-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, Is it me missing out on something or does KDE4 (namely PyKDE4) is borked when default python is set to 3.1? # eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.7 [2] python3.1 * # eselect python list --python3 Available Python 3 interpreters: [1] python3.1

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + KDE + pulseaudio + ? == happiness

2010-10-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, not trying to stir up a flamewar about pulseaudio viability etc. I want to make my setup work *with* the pulseaudio, but I feel like I'm missing something. So I'd rather avoid comments "don't use it then" if at all possible. What I have: Gentoo + KDE-4.4.5 + pulseaudio-0.9.21.1 Ho

[gentoo-user] Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and sound card

2010-03-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, I have just bought Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and much to my suprise things pretty much worked out of the box... almost. As I have discovered - even though video is working flawlessly, my audio has gone AWOL. No matter how many goats and virgins I have sacrificed to the gods of Google

[gentoo-user] Kgpg (KDE4) and missing menu items

2009-10-28 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi all, is it me, or does Kgpg (KDE4) indeed miss menu items for "Keys/export" , "Keys/reload" and so forth? I haven't noticed anything like that with any other application so far so I'm curious if that's something in my settings, or shall I stroll over to bugs.kde.org and file it?

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b

2009-03-17 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On March 17, 2009, Roger Cahn wrote: > Hi, > > k3b will not emerge, in spite it was emerged before: > Failed to emerge app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r3 > On my laptop it worked fine. > > Here are the flags: > > app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r3 USE="alsa dvd dvdr encode hal mp3 vorbis -arts > -css -debug -emovix -ffmpeg -

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 4, 2008, Adam Carter wrote: > > Open a Wiki page on Wikipedia, update it every so often and > > provide simple > > parser for it so others can recycle same IPs. Since it's a > > Wiki page - others > > can update it as well (including botnet owners, but then > > they'd have to reveal the

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 4, 2008, Christian Franke wrote: > I just don't see what blocking ssh-bruteforce attempts should be good > for, at least on a server where few _users_ are active. Considering how much creative paranoia I've exposed in this thread it might come as a surprise, but I do agree with the ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 3, 2008, Steve wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > >> Erm - surely I either need to set up my client to port-knock... which > >> is a faff I'd rather avoid... in order to use the technique. > > > > nope. just start connection. wait a minute. cancel

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 3, 2008, Steve wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > I think using Dmitry's idea of rejecting the first 2 connections, but > > then allowing it as normal on the third attempt would satisfy your > > requirements for being on the normal port, allowing all IPs and > > requiring no special setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 3, 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: > Of course, this is assuming the botnet stops after rejected connections... oh no, not rejected - dropped ;) let them go through pains of timing out without knowing if anything is actually listening on the other side ;) -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Adm

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 3, 2008, Steve wrote: > I have, in the past, used DSA only keys - but this was frustrating on > several occasions when I wanted access to my server and didn't have my > SSH keys available to me... I almost always connect using a key pair > rather than a password - but the password optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 3, 2008, Steve wrote: > Sure, I could use IPtables to block all these bad ports... or... I could > disable password authentication entirely... but I keep thinking that > there has to be something better I can do... any suggestions? Is there > a simple way to integrate a block-list of k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 25, 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 25 Nov 2008, at 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > ... > > I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3. > > I can't help wondering if that's your problem. You unmasked KDE on > your own machine... now in the main tree KDE 3 is no longer maske

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3. Previous > portage was happy with that. The new portage is not. I have dozens of > packages in package.keywords that look like this: > > kde-base/kdelibs in which case portage did exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my > KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any > options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? 1st of all, I'm running 2.2.x versions of portage and n

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 12, 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > wouldn't call it stupid though. FHS compliance is a good thing (I'm a > > sysadmin so I really appreciate when things can be easily located > > universaly). > > why? the FHS is a stupid standard. Why is following stupid standards a good > thing?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 12, 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > I had something similar on my first try: > > > > kde-4 went into /usr > > kde-3 went into /usr/kde/3.5 > > > > And bizarre weird errors kept happening. I remerged all of kde-4 with > > USE="kdeprefix" to put it back into /usr/kde/4.1 and all the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:31:41 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of > > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 12, 2008, Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of > > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure something else was broke too) stopped launching hinting that there is a CSS version mistmatch blah-blah-blah. Path to CSS suggested that 4.1.3

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 4, 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'm back to MSOffice. I hate it but it works. Sorry, might be coming late to this discussion and offering something that was already offered, but how about openoffice-bin ? It works for me 100% of the time on several workstations without a glitch (bot

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-14 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 14, 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: > I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the > bootloader without problems. > > However, now, when I boot up, I don't get a grub menu or anything on the > screen. Originally I thought there was a problem and my system wouldn't > boot but I

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.0.4 (not a nag)

2008-05-14 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, does anybody know what's happening to KDE4 in gentoo land ? Gentoo-KDE folks were pretty responsive with previous 4.0.x releases updating portage tree etc., but now I can't find much updates on what's happening with 4.0.4. Was it 3.5.9 preparations that took priority? Note: this

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On February 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit > > > machine > > > > I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I > > guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32 > > version, works gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On January 29, 2008, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote: > > > > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for > > > > www.gentoo.org w

[gentoo-user] KDE4 and kalgebra

2008-01-28 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
I decided to take KDE4 for a spin and sync'd + unmasked all needed components, however build for kalgebra bombs (messages at the end of email). Before I go to bgo or bko can somebody tell me if I'm not missing something obvious? I did check that Graph3D seems to be comming from Qt-4 and Qt *is*

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On January 8, 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:23:58 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 > > --snip-- > > > Am I correct in saying you plan to emerge mplayer with a few extra

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 fresh install woes (configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.???)

2007-11-29 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 27, 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > 071127 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > I decided that the time has come to switch over to 64bit computing > > and went with fresh LiveDVD install of gentoo. > > After doing stage3 install and making syncing portage > > I'm fa

[gentoo-user] amd64 fresh install woes (configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.???)

2007-11-27 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi all, Little history: like many on this ML I decided that the time has come to switch over to the 64bit computing and went with fresh LiveDVD install of gentoo. Cruel reality: After doing stage3 install and making syncing portage I'm failing updates on gcc and sandbox - both complaining: con

[gentoo-user] OT: forum <-> mailing list software

2007-11-09 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
It's a bit off-topic, however I have no other place to ask this question: Which online forum systems offer bi-directional gateway with email system. Examples: * user posts on forum - email is being sent to subscribers (that one almost any forum out there has out-of-the-box) * user replies to

[gentoo-user] amarok, last.fm and recent updates

2007-04-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, after recent updates (emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world) amarok stopped working with http://last.fm streams. I've experienced same behavior on two separate machines. First I've noticed it on my home machine but thought maybe something changed with last.fm and amarok can't connec

Re: [gentoo-user] dynamic apache configuration

2006-12-15 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Friday 15 December 2006 13:49, Alan wrote: > > #!perl > foreach my $host ( qw( foo bar baz) ) { > >push @PerlConfig, < > DocumentRoot /home/httpd/vhosts/${host}.com/ > ServerName ${host}.com > ServerAliaswww.${host}.com > DirectoryIndex index.html index.sh

[gentoo-user] dynamic apache configuration

2006-12-15 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Somewhat offtopic question, but here it goes: does anybody know of a module for apache that will use database to "suck in" part of apache http.conf file? What I need is dynamicaly manage my apache host with as few FS writes as possible. I remember seeing such a thing long time ago. Now I coudn

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-06 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Friday 06 October 2006 00:58, Mick wrote: > I've run memtest86+ a number of times and no errors were shown. > There's a whole thread (either in this ML or in the forums) as to > why memtest is not a foolproof test for your *system* as opposed to > a memory module. Try to search around and look

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-05 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:24, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 21:01, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > To eliminate KDE problem I tried to run fluxbox with Firefox && > > xterm - same results - hard freeze. > > > > Did anybody see something similar or

[gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
I've got a problem that makes me think it's a HW problem but I'm trying to "cover all bases". Here's what happened: Last monday I did my regular emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world all nice and dandy. After that, according to my log files anyway, I did not install a thing. I never rebooted my

[gentoo-user] xorg and freetype/type1

2006-09-11 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Did anybody find xorg destabilize after enabling freetype/type1 modules ? My machine freezes up randomly after I activate those two. My config: Pentium M 1.6 IBM ThinkPad X31 gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9) -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca Un

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile?

2006-09-07 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Thursday 07 September 2006 08:34, A. R. wrote: > > With modular Xorg, do you still need to re-build your video > > drivers after every time you re-compile a kernel? > > You have to rebuild those drivers that have been obtained outside > the "standard" kernel source tree. This applies to all type

[gentoo-user] USB weirdness

2006-05-09 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Is it my problem or is it a generic problem: My install of Gentoo (2006.0 profile with latest versions of gentoo-kernel etc.) doesn't recognize events happening on USB bus. i.e.: in order to use my multicard reader it has to be plugged in upon boot - otherwise it's not recognized. Furthermore

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4

2006-03-16 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:03, James wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey athabascau.ca> writes: > > since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 > > (i.e. require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any > > reasons to bump version of qt. AFAI

Re: [gentoo-user] QT 4

2006-03-16 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:11, James wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone any experiences with developing software with QT4? > > checking whats available, with 'emerge -pv qt', I see: > x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 > > Nothing else... If I add x11-libs/qt to the package.keywords > file, I get > x11-libs/qt-4.1

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question

2006-01-20 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Friday 20 January 2006 13:49, Trenton Adams wrote: > Under the *nat rule, > > -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 58443 -j DNAT --to > 192.168.7.1:443 > > Under the *filter rules. > > -A ADAMS-FW-INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp > --dport 443 -j ACCEPT I tried similar co

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables question

2006-01-20 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Friday 20 January 2006 13:41, James wrote: > #for unlimited traffic on the loopback interface > iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT since I've done my "flushing" all my rules are nice and permissive ;) dimon2 ~ # iptables -t filter -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCE

[gentoo-user] iptables question

2006-01-20 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
somewhat offtopic, but since I need any help I can get: how do I redirect trafic from outward facing interface (192.168.1.114:80) to loopback device (127.0.0.1:80) ? my most obvious trick: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 192.168.1.114 --dport 80 \ -j DNAT --to 127.0.0.1:80 and

Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!

2005-10-21 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On October 21, 2005 02:30 pm, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > sorry by the way I put it Jeff I got to angry when All my > services stop working after an ( what should be simple ) update > . Allan ,don't get me wrong - I"m not trying to "pin" you, I just want to point out that computers and s

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 12:21 pm, Zac Medico wrote: > mkdir /etc/portage > echo "> /etc/portage/package.mask that would actually produce negative effects on gnumeric so I'd rather do as other post (by Tero) suggests: mask higher version as no package is requiring it anyway. But thanks for stepping in t

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 11:23 am, Tero Grundström wrote: > > This is because gnumeric REQUIRES =1.10.0... and when you do a > > -uD it will be upgraded. > > > > You should keep using -uNp instead of -uDNp ;) > > I wouldn't throw away -uDNp just because of this. > > On my system there are only two packages

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 09:34 am, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge > > -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is > > one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 an

[gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might trigger this behavior? -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrato

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-14 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
For archiving purposes: I've finally fixed my machine up with as follows: 1. chosen kernel was 2.6.12-r5 as it fixes ugly bug with iptables which takes ages for applications to load. 2. configured grub without using initrd title Gentoo linux (update) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x8

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 13, 2005 03:11 pm, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On July 13, 2005 02:47 pm, Richard Fish wrote: > > Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for > > initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the "initrd" line > > from grub if you wa

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 13, 2005 02:47 pm, Richard Fish wrote: > Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for > initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the "initrd" line > from grub if you want to eliminate it. So if I understand correctly something like: title Gentoo linux (update)

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 13, 2005 11:43 am, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual > > > > genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all > > Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without usi

[gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all produced unbootable system :( Symptoms point most probably to udev being used by default etc. Here's what I have in grub.conf: title Gentoo linux (updated) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] (Was:KDE 3.4.1 released) Removing arts

2005-06-02 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On June 2, 2005 01:04 pm, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > I don╢t want to start a flamewar here but I don╢t see the reason > why KDE insists on using arts. Why not just route all sounds > through alsa? Or has it to do with some cards limitations for > harwaremixing? because there are more platforms than

Re: [gentoo-user] grub prblems...

2005-05-26 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On May 25, 2005 06:36 pm, James Hiscock wrote: > > After recent update of the system my GRUB became partially > > broken. Namely: "default saved"/"savedefault" statements stopped > > working. Is it me or it's a common problem and how do I fix it. I > > attach my grub.conf for those who might be int

[gentoo-user] grub prblems...

2005-05-25 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
After recent update of the system my GRUB became partially broken. Namely: "default saved"/"savedefault" statements stopped working. Is it me or it's a common problem and how do I fix it. I attach my grub.conf for those who might be interested... -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator At