Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-10 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
On 3/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Everyone, I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update 2.4 > 2.5 FAILED postinst causes everything to segfault

2007-03-04 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
First of all, thanks for the replies. Just so you know, I was able to get my system to a working state. Read the bit about untarring the old glibc into my system in my email. I don't reallly have a clue if any of those are relevant but have a look yourself.. Otherwise go ahead and file the bug.

[gentoo-user] glibc update 2.4 > 2.5 FAILED postinst causes everything to segfault

2007-03-04 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Hi, Before I file this as a bug I'd like to make sure it's not caused by something wrong with my system. Please help me determine that. In the past two days I was trying to upgrade my glibc from version 2.4 to 2.5. Each time I tried it the emerge process failed at the very last point - I think whe

[gentoo-user] glibc update 2.4 > 2.5 FAILED postinst causes everything to segfault

2007-03-03 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Hi, Before I file this as a bug I'd like to make sure it's not caused by something wrong with my system. Please help me determine that. In the past two days I was trying to upgrade my glibc from version 2.4 to 2.5. Each time I tried it the emerge process failed at the very last point - I think whe

Re: [gentoo-user] root on EVMS, evms_activate, checkroot, rw/ro mount, gah

2006-10-14 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Actually, "evms" is all I have in RC_VOLUME_ORDER in /etc/conf.d/rc I'll try to remove the EVMS activation from checkroot now and see how that works. Wow, it looks like doing this fixed all the problems. No re-mounting tricks. EVMS gets activated once, and on a writeable filesystem. Thanks a

Re: [gentoo-user] root on EVMS, evms_activate, checkroot, rw/ro mount, gah

2006-10-14 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
On 10/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/13/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll start by presenting some info about my system. You'll find the > actual problems (numbered) in the middle of this message. > > I have

[gentoo-user] root on EVMS, evms_activate, checkroot, rw/ro mount, gah

2006-10-13 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I'll start by presenting some info about my system. You'll find the actual problems (numbered) in the middle of this message. I have my root file system on RAID 1 I use an initrd image to get my system going. The image was simply taken from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2

[gentoo-user] OT - format ssmtp's from field + gmail SMTP

2006-10-13 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
ail's interface: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> actual mail text: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I would like it to show is: gmail's interface: From: Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> actual mail text: From: "Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov" <[EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] Execution on X start (Gentoo way?)

2006-10-06 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
nvidia-settings --load-config-only when X starts to get my 1360x768 display to center on my 1366x768 screen. Is there a way to do this in xorg.conf instead? If not, should I use .xinitrc Use ~/.xinitrc or check this if you wanna use GDM: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Run_Commands_at_X_Startup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's make - a problem?

2006-10-03 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Problem solved. The issue was that I orginally tried to compile wine inside the source tree and didn't clean up properly before compiling out side of it. -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ - against HTML mail & vCards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's make - a problem?

2006-10-01 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Here is the weird part: The Makefile it tools/ says: all: $(PROGRAMS) $(MANPAGES) $(SUBDIRS) it also says: PROGRAMS = \ ... makedep$(EXEEXT) \ ... So, it should really be trying to build the makedep in the current directory (which is build_dir/tools) However, this is what make prints:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's make - a problem?

2006-10-01 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
It's probably not the first time the jobserver messes it up cause the ebuild builds wine like this: make -j1 depend && make Does that work for you ? Nope, it seems to do exactly the same thing as without -j1. -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ - against HTML mail & vCards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

[gentoo-user] Gentoo's make - a problem?

2006-09-30 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I'm trying to compile wine outside of it's source directory manually and make seems to be broken. The gist is: make needs to build a makedep tool before the rest of compilation can proceed. However, when I do 'make depend' it starts using makedep which doesn't exist yet. A wine developer keeps sug

Re: [gentoo-user] lp unable to detect parallel printer hp 710c

2006-08-29 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
PNP seems to pick up the printer alright. What does your CUPS log show? You may need to change its setting to get a more verbose output. Gah! Thanks. The log showed me that I was missing foomatic. I'm pretty sure I made the same mistake last time I was setting up printing, and I will again if

Re: [gentoo-user] lp unable to detect parallel printer hp 710c

2006-08-29 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
On 8/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/29/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set You need this. Wow, indeed enabling this allowed lp to detect my printer again! I didn't know about this before, nor did

[gentoo-user] lp unable to detect parallel printer hp 710c

2006-08-29 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I am having this issue on gentoo-sources 2.6.17-r4: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/issues-resolved.htm#2.6.9-lp My HP 710C parallel port printer is not being detected. This used to work on my system before, but then I had the 2.6.16-r9 kernel and since them I had to re-install my Gentoo.

[gentoo-user] ssmtp redirect root mail to a webmail account through smtp.gmail.com

2006-08-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Is it actually possible to make ssmtp's sendmail send all the mail directed to my local 'root' account to a real email address, such as the one I'm sending this email from ([EMAIL PROTECTED])? If not, would my best bet be to install Postfix? I tried this in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] codecs

2006-08-01 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
> I had a problem with Amarok not finding a > decoder for mp3s when xine-lib wasn't compiled to decode mp3s. Is there a use flag I need to do this? Well, I was lazy so I just enabled 'mad', which allowed xine to play mp3s for me. However, to get amarok to play mp3s I still had to re-emerge ffmp

Re: [gentoo-user] codecs

2006-08-01 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
What codec could I possibly be missing if mp3's play in xmms but not in amarok? What errors are you getting? I had a problem with Amarok not finding a decoder for mp3s when xine-lib wasn't compiled to decode mp3s. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful "Reply-To" Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Big discussion over this about 18 months ago. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/120320/focus=120320 Thanks a lot. I didn't find the search functions on the archives sites very helpful in finding an old thread about this. The change was made as you suggested, without announcemen

[gentoo-user] harmful "Reply-To" Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
It has come to my attention that "Reply-To" Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . For example, in my gmail account I see something like this in the (prettified) header of each message from Gentoo's mailing lists: From: Marco Fabbri <

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Resolving mi.mirror.garr.it... 1.0.0.0 mi.mirror.garr.it resolves to 193.206.139.34, maybe you have a DNS issue? Did you setup /etc/resolv.conf properly? Can you test "ping mi.mirror.garr.it" to make sure your machine can actually resolve it's IP properly? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent CUPS "upgrade" broke my printer server

2006-07-15 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
There must be a good reason it isn't stable yet: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-print/cups On 7/15/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been running cups happily on this box for a couple of years. It serves print requests from two other computers I have, one running Ubuntu (als

[gentoo-user] snmpd.conf location confusion

2006-07-08 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Hi, I noticed that after emerging net-snmp and starting /etc/init.d/snmpd I got the following results from snmpwalk: $ snmpwalk -v1 -cpublic localhost Timeout: No Response from localhost Then I thought maybe SNMP is not configured properly. I looked up the Gentoo SNMP howto (http://gentoo-wiki.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Xterm can't find libXaw.so.8 after Xorg update

2006-07-01 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I had to do this to make xterm work again: emerge -av --unmerge sys-apps/utempter emerge -av xterm x11-libs/libXaw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-07-01 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Bah! Now I found it. The server was set wrong in /etc/cups/client.conf ! So, I have everything fixed now. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-07-01 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
OK lets think through this once more. Your original $ lpstat -h localhost -t output although it shows your gray-deskjet as the default destination, it does not show that the other printer is paused. Try again to manually set the default printer (for all users) and see if it picks it up: # lpop

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-30 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
This is really my whole cupsd.conf file: # grep -v "\#" /etc/cups/cupsd.conf |cat -s DocumentRoot /usr/share/cups/docs LogLevel info User lp Group lp listen localhost:631 BrowseAddress @LOCAL SystemGroup lp Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 10.1.1.* AuthTy

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-30 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I assume you have replaced @LOCAL with @192.168.0.1/24 or whatever the local address is? Actually, according to the comments in the conf file, it should be exactly "BrowseAddress @LOCAL" if I want cups to listen to local devices only. Anyways, I tried to set it to my network and it didn't help.

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-29 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I would try commenting out the line with LOCAL above and check or add the following: = User lp Group lp Listen 127.0.0.1:631 Browsing Off SystemGroup lp Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 AuthType Basic AuthClass System Order Deny,Allow Deny From All

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I'm sorry if I have missed it but have you looked in your cups error log for any messages. Also set your log level to debug and restart cups to get more detailed messages. The problem is that my print jobs don't even reach my local cups server! Here is an example: $ enscript --verbose=3 todo A

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
On 6/28/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you by any chance change your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file settings from the default? I think this is all I changed: --- /etc/cups/cupsd.conf(revision 367) +++ /etc/cups/cupsd.conf(revision 413) @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ #BrowseAddress x.y

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
You could try to use the Cups GUI and stop/delete the pdfprt printer. Athough I have set up my PC for three different connections to a printer, only one of them is active and of course set up as the default. Another thing, use cancel to delete any queued jobs first just in case. None of that se

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Assuming that you have started cupsd (well, if you can print a test page then you definitely have cupsd running ;-) what does lpstat -d show? $ lpstat -d lpstat: Unable to connect to server: No route to host Yes, if course, I (re)started cupsd multiple times. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

[gentoo-user] cannot print after changing CUPS printer

2006-06-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
I used to print to a LAN CUPS printer at lanmachine:631/printers/printername until I recently took that (parallel port printer) and hooked it up to lp0 on my local machine. Since then I cannot seem to print from any local application nor does lpstat show any printers: currently this is what I see

Re: [gentoo-user] wine CVS does not find freetype on amd64

2006-05-12 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
On 5/12/06, Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: > Please direct me to a more appropriate mailing list if such exists. You probably won't find much help on the gentoo list about this. St

[gentoo-user] wine CVS does not find freetype on amd64

2006-05-11 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
(This is not about any wine ebuild) (I am not compiling wine in a 32bit chroot) During the compilation of latest wine release from the CVS repository, I get the following warning message at the completion of the ./configure script: *** Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing. *** Fonts will no

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-05-04 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
This is fixed in glibc-2.3.6-r4 and glibc-2.4-r2 now: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131386 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
For plain device cloning you can read: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm and http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html Using gzip definately saves a lot of space if your partitions aren't completely full. On 5/2/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Jole

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
What about quickpkg'ing all the installed packages and emerging them as binaries on the new system? I think if you copy your /etc to the new box first it should work just fine. I wonder if anyone has tried this. Anyways, this really depends on how much you want to clone the system, and how simila

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Ignore the $GCONV_PATH bit. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Could this be related to the fact that for my normal user I see: $ echo $GCONV_PATH /usr/lib32/gconv (root doesn't have that env var set at all) On 4/26/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After doing: # mv lib32{,-bak} # ln -s lib64 lib32 I saw the follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
After doing: # mv lib32{,-bak} # ln -s lib64 lib32 I saw the following results: $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code UCS2 wrote: > from that output: > ---snip > open("/usr/lib32/gconv/UNICODE.so", O_RDONLY) = 4 > read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \5\0\000"..., 640) =

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Here is the strace output: http://plouj.sh.nu/straceiconv By looking at /usr/lib{64,32}/gconv/gconv-modules (wich are identical) it looks like there really isn't any conversion specified from ISO-8859-1 to any other code. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:43:09 -0400 "Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Although FF seems to work now if compiled --without-iconv, I would > > like to know why this conversion

[gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
This started when I found out that FontForge (FF) does not want to run with Gentoo's iconv: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124998 The FF developer told me: "According to the "$ iconv --list" you sent (http://plouj.sh.nu/iconvlist) both UCS2 and ISO-8859-1 are supported by your iconv. Yet