[gentoo-user] Re: bridge configuration problem

2008-08-07 Thread Sven Köhler
Normally, the bridge works well. But everytime I execute "/etc/init.d/net.br0 restart", the following error occurs: * network interface br0 does not exist * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ] Then I execute such command one more tim

[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

2008-07-31 Thread Sven Köhler
So do we keep TIMEZONE in conf.d/clock or delete it? There is no /etc/conf.d/clock anymore in openrc/baselayout 2.0. The openrc file is called /etc/conf.d/hwclock, and there's no TIMEZONE variable in that file.

[gentoo-user] new sys-apps/hal-0.5.11: changing keyboard layout

2008-07-28 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, have you noticed the hal update? It just informed me about some trouble concerning my keyboard-layout. Keyboards as well as mice are now added automatically to xorg (and the evdev driver is used - hooray! always wanted to use evdev). Yet, they are always added with us keyboard layout. So

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-07 Thread Sven Köhler
To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. Which /boot partition? I don't have any ... If there's a setup-command in your grub.conf, it is indeed executed. So if that command is outdated (something you won't notice, since that command is no

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Sven Köhler
When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: WARN: postinst *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but later stages will be the new version, which could cause prob

[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread Sven Köhler
(Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump. Like this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194832

[gentoo-user] Re: somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-24 Thread Sven Köhler
With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my "dmesg|grep -i drm" says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 Yep, I'm using it (and the kernel module) and I get the same output of "dmesg | grep drm" I

[gentoo-user] Re: somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-24 Thread Sven Köhler
is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of "dmesg |grep -i drm" to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my "dmesg|grep -i drm" says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm

[gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of "dmesg |grep -i drm" to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my "dmesg|grep -i drm" says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initializ

[gentoo-user] Re: Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-04 Thread Sven Köhler
Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge. I don't know why. The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4. At least if I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable. I don't have anything in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS (it's not defined). In all of /etc/portage there are 4 refere

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Köhler
>> Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it. > > But watch out, it has a huge security problem: > http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-29.xml Yeah, but i've got no time right now, to analyse the problems with 3.0.27a. I've run it in debug mode and so on - but i found

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Köhler
>> In addition, the mount.cifs binary is missing. So i cannot mount via >> CIFS anymore. Samba ebuild is VERY broken :-( > > The ebuild is not broken, you just didn't read what it told you > > "The mount/umount.cifs helper applications are not included anymore. > Please install net-fs/mount-cifs

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Köhler
> Hi. I just tried to update to the new "stable" samba 3.025c and noticed two > problems: > > - the init script does not work (known bug #191647) > > - after fixing the init script, the Windows box (XP SP2) can no longer > connect to shared directories despite the new server being visible and > b

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread Sven Köhler
> Hi. I am having a very frustrating prroblem when I use the pppoe > plugin like so: > > config_ppp0=("ppp") > link_ppp0="eth2" > plugins_ppp0=("rp-pppoe") > username_ppp0='vzeqmmst' > pppd_ppp0=( > "updetach" > "noauth" > "ipcp-accept-remote" > "ipcp-accept-local" > "holdoff 3" > "lcp-echo-inter

[gentoo-user] postfix+cyrus+postgre?

2007-09-16 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, any tipps on setting up a mailserver with postfix, cyrus-imapd and postgresql? Actually, a web-frontend would be nice.It seems, that the web-cyradm projects stopped living some years ago :-( Does anybody run a complete and easy to configure sollution for SMTP+IMAP based on Gentoo? T

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Sven Köhler
> Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? And http://www.gentoo-portage.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-11 Thread Sven Köhler
>>>emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is >>> complaining about here? >> I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. expat has been updated. Some Apps are now broken. They have to recompiled to link against the new libexpat. For me, it was gettex

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd > layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log > daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons? Last sysklogd version if from 2001. And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me. And on the other hand

[gentoo-user] which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, so until recently, i have been using sysklogd. So i had my auth.log, mail.log, syslog, messages, etc. in /var/log. Now i switched to syslog-ng. Now, only /var/log/messages gets filled with all, that i would expect in auth.log or mail.log. Maybe syslog-ng can be configured to behave like sysk

[gentoo-user] no-multilib killed /lib link

2007-05-27 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i switched to the no-mutilib profile. Then, i emerged glibc and gcc. After that whole thing, i tried to reboot: But the link at /lib pointing to /lib64 was missing. I don't which step exactly removed it. But it's not good! Without the link, the system won't boot :-( Just wanted to let you

[gentoo-user] Re: glib-1.2.10-r5 broken for lame

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> trying to update my system , glib is broken > > here is the output Seems like a libtool problem. Please try to update libtool, and then try to update glib again. Maybe that works. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Sven Köhler
> is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? > sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks. You have to tell smartmontools, that it's actually an ATA disk. SATA devices show up as SCSI devices, but the protocol is still ATA. So this can be done with the "-d ata" switch - also see

[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

2007-04-14 Thread Sven Köhler
> As I understand it a good WLAN device driver will associate and re-associate > with the next available device when it comes into range. Some drivers are > not that good at re-associating. Right, but just imagine you close the laptop in the university and open it at home again. There is no suc

[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

2007-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
>> is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into >> them, if he finds one, that i prefer? > > Maybe wifi-radar fits your needs! I think, it's "just" an application - a frontend. What i would prefer, is really a daemon running as root in background, scanning for networks,

[gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

2007-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into them, if he finds one, that i prefer? Thanks, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3

2007-04-01 Thread Sven Köhler
> So as you can see, one database must be broken or in wrong format. > But i have NO idea, which one it is. OK, it was the database in /var/imap/db. Deleted all files in that directory, and now everything's fine again. I wonder, what i broke by doing this. Anyway: all my mails are still there.

[gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3

2007-04-01 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, any ideas, why my cyrus-imapd isn't working anymore? In /var/log/imapd.log is says: Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process started Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25004]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4 Apr 1 19:21:

[gentoo-user] Re: how do I remove evolution from gnome?

2007-02-20 Thread Sven Köhler
>> I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. >> >> Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor it's not >> installed installed automatically. >> >> Unfortunatly, you still have to install eveolution-data-server and >> evolution-webcal, because it's a hard-depende

[gentoo-user] Re: how do I remove evolution from gnome?

2007-02-20 Thread Sven Köhler
> Any suggestions? I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor it's not installed installed automatically. Unfortunatly, you still have to install eveolution-data-server and evolution-webcal, because it's a hard-depend

[gentoo-user] vmware broken?

2007-02-07 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, my vmware doesn't work anymore :-( I have no clue about the cause - maybe my update to 2.6.20 or perhaps bus? # vmware /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) p

[gentoo-user] Re: [Xen] How to set or bring up "vif" interfaces?

2007-01-15 Thread Sven Köhler
> I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other > Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to > experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution > kernel. > I got the FC5 isos. > I made a file "/etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg" (see attache

[gentoo-user] Re: [Xen] How to set or bring up "vif" interfaces?

2007-01-14 Thread Sven Köhler
> I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other > Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to > experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution > kernel. > I got the FC5 isos. > I made a file "/etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg" (see attache

[gentoo-user] Re: Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-08 Thread Sven Köhler
> I recently set up a Core 2 duo system. Following the AMD64 howto, the > system now works. Kernel compilation took 1:40 minutes passing -j6 to > make. > > Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was > about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process.

[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java

2007-01-08 Thread Sven Köhler
> If it is a hard-requirement, you'll get "blah depends on java which is > hardmasked" and your emerge will die. I think, that what's Q wants. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java

2007-01-07 Thread Sven Köhler
»Q« schrieb: > Is there a simple way to make sure java never gets installed on a > gentoo machine? The only thing I've thought of is > using /etc/portage/package.mask to mask everything in the dev-java > category, but I'm hoping for something simpler. > disable java use-flag. mask virtual/jdk, v

[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2007-01-01 Thread Sven Köhler
>>> I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I >>> noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror >>> (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I >>> always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). >> it's not portage! >> it's

[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-26 Thread Sven Köhler
> I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed > that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When > I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific > mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!!

[gentoo-user] which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, "emerge --sync" should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP adresses (5 at the moment). Here's what host says: # host rsync.gentoo.org rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.74 rsync.gentoo.org has ad

[gentoo-user] Re: patch against sandbox violation with 2.6.19 kernels

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Köhler
> It will be included in 2.6.20 kernel, as it seems. But it's not in > 2.6.19.1 :-( But it will be in 2.6.19.2 - hooray! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] patch against sandbox violation with 2.6.19 kernels

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i attached a patch. See comments #70 and #72 of this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149307 from where i got it, and so on ... It fixes the sandbox violations with vanilla 2.6.19 kernel. It will be included in 2.6.20 kernel, as it seems. But it's not in 2.6.19.1 :-( I thought,

[gentoo-user] Re: udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Köhler
> Hmm - I don't have this issue - what version of alsa-utils are you > running? I'm running 1.0.13. I don't even have a /etc/init.d/coldplug > init script on my system - maybe you need to do an emerge -C coldplug? > Maybe if the coldplug script doesn't exist then alsasound won't > complain about it

[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-12 Thread Sven Köhler
>> do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had >> libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. >> Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! >> >> Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers >> don't replace t

[gentoo-user] SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers don't replace the old ones,

[gentoo-user] Re: switched from SiS to VIA chipset -> vesa framebuffer broken

2006-11-08 Thread Sven Köhler
> this is a really strange issue i'm having: > > i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based > motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based. > > So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And > actually it worked perfect! > > No, after the swi

[gentoo-user] switched from SiS to VIA chipset -> vesa framebuffer broken

2006-11-08 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, this is a really strange issue i'm having: i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based. So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And actually it worked perfect! No, after the switch to the VI

[gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-29 Thread Sven Köhler
> When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages > involving > early kde *.la files, but then it reports that > Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. Old *.la files are broken. They have not been unmerged. That's a known bug, because some gentoo-tools have

[gentoo-user] hald doesn't allow my cdrom to spin down

2006-10-28 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you have the same problems? When hald is running, it seems to access the dvd-drive on a regular basis. That means, that the drive doesn't spin down :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: What does "future video mode" mean for the i810 xorg driver?

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Köhler
> I looked at this tool. It allows me to patch the bios table w/ resolution and > bpp value - but not with the rest of the mode line timings. How can I change > that? It seems, that you can't. All the Linux-stuff is using the BIOS to switch modes. Also see this page: http://intellinuxgraphics.o

[gentoo-user] Re: Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Sven Köhler
> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 > I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. > Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. > The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line. Can you tell us, which nvidia related ebuild you have installed

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update causes horizontal line in movies

2006-10-16 Thread Sven Köhler
> After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started > noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle > of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always > shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it > very visible.

[gentoo-user] verify, that "noexec"/nx-bit is effectively enabled

2006-10-10 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you guys know any possibility to detect, whether the nx-bit is effectively enabled and being used? I'm passing "noexec=on" and even "noexec32=on" to the kernel. But i want to check whether it really changes something. Any ideas? Thanks, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digita

[gentoo-user] Re: how to create bridge without interfaces!?

2006-10-08 Thread Sven Köhler
> bridge_xenbr1=" " > config_xenbr1=( > "192.168.0.1/24" > ) > brctl_xenbr1=( > "setfd 0" > "sethello 0" > "stp off" > ) Hmm, forget about my question. Exactly the configuration above works fine now. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] how to create bridge without interfaces!?

2006-10-07 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i'm trying to create a bridge, but without interfaces! The interfaces will be added by xend. When i put the following in /etc/conf.d/net, baselayout just complains "xenbr1 does not exist". bridge_xenbr1=" " config_xenbr1=( "192.168.0.1/24 brd 192.168.0.255" ) brctl_xenbr1=( "s

[gentoo-user] Re: new openssl ebuild causes openssh to segfault

2006-09-17 Thread Sven Köhler
>> i already has openssl 0.9.8c installed. OpenSSH worked fine. Then, there >> was a new ebuild with had an sse2 useflag. So i installed it, but i >> didn't recompile openssh. Now, ssh and sshd do segfault! Do you have the >> same issue? I already had this issue on 2 PCs. > >> I have to recompile

[gentoo-user] Re: new openssl ebuild causes openssh to segfault

2006-09-16 Thread Sven Köhler
>> i already has openssl 0.9.8c installed. OpenSSH worked fine. Then, there >> was a new ebuild with had an sse2 useflag. So i installed it, but i >> didn't recompile openssh. Now, ssh and sshd do segfault! Do you have the >> same issue? I already had this issue on 2 PCs. >> >> I have to recompile

[gentoo-user] new openssl ebuild causes openssh to segfault

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i already has openssl 0.9.8c installed. OpenSSH worked fine. Then, there was a new ebuild with had an sse2 useflag. So i installed it, but i didn't recompile openssh. Now, ssh and sshd do segfault! Do you have the same issue? I already had this issue on 2 PCs. I have to recompile OpenSSH. The

[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt xD card with photos

2006-09-11 Thread Sven Köhler
> I was handed what seems to be a corrupt xD flash card to extract the last > photo from it. When the WinXP system at work coughed and died on it > (couldn't read it) I thought that my Linux would do better. Anyhow, I've > inserted it into my Fuji camera and this is what dmesg shows: > >

[gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 installation fails on intels 965 chipset based moderboard

2006-09-10 Thread Sven Köhler
> I got a core duo machine with an intel motherboard with the 965 chip > set. There is a sata HD and ide DVD. The installation disk fails to > boot since the jernel does not recognize the dvd. I tried the following > bios configurations: > * switch between ahci and ide > * switch between legacy

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64 Stability?

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Köhler
> Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen > with AMD64 systems using Gentoo (the AMD 64-bit binaries)? How about > the majority of ports in the portage tree? > > I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective responses, > but I am interested in them all

[gentoo-user] glibc 2.4 nptlonly?

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, is there any of the big distributions like SuSE, Fedora or Debian who use glibc 2.4 too? And if they do, do they also only include a nptlonly-glibc? Just wondering. Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-26 Thread Sven Köhler
> 2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard > chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should > be marked as bootable? AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like "grub-install /dev/hda1" just will not work. Only something l

[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-11 Thread Sven Köhler
> few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using > NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still > the best solution? > My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I > configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want linu

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Köhler
>> The problem is the gcc package not only delivers the gcc compiler package, >> but also some libraries. Further, gcc 4.1.x compiled programs are >> not quite compatible with gcc 3.x compiled programs - >> when you compile a lib with 4.x and still have 3.x compiled pgms around. >> You really shoul

[gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-04 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, sorry for the silly subject, but did you ever experience the following?: i have a fileserver, i copy a file to it - let's say 600MB. So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time - during the time

[gentoo-user] Re: can't compile kernel

2006-07-02 Thread Sven Köhler
> my gentoo just suprised me with the following: > > gwinet linux # pwd > /usr/src/linux > gwinet linux # make all > [...] some strange error > > > Hooray! Hmmm, did a "make clean" and then a "make all" - and now it works without problems. Strange ... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digit

[gentoo-user] can't compile kernel

2006-07-02 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi!, my gentoo just suprised me with the following: gwinet linux # pwd /usr/src/linux gwinet linux # make all /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo ' CHK include/linux/version.h'; mkdir -p include/linux/;if [ `echo -n "2.6.17.3

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild madness.

2006-06-16 Thread Sven Köhler
> Thanks... and I'm probably mis-understanding something here but I > don't see `java' as a USE flag that gcc knows anything about: > > emerge -vp gcc > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 USE="for

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --update: utempter/pam-login is blocking...

2006-06-15 Thread Sven Köhler
> emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world > [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1) > [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) > [ebuild N ] sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1 > [ebuild U ] x11-terms/xterm-212-r3 [207] > [ebuild U ] s

[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-13 Thread Sven Köhler
>>> The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date >>> gentoo router. I prefer this way, too. >> Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. > > Perhaps we don´t need it, but we like to use it. > > The OP said he wanted to use the script. If he wants to use that, it´s his >

[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-12 Thread Sven Köhler
> The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date > gentoo router. I prefer this way, too. Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. Here are the advantages of using baselayout: - you can unmerge rp-pppoe - the pppoe-plugin provided by pppd uses the kernel PPPoE-implementat

[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-11 Thread Sven Köhler
> I was using the (nowadays) old "/etc/init.d/rp-pppoe" script to > start/stop my adsl connection, but I did an "emerge world" without > looking at the messages that now the "net" script should handle all > possible types of connection, so now I don't know how to configure it. config_ppp0=( "ppp"

[gentoo-user] Re: dangerous to emerge --depclean

2006-06-03 Thread Sven Köhler
> I just can't understand why "emerge -- depclean" such a dangerous > command can exist or i do it in a wrong way(although i think i am > right). Have you seen the big fat warning that says "emerge --depclean may damage your system" ? "--depclean" is a nice service for advanced users. It's nothin

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.1.1 unable to compile kdelibs due to missing libstdc++

2006-06-02 Thread Sven Köhler
>> (But i have to tell you, that even if you recompiled all the packages, >> some *.la files will remain. They don't get unmerged due to some bugs. >> Just rerun revdep-rebuild to discover them, and remove them my hand.) > > It is usually because you have run fix_libtool_files.sh at some point, >

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.1.1 unable to compile kdelibs due to missing libstdc++

2006-06-02 Thread Sven Köhler
> And still I get this. Any ideas? Upgrade to gentoolkit 0.2.2 and run revdep-revbuild. It now also analyses *.la files and will discover the broken ones. (But i have to tell you, that even if you recompiled all the packages, some *.la files will remain. They don't get unmerged due to some bugs.

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-apps/pam-login

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Köhler
> Calculating world dependencies . ... done! > > [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) > > Do I need to remove sys-apps/shadow? I thought that was part of system? unmerge pam-login and update shadow signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

[gentoo-user] Re: samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> //192.168.0.2/Temp /mnt/temp smbfs > user,uid=smash,gid=users,password= 0 0 smbfs? No, that's not clever. Better use cifs ;-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I get java compiler without x11?

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> Thanks Remy. That's exactly what I need. No need for x11 on a server only > system! If you don't want X, then disable all X-related use-flags. The java use-flag is _not_ X related, since all JRE/JDK ebuilds (at least those, that i now) won't install X if the right use-flags are disabled. javac

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 2.1-rc1-r2

2006-05-20 Thread Sven Köhler
>> But but rsync still makes my harddisk glow, too many small files > > Use the right filesystem: Reiserfs. I already used reiserfs and now i'm using ext3. There was not much difference. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 2.1-rc1-r2

2006-05-20 Thread Sven Köhler
> So, thank you, Portage Devs. You've made my Gentoo experience nearly 100% > enjoyable. But but rsync still makes my harddisk glow, too many small files signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Köhler
> Sorry - I thought it was clear from my description. Everyone is > using the word 'unicode' in the definition of 'unicode', or so it is > seeming to me. I've managed to get far enough to understand it's a > different way of expressing font usage, I guess, but I don't > understand when someone wo

[gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Köhler
> I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than > the Gentoo description located here: > > http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml > > unicode Adds support for Unicode > > I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) > > What is unicode and why might an

[gentoo-user] Re: Clue to enable DRI/GLX support on PCI Express card

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Köhler
> I was wondering if someone could show me where to look information to > enable DRI/GLX on a ATI X300 PCI Express video board. > > I was wanting to test some 3d games, but without enableing DRi is just > impossible. What's the problem? emergeing ati-drivers doesn't work? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Sven Köhler
> From doing a google, it looks like i need to run > > emerge sync > > in order to fix this. However, if I could sync then I wouldn't be > doing this. Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. > I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install > emerge-delta-webrsync a

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Sven Köhler
> In my recent experience the frequent changes to the > xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I > have been constantly adding things to package.keywords > and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade. > And then it got 1000 times worse... xorg 7.0 is ~x86 - no need to unmask th

[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Köhler
> I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in > portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? I would use the ebuilds. You're much more flexible that way in the case, that you experienc

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Köhler
> Yesterday I updated from glibc-2.4-r1 to glibc-2.4-r2. Since then, > I've got problems with my UTF-8 locale. I suppose, that is because > the UTF-8 denomination seems to have changed from .UTF-8 to .utf8: .UTF-8 changed from .utf8? That's not true. My glibc 2.3.6 (with userlocales turned off) n

[gentoo-user] Re: xf86-input-mouse-1.0.4 not compiling?

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Köhler
> Sorry for the big post. I solved by emerging the 1.1.0 version, which is > hard masked at the moment. Hmm, that 1.1.x versions are part of xorg-x11 7.1 i guess - i wouldn't use 7.1 material with xorg 7.0 - well, perhaps it works without problems, so you might prove me wrong. signature.asc Des

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-26 Thread Sven Köhler
> Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point > me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? which settings? well, "man pppd" should show you all the funny pppd options. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-24 Thread Sven Köhler
> Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of > getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE > automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start > and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? config_ppp9=( "ppp" ) plugi

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> (1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? ppp included the pppoe-plugin known from rp-pppoe. the pppoe-plugin uses the kernel-mode PPPoE. There is no need for rp-pppoe anymore, because ppp offers everything needed. > (2) Every time I call /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 there is a warning saying > that "net.ppp0 is

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> Gentoo does use rp-pppoe to connect. It just does it when bringing up > eth0 directly. No, since baselayout-1.12*, gentoo uses ppp and ppp's pppoe-plugin. rp-pppoe is not needed anymore! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.0.99.901 and ati-drivers error

2006-04-15 Thread Sven Köhler
> that is the point, i recompiled after xorg-server update, and before too if > that matters ;) I see! So perhaps the ATI-driver is only for xorg up to version 7.0? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.0.99.901 and ati-drivers error

2006-04-15 Thread Sven Köhler
> after xorg-server update fglrx driver wont work, even after (re)emerge, > should > i file a bug? any suggesions? now i see option to downgrade where i was > before, yes and X just crashed with xorg ati drivers. > > from Xorg.0.log: > > (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI > (II) LoadModule: "f

[gentoo-user] dialup + IPv6?

2006-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i have a normal DSL-connection. My provider only supplies a IPv4 address - and so my ppp0 does not have a IPv6 address. The IPv4 of ppp0 address changes every 24 hours. So i'd like to be abled to use IPv6 from my LAN which sits behind my Gentoo-based DSL router. I think, that 6to4 would be r

[gentoo-user] disable IPv6 for one interface?

2006-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, how can i disable IPv6 for my eth1-interface? In my /etc/conf.d/net, i only specify the IPv4 address, but the kernel or baselayout adds that local-link address to the interface. But i don't want an IPv6 address for that interface. /etc/conf.d/net.example doesn't tell anything about it, just

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs->ext3

2006-04-12 Thread Sven Köhler
>> Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way >> round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( > > mkfs, but make sure you have a backup. *SCNR* No risk, no fun! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs->ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
>> Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way >> round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( > > http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ > And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... Yes! my Gentoo had just gone to hell! Don't use convertfs ;-) -

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs->ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
> Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way > round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] reiserfs->ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i once read about a tool to convert a reiserfs to ext3 - but without using to much additional space. Instead, that tool claimed to use a sparse-file within the original filesystem to create the new filesystem by moving the files to new FS contained in the sparse file. Do you know tools, that

[gentoo-user] Re: Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
> I still cannot get X to start with the nvidia drivers. However, I did take > (someones?) suggestion and tried both the "vesa" and "nv" drivers and they > both "work". I say "work" because with 'vesa', I get a HUGE (i.e. low rez) > screen = unuseable. And with the 'nv' I get the right resolution 1

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