[gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread BRM
I have a laptop that has been running Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Gentoo-R8 (gentoo sources, don't remember which version) for a while. It has a Broadcom 4306 Rev 2 wireless card that has been working well with that kernel. I extracted the firmware from the broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5 blob a while ago

[gentoo-user] automatic wlan restart

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm regularily loosing wlan link (not sure if its a driver problem or disortion in the local air) and so have to restart the wland interface quite often. As the box is also doing several automatic things (backups, etc), it's really ugly (eg. when I'm not on keys, at some point no

Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's not much of a solution. Put the commands in /etc/conf.d/local.start, or the start section of /etc/conf.d/local if using baselayout2. -- Neil Bothwick If you

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs [SOLVED]

2010-08-13 Thread Gabriel Striewe
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:06:18PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: Ritek may not be the best media quality. Did you try Verbatim? J?rg They were from Aldi, however I used also CDR from there, they seem to be manufactured by Plasmon Data Systems

[gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread Frank Schwidom
Hi i get the error: { !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: media-libs/libpng:0 ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/libpng-1.4.3', 'merge') pulled in by =media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r2:0 required by

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 August 2010 16:04:53 Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi i get the error: { !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: media-libs/libpng:0 ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/libpng-1.4.3',

[gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-13 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Hi all! I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. After that, I ran an revdep-rebuild, but it do not works. When it tries to emerge xfce4-panel it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Frank Schwidom schwi...@gmx.net wrote: Hi i get the error: { !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: media-libs/libpng:0  ('ebuild', '/',

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 13 August 2010 14:15:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 16:04:53 Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi i get the error: { !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:17:50 +0200 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 14:15:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 16:04:53 Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi i get the error: { !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. That tends to be more problematic than regular updates. I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. portage 2.2 may

[gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1

2010-08-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people! I am in front of a disaster updating my gentoo system. Now the system is shot, and I am not capable starting the gnome-manager: at the end it says only: checking Pango flags... configure: error: *** Pango not found. Pango built with Cairo support is required *** to build GTK+. See

Re: [gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1

2010-08-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/13/2010 07:09 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I am in front of a disaster updating my gentoo system. Now the system is shot, and I am not capable starting the gnome-manager: at the end it says only: checking Pango flags... configure: error: *** Pango not found. Pango built with

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 13 August 2010 15:36:23 Daniel Wagener wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:17:50 +0200 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 14:15:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 16:04:53 Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi i get the error: {

Re: [gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1

2010-08-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
As you told me I merged lafilefixer and ran lafilefixer --justfixit then I executed revdep-rebuild which wants to remerge a huge amout of packages who because libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 was missing, or couldn't be linked at the end, revdep-rebuild wants to emerge a package called eel which is masked:

[gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: snip Apropos cracked machines: In recent years I often got trouble w/ cracked customer's boxes (one eg. was abused for SIP-calling people around the world and asking them for their debit card codes ;-o). So thought about protection against

Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread Mick
On 13 August 2010 09:08, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's not much of a solution. Put the commands in /etc/conf.d/local.start, or the start section of

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: * Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: snip Apropos cracked machines: In recent years I often got trouble w/ cracked customer's boxes (one eg. was abused for SIP-calling people around the world and asking

Re: [gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1

2010-08-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 August 2010 16:09:48 Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I am in front of a disaster updating my gentoo system. Now the system is shot, and I am not capable starting the gnome-manager: at the end it says only: checking Pango flags... configure: error: *** Pango not found. Pango

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 August 2010 15:36:23 Daniel Wagener wrote: This script is hopefully not the hack, that is said to be a problem in the future? http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update When flameyes says to do something X in regard to a build, and someone else says to do

Re: [gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1

2010-08-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/13/2010 08:22 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: As you told me I merged lafilefixer and ran lafilefixer --justfixit then I executed revdep-rebuild which wants to remerge a huge amout of packages who because libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 was missing, or couldn't be linked at the end, revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread BRM
- Original Message On 13 August 2010 09:08, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's not much of a solution. Put the commands in

Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/13/2010 10:58 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message On 13 August 2010 09:08, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's not much of a solution. Put

[gentoo-user] Re: Postgres gem not found by cron job

2010-08-13 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:32:53 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Thanks for the tip. The cron environment was missing RUBYOPT=-rauto_gem -- adding it fixed the problem. Dark magic, whatever it does. It ensures that installed gems are found automatically without specifying this explicitly in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-08-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 12 August 2010 06:50:22 Paul Hartman wrote: I have nothing to add, but almost 5 months on from my original post I just had this same error message for the second time. This time it was on a different physical disk, which -- strangely -- makes me feel better. Different kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since I'm not an IT guy could you please explain this just a bit more? What is 'a container'? Is it a chroot running on the same machine? A different machine? Something completely different? http://lxc.sourceforge.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. well, these solutions are way bigger (iow: more resource intensive), since they run a complete operation system instance within the virtual machine. No, chroots are NOT the

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: * Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    Since I'm not an IT guy could you please explain this just a bit more? What is 'a container'? Is it a chroot running on the same machine? A different machine? Something

[gentoo-user] JACK breaks at random

2010-08-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On a system where I can't use OSSv4 for sound (due to MIDI) and need to fall back to ALSA, I've hit ALSA's insane latency issues and therefore decided to use JACK. I'm trying to set-up a machine suitable for music/audio production. But JACK just stops working at random. Sometimes it works,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 15:36:23 Daniel Wagener wrote: This script is hopefully not the hack, that is said to be a problem in the future? http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update When flameyes says to do something X in regard to a build,

[gentoo-user] Re: Kmail storage of TLS certificate

2010-08-13 Thread walt
On 08/10/2010 11:53 AM, Mick wrote: ... Any idea how I can reset this certificate as far as Kmail is concerned? When has it stored my clicking to save the acceptance of the certificate and how can I reset this? Maybe my alpha-test version of thunderbird is broken (it often is :) but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kmail storage of TLS certificate

2010-08-13 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 08/10/2010 11:53 AM, Mick wrote: ... Any idea how I can reset this certificate as far as Kmail is concerned? When has it stored my clicking to save the acceptance of the certificate and how can I reset this? Maybe my alpha-test version of thunderbird is broken (it often is

[gentoo-user] Re: Mumble doesn't work anymore

2010-08-13 Thread walt
On 08/12/2010 09:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to start Mumble (version 1.2.2) aborts with: SSL: Added CA certificates from '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' No ciphers of at least 128 bit found Aborted I've never used mumble. Have you ever run update-ca-certificates? It may not

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-13 Thread Jake Moe
On 08/13/10 23:50, Alex Schuster wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. That tends to be more problematic than regular updates. I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about conflicting and missing libraries, so I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Mumble doesn't work anymore

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Trying to start Mumble (version 1.2.2) aborts with: SSL: Added CA certificates from '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' No ciphers of at least 128 bit found Aborted My guess is that the SSL line is an informational

[gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look? File systems; /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda2 - swap /dev/sda3 - / So to backup; 1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1 2. Get /boot: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/otherdisk/sda1.bin 3. Get