On 2005-12-13 12:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, my question is, does anyone know what will happen if I try to
umount -l, remove the /usr/lib mountpoint, and rename /usr/lib2 to
/usr/lib? It would seem that there'd be no problem as long as I
don't need to log into a new shell? Going the
On 2005-12-14 17:45 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it works, cp /dev/cdrom image.iso too. But some CDs have errors
(scratches) that cp/cat can't handle.
Tried dd with `conv=noerror'?
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On 2005-12-16 10:31 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it frequently does) my applications which require knowing what host
they're running on. They don't seem to be smart enough to look
at /etc/hosts. Some people on one of my Linux lists suggested that
Did you check to make sure
On 2005-12-20 00:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any program for makeing data bases as fast as ms access
(works fast, small) and free as openbase?
I am not familiar with OpenBase, but Kexi and OpenOffice.org Base come
to mind as general-purpose alternatives to Microsoft Access.
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On 2005-12-21 16:35 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
modifying the default USE for them, but I did that at command line
(yeah, yeah, I know, don't tell me), now, is there some easy way to
put the CURRENT USE flags that the packages in world are using at
packages.use? I am afraid that an emerge
On 2005-12-21 21:50 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- ziig conf.d # route add 192.168.4.1
- SIOCADDRT: No such device
Do you mean to do route add -net default gw 192.168.4.1?
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Earlier today, I did an emerge --sync and proceeded to update world,
including portage (now 2.0.53). I have an amd64 system running mostly
stable, with a bunch of ~amd64 packages listed in my package.keywords
and a small portage tree overlay that is not of relevance here.
Now. For some reason,
On 2005-12-29 21:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$ grep busybox /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/packages
*sys-apps/busybox
Since I don't need this (if my system breaks, I have several live-CDs
available that are much more likely to be bootable to begin with), and
had so much trouble with
I run Xfce 4.2.3.2 and want to be able to shut down my system from
within X. At the moment I have to log in as root and then issue a
shutdown command, but Xfce is supposed to support doing this through
the GUI.
Looking around turned up the Xfce documentation and specifically
On 2006-01-04 11:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can now shut down and reboot from within the GUI, and it doesn't
seem to have opened any obvious other security holes.
well, except ANY user in your wheel group can shut down your
box.not saying that's a bad thing, but you need to
On 2006-01-12 15:54 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:
5.7.1 whatever email address I am trying to send to Relaying
denied. Please verify that your email address is correct in your
Mail preferences and try again.
This generally
On 2006-01-16 03:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone help explain the status=bounced (mail for
mail.validdomain.co.uk loops back to myself error message, please?
It actually is pretty self explanationary. It means that a mail was
received (from a host that is allowed to relay, in
On 2006-01-20 09:03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin: symbol lookup
error: /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libgfx_gtk.so: undefined symbol:
pango_x_font_map_for_display
mozilla-bin exited with non-zero status (127)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
Have you tried a revdep-rebuild
I run x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and would like to redefine a single
key on the keyboard. I found a number of tutorials on how to create a
completely custom keyboard layout, but this seems like overkill.
How do I change this one key without creating a whole new layout,
preferably only for my own
On 2006-02-02 19:51 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See 'man xmodmap', the examples near the end, things like:
xmodmap -e keycode 240 = a A space Return
Great, thanks! I thought xmodmap was what I was looking for but missed
the part on the -e switch.
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I am having some trouble with X11 DRI on my AMD64 system. It works
fine the first time after a reboot (I have xdm in the default runlevel
so get a graphical login) but after logging off and back on, all I get
is software rendering. I use x11-base/x11-drm-20051223 (compiled
against my current
On 2006-02-03 11:04 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
after some updates, changing from KDE to shell seems to be disabled. I
do this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn, where n7.
how do I re-enable it again?
Check to see if you have DontVTSwitch set in your xorg.conf.
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On 2006-02-03 22:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seeing that here too sometimes. It seems that the app that used
the DRI doesn't fully release it, so that when X restarts it sees
the DRI as being occupied, and is unable to use it. It looks like
a bug -- either in the app, X, or the
If this is better asked on gentoo-amd64, please let me know.
I am new to Gentoo, but have used GNU/Linux as the only operating
system whenever I have a choice (on workstations and servers) since
early 2001. Even then, this has me really stumped. Maybe someone can
offer some insight...
Setup:
On 2005-06-03 14:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do *NOT* use cable select. Yes, it works with Windoze, but then
so do Winmodems. Set master/slave properly. You are not the first
person to have run into problems with cable select.
First off: thanks, Walter! Yes, setting master/slave
On 2005-06-04 11:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pri Master: IBM-DPTA-371360 P74IA30A
Ultra-DMA Mode 4, S.M.A.R.T capable and status OK
Pri.Slave: TOSHIBA CDW/DVD SD-R1612 TB02
Ultra-DMA Mode 2
Auto-Detecting USB Mass Storage Devices
00 USB mass storage devices found and
On 2005-06-05 16:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
had to prace the space-bar each time I press some special buttons to get the
' displayed e.g. (or the ).
Why is this?
Could it be the deadkeys setting?
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On 2005-06-06 15:51 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't seem to find any official documentation on /etc/shadow syntax.
Searching google I find loads of conflicting explantions of the meaning of
x,!,!!,* in the password field.
The given password is encrypted, and then compared to whatever
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My system is AMD64, Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 (from gentoo-sources),
iptables 1.3.2 and generally up-to-date. I can't seem to get iptables
to work. Netfilter support is compiled into the kernel (compiling it
as a module and loading that gave the same
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On 2005-09-25 02:19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have any IP tables modules too? (grep IP_NF_
/usr/src/linx/.config should tell you).
That's it. Buried among those dozens of lines I found the clue I was
looking for: CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER
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On 2005-09-28 14:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login)
Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and
ended up getting both X and a whole bunch of other stuff installed.
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On 2005-09-28 07:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
size. Is this about normal?
Don't forget that portage keeps all downloaded source code in
/usr/portage/distfiles. The actual
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On 2005-09-29 15:19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I could just allow Linux to forward the packets, but I couldn't
figure out the routing since I'm not dealing with a whole subnet, only a few
allocated IPs.
If a network delegation
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On 2005-10-07 04:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
livecd / # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory
livecd / # ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 680316 Jul 22 18:23 /bin/bash
This
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On 2005-10-15 10:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to force a fresh copy?
`emerge --sync' (which has already been suggested), or, since in this
case only a single ebuild is broken, www.gentoo-portage.com offers
ebuild downloads.
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On 2005-10-16 07:27 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 939)
Motherboard sensors indicate that the CPU core is running at a constant 65
degrees Celcius and this figure does not change more than a degree no
matter what is
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On 2005-10-15 15:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to list the files in a directory that end in .jpg irregardless of
case. Thus after reading the bash man page, it seems I should be able to
issue a command something along the lines of ls
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On 2005-10-19 09:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently decided to use sysklogd instead of syslog-ng. But the
command rc-update del syslog-ng default will not remove the file from
/etc/init.d.
It should be deleted when you unmerge
. For example, my output is (snipped, as I
have several secret keys on my key ring):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gpg --list-secret-keys
/home/michael/.gnupg/secring.gpg
sec 1024D/BDE9ADA6 2003-04-22
uid Michael Kjorling
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Recently, I made some changes to my xfce-4.2.2 configuration.
Everything seemed fine until a few days later (this morning) when I
rebooted. Now the taskbar button captions overflow onto the next
button (or even farther) if they don't fit, instead of
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On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to
create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work
with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs
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On 2005-10-29 13:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, for asking such a trivial question, but how can I find which
packages have been emerged on my system? As time goes, I lost track
You could look at /var/lib/portage/world, but that will only
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On 2005-10-31 22:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
make make modules_install
then change /etc/lilo.conf to the new(and only) kernel
You need to copy the new bzImage (arch/*/boot/bzImage) into place, and
re-run lilo for the changes to take
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On 2005-11-14 12:46 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does someone have a clue about what is going on ?
Yes, `nslookup' is fundamentally broken. Try `host' or `dig' (with its
`-x' option) instead.
And don't expect RFC 1918 address space to be
On 2005-11-17 20:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I KNOW my password. And I also tried the 2 techniques
for changing it (the init=/bin/sh in the bootloader
and chrooting from the live-cd). I change them
succesfully but it still doesn't work!
Check to make sure the console is listed in
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I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies,
device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60
Hz 1024x768 using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 and the radeon driver.
I would like to raise the refresh rate to 75
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On 2005-11-17 17:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Current x.org versions should be able to auto-detect the VertRefresh
and HorizSync settings, as well as appropriate modelines. So I would
comment out all such stuff from your xorg.conf file, and
On 2005-12-10 12:06 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I meant something like:
for (;;) malloc(1000);
If this is what you are worried about, it sounds like you would be a
lot better off setting up some sort of resource limits than simply
limiting access to the compiler. I know for a fact that PAM
On 2005-12-11 13:50 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know where to set the volume levels that appear for
xfce4-mixer?
What's wrong with using xfce4-mixer for that? I do that myself and it
works absolutely flawlessly.
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On 2005-12-11 16:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xfce4-mixer works great but the levels always reset after a reboot. I
need a way to set them permanently.
# rc-update add alsasound boot
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