[gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers

2009-01-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I'm currently running kernel 2.6.25 and I have no issues with it so I don't really want to upgrade it just yet. I just picked up sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2, so I thought I'd mask out anything above 2.6.25 for now to keep the headers in sync with the

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the instructions to install uvesafb from this page: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ However, it does not work. Is it required to use initrd in order to use uvesafb? (because I don't use it...) the 80x25 looks

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: I'm ashamed to admit I made the most basic mistake. I compiled uvesafb as a module. Oops! Compiled it as Y instead of M and now I have a pair of Tux sitting atop my kernel boot screen and no more 80x25 horror. :) Is

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Kde 4.1.X

2009-01-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nicola wrote: Hi, I have searched on google and bugtrack for weeks for people with a similar problem with the new kde 4.1.X but I didn't find anything. I have some problem even to describe the problem beacause I don't know how to figure out what is wrong with my system. The real problem is

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: uvesafb also works on non-x86 system. It has one drawback though: it doesn't switch to graphical mode right from the start like vesafb does. Instead, you get the initial kernel messages in text mode and need to wait for graphics

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*

2009-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Peter Humphrey wrote: After reading a post here today I decided to investigate why I have several qt-4.4.2 packages on this workstation, when I don't have kde-4. It turns out that the SSL USE flag causes kopete-3.5.9 to pull in 14 qt-4.4.2 packages. This strikes me as somewhat odd. For the

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: I'm using the online denyhosts synchronization database, I think that may negatively affect how often it blocks hosts locally, because it waits until it does a remote sync to scan the local file. This is my theory. I like the idea of sharing my blocks and taking advantage of

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: The shared list of attackers doesn't have anything to do with it. Denyhosts checks the logs every X seconds. I think 30 by default, not sure. In that time, there can be many more attempted logins

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of attempts took place? Also, what's the time interval Denyhosts checks for login attempts? The most recently denied host from

[gentoo-user] Re: cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html The videos play fine here. I'm on AMD64, www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5 and net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.21.1_alpha.

[gentoo-user] Re: cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: This was a hardened issue. I just needed to issue 'paxctl -m /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox'. Thanks again. And you didn't deem it necessary to actually mention in your post that you're on hardened?

[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: I have a stock standard openoffice-3.0.0 here (not bin) and it claims to write Office 2003 XML. I believe from colleagues that this is not the same as 2007 .docx and I believe them as my Office 2003 in Crossover cannot open .docx I could be wrong though - I don't know

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo mail server

2009-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Tom Brown wrote: What about major upgrades? If I keep the system updated regularly, is a major upgrade necessary? Gentoo doesn't have major upgrades so you should be fine. But as you can imagine, you need to give a Gentoo system more love than a Debian one (which is pretty much set it and

[gentoo-user] How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Shawn Haggett wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:14:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed

[gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine.

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that makes it better than ext3 or reiserfs? Is it safer

[gentoo-user] Re: kdeprefix is broken?

2009-01-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello list, I emerged KDE-4.2 (RC first, final now) and Phonon wasn't getting any backend. No video, no sound. After recompiling KDE-4.2 with -kdeprefix, I see both Xine and Gstreamer listed as backends. Hmm. I also don't have a list of back-ends. But sound works. I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 and KDE-3.5

2009-01-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dmitry Makovey wrote: Hi, I was tracking KDE-4.x for a while now while sticking to stable KDE-3.5, which in gentoo's case is 3.5.9. Trying to get KDE-4.2 installed spits out a blocker: [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10 (=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10 is blocking

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc-4.3.3

2009-01-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Saphirus Sage wrote: I couldn't even install gcc4.3.3 on my amd64 machine. The build failed each time and I essentially decided to just wait for the next revision. Working fine here. glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1 with linux-headers-2.6.28-r1.

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 and KDE-3.5

2009-01-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Philip Webb wrote: 090131 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dmitry Makovey wrote: I was tracking KDE-4.x for a while while sticking to stable KDE-3.5.,, Trying to get KDE-4.2 installed spits out a blocker: [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10 (=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10 is blocking

[gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-01-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: [...] But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around. Right now I have these: r...@smoker / # ls /boot/bzImage-2* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2355440 Jan 31 18:52 /boot/bzImage-2-28-r8-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan 2 20:13 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7 -rw-r--r-- 1

[gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine.

[gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.2 - how to upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, since kde-4.2 seems be to unblocked now, I'd like to try it. But there are 408 (!) blocked packages. emerge --unmerge kde-meta didn't do anything. You need an emerge -a --depclean after unmerging all -meta packages. But usually this won't work either since most

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Daniel D Jones wrote: I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2. I'm getting the following: =kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4 (=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4 is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.0) Is there an issue with 3.5 and 4.2 being installed together? Is the above block a

[gentoo-user] Re: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? If it's an Intel-compatible (x86) and Gentoo is 32-bit, then yes, that's correct.

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 for a new installation?

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: For more funroll-loopiness I contemplate using ext4 for the new system I'm about to install. Anyone know of any LiveCDs that would support this? Yep, SystemRescueCD supports it: http://www.sysresccd.org It's even Gentoo-based, what a deal! ;) I _think_ it should be just

[gentoo-user] Re: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? If it's an Intel-compatible (x86) and Gentoo is 32-bit, then yes, that's correct. OK, does i686 indicate 64-bit? No. 64-bit is

[gentoo-user] ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Am I going crazy? In google.com, when I enter a search query and press ENTER, nothing happens. Note: only on the *English* google.com. You get there by clicking the Google.com in English link. It's this: http://www.google.com/ncr Does the ENTER key work for anyone? I'm on Firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:00:40 Tom wrote: I played Wolfenstein 3D as I was 7, and Doom when I was 8. And I'm in no way disturbed...I think ;) I think you can turn off gore in quake 3,so maybe anything (free) derived from that engine also has the option!? Tom

[gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:24:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Difficult to find an FPS without violence. Even in Consoles and MS Windows. Why? FPS = First Person *Shooter*. Shooter = guns and kills ;) Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second

[gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:24:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Difficult to find an FPS without violence. Even in Consoles and MS Windows. Why? FPS = First Person *Shooter*. Shooter = guns and kills ;) Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Miernik wrote: Before I had ~amd64 in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but in the middle of this upgrade I thought it was a bad idea, because many programs failed to compile, so I removed that from make.conf, and did run 'emerge --empty-tree world' which downgraded everything back to stable. But one thing I

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The only thing I can recommend is rebuilding system, and then rebuilding world to make sure everything is rebuilt using the same toolchain, including the toolchain itself. Pretty much the same as installing from scratch though, but at least you won't have

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dirk Uys wrote: [...] Have anyone else successfully built kde4.2? No problems here on AMD64. I didn't use anything outside portage.

[gentoo-user] Re: ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Am I going crazy? In google.com, when I enter a search query and press ENTER, nothing happens. Note: only on the *English* google.com. You get there by clicking the Google.com in English link. It's

[gentoo-user] Re: libtool problem

2009-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 3 Feb, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 13:15:55 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: since a short time many (not all) packages fail to build with a message like /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libgomp.la The problem is that I have

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD RW (recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: Hello SATA or Eide on DVD rw choices (internal unit). Any cheap DVD rw that have success writing to the many forms of rw DVDS, that one would recommend? Any bands (plextor?) to avoid on gentoo? Instead of recommending what I have, I'll recommend what disc burning lunatics

[gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router

2009-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Momesso Andrea wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:52:13PM +, Stroller wrote: On 3 Feb 2009, at 17:43, Momesso Andrea wrote: ... What happens if I decide to switch to the router configuration? If I have a single IP for all the machines in the LAN, when someone from the outside will try to

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: optimized for your system -- huh?

2009-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant Edwards wrote: Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's describe as a system similar to BSD ports where you build packages from source. The main benefit claimed for this approach is that you get better performance because all executables are optimized for exactly the right instruction

[gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router

2009-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:36:55 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Since your ISP offers you the option to have two different IP, yes that the best choice. Over here I would have to pay quite some money to get an extra IP. So you're lucky I guess

[gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router

2009-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:21:17 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I can't say I understood what you said, but the majority of ISPs give clients v4 IPs? Mine for example right now (it's dynamic) is 79.123.149.101. That's the only way to reach me from WAN

[gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) The benefit for me is that I plug my USB flash stick in my PC and it pops

[gentoo-user] Re: ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Am I going crazy? In google.com, when I enter a search query and press ENTER, nothing happens. Note: only on the *English* google.com. You get there by clicking the Google.com in English link. It's this: http://www.google.com/ncr Does the ENTER key

[gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Momesso Andrea wrote: Looks like my ISP allows both PPPoE and PPPoA. After some superficial googling it looks like PPPoE is preferred over ethernet modems and PPPoA over USB ones... Is it true? Nope. PPPoA is preferred generally, although not strongly so. The difference should be very

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Sebastián Magrí wrote: Also, Gentoo is a great school. If you want to learn how a Linux system works, and really want to learn about Unix systems, then Gentoo is the best for you. I don't get that argument. I didn't learn how Linux or Unix works with Gentoo. I didn't even find my prior

[gentoo-user] Re: ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I fixed it with rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox :P Not a option here. I would loose ALL my emails too. O_O Is sort of weird tho. I can't imagine your emails being stored in there. Firefox doesn't deal with email. But you can simply mv ~/.mozilla

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jesús Guerrero wrote: [...] A big big advantage is that besides the huge number of packages that we have, we also have dozens of overlays. [...] and some of them are really bug. QFT ;)

[gentoo-user] Re: ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Michael Holmes wrote: 2009/2/4 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: I can't imagine your emails being stored in there. Firefox doesn't deal with email. But you can simply mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox.backup instead of deleting it just to be safe. He's using Seamonkey, not Firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jesús Guerrero wrote: El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 14:19, Nikos Chantziaras escribió: Sebastián Magrí wrote: Also, Gentoo is a great school. If you want to learn how a Linux system works, and really want to learn about Unix systems, then Gentoo is the best for you. I don't get

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 missing Oxygen

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Naga wrote: Hi, I was wondering if I'm the only one who is missing the Oxygen desktop theme when installing KDE-4.2 from the kde-testing overlay? Oxygen is in the package kde-base/kdebase-desktoptheme.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Sebastián Magrí wrote: The installation experience with the traditional method must be mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is deprecated... That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity if it's not easy to install. But since there are not enough devs left for the GUI

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jesús Guerrero wrote: El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 7:07, Nikos Chantziaras escribió: Sebastián Magrí wrote: The installation experience with the traditional method must be mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is deprecated... That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote: There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, masochists, live in peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice] There have been

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Sebastián Magrí wrote: The installation experience with the traditional method must be mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is deprecated... That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity

[gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote: Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in xorg.conf at all

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: optimized for your system -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Steven Lembark wrote: A downside is that you'll need fast machines to comfortably build packages. I wouldn't use it on my Pentium 3 800Mhz for example. That would take ages to compile system/world with recent GCC versions. I guess GCC was much faster in the 2.x versions back then? How

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:. I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a different manner to the way the thing will be used. Because installation is boring. The easier it is, the better. wrong

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: optimized for your system -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: [...] To be honest, I am surprised this notion of optimised executables has stuck around long enough that you've heard it, but it's an old joke to many of us who were around in 2004. But AFAIK, it *was* faster because Gentoo used the egcs fork of GCC which did produce faster

[gentoo-user] Re: accessing a bash

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jon Hardcastle wrote: Hey guys.. random Linux question. If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing it? Thanks. Give us the output of ps aux | grep bash and we might be able to tell

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs. I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what to do rather than go read docs somewhere else :P

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 missing Oxygen

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Naga wrote: I've reinstalled KDE-4.2 from portage at least 3 times, and in between compiling it from svn. The svn copy always works ok, the portage one is always missing Oxygen. Do you have kde-base/kdebase-desktoptheme installed? That's Oxygen.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs. I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what to do rather than go read docs somewhere else :P

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You're screwed anyway if you can't use the CLI installer correctly. Reading the docs is fine, but they're written for geeks, not normal people. Normal people don't have a clue what the docs are talking about :) It seems to me that not to many

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jesús Guerrero wrote: It's not The community vs. you, you are part of the community since the very moment you start using linux. Most people don't want to be some part of some weird community. They just want to use a computer. If they were looking for friends, they might try the local

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Joshua D Doll wrote: I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and follow what the doc is trying to convey. I'll just quote Linux Hater here: Write tons of documentation on complicated

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [05.02.09 09:12]: Than I'll rephrase my statement: Gentoo would need a non-bugged GUI installer ;) No, Gentoo needs no GUI or CLI installer. It is very good, that if you install Gentoo for the first time, you must actually read

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2 Konsole Title

2009-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Chris Lieb wrote: I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge @kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away that the title bar of Konsole did not update to show my progress in my emerge -u... world. In fact, it only showed the user name and

[gentoo-user] Re: SecurDisc Software ?

2009-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there any open sourced software, with which I can use the SecurDisc funtionality of my LG HL-DST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 DVD burner ? No.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P Repeating something does not increase its validity. That's why I didn't repeat it in the first place maybe? You stated that Gentoo needs a GUI

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

2009-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi, im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. HTML is NOT a character encoding. Therefore, you cannot do that.

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
still mounted. waking it up if it's almost always something put it too sleep. There's umount it before you Usually, you have to Danis Petkakis wrote: ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as if the disk is in sleep mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 missing Oxygen

2009-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Naga wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:32:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Naga wrote: I've reinstalled KDE-4.2 from portage at least 3 times, and in between compiling it from svn. The svn copy always works ok, the portage one is always missing Oxygen. Do you have kde-base/kdebase

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: I install sudo, give my user wide sudo rights and then set PermitRootLogin no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. (Critique of this measure welcomed). Since Hung already answered about the other problem, I'll just comment on this. It's a bad idea if the machine is open to the

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Heiko Wundram wrote: Am Montag 09 Februar 2009 13:37:31 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Stroller wrote: I install sudo, give my user wide sudo rights and then set PermitRootLogin no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. (Critique of this measure welcomed). Since Hung already answered about the other problem

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Saphirus Sage wrote: I'd just as soon leave the root account able to be logged in over SSH and remove password authentication in preference of a 2048-bit RSA key. Just use a script to add failed logins to a deny list. I tend to forget that this isn't Debian, so yeah, that'll work ;D

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2 Konsole Title

2009-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Chris Lieb wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Chris Lieb wrote: [...] In Konsole under KDE 3.5.9, the title bar would always be controlled by the script that was running. Is this supposed to happen in KDE 4.2, or is this a bug? In the profile of Konsole you're using, in the Tabs tab, edit

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: On 9 Feb 2009, at 13:05, Heiko Wundram wrote: ... even when he gets access to one of your user accounts (who happen to be in group wheel), he still has to guess the root password (when doing su -) to be able to become root, and hopefully this buys you the time to see in your

[gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream...

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dirk Uys wrote: But when I try to start KDE4.2 (using kdm), the screen blanks out a few times while kde is loading (the spash screen being displayed) and then I briefly see a malformed desktop (the bottom of the taskbar wraps around to the top of the screen) and then just a black screen. In

[gentoo-user] Re: Sandbox Violation

2009-02-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi everyone, recently I killed a running merge of app-emacs/auctex with C-c in the shell. Now after that I am not able to install the package anymore. I get a sandbox when kpathsea is run. Just a shot in the dark, but try this as root: rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* and

[gentoo-user] Re: The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Roy Wright wrote: [...] The ubuntus are targeted at disgruntled windows users while gentoo is targeted at unix users. The former are used to complaining and getting no response while the later know it's their responsibility to help make it better... Works for me. ;)

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
b.n. wrote: Michael Hentsch ha scritto: The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors. This always made me crazy. Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system file? It's not

[gentoo-user] Re: qt-xxx-4.5.0_rc1 conflicts

2009-02-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [...] it turned kde 4.2 in a complete crash fest (starting with kdmgreet making it impossible to log in). beta was bad, rc1 was worse. And yes, I rebuilt stuff - and after that I downgraded to 4.4. and rebuild everything again - and oh look not one single crash

[gentoo-user] Re: qt-xxx-4.5.0_rc1 conflicts

2009-02-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 12 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [...] it turned kde 4.2 in a complete crash fest (starting with kdmgreet making it impossible to log in). beta was bad, rc1 was worse. And yes, I rebuilt stuff - and after that I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 problems

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
András wrote: But - there is always an 'but'... ;) - k3b is depends on kdelibs-3.5.x. Yesterday I wanted to update my system and kdelibs-4.x and kdelibs-3.5.x are blocked package. I installed kde-4.2 with kdeprefix USE flag. I have 3.5.10 together with 4.2.0 installed. There's no blockage.

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2 no prefixed problems

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hi, I installed kde-4.2 with USE=kdeprefix two weeks ago and everything I needed was working all right. Then I decided to change my USE flags and delete kdeprefix in order to have kde in /usr. After that I: - Did an emerge -uDN world - Deleted my user folders

[gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when emerging sci-libs/acml, portage fetches the 32-bit variant of the package. The SRC_URI

[gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 13 Feb, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when emerging sci-libs/acml, portage

[gentoo-user] Re: protect older kernels from depclean?

2009-02-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a Gentoo way of protecting older kernels from being removed by emerge --depclean? Maybe a config file somewhere that tells it not to bother with certain things? A simple way is to put each kernel I want to protect in the world file, and I've done that, but it would

[gentoo-user] Re: NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade

2009-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Guillermo Garron wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Kenneth Prugh ken69...@gmail.com wrote: I think you need just E1000E for your NIC. I use E1000E * for my intel: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) Hi, I think that is the one I

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing outside of Portage cruft removal

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: I thought running something like '.configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install' could still install files outside of /usr/local. No? That's true, it can. But *usually* it doesn't.

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing outside of Portage cruft removal

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 21:40:19 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Grant wrote: I thought running something like '.configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install' could still install files outside of /usr/local. No? That's true, it can. But *usually* it doesn't

[gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual make modules_install make install. I edited grub.conf only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (just a matter of changing -r1

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual make modules_install make install. I edited grub.conf only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (just

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: On 17 Feb 2009, at 04:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual make modules_install make install. I edited grub.conf only to the point

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

2009-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:17:07 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual make modules_install make install. I edited grub.conf only

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing OSS / error adding oss-overlay

2009-02-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mike Kazantsev wrote: To the point: AFAIK OSS in gentoo resides in oss-overlay, which I try to add with standard 'layman -a oss-overlay': r...@damnation:~# layman -a oss-overlay * Running command /usr/bin/hg clone http://hg.atheme.org/users/majeru/portage-overlay/;

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing OSS / error adding oss-overlay

2009-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Hopefully they'll fix it soon. It should be fixed now. Remove and re-add the overlay in layman and resync.

[gentoo-user] Re: MonetBD on portage?

2009-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:36 AM, laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: Apparently monetdb maintainer requested it to be

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