Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/12/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you encrypt your home directory? I encrypt everything except /boot. What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? dm-crypt with cryptsetup using the LUKS format. Which ciphers do you prefer? Why? aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,

[gentoo-user] /sbin/functions.sh is it part of baselayout ? I'm getting an error: svcdir: readonly variable

2006-08-12 Thread Joseph
After emerging baselayout-1.12.4-r2 today I'm getting this error: during boot: /etc/config.d/rc: line 225: svcdir: readonly variable /sbin/functions.sh: line 10: declare: svclib: readonly variable /sbin/functions.sh: line 11: declare: svcdir: readonly variable during shutdown: /etc/config.d/rc: li

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-12 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 12 August 2006 20:22, John J. Foster wrote: > Hi, > > I've been playing with encrypting my home directory using cfs and > following the instructions at > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS > > I guess it mostly works, although I've had cfsd die randomly

[gentoo-user] Re: is samba 3.0.23b available in some form

2006-08-12 Thread reader
Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Anyone know if something is available in version 3.0.23b? > > You can just rename the ebuild and put it into your overlay until the gentoo > samba developers get to it. That sailed right over my thick skull. Can you elab

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-12 Thread Ryan Tandy
John J. Foster wrote: Do you encrypt your home directory? Not on my desktop. On my laptop, however, everything except /boot is encrypted (/, /home, swap). What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? sys-apps/util-linux with USE=crypt, and app-crypt/loop-aes. Which ciphers

[gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-12 Thread John J. Foster
Hi, I've been playing with encrypting my home directory using cfs and following the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS I guess it mostly works, although I've had cfsd die randomly a few times in a couple days. It sorta bothers me that app-crypt/cfs

[gentoo-user] Re: is samba 3.0.23b available in some form

2006-08-12 Thread Stefan Schweizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone know if something is available in version 3.0.23b? You can just rename the ebuild and put it into your overlay until the gentoo samba developers get to it. Regards, Stefan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] is samba 3.0.23b available in some form

2006-08-12 Thread reader
Looking for a way to install samba-3.0.23b with a very recent patch from samba developers that is supposed to solve a problem I'm having with the SID code in current samba-3.0.23a. I have compiled the version I'm told I need but it looks like a very complicated thing to try to install and run outs

Re: [gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/12/06, Andrew Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like I'm going to have to look into doing a manual rebuild of portage - bumma!!! Ugh, yeah. If you have FEATURES=buildpkg, you can try to untar the python package. That might at least get you back to a working python setup. -Ri

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache: unsupported compiler option

2006-08-12 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > Strange. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/ccache" ccache -s > cache hit 76331 > cache miss157987 > called for link16817 > multiple source files112 > compile failed 5

[gentoo-user] net.ppp0 status: inactive

2006-08-12 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Hi, Upgraded to sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r2 today (and changed pppoe config according to /etc/conf.d/net.example) While it works net.ppp0 status is always inactive so the services depending on net.ppp0 never start: WARNING: ntpd is scheduled to start when net.ppp0 has started. WARNING: snort

Re: [gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

2006-08-12 Thread Andrew Lowe
Richard Fish wrote: On 8/12/06, Andrew Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I placed "tcl" and "tcltk" into my USE variables and tried the reinstall again, "emerge --newuse python", Tcl etc get called in and installed with no problems, but then the above problem hit again. I don't think tcl/tk s

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache: unsupported compiler option

2006-08-12 Thread Dale
Justin Findlay wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 04:33:30PM -0500, Dale wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ccache -s >> cache hit 0 >> cache miss 0 >> files in cache 0 >> cache size 0 Kbyte

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache: unsupported compiler option

2006-08-12 Thread Justin Findlay
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 04:33:30PM -0500, Dale wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ccache -s > cache hit 0 > cache miss 0 > files in cache 0 > cache size 0 Kbytes > max cache size

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache: unsupported compiler option

2006-08-12 Thread Alexander Kirillov
I'm trying to find out why ccache won't cache anything. Building and maintaining for three months an entire system got me all of 5 cache hits. What can I do to encourace more cache usage? One of the methods I'm investigating is to determine and eliminate CFLAGS arguments that may cause 'unsuppo

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I upgrade gcc without updating packages?

2006-08-12 Thread b.n.
Ok, sorry I ran revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 --package names -- -p -v , actually. (I had a trouble with my OO version no more there) Well, I'll try to unmerge OO and see... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache: unsupported compiler option

2006-08-12 Thread Dale
Justin Findlay wrote: > I'm trying to find out why ccache won't cache anything. Building and > maintaining for three months an entire system got me all of 5 cache > hits. What can I do to encourace more cache usage? One of the methods > I'm investigating is to determine and eliminate CFLAGS argu

[gentoo-user] how do I upgrade gcc without updating packages?

2006-08-12 Thread b.n.
Hi, I'm going to upgrade gcc to 3.4 (yes,I know I'm late but I'm finally on summer break so...) I ran revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 -- -p -v and I found it wants to actually upgrade the packages I still didn't upgrade from the last emerge --sync. Now, it would be all good, if only I als

Re: [gentoo-user] kdevelop

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/12/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer Heh, that's funny! I just tried creating a simple KDE application with KDevelop on my box, and it seems to work ok. But I just upgraded to the ~arch 3.5.4 ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Mod4 mapped to wrong keycode

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/12/06, Robert Cernansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I found out that Win key (Mod4) is not seen as modifier because it is mapped to wrong keycode: I think you are on the wrong track. I have basically the same results on my system (laptop, so no right-side win-key): ~ > xmodmap | grep mod4

Re: [gentoo-user] kdevelop

2006-08-12 Thread Samuel Baldwin
> The *or newer* part in the error message tells you everything you need> to know. It would, except for the fact that it said:> *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. > *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newerWhich tells us that "or newer" doesn't mean anything, since he already is using 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] kdevelop

2006-08-12 Thread Jerônimo Backes
> *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer > > Portage seems to contain ebuilds for autoconf 2.13, 2.59 and 2.60 only. > > What now? > The *or newer* part in the error message tells you everything you need to know. ___

[gentoo-user] kdevelop

2006-08-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I am trying to use kdevelop under gentoo. KDE 3.5.3 compiled fine. Kdevelop 3.3.3 and 3.3.4 conpiled fine. When I try to create a KDE app inside kdevelop and build it it says: *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer Portage seems to cont

[gentoo-user] ccache: unsupported compiler option

2006-08-12 Thread Justin Findlay
I'm trying to find out why ccache won't cache anything. Building and maintaining for three months an entire system got me all of 5 cache hits. What can I do to encourace more cache usage? One of the methods I'm investigating is to determine and eliminate CFLAGS arguments that may cause 'unsuppor

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: what's safest option?

2006-08-12 Thread b.n.
Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/12/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a couple of questions: >> - Is it safe to upgrade with a full desktop >> (Xorg+Xfce+Thunderbird+Firefox...) system running, or will I get >> everything crashing on me? > > If you start things up beforehand and leave them r

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/12/06, Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: emerge -uav gcc If I use the -u switch, portage tells me there's nothing to merge. If I simply do an emerge -p, portage says that it's going to install gcc-3.4. How do I identify what's telling portage not to update gcc? This probably jus

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: what's safest option?

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/12/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a couple of questions: - Is it safe to upgrade with a full desktop (Xorg+Xfce+Thunderbird+Firefox...) system running, or will I get everything crashing on me? If you start things up beforehand and leave them running, this should be safe. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba

2006-08-12 Thread Roy Wright
filezilla on sourceforge can do sftp. Used it a lot before switching workstation to gentoo 1.5 years ago. http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ Have fun, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] auto masking problem

2006-08-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 12 August 2006 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following occurs when running an update world following a sync today. > > --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >>> 1.5723 > --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: === > --- Invalid atom in /

Re: [gentoo-user] Vitesse VSC8601 Lan support

2006-08-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Helge Kaltenbach wrote: just wanted to check if anyone knows if there is a linux driver out for that gigabit lan chip...didnt find a lot with google. its on my msi k9n neo f mainboard.. Pretty sure it is supported by forcedeth. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] auto masking problem

2006-08-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 12 August 2006 17:40, Mike Williams wrote: > Either the rsync mirror you're using have screwed it up, or a developer > made an error. A developer did make an error. It is the result of a cvs conflict and it was corrected in the cvs 90 minutes ago. Just wait up to 30 minutes and sync

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

2006-08-12 Thread Daniel D Jones
There are a number of packages that are apparently in the main tree which will not compile with gcc 3.3 (openal and atlantikdesigner are two that prevent me from completing an "update world"). The bugs for these are closed because they work with the new version and, evidently, that's good enoug

[gentoo-user] auto masking problem

2006-08-12 Thread reader
The following occurs when running an update world following a sync today. --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >>> 1.5723 --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: === --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: <<< package.mask --- Invalid

[gentoo-user] Help! I locked myself

2006-08-12 Thread Boris Sobolev
Hi list, It happened I locked myself . Usually I got out with ^Q, but in this case it won't work. I can't type, etc. (The lock's led with an arrow inside it). Thanks anyone. I don't feel like rebooting, etc. Typing it from other cosole. Boris -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problem with php and sablotron solved.

2006-08-12 Thread Vesselin Mladenov
Hi, A couple of hours ago I posted here about a problem with php and sablotron. I have solved the problem, but I am posting here my (may be a bit dirty) solution - someone may save a couple of long hours. The problem was that php-4.4.2, for no obvious reason, does not detect that sablotron is pro

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: what's safest option?

2006-08-12 Thread Dale
b.n. wrote: > Hi, > I'm finally on summer break and I can take the time for ye olde GCC > 3.3-->3.4 infamous transition. > > I have a couple of questions: > - Is it safe to upgrade with a full desktop > (Xorg+Xfce+Thunderbird+Firefox...) system running, or will I get > everything crashing on me? >

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: what's safest option?

2006-08-12 Thread b.n.
Hi, I'm finally on summer break and I can take the time for ye olde GCC 3.3-->3.4 infamous transition. I have a couple of questions: - Is it safe to upgrade with a full desktop (Xorg+Xfce+Thunderbird+Firefox...) system running, or will I get everything crashing on me? - If not, is it safe to upgra

Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba

2006-08-12 Thread b.n.
> I use winscp. I fully agree. We use winscp in our lab and it is extremly straightforward to use and with a nice interface. The only potential problem is slowness. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mod4 mapped to wrong keycode

2006-08-12 Thread Robert Cernansky
Hello xkb fans, I've recently upgraded to xorg 7.0 and Windowmaker 0.92. For switching windows I'm using Win+TAB instead of Alt+TAB. It starts to behave strange after upgrade. When switching to other window, the bar with windows list remains on screen and I have to press Win key again to disappear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chm file on a console?

2006-08-12 Thread Boris Sobolev
Thanks. On 22:38 Fri 11 Aug , Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > Boris Sobolev wrote: > > > Does anyone know a way or a program to view .chm files on console? > > Searched pretty hard to no avail. Please don't mention xchm. > > Well, there's chmlib, which comes with a tool to extract files from the c

Re: [gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/12/06, Andrew Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I placed "tcl" and "tcltk" into my USE variables and tried the reinstall again, "emerge --newuse python", Tcl etc get called in and installed with no problems, but then the above problem hit again. I don't think tcl/tk support is the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 missing g++/c++

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/12/06, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless you are crazy enough to have USE=nocxx, you get a c++ compiler > with gcc. Others are controlled by USE flags. I don't believe that I included the USE=nocxx variable. I will give another try at re-building GCC a little later

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 missing g++/c++

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> Unless you are crazy enough to have USE=nocxx, you get a c++ compiler > with gcc. Others are controlled by USE flags. I don't believe that I included the USE=nocxx variable. I will give another try at re-building GCC a little later just to see if I get the same effect. (Honestly, I did add a