Re: [gentoo-user] xypic wants ruby?
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: provides xy-pic. Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? Probably because it installs a heck lot more than just xypic? The full list gives asyfig autoarea bardiag cachepic combinedgraphics circuitikz curve curve2e curves dcpic diagmac2 doc-pictex dottex dot2texi dratex eepic epspdf epspdfconversion fig4latex gnuplottex here hvfloat miniplot pb-diagram petri-nets pgf-soroban pgfopts pgfplots picinpar pict2e pictex pictex2 pinlabel pmgraph randbild schemabloc swimgraf texdraw tikz-inet tikz-qtree tikz-timing tkz-doc tkz-linknodes tkz-tab tufte-latex xypic collection-pictures Ruby is a RDEPEND; if you are interested you certainly can try Googling to find out which in the above list is the offender. One that I recognize which requires a ruby runtime is the converter epspdf. OK. I understand. Latex is a world of is own... Thanks. Jorge
Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB
On 25 Apr 2010, at 10:07, Adam wrote: Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed? Move the laptop closer to the access point. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this, seems like a big security hole to me. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] msfonts
Hello I'm looking for the following fonts.Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the followingfonts.Thank you. /usr/share/doc/msfonts/usr/share/doc/msfonts/hebrew.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/index.html/usr/share/doc/msfonts/kdeconf.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/konqconf.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/mozconf.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/msfonts-demo.kwd/usr/share/doc/msfonts/msfonts-demo.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/msfonts-style-demo.kwd/usr/share/doc/msfonts/msfonts-style-demo.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/orient.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/thumb-hebrew.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/thumb-msfonts-demo.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/thumb-msfonts-style-demo.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/thumb-orient.png/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/andalemo.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/arial.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/arialbd.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/arialbi.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/ariali.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/ariblk.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/comic.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/comicbd.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/cour.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/courbd.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/courbi.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/couri.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgia.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgiab.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgiai.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgiaz.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/impact.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/l_10646.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/lucon.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/micross.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/symbol.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/tahoma.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/tahomabd.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/times.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/timesbd.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/timesbi.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/timesi.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/trebuc.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/trebucbd.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/trebucbi.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/trebucit.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/verdana.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/verdanab.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/verdanai.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/verdanaz.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/webdings.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts/wingding.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/ahronbd.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gil_.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilb.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilbi___.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilc.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilcb___.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gili.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilu.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/matha___.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/mathb___.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/mathc___.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/mtsorts_.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/nrkis.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/pala.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/palab.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/palabi.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/palai.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/upclb.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/upclbi.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/upcli.ttf/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/upcll.ttf
Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts
Dnia 2010-04-26, o godz. 11:20:12 fajfu...@wp.pl napisał(a): Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Thank you. /usr/share/doc/msfonts /usr/share/doc/msfonts/hebrew.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/index.html /usr/share/doc/msfonts/kdeconf.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/konqconf.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/mozconf.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/msfonts-demo.kwd /usr/share/doc/msfonts/msfonts-demo.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/msfonts-style-demo.kwd /usr/share/doc/msfonts/msfonts-style-demo.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/orient.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/thumb-hebrew.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/thumb-msfonts-demo.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/thumb-msfonts-style-demo.png /usr/share/doc/msfonts/thumb-orient.png /usr/share/fonts/msfonts /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/andalemo.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/arial.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/arialbd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/arialbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/ariali.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/ariblk.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/comic.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/comicbd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/cour.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/courbd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/courbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/couri.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgia.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgiab.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgiai.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgiaz.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/impact.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/l_10646.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/lucon.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/micross.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/symbol.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/tahoma.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/tahomabd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/times.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/timesbd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/timesbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/timesi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/trebuc.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/trebucbd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/trebucbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/trebucit.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/verdana.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/verdanab.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/verdanai.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/verdanaz.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/webdings.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/wingding.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/ahronbd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gil_.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilb.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilbi___.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilc.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilcb___.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gili.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/gilu.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/matha___.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/mathb___.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/mathc___.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/mtsorts_.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/nrkis.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/pala.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/palab.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/palabi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/palai.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/upclb.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/upclbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/upcli.ttf /usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style/upcll.ttf emerge gentoolkit equery b /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgia.ttf IMO -- Kacper Kopczyński
Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts
fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Thank you. SNIP I found a couple of those in media-fonts/corefonts. You may want to install that and see what is missing afterwards. Also, this site may be able to tell you what package some of the missing ones belongs to as well. http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2 Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts
Kacper Kopczyński wrote: Dnia 2010-04-26, o godz. 11:20:12 fajfu...@wp.pl napisał(a): Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Thank you. SNIP emerge gentoolkit equery b /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/georgia.ttf IMO But if he doesn't have them installed, that command won't help him. That only works if the package is installed otherwise you have to ask someone who has it installed to check it. Since he is looking for them, I would assume he doesn't have them installed. I'm not sure how the corefonts package got missed tho. I thought that was a system package. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Random failures: lvremove
Just wanted to let you know, that the error no longer occurs since I updated to lvm2-2.02.63-r1. Regards, Roman Naumann On Sunday 18 April 2010 12:38:45 Roman Naumann wrote: Hi, I'm using LVM, having / and /home as logical volumes and a backup script creating a logical snapshot volume of each in the process. Since I use gentoo (comming from arch), my backup script fails rather often with the error message 'Can't remove open logical volume volume'. The script worked fine on arch before. The partition setup did not change. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it just fails. As a workaround, I let the script just lvremove the snapshot three times with 5 seconds sleeping between the tries and the overall success rate for the script improved... The chance is about 40% lvremove succeeds at a given time and doesn't seem to in- or decrease when calling lvremove successively with a five second delay, though if it fails once, it tends to fail again more often if called within the next two or three seconds. Here is an example of the command failing once more after the backup script aborted. The second time it works. I did NOTHING but the commands listed below in these 30 seconds or so: (note: dmsetup says open: 0 in the first place!) kira namor # dmsetup info -c vg-snap_root Name Maj Min Stat Open Targ Event UUID vg-snap_root 253 5 L--w01 0 LVM- ayg5GD1dYyrkkan1pLa8WszI7UrQpy9YE2ynOTtHoSNckKdehm3XMIgkw7p8z69X kira namor # lvremove /dev/vg/snap_root Can't remove open logical volume snap_root kira namor # lsof /dev/vg/snap_root kira namor # fuser -a /dev/vg/snap_root /dev/vg/snap_root: kira namor # lvremove /dev/vg/snap_root Do you really want to remove active logical volume snap_root? [y/n]: y Logical volume snap_root successfully removed What I tried so far was: - calling: lvchange -an $SNAP_PARTITION #fails iff lvremove fails - updating to lvm2-2.02.56-r3 and updating the initramfs #fixes nothing I have no idea what causes this random behavior. Help much appreciated. Regards, Roman Naumann
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this Use the keyboard instead. You already have your hands on it to type your password, no? seems like a big security hole to me. To me it seems like rational behaviour. You tell it to shut down - it shuts down. Or do you want Gnome to be like Windows and challenge every action you give it? -- Rgds Peter.
[gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug report but I don't suppose it's very high on anyone's list. Meanwhile, is there an entry I can make in xorg.conf, or elsewhere, to force KDE to display just the single resolution, 1400 x 1050? -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this Use the keyboard instead. You already have your hands on it to type your password, no? seems like a big security hole to me. To me it seems like rational behaviour. You tell it to shut down - it shuts down. Or do you want Gnome to be like Windows and challenge every action you give it? I don't want a non-root user to be able to shut the computer down -- I did it my mistake and its strange to have it there anyway -- least it should do is ask for the root password. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:28 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this Use the keyboard instead. You already have your hands on it to type your password, no? seems like a big security hole to me. To me it seems like rational behaviour. You tell it to shut down - it shuts down. Or do you want Gnome to be like Windows and challenge every action you give it? I don't want a non-root user to be able to shut the computer down -- I did it my mistake and its strange to have it there anyway -- least it should do is ask for the root password. It's a very reasonable request he's making. I have a machine that's a MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours it wastes electricity. To make more use of the hardware my wife and son use it at times to browse the web. They are used to shutting off other computers and they sometimes make mistakes and shut this machine off so we lose recordings. If the buttons didn't exist then they wouldn't make that mistake. If the buttons required them to type a non-root password used to allow a user to shut the machine down then they'd remember that this machine is different and not make that mistake. I personally think covici's request is very reasonable. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
On Monday 26 April 2010 13:28:50 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I don't want a non-root user to be able to shut the computer down -- I did it my mistake and its strange to have it there anyway -- least it should do is ask for the root password. Ah, I see. Well, that's more-or-less how SuSE used to work; I don't know what it's like nowadays. -- Rgds Peter.
[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment?
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this, seems like a big security hole to me. Thanks. Build gnome with the policykit flag set. Then you need to give permission to the user to shutdown or restart. I do not know about GDM. Have you looked in gconf-editor for a setting?
[gentoo-user] Cheese crashes with output concerning libgnomebreakpad.so
Here is the stdout from running cheese at the cli: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory cheese: xcb_io.c:176: process_responses: Assertion `!(req current_request !(((long) (req-sequence) - (long) (current_request)) = 0))' failed. Aborted redep-rebuild fails to find any breakages revdep-rebuild --library libgnomebreakpad.so fails to find anything useful.
[gentoo-user] gphoto2 won't work
I am trying to offload pictures from our digital camera (Kodeak
EasyShare CX7300) using the command gphoto2 -P [1]. This command has
worked for years to offload pictures from the camera. Now, this command
gives me the output:
*** Error ***
PTP Invalid Transaction ID
*** Error ***
An error occurred in the io-library ('Unspecified error'): No error
description available
*** Error (-1: 'Unspecified error') ***
For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
developer mailing list gphoto-de...@lists.sourceforge.net, please run
gphoto2 as follows:
env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt -P [1]
Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.
I ran the above suggested command and got the my-logfile.txt file, but I
can't make sense of it. It's a little too long to paste here. Has
anyone else had this problem? What additional steps should I go through
to find the solution to this problem. I found a whole bunch of hits on
Google, but they didn't make much sense, and the ones that did didn't
help. Here's some additional info:
mich...@camille ~ $ sudo emerge -pv gphoto2 libgphoto2
Password:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.8 USE=doc examples exif hal
nls -bonjour CAMERAS=-adc65 -agfa_cl20 -aox -barbie -canon -casio_qv
-clicksmart310 -digigr8 -digita -dimagev -dimera3500 -directory
-enigma13 -fuji -gsmart300 -hp215 -iclick -jamcam -jd11 -jl2005a
-kodak_dc120 -kodak_dc210 -kodak_dc240 -kodak_dc3200 -kodak_ez200
-konica -konica_qm150 -largan -lg_gsm -mars -mustek -panasonic_coolshot
-panasonic_dc1000 -panasonic_dc1580 -panasonic_l859 -pccam300 -pccam600
-polaroid_pdc320 -polaroid_pdc640 -polaroid_pdc700 -ptp2 -ricoh
-ricoh_g3 -samsung -sierra -sipix_blink -sipix_blink2 -sipix_web2 -smal
-sonix -sony_dscf1 -sony_dscf55 -soundvision -spca50x -sq905 -stv0674
-stv0680 -sx330z -template -topfield -toshiba_pdrm11 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-gfx/gphoto2-2.4.8 USE=exif ncurses nls readline
-aalib 0 kB
Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Please help!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just where would I set this up? I don't usually have to mess with it and it just works. I'm on KDE 4.4.2. Maybe this is a feature of KDE4 until it gets fixed. ;-) Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts
2010/4/26 fajfu...@wp.pl: Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Some from corefonts, others are probably copyrighted by microsoft. Google for msfonts and msfonts-style and you can get RPM full of these fonts but it's your decision whether or not to use them.
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
Jonathan winelauncher.jonat...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this, seems like a big security hole to me. Thanks. Build gnome with the policykit flag set. Then you need to give permission to the user to shutdown or restart. I do not know about GDM. Have you looked in gconf-editor for a setting? I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the policykit use flag, so I am not sure where to go with this. Where would I look in gconf? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On 04/26/2010 10:59 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 Wait, this is more complicated than I thought. The error above clearly mentions display :0.0, which should be correct unless you're running multiple X sessions. When I 'unset DISPLAY' I get 'DISPLAY is not set'. Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX?
[gentoo-user] Re: Cheese crashes with output concerning libgnomebreakpad.so
On 04/26/2010 09:26 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Here is the stdout from running cheese at the cli: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory That file is from gnome-extra/bug-buddy. Do you have that package?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 10:59 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 Wait, this is more complicated than I thought. The error above clearly mentions display :0.0, which should be correct unless you're running multiple X sessions. When I 'unset DISPLAY' I get 'DISPLAY is not set'. Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 17:31 /root/.xauth9yEErh -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthAfQHY0 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthEltCUe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Apr 26 14:06 /root/.xauthFBdWPY -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthJJISAe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 3 2009 /root/.xauthMjZyQi -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 29 2009 /root/.xauthOApO1i -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 25 2009 /root/.xauthSshOXz -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 2009 /root/.xauthbFAjxt -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 4 2009 /root/.xauthdKOWE3 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 9 2009 /root/.xauthfCNLCo -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthhhDOTW -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthjRxXE8 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 13 13:09 /root/.xauthm5cv93 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 23 2009 /root/.xauthnARKQ1 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthnaLVUB r...@smoker ~ # Do I need to log out of KDE, delete those then login again? What generates those and is something wrong that makes it create those? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:02 +0200, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons: I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the policykit use flag, so I am not sure where to go with this. Where would I look in gconf? Take a look at /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf. # Specify which actions are displayed in the greeter. Valid values are # HALT, # REBOOT, SUSPEND, and CUSTOM_CMD separated by semicolons. SystemCommandsInMenu=HALT;REBOOT;SUSPEND;CUSTOM_CMD # Specify which actions are supported by QUERY_LOGOUT_ACTION, # SET_LOGOUT_ACTION # and SET_SAFE_LOGOUT_ACTION. Valid values are HALT, # REBOOT, SUSPEND, and # CUSTOM_CMD separated by semicolons. AllowLogoutActions=HALT;REBOOT;SUSPEND;CUSTOM_CMD You wll, of course, need to recycle xdm when you are done. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On Monday 26 April 2010 19:59:26 Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just where would I set this up? I don't usually have to mess with it and it just works. I'm on KDE 4.4.2. Maybe this is a feature of KDE4 until it gets fixed. ;-) The X server is running at Dale and you are trying to connect to it as root. It (correctly) disapproves of this and is telling you so, while still remaining polite. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On 04/26/2010 01:53 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 17:31 /root/.xauth9yEErh -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthAfQHY0 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthEltCUe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Apr 26 14:06 /root/.xauthFBdWPY -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthJJISAe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 3 2009 /root/.xauthMjZyQi -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 29 2009 /root/.xauthOApO1i -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 25 2009 /root/.xauthSshOXz -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 2009 /root/.xauthbFAjxt -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 4 2009 /root/.xauthdKOWE3 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 9 2009 /root/.xauthfCNLCo -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthhhDOTW -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthjRxXE8 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 13 13:09 /root/.xauthm5cv93 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 23 2009 /root/.xauthnARKQ1 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthnaLVUB r...@smoker ~ # Do I need to log out of KDE, delete those then login again? What generates those and is something wrong that makes it create those? I deleted all of them and generated a new one just by doing su from an xterm. Does that work for you?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 01:53 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 17:31 /root/.xauth9yEErh -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthAfQHY0 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthEltCUe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Apr 26 14:06 /root/.xauthFBdWPY -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthJJISAe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 3 2009 /root/.xauthMjZyQi -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 29 2009 /root/.xauthOApO1i -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 25 2009 /root/.xauthSshOXz -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 2009 /root/.xauthbFAjxt -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 4 2009 /root/.xauthdKOWE3 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 9 2009 /root/.xauthfCNLCo -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthhhDOTW -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthjRxXE8 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 13 13:09 /root/.xauthm5cv93 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 23 2009 /root/.xauthnARKQ1 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthnaLVUB r...@smoker ~ # Do I need to log out of KDE, delete those then login again? What generates those and is something wrong that makes it create those? I deleted all of them and generated a new one just by doing su from an xterm. Does that work for you? Well, I deleted them all, logged out of KDE and back in. I still get the same thing as before with hp-setup. Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:46:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I deleted them all, logged out of KDE and back in. I still get the same thing as before with hp-setup. Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. Are you using su, sudo or sux? -- Neil Bothwick I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password. It just uses the konsole command but it is told to run as root. This is pretty much how it did in KDE3 tho. When I open it, it pops up a window and asks for the root password. Then it opens Konsole. This is done from the little K menu thingy. That make sense? Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password. Does that mean you are not using the standard konsole, rather a special icon intended to open a root terminal? Must be, otherwise it wouldn't ask for the root password. Try opening a standard user konsole and just use su instead. (Or even, heaven forbid, an xterm instead of konsole.) That should detect a KDE problem if it exists.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:46:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I deleted them all, logged out of KDE and back in. I still get the same thing as before with hp-setup. Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. Are you using su, sudo or sux? I am using none of the above. I say I because the menu system for KDE may be using one of those. The KDE menu thingy has a entry that says Konsole. I edited the settings for it to run as root. When I click on the entry for it to run, a window pops up and asks for the root password. When I enter it, konsole opens as root. Now that I think about it, it used to open a Konsole window,ask for the password and go to a root prompt. That was in KDE3. No pop up window in KDE3. KDE4 has a little pop up window THEN the Konsole opens up as root. That is different so maybe I need to set something different for it to start up and be able to connect to the GUI. I unmerged KDE3 so I can't go look and see how it was set up. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password. Does that mean you are not using the standard konsole, rather a special icon intended to open a root terminal? Must be, otherwise it wouldn't ask for the root password. Try opening a standard user konsole and just use su instead. (Or even, heaven forbid, an xterm instead of konsole.) That should detect a KDE problem if it exists. The way I did was this. The entry you have but I edited it to run as root when it is clicked on. I have a couple things that are set that way. Kbackup is set that way. It can't access some files I want to backup if it is set to run as a user. You can edit this by clicking the advanced tab in the menu editor. I also have konqueror set as my file manager and it is set to run as root. It is running on another desktop right now. It works fine. I can run Kbackup, as root, and it connects just fine. I just tried it to make sure. Since I can go to my /root directory, I know it is running as root. Weird things always happen to me. Why can't something weird like winning the lottery happen to me? lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Am Montag, 26. April 2010 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug report but I don't suppose it's very high on anyone's list. Meanwhile, is there an entry I can make in xorg.conf, or elsewhere, to force KDE to display just the single resolution, 1400 x 1050? You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run it on its native resolution, or else your display will be blurry and strain your eyes far more. However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' What do you call a dead bee? - A was. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On 27/04/2010, at 8:48 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Montag, 26. April 2010 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug report but I don't suppose it's very high on anyone's list. Meanwhile, is there an entry I can make in xorg.conf, or elsewhere, to force KDE to display just the single resolution, 1400 x 1050? You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run it on its native resolution, or else your display will be blurry and strain your eyes far more. However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' What do you call a dead bee? - A was. The best way to achieve this would be to set your resolution manually in xorg.conf, rather than using the KDE4 tool. William
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:02 +0200, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons: I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the policykit use flag, so I am not sure where to go with this. Where would I look in gconf? Take a look at /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf. # Specify which actions are displayed in the greeter. Valid values are # HALT, # REBOOT, SUSPEND, and CUSTOM_CMD separated by semicolons. SystemCommandsInMenu=HALT;REBOOT;SUSPEND;CUSTOM_CMD # Specify which actions are supported by QUERY_LOGOUT_ACTION, # SET_LOGOUT_ACTION # and SET_SAFE_LOGOUT_ACTION. Valid values are HALT, # REBOOT, SUSPEND, and # CUSTOM_CMD separated by semicolons. AllowLogoutActions=HALT;REBOOT;SUSPEND;CUSTOM_CMD You wll, of course, need to recycle xdm when you are done. -- Regards, They seem to have abolished the defaults.conf in 2.28.2, however I found a gconf key /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons and if I use gconftool-2 --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons true as the gdm user, this fixed the problem.' Thanks to all for your responses. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes
I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm having trouble keeping a stable connection. Periodically I need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the Westell modem (which is also a router although ATT won't admit it). The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'. Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and restarting the interface does? - Grant I just use the modem to login and then enable ip pass thru to my router which is a linksys running DD-WRT; http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7073 This set-up has worked well for a few years without me having to do anything. Could I get you to tell me a couple of your settings? You're doing something right if you haven't had to touch your's after setting it up. I'm trying to figure out the right connection type (or something like that) for which the options are something like Smart KeepAlive, Always Reconnect, and Connect On Demand. The other one is the IP lease timeout. It defaults to 10 minutes and I just set it to 99 days, but I don't want it to expire even after 99 days. I have a static IP but I think this is the timeout between the modem/router and the Gentoo router. I am not familiar with the modem in question, but if you are using your own router the modem should be set up in fully bridged mode and the PPPoE authentication will be managed by your Gentoo router. Your Gentoo router will also use dhcpcd (or similar) to obtain an IP address from your ISP after it authenticates on their RADIUS server. In a nut-shell: You want to set up your modem to not do NAT, or dhcp, or authentication at all, but transparently encapsulate your PPP into ATM packets and send them off to your local DSLAM. All the communication with your ISP will be managed by the router and your router will have the static IP address given to you by your ISP. The modem will only have a LAN address which you will need to set up manually on it, using its control panel. PS. I think that the modem connection type you refer to above should be Smart KeepAlive - although as I said I'm not familiar with the particular hardware. HTH. -- Regards, Mick Thanks Mick. The Westell does have an option to take PPPoE off of the device and I'd like to set that up soon. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes
I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm having trouble keeping a stable connection. Periodically I need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the Westell modem (which is also a router although ATT won't admit it). The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'. Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and restarting the interface does? - Grant I just use the modem to login and then enable ip pass thru to my router which is a linksys running DD-WRT; http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7073 This set-up has worked well for a few years without me having to do anything. Could I get you to tell me a couple of your settings? You're doing something right if you haven't had to touch your's after setting it up. I'm trying to figure out the right connection type (or something like that) for which the options are something like Smart KeepAlive, Always Reconnect, and Connect On Demand. I use Always On Are you sure that's what it's called? I don't have that option. The other one is the IP lease timeout. It defaults to 10 minutes and I just set it to 99 days, but I don't want it to expire even after 99 days. I have a static IP but I think this is the timeout between the modem/router and the Gentoo router. I have DHCP lease time once per day And you don't have to restart your network interface once per day? I seem to need to restart the nic as often as that timeout setting. Any idea why that would happen? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there is extra one in thinkpad specific acpi maybe You have something similar for Yours stuff. It's a Dell Vostro 1320. The keyboard shortcuts to change brightness were working great until I enabled DRM in the kernel. Can you tell me where in the kernel those options can be found, or part of the variable name that defines them? Try running xev and punching brightness keys, if you would see effects (some text in terminal) then its OK :P You should change the Acpi configs (etc/acpi/) or Gnome/KDE/Xfce/... bindings. I do see text in xev when pressing the brightness keys. (if You dont know it already) For acpi config You'll need event id try running acpi_listen. eg. /etc/acpi/events/sleep: event=ibm/hotkey HKEY 0080 1004 action=/etc/acpi/actions/sleep.sh and into actions you put scripts, try using xbacklight. You think I should use xbacklight or similar even though it was working on its own before? - Grant If You wouldn't have any reaction in xev and acpi_listen i check the option in kernel.
[gentoo-user] {OT} hardening SSL without rejecting users
I've been advised to harden my SSL in the following ways: 1. disable SSL 2.0 2. disable use of SSL ciphers which offer either weak or no encryption 3. disable anonymous SSL ciphers Will some website users not be able to use https if I do this? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts
On 26 Apr 2010, at 20:10, Paul Hartman wrote: 2010/4/26 fajfu...@wp.pl: Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Some from corefonts, others are probably copyrighted by microsoft. Corefonts themselves are copyrighted by Microsoft. Microsoft simply chose to release them at no charge. Stroller.
