Re: [gentoo-user] Updating menu in KDE
On Friday 06 July 2007, Mick wrote: > I am not particularly versed with the KDE desktop, but this must have > started happening recently. Until now the KDE menu would update > automatically when installing or removing applications. > > Has any one else also observed this? I have the same problem. But my KDE-menu is highly customized with my own categories and subcategories. So I thought that broken updating is happening because of this. -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE
On neděle 10 června 2007, b.n. wrote: > By the way: I am looking for a good, general Python IDE on Linux. Most > people advice Eclipse+PyDev. I tried it and it looks good, but it's damn > too memory intensive (I need to use it on an office machine with 512 K > ram, and it eats almost half of it). > > Any other suggestion? > > m. Hi, try dev-util/eric -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu
On pátek 30 března 2007, Sylvain Chouleur wrote: > I'have installed lm_sensors and run sensors-detect but after, when I run > sensors, he tell me that no sensors have been detected > IIRC you have to start lm_sensors first. /etc/init.d/lm_sensors start -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] printing within kpdf
On pátek 16 února 2007, James wrote: > Hello, > > I use to have kpdf printing with cups. Now it's broken. > Since I only print a pdf file directly form kpdf occasionally, > I'm not certain when (which emerge) it quite working.. > > > I googled and looked at bugzilla, but nothing relevant. > I re-emerged both cups and kpdf. All other printing is > fine. > > Any ideas? Hello, I've had exactly the same problem (broken printing from kpdf, all other printing was ok), but after re-emerging kpdf everything worked well again. May you should try running revdep-rebuild... -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:32, Carl Adams wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC > > 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i > > guess! Are you using the HP drivers? > > Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work. > > The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: > > 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: > AppSocket/HP JetDirect > Backend Error Handler > Internet Printing Protocol (http) > Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) > LPD/LPR Host or Printer > SCSI Printer > Serial Port #1 > Serial Port #2 >None of these seem appropriate. > Hi, make sure you have hplip running before configuring cups. Then there should appear something like hp:/ in that list. I've PSC 1610 and it works perfectly. I hope it will help, otherwise, feel free to ask :) -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig
On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:29, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Funny situation. I have ~amd64 Gentoo machine, and two slotted Qt are > installed: > > eix -e qt > [I] x11-libs/qt > Available versions: > (3) 3.3.4-r8 3.3.6-r4 (~)3.3.6-r5 > (4) 4.1.4-r2 (~)4.2.1 (~)4.2.2 > Installed versions: 3.3.6-r5(3)(03:23:16 AM 12/24/2006)(cups debug > doc examples -firebird gif -immqt -immqt-bc ipv6 mysql -nas -nis -odbc > opengl -postgres sqlite -xinerama) 4.2.2(4)(01:02:41 PM > 01/07/2007)(accessibility cups -dbus debug doc examples -firebird gif -glib > -input_devices_wacom jpeg -mng mysql -nas -nis -odbc opengl -pch png > -postgres -qt3support sqlite -sqlite3 -xinerama zlib) > > My aim was to set default font for Qt4 applications. I have tried to find > Qt4's 'qtconfig' and discovered: there is *the only* 'qtconfig' in my > system. And it is /usr/qt/3/bin/qtconfig, i.e. for Qt3 (I have scanned /usr > recursively). > > OK, I have reinstalled Qt4 - nothing changed. > > Is it for me only? Hello, I have also slotted installation of qt (3.3.6-r4 and 4.1.4-r2) on ~x86. There are two versions of qtconfig on my system : /usr/qt/3/bin/qtconfig /usr/bin/qtconfig (this belongs to qt-4.x.x) What about equery f =x11-libs/qt-4.1.4-r2 | grep qtconfig ? -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge
On Monday 11 December 2006 13:21, Cosmin Rentea wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to have in "emerge" something similar to the "-k" option > of "make" ? > > > -k, --keep-going > Continue as much as possible after an error. While the > target that failed, and those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the > other dependencies of these targets can be processed all the same. > > > It would be particularly useful when emerging "world", "system" or > multiple packages, some of which have broken ebuilds. Hello, you could find some inspiration here : http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12114&sid=f0df8f7562aae360b3bb527e5d5b7c01 and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-497125-highlight-updateworld.html I haven't tried it myself. Regards -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Random number generation
On Saturday 09 December 2006 21:07, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 19:58, Petr Uzel wrote: > > make menuconfig->Device drivers->Character devices->Hardware Random > > Number Generator Core support > > How would you know if you had such a device? Would it show up in lspci > output? > > R I don't know, because I don't use this device. I only knew where to find it in kernel configuration :) -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Random number generation
On Sunday 10 December 2006 01:37, Grant wrote: > apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest > authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while > back: > > 1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide > that but you need to enable support in the kernel. > 2. emerge apr with USE=urandom. This makes apr use /dev/urandom > instead of /dev/random. urandom isn't as strong cryptographically > speaking as random but might be good enough for your use. > 3. Disable digest authentication in the apache configuration. > 4. Use some entropy gathering daemon like sys-apps/clrngd, > media-sound/sound-entropyd or media-video/video-entropyd. > > I emerged and started clrngd and it seems to work nicely. I'd rather > use a hardware RNG if I have one. Where in the kernel should I find > RNG support? make menuconfig->Device drivers->Character devices->Hardware Random Number Generator Core support Regards -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s
Dne úterý 05 prosinec 2006 19:21 Leandro Melo de Sales napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> # date
> Tue Dec 5 10:12:01 BRT 2006
> # emerge openoffice
> { in other terminal }
> # date
> Tue Dec 5 15:24:01 BRT 2006
>
> and portage continues to compile openoffice, it didn't finished yet.
> Is it so slow or there are something wrong? My machine is a P4 (with
> HyperThreading enabled), 512Mb.
Hi,
don't worry. I have P4 HT, 2,8GHz with 1GB RAM and compilation of openoffice
took more than 7 hours :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!
Dne pátek 03 listopad 2006 20:02 Michael Sullivan napsal(a): > So how would I issue a SIGKILL? All of these should work with the same effect : kill -SIGKILL pid kill -KILL pid kill -9 pid Alternatively, you could also use killall -9 progname if you know only name of the program but not its pid. Regards, -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 endlessly
> revdep-rebuild keeps wanting to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 over and over again. Is > anyone else seeing this? I have the same problem. I ignore that and everything works well ;) -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++
Dne středa 28 červen 2006 15:51 Petr Uzel napsal(a): > Dne středa 28 červen 2006 15:04 Iain Buchanan napsal(a): > > Hi again :) > > > > I have been googling for this one for a little while, and trying various > > options, but I can't seem to find it: How do I get the process from > > within a process in c or c++? > > > > I don't want to use argv[0], because the particular place is deep within > > classes, and there are too many (I'm doing some porting) to edit all of > > their constructors, for example, to pass argv[0]. > > > > something like > > > > char *name = getpsname (pid); > > Hi, > what about directly reading /proc/pid_of_the_process/stat (may be some > other file in this directory). Now I found better solution : file /proc/self/status is a link pointing to the directory /proc/pid_of_process. And by parsing status file in this directory you should get all the informations you want. -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++
Dne středa 28 červen 2006 15:04 Iain Buchanan napsal(a): > Hi again :) > > I have been googling for this one for a little while, and trying various > options, but I can't seem to find it: How do I get the process from > within a process in c or c++? > > I don't want to use argv[0], because the particular place is deep within > classes, and there are too many (I'm doing some porting) to edit all of > their constructors, for example, to pass argv[0]. > > something like > > char *name = getpsname (pid); > Hi, what about directly reading /proc/pid_of_the_process/stat (may be some other file in this directory). -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't
Dne úterý 20 červen 2006 15:22 Michael Sullivan napsal(a): > Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael > account, root can't use GUI apps. It used to be able to before the > install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable > it. How would I go about doing that? Hi, this may help : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#suinx -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux pgppT0If4CyhB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue
Dne pondělí 05 červen 2006 19:12 Leandro Melo de Sales napsal(a): > 2006/6/5, Leandro Melo de Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, but how can I do it? > > > > 2006/6/5, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Try port knocking. It is very effective. > > > Your ssh port will be closed until you successfully hit certain number > > > of ports and even though the ssh port will be open only to the IP > > > address that successfully opened the port all others will see ssh port > > > as closed. > > > > > > -- > > > #Joseph > > > > > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 12:06 -0300, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > >today when I was checking the server log I got many external > > > > attempts to connect to my sshd service: > > > > > > > > ... > > > > Jun 5 05:09:45 embedded sshd[4740]: Invalid user barbara from > > > > x.y.w.z Jun 5 05:09:46 embedded sshd[4742]: Invalid user barb from > > > > x.y.w.z Jun 5 05:09:48 embedded sshd[4744]: Invalid user barbie from > > > > x.y.w.z Jun 5 05:09:50 embedded sshd[4746]: Invalid user barbra from > > > > x.y.w.z Jun 5 05:09:51 embedded sshd[4748]: Invalid user barman from > > > > x.y.w.z Jun 5 05:09:53 embedded sshd[4750]: Invalid user barney from > > > > x.y.w.z ... > > > > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > I mean, setup it! Hi, this should help you : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Port_Knocking Works well Petr pgph9XjZD7dRU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and console
Dne neděle 09 duben 2006 13:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): > Hi all, > I do not remember anymore which program to emerge for enabling mouse on a > console. > > emilio Hi, have you tried google? Searching for 'gentoo console mouse' will give you http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gpm.xml as the first link :) Petr pgpz1xA7ZqiHx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version
> Hi everybody. > To-day I installed kdebase using "emerge kdebase". > But the installed version was 3.4.3. > Is it right? Did not KDE reach 3.5 version? Hi, that's normal, because all kde-3.5 packages are still masked. You have to unmask them to get kde-3.5 installed. This link should help you : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4 Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
> Actually, the faster way would be to use revdep-rebuild instead of > emerge -e world (isn't this mensioned in the upgrade guide for gcc?). Yes, it is. But in addition to upgrade of gcc I have changed CFLAGS form O2 to O3 so I wanted to recompile the whole system. Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
> > wouldnt say it is possible, unless u have hibernaton enabled, which > > probably is not in your case. besides emerge --resume only resumes not > > downloaded fully files from internet to be downloaded... > > Not so. emerge --resume restarts the previous emerge process, even after > a reboot, exactly as Petr needs. > > I doubt the fact that some packages are compiled with one GCC and others > with a different one is going to cause a problem, especially as you'll > carry on with the recompiling after the reboot. Even if you don't reboot, > your system will be running with a mixture of 3.3/3.4-compiled packages > during the emerge. Ok, I'll give it a try. Thank you for quick answers. Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
Dne úterý 14 březen 2006 23:39 Petr Uzel napsal(a): > Hello everybody! > I'm currently running emerge -e world because of gcc upgrade. I would > appreciate if I can stop this emerge and continue tomorrow from where it > was stopped. > > I have two questions: > > 1) Is there any possibility to stop and later continue (after reboot) > emerge -e world without compiling every package again? OK, I can answer this myself (I hope correctly) : "pick your emerge" script or emerge --resume. I should better RTFM. > 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages > compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) With this I still need your help... :) > Thank you, Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
Hello everybody! I'm currently running emerge -e world because of gcc upgrade. I would appreciate if I can stop this emerge and continue tomorrow from where it was stopped. I have two questions: 1) Is there any possibility to stop and later continue (after reboot) emerge -e world without compiling every package again? 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) Thank you, Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call
> It's been about 4 years since I last had to do that (so no guarantees), but > If I remember correctly the data argument for NFS is not just a string. > Instead I believe that you have to do some other magic to encode the data > correctly. I would recommend looking at the source code for mount and see > what happens. IMHO it's easier to look at 'man 2 mount' : ... Values for the filesystemtype argument supported by the kernel are listed in /proc/filesystems (like "minix", "ext2", "msdos", "proc", "nfs", "iso9660" etc.). ... But I also can't help more... Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde panel hiding behind something...
> I can't get to the control center because I can't get to any menu's with > the application launchers and settings. All I can do is right-click > > run command, but I can't find a command for the control center... try 'kcontrol' Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
