Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread John Nilsson
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 05:58, D. Wollmann wrote: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 21:49, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:17:58 + > > > > Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > |>(si

Re: [gentoo-user] SMP working or not?

2003-02-06 Thread Joe Stone
hi! On Friday 07 February 2003 03:59, Eric Miller wrote: > I have SMP enabled in my kernel config, but how can I > tell if the system is taking advantage of SMP? is > there a cat /proc/tellmeifmyshitsworking or soemthing > like that? 1. top . CPU0 states: 6.2% user, 3.4% system, 0.0% n

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE>GNOME cross compat. desktop?

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Klipec
Alan wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:02:01PM -0800, Eric Miller wrote: Define "compatible" :) You can run gnome and kde software under any window manager/desktop (ie: fvwm, icewm, e, etc), as long as you have the libraries installed. You won't get the extras like the panels, desktop icons, et

Re: [gentoo-user] [Off Topic] running X at nice -10

2003-02-06 Thread Volker Hemmann
On Thursday 06 February 2003 18:01, Martyn Welch wrote: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 3:59 pm, John Nilsson wrote: > > Thu guy has a small point though, it was just a matter of time before > > the topic came up. gentoo-user is close to 100 mails/day which is very > > high traffic and can consume q

[gentoo-user] Q on mouse in XDirectFB and X 42.99

2003-02-06 Thread Mitch
Just got Xdirectfb up and going with fluxbox, and it's cool. Runs on IBM T20 with vesa drivers, and transparency is very cool on it. I also have XFree 4.2.99 installed, and it seems that the XDirectfb is using the mouse from XFree. The tansparensy of XFREE doesnt like the framebuffer, and so my mo

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread D. Wollmann
On Thursday 06 February 2003 21:49, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:17:58 + > > Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > |>(sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE>GNOME cross compat. desktop?

2003-02-06 Thread Alan
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:16:40PM -0700, Kent Jantz wrote: > Yes, you can. I'm running Pan(Gnome app) under KDE 3.1, I also ran Krusader(KDE >app) under Blackbox. > > Kent > > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 20:04:23 -0800 > Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:02:01PM -0

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mouse

2003-02-06 Thread Alan Nilsson
on 2/06/03 7:28 PM, Aquarion at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a working XFree install, and am so far impressed with Gentoo in > general. I am, however, stumped on one point. How do I get my USB mouse > working? Check these out: http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/c122.html http://www.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE>GNOME cross compat. desktop?

2003-02-06 Thread Kent Jantz
Yes, you can. I'm running Pan(Gnome app) under KDE 3.1, I also ran Krusader(KDE app) under Blackbox. Kent On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 20:04:23 -0800 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:02:01PM -0800, Eric Miller wrote: > > Is there a desktop environment that is compatable wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-06 Thread Ing. Bernardo Lopez
here is one mine!!: cd /home/myuser/ rm -fr / (instead of *) hehehe i trashed my /bin before the rm comand stoped by himself... i was in lucky day... i had a copy of /bin... but... well rm -fr / sucks!!! On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:20, Alan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Fre

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE>GNOME cross compat. desktop?

2003-02-06 Thread Alan
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:02:01PM -0800, Eric Miller wrote: > Is there a desktop environment that is compatable with > KDE and GNOME software? (or close to that?) Define "compatible" :) You can run gnome and kde software under any window manager/desktop (ie: fvwm, icewm, e, etc), as long as you

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:17:58 + Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |>(sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think > |>Redhat gives you a /var/log/boot.log.. does Gentoo have an > |equiva

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mouse

2003-02-06 Thread Jim Nutt
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 03:28:45 + Aquarion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a working XFree install, and am so far impressed with Gentoo > in general. I am, however, stumped on one point. How do I get my USB > mouse working? I use /dev/input/mice. That handles hotplugging, etc. -- jim nutt

Re: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations

2003-02-06 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:49:20 -0500 "brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > VIA is a mess - I don't buy boards with VIA chipsets. > I have read a number of times that older VIA chipsets were problematic. My new motherboard (AAZZA, probably not the reference standard for motherboards) wor

[gentoo-user] USB Mouse

2003-02-06 Thread Aquarion
I've got a working XFree install, and am so far impressed with Gentoo in general. I am, however, stumped on one point. How do I get my USB mouse working? -- Aquarion -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE>GNOME cross compat. desktop?

2003-02-06 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
Whoops, didn't reply to the list again. As I understand it if an app needs KDE stuff you merge it and it brings in all the baggage it needs. Then xfce/Gnome/whoever runs it. I don't know of any others but there probably are. I haven't used KDE since 2.2.1 and tried Gnome briefly. I now use x

[gentoo-user] KDE>GNOME cross compat. desktop?

2003-02-06 Thread Eric Miller
Is there a desktop environment that is compatable with KDE and GNOME software? (or close to that?) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] SMP working or not?

2003-02-06 Thread Eric Miller
I have SMP enabled in my kernel config, but how can I tell if the system is taking advantage of SMP? is there a cat /proc/tellmeifmyshitsworking or soemthing like that? Are there any SMP tools (packages with SMP commands) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! M

[gentoo-user] Q for how to reinstall whole system

2003-02-06 Thread Mitch
Hi all, I've been playing around with using different use settings and installed and removed plenty of packages. (installed KDE3.1, didnt like it, removed it, but forgot to remove KDE from use settings, and emerged something else etc etc) Is there a way to reinstall everything I have right now b

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-06 Thread Kent Jantz
There's a nice little thread about this over on the Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=17076&highlight=mistakes Thanks, Kent On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:20:49 -0800 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Fred Van Andel wrote: > > I can top t

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with upgrade

2003-02-06 Thread Brett Campbell
take a close look and emerge will warn you that /etc needs updating... something along the lines of `emerg --help config` ... you know, `find /etc -iname '._cfg_*'` hate that fine print ;-P best of luck, Brett On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:12:20PM -0800, Ajay Sharma wrote: > > So, for all of

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-06 Thread Brett Campbell
yeah.. this one isn't too bad either, but i'm new to the field... i had just been hired, and working on a backup script that used `slay` to kick users off the system... yea, this machine had a huge uptime and was running nis, qmail, bind, etc etc.. i had never even seen it boot before, as i 'inh

Re: [gentoo-user] Smoothwall

2003-02-06 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:57 am, Cal Evans wrote: > Anyone using Smoothwall w/Gentoo? > > I'm currently using gShield but I need to implement FreeSwan and having a > devil of a time. (Actually, the tunnel is created but no packets go forth.) > So I'm looking for options and Smoothwall support

[gentoo-user] via-rhine network performance (or lack thereoff)

2003-02-06 Thread Henk Abma
Hello, Last week I set up a machine I intend to become our home server machine. It contains an AsRock motherboard with via kt266 chipset and a built-in network controler that identifies as a via-rhine II. Downloading to this computer via ftp or smb works ok, with smb performing at 2.5 megabyte

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with upgrade

2003-02-06 Thread Ajay Sharma
> So, for all of you.. if things start to work weirdly (or simply not > work) after an upgrade of some sort through emerge, have a look at > unchanged files due to config_protect. Could happen to anyone, > specially to people new to gentoo's unique features (there's nothing > like this in slackware

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Alexander Futasz
On 06 Feb 2003 23:16:24 +, Mike Williams wrote: > At the end of every install/update emerge will tell you if there are > any config files to update, *UPDATE THEM*! The tool to do so was moved > into portage for this very reason. you should put the name too. although emerge will tell you the na

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with upgrade

2003-02-06 Thread Bruno Lustosa
* Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-02-2003 20:42]: > Yesterday night, I was using linux, all was fine. I did a emerge sync > and a emerge -up world, and it said it would be upgrading a few > packages, including gcc among others. > I also did an emerge glibc, to recompile it from scratch. All w

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and updates

2003-02-06 Thread Greg
> Shame there is no explanation to why though. Guess it's because of the > freeze. > This was mentioned back in October, see: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20021020-stabletest.xml Greg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-06 Thread Magnus Lie Hetland
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Well, ok, maybe not, I have three similar horror stories. Here is one that happened to me -- not incapacitating, but it surprised me a bit (this was when I still ran Red Hat); it was caused by me pausing to think after writing rpm the first time... rpm rpm -e

[gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-06 Thread Alan
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Fred Van Andel wrote: > I can top that. > > Last Friday instead of typing >chown -R staff.staff * > >from the /pub directory, I did it from the root directory > and changed the ownership of every file on the system. > > Needless to say nothing worked

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:03, Andy Arbon wrote: > I did my updates today, which I believe included baselayout and > everything seems to have gone a bit weird. The first time I rebooted I > got an error message and the boot stopped and dropped me into emergency > maintenence mode telling me to recrea

Re: [gentoo-user] what are the default permissions for /tmp

2003-02-06 Thread Fred Van Andel
mikecola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (02/06/2003 14:30) >i did a rather stoopid thing last night whilst tired. came home from work, >noticed my computer had frozen (its a hardware issue i already know about >thats causing it so no real problem in that) so i reset the power, and >reboot.. th

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Andy Arbon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |>(sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think |>Redhat gives you a /var/log/boot.log.. does Gentoo have an equivalent?) | dmesg | Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not quite what I was after... Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread herzog
>>On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andy Arbon wrote: > (sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think > Redhat gives you a /var/log/boot.log.. does Gentoo have an equivalent?) dmesg -- Larry Herzog Jr."Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain ZRXOA #1029

[gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Andy Arbon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I did my updates today, which I believe included baselayout and everything seems to have gone a bit weird. The first time I rebooted I got an error message and the boot stopped and dropped me into emergency maintenence mode telling me to recrea

Re: [gentoo-user] what are the default permissions for /tmp

2003-02-06 Thread mikecola
Thanks very much mikecola On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1777 > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, mikecola wrote: > > i did a rather stoopid thing last night whilst tired. came home from > > work, noticed my computer had frozen (its a hardware issue i already know > > about thats cau

Re: [gentoo-user] what are the default permissions for /tmp

2003-02-06 Thread herzog
1777 On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, mikecola wrote: > i did a rather stoopid thing last night whilst tired. came home from work, > noticed my computer had frozen (its a hardware issue i already know about > thats causing it so no real problem in that) so i reset the power, and > reboot.. then

[gentoo-user] Please help with upgrade

2003-02-06 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hello, people. Yesterday night, I was using linux, all was fine. I did a emerge sync and a emerge -up world, and it said it would be upgrading a few packages, including gcc among others. I also did an emerge glibc, to recompile it from scratch. All went well, no problems at all. Today, I shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] Still having problems with X, Su, reboot/shutdown,and logins

2003-02-06 Thread Susie
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:20:30 -0800 Balaji Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem. The way i fixed it was to add the user into a > particular group. I forget which group it was though (I dont have > access to my gentoo machine at work), but if you look at /etc/group it > mig

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and updates

2003-02-06 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:21:03PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Take another look at the ebuild. The package is masked for x86. > > KEYWORDS="~x86 -ppc -sparc -alpha" > Ah, didn't know that packages could be masked inside the ebuild also. Shame there is no explanation to why though. Guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing gcc-2 after gcc-3, keeping both

2003-02-06 Thread Bobby R. Cox
Hello, Gentoo now has the gcc-config tool that does this. Go to the gentoo site and view the News letter for 13 Jan 2003. This has a little tutorial that will walk you through the process of setting it up. Good Luck and I hope this helped :) On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:32:07PM +0100, Olaf

[gentoo-user] what are the default permissions for /tmp

2003-02-06 Thread mikecola
i did a rather stoopid thing last night whilst tired. came home from work, noticed my computer had frozen (its a hardware issue i already know about thats causing it so no real problem in that) so i reset the power, and reboot.. then when i log in kde tells me /tmp is full and bootsme back t

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and updates

2003-02-06 Thread douggorley
Take another look at the ebuild. The package is masked for x86. KEYWORDS="~x86 -ppc -sparc -alpha" Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Fredrik Jagenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 6, 2003 2:16 pm Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage and updates > Can

[gentoo-user] Portage and updates

2003-02-06 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
Can someone help me what I'm missing? I have rar-3.0 installed. I see that rar-3.11 is available for download, so naturally I rsync. Still, there are no rar 3.11 available for update. So I look in /usr/portage/app-arch/rar to check if I can help out making an ebuild for it and share it on bugzill

[gentoo-user] Winex fails

2003-02-06 Thread Nicholas Hockey
Winex fails compolation on this maching everytime at this same point, i tried emerge -C winex && emerge winex and it still errors out, it appears to be perl related, but i donot want to emerge perl again (i have a loathing of perl but it is needed by some programs i use frequently) i'm running

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-r3 gibbled my fonts

2003-02-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 06 February 2003 22:17, gabriel wrote: > On February 6, 2003 03:27 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > Try either freetype-2.1.3 or unzipping all .pcf.gz fonts. > > i alread had freetype 2.1.2-r2 installed and 2.1.3 is masked. as for > unzipping all .pcf.gz files... isn't that a bit drastic?

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-r3 gibbled my fonts

2003-02-06 Thread gabriel
On February 6, 2003 03:27 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Try either freetype-2.1.3 or unzipping all .pcf.gz fonts. i alread had freetype 2.1.2-r2 installed and 2.1.3 is masked. as for unzipping all .pcf.gz files... isn't that a bit drastic? i'm afraid of doing it since i have no idea how to get r

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding Network Module

2003-02-06 Thread brett holcomb
No, modules are in /lib/modules/`uname -r` where `uname -r` is the version of kernel - i.e. 2.4.19 . On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:49:46 -0800 (PST) Eric Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: modules, and sure eough there are no modules in: /usr/lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net so I copy those two modules

RE: [gentoo-user] Help finding Network Module

2003-02-06 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 19:49, Eric Miller wrote: > when I reboot to gentoo and do modprobe, it finds no > modules, and sure eough there are no modules in: > > /usr/lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net > > so I copy those two modules from the CD to my gentoo > system, and they wont work because they we

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding Network Module

2003-02-06 Thread Joe Stone
hello ! what say's less /proc/pci is there a perhaps Davicom NIC ? > lsmod shows two NIC modules: > > dmfe (not used) > 8390 on IRQ17 there's a 8390.c & 8390.h file in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net (linux-2.4.19-openmosix-r8) some text out of 8390.c: This is the chip-specific code

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading advice

2003-02-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 06 February 2003 19:56, M. Robert Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to upgrade my dual PIII to a dual Athlon over the weekend. > Does anyone have experience and/or advice of the best way to go about > this? For example, my make.conf is configured for the PIII; should I go > back to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols after Kernel compile

2003-02-06 Thread D. Wollmann
On Thursday 06 February 2003 12:45, Balaji Srinivasan wrote: > Did you copy the generated System.map to the /boot directory as > System.map-2.4.19-2? > The kernel and the modules utilities use this information > Balaji Balaji, If you follow the gentoo mount configuration recommendations, /boot is

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-r3 gibbled my fonts

2003-02-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 06 February 2003 15:16, gabriel wrote: > i compiled qt-r3 last night in my emerge --update --deep world and now many > of my fonts in kde are messed up. konsole is using a fixt-width > courrier-like font (NOT like it was before) and kate is using a font that's > completely unreadable.

Re: [gentoo-user] intermezzo

2003-02-06 Thread Anthony de Boer
wes chow wrote: > Does anybody have any experience/comments about the Intermezzo file > system? How stable is it? Yes. Unfortunately, it's not very stable at all. Still very alpha-quality. Best alternative: emerge unison. -- Anthony de Boer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Help finding Network Module

2003-02-06 Thread Eric Miller
--- Balaji Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boot up with the gentoo CD and then bring up the eth > interface. Then run > lsmod > (hopefully that should be included with the CD > image) > Balaji > lsmod shows two NIC modules: dmfe(not used) 8390on IRQ17 when I reboot to gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] Still having problems with X, Su, reboot/shutdo wn, and logins

2003-02-06 Thread Brice B
> And if you post your root password and ip address to the newsgroup, then > EVERYONE will be able to su > > Seriously, the way to resolve a security/access problem is not to disable > security. At least, outside Redmond it isn't. Although it can be useful > in troubleshooting, which may have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.0 spash screen with KDE 3.1

2003-02-06 Thread Ajay Sharma
When I was having problems with KDE 3.1, I noticed that I was getting the 3.0 splashscreen as well. I unmerged 3.0.5a and after that my problems were solved (and I got the updated splash screen). later, ajay On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Stephen Boulet wrote: > I have both kde 3.0 and 3.1 installed. M

[gentoo-user] kdebase compile error

2003-02-06 Thread gabor
when compiling kdebase-3.1-r1, i got this: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/portage-tmp/portage/kdebase-3.1-r1/work/kdebase-3.1/doc/khelpcenter/faq' /usr/kde/3.1/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook index.docbook:1: validity error: Element acronym is not declared in trade

Re: [gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols after Kernel compile

2003-02-06 Thread Christian Herzyk
Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 20:09 schrieb Pat Double: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This normally means you are using modules not compiled for the kernel > you're running. Normally modules are placed into /lib/modules/. > I would suggest moving /lib/modules/kernel to some

Re: [gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols after Kernel compile

2003-02-06 Thread Christian Herzyk
Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 19:50 schrieb Fanie Smith: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 20:43, Christian Herzyk wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I compiled a new kernel (gentoo sources 2.4.19-r10) some days ago, with > > only slight changes to my former config. > > My system is running fine with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols after Kernel compile

2003-02-06 Thread Christian Herzyk
Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 19:45 schrieb Balaji Srinivasan: > Did you copy the generated System.map to the /boot directory as > System.map-2.4.19-2? > The kernel and the modules utilities use this information Hi Balaji, yes I did that and the end of the name is the same as with the actual ker

[gentoo-user] Installing gcc-2 after gcc-3, keeping both

2003-02-06 Thread Olaf Trygve Berglihn
I'd like to install an older versjon of gcc and the libs. Can I emerge this directly? I suspect I have to do something with the ebuild script to make it go into a different slot - in that case how do I go about? Any help would be appreciated. -- Olaf Trygve Berglihn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Still having problems with X, Su, reboot/shutdo wn, and logins

2003-02-06 Thread AJ Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On February 6, 2003 06:14 am, Brice B wrote: > The reason a user must be in the "wheel" group in order to use "su" on a > gentoo system can be found in: > /etc/pam.d/su > > There is a line stating: > auth required /lib/security/pam_whee

Re: [gentoo-user] Still having problems with X, Su, reboot/shutdo wn, and logins

2003-02-06 Thread Brice B
The reason a user must be in the "wheel" group in order to use "su" on a gentoo system can be found in: /etc/pam.d/su There is a line stating: auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so use_uid If you comment out that line, all users (regardless of their group) will be able to u

Re: [gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols after Kernel compile

2003-02-06 Thread Pat Double
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This normally means you are using modules not compiled for the kernel you're running. Normally modules are placed into /lib/modules/. I would suggest moving /lib/modules/kernel to somewhere else and see if everything works and the errors go away. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols after Kernel compile

2003-02-06 Thread Fanie Smith
On Thursday 06 February 2003 20:43, Christian Herzyk wrote: > Hello all, > > I compiled a new kernel (gentoo sources 2.4.19-r10) some days ago, with > only slight changes to my former config. > My system is running fine with the new kernel. > Now I ran a modules-update and it reports lots of unreso

RE: [gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols after Kernel compile

2003-02-06 Thread Balaji Srinivasan
Did you copy the generated System.map to the /boot directory as System.map-2.4.19-2? The kernel and the modules utilities use this information Balaji -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols after Kernel compile

2003-02-06 Thread Christian Herzyk
Hello all, I compiled a new kernel (gentoo sources 2.4.19-r10) some days ago, with only slight changes to my former config. My system is running fine with the new kernel. Now I ran a modules-update and it reports lots of unresolved symbols: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/kernel/d

[gentoo-user] Upgrading advice

2003-02-06 Thread M. Robert Martin
Hi, I'm planning to upgrade my dual PIII to a dual Athlon over the weekend. Does anyone have experience and/or advice of the best way to go about this? For example, my make.conf is configured for the PIII; should I go back to something more generic and do an emerge -u world, or can I pretty much

Re: [gentoo-user] Still having problems with X, Su,reboot/shutdo wn, and logins

2003-02-06 Thread brett holcomb
Normally those who need to su need to be in the wheel group. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:20:30 -0800 Balaji Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had the same problem. The way i fixed it was to add the user into a particular group. I forget which group it was though (I dont have access to my gen

RE: [gentoo-user] Still having problems with X, Su, reboot/shutdown, and logins

2003-02-06 Thread Balaji Srinivasan
I had the same problem. The way i fixed it was to add the user into a particular group. I forget which group it was though (I dont have access to my gentoo machine at work), but if you look at /etc/group it might be obvious. Balaji -Original Message- From: Susie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.0 spash screen with KDE 3.1

2003-02-06 Thread Balaji Srinivasan
Did you try editing rc.conf? There is a variable in there that specifies which environment u want to use Balaji -Original Message- From: Stefan Wimmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:53 AM To: Gentoo Users Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.0 spash screen with

RE: [gentoo-user] Help finding Network Module

2003-02-06 Thread Balaji Srinivasan
Boot up with the gentoo CD and then bring up the eth interface. Then run lsmod (hopefully that should be included with the CD image) Balaji -Original Message- From: Eric Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] strange cool problem with evolution - mozilla !!!!

2003-02-06 Thread Spundun Bhatt
Hi Gentoo-user this is a very funny problem. Just wondering if anybody else is seeing the same thing I start evolution and then start mozilla.Now when mozilla has focus, if I do alt-tab to go to evolution, the evolution window will blink forward for a fraction of a second and then it will again hi

[gentoo-user] Help finding Network Module

2003-02-06 Thread Eric Miller
Hello all! Just finished my 2nd Gentoo on a dual PIII 450! However, I am using a Philips NIC that is not easily matched up (by name)with a module in /lib/modules/*/drivers/network I know the NIC is supported, becasue the Gentoo CD supported it even without a modprobe. So, how can I find out wha

Re: [gentoo-user] running X at nice -10

2003-02-06 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 13:47, gabor wrote: > and now back to the topic: > IS GIVING A HIGHER PRIORITY TO X A GOOD IDEA OR NOT ? I can't say whether it is, or not. But, I can say that I already do. Doesn't really seem to make any real difference tho, but I never really had a problem before (or the

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles

2003-02-06 Thread Ewan Mac Mahon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:08:40AM +0100, Robert Arroyo wrote: > > YMMV, but I almost never need to reemerge anything, so I do rm * in > > /usr/portage/distfiles and rm -r * in /var/tmp/portage after any round > > of updates. It's worked for me for several years now. > > > And what about doing /va

[gentoo-user] Konqueror 3.1.0 crashes when exiting...

2003-02-06 Thread Jorge Schramm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, since I've updated to KDE 3.1.0 Konqueror crashes when I close the window. This happens only if the Bookmark Toolbar is displayed. Turning it off makes Konqueror work. As the backtace displays the error coming from Qt's destructor of QMainWi

RE: [gentoo-user] Smoothwall

2003-02-06 Thread Cal Evans
I'm an idiot...SHOREWALL, not smoothwall. * Cal Evans * Stay plugged into your audience. * http://www.christianperformer.com -Original Message- From: AJ Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Smooth

Re: [gentoo-user] Smoothwall

2003-02-06 Thread AJ Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On February 6, 2003 09:57 am, Cal Evans wrote: > Anyone using Smoothwall w/Gentoo? > > I'm currently using gShield but I need to implement FreeSwan and having a > devil of a time. (Actually, the tunnel is created but no packets go forth.) > So I'm look

[gentoo-user] gentoo-user-allow-subscribe-js=leogic.com@gentoo.org

2003-02-06 Thread Jorge Schramm
Use the leogic.com address ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-r3 gibbled my fonts

2003-02-06 Thread Jorge Schramm
On Thursday 06 February 2003 15:16, gabriel wrote: > i compiled qt-r3 last night in my emerge --update --deep world and now many > of my fonts in kde are messed up. I compiled this morning and I have the same problem :-( > konsole is using a fixt-width courrier-like font (NOT like it was before) I

[gentoo-user] LVM: gentoo hangs during boot. HELP!!!

2003-02-06 Thread Mailing List
Dear all, I'm trying to use LVM + ReiserFS under gentoo 1.4_rc2. The installation ends fine. I had create a volume group named diskvg and a lot of logical volumes (rootlv, usrlv, varlv, homelv). In the kernel (gentoo-2.4.19-r10) I set built-in the following options: - LVM support - ramdisk suppor

Re: [gentoo-user] [Off Topic] running X at nice -10

2003-02-06 Thread Martyn Welch
On Thursday 06 February 2003 3:59 pm, John Nilsson wrote: > Thu guy has a small point though, it was just a matter of time before > the topic came up. gentoo-user is close to 100 mails/day which is very > high traffic and can consume quite a lot of time if you read all. So i > suppose something can

[gentoo-user] Smoothwall

2003-02-06 Thread Cal Evans
Anyone using Smoothwall w/Gentoo? I'm currently using gShield but I need to implement FreeSwan and having a devil of a time. (Actually, the tunnel is created but no packets go forth.) So I'm looking for options and Smoothwall supports IPSec and Squid. (My 2 requirements) It's masked right now but

Re: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations

2003-02-06 Thread brett holcomb
Okay. I understand now. I thought it was for the graphics cards. VIA is a mess - I don't buy boards with VIA chipsets. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:47:23 -0500 Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:19, brett holcomb wrote: Do you mean Nvidia's chips? If so the

Re: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations

2003-02-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:19, brett holcomb wrote: > Do you mean Nvidia's chips? If so they, like others (ATI) > are not "fully" open source as part of the driver package > is binary. I was refering to the nForce chipset based mother boards. I'm not blaming Nvidia one bit. I believe they h

Re: [gentoo-user] running X at nice -10

2003-02-06 Thread Ted Ozolins
Felix Rodriguez wrote: The only stupid question is the one you don't ask. Exactly! During my time in the Canadian military, if you messed up or showed total lack of knowledge in any field, you could bet your boots that you would be giving the next course on whatever that may be. In a sens

Re: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations

2003-02-06 Thread brett holcomb
Do you mean Nvidia's chips? If so they, like others (ATI) are not "fully" open source as part of the driver package is binary. Once can't blame them if they want to keep part of thier special informaton secret. However, what difference does it make - at least for Nvidia? The have provided

Re: [gentoo-user] running X at nice -10

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Gantner
Quoting gabor from Feb 6 > and now back to the topic: > IS GIVING A HIGHER PRIORITY TO X A GOOD IDEA OR NOT ? AFAIK RedHat 8.0 does it per default, together with their "jiffies" kernel hack makes the system much more responsive. My guess is they needed to do that in order to run their GnoDE

[gentoo-user] emerge -u world is dorking up my install, please help!

2003-02-06 Thread Eric Miller
This is my second Gentoo install, first one was built from scratch from stage 1 without error on a Celeron 733, X, KDE, everything perfect. This one is on a dual PIII, and I am on my fifth install and its still not working. - First time, built from Stage 1. Got some errors so decided to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Off Topic] running X at nice -10

2003-02-06 Thread John Nilsson
I am willing to call myself one of the "power users", alas there are still areas I know nothing about. None the less I enjoy reading and answering "newbie" threads as they always give me a hint of another way of doing things. Thu guy has a small point though, it was just a matter of time before th

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.0 spash screen with KDE 3.1

2003-02-06 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/Feb/2003 - 08:54:09 : > I have both kde 3.0 and 3.1 installed. My ".xinitrc" fle has: > >rm -rf .kde.backup >exec /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde > > in it. When I type "startx", the splashscreen for kde 3.0 boots up, but the > background and ic

Re: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations

2003-02-06 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Thursday 06 February 2003 13:47, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Thanks, all, for your input. I got some boards to check out but what I was > really after were comments on the nForce chipset boards. Ive just upgraded this gentoo desktop to an asus a7n8x, using nforce2. I am very happy so far. > I hea

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix 2.0.3 over 1.11

2003-02-06 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
I am glad things worked out for you. I upgraded my machine as I suggested and had absolutely no trouble. I suspect the directory problem you encountered was likely due to upgrading while postfix was running. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: "Henk Abma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[

Re: [gentoo-user] Erm, newbie help, please.

2003-02-06 Thread Adam Bultman
I didn't copy-and-paste, so likely it's my re-typing of things while reading from the console. Checking... Yeah, it's an Oh, not a Zero. Sorry. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ www.glaven.org ] On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:06:41 -0500 (EST) > Adam Bultman

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with quotas and pwlib

2003-02-06 Thread Alexei G. Malinin
Carl Hudkins wrote: >On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:53, Alexei G. Malinin wrote: > > > >>Today I had upgraded my gentoo box to stable, but qoutas did not work. >>And and "emerge pwlib" does not work. >> >> >>I have such packages as: >> >>sys-apps/quota >>sys-kernel/crypto-sources >>sys-kernel/l

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with quotas and pwlib

2003-02-06 Thread Carl Hudkins
On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:53, Alexei G. Malinin wrote: > Today I had upgraded my gentoo box to stable, but qoutas did not work. > And and "emerge pwlib" does not work. > > > I have such packages as: > > sys-apps/quota > sys-kernel/crypto-sources > sys-kernel/linux-headers You did no

Re: [gentoo-user] kdesktop & klauncher error

2003-02-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
> > > Could not start process > > > unable to create 10-slave: klauncher said:unknown protocol 'file' > > > > > > So the main menu contains no apps or programs. The menu was full > > > before the -r1 update. Should I reemerge the -r1s again or unmerge > > > them? > > > > same error here! > > Soluti

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.0 spash screen with KDE 3.1

2003-02-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
I have both kde 3.0 and 3.1 installed. My ".xinitrc" fle has: rm -rf .kde.backup exec /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde in it. When I type "startx", the splashscreen for kde 3.0 boots up, but the background and icons for kde 3.1 show up, and nothing in the desktop is functional (no mime-types fou

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