Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-22 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:11:13PM -0800, Mike Noble wrote: The DNS domainname has nothing to do with NIS. It is actually suggested that DNS and NIS should not be the same. So setting dnsdomainname would/should not have any effect on NIS. Yes but if it's not set, then /etc/init.d/domainname

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 06:39:13PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: oot # /etc/init.d/ypbind start * Setting NIS domainname to mydomain.com... [ ok ] * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * ypbind was not started. You're right, it looks like something to do with your rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:34:35PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: # epm -q ypbind yp-tools ypbind-1.17.2-r1 yp-tools-2.8 [... contents of ypbind files ...] All of that looks OK (exactly like what I'm running, in fact). I wonder if you've got some kind of circular dependency with domainname?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: That's odd on my side: # /etc/init.d/domainname status * status: stopped Aha, I think this is our bogeyman. You need to convince the system that domainname is started, somehow. -- aside explaining /etc/conf.d/domainname -- If

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:37:44PM -0800, Grant wrote: That might be true for YOU but not necessarily for everyone else. If it's true for me, it's almost definitely true for others, and that's a problem. It doesn't need to be true for everyone else to be a problem. Mind giving us a URL so

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:12:06AM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: I can do a number of workarounds, like adding a line like: /bin/domainname mydomain.com within the start body of ypbind and deleting domainname from the dependencies list. Actually it works this way but I really hate to do such

[gentoo-user] 2.6 + nvidia problems

2004-02-04 Thread N. Owen Gunden
Hello- ARCH = ~x86 kernel = gentoo-sources-2.6.1-r1 linux-headers = 2.6.0 nptl-enabled quirk = have tried using udev and switched back to devfs because of problems Ever since I introduced the aforementioned quirk I haven't been able to probe in my nvidia module. Attempting to do so results in:

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 + nvidia problems

2004-02-04 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:57:27PM -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: I had the same problem today, with the same kernel. It turns out those missing symbols are because of the kernel version - there's a patch to add in some code so you can recompile, but I recommend upgrading to a newer kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailmna python error

2004-01-27 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:18:58PM +, Yorkshire Dave wrote: since a few days, i have this errors: [...] I had the same problem. I don't know if this is a good fix but here's my fix. There are 4 paths.py files [...] Please file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org so the rest of us can benefit

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 safe to use despite oops?

2004-01-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:35:10PM -0700, Collin Starkweather wrote: I'm getting a kernel oops from gentoo-sources kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5. I have submitted a bug with lots of detail at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38648 I believe this is another incarnation of this bug:

Re: [gentoo-user] uptime, top segfaults?

2004-01-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:21:51PM -0800, Eric Paynter wrote: Um, help? I just upgraded kernel from gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3 to -r5... I tried to emerge procps (which should rebuild those binaries) with no luck... Any ideas? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38208 -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-30 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:05:23AM -0600, Brendan Sullivan wrote: emerge wine i have it working perfectly, albeit a tiny bit on the slow side in menu's Indeed, it's a bit slow at times, even with a decent machine (Athlon XP 1800+, 768 MB ram, geforce 2 ti). I *don't* advise moving to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine StarCraft

2003-12-30 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:35:39PM -0600, Brendan Sullivan wrote: not sure it will help with the sound issue, but make sure you have these two lines at the bottom of your config file. [AppDefaults\\starcraft.exe\\x11drv] DXGrab = Y Below is the x11drv part of my config, which works to play

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL

2003-12-30 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:55:05AM +, Ani Adarsh wrote: thanks .. got it now i got problems with nvidia-glx ... nvidia-glx does not work i had to switch to xfree opengl interface and my DRI is gone .. :( I had to re-emerge nvidia-glx. - O -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-19 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:04:03PM +0100, Dennis Freise wrote: Sorry to disappoint you, but I think he's not clever enough to read that mail... or maybe to 1337 (...) :-) I take offense at the discrimination against people who speak 1337. That's just a feature of hacker/gamer/megatokyo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quote from distrowatch weekl...

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:50:35PM -0500, Brian Downey wrote: I actually use Gentoo on a majority of my servers. Some of them bigger than others, and a few that are at least over a year old. For me, security is paramount to stability. It's a tough call to make, but what good is a stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:27:03PM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: The only thing I wonder about is if I can expect gentoo being still available in a year (so to speak). There are too many smart people who think it's the best linux available for it to just vaporize without a trace. If / when

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap blocks bastille?

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:38:06PM -0600, Reno Romanin wrote: why would that happen? and is there a way aound it? Bastille depends on mailx, which in turn depends on a virtual/mta which is bringing in courier (the real deal, not just courier-imap). The courier package blocks with any

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:13:53AM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:07 pm, N. Owen Gunden wrote: As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I read somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Normal user read/write to hard disk.

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:01:31AM +, Dane Elwell wrote: xerxes root # gvim /etc/fstab xerxes root # umount /mnt/storage xerxes root # mount /mnt/storage xerxes root # exit logout [EMAIL PROTECTED] omicron $ mkdir /mnt/storage/test mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/storage/test':

Re: [gentoo-user] php4

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:08:56PM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: Could this be why I cannot get postgres, php, apache and eestock to play nicely? How can I change this at compile time, or can I? emerge mod_php -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing inside of Gentoo

2003-12-16 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:15:43PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: reading yet, but was wondering if there are tools that can both resize and move existing partitions while they are potentially in use? GNU Parted is a pretty amazing partition editing tool. I'm fairly certain it does *not* allow you

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-16 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:38:18AM -0500, N. Owen Gunden wrote: I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing now include: - The nvidia kernel module doesn't work (freezes during initialization) - wine segfaults - mplayer segfaults Note that I did

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-16 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:52:49AM -0500, Craig Cavanaugh wrote: Out of curiosity, is GLX still operational with NPTL enabled. I completely rebuild my system from scratch without NPTL in order to get operational. The source of the problem may have been elsewhere, but I believe that there is

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:52:56AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: This method worked for me perfectly over the weekend, although I re-emerged everything as I changed my cflags too... Are you using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86? Can you tell me your exact versions of glibc, gcc, and kernel? Thanks, Owen --

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:30:18AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: * sys-libs/glibc Latest version available: 2.3.3_pre20031212 Latest version installed: 2.3.2-r9 * sys-devel/gcc Latest version available: 3.3.2-r4 Latest version installed: 3.3.2-r3 *

[gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-14 Thread N. Owen Gunden
I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing performance enhancement. As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I read somewhere that I should use GCC 3.3 (I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-14 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:07:15PM -0500, N. Owen Gunden wrote: As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing

Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc over ssh

2003-12-10 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:34:36PM +0100, Oliver Lange wrote: Does anyone know how to use ssh in a way that ~/.bashrc is executed at logon ? Currently, I need to start a bash right after logging in, then must enter 'exit' twice to log off.. man bash read the section INVOCATION It will take

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo users] Printing problems...follow

2003-12-10 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:16:23PM +0100, Primero.Franz wrote: Now i've tried installing hpijs 1.5 (instead of 1.4.1 i had before) and things are getting stranger and stranger. Now the printing starts, the Media tray empty! message is always present, but the printing is simply white ...

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-09 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:16:05PM -0800, Dennis Allison wrote: If the r9' kernels are 'redhat 9' derived, [...] No, it has nothing to do with that. It just means it's the 9th revision that gentoo has released of that kernel version. Basically, they just added one more patch to deal with the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-09 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:53:22AM +0100, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Good to know that I'm not the only one... Since it sounds like there are a lot of problems with r9, it would be a good idea to file a few bugs so that they get fixed. eh? - O -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r1 and reiser

2003-12-09 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:51:23AM +0100, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I treid gentoo-sources 2.4.22-r1 today because of my ongoing problems with 2.4.20-r9, but it is unreasonably slow on reiser internal tree checks. Does anyone else have this problem? This may be related: