[gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-13 Thread Randy Barlow
Howdy all! I'm new to ppc but not new to Gentoo. I just picked up an old G3 Blue and White for $20 to play around with, and I'm just starting to install Gentoo. I'm noticing that my hard drive seems to be showing up as hdc and the cdrom as hda in the install cd environment. Is this

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-13 Thread Nathan Smith
Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy all! I'm new to ppc but not new to Gentoo. I just picked up an old G3 Blue and White for $20 to play around with, and I'm just starting to install Gentoo. I'm noticing that my hard drive seems to be showing up as hdc and the cdrom as hda in the install cd

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-13 Thread Randy Barlow
On Saturday 13 January 2007 13:10, Nathan Smith wrote: I just finished installing Gentoo on a BlueWhite, so I can offer some advice. Don't trouble yourself at first with the hardware (which bus the HD is plugged in to, jumpers, etc.) Just install Gentoo to /dev/hdc. Now once you boot into

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help networking two machines.

2007-01-13 Thread Dale
Thomas Lingefelt wrote: Dale wrote: I stole this from here: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/firewall_disabling.html If its iptables then this should work... iptables -F iptables -t nat -F iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT Sorry

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help networking two machines.

2007-01-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
Dale wrote: I ran those commands and it now works fine. I can ssh and everything. When I run /etc/init.d/iptables save, where does it save those too? I want to save the rules I had, just in case. I thought it was in /var somewhere but I can't find it. - It is defined in

[gentoo-user] unable to merge courier-authlib-0.58

2007-01-13 Thread John covici
Hi. I got the following error when trying to merge courier-authlib: I start after the download Unpacking source... * The dev-tcltk/expect package is not installed. * Without it, you will not be able to change system login passwords. * However non-system authentication modules (LDAP,

[gentoo-user] Slightly OT

2007-01-13 Thread Kellystewart00
I am wanting to rip all of my dvd's onto an external drive but whenever i mount my dvd drive (hdc) it shows it as a dvd. However when i open the folder there are no folders displayed as if it is a blank disk yet kaffine will still allow me to play the dvd. Has anyone encountered this or had any

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

2007-01-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:12:57 +0100, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: As root: # scanimage --list-devices No scanners were identified. [...] # sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner [...] found USB scanner [...] As normal user: $ scanimage

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

2007-01-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:49:16 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: Is there a way of finding out whether I have packages installed on my system from a given overlay? I am asking because I noticed that some of the packages I've installed (such as GoogleEarth) from overlays had been incorporated

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT

2007-01-13 Thread b.n.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I am wanting to rip all of my dvd's onto an external drive but whenever i mount my dvd drive (hdc) it shows it as a dvd. However when i open the folder there are no folders displayed as if it is a blank disk yet kaffine will still allow me to play the dvd.

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 January 2007 22:15, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, b.n. wrote: Well, you can disable router firewalling and firewalling your box, why not? Actually, that's the most sensible thing to do. I think I was confused and said nonsense. The box having a private IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

2007-01-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Adrian wrote: I call it strange magic. I had the same problems, Windows keys didn't work and CTR-ALT-F1 would not switch to a VT . . . David said, if I'm reading this right, he had to take nodeadkeys out. Well, I didn't have that options, I added it, and now it works fine.

[gentoo-user] error emerging acpiasus4

2007-01-13 Thread Bayrouni
Hello all, I have this error when trying to emerge app-laptop/acpi4asus. I am using the linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r6 kernel (source installed). Thank you for anay help. emerge app-laptop/acpi4asus: [SNIP] ... * Found sources for kernel version: * 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 Unpacking source...

Re: [gentoo-user] bug in usermod, full name of options doesn't work

2007-01-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Goal: add gottlieb to group scanner. It seems that -aG works but --append --groups doesn't Please try attached patch. I'll report this bug upstream, mentioning that you found it. Benno diff -ur cvs-shadow/src/usermod.c shadow/src/usermod.c --- cvs-shadow/src/usermod.c

[gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm fed up with this. I've restarted the emerge of gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box four times now. It always gets to compiling insn-attrtab.o and then it never stops. I even went into the Makefile to find the exact command used to compile this particular object file and ran the command manually.

Re: [gentoo-user] bug in usermod, full name of options doesn't work

2007-01-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:13:18 +0100 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Goal: add gottlieb to group scanner. It seems that -aG works but --append --groups doesn't Please try attached patch. I'll report this bug upstream, mentioning that you found it. Thanks,

[gentoo-user] seamonkey opens dozens of really empty windows and blocks

2007-01-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, my seamonkey suddenly opened dozens of really empty windows (no content, no title) w/ a fiew px size only and now blocks. Does anyone have an idea where this problem might come from ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt==

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

2007-01-13 Thread Adrian
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:47:16 +0100 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Adrian wrote: I call it strange magic. I had the same problems, Windows keys didn't work and CTR-ALT-F1 would not switch to a VT . . . David said, if I'm reading this right, he had to take

[gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto Martinez
Well, I've done research and found nothing, except that it happens only on gentoo ... It appears that any mozilla product segfaults on my gentoo box both binary and from source. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. At first i thought it was mozilla-launcher :

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey opens dozens of really empty windows and blocks

2007-01-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/14/07, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my seamonkey suddenly opened dozens of really empty windows (no content, no title) w/ a fiew px size only and now blocks. Does anyone have an idea where this problem might come from ? FIrefox did it a while back for me too, had the current

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've done research and found nothing, except that it happens only on gentoo ... It appears that any mozilla product segfaults on my gentoo box both binary and from source. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. At first i thought it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems

2007-01-13 Thread chrissie
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:20:18AM +0100, chrissie wrote: If i launch gnome-volume-control, i get the following message: gnome-volume-control: symbol lookup error: gnome-volume-control: undefined symbol: __gst_debug_min I already searched the web, re-emerged gstreamer, gstreamer-oss,

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread James
Michael Sullivan michael at espersunited.com writes: Is there some other way for me to get gcc-4 on my server box? Some binary package for an i586 maybe? Hello Michael, A few weeks ago (in December) there was an announcement (gentoo newsletter) about a livecd just for i586 machines. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto Martinez
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:18:29 -0600, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've done research and found nothing, except that it happens only on gentoo ... It appears that any mozilla product segfaults on my gentoo box both

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread Randy Barlow
On Saturday 13 January 2007 09:42, Michael Sullivan wrote: This strace doesn't help me much. What does attached mean, anyway? I don't know what the problem is, but I can tell you that strace attaches to a process meaning that it begins to watch the process to see what system calls it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

2007-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:31:33PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: I use the attached script to look for packages installed from overlay where the same version is available in portage. Run it with the -v option to see a diff between the two ebuilds, otherwise it just reports names.

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey opens dozens of really empty windows and blocks

2007-01-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 13 January 2007 16:32, Enrico Weigelt wrote: my seamonkey suddenly opened dozens of really empty windows (no content, no title) w/ a fiew px size only and now blocks. Which version do you have? -- Bo Andresen pgpc6sJGZmFak.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: managing 802.11a/b/g

2007-01-13 Thread James
»Q« boxcars at gmx.net writes: Hopefully you can get it working because frankly there's not even a close second on Linux for doing what it does. I read caillon's blog, and I've been excited about NetworkManager since I saw it announced there. I'm still too chicken to install it on a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 13 January 2007 15:42, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm fed up with this. I've restarted the emerge of gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box four times now. It always gets to compiling insn-attrtab.o and then it never stops. Telling us what file it stopped at isn't helpfull at all. Showing us

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I--] [ ~] www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.52-r1 (0) See how you get on with 1.56, 1.52 is at least 3 months old now, and ive not seen any issues myself with 1.56. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:29:09 -0500 Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2007 09:42, Michael Sullivan wrote: This strace doesn't help me much. What does attached mean, anyway? I don't know what the problem is, but I can tell you that strace attaches to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

2007-01-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:30:44 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:31:33PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: LOL! I use the attached script to look for packages installed from overlay where the same version is available in portage. Run it with the -v option to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: managing 802.11a/b/g

2007-01-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:33:02 + (UTC), James wrote: This is a little bit much for me to undertake. I'll have to wait until NetManager is in testing... Do drop me a line if you find an overlay, or such that a (gentoo) user can install. or another, less feature rich alternaitve.

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Mick wrote: That's how I have set up mine. The Netgear [ADSL modem/NAT router/SPI firewall (statefull packet inspection)] box does its tricks, inc. acting as a DHCP, DNS server and gateway for the boxen on the LAN, while each LAN machine has an additional layer of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread John Blinka
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm fed up with this. I've restarted the emerge of gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box four times now. It always gets to compiling insn-attrtab.o and then it never stops. I even went into the Makefile to find the exact command used to compile this particular object file and

[gentoo-user] [Xen] How to set or bring up vif interfaces?

2007-01-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution kernel. I got the FC5 isos. I made a file /etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg (see attached) But

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-13 Thread Bruno Espinoza
Why don't try the binaries that Mozilla offer in his web page?? (At http://www.mozilla.com) 2007/1/11, Roberto Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I've done research and found nothing, except that it happens only on gentoo ... It appears that any mozilla product segfaults on my gentoo box both

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 06:34 -0600, Roberto Martinez wrote: Well, I've done research and found nothing, except that it happens only on gentoo ... It appears that any mozilla product segfaults on my gentoo box both binary and from source. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. ... this sort

[gentoo-user] Re: managing 802.11a/b/g

2007-01-13 Thread james
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: You may fond that it was masked for a good reason, or you may find that it works fine for you. Check /usr/portage/profile/package.mask for the reason for masking. In this case it simply says masked for testing, which I tend to take as an invitation

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 22:42 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Mick wrote: That's how I have set up mine. The Netgear [ADSL modem/NAT router/SPI firewall (statefull packet inspection)] box does its tricks, inc. acting as a DHCP, DNS server and gateway for the boxen on

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting hashes from MSWindows SAM files

2007-01-13 Thread Ali Polatel
* Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All, Do you know if Gentoo offers any tool(s) to extract the hash numbers from MSWindows SAM files? I am thinking of the Linux equivalent of e.g. pwdump.exe I need the hashes to be able to run john: == # john sam No password

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread PaulNM
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm fed up with this. I've restarted the emerge of gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box four times now. It always gets to compiling insn-attrtab.o and then it never stops. I even went into the Makefile to find the exact command used to compile this particular object file and