Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-05-17 Thread Will Briggs
Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, Brian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavailable Could not configure driver to use managed mode ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Resource temporarily unavailable ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable WEXT auth param

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-17 Thread Neil Walker
Josh Helmer wrote: I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings that courier has some security issues. I was just curious which IMAP

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine does this for his production servers: 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel 2/ disables loadable modules completely This is probably not suitable for some use cases...(new

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-17 Thread William Kenworthy
correct, though I think its hunspell. For some reason gentoos install disables OO's native spell checker and wants to use an external one - Its performance (finding errors) sucks compared to the original but I havent had time find how to restore the original behaviour. Yesterday I found that

[gentoo-user] Can't start apache

2007-05-17 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Hi everybody I just installed apache 2.2.4-r1 on my server. When I try to start it just after it has been emerge I get this error: # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for marvin apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
Hey gang... I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings that courier has some security issues. I was just curious which IMAP server

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache

2007-05-17 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: The server obviously don't s start, but I get no error messages and I can't locate the server log (httpd.conf suggest they are located in /usr/lib/apache2/ but htere is no logs there). The default location for Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:36:47 -0500, Dale wrote: Oooops, let me rephrase that. To update the BIOS, does it have to have a OS on that stick? No. The update code is built into the hardware now, if just needs a FAT partition it can read the new firmware file from. -- Neil Bothwick I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved]

2007-05-17 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Randy Barlow skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: The server obviously don't s start, but I get no error messages and I can't locate the server log (httpd.conf suggest they are located in /usr/lib/apache2/ but htere is no logs there). The

[gentoo-user] Re: fbsplash won't!

2007-05-17 Thread Mick
No worries, media-gfx/splashutils-1.4.2 seems to have fixed this problem. On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:29, Mick wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 18:15, Mick wrote: Hi All, Just noticed that fbsplash is not shown on my VCs. dmesg shows that it starts:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved]

2007-05-17 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Johannes Skov Frandsen skrev: Randy Barlow skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: The server obviously don't s start, but I get no error messages and I can't locate the server log (httpd.conf suggest they are located in /usr/lib/apache2/ but htere

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved]

2007-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 17 May 2007, Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved]': Well not entirley happy it turns out as I can't get apache to handle php. I added '-D PHP5' to APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2 but when I restart apache i get

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved]

2007-05-17 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Did you install php before or after apache? It probably needs to be recompiled against your current version. I'm stuck with a mod_ruby that gives the same error and won't recompile right now I installed php first so you could be right about the

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved]

2007-05-17 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved] On Thursday 17 May 2007, Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Mick
Hi All, A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that Linux is also struggling to get to it:

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Elias Probst
On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote: Hi All, A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that Linux is also

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved]

2007-05-17 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Did you install php before or after apache? It probably needs to be recompiled against your current version. I'm stuck with a mod_ruby that gives the same error and won't recompile right now I installed php first so you could be

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:51, Elias Probst wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote: I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my Gentoo to recover the files on this USB? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:00:27 +0100 (BST) Joost Roeleveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings

[OT] Jakub back? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs])

2007-05-17 Thread Naga Toro
On Thursday 17 May 2007 00.17.29 Neil Bothwick wrote: Jakub is no longer a bug-wrangler, or a dev, he retired last month. Did he really? He's still jakub on bugzilla, -dev IRC. -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [OT] Jakub back? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs])

2007-05-17 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:44:41PM +0200, Naga Toro wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 00.17.29 Neil Bothwick wrote: Jakub is no longer a bug-wrangler, or a dev, he retired last month. Did he really? He's still jakub on bugzilla, -dev IRC. Jakub didn't go through with his retirement after the

[gentoo-user] OT: dhcpcd overwrites /etc/resolv.conf after CiscoVPN is started

2007-05-17 Thread Dan Johansson
I'm having some trouble with dhcpcd and CiscoVPN. This is what I do and what's happening. Computer starts and brings up eth1 (Wireless interface) dhcpcd starts and gets IP, GW, resolv.conf information (wich is correct at this time) cisco-vpnclient-starts and I get a new interface cipsec0 with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: dhcpcd overwrites /etc/resolv.conf after CiscoVPN is started

2007-05-17 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:08:00 +0200 Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble with dhcpcd and CiscoVPN. This is what I do and what's happening. Computer starts and brings up eth1 (Wireless interface) dhcpcd starts and gets IP, GW, resolv.conf information (wich is

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:36:47 -0500, Dale wrote: Oooops, let me rephrase that. To update the BIOS, does it have to have a OS on that stick? No. The update code is built into the hardware now, if just needs a FAT partition it can read the new firmware file

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: dhcpcd overwrites /etc/resolv.conf after CiscoVPN is started

2007-05-17 Thread Dan Johansson
On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:37, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:08:00 +0200 Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble with dhcpcd and CiscoVPN. This is what I do and what's happening. Computer starts and brings up eth1 (Wireless interface) dhcpcd starts

RE: [gentoo-user] My only input on the subject of circular dependencies

2007-05-17 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Dan Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My only input on the subject of circular dependencies On Thu, 17 May 2007 09:18:40 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] My only input on the subject of circular dependencies

2007-05-17 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 18 May 2007 00:15:44 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Dan Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My only input on the subject of circular

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my Gentoo to recover the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip *What* are you talking about? PDEPENDs are packages that should be emerged *after* the package in question. That A depends on B to be emerged *after* A and B depends on A to be emerged *before* B does not produce a circular dependency!

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:38:44 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, but it cannot access

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Tim Allingham
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:38 +0100, Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, At least several. I didn't find an good solution for checking the whole tree yet, so I yet know some. Good candidates are where PDEPENDs occour. For example the Xserver. As Bo has already explained, PDEPENDS cannot cause circular

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that

[gentoo-user] Re: OPenOffice broken

2007-05-17 Thread James
Rob Rutherford rlrutherford at gmail.com writes: The spell check is based on the language setting for the text in the document. Format-Character-Font Make sure the language is set correctly you probably want English (USA) . Hello Rob, That's not it, is was already set to English (USA)

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:04:21 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by running: dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512 But couldn't access it whatsoever. Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root! Right, I've got it

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Tim Allingham
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:04 +0100, Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive,

[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 17 May 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that Linux is also struggling to

[gentoo-user] Re: OPenOffice broken

2007-05-17 Thread James
Bo Ørsted Andresen bo.andresen at zlin.dk writes: You probably want app-dicts/myspell-en. Yep that was it! You should configure portage so you read those elog messages.. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=1#doc_chap4 OK, I'll look at this doc and make some

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Enrico's 'brilliant' solution is to split packages like Debian Ah, now it get interesting. The primary directive: We are not Debian, If Debian does something, Gentoo must do it completely different. *lol* snip (which again makes me

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Come on, Enrico, you KNOW you're acting like the typical mailing list troll, so, would you please unsbuscribe, shut up, or something like that? You definitely need to read HOWTO Critize (constructively). And I could use some support from the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: It *P*DEPENDs on them. That's an (strange) kind of special dependency which is pulled in *after* install, instead of *before*. But still it is an dependency. So, Xserver dependens on driver(s), drivers depend on Xserver. Circular

[gentoo-user] Labtec wireless optical usb mouse

2007-05-17 Thread James
Hello, I just got this Labtec mouse and unlike the logitech mx310 usb mouse, it does not work. lsusb shows: Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1020:000a Labtec Wireless Optical Mouse xorg.conf is configured like this: Section InputDevice Identifier USB Mouse Driver mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:10:29 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Enrico's 'brilliant' solution is to split packages like Debian Ah, now it get interesting. The primary directive: We are not Debian, If Debian does something, Gentoo must do it completely different. Nonono. It's: We are not a binary

[gentoo-user] blender python scripts

2007-05-17 Thread Chris Bare
I was impressed with how quickly blender 2.44 showed up in portage. Is there another package I need to install to get all the python scripts that go with it? I noticed in the release notes a list of import/export options that I don't see in my menus, so I think they are just not installed, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-17 Thread Grant
I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be better

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 17 May 2007, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]': Come on, Enrico, you KNOW you're acting like the typical mailing list troll, so, would you please unsbuscribe, shut

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36, Mick wrote: A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that Linux is also struggling to

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-17 Thread b.n.
Marek Miller ha scritto: I really don't know, what's happened: the system hangs every 15 minutes, most of applications don't work properly (emerge, firefox etc.) and put out Segmentation fault. Several times I catch a message on the console, but cannot read the whole thing, because of

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote: Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by running: dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512 But couldn't access it whatsoever. Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root! Right, I've got it on my hard

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: dhcpcd overwrites /etc/resolv.conf after CiscoVPN is started

2007-05-17 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Dhcpcd has an option for that, i believe it's -R. for example, on this diskless router the dhcpcd on eth1 can't rewrite resolv.conf or the netboot will fail: FROM conf.d/net: | | config_eth1=(dhcp) | dhcpcd_eth1=(-R) However, you may need to find some way to get that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/16/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:51 -0700, kashani wrote: Is it the end of another semester already[1][2]? Are we already due to be subjected to the highly dubious ideas of Mr. Weigelt sporadically over summer break? kashani 1. search for

[gentoo-user] Solved: pppconfig can't find internal modem.

2007-05-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:18:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. This is a 1999 Dell PIII that refuses to die. The PCI modem has worked in the past

[gentoo-user] Ted ebuild broken

2007-05-17 Thread Grant Edwards
Anybody have any idea what to do to fix the Ted ebuild? Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: app-editors/ted-2.12 Completed installing ted-2.12 into /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/ted-2.12/image/ /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1695:

Re: [gentoo-user] Ted ebuild broken

2007-05-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 18 May 2007 05:38:08 Grant Edwards wrote: Anybody have any idea what to do to fix the Ted ebuild? Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: app-editors/ted-2.12 Completed installing ted-2.12 into /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/ted-2.12/image/ /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh:

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] On Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2007,