Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdesktop fails

2007-06-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 19 Juni 2007 07:02 schrieb Abhay Kedia: On Sunday 17 Jun 2007 4:06:05 pm dexter wrote: I was advised to upgrade to newest gcc - I did, and I also have the latest binutils avaluable in the portage. None of those thing helped. I'm quite stuck - I've installed gentoo on several

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-06-19 Thread Robert Welz
Am 11.06.2007 um 09:53 schrieb Alexander Skwar: Robert Welz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 04.04.2007 um 06:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)? Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre colors scattered

[gentoo-user] Compile something with debugging information

2007-06-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. All of a sudden, I'm having problems with the Postfix installation on my server. smtpd dies with a Signal 11. To debug this, I'd like to build postfix again, but this time portage should not strip the binaries and it should be compiled with debugging information compiled in (ie. with -g).

[gentoo-user] hacking an ebuild

2007-06-19 Thread James
Hello, The devs seems to be busy. Also, I should have learn this some time ago anyway. There is a existing ebuild for JFFNMS, but, it is masked for amd64. Is there a guide I can follow to use an x86 ebuild and create an amd64 derivative ebuild? Since it uses php and other high level software, I

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-user dropping mails again?

2007-06-19 Thread James
Michael Sullivan michael at espersunited.com writes: two emails I sent to this list in the last couple of days did not arrive in my inbox - or on gmane. Is gentoo-user loosing mails again? Has anybody else seen this problem? I sent another email in shortly after I sent my email in

Re: [gentoo-user] hacking an ebuild

2007-06-19 Thread Galevsky
I advise you to read the dev howto at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoodev Gal' 2007/6/19, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, The devs seems to be busy. Also, I should have learn this some time ago anyway. There is a existing ebuild for JFFNMS, but, it is masked for amd64. Is

[gentoo-user] Re: Compile something with debugging information

2007-06-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ingrid wrote: All of a sudden, I'm having problems with the Postfix installation on my server. smtpd dies with a Signal 11. To debug this, I'd like to build postfix again, but this time portage should not strip the binaries and it should be compiled with debugging information compiled in

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile something with debugging information

2007-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello. All of a sudden, I'm having problems with the Postfix installation on my server. smtpd dies with a Signal 11. To debug this, I'd like to build postfix again, but this time portage should not strip the binaries and it should be compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] hacking an ebuild

2007-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, James wrote: Hello, The devs seems to be busy. Also, I should have learn this some time ago anyway. There is a existing ebuild for JFFNMS, but, it is masked for amd64. Is there a guide I can follow to use an x86 ebuild and create an amd64 derivative ebuild? Since it

[gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
Hey, for a few days now I'm unable to log in to my PC[0] with a normal user (root works just fine). The following error is printed: /bin/zsh: Permission denied The same happens when I try it with a user that has /bin/bash as the default shell. The permissions for both files are:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Jan-Hendrik Zab escribió: Hey, for a few days now I'm unable to log in to my PC[0] with a normal user (root works just fine). The following error is printed: /bin/zsh: Permission denied The same happens when I try it with a user that has /bin/bash as the default shell. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:53:44 +0200 Jan-Hendrik Zab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, for a few days now I'm unable to log in to my PC[0] with a normal user (root works just fine). The following error is printed: /bin/zsh: Permission denied - noexec partition (unlikely, since

[gentoo-user] Grub/Boot font problems

2007-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On an install I'm trying to get working when grub comes up I get no screen. It's just black. If I hit enter the machine starts booting fine. Once it starts booing the first line or two looks good but then the fonts become messed up and pretty much unreadable. It stays this way I get to

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub/Boot font problems

2007-06-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:50:17 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On an install I'm trying to get working when grub comes up I get no screen. It's just black. If I hit enter the machine starts booting fine. Probably a misbehavin' VGA BIOS. I guess you're using grub in text mode?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compile something with debugging information

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
To debug this, I'd like to build postfix again, but this time portage should not strip the binaries and it should be compiled with debugging information compiled in (ie. with -g). How would I do that? There is a good howto which explains building packages with debug information and

[gentoo-user] skype again

2007-06-19 Thread Matthew R. Lee
Right I've got skype installed and working, sort of. If I launch it from the start menu it asks me for my password, which I enter, It then say database error and refuses to logon. I've contacted skype, they suggested the following: We suggest you delete ~/.Skype/shared.xml and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:20:31 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - noexec partition (unlikely, since more or less nothing would work), or - PAM getting angry, maybe because your /etc/shells doesn't contain the shells? If it's none of these, check the system log. PAM should

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build glib.

2007-06-19 Thread Mike Diehl
On Monday 18 June 2007 11:17:23 pm Zac Medico wrote: Mike Diehl wrote: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5/work/glib-1.2.10' Making all in . make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5/work/glib-1.2.10' /bin/sh ./libtool

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, Did you try to fsck the / fs? -- Sig. should be separated with -- , not --. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:58:17 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to fsck the / fs? Yes, I did. There were no problems at all. -- Sig. should be separated with -- , not --. Claws appends that automatically ('-- ') and it's not only the right string but also displayed

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:39:19 +0200 Jan-Hendrik Zab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The permissions of /bin seem to be okay: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-19 14:53 bin/ Hm, and / ? I think PAM is alright, the log messages you posted indicate that a session _was_ opened, so it

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 schrieb Jan-Hendrik Zab: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:58:17 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to fsck the / fs? Yes, I did. There were no problems at all. Would have been too easy :-) Claws appends that automatically ('-- ') and it's not only

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub/Boot font problems

2007-06-19 Thread Mark Shields
On 6/19/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On an install I'm trying to get working when grub comes up I get no screen. It's just black. If I hit enter the machine starts booting fine. Once it starts booing the first line or two looks good but then the fonts become messed up and

[gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Thierry de Coulon
Hello, I've managed to emerge the gentoo base, X and KDE and all are running fine. My last problem is sound. After several attemps (with the kernel ALSA module and ALSA-driver), I've got my SB Live correctly loaded with ALSA Driver - at least there is no error message. I didn't load any module

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:34:15 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The permissions of /bin seem to be okay: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-19 14:53 bin/ Hm, and / ? I think PAM is alright, the log messages you posted indicate that a session _was_ opened, so it

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, My friend had a problem, similar to yours. He could not login as normal user. In his system something happened and the permission of /usr/bin /bin and in some other directories changed to dr-x-- Restoring their permissions to drwxr-xr-x sovled his problem. I do not know, this could

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 12:27:10 Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: 'strace -f su - jonsnow': [pid 4117] execve(/bin/zsh, [-su], [/* 6 vars */]) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) Note that the trace clearly shows that /bin/zsh isn't returning an error code (in which case pid 4117 would immediately die)

Re: [gentoo-user] SELinux change from 2005.1 to 2006.1 policy update fails

2007-06-19 Thread Mick
On Monday 18 June 2007 20:38, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mick) writes: On Sunday 17 June 2007 12:22, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I tried upgrading from the 2005.1 to the 2006.1 profile. Updating selinux-base-policy-20070329 fails with the

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Elias Probst
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 19:20:22 Thierry de Coulon wrote: Everything has been compiled with the arts and oggvorbis flags, and I did an emerge -e word to ensure everything had been compiled with the actual flags. What am I missing? Thierry IMHO aRts isn't necessary any longer since there is

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 10:50:22 pm Thierry de Coulon wrote: What am I missing? Try logging out of KDE and get into a virtual console session. From there try to play a sound file using alsaplayer or play command may be? That will clear out any doubts of aRts playing spoil sport. If you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:17:57 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] According to http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man2/execve.2.html EACCES is only returned by this function for a few reasons: 1) Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix of filename

Re: [gentoo-user] skype again

2007-06-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory to something else. This database error sometimes occur when Skype does not shutdown cleanly. -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] skype again [solved]

2007-06-19 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 15:04, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory to something else. This database error sometimes occur when

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 14:03:20 Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: I really dislike this problem :D /me agrees. My locally installed man page doesn't provide any other explanations for that return code, so I'm still betting it's one of those things. However, someone more skilled than I might be able to

[gentoo-user] Way to sync emails with SynCE?

2007-06-19 Thread Roman Naumann
Hi, I can already sync contacts (although raki crashes if I attempt to sync the contacts), tasks and appointments since yesterday. The main reason of installing SynCE was to sync my emails, however, I can't find an option in the configuration menu of raki. Google's just giving me dozens of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: On my system: $ ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 664 2007-06-11 20:27 / That's due to the ZSH settings/command. So, we are sure that /bin/zsh is not being run from a chrooted environment or something? - -- Arturo

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Roy Wright
Thierry de Coulon wrote: Hello, However, I have no sound... What am I missing? While not gentoo specific, this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems has some good sound debugging info that helped me set up a kubuntu system. I did try most of the commands on

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:30:39 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My locally installed man page doesn't provide any other explanations for that return code, so I'm still betting it's one of those things. However, someone more skilled than I might be able to spend some time

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail cutting too late (was: Can't login with a normal user)

2007-06-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 schrieb Jan-Hendrik Zab: O_o Dunno why it should be different in KMail? Hmm, maybe it's confused because of the two separators. It cuts off after the second one, KMail by design cuts at the last separator instead of the first. Attached is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and saving pictures

2007-06-19 Thread Randy Barlow
Dale wrote: Anybody know if it uses a external program to save pics with and what it is? I don't use Seamonkey, but one way you might determine the answer to this question is by using strace on it to see if it is calling any external programs or just system calls. You should also be able to

[gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Nick
Hi there, I'm planning to set my mother up with a very simple gentoo box, with only what she needs etc. Ideally it should require almost no interaction from me, and just keep itself working and secure. So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a cron job,

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Joshua Doll
Nick wrote: Hi there, I'm planning to set my mother up with a very simple gentoo box, with only what she needs etc. Ideally it should require almost no interaction from me, and just keep itself working and secure. So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 17:18:45 Nick wrote: So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a cron job, perhaps once a week. I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I should watch out for / consider when running these maintenance tools from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 17:26:15 Joshua Doll wrote: Nick wrote: I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I should watch out for / consider when running these maintenance tools from a cron job? Oh, and I forgot to mention it in my other direct reply: You'll probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compile something with debugging information

2007-06-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:56 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Ingrid wrote: All of a sudden, I'm having problems with the Postfix installation on my server. smtpd dies with a Signal 11. To debug this, I'd like to build postfix again, but this time portage should not strip the binaries

Re: [gentoo-user] Way to sync emails with SynCE?

2007-06-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 21:49 +0200, Roman Naumann wrote: Hi, [snip] Does anyone know a way to sync emails between Kontact and a pocket pc? WM2003 or WM2005? Probably not, in either case ;) There are some synce ebuilds in synce svn (which you can get from layman) which you might want to look

[gentoo-user] hplip and hp-check

2007-06-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have a network attached HP officejet 7310. It works fine with cups as a printer but I cannot get it reognized for scanning. The officejet has address 192.168.1.50 on our private network. I have named it ss (for south salem, our home town) Running hp-check produced several errors (full output