Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:36:44 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 schrieb ext Stroller: A Google seems to suggest that mount: No buffer space available is commonly returned when the device is already mounted. I also found (with Google) one forum

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

2007-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 23. November 2007 schrieb ext Rumen Yotov: Using 'sux' with no problems so far How does this explain why I have $DISPLAY set _correctly_ after using _normal_ su? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:15:48 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: In this case, the discs are fine, as are the drives. The drives mount fine in Fedora and read these particular discs fine (music CD's). You don't mount audio CDs. -- Neil Bothwick Procrastinate now! signature.asc Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

2007-11-23 Thread Thufir
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:47:46 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Besides what you were told already (sync portage to see 1.2.5), you can see above that rails is slotted. So as long as you don't explicitly emerge it, it will keep the 1.1 and 1.2 slots separate and will only update within each of

[gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:36:44 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: I also found (with Google) one forum posting where it was stated that the cause was a bad, self-burned disk in the drive. When the poster changed the disk, the problem disapeared. In this case, the discs are fine, as are the drives.

[gentoo-user] new box working well: 2 small problems

2007-11-23 Thread Philip Webb
My new machine is working well thanks again for various advice (see earlier msgs for details of hardware etc). I set up LVM had to enable a few things in the kernel, but the only real obstacle was the graphics chip -- Intel on the mobo -- , whose driver is simply not ready yet, so I bought an

Re: [gentoo-user] static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-23 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
thanks very much! ill give it a try 2007/11/23, Alberto Avi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i have to admit i totally guessed the 10.0.0.255 value Hi Rafael, ipcalc is you friend ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ipcalc 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 Address: 10.0.0.1 1010...

[gentoo-user] Finely tuning access permissions (in Samba)

2007-11-23 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to setup access permissions for a Samba file server and have so far done this much; chmod -R ug+rwxs,o-r+x /data The three MS Windows users on the server (george, viki cad) can all create files and delete their own, but cannot delete a file that they have not created

[gentoo-user] emerge v gem for rails

2007-11-23 Thread Thufir
I'm running into some error messages from rails when running script/ generate controller foo and am wondering if it's related to package management, a mismatch between gems and emerge. Do not use gems, use emerge? The wiki is incorrect? The gentoo wiki, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_RoR, says

[gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-23 Thread reader
Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have to admit i totally guessed the 10.0.0.255 value should this work? are all the values listed here correct and/or necessary? You won't need to stipulate brdcast address in my own experience. I'm not sure you even need to list the netmask but

Re: [gentoo-user] libsoup-2.2.103 access violation - xmlrpc in php

2007-11-23 Thread derrickdb1
I have worked around the problem. I unmerged php as it seems that the error was caused by something in the xmlrpc for php. After doing so, I emerged libsoup and then emerged php again. -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] While doing a simple emerge

[gentoo-user] libsoup-2.2.103 access violation

2007-11-23 Thread derrickdb1
While doing a simple emerge world update, an access violation on libsoup-2.2.103 happens. It looks like it finishes the compile, but fails to continue with the install. Source compiled. --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE =

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb device not accepting address x, error -71

2007-11-23 Thread pk
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:07:35 +0100, pk wrote: How did you configure this kernel? By using an old .config with make oldconfig or doing it from scratch? By using an old .config and doing an make oldconfig. After this: make menuconfig and going over the setup to see if I

[gentoo-user] SATA messages

2007-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, gentoo-users, what about these msgs in dmesg? I get some repetitions of this block: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] BBC claim on low numbers of Linux visitors

2007-11-23 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 November 2007, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Although off-topic this should be of interest to most of us (since it is potentially discriminatory against Linux users) and particularly to those of us who visit the BBC website. If you live in the UK you may have one more reason to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

2007-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:55:33 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Using 'sux' with no problems so far How does this explain why I have $DISPLAY set _correctly_ after using _normal_ su? Hmm, so do I. I hadn't noticed because I have su aliased to sux, but calling su directly now leaves $DISPLAY

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:11:06 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:15:48 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: In this case, the discs are fine, as are the drives. The drives mount fine in Fedora and read these particular discs fine (music CD's). You don't mount

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA messages

2007-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I use sata_via, should I disable it and use sata_ahci instead? I read somewhere that newer VIA-SATA-controllers use AHCI, don't know if mine is newer. Maybe I just compile another kernel with only AHCI-support to try that. Doesn't boot with sata_ahci only,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

2007-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:12:00 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: That worked fine, thank you. What's meant by slotted? I would think that it would universally be preferable for emerge to replace old versions with new. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xmlpart=2chap=1#doc_chap4

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

2007-11-23 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 November 2007, dexter wrote: Mick pisze: Thanks Stroller, On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote: On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote: ... My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to- newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it

[gentoo-user] static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-23 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello, i intend to do a basic static network set up. My goal is to set up the following: ip:10.0.0.1 netmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 10.0.0.2 guiding myself with the gentoo handbook i clumsily edited the /etc/conf.d/net file leaving it like this config_eth0=( 10.0.0.1 netmask

Re: [gentoo-user] static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-23 Thread Alberto Avi
i have to admit i totally guessed the 10.0.0.255 value Hi Rafael, ipcalc is you friend ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ipcalc 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 Address: 10.0.0.1 1010... 0001 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 = 24 ... Wildcard:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

2007-11-23 Thread Billy Holmes
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: No difference with su -. I don't have any line in root's *rc files which set the DISPLAY. $ set | grep XAUTH $ su - # set | grep XAUTH notice, they will be different. It boils down to security. you can do it two ways. $ su - # export