Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]: Hi folks, After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data. K3b gives me a error saying the file is to large. I did

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:24:20 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data. K3b gives me a error saying the file

[gentoo-user] Strange problems

2008-07-04 Thread dell core2duo
Hi all, 3-4 days back i did a world emerge. First i wanted to do a update only but instead a did a world emerge with --emptytree option. Everything gone quite smoothly. Then i did a module-reubuild. Then a reboot. Everything was fine till now. But after login i noticed one thing, typing

[gentoo-user] f-prot

2008-07-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, guys For several days now I'm getting an error [1] from vixie-cron while it is trying to execute /opt/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl Does anyone know what's this all about? [1] The error quoted: Server error on remote machine. Fatal error. Exiting... -- Best regards, Daniel --

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:05:45 +0300 Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it means your archive is too big for the media disk you. Should be: I believe it means your archive is too big for the media disk you are trying to use. My apologies. -- Best regards, Daniel --

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]: Hi folks, After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data. K3b gives me a error saying the

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Sebastian Günther wrote: * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]: Hi folks, After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data. K3b gives me a error

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Dale: After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping.  I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files.  I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data.  K3b gives me a error saying the file is to large. Is that the exact error

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: Then there might be a common folder for all users in a specific group as a simple way of sharing files. These shall be accessible by every user in the group but by none else, so for the user phil_fl and the group users: chown phil_fl:users;

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Dale: After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data. K3b gives me a error saying the file is to large.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: You can later add permissions for other users or groups by using ACLs, see man pages of setfacl and getfacl. ...given that you have compiled your filesystem modules with ACL support. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:18:54 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Should be: I believe it means your archive is too big for the media disk you are trying to use. If you want to be really pedantic, it should be media disc :) When CDs were introduced, Philips reverted to the correct spelling of disc.

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01:01 -0500, Dale wrote: I put the debug stuff in the reply to Sebastian's email. From the way I understood the error, it could not handle a file larger than 2Gbs. May be reading it wrong tho. That's right, why do you think the files on video DVDs come in 1GB chunks.

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01:01 -0500, Dale wrote: I put the debug stuff in the reply to Sebastian's email. From the way I understood the error, it could not handle a file larger than 2Gbs. May be reading it wrong tho. That's right, why do you think the files on

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done My knowledge of bash is

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:49:45 -0700 (PDT) Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have 4 GB of ram and a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500. I compiled the kernel as follows: Processor family   Core 2/newer Xeon Subarchitecture Type   PC-compatible High Memory Support   Off All my remaining

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-04 Thread Gordon Schulz
On 7/3/08, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:24:49PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? That is how I found FF2, and why I initially switched to Galeon. But when Firefox-3.0-r2 came out I

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 11:20]: On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Recheck your grub.conf. Maybe you have the wrong root parameter and/or path to the kernel image. Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: intentionally broken media

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You first need to check whether you may sue someone at all if you are not the Verbraucherzentrale. Well, depends on from which side you want to attack: a) competition law violation: you have to be a competitor or represent an reasonably large

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-04 Thread Graham Murray
Jason Messerschmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've noticed an odd visual glitch with blogspot pages- it superimposes my desktop on some pages. It's a bit hard to explain so here's a pic. As far as I know it's only this page, but might be good fodder for some of you troubleshooters out there.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdd2wav is directly writing to the audio device ? IMHO not good idea: you're bound to the devices cdda2wav supports, requires it to be ported to each single audio interface you want to use (not just

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sebastian Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery list cdr * installed packages [I--] [ ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.2 (0) [I--] [ ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.6 (0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # To be faster than Jörg: He will advise you to unmerge cdrkit and merge cdrtools, but

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did set it to write to the DVD. The tarball is about 4Gbs or so. It should fit on the DVD with no problems. I tried a lot of different settings tho. Still no joy. I don't think that file will fit on a CD. LOL As this is an extension to what the basic

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 04 July 2008, Dale wrote: Sebastian Günther wrote: * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]: Hi folks, After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01:01 -0500, Dale wrote: I put the debug stuff in the reply to Sebastian's email. From the way I understood the error, it could not handle a file larger than 2Gbs. May be reading it wrong tho. That's right, why do you think

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:11:01 +0200 Sebastian Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 11:20]: On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Recheck your grub.conf. Maybe you have the wrong root parameter and/or path to the kernel image. Sebastian Huh, how

[gentoo-user] CD ROMs that doesn't play audio, take 2.

2008-07-04 Thread Yoav Luft
Since the original discussion had strayed from the technical problem of a CDROMs that myself and others cannot use them to play audio to a discussion about the licensing of one software or another, I am forced to fork the thread as I really would like to get my CDROM fully operational. On Fri,

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:12:49 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: If you need features implemented during the past 3 years, you cannot use the fork, _need_ to use the official software. I needed to write 4GB files to DVDs up until three years ago. I no longer need to do this, hence I was unaware that

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-04 Thread John covici
on Friday 07/04/2008 Joerg Schilling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdd2wav is directly writing to the audio device ? IMHO not good idea: you're bound to the devices cdda2wav supports, requires

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/7/4, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not sure who is maintaining cdrtools for gentoo, but any chance of getting alpha44 into the gentoo repository? According to ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ cdrtools-2.01.01a42 is the latest version and cdrtools-2.01.01a41 is in the tree. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] f-prot

2008-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 July 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys For several days now I'm getting an error [1] from vixie-cron while it is trying to execute /opt/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl Does anyone know what's this all about? [1] The error quoted: Server error on remote machine. Fatal

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: You want to set the setgid bit on the containing directory and chgrp that directory to the group involved. Argh, of course! I even read this stuff up this morning but I overlooked the paragraph! In all likely-hood you will want to set the

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did set it to write to the DVD. The tarball is about 4Gbs or so. It should fit on the DVD with no problems. I tried a lot of different settings tho. Still no joy. I don't think that file will fit on a CD. LOL As this is

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As this is an extension to what the basic compatibility mode allows, you of course need to _allow_ mkisofs to write files larger than 4 GB. See the mkisofs man page -- you need iso-level 3 or 4. Jörg I did try level 3 and still no joy. Also

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As this is an extension to what the basic compatibility mode allows, you of course need to _allow_ mkisofs to write files larger than 4 GB. See the mkisofs man page -- you need iso-level 3 or 4. Jörg I did try level 3

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:24:52 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: You want to set the setgid bit on the containing directory and chgrp that directory to the group involved. Argh, of course! I even read this stuff up this morning

[gentoo-user] iFolder server...

2008-07-04 Thread Steve
Has anyone else played with iFolder on Gentoo? I followed these links: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_iFolder http://www.ifolder.com/index.php/HowTos http://www.ifolder.com/index.php/HowTo:Building_iFolder_Enterprise_Server_on_Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As this is an extension to what the basic compatibility mode allows, you of course need to _allow_ mkisofs to write files larger than 4 GB. See the mkisofs man page -- you need iso-level 3 or 4. Jörg I did try level 3

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now some other thoughts. I got it burned and k3b even played the successfully burned tune for me. When I insert the DVD, it opens in a new window but shows no files on the DVD. Now what? The files are just under 1Gb in size. This is a strong hint that you

[gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I'm trying to install firefox-bin on a new (to me) machine. pango-1.20.3 is a depenency that, unfortunately fails to build: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -Wall -o .libs/pangox-view viewer-render.o viewer-x.o viewer-main.o viewer-pangox.o pangox-view.o

Re: [gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 July 04 Friday 01:02:39 PM -0230, Roger Mason wrote: /usr/lib/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' Did you try revdep-rebuild, or even just remerging cairo? Justin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now some other thoughts. I got it burned and k3b even played the successfully burned tune for me. When I insert the DVD, it opens in a new window but shows no files on the DVD. Now what? The files are just under 1Gb in size.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that every user has his own primary group (as it is default), this is sufficient for my needs. Hmmm. That gives permissions: rw-rw on every single new file created by every single

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that every user has his own primary group (as it is default), this is sufficient for my needs. Hmmm. That

Re: [gentoo-user] f-prot

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys For several days now I'm getting an error [1] from vixie-cron while it is trying to execute /opt/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl Does anyone know what's this all about? [1] The error quoted: Server error on remote machine. Fatal error. Exiting... I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that every user has his own primary group (as it is

[gentoo-user] pommed ebuild fails

2008-07-04 Thread brullo nulla
Compiling pommed 1.20 on a Macbook Pro: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -lrt -ldbus-1 -lasound -laudiofile -lm -lconfuse -lpci -lzpommed.o cd_eject.o evdev.o conffile.o audio.o evloop.o dbus.o power.o beep.o video.o mactel/x1600_backlight.o mactel/gma950_backlight.o

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:08:43 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: I've just set the umask 0007 in

[gentoo-user] segfaults with php and cacti

2008-07-04 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I've been using phpmyadmin with apache/php for ages with no problems. I want to add the cacti application to the same server but on a separate vhost. The problem is, trying to access the cacti interface through a browser causes a segfault with php. I've also tried running the index.php

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Dale
Hi again, After getting a LOT of help on this, I got it sorted out. This is what is installed: [ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.8 [1.1.6] USE=unicode -hfs 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r1 [1.0.4] USE=alsa arts dvdr dvdread encode hal mp3 vorbis -css -debug -emovix -ffmpeg -flac

Re: [gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On AD 2008 July 04 Friday 01:02:39 PM -0230, Roger Mason wrote: /usr/lib/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' Did you try revdep-rebuild, or even just remerging cairo? I rebuilt cairo several times and revdep-rebuild says

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It just says that it echoes the data to /dev/dsp (or another given device). So it's bound to exactly that device interface :( Well, if you did read the man paghe, you know that cdda2wav knows the correct names for all supported platforms and in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: intentionally broken media

2008-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I forgot that you might have contact to a competitor. In this case, it should be possible to force shops to clearly separate the selling point for non-standard products from the products that behave as expected. Yep, my advocate is also music

[gentoo-user] rsync problem with local rsync server

2008-07-04 Thread waltdnes
Trying to be kinder and gentler to the Gentoo mirrors, I set up my hot backup machine to emerge --rsync from my main machine. I followed the instructions in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror#Official_Gentoo_Linux_rsync_Mirrors_Policy_and_Guide main machine is d530 192.168.123.250

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problem with local rsync server

2008-07-04 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to be kinder and gentler to the Gentoo mirrors, I set up my hot backup machine to emerge --rsync from my main machine. I followed the instructions in