Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-06 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Erik Hahn a écrit : It doesn't run the command as root but as normal user (it isn't setuid either. All it does is setting the *variables* $USER and $HOME to the wrong values. Oh, I read too quickly :x And by the way didn't give the right command switch that are --chuid --user and --env.

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel, hdparm not happy

2008-10-06 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, David Relson a écrit : CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y Isn't that an option which considers all disks to be SATA ? Not sure, but you might check that. Sincerely, Jil

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel, hdparm not happy

2008-10-06 Thread Florian Philipp
David Relson schrieb: Greetings! I've recently updated from kernel 2.6.20 to 2.6.24 a little used machine. The new kernel is working quite well. However hdparm isn't happy. Running either hdparm -d0 /dev/hda or hdparm -d1 /dev/hda gives a HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

[gentoo-user] media-sound/moc-2.5.0_alpha3-r2 fails to build

2008-10-06 Thread Erik Hahn
I have to rebuild moc to fix linkage. The build fails every time, independent of CFLAGS and USE flags: btool: compile: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -pthread -O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -W -I/usr/include/alsa -MT

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-06 Thread Erik Hahn
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:41:58AM +0200, Jil Larner wrote: Hi, Erik Hahn a écrit : It doesn't run the command as root but as normal user (it isn't setuid either. All it does is setting the *variables* $USER and $HOME to the wrong values. Oh, I read too quickly :x And by the way

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for the laziest of us? :) emerge autounmask autounmask kde-meta On my ~x86, I had to add: ~app-misc/strigi-0.5.11 to

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/10/6 Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, it simply shouldn't change them, there's no reason to do that (to my knowledge). If start-stop-daemon is executed by a normal user it should either not change the user to root or deny the execution if the user is not root. I think it is a big security

[gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Grant
I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new stuff to get this done. Can anyone recommend a simple method? I have a wired/wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:01:51AM -0700, Grant wrote: I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new stuff to get this

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:01:51 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new stuff to get this

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Andrey Falko
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:01:51 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic options to

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-10-06 Thread Grant
I patched cdrdao to recognize certain CD-TEXT types for its toc file creation with the info here: http://www.lackhead.org/2007/05/patch-for-cdrdao-122-cd-text-causing-crash/ but toc2cue fails to execute on such a toc file with a series of these: ERROR: CD/cdda.toc:36: Invalid CD-TEXT item

Re: [gentoo-user] Reopen: OpenOffice dies on startup

2008-10-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 6. Oktober 2008 01:31:56 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I thought it was solved, but I was wrong. Last time I reported this I was advised to start it from the command line. So here's what I get for oowriter: /usr/bin/soffice: line 254: 28590 Segmentation fault $sd_prog/$sd_binary $@

[gentoo-user] x11-libs/libview-0.6.1 compile error

2008-10-06 Thread Mike
make[2]: *** [baseBGBox.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/in clude/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/libview-0.6.1 compile error

2008-10-06 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Crackpotkid schrieb: make[2]: *** [baseBGBox.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/in clude/pango-1.0

[gentoo-user] Can't play audio cds!

2008-10-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I can't play audio cds. I used to use gnome-cd, but that seems to be gone now, and none of the other CD players will play sound. KsCD will even show the track titles on the CD, but it won't play sound. I checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my CD (in the past

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-06 Thread Erik Hahn
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:27:11PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2008/10/6 Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, it simply shouldn't change them, there's no reason to do that (to my knowledge). I think it is a big security issue if a normal user could start arbitrary daemons with root

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Erik Hahn schrieb am 06.10.2008 20:21: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:27:11PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2008/10/6 Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, it simply shouldn't change them, there's no reason to do that (to my knowledge). I think it is a big security issue if a normal user could start

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread b.n.
Roy Wright ha scritto: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for the laziest of us? :) emerge autounmask autounmask kde-meta On my ~x86, I had to add: ~app-misc/strigi-0.5.11 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:16:25 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new stuff to get this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 06 October 2008 04:07:27 pm b.n. wrote: Roy Wright ha scritto: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for the laziest of us? :) emerge autounmask autounmask kde-meta On my

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread ert256
If You have somewhere running PXE configuration, You can run liveCD remotely from some pretend-nfs-serwer. I've done that using simple pxe-configuration as follows : LABEL gentoo-nfs menu label ^Gentoo over NFS KERNEL gentoo/gentoo APPEND initrd=gentoo/gentoo.igz

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread b.n.
Jerry McBride ha scritto: I have both kde-3.5.10 and kde-4.1.2 and there are a couple of small incompatibilities... and that's why they are still masked. If I recall right... I had to upgrade to the latest ~x86 portage and then I had to iron out kopete for both versions of kde... No show

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Cowsill
It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a challenge... D

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:01:03 +0200, b.n. wrote: (Also, I don't want ~x86 portage) Why not? It's running well on several machines here, some are fully ~arch while others run mainly stable with a handful of testing packages, including portage. Or you could use paludis, that way you can install

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Andrey Falko
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
Andrey Falko wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/moc-2.5.0_alpha3-r2 fails to build

2008-10-06 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to rebuild moc to fix linkage. The build fails every time, independent of CFLAGS and USE flags: btool: compile: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -pthread -O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe