Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Jan, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an upgrade, I just get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-21 Thread Adam
On 01/21/10 00:49, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/10 21:24, Adam wrote: On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 Jan 2010, at 21:39, walt wrote: ... In the case I just described, I used it so I can identify myself with my ssh key, which is much more secure than a password. ... I'm not sure how I would have added ssh key authentication without pam. I'm pretty sure it's possible, although I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:40:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program

[gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 poses a new level of difficulty (to me). I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the kde-sunset overlay which I have to resolve lateron. Now, I try to find out which packages depend on jpeg-7. First

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 January 2010 17:10:56 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 poses a new level of difficulty (to me). I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the kde-sunset overlay which I have to resolve lateron.

[gentoo-user] usb to ps2 adapter not working for left handed mouse

2010-01-21 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am just trying to understand why my usb mouse does not work properly when connected via a usb to ps2 adapter. I have in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi the following section match key=info.capabilities contains=input.mouse merge key=input.x11_driver

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2010 11:39 PM, walt wrote: On 01/19/2010 10:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote: On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote: Here is what I see on both machines: $su Password: = I type Ctrl-d here Segmentation fault I've traced this problem to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:06:34 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm no expert on PAM, but I've seen it used on every linux distribution that I've tried over the years. In the case I just described, I used it so I can identify myself with my ssh key, which is much more secure than a password.

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 poses a new level of difficulty (to me). I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the kde-sunset overlay which I

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Arttu V.
On 1/21/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 poses a new level of difficulty (to me). I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the kde-sunset overlay which I have to resolve

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Jan, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 21 January 2010 17:10:56 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 poses a new level of difficulty (to me). I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the kde-sunset overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Jan, Arttu V. wrote: On 1/21/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 poses a new level of difficulty (to me). I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the kde-sunset overlay

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/21/2010 06:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:06:34 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm no expert on PAM, but I've seen it used on every linux distribution that I've tried over the years. In the case I just described, I used it so I can identify myself with my ssh key,

[gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread Dale
-pqv =kde-base/step-4.3.4'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/elog/kde-base:step-4.3.4:20100121-174459.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/step-4.3.4/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/step-4.3.4/work/step-4.3.4

[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-21 Thread James
That sounds a good guess, what does the Xorg.log show? With no xorg.conf file xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 ati-drivers-9.11 xorg-x11-7.4-r1 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 lspci -v 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

[gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the error message:   VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block(2,0)   Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions:   Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread Arttu V.
On 1/21/10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE): ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package) Ok, so kde4-config is not returning any path for

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 19:08:53 schrieb Valmor de Almeida: I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the error message: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions:

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-21 Thread Joseph
On 01/21/10 21:49, Adam wrote: http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/113733 Sorry my mistake, for the OUTPUT chain it makes sense as all those packets are from squid. The log should have a URL after the GET command, ie; 1264070023.044103 192.168.1.12 TCP_MISS/200 33140 GET

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 January 2010 20:08:53 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the error message: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 19:08:53 schrieb Valmor de Almeida: [snip] If yes, lookup the list archive a couple of weeks back, somebody mentioned a boot option to delay booting to give the kernel some time to discover USB devices. HTH... Dirk Yup,

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-21 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: pk pete...@coolmail.se BRM wrote: The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you are debugging the UI or the program itself. While a UI is important; a good UI is key. And a plain text editor is, imo, a good UI; everybody

[gentoo-user] MongoDB

2010-01-21 Thread Laurent Kappler
Hi, I was looking to emerge mongoDB and found this http://bugs.gentoo.org/273259 Anyone knows how far this is gone, a layer somewhere? Thank you Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-21 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: Another layer can be good, if properly abstracted. A good example is KDE's popups when you plug in a hotswap storage device. You get a context-sensitive popup asking you what you want to do and the choices are sane. You say what you want to do and don't worry about the

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:39:12 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: Second, kde-sunset poses some difficulties like !!! Couldn't download 'koffice-1.6.3_p20090204.tar.bz2'. Aborting. Unmerge koffice:2.5 and emerge koffice-meta:3.5. -- Neil Bothwick I am not arguing with you, I'm telling you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-21 Thread pk
Dale wrote: You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as pissed as I was tho. lol I'm just not going to try putting it on here again. It didn't work. I couldn't configure the thing so that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:12:50 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Oh, don't know if it's possible on local login. Anyway, I was just curious. PAM and ConsoleKit were two things that got installed by default (desktop profile) and I couldn't even find a use for them, so I removed both and

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 1/21/10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE): ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package) Ok, so kde4-config is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Arttu V. wrote: On 1/21/10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE): ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in Call Stack (most recent call

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Jan 2010, at 18:59, Joseph wrote: ... Yes, the squid is working OK. But I'm not sure if it is possible to accomplish what I want. iptable + squid are running on a single box: so I want: INCOMING access from Internet is OPEN - I don't need or want to block anything; as I have an

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread Dale
James Ausmus wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Arttu V. wrote: On 1/21/10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: CMake Error at

[gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion

2010-01-21 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

2010-01-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 01:28:07 Keith Dart wrote: === On Mon, 01/18, Stroller wrote: === I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the switch *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that the Linux server at the other end is recognising the NIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread Dale
build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.3-r1'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/elog/kde-base:kdelibs-4.3.3-r1:20100121-214249.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.3-r1/temp/environment'. * S

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread James Ausmus
failed!; * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.3-r1', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.3-r1'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/elog/kde-base:kdelibs-4.3.3-r1:20100121-214249.log

Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion

2010-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:10 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? I've settled on tightvnc since so many different clients and servers support it (windows,

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 12:52 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:55:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to 1920x1200 or vice versa. Also since two screens is the Default I

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-21 Thread Joseph
On 01/21/10 21:51, Stroller wrote: maybe it is not possible with single interface eth0 I believe that running Squid in conjunction with iptables is known as running in interception mode. It may well indeed not be possible to do this with only one interface. How do you ensure that packets

[gentoo-user] Re: remote desktop suggestion

2010-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? I use x2go, which is based on NX. FreeNX, which I used before, was semi-abandoned at some point.

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread Dale
James Ausmus wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Try re-emerging kde-base/kdelibs - both kde4-config and libkdecore.so* are owned by kdelibs. -James I think I

Re: [gentoo-user] MongoDB

2010-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:23:53 +0100, Laurent Kappler wrote: I was looking to emerge mongoDB and found this http://bugs.gentoo.org/273259 Anyone knows how far this is gone, a layer somewhere? eix shows it's in the sunrise overlay. -- Neil Bothwick Newsflash! Explosion at M$ beta testsite

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-21 Thread Stroller
Thanks for posting Joseph. I would love to understand this better. On 21 Jan 2010, at 23:52, Joseph wrote: On 01/21/10 21:51, Stroller wrote: maybe it is not possible with single interface eth0 I believe that running Squid in conjunction with iptables is known as running in interception

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

2010-01-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Jan 2010, at 22:45, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 01:28:07 Keith Dart wrote: === On Mon, 01/18, Stroller wrote: === I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the switch *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that the Linux server at

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-21 Thread Joseph
On 01/22/10 03:49, Stroller wrote: Thanks for posting Joseph. I would love to understand this better. On 21 Jan 2010, at 23:52, Joseph wrote: On 01/21/10 21:51, Stroller wrote: maybe it is not possible with single interface eth0 I believe that running Squid in conjunction with iptables is