[gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-09 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery informatiion, etc. i am already in these groups:

[gentoo-user] portage/python problem

2010-03-09 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, using: sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.2 with python3 or without python3 activated i receive this error (or warning, cos the comand still working) when try to use equery: / equery d dev-libs/libg15render

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-09 Thread Mick
On 9 March 2010 11:14, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery informatiion, etc. i

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 04:48:51 Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, OK, installed KDE 4.4.1 on an older box (BE-2400 4GB ~x86), seems to be working pretty good. But am having trouble trying to figure out the kde way to configure a network (cups on a kubuntu system) printer. From system_settings,

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-09 Thread Stroller
On 4 Mar 2010, at 10:23, Willie Wong wrote: ... Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Ah! Ok... this is shown as an error when before the failed to open the device message. http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption.png Startin udevd... error getting signalfd What

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-09 Thread Xi Shen
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's how it *should* work, but it evidently isn't.  Maybe someone else more experienced in KDE can explain what happened and why the particular functions are now not available to plain users, or if you have another

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

2010-03-09 Thread Neil Walker
On 09/03/10 12:14, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone here got kompozer to build on a Gentoo ~amd64 box? I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window

2010-03-09 Thread dhk
Damian wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:01 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Is it possible to embed a terminal window in a gtk window? I want to be able to run a text program as usual, but have it wrapped in the GTK window so I can scroll output and other stuff to a textview. I would look

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-09 Thread Xi Shen
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: You only have yourself to blame I'm afraid ... When you login to xorg using a root account some configuration files become owned by root.  A normal user can no longer access them.  Most desktops should be clever enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/python problem

2010-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:22:04 -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: equery d dev-libs/libg15render /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py:1121: DeprecationWarning: The 'myroot' parameter for portage.config.getvirtuals() is deprecated result = lazy_item.func(*pargs, **kwargs) /Where's the

Re: [gentoo-user] htpasswd works only for valid-user

2010-03-09 Thread Laurent Kappler
Mick a écrit : On Monday 08 March 2010 19:48:12 Laurent Kappler wrote: Hi I'm using htpasswd to write the user password form my htaccess. It works only if I put require valid-user not if I put require specificuser any idea? Have you tried: AuthType Basic (or Digest)

[gentoo-user] Kompozer

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Has anyone here got kompozer to build on a Gentoo ~amd64 box? I did have a version running some months ago and I've tried to upgrade it but failed. The compiled versions require old libs that aren't installed here and the source needs some incantation I haven't found yet. I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 14:05:03 Neil Walker wrote: I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Well, as this box is ~amd64 I shouldn't need any of those. But kompozer isn't in portage as far as I can see, so how did

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-09 Thread Mick
On 9 March 2010 12:31, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: When you login to xorg using a root account some configuration files become owned by root.  A normal user can no longer access them.  Most desktops should be

Re: [gentoo-user] htpasswd works only for valid-user

2010-03-09 Thread Laurent Kappler
Mick a écrit : On Monday 08 March 2010 19:48:12 Laurent Kappler wrote: Hi I'm using htpasswd to write the user password form my htaccess. It works only if I put require valid-user not if I put require specificuser any idea? Have you tried: AuthType Basic (or Digest)

Re: [gentoo-user] htpasswd works only for valid-user

2010-03-09 Thread Laurent Kappler
Mick a écrit : On Monday 08 March 2010 19:48:12 Laurent Kappler wrote: Hi I'm using htpasswd to write the user password form my htaccess. It works only if I put require valid-user not if I put require specificuser any idea? Have you tried: AuthType Basic (or Digest)

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery informatiion,

[gentoo-user] Re: htpasswd works only for valid-user

2010-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Monday 08 March 2010 21:48:12 Laurent Kappler wrote: Hi I'm using htpasswd to write the user password form my htaccess. It works only if I put require valid-user not if I put require specificuser any idea? It should work, if

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS-PDF failing

2010-03-09 Thread Jörg Schaible
Dirk Uys wrote: Hi I'm getting the following error from /var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log when I try to print to a PDF printer: [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non fatal) (/var/spool/cups-pdf/dc_u/HOWTO__Install_Cups-PDF_-_Page_4_- _Ubuntu_Forums.pdf) I tried changing

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster wrote: Alex Schuster writes: Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:) But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if you don't have KDE4 or are not interested in reading how

Re: [gentoo-user] htpasswd works only for valid-user

2010-03-09 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 15:50:11 Laurent Kappler wrote: Mick a écrit : On Monday 08 March 2010 19:48:12 Laurent Kappler wrote: Hi I'm using htpasswd to write the user password form my htaccess. It works only if I put require valid-user not if I put require specificuser any

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

2010-03-09 Thread Neil Walker
On 09/03/10 15:41, Peter Humphrey wrote: I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Well, as this box is ~amd64 I shouldn't need any of those. But kompozer isn't in portage as far as I can see, so how did you get

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-09 Thread Philip Webb
100309 Alex Schuster wrote some time ago: Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. today: But still they are not well. I see 1 improvement 2 regressions so far; NB I don't use the desktop (that's Fluxbox), only some apps. Konsole has lost its 'fixed GNU' font,

Re: [gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window

2010-03-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag 09 März 2010 schrieb dhk: I'm not looking to make major changes to the existing terminal run program. You see, I'm dealing with the corporate mentality. They want to add features that are just not that feasible in a procedural language. I also have to deal with their thousands

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-09 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now? Wonko I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all but I can't use it as root at all. So, I went back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

2010-03-09 Thread Neil Walker
On 09/03/10 20:56, Neil Walker wrote: If you want a copy, I've put it on http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild Hehe. It seems a few people wanted that but I did see a couple of http 404s in the logs. That's because you included the full stop. Be lucky, Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-09 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Alex Schuster writes: Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:) But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:56:04 Neil Walker wrote: I got an ebuild somewhere, probably bugzilla. If you want a copy, I've put it on http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild. Thanks Neil. I'll have a look at it in the morning. Or maybe the afternoon, remembering some unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-09 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Depending on your specific USB device you may need to edit UDEV rules to set proper permissions on the device node. For example I had to do that for normal users to read my digital camera. i kanda thought

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-09 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM, roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: Hi, Whats the name of the tool and what use flags are set? It's most likely that you are going to need to re-emerge it, or some component that it depends upon if it is part of gnome or kde, etc. i have acpi, hal, apm, pmu, nvidia,

[gentoo-user] Problem with make oldconfig 2.6.30-8 == 2.6.31

2010-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
Today is when running a lilo menu with production and experimental kernels saved me. production is 2.6.30-r8. experimental is 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one). I set /usr/src/linux to point at 2.6.31-r6 (or 10), copied .config from 2.6.30-r8 and ran make oldconfig. I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-09 Thread Xi Shen
sorry for bringing this old topic on again. after i made the original post, i realized that this product was not on the market yet :) now, it is on the market, and i have seen some ubuntu guys playing with it and figured out how to make all the devices work on ubuntu. i want to know if any gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Sounds to me as though you haven't set CUPS up right on the machine connected to the printer. You need it to allow other machines on your network to print, and maybe to administer CUPS if you want to move printer administration to another

[gentoo-user] stop eth0 from starting at boot

2010-03-09 Thread Tony Miller
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 is not in any runlevels: o_0 tony # rc-update show bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot hald | default hostname | boot keymaps

Re: [gentoo-user] stop eth0 from starting at boot

2010-03-09 Thread Chris Reffett
The easiest way to rectify this, I've found, is to just delete /etc/init.d/net.eth0. Alternately, if you do want to keep the init script around, but don't want to wait for it to time out before continuing the boot process, what I did was add dhcpcd_eth0=-b to fork it into the background. As for

Re: [gentoo-user] stop eth0 from starting at boot

2010-03-09 Thread Dale
Tony Miller wrote: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 is not in any runlevels: o_0 tony # rc-update show bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot hald | default hostname | boot

Re: [gentoo-user] stop eth0 from starting at boot

2010-03-09 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 05:53:00 Dale wrote: Tony Miller wrote: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 is not in any runlevels: o_0 tony # rc-update show bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS-PDF failing

2010-03-09 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: Look into /etc/cups/cups-pdf. The individual spool directories must have proper access rights (like .ssh in your home) and match the UserUMask setting. Otherwise cups-pdf will not generate the PDF, simply because