Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
(I sent this 24 hours ago but it hasn't appeared, so I'm sending it again.) On Friday 19 March 2010 05:20:47 Philip Webb wrote: > Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' & my printer wouldn't work, > so I restored 'hpijs' & dropped 'hpcups' & all was ok. I considered doing the same for my DJ4260

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread walt
On 03/19/2010 04:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I've been on openssh-5.4 for about a fortnight now... I recall some quip from my school days about units always appearing in technical journals in the most universal format, e.g. furlongs/fortnight.

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-19 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 March 2010 11:16:29 Leandro Boscariol wrote: > Well, did as you said, but still the same... Let's belt & brace this to cover all bases: Check that in your /etc/rc.conf you have XSESSION="fluxbox" or whatever is the session shown in /etc/X11/Sessions/. Also, check that you have spec

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 20 March 2010 00:21:53 Neil Walker wrote: > On 19/03/10 20:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Occasionally, and apparently triggered > > randomly[1], all existing ssh sessions freeze and never come back (even > > after several hours). The connections are still up and do not die on the > > rem

[gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm starting to put together a server-type machine with multiple purposes: 1) MythTV server 2) General backups for another fast machine I'm going to build 3) Wife's new desktop Since all of these requirements are pretty modest but I want high reliability I'd like to do software RAID wit

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread Neil Walker
On 19/03/10 20:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Occasionally, and apparently triggered > randomly[1], all existing ssh sessions freeze and never come back (even after > several hours). The connections are still up and do not die on the remote > end. > Mail connections stay up and the browser tabs con

[gentoo-user] SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, Not really directly related to Gentoo except that the workstation where it happens is a Gentoo machine :-) Our VPN at work is a Juniper Secure Connect. I tend to have many konsole tabs running ssh at one time, as well as IMAP connections to Exchange and several browsers tabs to intrane

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Philip Webb schrieb am 19.03.2010 06:20: > 100318 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >>> hpcups >> Is the new printer driver which replaces the hpijs driver. >>> hpijs >> See above. > > Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' & my printer wouldn't work, > so I restored 'hpijs' & dropped 'hpcups' & all was ok.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-19 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 March 2010 00:34:44 Dan Wallis wrote: > On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick wrote: > > Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from > > source, to keep the terminal open until I close OOo? > > I guess something like this might do the trick: > while pgrep ooffice

[gentoo-user] aide and postgresql?

2010-03-19 Thread Doug Hunley
I re-emerged Aide today and saw the note about Aide making incorrect assumptions and to run a couple of commands in PostgreSQL to correct the database. Since I'd not had PostgreSQL installed previously, I hadn't realized that Aide could use it as a backend, so I started looking for info on how to d

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag 19 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:34:09 +0100 > > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially > > support srt subs. > > It worked for me: > > mencoder ITC0101.avi -oac pcm -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=886 -su

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread James
Daniel Pielmeier gentoo.org> writes: > You don't need avahi or zeroconf for hplip, which does not work for current > versions of hplip due to bugs in cups anyway. This is only needed if you have > a > networked printer. You can still detect the printer without the mDNS > (avahi,zeroconf) method

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 März 2010, Carlos wrote: > Keith Dart wrote: > > === On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: === > > > >> I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in > >> the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment. > > > > === > > > > That's most likely your disk starting to fail.

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup > using software RAID1. I've had this computer for about a year and half > and all's been working well. > > I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 19 March 2010 05:20:47 Philip Webb wrote: > Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' & my printer wouldn't work, > so I restored 'hpijs' & dropped 'hpcups' & all was ok. I considered doing the same for my DJ4260, but I chickened out as I've only just managed to get it working at all afte

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-19 Thread Leandro Boscariol
Well, did as you said, but still the same... On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 20:02, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 22:20:12 Leandro Boscariol wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 18:38, Mick wrote: > > > > What does 'cat /etc/env.d/90xsession' show? If nothing, then create it > > > and add to

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-19 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:34:09 +0100 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially > support srt subs. It worked for me: mencoder ITC0101.avi -oac pcm -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=886 -sub ITC0101.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o video_final.avi my pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/18/2010 3:55 PM, Dale wrote: I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse. May as well be Gr

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-19 Thread Carlos
Keith Dart wrote: === On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: === I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment. === That's most likely your disk starting to fail. How would I go about categorically proving such a thing? What are th

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-19 Thread Robert Fekete
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > I see Robert responded here earlier. Perhaps he'll see this post and re-look > at that section in a new light with a view to making a patch > Yes, there are some sections in the admin guide that sorely need a cleanup. I hope to get to it before summer. If y