Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-3.2.0-r1 and genkernel

2012-01-10 Thread Andrea Perotti
Il 06/01/2012 10:51, András Csányi ha scritto: under /boot directory. Did I missed something? Is there anything new in genkernel? Should I report it? Check /etc/genkernel/genkernel.conf maybe is commented the option that install it into /boot . hth A.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-3.2.0-r1 and genkernel

2012-01-10 Thread András Csányi
On 10 January 2012 10:12, Andrea Perotti apero...@cutaway.it wrote: Il 06/01/2012 10:51, András Csányi ha scritto: under /boot directory. Did I missed something? Is there anything new in genkernel? Should I report it? Check /etc/genkernel/genkernel.conf maybe is commented the option that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT crontab not understood

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09.01.2012 19:31, James wrote: Daniel Troeder daniel at admin-box.com writes: So I have installed sys-process/vixie-cron Ah, excellent. Just so you know, Paul Vixie is one of the un_sung heros of the the internet. just look up Paul Vixie on wikepedia and you'll quickly realize that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-10 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 09.01.2012 22:08, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 04:47:22PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote Is it possible to load the firmware blob after booting, from the shell? I don't think so. These are not standard kernel modules (*.o) files. You could build the radeon driver as module

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
This is true, however it's a temporary measure only, and I have backups. Once the prices drop again, I'll buy another 1.5TB disk and convert back to a RAID5. On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:14 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jan 10, 2012 8:48 AM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so it will silently

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Mol
Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.01.2012 18:43, schrieb Michael Mol: Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably

[gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-10 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, I did something really dumb... I changed the root passwd for a system I manage last week, but neglected to write it down, and now what I *thought* I had changed it to isn't working... I know, I know, really *really* dumb, but that's where I am... I know I can boot into Single User mode,

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: Am 10.01.2012 18:43, schrieb Michael Mol: Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hm. That sounds like your tz (-0500) is being applied twice. Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate

[gentoo-user] Re: XFCE4 keyboard shortcuts not working

2012-01-10 Thread Grant
I have the following (default) keyboard shortcuts in xfce4: XF86Display Superp ControlEscape ControlAltDelete AltF2 AltF2 works, but ControlEscape and ControlAltDelete don't work.  I don't know what keys correspond to XF86Display and Superp so I haven't tested those.  The commands

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep it in sync afterwards. You can start ntp-client on a running system but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-10 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.01.2012 19:46, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, I did something really dumb... I changed the root passwd for a system I manage last week, but neglected to write it down, and now what I *thought* I had changed it to isn't working... I know, I know,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:46:59 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, I did something really dumb... I changed the root passwd for a system I manage last week, but neglected to write it down, and now what I *thought* I had changed it to isn't working... I know, I know, really

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-10 Thread Aljosha Papsch
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:12:53PM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 10.01.2012 19:46, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, I did something really dumb... I changed the root passwd for a system I manage last week, but neglected to write it down, and now what I *thought* I had changed it to isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:02:38 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Mol
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:02:38 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so

[gentoo-user] mt-daapd automake error

2012-01-10 Thread Kraus Philipp
Hello, I'm updating my system and I will emerge the mt-daapd package. revdep-rebuild shows no errors and the system is working. The emerge call builds the depended packages exception net-dns/avahi and the media-sound/mt-daapd. I'm building it with: [ebuild N ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.30-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.01.2012 21:59, schrieb Michael Mol: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:02:38 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jarry
On 10-Jan-12 22:18, Florian Philipp wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to get the clock set correctly on bootup with ntpdate, and then have ntpd keep things in line moving forward? Otherwise, every couple hours, you'd have your cron'd ntpddate jumping the clock around. I've had apps get stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:02 -0600, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep it in sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-10 Thread Tanstaafl
Perfect answer Alan, many thanks... On 2012-01-10 3:38 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:46:59 -0500 Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, I did something really dumb... I changed the root passwd for a system I manage last week, but neglected to

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:59:45 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Servers with long uptimes should use ntpd, especially if it's apps timestamp data. Laptops and desktops should instead use ntpdate every one or few hours, that is more suitable for those machines (usually they only

Re: [gentoo-user] No display w/ kernel 3.2.0

2012-01-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-01-05 23:15, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: otoh it might be a bug and not my fault anyway. still no clue what this is all about ... *sigh* and I can't find any bug-reports on this. Gotta file one myself and maybe make myself a fool because of some small issue ... ;-) S

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.01.2012 22:42, schrieb Jarry: On 10-Jan-12 22:18, Florian Philipp wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to get the clock set correctly on bootup with ntpdate, and then have ntpd keep things in line moving forward? Otherwise, every couple hours, you'd have your cron'd ntpddate jumping the

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Dale
Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:02 -0600, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep it in

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
What he wants is tinker panic 0 - see man ntp.conf Allows a slew below the threshold, and a step at anything over, no matter how great - works well as long as you are not doing sophisticated DB stuff (rollbacks). I am concerned about the rtc error: try ... bunyip ~ # ls -al /dev/rtc* crw---

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-10 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 Jan 2012 16:38:52 James wrote: Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: Try Settings/Configure and then add new account, or fire up kcmshell4 kcm_akonadi and add resources as desired. I had to use the settings-configureKorganizer-calenders and then put the explict path into

Re: [gentoo-user] No display w/ kernel 3.2.0

2012-01-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 2012-01-05 23:15, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: otoh it might be a bug and not my fault anyway. still no clue what this is all about ... *sigh* and I can't find any bug-reports on this. Gotta file one myself and

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 10 January 2012 21:45:21 Jeff Cranmer wrote: Initially, the RTC options were not enabled in my kernel, but even after setting these, I'm still getting this error. I'm adding all the device drivers as modules and trying again to see if I can remove this error. I suspect it is the

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: ls -d /dev/rt* This is mine: root@fireball / # ls -dl /dev/rt* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 1 15:39 /dev/rtc - rtc0 crw--- 1 root root 254, 0 Jan 1 15:39 /dev/rtc0 root@fireball / # Mine links rtc to rtc0 which should work if the OP have the same. Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:53:48PM +, Mick wrote: However, as the e-news item says KDEPIM 4.7 is really borked right now. YEP! Most people have recommended to move to T'bird, Claws, or mutt. Tbird ++1! great, easy, universal (doz) . When I was still using Windows,

Re: [gentoo-user] No display w/ kernel 3.2.0

2012-01-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.01.2012 23:57, schrieb Mark Knecht: It's not about making yourself a fool at all. You've done all the basic stuff and then a lot more and it's still not working. My suggestion would be to try the IntelGfx list. They helped me quite a lot when I first brought up the machine I tested

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-10 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 05:36:39 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: There was not just one occasion when I thought I'd write a simple Qt-based desktop from scratch (e.g in the likes and scope of Xfce). ^^ razor-qt!! [1] havent tried it yet (kdepim dosnt hate me as much) but heard good things about