Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-20 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/20/2013 04:24 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 20.10.2013 08:34, schrieb Daniel Campbell: hm, Redhat is one of the companies investing the most money into linux kernel, userland, graphics... if you 'don't trust them' you are pretty much 20 years too late. Investing money does not make

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-20 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/20/2013 06:02 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 20.10.2013 12:52, schrieb Daniel Campbell: On 10/20/2013 04:24 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 20.10.2013 08:34, schrieb Daniel Campbell: hm, Redhat is one of the companies investing the most money into linux kernel, userland, graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2: need the output of vbeinfo to be able to read the output of vbeinfo

2013-10-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
the console resulotion that way, so I will be able to read the output of vbeinfo deadlock? Nice things like 'less' or such are not available What can I do? Try this: set pager=1 http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#pager -- Regards Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-20 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/20/2013 09:34 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:03:51PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote That's a bridge we will cross when there is a bridge to be crossed, but from top of my head: We will maintain a minimal patchset that reverts the offending code. As in, that's nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/17/2013 11:27 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/733595-all-about-the-linux-kernel-cgroups-redesign Not sure if I read that just right... but since nobody is doing cgroup management besides systemd, in practice the cgroups

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/11/2013 09:21 PM, walt wrote: On 10/11/2013 01:42 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I don't like systemd, Sorry if my memory is failing (it surely is) but I don't recall any explanation from you describing your dissatisfaction with systemd. The three happiest months of my life were spent

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/30/2013 04:31 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/09/2013 01:31, Daniel Campbell wrote: Curious; how is merging two filesystems done? I don't have a separate /usr and am completely unaffected by this change, but it's somewhat interesting to me. /usr stores some pretty important data

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/2013 09:04 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/09/2013 13:32, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: No really,*why exactly*? Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/28/2013 12:31 PM, Dale wrote: William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 07:32:20PM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Dale wrote: I'm hoping that since I use eudev, I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/29/2013 01:55 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 01:55:49PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-09-28 6:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: So this brings us back to the essential technical problem that still needs to be solved on your machines: /usr needs to

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2013 02:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote: All, I can clarify one part of the systemd issue, because I have been involved in this part of the issue for months. Again, I am not trying to start a dispute here, just providing a clarification.

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/29/2013 08:17 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: I'm not affected by anything regarding the /usr switch, but I'd like to have a good talk with the first person who decided a system-critical binary belonged in /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/29/2013 08:40 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: I'm not affected by anything regarding the /usr switch, but I'd like to have a good talk with the first person who decided a system-critical binary belonged in /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/29/2013 08:51 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: It's fairly obvious (to me, anyway) that anything mounting a filesystem and making it available is system-critical. I run samba and don't need it for boot, but like you

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/29/2013 09:05 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: Anyway, I'm not in favor of FHS _per se_, but it sounds pretty reasonable to have some semblance of order among where different parts of a system go. Shoving everything

Re: [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/29/2013 09:03 PM, Greg Woodbury wrote: One of the most obvious things that broke booting with a seperate /usr is not GNOMEs fault, but GRUB 2's fault. the move of /bin to /usr/bin (for things like cp,mv,ln,ls) came after the breakage of /usr, but is symptomatic of some distros cavalier

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/29/2013 09:25 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: On 09/29/2013 08:51 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: It's fairly obvious (to me, anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2013 10:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 09:21:01PM -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote: /usr/lib/udev. /usr/lib/systemd. were both placed in /usr despite objections from a number of folks. So claims that udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

2013-09-18 Thread Daniel Wagener
You dont happen to have a reasonable identical SD Card around, so you could dd the image on to see whether this is card related, do you? On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 04:45:04 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I did a binary image backup with dd of the sdcard.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/13/2013 03:47 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 13 Sep 2013 14:47:35 Grant wrote: Would the hot spare be in case I lose 2 drives at once? Isn't that extraordinarily unlikely? Not really. One fails and you don't notice for a while, or it takes a while to recover from it. Then a

Re: [gentoo-user] FlashPlayer crashes in FireFox

2013-09-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 09.09.2013 11:45, schrieb Dan Johansson: As of lately (I can not really remember since when) FlashPlayer has stopped working in FireFox. I'm running an stable AMD64 system with FireFox (www-client/firefox-17.0.8), FlasPlayer (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.297) and NS-Plugin-Wraper

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} image metadata and privacy

2013-09-05 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi Grant, Yes, I just had to do this myself. There are two packages: jhead and exiftool. The former does jpegs only. I wound up using exiftool, there's a single command to strip all metadata: exiftool -all= *.jpg If I remember right that creates a copy of the file it processes. You can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/19/2013 12:52 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/18/2013 03:53 AM, Alessio Ababilov wrote: 2013/8/18 Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us mailto:li...@sporkbox.us On 08/17/2013 02:26 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net mailto:andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/18/2013 09:39 PM, microcai wrote: 在 2013-8-19 上午5:55,pk pete...@coolmail.se mailto:pete...@coolmail.se写道: On 2013-08-18 23:08, Mick wrote: I honestly cannot understand why we/Gentoo are allowing the RHL monolithic development philosophy to break what we have. Is Poettering the

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
, it doesn't introduce any _obvious_ problems to Gentoo. 2013/8/16 Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us mailto:li...@sporkbox.us Red Hat is only upstream for GNOME and systemd. What they choose to do with their distro should not affect the choices of any other distro. I see no reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/17/2013 02:26 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/13/2013 01:08 PM, Alessio Ababilov wrote: 2013/8/13 the the.gu...@mail.ru mailto:the.gu...@mail.ru The site doesn't describe any real problems. Well, it is a question to discuss. I am not going to begin a holy war, I would like just to provide a possibility to perform a

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

2013-08-10 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version, of Libre Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to the latest. [ebuild UD

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-06 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/05/2013 05:12 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 08/04/2013 11:56 AM, Dale wrote: Anthony G. Basile wrote: I have refrained from flamewars, but I want to reassure people, eudev will not be dropped. I noticed the other day, posted on this thread by the way, that it left beta too. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
- /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc use.local.desc - /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc When I want to look something up, I use: $ grep something ~/use* To narrow results down, I sometimes prepend or append ':' to something. Greetings, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-01 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/31/2013 02:05 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 1/08/2013 04:34, Michael Orlitzky wrote: It seems a little rude to pop in, address them personally, and ask them each if they'd devote months of their time towards mentoring me. (Doing so can pressure someone into agreeing to something he

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-systemd-only deprecation

2013-07-31 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/30/2013 05:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: There is going to be resistance. Two months ago there was a huge thread in gentoo-dev, because a package maintaner complained that his co-maintainer added a systemd unit to the package: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85792

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-07-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/30/2013 01:16 PM, hasufell wrote: And we need MOAR devs http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1chap=2 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs so awesome! srsly! What many people don't seem to get is: you don't need to be a commit

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
update A good explaination on how to use eix-remote can be found here [1] and as usual in the man pages. [1] http://klaig.blogspot.de/2013/04/how-to-search-super-quickly-in-all.html -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order

2013-07-02 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/02/2013 07:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-07-01, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Unplug or power down the firewire drive when booting. I had this problem on my Intel motherboard, and found out you can disable booting from external drives. Boot to removable

Re: [gentoo-user] pycrypto-2.6-r2 fails to build

2013-06-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
to rebuild it. If this does not work this is probably a bug as the compile process tries to access the python site-packages outside of the sandbox. -- Regards Daniel Pielmeier

Re: [gentoo-user] pycrypto-2.6-r2 fails to build

2013-06-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
tries to write files outside the sandbox which is not allowed. Tamer you can try if pycrypto installs fine with setuptools 0.7.3. If yes you should open a bug about the pycrypto-2​.6-r2 sandbox issue with setuptools 0.6.30-r1 -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] pycrypto-2.6-r2 fails to build

2013-06-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2013/6/19 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: On 06/19/2013 12:57:14 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2013/6/19 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: The complete build error is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wJsrm2ZH In there, there is the message Permission

Re: [gentoo-user] mesa 9.1.2.r1 fails to build

2013-06-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Bug 458550 -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] java-config, flaggie

2013-06-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2013/6/14 Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de: Hello, On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:29:00 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: pkg_resources is provided by setuptools. Maybe there is something wrong with it. Yes i think so, now is the problem that they need python package in version

Re: [gentoo-user] java-config, flaggie

2013-06-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
broke something. Maybe you should try to investigate when this problems did start and what you did before to find out possible causes. -- Regards Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] java-config, flaggie

2013-06-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
with it. -- Regards Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc4.7.2-r1 to 4.7.3 upgrade - hosed system?

2013-05-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
for this life-saving oneliner (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7053126.html). Greetings, Daniel -- Get my PGP key at: * http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x837FB8B5BB9D4887 * $ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xBB9D4887 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Joerg Schilling schrieb am 29.04.2013 18:36: Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: 2013/4/29 Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de Do you like people to be able to open security holes? Adding an option to enable/disable linkage to libcap does not hurt anybody it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-29 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
the security hole you are talking about is still there. The option does not change anything. Currently one could still compile cdrtools without libcap and afterwards install libcap and use setcap on cdrecord et al. which leads to the same problem. -- Regards Daniel Pielmeier

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
otherwise I am fine with it and I have to use other means to make cdrtools compatible with Gentoo. -- Regards Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
the required capabilities if the filecaps USE flag is set. Is there any chance to make this a configurable option, so it is possible to disable file capabilities even if libcap is installed? -- Regards Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Joerg Schilling schrieb am 26.04.2013 19:07: Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: without making them suid-root. This works with cdrtools-3.01a14 or later. Check ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Thanks Jörg, I have read the release notes for alpha14 and prepared

Re: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Joerg Schilling schrieb am 26.04.2013 20:31: Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: Actually it is the linkage against libcap what I am concerned of. This is what I call a security risk with the current concepts of some linux systems. See Announcement file for more Imagine

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p long list of packages

2013-04-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
emerge --depclean -p vs. emerge --depclean -pv. As with -v the output looks like the one you described. -- Regards Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/02/2013 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Oh, and gentoo is fast is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing :-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you* want :-) When I'm asked, I say that gentoo is extremely flexible and can be tailored in almost infinite

Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:42:28 +0100 Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, For last few weeks or so, I've been getting intermittent hard lock-ups during the emerge of various packages. It appears the more compile intensive the package, the more likely the lock-up. These lock-ups have

[gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess because of som patents) That worked for quite some

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:36:55 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:49:02 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:36:55 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Wagener st

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:53:42 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 10.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Daniel Wagener: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver

Re: [gentoo-user] wanrouter modprobe

2013-03-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/07/2013 09:23 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I have tried to install the latest release of wanpipe through the freeswitch overlay, which I did so far successfully. Shortly I have realised, that the wanrouter module is not loadable. When I try to load it I get the following error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart frozen X

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/26/2013 07:18 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm running Nvidia driver: 310.32 with my GeForce GTS 450 kernle-3.1.6 but I've noticed it freezes my screen once a day or ever second day. Mouse is moving but no icon is responding, nor can I use the keyboard (all frozen). I can login to the system

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with kde 4.10.0

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/26/2013 07:13 PM, luis jure wrote: hello list, i use xfce, but i have several kde applications (k3b, digikam, tellico). after upgrading to kde 4.10.0 i had problems with all my kde apps. i receive similar error messages saying that the application couldn't create the I/O slave

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-15 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/14/2013 04:15 PM, Adam Carter wrote: This particular machine doesn't have ssh/xinetd or the like routed from outside the local LAN. Unless someone made a mistake with the config somewhere. Run tcpdump to be sure. Well, an `emerge -1 libtool glibc gcc emerge -e world` fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/13/2013 08:56 PM, Stroller wrote: On 14 February 2013, at 04:13, Daniel Frey wrote: ... I've poked into this a bit more, and every 60 seconds 5 attempts at logon are being made… This weekend I'll reformat reinstall. Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but does this machine have

Re: [gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/14/2013 11:26 AM, James wrote: Hello, Context: Stable Systems with a few newer packages (unmasked) in portage. --snip-- So, my latest ideas is to sync up and then wait one week before acutally installing those new packages. This would allow the fodder that the good folks on this

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/14/2013 04:15 PM, Adam Carter wrote: This particular machine doesn't have ssh/xinetd or the like routed from outside the local LAN. Unless someone made a mistake with the config somewhere. Run tcpdump to be sure. I just installed tcpdump and checked. During the burst of 5

[gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread Daniel Frey
I updated my server a while back, and just recently I noticed this in /var/log/messages: Feb 13 11:26:14 coretwoduo login[25575]: pam_tally2(login:auth): pam_get_uid; no such user I have thousands of entries in my logs. It doesn't seem to prevent me from logging in though. I have figured out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/13/2013 02:51 PM, walt wrote: For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be wrong somewhere. Just for fun I ran emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this: #emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/13/2013 02:51 PM, walt wrote: For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be wrong somewhere. Just for fun I ran emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this: #emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME configuration problem

2013-02-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
of directories I used meld in. Hope the info helps debugging, Daniel -- Get my PGP key at: * http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x837FB8B5BB9D4887 * $ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xBB9D4887 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Feeding new versions of mdadm to genkernel?

2013-02-04 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, It seems that the genkernel team did the switcheroo with genkernel. I used to build an initramfs with a newer mdadm by putting: MDADM_VER=3.2.6 in genkernel.conf and copying the related tarball to /var/cache/genkernel. I discovered a bit of a problem, all that's been removed in the

Re: [gentoo-user] List of base system packages

2013-02-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
to clarify this. Strange thing is pam-1-1-6 compiles fine here and I think it should fail anywhere if the above mentioned eapi changes are the reason for this failure. Maybe there is something wrong with your configuration. -- Regards Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

2013-01-25 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:06:17 +1100 Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com wrote: Even if you didn't see the message and your system didn't boot then you could still fix things by using your Minimal Install CD to start up, then chroot into your normal system and rebuild your kernel. Well, you could…

Re: [gentoo-user] cairo USE flags

2013-01-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
, clementine, evince, opera, crack-attack, digikam, inkscape) /type /xlib set(firefox, soffice, clementine, evince, crack-attack, digikam, inkscape) /type /xrender set (firefox, soffice, clementine) I wonder what 42 is... Greetings, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle one and so I don't think the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/11/2013 09:14 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/01/13 16:04, walt wrote: This seems to me like very happy news indeed, but I'm interested in contrary opinions. There's a recent thread discussing how udev-197 breaks lvm2, but that's a trivial fix once you know about it. The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
James Cloos schrieb am 11.01.2013 21:30: Or, just: :; find /var/db/pkg -name CONTENTS | xargs -0 grep -l /usr/lib/udev/ | awk -F/ '{print = $5 / $6}' | xargs emerge -pv which should be fastest. -JimC Or emerge -av /usr/lib/udev. See man emerge 1 -- Regards Daniel signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Redux: Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/10/2013 04:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:01:47AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote I got an APC Back-UPS BX1300G-CN from the local Staples. No worry whatsoever about overloading this baby. I'm currently running a torture test with the monitor, the modem, and both PC's

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-09 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/08/2013 11:24 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Thanks to you, and others, for all the info. And thanks for the apcupsd ebuild. BTW, what does mailx do in the ebuild? Send an email about an outage? Yes, it sends email notifications. I currently have ssmtp set up to send mail to my gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/08/2013 09:32 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I think my UPS is dying. Time to get a new one. It's been years, so there may be new tech

[gentoo-user] graphite2 won't emerge | powerpc mac | Undefined symbols for architecture ppc

2013-01-04 Thread Daniel Ibn Zayd
I recently renewed a friend's old Quicksilver G4 power PC, and forced an install of system 10.5.8 on it. I started installing from scratch a Gentoo Prefix, and built up to GD and ImageMagick (and their requirements) since I use them in graphics programming. I'm running ~arch (testing mode) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:00:39 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:58:15 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: So, Nuno, everything was fine until they started moving things to a place where it shouldn't be. No Dale, that is just flat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp

2012-12-24 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/23/2012 03:22 PM, luis jure wrote: well, it seems i have been very lucky indeed. i just emerged jmtpfs as per mark's suggestion, and it just worked. i just created a /media/galaxy directory, and an entry in fstab (like yours, but with jmtpfs instead of mtpfs) and that was it. now i can

Re: [gentoo-user] disk accesses per subdirectory tree

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
/hinotify dev-perl/Linux-Inotify2 dev-python/inotifyx dev-python/pyinotify dev-ruby/rb-inotify sys-fs/inotify-tools The last one... just opened the homepage: https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki and scrolled down to inotifywatch - I think you'll be able to do it with that :) Greetings, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/22/2012 03:32 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-12-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:19:10 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I think you can use mtpfs and then browse it like any other disk. I found that to be rather fragile, jmtpfs works far better for me,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? Yes. I have been using the community version for several years. +1 Works good with (user)groups, important modules are well integrated into each other (f.e.: you can

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 21.12.2012 12:19, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, December 21, 2012 11:33:49 AM Daniel Troeder wrote: On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? Yes. I have been using the community version for several years

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:30:33 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My unattended daily system maintenance procedure is like this: layman -S emerge --sync emerge -pvDuN world emerge -pv --depclean eclean -p distfiles eclean -p packages And then attended like this: emerge -DuN world

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
at all... but to be ure, I'll look into the warrenty later. Greetings, Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x837FB8B5BB9D4887 # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
, but not with parallel merges, like when Thunderbird and Firefox are both being built at the same time. Alex THANK YOU!! You solved a problem I have been having for some time. This should go to the easy Gentoo tricks thread :) Very happy, Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 26.11.2012 00:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:46:28 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? Yes, no, improved virtual memory performance. +1 SSDs aren't cheapo SD cards, they are meant

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 25.11.2012 22:43, Jacques Montier wrote: Each time you sync the portage, you should write on the SSD... Is it a good thing ? It is the best thing since rsync! Really - it is amazing! And about portage: you write in your portage tree not nearly as often as in /home. SSDs don't die as quickly

Re: [gentoo-user] davical thunderbird

2012-11-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
is feature complete, and will not support its development anymore - so there goes any hope :( Sad, Daniel PS: _reading_ from a LDAP directory is the only thing that works well with TB addressbook.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread Jakub Daniel
Try tabbed with urxvt (for example, or any other embeddable terminal) see suckless.org for more info about tabbed Jakub On 15 October 2012 21:14, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 10/15/2012 05:41 PM Randolph Maaßen wrote the following: By the way, I got used to tabbing terminal.in

Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font

2012-10-01 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:42:26 -0300 José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica. $ ps2pdf a.ps Error: /invalidfont in /findfont

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-20 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:44:33 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400 Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-20 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:55:37 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: lafilefixer --justfixit. The last one, lafilefixer --justfixit is especially valuable as it gets right of a huge gigantic steaming pile of crap that a) should never have been there at all in the first place and

Re: [gentoo-user] MTP auto-mount? (Kindle Fire HD)

2012-09-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/18/2012 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, Are there any known tricks for auto-mounting an MTP device? I think this stuff is used on some newer Android phone so I'm hoping someone has a nice solution. MTP is used on a quite a few newer Android devices, including my Nexus 7. I

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/15/2012 03:26 PM, Mick wrote: I was also replacing capacitors last weekend. It is a good idea to upgrade them if there are alternatives of a higher maximum temperature as they will probably last longer. A belts braces approach is to add another/larger case fan to keep the

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/15/2012 03:29 PM, Dale wrote: Daniel Frey wrote: Well, it turns out it was my PSU. The voltage drop on the 5V line was 4.08, but it would slowly warm up to 4.95V, then the PC would behave normally. I opened the PSU and there was a ruptured cap. I've replaced it and the problems are all

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-15 Thread Daniel Frey
that the failure happened after a major update. This isn't the first time an `emerge -pvuDN world` killed my computer. :-) Dan On 09/13/2012 07:20 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 09/12/2012 09:49 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: So about a month

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/13/2012 10:37 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012, 17:18:38 schrieb Daniel Frey: So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x series. My old 2.6.x kernel was working fine, but of course I decided to try to update it anyway, knowing

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