Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 04:57 +, James wrote: [...] try www.namesys.com/support.html, and for $25 the author of fsck, or a colleague if he is out, will step you through it all. Did you try that? ;) It's probably a bad disk and you need to take it back... Not sure why you had to

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd missing in stage3 of AMD64...?

2010-09-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 16:26 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I use the AMD64 gentoo iso to boot into a 64bit system. There was a net-connection without any problems (using DSL and dhcp). After several steps I chrooted into the new environment and ... no net anymore. eth0 was up (ifconfig)

Re: [gentoo-user] what's going on with updates ?

2010-09-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:15 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Since few days ( two or three ?), every time I launch emerge, it's saying me it needs an update of portage itself. In plus, I have upgraded udev at least two times (160161162 today)... Plus, I have had two warning message

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 09:45 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my hosted server. Running mcelog I get: # mcelog HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! [...] Should I just contact the hosting company? Can anyone give me more info

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/python failure

2010-10-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 07:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py, line 2134, in action_sync // + user_name + ip + port + /, 1)) TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects This is a bug... shuld be more something like:

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

2010-11-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:52 +0100, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 17.11.2010 10:19, schrieb Joerg Schilling: This is why find -exec + exists since 20 years. Could you enlighten me about this? I look into man find but it says nothing about -exec + or a + operator at all. Also adding + to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Console-kit instances...

2010-11-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 01:20 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it really necessary, that console-kit runs 65 instances of itsself??? They're not instances (whatever that means anyway). They're threads... the short of it is... it's already been discussed . It's not hurting anything

Re: [gentoo-user] About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
one of them uses labels. -- Neil Bothwick Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in world - howto

2010-12-08 Thread Stroller
On 8/12/2010, at 4:11pm, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... I have a script I used to locate redudancies in the world file. It requires gentoolkit. It basically looks at packages in world that have reverse dependencies also in world (but only goes one level deep). Just # auditworld /var/lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in world - howto

2010-12-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 16:28 +, Stroller wrote: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/302273/ I think this only works on ~ARCH, right? On x86 I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File ./auditworld, line 20, in module import gentoolkit.sets ImportError: No module named sets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/01/2011 02:00 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: .. got it slightly lower by switching to dash and disabling ACPI and APIC: root@lilpenguin $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:18 4 13 0 0 1

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

2011-04-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:19 +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: gtk+ 3.x is not used by gnome versions in portage (2.x). If you don't know if you need it, then you don't need it. Gnome3 is slowly making its way into portage, and so so is bringing with it packages that depend either

Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

2011-04-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.04.2011 21:12, schrieb Thanasis: on 04/30/2011 09:57 PM Albert Hopkins wrote the following: Perhaps a bit too public. Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D ...all except spam ... Seems like Gentoo Infra reacts a tad faster than Scientific Linux Infra. There was meant to be a follow-up spam

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

2011-05-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 12:18 +0200, Andrea Conti wrote: AFAIK in order to avoid this kind of breakage system ebuilds such as mpfr never delete old library versions; they just print a warning saying that the old library has been kept around and should be manually deleted after running

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC in DomU

2011-05-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:27 +, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, after I went to openrc all works fine just one thing disturbing now: If I create a xen-guest with xm create guest -c or change to the console when the system boots, some of the characters particularly [] are garbled. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are *.so library files executable?

2011-06-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Gentoo users tend to be technically adept, so I'll ask the question here: Why are *.so files set as executables? I noticed that they keep working if I do a chmod a-x on them. Well, they are executables in that they are object code

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember. I have a bunch of systems (desktop and client) and none of them pull in any KDE libs

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/22/11 22:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: Perhaps, but it's trivial to convert qcows to other formats. Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the conversion would increase the size of the disk image

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said: Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ? Shouldn't it work similarly? Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4? I use Xen directly and as long as I can create and fill the partitions for the VM,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, June 26 at 18:28 (+0100), Mick said: Hi All, I was trying to record my desktop using: ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached screenshot, when I play it with mplayer. Is there some

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man make.conf). Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for several yrs

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

2011-07-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 12:08:20AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote ssmtp has an mta USE flag.. I guess this just made it to stable (has been in testing for a while now). Anyway ssmtp only satisfies virtual/mta with that flag set. So you should be able to simply set it and remerge ssmtp

Re: [gentoo-user] about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I fear my kernel line may be out of date. A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way™ for doing console/X mode settings. But if you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you to be running xorg. KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the kernel handle graphics mode setting and gets out of the way. But KMS

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 8 at 22:37 (+0100), john said: ok I might be being dumb but found a way round this (through trial and error) In advanced options in step 5 of 5 select Specify Shared Device Name Please note you'll need to create a bridge as well but selecting the above removes error

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 9 at 12:22 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: I wasn't suggesting that. But when the main reason for sticking with the older option is that you have a working system with data in it, the loss of both of those is a good time to investigate the newer alternative. I see. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line manager (rc scripts)

2011-07-12 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.orgwrote: On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said: Hi, I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when computer boots. Is there any such project? libvirt (can also manage Xen

Re: [gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for?

2011-07-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thursday, July 14 at 18:59 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said: One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2: What's the purpose of setting rc_sys? (In my case, to xenU)l Rgds, Just briefly looking at the sources... * It affects when some filesystems are

Re: [gentoo-user] Using KVM, what about clocks?

2011-07-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wednesday, July 20 at 23:43 (+0200), Stefan G. Weichinger said: [...] Are there any recommended kernel-config-settings for a performant and non-drifting KVM-server? Well, KVM_CLOCK obviously: KVM_CLOCK bool KVM paravirtualized clock select PARAVIRT select

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query

2011-07-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thursday, July 21 at 11:10 (+), j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk said: Well, depends on your definition of works. AFAIK linux does not expose the NFTS permission system fully, because they are very different and there is no 1:1 mapping between them. So while the *data* may be copied over, the

Re: [gentoo-user] mysqld invoked oom-killer

2011-07-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thursday, July 21 at 18:43 (-0700), Grant said: If I understand correctly, an out-of-memory condition that would lock up a system without swap, will cause it to thrash with swap. A remote system of mine was locked up for many hours due to running out of memory without swap. If I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig

2011-07-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 22 at 18:42 (-0500), Dale said: I sort of hate to hear there are no major changes. I was hoping for a fix on my kernel panic problem. Oh well. I'll upgrade anyway. Maybe it will help. Fixing a kernel bug is not considered a major change. A major change would be

Re: [gentoo-user] RootFS not umounting at shutdown?

2011-09-11 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Monday, September 12 at 07:23 (+0530), Nilesh Govindarajan said: Ever since I have updated my system on 20th September, my rootfs (/dev/sda2) isn't umounted (remounted ro) on shutdown, due to which I see recover messages by kernel at boot (before init starts up). What's going wrong? I

Re: [gentoo-user] pstree for modules ?

2011-09-28 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 06:41 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:42:09AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: You could still create a tree, but only by making most modules appear multiple times. Just like the '--tree' option for 'emerge' In that case something like: #

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager-9999 won't compile

2011-10-19 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 13:11 -0700, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Why don't you try networkmanager-0.9.1.90? It's working great for me in GNOME 3.2.0 Is there something in the live ebuild that you need? I can't confirm (never tried it) but I've been told the autounmask option in portage will

Re: [gentoo-user] Python idle - font size for menu and help

2011-11-05 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 15:12 +0100, Hartmut Figge wrote: Greetings, i am just playing a bit with python and have discovered idle. For idle to be useful the fonts have to be enlarged both for the menus and the help window. http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/id05.png (60 KB) With

[gentoo-user] Re: Python idle - font size for menu and help

2011-11-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
Albert W. Hopkins: AFAIK IDLE uses the Tk toolkit. So it seems... So you'll probably need to configure the fonts for Tk ...and i have already searched for a way to do so. In vain. Would be nice, if this could be done not alone for idle but also for other tk applications. (however that's done

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-12 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: 3. Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules. I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the old device is gone. Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the currently

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade

2011-11-25 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:30 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:59:51 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: I've used Gentoo since 2006 and never had any reason to emerge -e. Apart from the occasional gcc ABI change, the only time I do it is after a fresh install, so that

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

2011-11-25 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 01:28 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages not of any use to me: around 200MB in total. Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of? Thanks in advance, What do you have in LINGUAS and

Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive

2011-11-26 Thread James Broadhead
On 26 November 2011 00:28, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd? I see that you have tried the SysRescueCD - have you tried the vanilla Gentoo LiveCD? I find that it is usually pretty resilient. In the past, I've found enabling

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

2011-11-26 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 15:24 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Oh boy: setting rc_parallel=NO in /etc/rc.conf did the trick now. Around 4 hrs of fiddling ... and then it is one wrong bit. I don't have an explanation, just the result ... up and running fine now w/ openrc. So a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

2011-11-27 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 11/26/2011 01:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: (not that 200MB is really that big by today's standards). In my case it is. I am caching all of /usr/share/ into a cache working on file system level with space limited to 1GB taken from RAM. It's an experiment and it doesn't seem to perform

Re: [gentoo-user] media-libs/freetype

2011-12-02 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 14:10 +0100, Alexander Tanyukevich wrote: Is there anybody able to compile media-libs/freetype with USE=-*, because my one wan't be compiled until USE=static-libs has been set up. ARCH=amd64, CFLAGS=-march=atom -O2 -pipe It really depends.. Do you you splashutils, which,

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.12.2011 12:34, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins: On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 07:23 +0100, András Csányi wrote: Dear Stefan, Nowadays I'm using it just at home for private. I would be so happy if it would be a gentoo my workspace! :) I use Gentoo at home and at work, and am running GNOME3 at both

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrome

2011-12-04 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 17:36 +0100, András Csányi wrote: Has anybody experienced that the Chrome browser is able to eat all of memory? I have this issue on both Linux and Win 7 as well. I assume flash could be the main issue. However, facebook, gmail and g+ eat more than 100 MByte memory.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: IIRC, libreoffice was released with *experimental* support for gtk3, and have acknowledged that there are issues with the gtk3 port.  However Gentoo decided to enable gtk3 support by default.  However it *should

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell, networkmanager, wifi re-connect

2011-12-20 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 11:25 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: [...] Do you see the same amounts of time to reconnect? Not for me. I'm reconnected before I have a chance to type in my password... unless it's taking me a long time to type in my password :P Not that I consider 30 seconds quite a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: For those who complain

2012-01-20 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/20/2012 10:51 PM, Dale wrote: Albert W. Hopkins wrote: [...] And sometimes those people are finding problems. Please don't feed the troll. Since it was fixed, I took his food bowl away. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
of files to include, the current versions of everything will always be included. -- Neil Bothwick If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge sys-fs/udev-171-r9

2013-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
created them. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Albert
Al 10/09/2013 19:47, En/na Joseph ha escrit: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
mount the old one on it. -- Neil Bothwick Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
to pad single digit dates. -- Neil Bothwick The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view. -- Albert Einstein pgpnWWtJlMGmL.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: is your metadata safe?

2015-06-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
it was Albert Einstein that said that, this sounds like a compliment. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: duplicate gentoo system - errors

2020-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
s long as the environment is secure. -- Neil Bothwick "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." (Albert Einstein) pgpjP2r1VpITm.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:45 +, James wrote: Ok Albert, I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the virgin drive with DD. I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive onto a gentoo partition

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.orgwrote: On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 15:50 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 21:38 +0200, pk wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:03 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:11 +0100, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote: Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard

[gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-17 Thread Billy Wayne McCann
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:20, Billy McCann wrote: Hi Mick. From what I understand, using oldconfig for major version changes (.20 - .21) is a bad idea. Here's what I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 10:36 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it shortly. Done, uploaded to the same place: http

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:04:27 + Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an OS from a CD

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-17 Thread Grant
Good points Albert. Is a daily 'emerge --sync emerge -avDuN world' generally enough as far as tracking security vulnerabilities? - Grant That's not really for me to say. But I can tell you that although the Gentoo developers take matters of security seriously, there is no full-time

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-17 Thread Grant
Good points Albert. Is a daily 'emerge --sync emerge -avDuN world' generally enough as far as tracking security vulnerabilities? - Grant That's not really for me to say. But I can tell you that although the Gentoo developers take matters of security seriously, there is no full-time

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later. I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't done head to head comparisons on nvidia for ages.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs. Everything is working great but I would like to increase the security a little. I was wondering if there's an easy way to restrict 'emerge --sync' to only

[gentoo-user] Re: New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread reader
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what is the correct procedure here? Did you try # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap It has no effect whatsoever: root # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap * Manually resetting net.eth0 to stopped state (In fact it is not stopped I can ping www.gentoo) root

Re: [gentoo-user] xen+kvm+win2k problem

2008-05-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:19 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to install win2k on xen w/ hw-virtualization. The vm boots into the installer and tells it collects some system information - from that point on it hangs. One point I already figured out is I forgot to include

Re: [gentoo-user] xen+kvm+win2k problem

2008-05-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think officially Win2k is not supported by Xen. XP, 2003, etc. run fine. There are probably people out there running Win2k on Xen but I bet they have to do something wicked and I'm not aware of what it is. from what I've read in the net

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread Roy Wright
Albert Hopkins wrote: I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular fake HW RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't supported by the kernel. Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I had hoped. I'm finding: * Internal

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 13:24 +0200, Martin Lehmann wrote: Hi, i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not there after the emerge. Any hints? It's parte of xen-tools. But if you don't want the

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:28 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: For some reason when I run Ekiga it doesn't detect any v4l or v4l2 drivers...Only picture... Does the OS detect your device? I.E: 1. Do you see it in dmesg? 2. Does a device get created (e.g. /dev/video0) 3. Can you

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [...] now I have another issue, because my microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I can get playback through my speakers (using alsamixer) but no matter what I do I can't get Ekiga's echoing system to echo back my

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 16:31 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: Yessir, it does... dev-libs/pwlib-1.10.10-r1 USE=alsa ldap sdl ssl v4l xml -debug -ieee1394 -ipv6 -oss -sasl -v4l2 Is there anything else I should check? Perhaps I should enable OSS support as well...? I mean, it may work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:43 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:06:44 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-) why, what happens in November

[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Albert W. Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with issues like this when they arise. So please have patience with us. As far as I'm concerned, it's fine that the site

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 09:27:17 Alexander Skwar wrote: Albert W. Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with issues like this when they arise. So please have patience

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:15 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alexander Skwar wrote: Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but these most often were due to some configuration changes. And exactly for this is why

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

2007-09-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: open(/lib/security/pam_deny.so, O_RDONLY) = 4 open(/etc/passwd, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/etc/shadow, O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) chage: PAM authentication failed That's normal. You're running chage from strace ;) open

Re: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash.

2007-09-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 17:03 +0200, David Harel wrote: I was surprised to find that in man bash the reference to initialization files is wrong. The bash manual says it reads initialization files from /etc/profile: FILES /bin/bash The bash executable /etc/profile

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

2007-09-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 13:30 -0700, Grant wrote: Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] GET / 400 470 I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches and each entry in a batch is logged at almost

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. ... Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with cable-select enabled. These days you rarely need to deal

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem

2007-10-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:53 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I unmerged postgresql 8.0.3 in order to emerge 8.2.x, now when i try to do anything i get the following message: psql: FATAL: database files are incompatible with server DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem

2007-10-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Albert Hopkins wrote: I'm guessing he deleted them because he no longer needed them(?). Luckily, he just mentioned that it was a fresh 8.0 install, so the databases were useless anyway :) - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating to LVM

2007-10-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 07:56 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: I'm not sure I get what your problem is. If you could tell more about what you have (i.e. how are the partitions on those two drives used currently) and what you want, it would be much easier to help. Just wanted to chime in with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with vlc

2007-10-18 Thread Danis Petkakis
check out this http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-600869-highlight-.htmlpost in gentoo-forums...there seems to be a problem with linking vlc with ansi although unicode flag is enabled and wxGTK aswell... On 18/10/2007, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:59 -0400

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:32 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Could I see that script? How do you invoke it, anacron/fcron? -- #!/bin/sh OUTFILE=/root/backup.tar.pgp tar -c --one-file-system -X /etc/mybackup.exclude -C / . ./boot | \ gpg --encrypt -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] --yes $OUTFILE --- I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:29 +, James wrote: Hello, I do not read as much as I should, but, I stumbled across this page [1] that suggests that EVMS is dead. I see it is in portage, but is it slated for the trash, as time moves forward? Sure it's Ubuntu site, but they claim EVMS is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:24 -0800, Grant wrote: I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. My external monitoring service has an API I can

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:25:43 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried all the possibilities. Except the working one. Don't give up! I don't mean to discount your reply but I am worried I expressed myself poorly. I think your configuration should look like: rootnoverify

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual answers are: python.org

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 19 November 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:45 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: Hi there, Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what

AW: [gentoo-user] exaile

2007-12-06 Thread Zimmerling, Alexander
yes -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Albert Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Do 06.12.2007 22:37 An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] exaile On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 22:16 +0100, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi Guys, I need your help. After a mass

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, crypto, and backup

2007-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:15:12 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: I would probably use encfs, forget about the one-lvm-per-user complexity, and just back up the encrypted filesystem just like any other fs. Alternatively, you could do the same with the in-kernel ecryptfs. These two solutions work

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-18 Thread Yahya Mohammad
Thanks very much everyone for the suggestions!! On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 07:15:39PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:32:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: 1. Create a new runlevel, say nox and just don't put xdm in the runlevel. The drawback to this is you have to maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 16:32:26 Albert Hopkins wrote: The way I see it there are two possible solutions: 1. Create a new runlevel, say nox and just don't put xdm in the runlevel. The drawback to this is you have to maintain another runlevel. I don't see what maintenance load

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers

2009-01-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
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