Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: Blast, spoke too soon. When I tried to scp over the tar of the /var/tmp partition it failed: === debug1: Sending command: scp -v -p -f /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype

Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

2005-12-28 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 10:15, capsel wrote: Have you read info grub ?? fallback should be on top and it is, savedefault fallback can be in title section and means that I want to save as a default fallback which in my case is 0. I think it should be EOT for now... I've checked if

[gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005-12-28 Thread Martin S
Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about doing a backup. :)Short of doing an image of the whole installation, what files should be backed up to ensure a quick and easy reinstallation of the working system as of now. Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-28 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-12-28 14:25:26 +0800 (Wed, Dec), W.Kenworthy wrote: Thats the world file, is there an equivalent for system? 'System' is defined in your profile: see /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages bunyip ~ # emerge -ep system These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-28 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server?

[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-28 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server?

RE: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: capsel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 December 2005 21:16 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27 [snip...] I think it should be EOT for now... I've checked if savedefault works from command line

[gentoo-user] No X interface...

2005-12-28 Thread Cláudio Henrique
Hi there, After a overheat, my computer does not work under X interface. I start my system without error messages, but when I try to startx, the screen goes black, and only reseting the computer the system is restored. Not even a /var/log/Xorg.0.log output is generated. The same problem occurs if

RE: [gentoo-user] No X interface...

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Cláudio Henrique [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 December 2005 11:10 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] No X interface... Hi there, After a overheat, my computer does not work under X interface. I start my system without

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-28 Thread Mattias Merilai
Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server? You will want to check out

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-28 Thread Anthony Roy
You will want to check out the gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml which will help you set up imap, spamassassin and more. Thanks, this should be a good place to start for phase 2 of my setup - i.e. anti-virus and spam filtering. Moving

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-28 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 28 décembre à 13:05:48 Anthony Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | I need to do this automatically. It looks like fetchmail may be what I | am after here. Yes, I'm using fetchmail - postfix - dovecot (imap server); but my mail server is not a gentoo box though, I use a clark-connect-3.0

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick schrieb: Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/ files from one box to another in a single motion. Use ssh instead: tar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat foo.tar or ssh sourcebox tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005-12-28 Thread byron
Martin S wrote: Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about doing a backup. :) Short of doing an image of the whole installation, what files should be backed up to ensure a quick and easy reinstallation of the working system as of now. Regards, Martin S I

[gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

2005-12-28 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards. In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a card and xorg (6.8.2)? Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

2005-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/28/05, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards. In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a card and xorg (6.8.2)? Best regards,

RE: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 December 2005 14:22 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined? On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick schrieb: Ideally I would like to

[gentoo-user] /dev/shm and firefox question

2005-12-28 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hello all, I recently installed qemu; when I launch it I get this message: You do not have enough space in '/dev/shm' for the 450 MB of QEMU virtual RAM. To have more space available provided you have enough RAM and swap, do as root: umount /dev/shm mount -t tmpfs -o size=466m none /dev/shm OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm and firefox question

2005-12-28 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 12/28/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I recently installed qemu; when I launch it I get this message: You do not have enough space in '/dev/shm' for the 450 MB of QEMU virtual RAM. To have more space available provided you have enough RAM and swap, do as

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Mariusz Pêkala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 December 2005 08:20 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined? On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: What does not a regular file mean? :=@

[gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) = System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005-12-28 Thread Martin S
2005/12/28, byron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /root? why's that?Anything special for Gentoo? List of installed apps or something that'll make things easier if need be?Regards,Martin S

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

2005-12-28 Thread schroder
I unmerged old versions of KDE and ran # revdep-rebuild -p I've added a couple of packages to package.keywords and solved past errors but I'm stuck here. All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --nodeps -p =app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 =app-text/poppler-0.4.2-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:22:07 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | All the gentoo systems that I admin show the same slow down at about | 51%. I dearly wish we'd get away from a file based database. And | before everyone jumps on me about the various database backend | patches that I can

[gentoo-user] mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-28 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm getting the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' It's true that I don't have ext2 support compiled into my kernel, but I never have. My /etc/fstab

[gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the rosegarden-user mailing list to work through this problem. They had me send them some debug information and now they tell me that the problem is with my

Re:[gentoo-user] mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-28 Thread brunogola
Did you already tried to pass to mount the arguments ? Like mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /boot ! Try this, about the fstab, it's right, but to know what is wrong with your systems i probably need more information. Maybe someone in this list had this problem once and know the solution. Good luck!

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-28 Thread Grant
Did you already tried to pass to mount the arguments ? Like mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /boot ! Try this, about the fstab, it's right, but to know what is wrong with your systems i probably need more information. Maybe someone in this list had this problem once and know the solution. Good

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005-12-28 Thread Francesco Riosa
Martin S wrote: Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about doing a backup. :) Short of doing an image of the whole installation, what files should be backed up to ensure a quick and easy reinstallation of the working system as of now. Regards, Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005-12-28 Thread byron
Martin S wrote: 2005/12/28, byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: /root ? why's that? Anything special for Gentoo? List of installed apps or something that'll make things easier if need be? Regards, Martin S I tend to keep scripts and tarballs in /root

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-28 Thread Peter
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:15:14 -0800, Grant wrote: Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm getting the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' It's true that I don't have ext2 support

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the rosegarden-user mailing list to work through this problem. They had me

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-28 Thread brunogola
Man, i really dont know how mount know wich type is... i know that it normally asks for a fs type when it cant recognize the fs type. Are you sure that fstab points /dev/hda1 to /boot using ext3 ? Can you paste your fstab here? Maybe some conflict? -- Cabeçalho original ---

[gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread Mick
Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Mariusz Pêkala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 December 2005 08:20 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined? On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: What does not

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:15 -0800, michael higgins wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

2005-12-28 Thread schroder
first of all, I appologise if this message breaks the thread. I'm using my ISP's web interface as unmerging old versions of KDE seems to have broken kmail On Wednesday 28 December 2005 13:39, a tiny voice compelled Benno Schulenberg to write: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge: there are no

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Peter
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:16:39 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: Portage deficency? You mean the fact that python scans some thousands of files in the file based database, writing as it goes? and that the real cache is centrally generated, right? Yup, from thousands of files in the file based

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:31:39 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:15 -0800, michael higgins wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Do you have this installed? Again, just a guess. HTH. I

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

2005-12-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Dec 2005, at 16:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I unmerged old versions of KDE and ran # revdep-rebuild -p ... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-lang/python-2.3.3-r1. What does `emerge -Pp python

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm and firefox question

2005-12-28 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 28 décembre à 16:46:15 Andres Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | On 12/28/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello all, | I recently installed qemu; when I launch it I get this message: | | You do not have enough space in '/dev/shm' for the 450 MB of

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:16:39 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Wrong solution. You do realise that the updating Portage cache | thing is due to a Portage deficiency, | | Portage deficency? You mean the fact that python scans some | thousands of files in the file based database,

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 23:00, Michael Sullivan wrote: I emerged rosegarden the other day.  When it starts up it tells me that the MIDI sequencer could not be started. This happened to me a while back. Here's what I did. Change your /etc/make.conf to include +jack +jack-tmpfs and

[gentoo-user] [OT] Shell redirection magic for audio capture?

2005-12-28 Thread michael higgins
Hello all. Being comparatively clueless, I've considered this particular problem for a long time. I finally came to what I believe is a solution, but a clunky one. Can any shell wizards make this work any better? Is there some other solution? In other words, it works, but I'd like to put an

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype: esd options

2005-12-28 Thread Kurt Guenther
It appears that ESD is setup. I had it ring with XMMS playing. Still a miserable application under Linux ... Kurt Guenther wrote: I'm using gnome, so Skype's docs[1] say: Be sure to run esd daemon using esd -d /dev/dsp because on some distros (e.g. Gentoo) the esddsp wrapper checks

Re: [gentoo-user] USB *USED TO* work nicely a couple of months ago...

2005-12-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:24:18PM +, Stroller wrote On 27 Dec 2005, at 11:51, Walter Dnes wrote: I doubt that I had simultaneous failures in one machine's USB system and the shirtpocket USB drive. Anyone have any ideas? Has USB setup changed somehow? I don't do much with USB

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

2005-12-28 Thread schroder
emerge -Pp python emerge -pv python These are the packages that I would unmerge: dev-lang/python selected: 2.3.3-r1 protected: 2.4.2 omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. These are the packages that I

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

2005-12-28 Thread Ryan Tandy
snip dev-lang/python selected: 2.3.3-r1 protected: 2.4.2 omitted: none snip Python is slotted, meaning you can have more than one version installed at a time. You're using the current version, but the old one is still there, unneeded. To make sure you've completely migrated

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

2005-12-28 Thread schroder
That seems to have fixed that problem. I'm muddling through a few others, most notably kmail. Thanks Ryan. Quoting Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip dev-lang/python selected: 2.3.3-r1 protected: 2.4.2 omitted: none snip Python is slotted, meaning you can have more

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: What does not a regular file mean? :=@ Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character on the left will tell you what kind of file is this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-28 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm getting the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' It's true that I don't have ext2 support compiled into my kernel, but I never have.

Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools

2005-12-28 Thread Grant
How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. The network is just run from a router. No

[gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

2005-12-28 Thread fire-eyes
I dropped my alsa issue into a pastebin, so I'm just going to lazily copy it here. Thanks for reading :) I am using kernel 2.6.14.4 , compiled myself and installed myself. I am using alsa-driver-1.0.10 and alsa-lib-1.0.10. When I try to start the alsasound script, I get pages of errors

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-12-28 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email. Receiving email works properly. 2~QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/RecipientComboBox) The largest allowed size is

Re: [gentoo-user]KMAIL Broken

2005-12-28 Thread schroder
Sorry for not adding a subject line, I'm not used to using my ISP's web interface. Quoting Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email.

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: What does not a regular file mean? :=@ Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character on the left will

Re: [gentoo-user] oddity blocking package SOLVED

2005-12-28 Thread schroder
Damned if I know how, but the problem has gone away. Maybe I just had to prove to the box that xpdf was definately NOT installed. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [blocks B ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) # emerge -p xpdf [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005-12-28 Thread maxim wexler
If you're like me and you connect to the web with a string and a tin can, you'll want to save the distfiles for sure. --- Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about doing a backup. :) Short of doing an image of the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] oddity blocking package SOLVED

2005-12-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (28/12/05 19:30), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damned if I know how, but the problem has gone away. Maybe I just had to prove to the box that xpdf was definately NOT installed. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [blocks B ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) #

[gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-28 Thread larry
trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm --21:17:33--

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (28/12/05 21:22), larry wrote: trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm --21:17:33--

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm and firefox question

2005-12-28 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 28 décembre à 20:42:39 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | | Leaving out the noexec option? | | | -- | | Andres | Ok I try this, see what happens tomorrow at boot.. Well, this was no solution for firefox; looks like there was a corrupt file in my ~/.mozilla...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-28 Thread larry
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:54 pm, Rumen Yotov wrote: On (28/12/05 21:22), larry wrote: trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (28/12/05 23:17), larry wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:54 pm, Rumen Yotov wrote: On (28/12/05 21:22), larry wrote: trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-28 Thread Dale
Rumen Yotov wrote: HUGE snip Hi, Leave in 10 minutes, but just a quicknote. When emerging an app portage checks it's md5sum, so even a minor diff will cause an exit. You need the same version/file or if you are confident in it's origin do: ebuild