Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

2006-04-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: > On 4/28/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the > > config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything > > obvious. > > The m

[gentoo-user] error installing jabberd

2006-04-28 Thread David
hi I'm trying to install a jabberd on gentoo. but all I get is the following error. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/jabberd-2.0.10/work/jabberd-2.0s10' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/jabberd-2.0.10/work/jabberd-2.0s10' * 'enewgroup()' called from 'install()' which is n

[gentoo-user] You, Gentoo and Google's Summer of Code.

2006-04-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hi all, Some of you may already be familiar with Google's Summer of Code[1], which is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google works with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related g

Re: [gentoo-user] no net modules will load

2006-04-28 Thread Maurice E Johnson
It would seem that you failed to configure the necessary modules for loading any of the modules you list. Also, as of kernel 2.6.13, devfs is no longer in the kernel and you must use udev. without it you will never get your devices to be recognised. I do hope you kept your old kernel around so

[gentoo-user] no net modules will load

2006-04-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, After running -Du gentoo-sources, I noted that /etc/modules.autoload.d/2.6 had been overwritten by a blank form. So I re-wrote it and rebooted. All, and *only* modules having to do with net stuff, ie, ppp, eth0, serial devices etc failed to load. Here's a sample from dmesg: kb ppp_gener

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Phil Sexton
Hemmann Volker Armin wrote: Only, and really only after a kernel update you need to reboot. Perhaps not even then. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-adfly.html -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 28 April 2006 20:04, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system': > Kevin wrote: > > Hi All- > > > > I've read the portage documentation at > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched > > and bro

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 29 April 2006 02:42, Kevin wrote: > > It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system > upgrade done with: > > emerge -uD system > or > emerge -uD world > > I must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect. short answer: no long answer: only after kernel up

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You need to run etc-update (or one of it's cousins) if you are told files need updating. After that run the /etc/init.d/sshd restart. On Friday April 28 2006 20:55, Kevin wrote: > On a related note, what is the most correct procedure for restarting a > service after an update to a service (say n

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Phil Sexton
Kevin wrote: Hi All- I've read the portage documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question that I don't see answered anywhere. It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Kevin wrote: > Hi All- > > I've read the portage documentation at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched > and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question > that I don't see answered anywhere. > > It seems to me that it must be true that so

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Kevin
On a related note, what is the most correct procedure for restarting a service after an update to a service (say named or cyrus-imapd or apache or sshd)? I've been doing something like this: # emerge -v openssh examine config file differences and make any adjustments that are required to be done

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You've been hanging around Windows users too much . Linux normally doesn't require a reboot. Sometimes you have to restart the deamons with the /etc/init.d/whatever restart. On Friday April 28 2006 20:42, Kevin wrote: > Hi All- > > I've read the portage documentation at > http://www.gentoo.or

[gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Kevin
Hi All- I've read the portage documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question that I don't see answered anywhere. It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system upgra

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp and/or mailx delivery problem

2006-04-28 Thread Maurice E Johnson
What is the senders address? That is where the first clue will be. On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:34 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: The following script is run as part of a nitely cron job. //garbanzo/home/festus > cat /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh #! /bin/bash ## /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh # Sync now /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Ignore the $GCONV_PATH bit. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-28 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Could this be related to the fact that for my normal user I see: $ echo $GCONV_PATH /usr/lib32/gconv (root doesn't have that env var set at all) On 4/26/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After doing: # mv lib32{,-bak} # ln -s lib64 lib32 I saw the following results: $

Re: [gentoo-user] gziiping files in /usr/share/doc/

2006-04-28 Thread Yrjö Hatakka
> Yrjö Hatakka wrote: > > How can I turn this retarded behaviour off ? > > What behavior? Storing documentation in /usr/share/doc? or storing gzipped > documentation? > > If it's the first one, as far as I know, you can't. > > If it's the latter, why would you want to do that? It saves some HD spac

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

2006-04-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/28/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything obvious. The modules are loaded when /lib/rcscripts/addons/udev-start.sh runs udevtrigger, which goes thr

RE: [gentoo-user] Cyrus and saslauthd

2006-04-28 Thread CR Little
Now I’m getting thse error messages Apr 28 15:45:37 [pop3] sql_select option missing Apr 28 15:45:37 [pop3] auxpropfunc error no mechanism available_ Apr 28 15:45:40 [pop3] sql_select option missing Apr 28 15:45:40 [pop3] auxpropfunc error no mechanism available_ Apr 28 15:45:42 [ima

[gentoo-user] Cyrus and saslauthd

2006-04-28 Thread CR Little
I use sendmail/cyrus/mysql and saslauthd.   I updated some packages today and now I’m getting disconnect from my mail server.   It’s logging this.   Apr 28 15:18:43 [pop3] sql_select option missing Apr 28 15:18:43 [pop3] auxpropfunc error no mechanism available_ Apr 28 15:18:51 [po

Re: [gentoo-user] gziiping files in /usr/share/doc/

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Ortiz
Yrjö Hatakka wrote: How can I turn this retarded behaviour off ? What behavior? Storing documentation in /usr/share/doc? or storing gzipped documentation? If it's the first one, as far as I know, you can't. If it's the latter, why would you want to do that? It saves some HD space. Also, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] gziiping files in /usr/share/doc/

2006-04-28 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/28/06, Yrjö Hatakka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I turn this retarded behaviour off ? -- ykä at home There are a few bugs open on bugzilla for this. I personally hate it, so I made a small patch for portage to disable it. If you want to disable it for the future, edit /usr/lib/port

[gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)

2006-04-28 Thread Sergio Polini
What's happening about locales/languages? I've tried to install PHP-Nuke and Xoops, but one of them (I don't remember which one, now ;-)) doesn't like utf8 encoding, because it creates too long primary keys for MySQL. So I remerged MySQL and replaced "utf8" with "latin1" in /etc/mysql/my.conf. I

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-28 Thread Martins Steinbergs
> Hi, > > Well, It's me again, > I was satisfied too quickly ! > After upgrading xorg to xorg-x11-7.0-r1 and getting dri successfully, > gdm still crashes at reboot (kernel panic). > I really don't know what to do now :-( > Any idea ? > > Thanks a lot, > > --- Jacques -- check xorg logs for driver

[gentoo-user] gziiping files in /usr/share/doc/

2006-04-28 Thread Yrjö Hatakka
How can I turn this retarded behaviour off ? -- ykä at home -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

2006-04-28 Thread Willie Wong
Dear all, I performed a massive update on my laptop last night, and started observing the following behaviour on boot. A message would pop-up saying to the effect that "udev is processing kernel events" and then proceeds to load a bunch of kernel modules which I didn't specify for loa

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 DVD hangs !

2006-04-28 Thread Rohit and Bhavana
Hi there, I downloaded the ISO image and as I didn't have a blank CD handy, I burned it onto a single layer DVD [after all it was an ISO image, right?] and hoped for the best. My PC now boots off it, shows lovely startup splash etc till it tries to start GDM. At that point - the mouse pointer chan

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Jim
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:42 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Can't find anything, too. > As last resort, if your "arch" is at at least "i686" you could use the > liveCD-2006.0 directly (to install) or start it and using "quickpkg" > make your own binary packages. Save them elsewhere, and use later

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
And Thomas, I have a pavilion, it runs flawless for a LONG time now, so, don't say that kinda stuff about it, my notebook have feelings, you know... oops sorry , I like the laptops actually, a lot, the Pavillion I had I bought used from someone was a desktop. The previous owner bought a mac cuz i

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: >On 4/28/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >>I ran into this with a family member recently, the CPU was running hot >>and the mobo was cutting the CPU off. The only way to get it back up >>again was to reboot. She kept doing this though, thinking it w

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice weirdness

2006-04-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 27 April 2006 18:11, James wrote: > Hello, > > OpenOffice has worked wonderfully for me for some time now, until just > yesterday. I do not use openoffice regularly so I not sure which update > caused the problem. > > On both these versions: 2.0.1-r1 and 2.0.2-r2 > > I get the same pr

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/28/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > > On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I've already run memtest86, no problem report. > > > > > > memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. > > > > Try this one instead: > > http://pe

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Richard Fish wrote: > On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've already run memtest86, no problem report. > > > memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. > > Try this one instead: > http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html > > -Richard > I ran into this with a

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice weirdness

2006-04-28 Thread James
Hello, OpenOffice has worked wonderfully for me for some time now, until just yesterday. I do not use openoffice regularly so I not sure which update caused the problem. On both these versions: 2.0.1-r1 and 2.0.2-r2 I get the same problem: ooffice2 lauches the apps just fine. When I go to sa

Re: [gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel?

2006-04-28 Thread Chris White
On Friday 28 April 2006 07:40 am, Chris Bare wrote: > Any idea why it wants to install the new kernel too? > > oberon # emerge -puD portage Translation: update and deep > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] sys

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. Try this one instead: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel?

2006-04-28 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Chris Bare wrote: > Any idea why it wants to install the new kernel too? Because you are giving the --deep (-D) option to it.. > oberon # emerge -puD portage Instead of this, execute emerge -u portage, this will only update portage.. Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalo

Re: [gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel?

2006-04-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:40:50AM -0400, Penguin Lover Chris Bare squawked: > oberon # emerge -puD portage > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r2 [1.3.13-r1] > [e

[gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel?

2006-04-28 Thread Chris Bare
Any idea why it wants to install the new kernel too? oberon # emerge -puD portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r2 [1.3.13-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:24:19 -0300 "Fernando Antunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've already run memtest86, no problem report. positive testing of a hypothesis is not a proof of correctness. Negative testing is a proof of its falseness. That said, you can only validate the hypothesis of

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
The powersupply may be it then. I don't know whether the logs would tell you that though. I had freezing problems with my old box. I was only able to narrow it down when I got to a point where I could reproduce the problem reliably. In my case the logs were no help, but encoding a file to mp3 w

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Jarry
Fernando Antunes wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. What about disks? Did you check smart-status? Download some utility (e.g. SeaTools for Seagate disks) and check disks without booting system... BTW, sudden freezing does not look like kernel panic... Jarry -- gentoo-user@g

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Fernando Antunes
I've already run memtest86, no problem report. On 4/28/06, Thomas G. Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And probably a portion of the remaining 1% have bad ram or a failing memory controller. On 4/28/06, Jason Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insuff

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
And probably a portion of the remaining 1% have bad ram or a failing memory controller. On 4/28/06, Jason Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insufficient power supply. Fernando Antunes wrote: > Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Jason Dodson
99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insufficient power supply. Fernando Antunes wrote: > Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is a only solution. > I can try to figure out for a especific use or especific application > to associate, but no success. > I suspect this is a h

[gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Fernando Antunes
Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is a only solution. I can try to figure out for a especific use or especific application to associate, but no success. I suspect this is a hardware problem or misconfigured driver. Where I find last kernel panic logs after reboot ? What are t

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-28 Thread Jacques Montier
Iain Buchanan a gentiment tapote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: > >> I don't say you have to but if I were you I would: >> - - update the xorg to 7.X >> - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel >> - - build the DRM for the ATI Radeon into the ker

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Joseph Kulisics wrote: > Hi, > > I looked at the torrents page before---http://torrents.gentoo.org/---but > the only package files are for architectures other than x86. If I could > find the CD image, then I know how to use emerge to refer to the CDROM for > package installation; I just can't fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnupg (probably) FAQs

2006-04-28 Thread Mick
On 28/04/06, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. April 2006 19:24 schrieb ext Matthias Bethke: > > > Hi Mick, > > on Sunday, 2006-04-16 at 19:48:00, you wrote: > > > 2. How can I get the gpg-agent to start if I do not use KDM, but XDM > > > with fluxbox? (I added eval "

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI, GLX, Savage and Xorg7

2006-04-28 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
On Thursday 27 April 2006 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, I upgraded to Xorg 7 using the "modular Xorg" howto on the > > gentoo-wiki [...] > > So its looking good (definatly better then before). DRI is enabled, but I > > am getting a hard PC lockup (for about a second, with glxinfo saying

Re: [gentoo-user] No dri with xorg-x11-7 and ati card (solved)

2006-04-28 Thread Jacques Montier
Richard Fish a gentiment tapote: > On 4/27/06, Ptitjack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> eselect opengl set ati >> > > >> Ati Radeon as module >> >> Driver "radeon" >> > > Are you trying to use the open-source driver and (new) DRI module in > the kerrnel, or the ATI open

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Kulisics wrote: > Hi, > > I looked at the torrents page before---http://torrents.gentoo.org/---but > the only package files are for architectures other than x86. If I could > find the CD image, then I know how to use emerge to refer to the CD