[gentoo-user] emerge problems

2006-08-25 Thread Martin S
I seem to find lots of "bad" repository servers when running emerge.emerge mozilla-firefox failed for quite some time (at least a day), emerge kuroo has failed for two days, just like emerge crafty.Does anyone know if there are any general problems with servers? Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] OT friendly cellphone w/ Gentoo?

2006-08-25 Thread Roy Wright
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > well, I got my new razr today - and I am not too happy. Compared with my old > Sony Ericson, bluetooth is crippled and everything seems to be a lot more > complicated. While it is easy to put files onto the phone or fetch them with > kdebluetooth with the SE, it se

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: > > You apparently missed the part of Daniel's email where he said you > have a "normal" number.Several hundred device nodes is normal (850 > for Daniel, 932 here). The vast majority of which (577) are tty or > pty devices that will be on all systems. So yeah, you should b

[gentoo-user] Re: [samba] No write to linux shares

2006-08-25 Thread reader
"Andrew Frink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do the users unix mapping have write permissions to that dir? > yes... Here is the mapping: >From /etc/samba/smbusers root = administrator admin nobody = guest pcguest smbguest reader = reader harry Harry Here is the directory permissions ls

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

2006-08-25 Thread John Blinka
Richard Fish wrote: > > So maybe we can just double check a couple of basics: > > Do you have x11-apps/xauth merged? Yes. > What are the permissions on ~user/.Xauthority -rw--- 1 john users 605 Aug 25 22:48 .Xauthority > > Other than that, I know exactly nothing about xfce4, but maybe this > pr

[gentoo-user] 2006.1 released soon?

2006-08-25 Thread James
Hello, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.1/2006.1.xml seems to indicated that 2006.1 will be available VERY soon. Any ideas How I can remotely status the download servers to see when this hits the first servers? I'm really itching to test out the 2006.1 liveCD installation on a

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, I'm prepared using an USB enclosure for data stroage. I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a duplicate copy will be saved automatically on /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to re

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/25/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror >> it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of >> stuff. > > I think it is. > > After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" and removing

[gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I'm prepared using an USB enclosure for data stroage. I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a duplicate copy will be saved automatically on /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to replication/mirroring. Thus the USB enclosure can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror >> it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of >> stuff. > > I think it is. > > After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" and removing everything except > /dev/console and /dev/nul

Re: [gentoo-user] OT friendly cellphone w/ Gentoo?

2006-08-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 26 August 2006 00:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:30:37 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > I do like the usb port on a motorola razr, but, I not sure mot-cell > > > phones are friendly with linux/gentoo... One of my co-workers > > > (windoz user) just got a

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/25/06, John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I was unaware of ~/.xsession-errors. After the first, failed login it looks like this: /usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0 xrdb: Connection refused xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Hrm, normally it is the DM's job to

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

2006-08-25 Thread John Blinka
Richard Fish wrote: > Hmm, are you authenticating locally, or against a network/ldap server? locally. > > Which logs have you checked? Both /var/log/kdm.log and > ~/.xsession-errors would be relevant. > Just stuff in /var/log, including kdm.log. It contains lines like FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/sha

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 August 2006 22:06, Richard Fish wrote: > Yeah, udev >= 089 blocks coldplug, so the init script should have been > removed, assuming you have upgraded to udev >= 089. OK, I'm still on stable: sys-fs/udev-087-r1 > carcharias rjf # emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT > CONFIG_PROTECT="

Re: [gentoo-user] [samba] No write to linux shares

2006-08-25 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [smWinBk] comment = "" valid users = reader Harry path = /anex2/win_bk/ writeable = yes guest ok = yes Are you being logged in as a guest for some reason? Try with "guest ok = no" and see if anything changes. Don't forget to double check the local (u

Re: [gentoo-user] OT friendly cellphone w/ Gentoo?

2006-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:30:37 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > I do like the usb port on a motorola razr, but, I not sure mot-cell > > phones are friendly with linux/gentoo... One of my co-workers > > (windoz user) just got a razr and it get's reception where my > > krufty-LG does not, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-25 Thread Preston Hagar
On 8/25/06, kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Preston Hagar wrote:> Using postgrey on> my own personal server, I make it delay for 5 minutes.  Most mail> servers will keep trying and I will get the message within 10-15 minutes> max.  I have had a few times, though, that the mail took 4 or 5 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of stuff. I think it is. After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" and removing everything except /dev/console and /dev/null by using the gentoo live-cd, the num

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoobox configuration

2006-08-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 August 2006 21:52, Luigi Pinna wrote: > gpgkeys: key 1E69248E633F86B7 not found on keyserver > Hello! > I have a lot of problem with my gentoo box (on amd64) and I want to > search someone that can solve them. > I mean a professional work: I lost too much time behind base > configurati

[gentoo-user] Re: OT friendly cellphone w/ Gentoo?

2006-08-25 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > well, I got my new razr today - and I am not too happy. Compared with my old > Sony Ericson, bluetooth is crippled and everything seems to be a lot more > complicated. While it is easy to put files onto the phone or fetch them with > kdeblueto

[gentoo-user] Gentoobox configuration

2006-08-25 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! I have a lot of problem with my gentoo box (on amd64) and I want to search someone that can solve them. I mean a professional work: I lost too much time behind base configuration and I want to use my computer at its best! I found some shops th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT friendly cellphone w/ Gentoo?

2006-08-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 25 August 2006 22:00, James wrote: > Hello, > > I live in Florida, so we have quite a lot of cell phone companies to > choose from. I get to order a new phone and new service. Most importantly, > I'm looking for a cell phone that exchanges data with a gentoo laptop, > easily (kmobiletools

[gentoo-user] OT friendly cellphone w/ Gentoo?

2006-08-25 Thread James
Hello, I live in Florida, so we have quite a lot of cell phone companies to choose from. I get to order a new phone and new service. Most importantly, I'm looking for a cell phone that exchanges data with a gentoo laptop, easily (kmobiletools) or some other kde gui based app. Then I'd like the op

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 August 2006 10:50, Richard Fish wrote: > > I remember some discussion about hotplug/coldplug and if coldplug makes > > sense at all. > > Coldplug is dead and gone, usurped by udev. I know what you're saying, but I seem to still have coldplug in my boot runlevel and of course it kicks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Neither klibc nor splashutils will emerge

2006-08-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 August 2006 18:46, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/25/06, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just in case, what's the autoconf.h access rights on your boxen? > > > > $ ll /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r5/include/linux/autoconf.h > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40K 19 Aug 2006 > > 13:25

Re: [gentoo-user] default compile options / USE flags?

2006-08-25 Thread Bira
On 8/25/06, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And what is the meaning of colors (some are blue, some red, some yellow, etc.) used for USE-flags in output? Red flags will be used in the emerge, blue ones will not. Green ones weren't used the last time you emerged that package, but will be used th

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-25 Thread kashani
Preston Hagar wrote: Using postgrey on my own personal server, I make it delay for 5 minutes. Most mail servers will keep trying and I will get the message within 10-15 minutes max. I have had a few times, though, that the mail took 4 or 5 hours before it was tried again. hotmail will re

[gentoo-user] default compile options / USE flags?

2006-08-25 Thread Jarry
Hi, I would like to find how a certain package would be compiled (with which USE-flags) if I did not have any USE-flags in /etc/make.conf, and empty /etc/portage/package.use Up to now I'm using this procedure: - comment USE-line in /etc/make.conf out, - rename /etc/portage/package.use to some ot

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-25 Thread Preston Hagar
I think the thing you have to keep in mind is how strict you want to be.  I am in control of mail servers for three different "organizations", my personal email, my consulting side business, and the real estate company I work full time for.  Each one has a varying degree of how acceptable false pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Neither klibc nor splashutils will emerge

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/25/06, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case, what's the autoconf.h access rights on your boxen? $ ll /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r5/include/linux/autoconf.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40K 19 Aug 2006 13:25 /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r5/include/linux/autoconf.h ditto -Ric

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-25 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: I'd be careful with non_fqdn_hostname What's wrong with that? Here's how the postfix docs describe it: reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname (with Postfix < 2.3: reject_non_fqdn_hostname) Reject the request when the HELO or EHLO hostname is not in fully-qualified domain form, as requir

[gentoo-user] [samba] No write to linux shares

2006-08-25 Thread reader
I've posted this here because I know the advice on the samba list will be to update to samba-3.0.23b from previous posts there, however it appears there is no ebuild for that in todays sync and I'm not conversant enough with doing my own to update that way. Further I'm guessing several people her

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP - Email found in subject

2006-08-25 Thread Anthony Roy
> Anthony Roy wrote: > > More generally, how do I find out the relationship between > the portage > > use flags and a packages compile options? > > Short answer is: Read the ebuild. Look for things like: Spot on! Turns out that SSL conflicts with gnutls which I had set. Thanks, Anthony. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Neither klibc nor splashutils will emerge

2006-08-25 Thread Mick
On Thursday 24 August 2006 10:38, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/24/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not using the symlink flag and just to make sure I removed > > the /usr/src/linux symlink and relinked it to the latest stable kernel > > sources. The only thing I can think of is that I us

[gentoo-user] Re: Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Ramsay
Anthony Roy wrote: > More generally, how do I find out the relationship between the portage > use flags and a packages compile options? Short answer is: Read the ebuild. Look for things like: econf $(use_enable ssl) if use ssl; then # Do many things fi use ssl & epatch "some_file.patch" --

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-25 Thread Grant
> Do you think this postfix anti-spam configuration is OK: > > smtpd_delay_reject = yes > smtpd_helo_required = yes > smtpd_helo_restrictions = >permit_mynetworks, >reject_non_fqdn_hostname, >reject_invalid_hostname, >permit I'd be careful with non_fqdn_hostname

[gentoo-user] Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP

2006-08-25 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I am trying to set up mutt to access an IMAP account via SSL. Now I set the 'ssl' USE flag before emerging mutt, but entering > mutt -v I get the outpu at the bottom of this post. Note in particular the -USE_SSL flag indicating that mutt has been built without SSL support. Are there any

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to debug /sbin/init process?

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 09:10, fei huang wrote: > no idea how to do it under Gentoo... As a last resort, you can compile it manually from sources with the appropriate options and copy the init binary under /sbin. Of course, be sure you know

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to debug /sbin/init process?

2006-08-25 Thread fei huang
On 8/25/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/25/06, fei huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> wonder why gentoo does not support debug flag on ALL packages, but just to a> small range of ebuilds? > any good reason for that .?  don't know.The debug use flag is normally (and IMO should only b

[gentoo-user] Akregator Crashing

2006-08-25 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi, I've been attempting to start akregator-3.5.2 (as part of the kde-base/kde-meta package) for some time, and have been consistently getting crashes. The only piece of diagnostic material that I can provide is the following backtrace. Thanks in advance, Kris Kerwin - Backtrace - (n

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread sdoma
Yes, now I remember. I had this tarball issue with 2005.0 already, thanks. Regarding to the issue with sd* ... call me a numb ;o) ... i forgot to build SCSI disk support into the kernel 8-| No up to the main part of my holiday plans ... reinstall my (LFS based) WiFi AP to be Gentoo too. ;))) Reg

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

2006-08-25 Thread Pillon Matteo
2006/8/25, sdoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to logoff completely (terminating X and logout). Next time try with newgrp(1). ;-) Bye. -- * Matteo Pillon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/25/06, sdoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is hotplug still an issue or is it started by bootmisc? If i plug in my USB stick (yes, I do have USB UHCI, EHCI, OHCI mass storage compiled into the kernel) I can't mount it. The hotplug init script doesn't do anything anymore, it's functions have b

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to debug /sbin/init process?

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/25/06, fei huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: wonder why gentoo does not support debug flag on ALL packages, but just to a small range of ebuilds? any good reason for that .? don't know. The debug use flag is normally (and IMO should only be) used for optional debugging/logging systems that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 11:04 schrieb ext sdoma: > As the handbook mentioned udev is default for Gentoo now. > > I have 1479 devices and directories in /dev after startup Hmmm, wasn't > udev (and formerly devfs) meant to have only the devices needed? Did you set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" in /

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread sdoma
Hi again, As the handbook mentioned udev is default for Gentoo now. I have 1479 devices and directories in /dev after startup Hmmm, wasn't udev (and formerly devfs) meant to have only the devices needed? Is hotplug still an issue or is it started by bootmisc? If i plug in my USB stick (yes, I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

2006-08-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 10:44 schrieb ext Peter Haworth: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:14:59 +0200, sdoma wrote: > > Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as > > ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to > > logoff completely (terminating X and logout). >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:14:59 +0200, sdoma wrote: > Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as > ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to > logoff completely (terminating X and logout). A "login shell" is not a new login; it just means that as well as read

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

2006-08-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 10:14 schrieb ext sdoma: > Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as > ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to logoff > completely (terminating X and logout). A login shell only means that it parses different rc files on sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

2006-08-25 Thread sdoma
Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to logoff completely (terminating X and logout). Thanks Frank On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:05 +0200, Boris Fersing wrote: > 2006/8/24, sdoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi again,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to debug /sbin/init process?

2006-08-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 25 August 2006 09:10, fei huang wrote: > no idea how to do it under Gentoo... As a last resort, you can compile it manually from sources with the appropriate options and copy the init binary under /sbin. Of course, be sure you know what you're doing. I suggest you rename the original

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to debug /sbin/init process?

2006-08-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 09:10 schrieb ext fei huang: > tks, but the sysvinit package does not have a debug use flag (through > equery uses syvinit), added the line "sys-apps/sysvinit debug" to > /etc/portage/package.use, no use at all, gdb complains no debug symbol > found. > > no idea how

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:42:07 -0700, kashani wrote: > I'd be careful with non_fqdn_hostname Why? -- Neil Bothwick "I'm Not Sure If I'm Homosexual", Said Tom, Half In Earnest. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to debug /sbin/init process?

2006-08-25 Thread fei huang
On 8/25/06, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Donnerstag, 24. August 2006 17:22 schrieb ext fei huang:> I'm running a user mode linux on my Gentoo box, and trying to debug the> /sbin/init process, but seems no way to emerge the sysvinit with debug > flag on, perhaps not all packages supp