Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

On (23/11/07 07:58) Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 schrieb ext Dan Farrell: > > However, if you su or > > something, you'll no longer have that environment variable. > > Hmm, although I'm not sure why, I do: > > % whoami > dheinric > % echo $DISPLAY > :0 > % su > Passwor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 schrieb ext Dan Farrell: > However, if you su or > something, you'll no longer have that environment variable. Hmm, although I'm not sure why, I do: % whoami dheinric % echo $DISPLAY :0 % su Passwort: # whoami root # echo $DISPLAY :0 No difference with "su -". I

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 schrieb ext Stroller: > A Google seems to suggest that "mount: No buffer space available" is   > commonly returned when the device is already mounted. I also found (with Google) one forum posting where it was stated that the cause was a bad, self-burned disk in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues pinging localhost and starting apache.

On Nov 22, 2007 7:45 PM, Jordan Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *I first encounter this problem while trying to setup Apache for my > machine. I only want it to run locally on my network. First issue, I try > to start Apache and have it listen to port 80 but it won't start with > the error:* >

Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot question

Dan Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:33:15 -0600 > "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros. >> Gentoo has a "32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64" but this guide only >> discusses setting up a separate 32bi

[gentoo-user] Issues pinging localhost and starting apache.

*I first encounter this problem while trying to setup Apache for my machine. I only want it to run locally on my network. First issue, I try to start Apache and have it listen to port 80 but it won't start with the error:* apache2ctl start * Caching service dependencies ...

[gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:37:28 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > did you start the X session as root? > > it's important to differentiate between having permission to write to an > X display (xhost permits that) and knowing which display to write to - > $DISPLAY will be set to that if you're already in

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Thursday 22 November 2007, b.n. wrote: > Mick ha scritto: > > It's your call of course, but why don't you just boot from a LiveCD, > > mount the lot and tar the contents of the suspect disk to the new > > disk/partitions? The size of the new disk and partitions can be anything > > you like, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

Mick pisze: Thanks Stroller, On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote: On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote: ... My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to- newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you might expect.

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

Hi Group, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb device not accepting address x, error -71

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:07:35 +0100, pk wrote: > I've just stumbled on a problem with my "gentoo-sources" kernel > (2.6.22-gentoo-r9). My external usb harddrive where I keep my backups > does not seem to get recognised by the kernel anymore. How did you configure this kernel? By using an old .con

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:23:24 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > you could do that, but dd should be significantly faster, because it > reads directly from the platters without going through the filesystem. On the other hand, it copies every byte of the disk, whether in use or not. Unless you have a ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

Mick ha scritto: > It's your call of course, but why don't you just boot from a LiveCD, mount > the > lot and tar the contents of the suspect disk to the new disk/partitions? The > size of the new disk and partitions can be anything you like, as long as they > are not smaller than the amount o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] BBC claim on low numbers of Linux visitors

Mick wrote: > Although off-topic this should be of interest to most of us (since it is > potentially discriminatory against Linux users) and particularly to those of > us who visit the BBC website. If you live in the UK you may have one more > reason to complain - you pay for the BBC license an

[gentoo-user] Usb device not accepting address x, error -71

Hi, I've just stumbled on a problem with my "gentoo-sources" kernel (2.6.22-gentoo-r9). My external usb harddrive where I keep my backups does not seem to get recognised by the kernel anymore. I have googled this and have come up with some possible scenarios. None of them seem like they would solv

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Thursday 22 November 2007, brullo nulla wrote: > > > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is 320 > > > Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old partition > > > table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. What happens to > > > the 120 Gb left? A

[gentoo-user] [OT] BBC claim on low numbers of Linux visitors

Although off-topic this should be of interest to most of us (since it is potentially discriminatory against Linux users) and particularly to those of us who visit the BBC website. If you live in the UK you may have one more reason to complain - you pay for the BBC license and you are entitled t

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:20:43 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Google seems to suggest that "mount: No buffer space available" is > commonly returned when the device is already mounted. Possibly, but I think this is unlikely. I have seen the 'already mounted' error many times but n

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:06:37 -0200 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SWAT, its a > web based management program to control Samba settings. It is very > useful and user-friendly. > > You should give it a try. ++! I am a config file editor generally, but samba is one of the 2 things

Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot question

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:33:15 -0600 "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros. > Gentoo has a "32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64" but this guide only > discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment within the 64bit >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:49:11 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only started googling $DISPLAY, but yes, it's the same user who > started the X session. Normally I use GNOME, but will also try just > X and KDE. > really? in your previous message you pasted: >arrakis ~ # gtkpod

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:14:57 +0100 "brullo nulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is > > > 320 Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old > > > partition table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. > > > What h

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:56:38 +0100 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell ha scritto: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:25:06 +0100 > > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it is; however if the partition is live the data could be messed up > > if you read half of an overwritten file or somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

Hi, oops, wrote too long. So here's the follow-up: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:42:54 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do you put "GS_FONTPATH=" > I was trying to put it in .bashrc (re-log) didn't work; in /etc/profile > env-update && source /etc/profile > export > GS_FONTPATH=/usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

Hi, On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:13:50 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "gs -h" gives me the following font path for Ghostscript > >> Search path: > >> [...] > >> Where these paths are coming from? > > > >Compiled into the binary? > > Not a good solution but, it would be better if we input

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

On Nov 22, 2007 2:46 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Stroller, > > On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote: > > On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote: > > > ... > > > My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to- > > newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

Where do you put "GS_FONTPATH=" I was trying to put it in .bashrc (re-log) didn't work; in /etc/profile env-update && source /etc/profile export GS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/misc:/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:/usr/share/fonts/Speedo No difference, "gs -h" doesn't show these p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

Am Donnerstag 22 November 2007 schrieb Thufir: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $DISPLAY > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ So it's unset, which is the reason for the error you get from gtkpod. It doesn't know on which display to open. Try setting it ":0" (export DISPLAY=:0) before you run the command. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot question

Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros. > Gentoo has a "32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64" but this guide only > discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment within the 64bit > Gentoo. I was wondering if it could be used, suitably mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

On 11/22/07 15:57, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Thank you for the input, at least I'm getting some feedback. In the past everything worked so I take it for granted; only if things break I'm trying to get to the bottom. "gs -h" gives me the following font path for Ghostscript Search path: [...] Whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

Thanks Stroller, On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote: > On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote: > > ... > My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to- > newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you > might expect. Hmm, I know what you mean!

[gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:46:33 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > So, what does "echo $DISPLAY" show? Also helpfull would be the output of > "ps -ef|grep X". How do you start X, via display manager (gdm, xdm, > kdm,...) or with startx after text console login? Quick response: display manager: gdm I

[gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:20:43 +, Stroller wrote: > A Google seems to suggest that "mount: No buffer space available" is > commonly returned when the device is already mounted. Oh, I wasn't finding that or didn't know how to interpret it. > The manpage for `mount` indicates that `mount -a` wil

[gentoo-user] Who sets the USER environment variable?

Hi all, I wonder if querying the USER env variable is a reliable way to get the login name of the user who started an application, on all authentication methods - passwd, NIS or LDAP based authentication. So who sets this variable? is it PAM? is it some login script? Best Regards, Dorin Scutara

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote: ... I have set up a Samba server for a small office and used 'browseable No' extensively in the smb.cfg file, to remove a lot of otherwise visible to the Windows clients directories. My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to-

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Weird image-serving behavior

> > There is a photo on my website that has been served perfectly for a > > long time but today I noticed it wasn't being served and there were no > > errors printed in apache2's error_log (or ssl_error_log). I > > downloaded the file, opened it locally just fine, uploaded it again, > > and it has

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

On 22 Nov 2007, at 09:18, Thufir wrote: ... arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount -a arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrom1 mount: block device /dev/cdrom1 i

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

Hi, On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:25:48 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "gs -h" gives me the following font path for Ghostscript > Search path: > [...] > Where these paths are coming from? Compiled into the binary? > According to > documentation: /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3/html/Us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

Hi, On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:20:42 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > arrakis ~ # eix rails > [I] dev-ruby/rails > Available versions: > (1.1) 1.1.6 ~1.1.6-r1 > (1.2) ~1.2.0 ~1.2.1 ~1.2.2 ~1.2.3 > Installed versions: 1.1.6(1.1)(18:31:16 11/21/07)(doc fa

[gentoo-user] udevd-event 'error'

Greetings. I am getting a message when I boot, I suppose it would be called an error, but the system is still working. Anyhow, message is: udevd-event [2625]: node_symlink: rename ( /dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed: is a directory Now, there is a /dev/fb on my system, and it is a directory.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

> > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is 320 > > Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old partition > > table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. What happens to the > > 120 Gb left? Are they recognized as an empty partition? Are they left >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Weird image-serving behavior

On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Grant wrote: > There is a photo on my website that has been served perfectly for a > long time but today I noticed it wasn't being served and there were no > errors printed in apache2's error_log (or ssl_error_log). I > downloaded the file, opened it locally just fin

[gentoo-user] Samba basics

Hi All, This should be easy to answer, but I have had zero experience with Samba so far and can't readily find the answer: I have set up a Samba server for a small office and used 'browseable No' extensively in the smb.cfg file, to remove a lot of otherwise visible to the Windows clients direc

[gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:47:24 +, Thufir wrote: > > >> Now, shows >> that 1.2.5 is stable, though. 1.8.6_p110-r1 looks to be latest stable >> release of ruby available through portage for x86 syst

[gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

I'm going by to mount the cdrom and cdrw drives, but it's failing. There are two optical drives: a CD-ROM and a CD-R/W; both drives work physically. When I enter "mount /mnt/cdrom1" or "mount /mnt/cdrw1" then I hear a driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:20:42 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: > If I'm interpreting eix correctly there's not even an option to unmask > 1.2.5 (which shouldn't need unmasking). You need to sync, 1.2.5 is in the tree and stable according to eix here. % eix -e rails * dev-ruby/rails Available versi