Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:17:35AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > emerge -n pwdb Actually, don't do that. Alan gave the right answer, but it seems that my portage tree was just a few days out of date. flameeyes just removed the dependency for pwdb from pam. (See my other reply for

[gentoo-user] kernel BUG when unplugging usb?

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, When I unplug my usb mouse and keyboard for longer than a few seconds (not sure of the exact time, but must be more than, say, 5 seconds) I get a BUG message in dmesg. When I plug them back in, they don't work! I just tried to unload & reload usb-hid, but modprobe locked up on the reload

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:58:03AM +0100, Penguin Lover Henry Gebhardt squawked: > > So, yes, pwdb is a runtime dependency. I don't actually run pam, so can't > > confirm what would happen if I remove pwdb. > > > > Holy shit, what's going on? The ebuild in the portage tree is different than > the

[gentoo-user] Make Konqueror use same plugins as Firefox

2008-02-13 Thread reader
How can I make Konqueror use the same plugins as Firefox? I've installed mplayer and that seems to have allowed Firefox to display online videos in QuickTime format, but try the same link in Konqueror and I get a message telling me no plugin for Quictime video is found and offering to download it.

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Dale, Thursday, February 14, 2008, 3:10:09 AM, you wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: >> attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, you already are aware of it. So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in ker

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread Joshua D Doll
Mark David Dumlao wrote: I'm currently dual-booting a machine that I'd like to shift completely to gentoo, but I left an ubuntu installaiton in the other disk (where I hope to transfer my gentoo). However, my brother has been downloading some torrents for weeks on end, and their sessions have

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-13 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 08:19 -0800, Grant wrote: > > Thanks a lot for everyone's help. Here is a more to-the-point list of > what I'd like to accomplish: > > 1. encrypt CUPS printouts between remote server and local print server > 2. add an additional layer of security around SSH and CUPS on lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Henry Gebhardt
2008/2/13, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote: > > Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a > > dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the > pam_pwdb > > module, and if you do, warns

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Brian Marshall
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:34:21 +0200 Sergey Kobzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, thanks again :) > > Last question. How can I update selected packages correctly? Before I > used 'emerge -uDN ' command, but it adds package to the > world class, which is IMHO is not fully correct. > Use --onesh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? > > -- > > Iain Buchanan > > > > i have 4gb for /tmp > > What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? > > yes > > Ahem.

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Alan, thanks again :) Last question. How can I update selected packages correctly? Before I used 'emerge -uDN ' command, but it adds package to the world class, which is IMHO is not fully correct. To update whole system, I must use 'emerge -uDN world', right? Thursday, February 14, 2008, 1:17:3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? > -- > Iain Buchanan > > i have 4gb for /tmp > What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? > yes Ahem. 'scuse me: I have 5.5G for /var/tmp Wanna guess why? -- Alan McKinnon al

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > Hi Willie, > > So, I can unmerge hashalot and attr safely. > > How can I add pwdb to the system (or maybe world is more correct) > class? emerge -n pwdb It won't recompile pwdb in your case as you already have it, so it will just add it to wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > Thanks, Alan! > > > > Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00:51 PM, you wrote: > > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > >> > attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan i have 4gb for /tmp What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? yes -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Willie, So, I can unmerge hashalot and attr safely. How can I add pwdb to the system (or maybe world is more correct) class? Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 11:22:54 PM, you wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote: >> Where does equery get that from? emerge -e

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Mick, Thursday, February 14, 2008, 12:22:20 AM, you wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote: >> On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: >> > Hi Mick, >> > >> > Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:14:31 PM, you wrote: >> > > # equery depends attr >> > > [ Searching for packages dependi

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-13 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Grant, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for everyone's help. Here is a more to-the-point list of > what I'd like to accomplish: > > 1. encrypt CUPS printouts between remote server and local print server > 2. add an additional layer of securit

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-13 Thread dell core2duo
On Feb 14, 2008 3:48 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: > > > Hi all, > > First of all thank you all. > > Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But > > throughput is really low :-(. > >[cut] > > flukebox flukebo

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: > Output for iwlist wlan0 scan is as below. > > flukebox flukebox # iwlist wlan0 scan > wlan0 Scan completed : > Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:D8:E3:33 > ESSID:"iitk" > Channel:7 > Cel

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: > > Hi Mick, > > > > Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:14:31 PM, you wrote: > > > # equery depends attr > > > [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] > > > sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (>=sys-apps/attr-2.4) > > > sy

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: > Hi all, > First of all thank you all. > Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But > throughput is really low :-(. >[cut] > flukebox flukebox # iwconfig > lono wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensi

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-13 Thread dell core2duo
Hi all, First of all thank you all. Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But throughput is really low :-(. Below is dmesg output for b43 driver. flukebox flukebox # dmesg|grep b43 [ 27.087297] kobject b43: registering. parent: , set: module [ 27.087328] kobject holders

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote: > Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a > dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the pam_pwdb > module, and if you do, warns you about it. I for my part just removed pwdb, > and I c

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:53:29PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > Not so fast. Check to see if you do have the xattr flag enabled. > > In the kernel config probably? No, I mean the USE variable. > > The entry for attr is a conditional dependency: you don't need it if > > you don't have the xa

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Henry Gebhardt
> > # equery depends pwdb > > [ Searching for packages depending on pwdb... ] > > sys-libs/pam-0.99.9.0 (sys-libs/pwdb) Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the pam_pwdb module, and if you do, warns you

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Willie, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 10:36:01 PM, you wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:25:23PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: >> # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE >> USE="-X -acl -gpm -ipv6 -tcpd" >> >> # equery depends attr >> [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] >> sys-apps/coreut

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:25:23PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE > USE="-X -acl -gpm -ipv6 -tcpd" > > # equery depends attr > [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] > sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (xattr? sys-apps/attr) > > # equery depends pwdb > [ Searching

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Mick, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:14:31 PM, you wrote: > # equery depends attr > [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] > sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (>=sys-apps/attr-2.4) > sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (acl? sys-apps/attr) > YMMV. Hm... on my server: # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE USE=

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > Thanks, Alan! > > Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00:51 PM, you wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > >> > attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, > >> > used by selinux and posix capabilities

Re: [gentoo-user] what NFP means?

2008-02-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, I try to translate the GMN(2008-01-21), and now I want to know > what "NFP" exactly means or the full spelling of "NFP" in the section > below. > ** > Foundation Status > > Grant

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Thanks, Alan! Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00:51 PM, you wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: >> > attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, >> > used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, >> > you already are aware of it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, > > used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, > > you already are aware of it. > > So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in kernel), I don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, KH wrote: > why does > > #ls /usr/src/linux/arch/ > > show > > alpha/     blackfin/  h8300/     m32r/      mips/      ppc/       > sh64/      um/        xtensa/   > arm/       cris/      i386/      m68k/      parisc/    s390/       > sparc/     v850/     > avr32/    

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > oh, and for whatever reason wine performs better under 64 bit OS > rather than 32. Don't have any other proof then my own experience but > Diablo LOD runs much smoother once I've rebuilt my system with 64bit > with the same useflags and ever

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Alan, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 6:22:33 PM, you wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: >> Hi >> >> 'emerge -pv --depclean' shows that these packages may be unmerged: > >> app-crypt/hashalot >> sys-libs/pwdb >> sys-apps/attr >> >> Is it safe to remove they from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never > > > drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands > > > out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when > > > the ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, James wrote: > James R. Campbell reliant-data.com> writes: > > What processes have the most on cpu time as reported by a 'ps ax' ? > > not certain what your are asking. Here is the result of ps ax: He probably meant 'ps axu' -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at g

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > Hi > > 'emerge -pv --depclean' shows that these packages may be unmerged: > app-crypt/hashalot > sys-libs/pwdb > sys-apps/attr > > Is it safe to remove they from the system? This is mail server and > has mostly no additional packages except

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-13 Thread Grant
> > > Even if you just want to encrypt some clear-text protocol that > > > doesn't have an encrypted equivalent, a vpn is still overkill. For > > > that you use ssh tunneling (which is essentially the same thing as > > > an encrypted version of a protocol). 'ssh -X' is the classic > > > example of

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 = pcmcia + usb adapter

2008-02-13 Thread Simon Turner
Wow, that's a good start! I'll keep your post aside for when I go through the kernel again (i'm not at the point of setting up all software). At least, now that I got it working I can relax and start understanding what I've done! ;) Thanks a lot Mick! Simon > Not sure, because I've never done

[gentoo-user] strange ethernet behavior with Superjmicro mb and Gentoo

2008-02-13 Thread John covici
Hi. I have just gotten a computer with a Super Micro c2sbe Motherboard. Now I also bought a dual port PCI Express ethernet card. Now the normal kernel driver in my 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 does not recognize the ethernet port on the motherboard, only the dual port PCI Express card. So I found an Intel

[gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi 'emerge -pv --depclean' shows that these packages may be unmerged: >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: app-crypt/hashalot selected: 0.3-r2 protected: none omitted: none sys-libs/pwdb selected: 0.62 protected: none omitted: none sys-apps/attr sel

Re: [gentoo-user] what NFP means?

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Chuanwen Wu: > Hi, I try to translate the GMN(2008-01-21), and now I want to know > what "NFP" exactly means or the full spelling of "NFP" in the section > below. Not For Profit. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 340

[gentoo-user] what NFP means?

2008-02-13 Thread Lowe Schmidt
I guess it means Not For Profit. Hi, I try to translate the GMN(2008-01-21), and now I want to know what "NFP" exactly means or the full spelling of "NFP" in the section below. ** Foundation Status Grant Goodyear, one of our active

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in network commands in root mode

2008-02-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > dell core2duo wrote: > > No, its not due to proxy. > > See the output below. > > - > >- flukebox driver # wget yahoo.com > > --2008-02-12 22:3

[gentoo-user] what NFP means?

2008-02-13 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I try to translate the GMN(2008-01-21), and now I want to know what "NFP" exactly means or the full spelling of "NFP" in the section below. ** Foundation Status Grant Goodyear, one of our active foundation trustees, recently gave

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I canlayman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread justin
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:42:02 -0500, "443-653-1569" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09:38 Wed 13 Feb , Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 PM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David > Dumlao >> squaw

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread justin
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:38:12 +0800, "Mark David Dumlao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 PM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David > Dumlao >> squawked: >> > TOTALLY WEIRD. I do a layman -L on my machine a

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread 443-653-1569
On 09:38 Wed 13 Feb , Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 PM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao > squawked: > > TOTALLY WEIRD. I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext KH: > why does > > #ls /usr/src/linux/arch/ > > show > > alpha/ blackfin/ h8300/ m32r/ mips/ ppc/ > sh64/ um/xtensa/ > arm/ cris/ i386/ m68k/ parisc/s390/ > sparc/ v850/ > avr32/ frv/ i