Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-09-17 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
Volker Armin Hemmann a écrit: Did you tried this : kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/md1 md=1,1,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 nopat nope. Why the second one? The fisrt one is the md device number and the second is to explicitly give the raid level. I personally have this line : kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. That list is not intended for users, but for developers. Hrm. I thought this was gentoo-user , which I thought was one of many places (gentoo-user)'s can ask for help on various subjects. 'gentoo-user | General

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh wait, my confusion. You were possibly referring explicitly to whom should and should not be on the linux dev ml. ( If otherwise, please do unset my fail bit i just assigned on myself ) -- Kent ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread David Leverton
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 01:16:06 b.n. wrote: No, that's *your* problem now, because you and your accolites now look like a bunch of arrogant a**holes, instead of helpful people. If that helps drive away idiots, then fine. Non-idiots won't use that as a reason to use or not to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:05 AM, David Leverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:14:47 b.n. wrote: Frankly, the more you challenge him this mindless way, the more I believe him. If you think in such backwards logic then I don't care who you believe. A apologize in

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread David Leverton
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 00:50:42 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Rather, It is less objectionable for people who have accomplished a very great deal and have greatly improved the computing environment for the members of the corresponding mailing list. Like would not apply as I don't know either

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, 06:18, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 17:07, Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Joliet wrote: Am Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:25:02 +0200 schrieb pat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also installed VirtualBox, however when the Gentoo wiki suggested I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Vaeth
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Matthias Bethke wrote: [...] that in any halfway sane router these NAT problems are not an issue. And with many routers running Linux today so you can even get a shell and check iptables... :) We are obviously talking about a different price category of routers. Most

[gentoo-user] Enforcing passphrase protected ssh keys

2008-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, I think I'm barking up an impossible tree, but it's worth asking. Scenario: I have an sshd-enabled jump box catering for 100+ users. They all use ssh keys and we ask them all nicely to passphrase-protect the private key and pretend that we enforce this. Keys are in use because the

Re: [gentoo-user] I am a f*****g retard. Can you help me?

2008-09-17 Thread Vaeth
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Stroller wrote: The risk is that you want to install X that depends upon Y. The ebuild for X states that version 1.2.3 of Y must be used because there's a bug in 1.2.2. The new version of Y fails to compile, so when X is compiled it only has the old version of Y to

Re: [gentoo-user] I am a f*****g retard. Can you help me?

2008-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 10:01:43 Vaeth wrote: The new version of Y fails to compile, so when X is compiled it only has the old version of Y to work with. It may compile OK but not work or feature a security bug. That's not the real risk: Since any sane user will of course check

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Vaeth
Matthias Bethke wrote: I'd say the vast majority of chroot jails are there for nothing else but security. Alan Cox: chroot is not and never has been a security tool, see e.g. http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Abusing_chroot No disrespect to Mr. Cox but a silly argument stays a silly

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
snip Could you please use a mail client which insert correctly the fields In-Reply-To ans Reference ? -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
Hello! This is the script I use to start my VirtualBox: #if you previously loaded the driver, you don't need #the following line. modprobe vboxdrv tunctl -t tap1 -u root brctl addbr br0 ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc brctl

Re: [gentoo-user] Enforcing passphrase protected ssh keys

2008-09-17 Thread Jil Larner
Hello, You cannot. The reason for this is simple : you can copy as many times as you wish it your private key in any place. Even if you were able to check-up that a private key is passphrase-protected, it wouldn't mean every single copy of that key is protected so. And the interest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:33:11 +0100 David Leverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 00:50:42 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Rather, It is less objectionable for people who have accomplished a very great deal and have greatly improved the computing environment for the members of

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:24:04 +1200 Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh wait, my confusion. You were possibly referring explicitly to whom should and should not be on the linux dev ml. ( If otherwise, please do

Re: [gentoo-user] Enforcing passphrase protected ssh keys

2008-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 13:16:57 Jil Larner wrote: Hello, You cannot. The reason for this is simple : you can copy as many times as you wish it your private key in any place. Even if you were able to check-up that a private key is passphrase-protected, it wouldn't mean every single

Re: [gentoo-user] Enforcing passphrase protected ssh keys

2008-09-17 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:21:41 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 13:16:57 Jil Larner wrote: Hello, You cannot. The reason for this is simple : you can copy as many times as you wish it your private key in any place. Even if you were able to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Mr Leverton: Please be advised that I have initiated a formal process requesting to have you banned from this list by [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is after many requests from others for you to calm down on the list, and two private mails from myself asking the same, both of which you have not

Re: [gentoo-user] Enforcing passphrase protected ssh keys

2008-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 14:26:50 Robert Bridge wrote: Keys make for better security, but I would like it to be even better. I also want to have my facts 100% straight - if I tell my boss it can't be done I like to show research to back it up. There's nothing worse than saying

Re: [gentoo-user] Enforcing passphrase protected ssh keys

2008-09-17 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Wednesday 17 September 2008 15:04:19 schrieb Alan McKinnon: I had thought of that, but I'm shying away from it - the admin load of supporting that many user passwords is crippling. The users forget their passwords or share them and write them on stciky notes... What about

Re: [gentoo-user] [getting on-topic I think] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: kashani wrote: Dale wrote: [Google stores emails forever, reads them, may combine the data with your google searches, can create user profiles] But isn't this true of any ISP or email host? No! I guess about all of them have privacy statements that do not allow this. If

[gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Sep 2008, at 00:27, b.n. wrote: ... In any case, even if r0bertz is a clueless idiot, the only sane approach is even in this case to calmly and rationally explain (or providing links to information) why what he was doing was, in your opinion, wrong. To be completely fair, if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Vaeth
Could you please use a mail client which insert correctly the fields In-Reply-To ans Reference ? Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of this. But unfortunately, it appears that it is not just a question of the mail client: I am subsribed to the list as post-only (for several reasons which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread kashani
Vaeth wrote: Could you please use a mail client which insert correctly the fields In-Reply-To ans Reference ? Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of this. But unfortunately, it appears that it is not just a question of the mail client: I am subsribed to the list as post-only (for several

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Zhang Le
On 15:39 Wed 17 Sep , Stroller wrote: Finally, I might add that the log we've seen posted was taken without any context. Perhaps the user is known on the channel for his idiocy, for winding the devs up, for asking stupid questions on a daily basis and not listening to advice given? We

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Zhang Le
And BTW, the command I mentioned in that unpleasant IRC conversation is still here: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061002-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3 If I am an idiot, then all gentoo dev's are too. Sorry, my dearest fellow dev's, but this is #paludis people's logic and of course they are

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Zhang Le
On 15:39 Wed 17 Sep , Stroller wrote: To be completely fair, if you deal with other peoples' problems on IRC on a regular basis then you will know the number of idiots to be quite staggering. There is an unending supply of them - if only we could fuel automobiles with idiocy! - and

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, kashani wrote: Vaeth wrote: Could you please use a mail client which insert correctly the fields In-Reply-To ans Reference ? Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of this. But unfortunately, it appears that it is not just a question of the mail client: I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/17 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is after many requests from others for you to calm down on the list What exactly am I doing that isn't calm? two private mails from myself asking the same, both of which you have not answered. I only received one, that didn't contain any

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/17 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually I still don't think --resume --skipfirst can do big harm to my system. After all, my system have been running well for several years. If you get so many build failures that you feel the need to systematically ignore them, then your system is not

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Davi Vidal
Em Wednesday 17 September 2008, David Leverton escreveu: 2008/9/17 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually I still don't think --resume --skipfirst can do big harm to my system. After all, my system have been running well for several years. If you get so many build failures that you feel the

[gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic

2008-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, I have a Dell XPS M1530 with an Intel IWL3945 wireless card. On power-up/reboot it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I can find no pattern at all, success does not depend on the machine being hot/cold rebooted, powered up from shutdown, hibernate, suspend or any other usual thing. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic

2008-09-17 Thread Espen Hustad
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:03:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I have a Dell XPS M1530 with an Intel IWL3945 wireless card. On power-up/reboot it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I can find no pattern at all, success does not depend on the machine being hot/cold rebooted, powered up

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 02:07:49 Hal Martin wrote: Marc Joliet wrote: Am Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:25:02 +0200 schrieb pat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, [.] I currently have all my virtual machines configured to use the PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973) virtual network adapter. This was

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic

2008-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:32:21 Espen Hustad wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:03:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I have a Dell XPS M1530 with an Intel IWL3945 wireless card. On power-up/reboot it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I can find no pattern at all, success

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Kent Fredric
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:35 AM, David Leverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2008/9/17 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is after many requests from others for you to calm down on the list *mumble mumble mumble* two private mails from myself asking the same, both of which you have not

Re: [gentoo-user] an efficient network file system on slow connection, which one to choose?

2008-09-17 Thread Aaron Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am trying to find out what's the best network file system (in general, like afs, coda, nfs, cifs) fits. We have our two offices connected to each other through a connection average at 15 to 20 KB/s with ping-delay less than 100ms and sharing files on the server

[gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo-sources-2.6.26, anyone?

2008-09-17 Thread James
All, I upgrade gentoo-sources to 2.6.26 a few days ago and just noticed that vmware-server doesn't play nice with the new kernel. I've seen bug ID 227303, but haven't been successful in patching vmware-server as some of the comments in the bug indicate. Anyone been able to get vmware-server to

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixergui with gentoo-sources-2.6.26

2008-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, James wrote: All, I have a weird one here. I have been using alsamixergui for quite some time without problems on kernel 2.6.24. The other day I upgraded to 2.6.26 and now every time I try to modify the volume level(s) on alsamixergui for any one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo-sources-2.6.26, anyone?

2008-09-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:55:20 -0400, James wrote: I upgrade gentoo-sources to 2.6.26 a few days ago and just noticed that vmware-server doesn't play nice with the new kernel. Neither does the vmware-workstation from pportage, but there's a later version available from VMware, and that works

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixergui with gentoo-sources-2.6.26

2008-09-17 Thread James
Misery loves company, they say. ;) On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008, James wrote: All, I have a weird one here. I have been using alsamixergui for quite some time without problems on kernel 2.6.24. The other day I

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo-sources-2.6.26, anyone?

2008-09-17 Thread James
From what I've read the latest version of vmware-server (2.0, which is in beta and not yet in portage) is buggy enough to be unstable. ...or were you talking about VMware workstation? On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:55:20 -0400,

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixergui with gentoo-sources-2.6.26

2008-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 18 September 2008, James wrote: Misery loves company, they say. ;) the funny thing: every mixer I try works. Except alsamixergui.

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixergui with gentoo-sources-2.6.26

2008-09-17 Thread James
It's very possible it's just a bug with alsamixergui...I may file a Gentoo bug so that it can be pushed upstream. -j On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2008, James wrote: Misery loves company, they say. ;) the funny thing:

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic

2008-09-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:32:21 Espen Hustad wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:03:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I have a Dell XPS M1530 with an Intel IWL3945 wireless card. On power-up/reboot it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I can find no pattern at

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Marc Joliet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right now I got it working without using a bridge. I can ping my Windows XP VM and it can ping everything else on my side, however, nmap won't work. I wonder why? Does the Windows firewall block it off? nmap runs on the guest? After all this, create

[gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

2008-09-17 Thread sean
I am receiving the below error when trying to load a specific program. error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can find references to this problem all over the internet, but not a cure. This should give you system info,

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo-sources-2.6.26, anyone?

2008-09-17 Thread Joshua D Doll
James wrote: All, I upgrade gentoo-sources to 2.6.26 a few days ago and just noticed that vmware-server doesn't play nice with the new kernel. I've seen bug ID 227303, but haven't been successful in patching vmware-server as some of the comments in the bug indicate. Anyone been able to get

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

2008-09-17 Thread Dale
sean wrote: I am receiving the below error when trying to load a specific program. error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can find references to this problem all over the internet, but not a cure. This should give you

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking [CONTINUE]

2008-09-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting pat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Or my be another question :-) I need to run more then one guest OS, so I expect I need to create next bridge, but how? No no.. You're confusing bridges and interfaces. You make ONE bridge and add interfaces to it. Search my email with

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

2008-09-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
sean wrote: I am receiving the below error when trying to load a specific program. what program? error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory sounds like you need to run revdep-rebuild I can find references to this problem

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:22:54 -0300 schrieb Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Marc Joliet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right now I got it working without using a bridge. I can ping my Windows XP VM and it can ping everything else on my side, however, nmap won't work. I wonder why? Does the

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

2008-09-17 Thread sean
Iain Buchanan wrote: sean wrote: sounds like you need to run revdep-rebuild Gentoo is kind-of different to other distros, so unless the references you found were all about gentoo, they're probably leading you up the wrong path. I think you've upgraded qt, hence whatever program you're

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

2008-09-17 Thread Dale
sean wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: sean wrote: sounds like you need to run revdep-rebuild Gentoo is kind-of different to other distros, so unless the references you found were all about gentoo, they're probably leading you up the wrong path. I think you've upgraded qt, hence whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] I am a f*****g retard. Can you help me?

2008-09-17 Thread b.n.
Vaeth ha scritto: On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Stroller wrote: The risk is that you want to install X that depends upon Y. The ebuild for X states that version 1.2.3 of Y must be used because there's a bug in 1.2.2. The new version of Y fails to compile, so when X is compiled it only has the old

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking [SOLVED]

2008-09-17 Thread pat
Thanks to all !!! It works :-) Pat

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Marc Joliet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: except for the fact that VirtualBox seems to not run the script, even with the full path. I can run the script manually, creating vbox1 and then start the VM and everything works, but with: Attached to:vbox1 That's your problem. You should

Re: [gentoo-user] an efficient network file system on slow connection, which one to choose?

2008-09-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 17 September 2008 23:51:57 schrieb ext Aaron Clark: My guess is you will want to try Coda out based on its wikipedia entry. Coda is AFAIK still not production ready, so better check if OpenAFS is for you. It's also well supported on Gentoo. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs