[gentoo-user] a couple of openrt questions

2009-01-30 Thread John covici
Hi. I have run into a couple of strange openrt behaviors -- I am using spamd for some filtering and when it starts I get the message that it crashed, although it seems to be alive and well. How does start-stop-daemon know this? Also, once in a while a program is no longer running, but if I try

[gentoo-user] after emerge -uD world Firefox doesn't get DNS for most pages

2009-01-30 Thread Miernik
I just did an total upgrade of my system, with 'emerge -uD world' and now Firefox (in version 3.0.5) lost the ability to do DNS lookups for most (but not all) pages. Only a few sites are accessible: www.google.com www.mozilla.org www.gnu.org www.yahoo.com www.ripe.net and some variations of the

[gentoo-user] Re: after emerge -uD world Firefox doesn't get DNS for most pages

2009-01-30 Thread Miernik
Miernik pub...@public.miernik.name wrote: I just did an total upgrade of my system, with 'emerge -uD world' and now Firefox (in version 3.0.5) lost the ability to do DNS lookups for most (but not all) pages. Only a few sites are accessible: And I did try removing my ~/.mozilla/firefox/

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 January 2009 00:06:05 Harry Putnam wrote: I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built your own. I just bought a USB hard disk

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. Anyway, a few thoughts on what I might be running into doing it myself, or missing compared to storebought. Maybe maintenance

[gentoo-user] mouse frozen

2009-01-30 Thread Michael George
I had a weird thing happen today. I started up a clean vmware image with vmplayer and was trying to grab the input and press F2 to set the boot options. In the process of doing that, the mouse (PS/2) stopped working. I couldn't move it, click it or anything. The keyboard (USB) was fine, so I

[gentoo-user] Re: mouse frozen

2009-01-30 Thread James
Michael George george at mutualdata.com writes: If anyone has anything I might be able to use, I'd sure appreciate hearing it! Well Occationally I have my mouse lock up. I just unplug the usb connector and plug it back in. You can get one of thise ps2-to-usb converters and set your mouse up

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -uD world Firefox doesn't get DNS for most pages

2009-01-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:21:53AM +0100, Penguin Lover Miernik squawked: Installed versions: 3.0.5(06:52:35 PM 01/29/2009)(bindist dbus ipv6 java startup-notification xulrunner -custom-optimization -gnome Just a completely random shot in the dark: can you try rebuilding firefox without

[gentoo-user] gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org

2009-01-30 Thread loki

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-30 Thread Grant
My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? Does WPA2 require hardware support? I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org

2009-01-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 00:20, loki lokisa...@gmail.com wrote: Erm... You send an email to that address, not put it in the subject line. HTH. -- Joe

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with webcam

2009-01-30 Thread James
Linyin linyin.cn at gmail.com writes: I already do video for linux in the kernel. Install SDL SPCAVIEW have no error. But when i use it, error said cant find driver. Are you certain that the camera is working? If its and NTSC/PAL coax output, just plug it into an old analog TV and verify

[gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot is on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Rodolphe Rocca
reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot is on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: . [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0] USE=kdeprefix kontact semantic-desktop -debug -htmlhandbook 0 kB [ebuild NS ] kde-base/step-4.1.4 [4.2.0] USE=gsl kdeprefix qalculate 0 kB [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
Rodolphe Rocca-2 wrote: reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot is on a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: . [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0] USE=kdeprefix kontact semantic-desktop -debug -htmlhandbook 0 kB [ebuild NS ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca fa...@free.fr wrote: reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
Joshua Murphy-2 wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
Paul Hartman-3 wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Rodolphe Rocca-2 wrote: reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman-3 wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Graham Murray
reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com writes: yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, it even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 root-filesystems? i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel. Grub is not incompatible with ext4 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
Paul Hartman-3 wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman-3 wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
Graham Murray wrote: reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com writes: yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, it even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 root-filesystems? i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel. Grub is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Dale
reQuiem23 wrote: Joshua Murphy-2 wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot is on a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Hung Dang
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: . [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0] USE=kdeprefix kontact semantic-desktop -debug -htmlhandbook 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Rodolphe Rocca
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca fa...@free.fr wrote: reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: . [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0]

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 30 Januar 2009, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: . [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0] USE=kdeprefix kontact semantic-desktop -debug -htmlhandbook 0 kB [ebuild NS ] kde-base/step-4.1.4 [4.2.0] USE=gsl

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes: On Friday 30 January 2009 00:06:05 Harry Putnam wrote: I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe that is something some people would miss. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo mail server

2009-01-30 Thread kashani
James wrote: It's fully virtual, supports smtp and imap over ssl, sasl, skipped TLS, and easy to manage. I do not recommend the Gentoo Virtual How-to, it's ancient and silly. Is this the page your refer to? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml Yep and the things I don't like

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
reQuiem23 wrote: Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Saphirus Sage
On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition,

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage cruft removal

2009-01-30 Thread b.n.
Jesús Guerrero ha scritto: On Mon, January 26, 2009 17:48, Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:41:52 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: What do you guys think of this? Do you know of a good cruft removal script? Yep, there's quite good one in gentoo itself. Basically,

[gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that makes it better than ext3 or reiserfs? Is it safer journalling? Faster

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread reQuiem23
Saphirus Sage wrote: On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:53 PM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes that's funny. Oh, what an intelligent machine you've got ;-p Did it already point you to Tarpley's biography about Hussein Obama ? Or to Obma's connections to Brezinski (the one who wants

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 12:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that makes it better

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-30 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stroller wrote: If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please let me know. I don't know of an overlay and have not used iplayer-dl for some months now. I found the perl script of get-iplayer with its different options slicker for my needs:

[gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 19:49:33 schrieb Harry Putnam: I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that makes it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-30 Thread Dominic Kexel
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:05:56 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know if there is an equivalent destroy command for ifconfig or iwconfig since wlanconfig is a madwifi tool? 'ifconfig wlan0 destroy' doesn't work and I tried 'ifconfig wlan0 down'. 'airmon-ng start wlan0' does put

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-30 Thread Stroller
On 29 Jan 2009, at 17:40, Grant wrote: My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets hacked. What makes you think your WPA key is likely to get hacked? As I'm reading it, if you use a long random

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe that is something

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: Depending on your usage you might see significant improvements or hardly any at all. Best way to know for sure is to try it out. Note however that on ext4 journal checksums are *on* by default (and off on ext3 iirc). So when you are comparing

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: sense. The one that really brings something new to the Linux filesystem world will be btrfs. I've already tried some older versions of it and it looks very promising. Volumes, RAID, data integrity, etc, all integrated into the filesystem,

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Jan 2009, at 00:06, Harry Putnam wrote: ... A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. Power consumption, too. I think some of the off-the-shelf mini-NAS use a low-power MIPS processor. I like a

[gentoo-user] iplayer-dl / get-iplayer Was: Re: Internet radio?

2009-01-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:38, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stroller wrote: If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please let me know. I don't know of an overlay and have not used iplayer-dl for some months now. I found the perl script of get-iplayer with

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: Is it connected into 10/100 or 1000 (gigabit) setup? It is a gigabit setup. NFS read is about 30-34MB/s, writing is considerably slower with 15MB/s. So writing is a bit slow. But as i do not need fast storage i did not investigate. And it must be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Harry Putnam wrote: Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui.

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm over to ZFS on OpenSolaris

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: where are network interfaces?

2009-01-30 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! KDE doesn't see network intefaces. At selecting System Settings - Network Settings - Network Settings an error message appears (twice) saying about XML file parsing error (with information message about platform detecting below the error messages), and the Network Interfaces tab is empty.

[gentoo-user] can't get pysqlite custom build working

2009-01-30 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I have a custom build of python 2.3 for work compatability purposes. I built pysqlite-2.5.1 against it, but it refuses to load. msoul...@anton:...mp/pysqlite-2.5.1$ ~/work/msl8/bin/python Python 2.3.7 (#1, Jan 21 2009, 17:23:45) [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)] on linux2 Type

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that makes it better than ext3 or reiserfs? Is it safer