Re: [gentoo-user] emerge luatex-0.30.3 fails

2009-09-03 Thread Arttu V.
On 9/3/09, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `lua_newtable' /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `lua_tostring' /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `luaL_getmetatable' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct way to keep a /dev entry through reboots?

2009-09-03 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
Le Thu, 3 Sep 2009 01:17:26 -0400, Walter Dnes a écrit : For now I have the mkdir and mknod commands in /etc/conf.d/local/start to recreate them at each bootup, but putting stuff in there is usually a last resort. Is there a more correct way of doing it? Maybe you should try to setup some

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct way to keep a /dev entry through reboots?

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 07:17:26 Walter Dnes wrote: I recently bought a USR5637 USB dialup modem for my 2nd PC. I chose it because it's small, and specifically claims to support linux. Following instructions at http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x332.html I * recompiled the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 00:50:34 Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Fresh issue, might as well keep the same thread. Like I said before the Music Player Daemon is set to start in the default level, so as the netbook boot msgs scroll by I've been use to seeing the msg: Music Player Daemon

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory

2009-09-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no success. This is also no ordinary directory---it has been under git control

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 11:48:40 Alan E. Davis wrote: It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no success.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-03 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Dale: Then again, Kopete forces me to re-enter my Yahoo password every time I restart Kopete too. It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password.

[gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of the

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Dale
Nick Khamis wrote: I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Xavier Parizet
Nick Khamis a écrit : I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hell Sir, Thank You for your response, I did add it after I sent the original message, chrooted, mounted, and copied over trhe new bzimage file to the /boot partition. Now I am getting special device dev/sda1 does not exist when trying to issue a mount /boot Thanks In Advnaced, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 15:01:58 Nick Khamis wrote: Hell Sir, Thank You for your response, I did add it after I sent the original message, chrooted, mounted, and copied over trhe new bzimage file to the /boot partition. Now I am getting special device dev/sda1 does not exist when

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Thank you all for your help, im an idiot everything works perfect. The only problem I am having is that when xdm is loading I am using nvidia-drivers, xdm loads and nothing works no keyboard etc... I am almost there xorg.conf looks ok, modprobe nvidia with no issues. I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Xavier Parizet
Nick Khamis a écrit : Hello Everyone, Thank you all for your help, im an idiot everything works perfect. The only problem I am having is that when xdm is loading I am using nvidia-drivers, xdm loads and nothing works no keyboard etc... I am almost there xorg.conf looks ok, modprobe nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I am using a Dell D820 ICH7 family, I am chking to see if appropriate modules have been selectd in the kernel right now. Reagrds, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Xavier Parizet
Nick Khamis a écrit : I am using a Dell D820 ICH7 family, I am chking to see if appropriate modules have been selectd in the kernel right now. You can, it can be useful, but this will not help with your xorg problem. If you can type in startx or /etc/init.d/xdm start, so your keyboard is

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Exactly! In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. I looking into xorg.conf. Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg hal/evdev (was: unknown filesystem type 'ext2')

2009-09-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:29:48 -0400, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly! In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. I looking into xorg.conf. Regards, Ninus New versions

[gentoo-user] revdep trouble

2009-09-03 Thread econti
Hi all after two months I made a world upgrade. All went well, but when I ran revdep-rebuild I received this: localhost ~ # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep trouble

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 16:39:07 econti wrote: Hi all after two months I made a world upgrade. All went well, but when I ran revdep-rebuild I received this: localhost ~ # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies *

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep trouble

2009-09-03 Thread walt
On 09/03/2009 07:39 AM, econti wrote: Hi all after two months I made a world upgrade. All went well, but when I ran revdep-rebuild I received this: localhost ~ # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Nick Khamissym...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly! In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. I looking into xorg.conf. Newer Xorg uses a different method of

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory

2009-09-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:48, Alan E. Davis wrote: It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no success. This is also

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Dale: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Dale: It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password. Thing is, that screws up the password as

[gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from this page: http://archives.gentoo.org/ If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they are incorrect then nothing below matters. Not meaning to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to less technical environments -

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need dev-libs/libmimedir?

2009-09-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:56:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: equery depends shows what depends on a package. Rather unreliably, since it does not correctly handle USE flags. emerge --depclean -pv dev-libs/libmimedir is better. -- Neil Bothwick Illiterate? Write today for free help.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from this page: http://archives.gentoo.org/ If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them interesting, and maybe a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)

2009-09-03 Thread Kyle Bader
1. Put your host into dyndns and ssh to that name I'll often do this and then create a subdomain of a domain I own then have it CNAME to the dyndns domain name. I find that I have a easier time remembering the names I choose this way. -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
090903 Mark Knecht wrote: I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from http://archives.gentoo.org/ I find them a bit disappointing. I was surprised how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect some of this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-03 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Dale: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Dale: It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:    Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep trouble

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Jones
Post #2 from Mr. McKinnon is the question. If, as it sounds like, you didn't let revdep-rebuild go ahead and reemerge those packages itself, but rather you reemerged them yourself, then I believe you will need to `revdep-rebuild -i` (see manpage) to see if it has any other complaints. And there's

[gentoo-user] new install

2009-09-03 Thread James
OK, It's been a while, so I'm following the handbook to install a gentoo server that will eventually become a firewall using a 4GB Compact Flash to IDE drive on this mobo(processor): # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8

[gentoo-user] Cannot connect hp 840c on parallel port.

2009-09-03 Thread vasya
Hi. Here some problem - can't connect printer hp 840c on parallel port LPT1. Necessary kernel modules I've enabled. But CUPS by foomatic db or hplip by their own drivers can't detect this printer. Hplip tells me that error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality. but

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 17:59:57 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from this page: http://archives.gentoo.org/ If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues

2009-09-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
NAFC. New anagram for me. Not As Far...? But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you. I'll send you a public key. Can't grok. If I have an account on this box it's news to me. How and what would you be looking for? Or, you could look in your logs and tell us what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:04:06 Maxim Wexler wrote: NAFC. New anagram for me. Not As Far...? Not A F..king Clue :-) But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you. I'll send you a public key. Can't grok. If I have an account on this box it's news to me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-03 Thread kashani
Nick Khamis wrote: I should also point out that we are interested in load balancing and high availability. Regards, Ninus. Alright there's a lot going on here so I'm going to break down the last ten years of dealing with sort of thing into three pages. :-) Stability vs Flexibility I'm a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:20 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I think traffic on ALL mailing lists has dropped, just like usenet. Web forums are the normal place to go these days. Only us technological dinosaurs are still using e-mail lists and newsgroups. :) I'm going to concur with this only

[gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I got gnome to fire with some problems: 1) startx startx gnome but rc-update add xdm default starts xdm: ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm That is not my problem, the reason why I am almost getting blue in the face is because when I issue a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:25 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: I got gnome to fire with some problems: [...] Question: Is the dbus service running? -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
dbus is running yes. Please Help :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
hald is running too

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Regards, Ninus.

[gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Regards, Ninus

[gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Grant
When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband systems, from other dynamically allocated IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I was considering something as is pointed out at the following link: http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-loadbalanced-mysql-cluster-with-mysql5.1 Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Stroller
Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy sucks. Stroller. On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:45, Grant wrote: When I try to send an email to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured gentoo-user 2009, 11126 emails 2008, 15269 emails 2007, 13643 emails 2006, 25954 emails 2005, 15378 emails 2004, 545 emails the numbers are incorrect. also the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Stroller
Ooops... please ignore. I just noticed you said from my hosted server. You can still try complaining to them. Good luck!! Stroller. On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:51, Stroller wrote: Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Regards, Ninus well, do you have /home in

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:35:28 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Not sure what you mean by gentoo in the last sentence. Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:41:29 Nick Khamis wrote: No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Three options: The file system

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:41:29 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Well does the user have an

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:35:28 Nick Khamis wrote: When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Root login to console or root login to X? Almost every sane distro on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Sir, ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm Thank You For Your Response, I did do that. I had Gnome fireed up and working fine, then I am not sure what was it I did that now it fires up using startx but nothing works, my session is not loaded etc.. Thanks In

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops I did mean gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists. fstab - dev/sda3/ ext3 noatime Thanks in Advnaced, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:51:04 Stroller wrote: Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy sucks. ucla.edu have the perfect policy.

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists. fstab - dev/sda3/

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible using gnome so I figures what the heck. So that is fine (not being able to login xdm using root). But I still have a problem in regard to gnome not being able to work. Firefox does not start, nothing starts not even

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Yes of course Now when I fire up gnome, I see nothing on my desktop and nothing is working (cannot open console, or firefox etc..). I When I load gnome I see: please contact your system administration to resolve the follwoing issue: could not resolve the address xml:readwrite:d/.gconf in the

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is getting the errors described above.

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is getting the errors described above. well - you shall never log into X as root anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Yes for sure, hmmm but its broken an I want to fix it. I have logged into X using root just earlier today and now when I log into console using root I get the No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/. I would like to fix this. fstab is as per the gentoo documentation. Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops. I think trying to fiz my original problem of gnome+root, I invented a new one root console + error message (No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/). This is not an error root has /root not home so when someone logs into console using root this message will always show? Sorry about that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory

2009-09-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
This is my personal working directory, under git control to carry it around between computers on a flash drive. Now stripped of git. I am reluctant to send it along, but I could send a tarball to someone who is willing to check on it. It's 300M. I moved ./mozilla out of the way. The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:45:46 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: ... Does anyone know how to fix this? If you have an open mail relay server, you can use

[gentoo-user] Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) Just a few porblems with this fresh install: When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox: There was an error starting

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory

2009-09-03 Thread walt
On 09/03/2009 02:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs... You could try starting firefox from a command prompt like this:

[gentoo-user] Re: new install

2009-09-03 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: stage3-i686-20090901.tar.bz2 Well I found the doc: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/Intel so here are my answers to my questions: CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} Where -O2

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:52 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible using gnome so I figures what the heck. If you are using gnome (and hence gdm not xdm) then trying to login as root from the gui results in a dialog

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Dale: It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password. Thing is, that screws up the password as well. So much for the remember password option. Control Centre -

[gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread walt
On 09/03/2009 03:38 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) Just a few porblems with this fresh install: When logging into gnome I presented with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory

2009-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Alan E. Davis: Don't know how to find a filename with a space at the end. Is there a tool to find hosed filenames? This will find files with a space at the end: $ find . |grep \ $ PS.: No HTML and/or top posting for a better future for our children.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Walt, Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my first suspicious message, No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge luatex-0.30.3 fails

2009-09-03 Thread Strake
Thank you! This worked fantastically. Strangely enough, this bug never turned up during my search, but I probably tried the wrong terms. 2009/9/3 Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com: On 9/3/09, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `lua_newtable'

[gentoo-user] Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Carter
I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with 29). Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation

2009-09-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/04/2009 04:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:21:38 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab looked ok. I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME did return /root. If I do not make mistakes I will not learn.

[gentoo-user] Can't detect printer hp 840c on parallel port

2009-09-03 Thread vasya
Hi. Here some problem - can't connect printer hp 840c on parallel port LPT1. Necessary kernel modules I've enabled. But CUPS by foomatic db or hplip by their own drivers can't detect this printer. Hplip tells me that error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality. but