[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-19 Thread Robert Fekete
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: I see Robert responded here earlier. Perhaps he'll see this post and re-look at that section in a new light with a view to making a patch Yes, there are some sections in the admin guide that sorely need a cleanup. I hope to get to it before

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-19 Thread Carlos
Keith Dart wrote: === On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: === I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in the softraid-fail.txt attachment. === That's most likely your disk starting to fail. How would I go about categorically proving such a thing? What are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/18/2010 3:55 PM, Dale wrote: I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse. May as well be

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-19 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:34:09 +0100 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially support srt subs. It worked for me: mencoder ITC0101.avi -oac pcm -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=886 -sub ITC0101.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o video_final.avi my

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-19 Thread Leandro Boscariol
Well, did as you said, but still the same... On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 20:02, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2010 22:20:12 Leandro Boscariol wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 18:38, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: What does 'cat /etc/env.d/90xsession' show?

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 19 March 2010 05:20:47 Philip Webb wrote: Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' my printer wouldn't work, so I restored 'hpijs' dropped 'hpcups' all was ok. I considered doing the same for my DJ4260, but I chickened out as I've only just managed to get it working at all after

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5 hard drives setup using software RAID1. I've had this computer for about a year and half and all's been working well. I've experienced intermittent software RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 März 2010, Carlos wrote: Keith Dart wrote: === On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: === I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in the softraid-fail.txt attachment. === That's most likely your disk starting to fail. How would I go

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread James
Daniel Pielmeier billie at gentoo.org writes: You don't need avahi or zeroconf for hplip, which does not work for current versions of hplip due to bugs in cups anyway. This is only needed if you have a networked printer. You can still detect the printer without the mDNS (avahi,zeroconf)

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag 19 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:34:09 +0100 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially support srt subs. It worked for me: mencoder ITC0101.avi -oac pcm -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=886 -sub

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-19 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 March 2010 00:34:44 Dan Wallis wrote: On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from source, to keep the terminal open until I close OOo? I guess something like this might do the trick:

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Philip Webb schrieb am 19.03.2010 06:20: 100318 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: hpcups Is the new printer driver which replaces the hpijs driver. hpijs See above. Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' my printer wouldn't work, so I restored 'hpijs' dropped 'hpcups' all was ok. It's an

[gentoo-user] SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, Not really directly related to Gentoo except that the workstation where it happens is a Gentoo machine :-) Our VPN at work is a Juniper Secure Connect. I tend to have many konsole tabs running ssh at one time, as well as IMAP connections to Exchange and several browsers tabs to

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread Neil Walker
On 19/03/10 20:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: Occasionally, and apparently triggered randomly[1], all existing ssh sessions freeze and never come back (even after several hours). The connections are still up and do not die on the remote end. Mail connections stay up and the browser tabs

[gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm starting to put together a server-type machine with multiple purposes: 1) MythTV server 2) General backups for another fast machine I'm going to build 3) Wife's new desktop Since all of these requirements are pretty modest but I want high reliability I'd like to do software RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 20 March 2010 00:21:53 Neil Walker wrote: On 19/03/10 20:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: Occasionally, and apparently triggered randomly[1], all existing ssh sessions freeze and never come back (even after several hours). The connections are still up and do not die on the remote end.

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-19 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 March 2010 11:16:29 Leandro Boscariol wrote: Well, did as you said, but still the same... Let's belt brace this to cover all bases: Check that in your /etc/rc.conf you have XSESSION=fluxbox or whatever is the session shown in /etc/X11/Sessions/. Also, check that you have

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH sessions hanging in VPN

2010-03-19 Thread walt
On 03/19/2010 04:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I've been on openssh-5.4 for about a fortnight now... I recall some quip from my school days about units always appearing in technical journals in the most universal format, e.g. furlongs/fortnight.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
(I sent this 24 hours ago but it hasn't appeared, so I'm sending it again.) On Friday 19 March 2010 05:20:47 Philip Webb wrote: Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' my printer wouldn't work, so I restored 'hpijs' dropped 'hpcups' all was ok. I considered doing the same for my DJ4260,