Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:10:00 +0100, Stroller wrote: The widespread SSIDs of Linksys and Netgear must be ignored, unless it is possible to identify them by MAC address without authenticating. It is, try sudo iwlist wlan0 scan to see all APs in range, with their SSIDs and MAC addresses.

[gentoo-user] Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Damian
After installing network manager I got the following message: L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: L polkit-auth --grant org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.modify --user USERNAME However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 04/22/2010 12:17 PM, Damian wrote: After installing network manager I got the following message: L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: L polkit-auth --grant

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: K3b suddenly cannot find any burning device of my system. Hald is running. vlc can acces the drive for playing dvds. kdebase-runtime-meta is installed. k3b was recompiled without problems. The Configuration dialog of k3b states for both kind of drives none. And me?

[gentoo-user] /dev/.udev - safe to remove ?

2010-04-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi rkhunter showed a warning because there is a /dev/.udev directory on my machine. qfile didn't find any 'owner'. Is it safe to remove that directory? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/.udev - safe to remove ?

2010-04-22 Thread Bert Swart
Hi, No, you should allow this dir: set ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/dev/.udev in /etc/rkhunter.conf Regards, Bert On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:35:30PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi rkhunter showed a warning because there is a /dev/.udev directory on my machine. qfile didn't find any 'owner'. Is it

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Damian
Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com writes: On 04/22/2010 12:17 PM, Damian wrote: After installing network manager I got the following message: L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: L polkit-auth

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl 2.1.23 remote server rejected your credentials

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
Hi! I changed the restrictions line like you said: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination but this way it will try to see if the ip is part of mynetworks first, and as it wont be it will reject or ...

[gentoo-user] mixing python-2 and python-3 howto

2010-04-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Here, several month ago I had problems since I had Python-2.x and Python-3.x installed. Therefore I have masked Python-3.x since then. Meanwhile there are packages (like portpeek-2.0.1) which require Python-3.x . Is it safe to have both Python-2 and Python-3 installed. I know they are slotted

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl 2.1.23 remote server rejected your credentials

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
I changed back to a saved /etc/postfix/main.cf file I had. The PLAIN LOGIN auth reappear fine, STARTLS work still testsaslauthd -u u...@domain.com -p password 0: NO authentication failed logs: Apr 22 14:08:48 xx saslauthd[12159]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=u...@domain.com]

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: [...] solve this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in this time? Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for

Re: [gentoo-user] mixing python-2 and python-3 howto

2010-04-22 Thread Justin
On 22/04/10 15:29, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Here, several month ago I had problems since I had Python-2.x and Python-3.x installed. Therefore I have masked Python-3.x since then. Meanwhile there are packages (like portpeek-2.0.1) which require Python-3.x . Is it safe to have both Python-2

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-22 Thread ubiquitous1980
On 21/04/10 01:26, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Paul Hartman schrieb am 20.04.2010 17:03: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:58 AM, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Daniel The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.04.2010 11:09, schrieb Stroller: OK, a bit more RAM wouldn't hurt here. But I am compiling stuff right now. I would add more. Services mysteriously dying, surely that could be because the kernel is killing them off due to an out-of-memory condition? Shouldn't the kernel *swap*

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 April 2010 17:31:33 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 21.04.2010 11:09, schrieb Stroller: OK, a bit more RAM wouldn't hurt here. But I am compiling stuff right now. I would add more. Services mysteriously dying, surely that could be because the kernel is killing them

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 22.04.2010 17:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Shouldn't the kernel *swap* then ? No, the OOM killer kicks in when the kernel has no more virtual memory, including swap. Either way, more RAM is the answer. Or fidn the app with the memory leak if you are unlucky enough to have one of those

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Grant
Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or directory (EE) intel(0): Failed to become

Re: [gentoo-user] mixing python-2 and python-3 howto

2010-04-22 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 16:12 +0200, Justin wrote: There will be an announcement, when py-3.* goes stable and is supported to be used as system python. Yes, so make certain you leave instructions in your will ;) (if you didn't get that then just ignore it)

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 April 2010 18:24:08 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 22.04.2010 17:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Shouldn't the kernel *swap* then ? No, the OOM killer kicks in when the kernel has no more virtual memory, including swap. Either way, more RAM is the answer. Or fidn the app with

[gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved?

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
Hi, I can't emerge php4 anymore: USE=cli apache2 emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' '=dev-lang/php-5*' Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-lang/php-4*. Is there a new way to do so ? thx Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
ubiquitous1980 schrieb am 22.04.2010 16:23: On 21/04/10 01:26, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I do not own an all-in-one printer so I can not test, but if Paul's suggestions do not work can you tell me the permissions of your device. lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1

[gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved?

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
following this: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/php/wiki/InstallOverlay 'gentoo-php-overlay' seems now to be 'php' Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?

2010-04-22 Thread Jarry
On 21. 4. 2010 9:43, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Jarry wrote: s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100 It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up I get this message: INIT: ID s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes How can I control that respawn speed, or prohibit this

[gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved? = removed

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
..just removed php-4 and all is working fine :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 April 2010 17:47:23 Grant wrote: Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No

[gentoo-user] What are you waiting for!

2010-04-22 Thread Damian
Since today, whenever I try to shutdown the laptop I get messages saying waiting for net.wlan0 (XX) seconds Where X varies between 50 and 5. And I got this message for every service that is stopped. The problem looks similar to what's described here:

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread walt
On 04/22/2010 09:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On my web and mail servers I have no swap at all, they do have lots and lots of RAM; my Sybase database servers have enormous amounts of swap... Hm. Does that mean your database servers are allowed to be slower than the web and mail servers?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 April 2010 23:16:56 walt wrote: On 04/22/2010 09:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On my web and mail servers I have no swap at all, they do have lots and lots of RAM; my Sybase database servers have enormous amounts of swap... Hm. Does that mean your database servers are allowed

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: [...] The penultimate paragraph says that you should copy _some_ file from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ penultimate Egad... does that mean its explosive? ... : ) [...] [...] 17 /match 18 19 merge

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote: I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and what

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Internet mail is quite complex, yes. This statement is the source of the confusion surrounding sendmail. Internet mail is not complex, it is stunningly simple: mail comes in, look up where it should go, send it there [...] Egad, I had no

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-22 Thread ubiquitous1980
Hello Daniel, Sorry for the omission in last email: localhost ubiquitous1980 # ls -al /dev/bus/usb/005/004 crw-rw-r-- 1 root scanner 189, 515 2010-04-23 07:42 /dev/bus/usb/005/004 localhost ubiquitous1980 # ls -al /dev/usb/lp0 ls: cannot access /dev/usb/lp0: No such file or directory localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Apr 2010, at 17:24, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 22.04.2010 17:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Shouldn't the kernel *swap* then ? No, the OOM killer kicks in when the kernel has no more virtual memory, including swap. Either way, more RAM is the answer. Or fidn the app with the

[gentoo-user] modules.audoload.d is not autoloaded

2010-04-22 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have some modules putted in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and my kernel is 2.6.32-gentoo-r7. but after system started up, i found those modules are not loaded. running 'rc-update show', i can see the 'modules' is in 'boot' runlevel. if i load those modules manually, they can be loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-22 Thread ubiquitous1980
Daniel, Some additional info in the log file: Thanks ubiquitous1980 hp-check[29672]: info: : Initializing. Please wait... scheduler is running 1.3.11 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 #2 SMP Thu Apr 22 22:02:49 WST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz