[gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-project] Mass deactivation of Bugzilla accounts

2011-07-03 Thread justin
Please notice this mail from the project-ml. Original Message Subject: [gentoo-project] Mass deactivation of Bugzilla accounts Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:36:31 +0200 From: Christian Ruppert Reply-To: gentoo-proj...@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-proj...@lists.gentoo.org Hi everybod

Re: [gentoo-user] smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

2011-07-03 Thread Francisco Ares
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 16:12:46 Francisco Ares wrote: > >> I think I forgot to say: mplayer always works, kmplayer and smplayer don't. > > smplayer and kmplayer are front ends for mplayer.  If they do not work there's > probably something amiss with Qt4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you > to be running xorg. KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the kernel handle graphics mode setting and gets out of the way. But KMS doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-03 Thread covici
Harry Putnam wrote: > Albert Hopkins writes: > > > On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > > > >> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I > >> fear my kernel line may be out of date. > >> > > > > A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one

[gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins writes: > On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > >> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I >> fear my kernel line may be out of date. >> > > A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way™ for > doing console/X mode se

Re: [gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

2011-07-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 08:31:10AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > If that is not possible, what solution would you recommend to 'harden' > the non-25 mail port? portknocking sounds like doing things the hard way. The gateway has to have either a fixed IP address or at least a domain name. Set up

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-03 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras [11-07-04 04:08]: > After syncing, some heavy packages wanted to rebuild because of the > "hardened" USE flag. (I don't use the hardened profile, but they > wanted to rebuild anyway.) Really heavy stuff including libreoffice > and firefox-5. It took a few hours. Then, next

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Difficulties to use scripts from openbox menu.xml

2011-07-03 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick [11-07-04 03:03]: > On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 07:13:16 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > I have a script, which cd into a certain > > directory and starts a program from there > > with "./". > > > > This scripts works fine from the commandline. > > > > But when I use the same scrip

[gentoo-user] Portknock before Postfix delivery?

2011-07-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
I'm just wondering... I'm implementing an email gateway using postfix. The gateway lives as a VM in my ISP, and it will deliver 'accepted' emails to the company's email server which lives in the DMZ. The email server's port is shifted to a non-25 external port number. So far so good. However, a p

[gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
After syncing, some heavy packages wanted to rebuild because of the "hardened" USE flag. (I don't use the hardened profile, but they wanted to rebuild anyway.) Really heavy stuff including libreoffice and firefox-5. It took a few hours. Then, next resync, and the same packages want to rebui

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread covici
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2011 06:26:00 cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine > thusly: > > Hi. I am having problems with my current world update of an > > unstable gentoo system. Before I paste the output, I need to tell > > you that I need to have perl compiled with threads enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

2011-07-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 22:52:00 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 03.07.2011 15:19, schrieb Mick: > > Hi All, > > > > The default Konqueror installation uses Khmtl as its rendering engine. > > This makes it slower than most other browsers out there. Is khtml going > > to get better and gradually adopt

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 16:46:30 -0400, Simon wrote: > I have 2 world file "styles", one has "everything" in it and the other > is just the minimal stuff. I used to maintain the world files directly > but I've opted for creating 2 ebuilds in my own portage overlay which > are basically called sys-apps

[gentoo-user] output of emerge -v emacs-vcs (not the masking something else)

2011-07-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm getting output from emerge -v emacs-vcs like this: * ERROR: app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.-r1 failed (unpack phase): * bzr.eclass: can't pull from bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/ I tried bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/ by hand and had no problems with it.

Re: [gentoo-user] about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I > fear my kernel line may be out of date. > A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way™ for doing console/X mode settings. But if you have a procrap

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

2011-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 03.07.2011 15:19, schrieb Mick: > Hi All, > > The default Konqueror installation uses Khmtl as its rendering engine. This > makes it slower than most other browsers out there. Is khtml going to get > better and gradually adopt the WebKit developments, or if I would rather have > WebKit per

Re: [gentoo-user] smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

2011-07-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 16:12:46 Francisco Ares wrote: > I think I forgot to say: mplayer always works, kmplayer and smplayer don't. smplayer and kmplayer are front ends for mplayer. If they do not work there's probably something amiss with Qt4 and KDE. > Following your steps (a few words are i

[gentoo-user] about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I fear my kernel line may be out of date. At any rate my settings are apparently causing the resolution setting to be ignored and I'm sometimes asked for a selection and sometimes it just boots with the huge 80x25 standard. Sometim

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-03 Thread Simon
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Grant wrote: > After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to > stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo > systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What > can be done to make the management of mu

Re: [gentoo-user] smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

2011-07-03 Thread Francisco Ares
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 03:24:27 Francisco Ares wrote: > > Hi, All, > > > > I am trying to use smplayer or kmplayer as a regular user. They both don't > > work: kmplayer keeps saying that it is waiting mplayer buffering and > > smplayer reports "Mplaye

[gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

2011-07-03 Thread Mick
Hi All, The default Konqueror installation uses Khmtl as its rendering engine. This makes it slower than most other browsers out there. Is khtml going to get better and gradually adopt the WebKit developments, or if I would rather have WebKit performance should I switch Konqueror's engine to

[gentoo-user] Re: chrome and everything

2011-07-03 Thread András Csányi
On 2 June 2011 10:49, András Csányi wrote: Hi All, Just for the record. It looks like this problem is solved. I switched back to gentoo-sources and I haven't experienced such problems which is described in my first letter. I have used ck kernel. I would like to emphasize that this doesn't mean t

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 July 2011 06:26:00 cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: > Hi. I am having problems with my current world update of an > unstable gentoo system. Before I paste the output, I need to tell > you that I need to have perl compiled with threads enabled because > its a requirement of fr

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

2011-07-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 12:08:20AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > ssmtp has an mta USE flag.. I guess this just made it to stable (has > been in testing for a while now). Anyway ssmtp only satisfies > virtual/mta with that flag set. > > So you should be able to simply set it and remerge ssmtp.

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:43:36 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > This is not the first time that gst-plugins have caused this problem. I > wish that the maintainers would commit upgrades to all the plugins > within a reasonable time, not upgrade some and not others leading to > this failure to upgrade w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Difficulties to use scripts from openbox menu.xml

2011-07-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 07:13:16 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > I have a script, which cd into a certain > directory and starts a program from there > with "./". > > This scripts works fine from the commandline. > > But when I use the same script inside the > ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml, I does

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

2011-07-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 11:31:14 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > There's been a cock and bull story on comp.os.linux.setup and I'm > wondering about some of the details. Mainly, I'd like some education, > please! > > The story, in essence: > (i) Windows XP is running, with a normal NTFS fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-03 Thread Roman Zilka
Grant (Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:14:38 -0700): > After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to > stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo > systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What > can be done to make the management of multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread Graham Murray
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10 > > (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.32::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > ~media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.32 required by > (media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.32::gentoo, installed) > > (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

2011-07-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. There's been a cock and bull story on comp.os.linux.setup and I'm wondering about some of the details. Mainly, I'd like some education, please! The story, in essence: (i) Windows XP is running, with a normal NTFS filesystem(s). (ii) Power off without a proper shutdown. (iii) Start ag

[gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread covici
Hi. I am having problems with my current world update of an unstable gentoo system. Before I paste the output, I need to tell you that I need to have perl compiled with threads enabled because its a requirement of freeswitch -- my current pbx. Also, I want to stay with Firefox 3 and up to now, p

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-03 Thread Stroller
On 2 July 2011, at 23:14, Grant wrote: > After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to > stick with Gentoo routers. Out of curiosity, could you tell us more about this experience? The WRT54G(L) is quite dated, and the OpenWRT devs recommend against trying to do anythin

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-03 Thread Stroller
On 2 July 2011, at 10:49, David Haller wrote: > ... >> "its name escapes me" = I can't remember its name > > Almost: "I know I knew its name[, but at the moment,] the memory of > that name has escaped (or fled) my mind" ;) Or: "I can't _quite_ > remember it (now), but I should, I know it's there,

Re: [gentoo-user] smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

2011-07-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 03:24:27 Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, All, > > I am trying to use smplayer or kmplayer as a regular user. They both don't > work: kmplayer keeps saying that it is waiting mplayer buffering and > smplayer reports "Mplayer has finished unexpectedly. Exit code:1". > > Running bo