[gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I just did an emerge -uDN on my system, followed by revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean. When rebooting, my system did not come up because of missing things like /sbin/rc. Argh! Good thing I had a backup, after copying some files back the system was up again, and I could go to bed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: deface wrote: It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any baselayout, not just the version you are stating. *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Kirkwood writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some essential files were not. Looking

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Jerry McBride writes: I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Right, but you can use the

[gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that? I followed the guide at

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Dan Farrell writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that? Absolutely

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Schuster
maxim wexler writes: Configuring qca-tls ... Verifying Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment ... fail Unable to find Qt mkspecs. Please set QTDIR manually. Perhaps you need to install Qt 3 development utilities. You may download them either from the vendor of your operating system

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Schuster
maxim wexler writes: --- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler writes: I guess you need Qt version 3 for that, which is not onstalled, according to your emerge output: emerge -a \qt-4 localhost ~ # emerge -a \qt-4 ^^ what

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Liviu Andronic writes: I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set temporary options to grub. [...] Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come back and see the Windows login

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Eric Martin writes: Dan Farrell wrote: You might consider building packages but not installing them -- I think could use --buildpkgonly (aka -B) to achieve this end. If the world emerge with a -B flag finishes successfully, I think that means all packages were built and you are ready to

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong wrote Wonko: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:24:49PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: I emerged -e again, this time without distcc and ccache. All compiled fine, except for media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r1 (vf_decimate.c:26: error: can't find a register in class

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-users] acpi fails with status 1

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Pupino writes: I'm trying to use acpid with my gentoo laptop; it catches all events (battery, button, ac_adapter) but it can't execute the designed script, in any case. [...] the script is called and it will simply display Power button pressed at the moment. It has execution permissions and

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Uwe Thiem writes: On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

2008-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
sean writes: Unfortunately I do not have a current copy of .config. Does anyone know a less painful way of rebuilding than through make menuconfig? I have got to remember to make a backup. You may have one, try zcat /proc/config.gz. You need to have kernel option General setup - Enable acces

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Enrico Weigelt writes: All this leads me back back to the conclusion I already had about 10 years ago: *NEVER EVERY* buy Nvidia cards. (I've made the big mistake buying an notebook with NV graphics, so I even can't replace it :(() Any suggestions on which video cards to buy? I also hate the

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Schmarck writes: I did as you described. When I now run emerge -vpt man-pages, I get: # emerge -vpt man-pages These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.78 [2.42] USE=nls LINGUAS=-cs% -da%

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kaushal Shriyan writes: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded # No idea as what is going on I can reproduce this behaviour when I rename both /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Are they perhaps both missing on your system? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Fei Liu writes: Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is my setup /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no problem. emerge kernel-sources

[gentoo-user] 2 dispatch-conf questions

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Question 1: We all have replace-cvs enabled in /etc/dispatch.conf, do we, because this makes it easy to re-create old config versions. But how exactly would I get back an older version of a file? I've never seen an example yet. Would s.o. like to post a little example or point to

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. How do i go ahead in fixing this issue Thanks and Regards Kaushal I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the boot runlevel? Looking at the init

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Roger Mason writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could fail? Some kernel option? grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

2008-04-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Remy Blank writes: Grant wrote: postup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then IIRC, the equality operator is ==, not =. Both is valid in bash. I'd put a set -xv before the if statement, this way you see which statements, if any, get executed. Wonko --

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood writes: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using

Re: [gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: For whatever reason (and it will be a good technical one) the only version of vmware-modules you can use is 1.0.0.15*. So, you need to: cd /etc/portage echo =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 package.use emerge -avuND world Um, make this package.mask. Oh, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] booting to grub prompt, but config works

2008-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Travis Osterman writes: I'm performing a gentoo installation and have proceeding without problem until I went to reboot. I am greeted with the grub prompt and when issuing $configfile /boot/grub/grub.confthe boot process continues without issue. The grub-install command seemed to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display

2008-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant Edwards writes: On 2008-05-09, Ian Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you rebuild the nvidia-drivers module? Yes. The exact same version of nvidia-drivers was being used for both kernels. Any other changes with things that could possibly influence the building of the drivers, like X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re enter chroot install

2008-05-16 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev [...] Any of the above steps that are not necessary? Other have commented about the .../boot stuff but in dozens of times chrooting during all kinds of install situations I've never done

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

2008-05-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Bob Young writes: Currently I'm emerging xorg, but after that finishes, I'll first try flipping the debug and spell use flags back and see what that does. It will work. I just emerged nano with debug use flag, and get the same errors as you. Should someone file a bug about this? Or is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-28 Thread Alex Schuster
. Alex Schuster wrote: dhk writes: Does this mean the source was removed after the emerge? If so how can I keep the source. Try adding nostrip to your FEATURES. Um, I meand -nostrip, as I wrote in the example below. But I just tried for myself - I see the -g2 (multiple times

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 superkaramba fails - KDE-3.5.9

2008-05-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: I just upgraded to KDE-3.5.9 and it went very smooth on my x86 boxes but on AMD64 box I got stuck with superkaramba Can anybody with AMD64 can comment on this error: collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [superkaramba] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory [...] We

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-06-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using

Re: [gentoo-user] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Iliev asks: Let's say there's a new version of a given package. I'd like to make a backup, update, test and if I liked the old version better restore. What is (is there?) the Gentoo way to do that? Let's assume you upgrade from package/foo-1.0 to package/foo-1.1. You can then use

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: You can also add buildpkg to FEATURES, then portage will create a binary package for every package you install. It can use a fair amount of disk space, but it means you can always roll back from a broken version, even if you managed to break portage. And there's also

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant asks: Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick script for this I would really appreciate it. Whipped. Be sure to test it, because I did not :) Remove the echo statement when you are sure it works. I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant asks: Thanks guys, can you tell me how to execute this? Put it in a file and './file' I think? Should I have special stuff at the top of the file? Yes, a '#!/bin/bash', it you want top have thsi as a script. You need to make it executable, too: chmod +x file But you can also leave

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant asks: cd dir1 for i in *jpg do j = basename $i .jpg cp -u ${j}.jpg dir2/${j}_original.jpg done 'cp -u' works around the messy problem of checking if the destination file exists [...] I put the above script in a file, added the appropriate header, issued chmod,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Roger Mason writes: I'm building a system using a 2006.0 minimal install disk and following the (current) installation docs. I got to the part where it is suggested I upgrade portage. However, there is a blocker: (chroot) livecd / # emerge -p --oneshot portage These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale is back: Now, I am just hoping to get this email back and confirm that all is working again. Oh, filed a complaint with the FCC about not having DSL too. Sort of putting a fire under ATT. ;-) 24K dial-up sucks, BIG time. Picture downloading OOo, VERRRY

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (10sec) to come from Grub loading Stage1.5 to Grub loading, please

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel da Veiga writes: I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part):

Re: [gentoo-user] enable hal in kde

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Stefán István writes: I've made the mistake that I compiled kde without the hal use flag. How can I find out which kde packages should be recompiled in order to be able to use hal in kde? Use the --newuse (-N) option to emerge: emerge --newuse --deep kde Looks to me like kdebase would be

Re: [gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
b.n. writes: I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to Edit tag information... the Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz button is always disabled. It tells me to install Musicbrainz, but it's

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config [ Searching for packages depending on app-shells/bash-completion-config... ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Greg Lindstrom writes: I am programming Python (2.4.1) scripts to run on our Gentoo boxes and am having a bit of trouble I was hoping you could help me with. My file, hello.py looks like this: #!/usr/bin/python print 'hello, python' I add execute permission to the file and try to run it

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Uwe Thiem writes: I am out of ideas - and still a bit puzzled how /usr/bin/env got involved (see original post). According to the od output, the first line is not #!/usr/bin/python, but #!/usr/bin/env python. But that seems to work well for me, too. I'd try to put the script onto several

stow (was: Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF)

2007-07-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Thufir writes: On 7/29/07, Roger Luethi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No ebuild, though. you compiled on your own? ok. what happens if you want to uninstall it, though? There usually is a make uninstall, too. But I suggest to use stow, or better, xstow, to install software. It goes like

Hello? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error)

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
I'm glad the problem is solved now, but I wonder why my response to the thread (about 1:30 hours after it started) does not appear on the list. It's also not on http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user, so the problem is not that I do not receive all postings. Any idea why my mail did not

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
cscscscscs cscscscscs (?) writes: I become a little bit upset sucking installing Gentoo Linux throughout 3 days. There was several errors during the install process (networkless, installer-dialog), so I was beginning to be afraid of memory-module errors, motherboard failure etc. I ran memory

[gentoo-user] Re: Hello?

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: Let's see if this one gets through... Reading you loud and clear! I got your previous message just now, it seems with some delay. Yes. According to the headers my mail was received by my provider in normal time, but was delayed for half a day before it went out to

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: After some tests and minor changes that Alex introduced, I have had success with Alex's script as follows: [snip] You can also get it from here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/utils/lowercase.sh Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab question

2007-08-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: I have a usb external hard drive attached to my computer. It's an Iomega and has a power switch. In fstab it is /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 because I've configured it to have two ext3 partitions. If the drive is not powered on when I boot and then, I turn it on, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] illegal instruction ... in modf?

2007-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Graham Murray writes: Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm compiling a program blah.cpp with g++ 4.1.2. I've rebuilt lots of my system with 4.1.2. I'm copying the binary onto another gentoo system which has gcc 4.1.1 as the default compiler. When I run the binary on that

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile It keeps stopping at the following point: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-19 Thread Alex Schuster
»Q« writes: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:10:30 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007 04:00:45 »Q« wrote: It works as it is, but I'm interested in learning about any newbie traps into which I might be falling or about any better practices I should use.

[gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! The last expat update was an example of something that annoys me about gentoo. I usually do world updates every few days, mostly without trouble. I only tend to forget to restart services, but even for this there is an automatic solution now (see the recent Rolling upgrades thread).

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Friday 24 August 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: But then, there are things like the expat update. This happens seldomly, but if it does, it's rather annoying. Maybe I have become too comfortable with updating along the way, while working with the system, but usually it works

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: I understand that there are many ways to skin a cat - in this case to contain somewhat what a plain user can and cannot do when they log in via sftp. Some ideas that I have across are to use a limited shell like rssh, use an ssh chroot, modify the umask for user directories. I

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Ralf Stephan writes: I might be a bit too naive or hands-on -- I think portage or paludis should be able to tell you which upgrades that expat one will draw behind it. I don't know what would be required for implementation, though. In other words, even the existence of a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

2007-08-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I need to periodically upload a file to an ftp server, but the password they've issued me has a '!' and a '' character in it. I tried escaping those characters like this: wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\@ftp.example.com/file.txt but then it tells me the password

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

2007-08-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\@ftp.example.com/file.txt Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like wput -A ... 'ftp://txt'? That did it. Thanks everyone! Hmm... there really should be no difference whether you put the whole string between

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd

2007-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Robert Walter writes: i've added myself to the vboxusers group with gpasswd -a robert vboxusers. when i do a id robert with root i see the added group but when i start a new xterm with user robert i'm still not added to the new group. how do i make the changes take effekt without

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I just upgraded ssh and when I try to restart I get: * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] I don't see anything about it in '/var/log/sshd/current'. How can I figure out what is wrong? I'm a little nervous because I don't want to shut myself out of this remote server. Uh-oh! I know

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same time. Alex Schuster wrote: If you think the upgrade is necessary and don't want to wait until you or s.o. else has physical access in case sshd doesn't come up again, you could try to restart sshd manually by issuing a kill -SIGHUP

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread Alex Schuster
John Blinka writes: Not a stupid question - I've been known to overlook the obvious. But I've been running the same kernel for quite some time, and nfs has worked before on that kernel. However, on tobey: I had a similar problem recently after an update. Some of the shares did still work,

[gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

2007-09-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! For a little while now I have a problem on one of my hosts, X11 forwarding stopped working. I do not know where to look, but I thought maybe someone here has an idea? I have a .Xauthority file dated from Sept 19, this might be around the last time forwarding was working. Here is my

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Liviu Andronic writes: So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the lost RAM data to be recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology and know-how recover it? In other words, is this a serious breach in

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

2007-10-14 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Yes. Well, I usually have forwarding enabled automatically in /etc/ssh/ssh_config, but I always try with -X or -Y anyway. What is the actual error from the client? $DISPLAY is not set. But I notice a change since yesterday: I now get this warning: Warning: No xauth data; using

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm does not start on boot

2007-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
econti writes: Hi all to-day I successfully updated Xorg (from 6.x to 7.x). A little trouble only; on boot I receive the following error message: Setting up kdm . . . start-stop-daemon: option `--exec' requires an argument Try `start-stop-daemon --help' for more information *ERROR: could

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:15 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Is this correct? I have three fast machines, 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.4 and a slow machine I want to distribute for at 192.168.1.5. Here's /etc/conf.d/distccd on the slow one: I think this one's

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 01:39 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Michael Sullivan writes: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:15 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: distcc works with a wrapper. When gcc is called, in fact /usr/lib/distcc/bin/gcc is called (*), which distributes

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:11 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] So you got my answer, but I for myself did not yet see it arrive on the list. Strange. Is this correct? I have three fast machines, 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.4 and a slow machine I want to distribute

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Sunday 14 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: Then I looked at the configs again, and in the man page for ssh_config I finally found this: XAuthLocation Specifies the full pathname of the xauth(1) program. The default is /usr/openwin/bin

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles

2007-10-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'. I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net. You can also use any other boot CD. Well, unless you use the automatic installer, but it seems people don't like it much and prefer to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Schuster
econti writes: Here is the message: /sbin/rc: line 400: start: command not found Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot One or more critical startup scripts failed to start! Please correct this, and reboot ... Any suggestion? Should I reinstall everything? I don't know what's wrong here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: The situation: I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was not, but the change Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces string matching,

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago, after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with expr: - orig use with ~= : # if [[ test =~ .* ]]; then echo ok; fi - alternative use with expr : # export TEST_VAR=test #

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild issues

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
James writes: Upon a routine upgrade, I followed up with revdep-rebuild -p. The problem is the system wants to rebuild versions of packages that are very old. 'equery depengs package reveals that nothing is dependent of the first few packages. [...] I'm open to suggestions as to how to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to go through all the RGB codes? The convert created BMP's won't open in gimp Strange. I suggest asking the experts on

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Teng Wang writes: Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? With a litle luck,

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Sven Köhler writes: Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it. But watch out, it has a huge security problem: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-29.xml Wonko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run binary packages

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I've emerged firefox-bin and skype successfully, but neither will run with very similar errors: Do these threads help? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-583184.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-565649.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182248

Re: [gentoo-user] fails to emerge app-office/openoffice-2.3.1

2007-12-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Rumen Yotov writes: Vasiliy G Tolstov написа: package app-office/openoffice-2.3.1 NOT merged Detected file collision(s): /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/ru_RU.aff /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/ru_RU.dic [...] Put '-collision-protect' in FEATURES in /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm interested in what I might run into. So far it looks like it would be ALMOST as easy as symlinking ksh to bash in /bin. Uh, this sounds scary :) The two big things I see that will cause that not to work are lots of calls to `print' and that bash does not

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I was really just saying that syntax at my low level of usage is largely interchangeable but for the cases I mentioned. So it makes switching scripting shells from ksh93 to bash pretty smooth

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crashes with latest flash

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: When I go to http://www.speedtest.net the flash content does not show (just a white frame in its place) and if I close konqueror I get a signal 11 sigserv. This is what the terminal shows: [...] Rebuilding flash, nspluginviewer and konqueror has not fixed this, neither has

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running doxygen from cron

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Dirk Uys wrote: I have a problem when running doxygen from a cron job. It seems like doxygen is simply aborting at an arbitrary point during execution. I tried to search on the internet, but could not find anything similar reported. [...] My cron entry is 45 * * * * /home/user/script.sh

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs blocking question

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Geralt wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You don't need to remove anything, just let portage handle the block for you. Blocks marked with a b (instead of a B) can be handled by recent portage releases. are you sure that his works in this

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

2009-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant wrote: I'd like to install the latest miro from their nightlies and that means installing manually without an ebuild. I've always avoided this because I don't want files spread across my system without an easy way to remove them. I've also always wanted to set up a good cruft removal

[gentoo-user] Radeon woes

2009-04-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Dear Gentooers, I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? I tried all sorts of ati-drivers, most (if any) did not compile. But that was because of tuxonice-2.6.29, so I downgraded to the stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon woes

2009-04-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Monday 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? [...] I'm out of ideas now. Do you have any advice? A friend also has trouble with her Radeon X1550 card

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon woes

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: I already have the hal USE flag set. I added evdev to INPUT_DEVICES, and tried again with and without existing xorg.conf. No real change - X starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 3200 woes [solved, sort of]

2009-04-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Montag 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? [...] a) the drivers you tried are acient All newer ones did not compile. I think. I tried so

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Troeder writes: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 05 April 2009 21:45:16 Daniel Troeder wrote: When updates hit the portage tree, that are known to cause problems to lots of people - why not tell that directly after the --sync? Unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the contents). Or into

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade error

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
김무성 writes: For installing vmware My kernel version is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5. But I have no source files. So I downloaded source files. But that’s version 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. When I installed vmware, it told me kernel version and kernel source files’ version no match. I have to kernel upgrade.

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