Re: [gentoo-user] Adding dependencies in init scripts

2010-02-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 14 Februar 2010 02:51:57 schrieb Damian: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: HTH... Dirk Thanks a lot for your responses. That looks just like what I needed. Ok, I just cannot make this work. I've created a file /etc/conf.d/mpd

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding dependencies in init scripts

2010-02-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 14 Februar 2010 12:56:14 schrieb Damian: into /etc/conf.d/mpdscrible and put mpdscrible into default runlevel, not mpd. I understand, but that isn't what I want, because when I boot up, I don't always start up mpd. Well, then don't put it in any runlevel, but if you start the

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding dependencies in init scripts

2010-02-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 14 Februar 2010 16:48:00 schrieb Stroller: Is it possible that you Dirk are using different versions of baselayout? Yes, I am running OpenRC/BL2. I didn't even think for a second that somebody could still be using BL1, sorry for that ;) Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* tty* - is it normal?

2010-01-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 26 Januar 2010 19:20:27 schrieb Jarry: Anyway, it looks so that udev is not dynamic for all kind of dev-files... Well, it is. Lookup /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules, you'll find the rules for creating [pt]ty nodes there. Debian may have different rules in place. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution and exchange

2010-01-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 25 Januar 2010 09:25:15 schrieb William Kenworthy: I am using evolution to successfully read/send email to a local, unencrypted mail server andan IMAPS server using SSL at work. However, the main organisation uses exchange and I want to add this to evolution but cant get it to

Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

2010-01-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 22 Januar 2010 15:19:14 schrieb Alex Schuster: Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with lower versions I get somewhat further, but building does not finish, too. Any ideas why it's gone? Or where to look to find this out? Is It doesn't even build. not

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 19:08:53 schrieb Valmor de Almeida: I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the error message: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 20 Januar 2010 12:53:23 schrieb Xi Shen: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. Who says we don't? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 23:58:24 schrieb Grant: I should be able to use flashrom to flash my motherboard's BIOS? Do I need to check compatibility, or do I just go for it? This exercise is left to the interested reader ;) Seriously, of course you should check compatibility before you use

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 17:26:40 schrieb Grant: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 20:23:53 schrieb Grant: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 17 Januar 2010 11:30:00 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Saturday 16 January 2010 20:28:53 Jarry wrote: Now I installed one more sata-disk, attached to sata4 position on mobo. But this changed the way how other disks are detected: Mobo: drive: system: sata1 160GB /dev/sdb

Re: [gentoo-user] LyX doesn't find style files / classes anymore

2010-01-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 16 Januar 2010 00:41:54 schrieb Pavel Sanda: Hi, since a few days, LyX doesn't find it's style files or Latex classes anmore, although they are still installed on the system. Any hints as to what be causing this? has this been solved meanwhile? tools-reconfigure does not

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with aqua keyword

2010-01-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 08 Januar 2010 02:42:56 schrieb Xi Shen: hi, i ran into a strange problem. i am using gentoo 2008 amd64, with kde 4.3. i want to try the aqua gui with kde desktop. so i enabled aqua use flag, but when emerge kdelibs, it requires a tool named install_name_tool which is a apple dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist

2010-01-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 01 Januar 2010 14:48:52 schrieb Michael Sullivan: My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for additional swap space. It used to work. The swap space is supposed to be /dev/sda1. The

Re: [gentoo-user] udev baselayout

2010-01-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 01 Januar 2010 11:52:51 schrieb meino.cramer: (or what should I do to circumvent the problem?) You could migrate to BL2. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 01 Januar 2010 19:32:07 schrieb Harry Putnam: I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote. Not having root access usually means no chance to mount something. That in turn means that you can only

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009 11:49:39 schrieb Thanasis: I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting from usb), but the installed gentoo linux reports only

[gentoo-user] LyX doesn't find style files / classes anymore

2009-12-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, since a few days, LyX doesn't find it's style files or Latex classes anmore, although they are still installed on the system. Any hints as to what be causing this? Thanks... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 22 Dezember 2009 20:01:16 schrieb Stroller: ZFS shouldn't be considered a FUSE-based filesystem. It should be considered a Solaris filesystem, which is yet to be (??) adequately ported to any other platforms. It just left experimental state in FreeBSD 8.0. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks with xz-utils lzma-utils

2009-12-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 17 Dezember 2009 19:32:54 schrieb Dale: I have tried a few things but just to make sure, I tried this just to be sure. I unmerged both blockers and emerged xz-utils again, same block as before. Ideas? The solution is in the ebuilds (as always): eix 0.17.0 still depends on

Re: [gentoo-user] device-mapper

2009-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 15:42:43 schrieb James: This is a critical system for me, so I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything on the 'sunset' of device-mapper. It's included in lvm2 nowadays, hence the blocker. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 17:23:34 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that KDE 4.3.4 works just fine with Qt 4.6. Well, it does. For me. If you were about to upgrade, spare yourselves some headaches. It does not work just fine. On first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 20:09:48 schrieb James: I assume you mean 'x11-libs/qt' or could you be more specific? What would be the other Qt, then? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3.4 crashing after login

2009-12-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 06 Dezember 2009 07:54:45 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Sonntag 06 Dezember 2009 01:27:49 schrieb Kenneth Prugh: Reports that downgrading hal to 0.5.13-r2 fixes the issue (it did for me). Good to know. And indeed, I have a fully functional KDE again. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3.4 crashing after login

2009-12-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 06 Dezember 2009 01:27:49 schrieb Kenneth Prugh: On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:26:32 +0100 Johannes Kimmel johannes.kim...@gmx.de wrote: There's a discussion on the forum about this issue currently at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6085003 Reports that downgrading hal to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 14 November 2009 23:50:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Saturday 14 November 2009 22:46:18 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag 14 November 2009 16:13:04 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Ever heard about make menuconfig? ??? The account foolishly being prevented from bypassing SELinux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 14 November 2009 10:21:35 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: You cannot impose any restrictions to the root user. root is unrestricted by definition. It's useless to even start thinking about trying. Ever heard about SELinux? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 14 November 2009 16:13:04 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Ever heard about make menuconfig? ??? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 12 November 2009 21:01:45 schrieb Mick: Is there a trick I could add in /etc/pam.d/login or one of the /etc/pam.d/gdm* files perhaps? Use kdm and set AllowRootLogin=false in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 12 November 2009 21:56:48 schrieb Mick: Thanks, but the box in question is running Gnome. So what? Nothing stops you from starting a gnome session via kdm. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 03 November 2009 23:29:59 schrieb Harry Putnam: The thing is, I cannot find the culprit. For example, examining the PIIX items in the working kernel and inserting here: Still the (IMHO) best way is to boot a LiveCD, run lspci -vv (two times v) and write down which hardware is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 04 November 2009 02:46:54 schrieb Harry Putnam: But am I missing some critical driver? Harddisk (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y), maybe? That's one reason for unknown block device. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 04 November 2009 05:10:52 schrieb Harry Putnam: I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to be incorporated so no I didn't No, that's only half of the truth. You need to copy .config from your old kernel first. I'd compile the config into the kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink

2009-11-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 31 Oktober 2009 22:03:03 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Yes, almost every app that installs kernel drivers will go to /usr/src/linux/ looking for kernel sources Nope. They look into $KBUILD_OUTPUT and $KERNEL_DIR, which both default to /usr/src/linux. Bye... Dirk signature.asc

To James and James (was Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once)

2009-10-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 22:42:46 schrieb James: Thanks for the response, Alan. I haven't posted on this alias in many months, so it wasn't me who asked 2 days ago. ;) Yes, there are indeed two James on the list. Could you please both be so kind and use your full names when posting to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage strangeness with imagemagick

2009-10-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 19:39:27 schrieb Dan Johansson: Today when I do an update world on one of my serves I get the following: 8- - # emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage strangeness with imagemagick

2009-10-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 20:08:27 schrieb Dan Johansson: On Thursday 29 October 2009 19.52:52 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 19:39:27 schrieb Dan Johansson: Today when I do an update world on one of my serves I get the following

Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once

2009-10-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 19:36:27 schrieb James: I have a cluster of Gentoo boxes I'd like to update all at once, along with emerging specific packages to the servers simultaneously. Does anyone have any experience(s) with a good utility for doing this? Try out the debian (cough)

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...

2009-10-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009 00:32:07 schrieb Marcus Wanner: To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Boot from a LiveCD, like Knoppix or GRML, run lspci -vv from there and post the output. Bye... Dirk signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...

2009-10-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009 18:56:33 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009 00:32:07 schrieb Marcus Wanner: To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Boot from a LiveCD, like Knoppix or GRML, run lspci -vv from

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 27 Oktober 2009 06:52:07 schrieb covici: Just to let people know, the solution was just a reboot, I didn't need to go to the new style of netowrk, Nobody said you need to. According to Roy Marples old style will stay for some time. which I have a lot of questions about anyway,

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove xorg-server and xf86-video-intel

2009-10-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 27 Oktober 2009 19:39:01 schrieb Grant: depclean wants to remove xorg-server and xf86-video-intel and I'm a bit scared to do that. Does anyone know what might be going on there? x11-base/xorg-server selected: 1.6.3.901-r2 protected: none omitted: none

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove xorg-server and xf86-video-intel

2009-10-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 27 Oktober 2009 20:00:57 schrieb Grant: Don't most (all?) X apps depend on xorg-server? Nope. No X app depends on the server, because the server could be running on another machine. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 20:06:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: in network: ifconfig_eth0=67.62.15.196 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultroute=67.62.15.1 This only applies if you have switched to new style networking scripts, doesn't it? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:29:24 schrieb covici: What are new style networking scripts -- which package is that. The /etc/conf.d/net.example seems not to have changed since May. The ones that come with newer versions of openrc. If you decide to use them, your configuration now goes into

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:47:43 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: This only applies if you have switched to new style networking scripts, doesn't it? and that is why I wrote 'in network' But it's only half of the truth. Editing /etc/conf.d/network doesn't have any effect unless you also

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009 13:05:53 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:08:12 +, Mick wrote: I guess that until then I will have to put up with the few seconds that akonadi tries to start, searches and then fails to find mysql. Or turn off desktop searching, as I have on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 25 Oktober 2009 14:18:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:30:32 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Or turn off desktop searching, as I have on my notebook with a noticeable improvement in responsiveness. How would that affect akonadi? Because you no longer need

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 24 Oktober 2009 02:02:16 schrieb Dave Jones: Please search the mail archives. Or read your elogs, it's all in there. Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group. It's neither useless to you nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 17:54:49 schrieb econti: Is there any other solution? The same problem came up on gentoo-user-de yesterday, too. One replier told us that there was a portage news item about this topic: 2009-09-27-qt_use_changes Title Qt 4.5.2 default USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 22 Oktober 2009 23:19:07 schrieb Alan E. Davis: I've tried alot of things, but I give up. Can someone help me with the knot of dependencies that has been holding my system in hostage from any attempt to update world, for weeks now? Please read your portage news, especially

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 20 Oktober 2009 15:30:03 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Konqueror - well now, that's a different story: - web shortcuts (gg: wp: etc) do not work. At all. Period. Works fine here. Period ;-) - fish:// does not work Dito. 4.3.2, though. Bye... Dirk signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 20 Oktober 2009 15:59:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: Mick writes: I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall *everything* from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 20 Oktober 2009 16:14:56 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:09:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: USE=kdeprefix is not supported under any circumstances and has not effect on KDE:3.5 at all The only time you need it, and you'll have to unmask the flag to do so, is if

Re: [gentoo-user] searchable list of packages

2009-10-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 19 Oktober 2009 12:50:15 schrieb Krzysztof Poc: I couldn't find ecryptfs package under sys-fs subfolder. Because it doesn't exist. It's part of the kernel. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 18 Oktober 2009 18:54:54 schrieb econti: [ebuild N] app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1 USE=mysql -sqlite [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2 [ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1 [4.5.2] [ebuild UD]x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1 [4.5.2] [ebuild UD]

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 17:54:49 schrieb econti: Now, to emerge akonadi-server, kcontrol I should downgrade all the qt-* to the 4.5.1 version. Says who? You can only tell what want's the downgrade when you add -t. akonadi-server needs some qt packages with a version =4.5.0 and kcontrol is

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 19:21:46 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no modeline. I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1024 resolution. Do I need to go back to the days of modlines? Xorg.conf is attached.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009 07:56:20 schrieb Jim Cunning: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

2009-10-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Mick schrieb: If in addition you use the --verbose and or --debug options you should see all that dbus has to tell you. Such options don't exist. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

2009-10-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 10 Oktober 2009 09:41:52 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: I suspect that it has something to do with recent QT update to 4.5.3, but I'm not sure. Downgraded QT to 4.5.2 and everything works fine again. Will file some bugs for this... Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009 13:30:06 schrieb Peter Humphrey: What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of kde:4? When using paludis, that would be =kde-base/*:4.3 or more general: =category/*:slot Don't know wether this works the same with portage, though.

[gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

2009-10-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi all, just wanted to know wether anbody has encountered this: Nearly all KDE password dialogs (except screensaver and kdm) have stopped working. Neither kwallet nor kmail/kontact or kopete password dialogs work. I can enter login data, but the OK button doesn't react on klicks, only Cancel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

2009-10-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Samstag 10 Oktober 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hi all, just wanted to know wether anbody has encountered this: Nearly all KDE password dialogs (except screensaver and kdm) have stopped working. Neither kwallet nor kmail/kontact or kopete password dialogs

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

2009-10-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Mick schrieb: On Saturday 10 October 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: # /etc/init.d/dbus status * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * status: started That tells me it's started, but not wether it's ok or not. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

2009-10-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: have you deactivated akonadi in the past (just pulling stuff from my ass, remembering how kopete stopped working without akonadi...). I don't think it's related, since it's not working for all users. I'll check anyway... Bye... Dirk signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
William Hubbs schrieb: That is correct, in the latest version this is how it works. You shouldn't have to remove the flag file though. Yes, you're right. I overlooked the rm command in the init script. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Zitat von William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:30:29PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Then explain why nox alone always works fine when I use it WITHOUT livecd. If you are using an older version of xinit, it might work, but it also causes you to have to reboot before

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Zitat von Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de: Zitat von William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:30:29PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Then explain why nox alone always works fine when I use it WITHOUT livecd. If you are using an older version of xinit, it might

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009 18:51:14 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: By the way: By giving init=/bin/sh instead of 2 you can bypass the root and any other login. Thats why it is important to lock grub with a passsword. Or embedd the options into the kernel and configure it not to accept

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009 18:36:25 schrieb Marco: Two questions: - Since Xorg is in the default runlevel, how can I boot into gentoo without starting X (boot prompt option)? Add nox to your boot options. - How can I recreate functional modules for mouse and kbd? re-emerging them should be

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009 19:07:26 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: ...which locks you out if you need to get in... Yes, sure. OTOH, nothing can lock you out of your own machine ;) Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009 19:50:36 schrieb William Hubbs: Actually, what you want to add is gentoo=nox. nox alone is for use on the live cd only, but gentoo=nox works everywhere else. Then explain why nox alone always works fine when I use it WITHOUT livecd. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an Apache configuration guide for gentoo?

2009-10-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009 08:28:16 schrieb David Juhl: so if it is read only why can't I read? You don't have permission to access /~david16/ on this server Does the user that runs the server process have permissions to read from tha directory? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 02 Oktober 2009 22:56:31 schrieb Harry Putnam: I'd really like to be able to use UNK addressing from the cmd line. cd //host/share You can do `cd //linux-host/share' in a bash terminal You can do it on Linux, too. Use the kernel automounter and set it up to mount shares

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 17:27:19 schrieb Harry Putnam: I started my computer life on linux 1996.. automounting is somewhat new in linux... it was not commonly used when I started out. Hmm, Not commonly used, don't know. First versions of autofs date back to April 97, amd is much older, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 17:31:28 schrieb Harry Putnam: `eix midnight' fails as does `eix commander' Does it have a different name in portage? No, it has the same name as everywhere: mc ;-) Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, I really wonder about this discussion. This tool can do it, that tool can do it, the other one, too. WTF? Just mount the damn share and _EVERY_ tool can access it. So what? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 02 Oktober 2009 22:56:31 schrieb Harry Putnam: I'd really like to be able to use UNK addressing from the cmd line. cd //host/share BTW: Is the share served by a Windows or Linux machine and what OS is the client? If it's Linux only, you'd better be using NFS. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 20:10:30 schrieb Harry Putnam: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Hmm, Not commonly used, don't know. First versions of autofs date back to April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in Linux, it's there for over a decade now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 20:16:48 schrieb Harry Putnam: No, it has the same name as everywhere: mc ;-) Dirk, Your wisacre additions are really starting to wear on me. Have you been on a binge or something... and need a few days rest. 1) You've seen the smiley? 2) You got the package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 20:14:16 schrieb Harry Putnam: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: I really wonder about this discussion. This tool can do it, that tool can do it, the other one, too. WTF? No problem, don't read it. That's really hard to do :) Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 20:59:50 schrieb Harry Putnam: I never liked mc even in the old days... So you actually knew mc before? (cd /#smb:host/share) Again, another tool, another syntax. Once you simply mount the share, the path will be the same no matter what tool you use to browse

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL server blocker

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 22:59:15 schrieb Stroller: For the longest time I've had PostgreSQL server installed on one of my systems. I update world every month or two and today `emerge -upv world` shows this blocker: Postgresql packages have been split. They are now named postgresql-base,

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL server blocker

2009-10-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009 07:34:24 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 22:59:15 schrieb Stroller: For the longest time I've had PostgreSQL server installed on one of my systems. I update world every month or two and today `emerge -upv world` shows this blocker: Postgresql

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 21:32:56 schrieb forgottenwizard: However, I'm also wondering why the ebuild doesn't make use of the EDITOR variable as was mentioned. Because that's the worst thing to do. An ebuild's behaviour should not depend on env variables (like it's still the case for

Re: [gentoo-user] fcrontab - what am I missing?

2009-09-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 30 September 2009 17:40:43 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: I've been using fcron for quite some time, but now it behaves strange. I have version 3.0.4-r2 installed. Doing fcrontab -e as non-root user I get Could not change egid to fcron[449]: Operation not permitted although I'm

[gentoo-user] zsh users, please vote for this bug

2009-09-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, this is for all (wannabe) zsh users: Please vote for the following bug so that we can safely use zsh as root's login shell in the future. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256494 Thanks... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query

2009-09-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 00:48:04 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Really, I am sick of people talking shit about KDE. Am I harsh? Yes, I am. A lot of times. Because I am sick of 'I am too cool to read documentation'. I am sick of 'I am too cool to use bugzilla' and I am sick of 'I

Re: [gentoo-user] libssl3.so.12 not found, but why not?

2009-09-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 19:21:44 schrieb walt: Two days ago after updating world on my ~amd64, at least two apps can't find libssl.so.12 even though it's right where it should be. One difference I find between my working x86 and my broken ~amd64 is the output of ldconfig -p: x86

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 14 September 2009 09:20:08 schrieb Matthias Langer: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the kernel (or even lspci) on

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate Flash drive

2009-09-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 04:32:43 schrieb James: I guess I should use 'dd' to copy the entire contents of one CF drive to another? Any example syntax with dd is welcome. What about man dd? Should I keep a machine around to run fdisk on a new CF module, or is there a way, I can just

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate Flash drive

2009-09-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 09:13:21 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: I've never done this, but I'd bet that fdisk (or one of it's many cousins) can be used in scripts to setup the partitions on the fly. That cousin would be sfdisk. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 10:08:33 schrieb Konstantinos Agouros: It says: All is good. I tried that. The error message complains about not being able to set times properly. What _exactly_ does it say? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils

2009-09-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 10:35:44 schrieb Philip Webb: I understand the blocks lines, but am uneasy about uninstalling Lzma-utils, which seems to have many important dependencies: Just do it. xz-utils is a drop in replacement. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 13:04:37 schrieb Arttu V.: On 9/13/09, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 09/13/2009 01:48 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com mailto:kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Umm. I just looked at the .config

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 12 September 2009 12:46:56 schrieb Konstantinos Agouros: I am using reiserfs just for my squid-cache nevertheless after I booted 2.6.30-r4 on an amd64 system, I couldn't create any files on that partition. Is there a way to convert the partition to work or do I really have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

2009-09-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 08 September 2009 21:32:42 schrieb Grant Edwards: Both packages install (unrelated) executables named gitview. Yeah, just seen it in the ebuild: # dev-util/git[gtk] installs the gitview tool which collides with this # package. Just remove the gtk flag from git and you can install

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

2009-09-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 08 September 2009 21:24:52 schrieb Grant Edwards: Does this have something to do with the fact that apps-misc/gnuit used to be called apps-misc/git? I'd rather say it has something to do with the fact that both packages provide a binary called /usr/bin/git, Bye... Dirk

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