Re: [gentoo-user] [uOT] Thunderbird, Mozilla and HELO

2006-11-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
Rasmus Andersen wrote: I have a slightly offtopic question that I hope I can get help with here. I have a home server, running an MTA for my domain. As of the last month or so, I have experienced a huge increase in spam and spam bounces. To combat this, I have upped my MTA's pickyness quite a

[gentoo-user] source /etc/profile valid for all current and future sessions

2006-11-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i have a question regarding the use of global environmental variables: as root i've changed some variables inside /etc/env.d. I've updated the database with env-update and sourced them with source /etc/profile. For this changes to become available to all users i have to issue a source

Re: [gentoo-user] source /etc/profile valid for all current and future sessions

2006-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 03 November 2006 14:18, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i have a question regarding the use of global environmental variables: as root i've changed some variables inside /etc/env.d. I've updated the database with env-update and sourced them with source /etc/profile. For this

[gentoo-user] Re: source /etc/profile valid for all current and future sessions

2006-11-03 Thread F.J.Zhao
Logout and login, you will find the changes have become standard. That's because login bash shell will read /etc/profile first. 2006/11/3, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, i have a question regarding the use of global environmental variables: as root i've changed some variables

Re: [gentoo-user] source /etc/profile valid for all current and future sessions

2006-11-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Alan, well, sorry to all, it was my fault. you're completely right. Regards, mc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-03 Thread F.J.Zhao
In order to create very tiny vms, I suggest you use lfs instead. Gentoo is harder to do so. 2006/11/3, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Guys, Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY tiny VMs that are all

[gentoo-user] Re: Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-03 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 03 November 2006 06:43, Trenton Adams wrote: Hi Guys, Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY tiny VMs that are all independent of each other, which provide one service. For instance, I might

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X.org issue (feelings of absolute failure)

2006-11-03 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Thanks for the advice people, here is a little more information about my settings: VIDEO_CARDS=vesa vga fbdev after reading your suggestions, i was planning in replacing it with: VIDEO_CARDS=vesa via s3 vga fbdev (although i am not sure about s3) Also, here is the output of lspci -vn:

[gentoo-user] Some problems I've been having

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've had problems galore this week. Yesterday I had to re-merge evince because my pdf view wasn't working. This morning I had to re-merge gtk+ because file-roller and seamonkey weren't working. I rebuilt my kernel (2.6.17-gentoo-r8) in yet another attempt to upgrade to media-tv/ivtv-0.8.0

[gentoo-user] Grub causing kernel panic? - ThinkPad T40 - new install

2006-11-03 Thread Greg Morin
Good day, I've installed (several times) on a ThinkPad T-40, trying both manual kernel config and genkernel. I followed the online manual explicitly (I think). The machine is currently loaded with the manual config. Either way, the results are similar. Grub shows the two boot options, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub causing kernel panic? - ThinkPad T40 - new install

2006-11-03 Thread Sergio Polini
Greg Morin: Device Boot Size System Filesystem Mount point = = = /dev/hda1 * 32MLinux ext2 /boot /dev/hda2 3GLinux swap none none /dev/hda3 ~71GLinux

Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems I've been having

2006-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:32:10 -0600 (CST), Michael Sullivan wrote: because the kernel didn't have CONFIG_VIDEO_CX2341X set. Can anyone help me with this? I simply can't find it. Run make menuconfig, press / and type 'CX2341'. -- Neil Bothwick What is about L'waxana Troi that makes me

Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems I've been having

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 16:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:32:10 -0600 (CST), Michael Sullivan wrote: because the kernel didn't have CONFIG_VIDEO_CX2341X set. Can anyone help me with this? I simply can't find it. Run make menuconfig, press / and type 'CX2341'.

Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems I've been having

2006-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:28:15 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: Run make menuconfig, press / and type 'CX2341'. It said No Matches Found. Should I just mask this version of ivtv for now until I get a newer kernel? Which kernel are you using? -- Neil Bothwick Angular Momentum Makes The

Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems I've been having

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 16:39 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:28:15 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: Run make menuconfig, press / and type 'CX2341'. It said No Matches Found. Should I just mask this version of ivtv for now until I get a newer kernel? Which kernel are

Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems I've been having

2006-11-03 Thread Mick
On Friday 03 November 2006 15:32, Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't see anything in that output that tells me why it's freezing. the camel_exception_get_id thing is kinda ominous, but I think it always says that when I start it from the terminal. Also, is there a way to find out if my

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub causing kernel panic? - ThinkPad T40 - new install

2006-11-03 Thread Mick
On Friday 03 November 2006 15:55, Sergio Polini wrote: Greg Morin: Device Boot Size System Filesystem Mount point = = = /dev/hda1 * 32MLinux ext2 /boot /dev/hda2 3GLinux swap none

[gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions

2006-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Being an Event Videographer one runs into hefty space requirments very quickly. I'm running 4 machines 3 are loaded for video editing and other graphics intensive stuff like photoshop and all the adobe tools. They have large drives but very quickly I've begun to need more massive storage

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X.org issue (feelings of absolute failure)

2006-11-03 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
As i told i was planning to do before, i reemerged xorg-server adding via to VIDEO_CARDS and replacing vesa with via in /etc/X11/xorg.con, reseted my X server and things are fast again (to me it looks really fast, but maybe it could be i was gradually getting used to the slowness) and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions

2006-11-03 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Being an Event Videographer one runs into hefty space requirments very quickly. I'm running 4 machines 3 are loaded for video editing and other graphics intensive stuff like photoshop and all the adobe tools. They have large drives but very quickly I've begun to need more massive storage

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-11-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/3/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 November 2006 06:44, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:48:58PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote If -9 doesn't work, it means your kernel is hungup, and yeah, you'll have to reboot to fix. Where does kill -15 fit in?

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub causing kernel panic? - ThinkPad T40 - new install

2006-11-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/3/06, Greg Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VFS:Cannot open root device hda3 or unknown-block(0,0) The unknown-block(0,0) usually means you didn't build the drivers for your disk system into the kernel. Maybe you built them as modules? If you need help here, post the outputs of lspci

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:39 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/3/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 November 2006 06:44, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:48:58PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote If -9 doesn't work, it means your kernel is hungup, and yeah,

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-11-03 Thread Petr Uzel
Dne pátek 03 listopad 2006 20:02 Michael Sullivan napsal(a): So how would I issue a SIGKILL? All of these should work with the same effect : kill -SIGKILL pid kill -KILL pid kill -9 pid Alternatively, you could also use killall -9 progname if you know only name of the program but not its

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

2006-11-03 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, in OpenOffice, when hitting F1, I only get a dialog saying: The help file for this topic is not installed. I cannot find any package or USE Flag. Asking Google I only get noise. The package installed is openoffice; I did not realize there is a precompiled version openoffice-bin at that

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions

2006-11-03 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Being an Event Videographer one runs into hefty space requirments very quickly. I'm running 4 machines 3 are loaded for video editing and other graphics intensive stuff like photoshop and all the adobe tools. They have large drives but very quickly I've begun to need more massive

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, in OpenOffice, when hitting F1, I only get a dialog saying: The help file for this topic is not installed. I cannot find any package or USE Flag. Asking Google I only get noise. The package installed is openoffice; I did not realize there is a precompiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X.org issue (feelings of absolute failure)

2006-11-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: VIDEO_CARDS=vesa via s3 vga fbdev (although i am not sure about s3) The s3 won't hurt, it'll just build something that won't get used, just like the vga and fbdev. The vesa is nice to have as a fallback. 01:00.0 0300: 1106:3108 (rev 01) Subsystem:

Re: [gentoo-user] IO Failure -- Failed 'touch .unpacked' in /var/tmp/portage/

2006-11-03 Thread Rafael Alfaro
Thanks you are right !!!On 10/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 02:51, Rafael Alfaro wrote:[SNIP] !!! IO Failure -- Failed 'touch .unpacked' in /var/tmp/portage/mesa- progs-6.5.1[SNIP]Is /proc mounted correctly?

[gentoo-user] automake fails when emerging

2006-11-03 Thread Cosmin Rentea
Hi, I'm having a problem with automake while emerging several packages. For instance: * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.13.8.1/work/mono-1.1.13.8.1/libgc' ... * Running aclocal ... [ ok ] * Running libtoolize --copy --force --automake

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-03 Thread Grant
I did mean maxed out, and I said that because I seem to be having interference problems currently. One of the two systems that connects to my 802.11g router stops the services that depend on net.ath0 after awhile, and I can't connect reliably at all on some channels. Also, when I'm

[gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-03 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. The network appears to startup eth0 correctly, obtaining a dhcp address from my cable provider via the

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-03 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:57, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. The network appears to startup eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] automake fails when emerging

2006-11-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 03 November 2006 23:39, Cosmin Rentea wrote: Could you please give me some advice on how to proceed ? I'd go to bugs.gentoo.org and file a bug... -- Bo Andresen pgpEhpmCFuAAo.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] ETH0 Startup Problem

2006-11-03 Thread Ryan Crisman
I just did a fresh install on a PC and at startup I get this:*Starting up eth0* Bringing up eth0* dhcp* eth0 does not exist*ERROR: Problem starting needed services.* netmount was not started. Anyone have any ideas. The eth0 worked on the live CD and when i do LSPCI i can see that it see the

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

2006-11-03 Thread Chris Atkinson
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:44:13 +0100 Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in OpenOffice, when hitting F1, I only get a dialog saying: The help file for this topic is not installed. Is it possible you don't have the java USE flag enabled? The openoffice ebuild contains the following warning: