[gentoo-user] Some corruption after gnome 2.30

2010-08-06 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running amd64 and am getting some screen corruption, which i believe coincided with the last gnome update. For example in firefox the address bar or bookmarks toolbar buttons can go black then come good again and i can get black bands when i scroll. revdep-rebuild hasnt helped. What should i tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Some corruption after gnome 2.30

2010-08-07 Thread Adam Carter
> > > revdep-rebuild reported no issues, and re-emerging gtk+, thunar, > and gnome-icon-theme had no effect. Last night I went with the nuclear > option (emerge -eav --keep-going world), and it solved the problem. > I just tried emerge -e --keep-going gnome and it hasn't helped, so I guess i'll t

Re: [gentoo-user] Some corruption after gnome 2.30

2010-08-08 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > >> revdep-rebuild reported no issues, and re-emerging gtk+, thunar, >> and gnome-icon-theme had no effect. Last night I went with the nuclear >> option (emerge -eav --keep-going world), and it solved the problem. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Carter
> Ever since my upgrade to kde-4.4.5 my seamonkey windows > sporadically go black, when I move the mouse away from > them. Both the Web browser and the mail client do this > sporadically. Headers, toolbars and where the text appears > all sporadically get into the act. Even just the "subject > win

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Carter
> Alternatively I was running vulnerable/compromised software. My box > has sshd running, root login in ssh is not allowed, and pubkey only > logins (no passwords). It is behind a wireless router but port 22 is > open and pointing to this box, and a few others needed by other > applications. So I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

2010-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:06 AM, James wrote: > pk coolmail.se> writes: > > 'aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE' > > Works for me to (after a restart). Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mumble doesn't work anymore

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Trying to start Mumble (version 1.2.2) aborts with: > > SSL: Added CA certificates from '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' > No ciphers of at least 128 bit found > Aborted > > > My guess is that the SSL line is an informational message

[gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look? File systems; /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda2 - swap /dev/sda3 - / So to backup; 1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1 2. Get /boot: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/otherdisk/sda1.bin 3. Get /

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
> why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore > of > the mbr. > > And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the > new > harddisk has a different size? > Just tar up everything. > > Ok, so is this correct? Backup with tar; 1. boot from c

RE: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file

2009-09-10 Thread Adam Carter
Did you try running the .exe with wine?

RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-13 Thread Adam Carter
> 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 change filesystems? I had some weirdness with .30 and reiser. I was

RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
> I have no issues whatsoever on this amd64 notebook with > 2.6.30 and reiser. > It's now on 2.6.31 and still working fine. My ancient x86 > file server is still > on 2.6.29, mostly as I'd read the same report you did. > > The problematic combination reported then was x86, reiser, > 2.6.30, IDE chi

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to 1600x1200 in xorg.conf it was ignored and xrandr worked and was persistant.

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
> randr output is below. Video resolution _is_ at the maximum > it thinks is legitimate. In that case you may have to put a custom modeline into xorg.conf. Some of the modeline generators on the net are broken, so if you find one doesn't work try another.

RE: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Adam Carter
> data > > > However, if it's a data cd, then iso9660 MUST either be build into > > the kernel > > or available as a module for the "auto" part of your cdrom fstab > > line to work > > correctly... hmmm... maybe need also "autoload" in the module > > loading section > > of the kernel configu

RE: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread Adam Carter
> Obviously we can easily get a USB to serial adapter You can still get laptops with real serial ports (HP sell them). You might want to investigate whether you can manipulate the USB serial adapter to your requirements. I tried once with setserial and it didn't work - I havent had time to look in

RE: [gentoo-user] Squid configuration include

2008-03-18 Thread Adam Carter
>Hi! i need to "include" a file in squid.conf because i need to divide the >squid.conf file in two parts and export one of this to other servers...how can >i do this? This included file will contain all the cal and rules for squid. You can refer to external files in some of the directives, so t

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-24 Thread Adam Carter
The contents of the connection table is in /proc/net/ip_conntrack Example: tcp 6 65 TIME_WAIT src=192.168.1.4 dst=20.x.y.40 sport=4986 dport=80 src=207.46.109.40 dst=192.168.1.4 sport=80 dport=4986 [ASSURED] mark=0 use=1 So go nuts with grep/awk/sed/sort/uniq etc to find what is consuming a

RE: [gentoo-user] compiling a module after the fact

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
> I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the > fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I > entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the > sshfs FUSE module. > > when I ran `make' I see it grinding thru the whole thing again. Is

RE: [gentoo-user] New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
> # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > * ERROR: net.eth0 has been stopped by something else > > # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start > * WARNING: net.eth0 has already been started > > meantime netstat indicates no changes at all.. eth0 is up throughout. Do this; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop - verify the int

[gentoo-user] Apache status

2008-05-04 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running Apache 2.2.8 and want the status info, so i need to add SetHandler server-status Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from .foo.com But, in httpd.conf LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so So what's the syntax to define INFO? Cheers, Adam -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.or

[gentoo-user] Disk upgrade sanity check pls

2008-05-07 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running out of disk space on my laptop and the new disk arrived today. Old setup; 60 gig drive; /dev/hda1 = /home (used to be windows, hence the partition number) /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = / New setup; 250 gig drive /dev/hda1 = / (including /home) /dev/hda2 = swap Here's my plan; - make a

[gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the stage

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or unknown-block (3,3) > > Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > > unknown-block(3,3) > > The kernel is unable to find your root device. Try with the > sda notation, if th

RE: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
From: Francisco Rivas [mailto:taken...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:11 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and

[gentoo-user] jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Carter
I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m -Xbootclasspath/a:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/plugin.jar -classpath /opt/sun-

[gentoo-user] FW: jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry - here it is in plain text for the luddites, j/k :-) I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m -Xbootclasspath/a:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/o

RE: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Carter
Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2024MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day.

[gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC?

2009-04-25 Thread Adam Carter
I have 800x480 resolution, but with the touchscreen the pointer is clumsy to use. I need something that has large buttons, and will re-size dialogue windows so that the buttons at the bottom still fit on the window. Any suggestions?

RE: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Carter
> have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. > I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my > big box, and syncing it into the old one. (All 64bit native in the > studio boxes) > > when i inserted the live cd to begin the process, i got an error > message at boot whic

RE: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Adam Carter
> I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech > wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl- > sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the > VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped > workin

RE: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
> I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo > systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers > inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems > regularly. > > The "hardware" (virtual, of course) varies ever so slightly, so > clonin

RE: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
> I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles > with my IDE > controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots > without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is > there any way > to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere? I'd settle for > scrolling

RE: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Adam Carter
> My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably > MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always > been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade > things only after having read things here and there on the ML and > possibly elsewhere

was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking -> Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols). I use it to support vmware server 1.x and ati flgrx drivers (with 2.6.26 or later kernels). IIRC

RE: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
> > For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried > turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel > to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking -> Enable > unused/obsolete exported symbols). > That is a good find. I can't say that it is the problem but > it was not > enabled on

RE: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Carter
> The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. > But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of > specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just > leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? Some flags are on by default, so this stops their use.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-24 Thread Adam Carter
> RESULTS: fglrx loads, but does not see the adapter. There's also a > problem with the mouse driver -- some undefined symbol. Have you rebuilt your kernel after emergeing xf86-input-mouse? If so you probably need to re-emerge xf86-input-mouse.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
> This seems a step backwards. No screens found, and still 3 things > that would not load. Results follow: > > === startx run begins > xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.21944 > > > X.Org X Server 1.5.3 > Release Date: 5 November 2008 > X Protocol Version 11, Revisi

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
> > DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers -> Graphics -> > Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the > correct ATI support under that. > > That's always been there, as modules. If I modprobe for r128, it gets > loaded along with module "drm". It makes no difference to the sta

RE: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
'grep flags /proc/cpuinfo' to see what features the CPU supports, and add those to USE. You'll recognise most but apparently "pni" = sse3 (but then my core2 also shows ssse3 as wellodd)

RE: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
> > > actually care about moving binary packages around. Thoughts? > > > > thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. > > There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold > enough of your hand. I'm with Wyatt on this one. Can we appreciate there may be a difference betwe

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
> >> For me, > >> libdri.so is a symlink to > /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so > >> libglx.so is a symlink to > /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so (since you havent > run the eselect to repoint it yet, it will be set to > /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so). > >> > >

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
> Sorry Kevin, I wasn't paying attention and thought you were > using ati-drivers/flgrx package, which is where > /usr/lib64/opengl/ati comes from. Since you're not using > flgrx I would expect you would use > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so and That was supposed to be /usr/lib/opengl

[gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Carter
I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? I have no input devices defined in my xorg.conf. Dell lap

RE: [gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It > worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. > > > > I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try > -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? > > > > I have no input devices defined in my

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Adam Carter
lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Carter
> x...@localhost ~ $ glxinfo | grep renderer > OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer If you're worried about 3D performance, run 'eselect opengl list' To see if you have a hardware accelerated option, and if so 'eselect opengl set ' will fix that. If you want more 2D speed, you'll need to

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

2009-06-19 Thread Adam Carter
Thank you all. I think I'll wait, however, do you think that that is the problem that cause glxinfo | grep renderer direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer On my ubuntu machine, I get : direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965Q GEM 20090326 2

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Carter
I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are; - Radeon driver (module is named ati) - Radeonhd driver (module is named radeon) Check out the current features here http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Carter
> I am scanning the /var/log/Xorg.0.log looking for info on what chip > this is. I'm not finding anything that says what Radeon family it's > part of. lspci tells me what I posted here already - that it's part of > the IGP 9100 family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Proces

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Carter
> > So you want the radeon/ati driver, the package name is > xf86-video-ati, so I guess that means you want ati in VIDEO_DEVICES. > > It's "radeon" in recent X.Org, not "ati". Not sure when that > changed. Probably with xorg-server 1.5. Damn - I had checked the /usr/portage/x11-drivers directory

RE: [gentoo-user] Machine doesn't respond to broadcast ping.

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Carter
> > I've got one machine here on the LAN which isn't responding to broadcast > > ping. Any idea why not? > > You need to set icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts to 0. Default is > 1, mainly for dos prevention: > > # sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts=0 I thought it would default to off in most O

RE: [gentoo-user] Machine doesn't respond to broadcast ping.

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Carter
> It shouldn't matter, anyway, if they're all behind a NAT router, > should it? Correct. Since a broadcast ping from the Internet cant make it to your network, you're fine. Surprised about MacOSX tho...

RE: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Carter
> So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit it? Add "x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~x86" (or ~amd64) to /etc/portage/package.keywords and you will be able to install 9.6. It now appears to be asking for xorg-server-1.5.3-r7 (but i'm running it fine with xorg-server-1.5.3-r

RE: [gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 with 2.6.29-r5 issues

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Carter
> Unmasked and emerged 9.6 with xorg-server 1.6.1.901-r4 > Signal 11 on startx. >From Matthias post earlier today "Kernels .29 and .30 are not supported, but >patched to work somehow in this release." So try it with a 2.6.28 kernel, and let us know if it helps.

[gentoo-user] cfg-update with meld fails

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Carter
Ok, I think this problem occurred during the last gnome update. When cfg-update kicks off meld it dies with the error below. Running meld as a user works fine, running say xterm as root works fine but running meld as root fails. Anyone know what's wrong? I googled the error but didn't come up w

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Adam Carter
> Just installing it doesn't break portage. But using it does! :) > > 19:14:44 poke:~ $ eselect python list > Available python interpreters: > [1] python2.6 > [2] python3.1 > 19:17:24 poke:~ $ sudo eselect python set 2 > 19:17:31 poke:~ $ emerge --info > File "/usr/bin/emerg

[gentoo-user] meld broken, maybe by python 2.6 update?

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Carter
hostname bin # meld No module named pygtk Meld requires pygtk 2.8.0 or higher. I tried re-emerging pygtk but it didnt help. How can i make pygtk 'locateable'?

RE: [gentoo-user] meld broken, maybe by python 2.6 update?

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > hostname bin # meld > > No module named pygtk > > Meld requires pygtk 2.8.0 or higher. > > I tried re-emerging pygtk but it didnt help. How can i make pygtk > > 'locateable'? > > Did you run python-updater? > > Be prepared for a long list of packages which need rebuild. This might > also includ

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
> Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely > heavily on them is not acceptable. > If the current sever is not reliable (and it is NOT; > regardless if it is free or not) move it somewhere else. Cool. So you're volunteering to pay for it right?

[gentoo-user] Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Carter
I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with 29). Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29 r

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP write error...?

2009-09-07 Thread Adam Carter
> > 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix sSMTP[7233]: 421 4.3.0 collect: > > Cannot write ./dfn83HUEom007670 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): > > Permission denied > > 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix ) > > > > I suppose it comes from mail-mta/ssmtp, but I do not understand. > > Some persmission problem?

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Adam Carter
> I previously used denyhosts - but (I can't remember why) it became > preferable to block with IPtables rather than with > tcpwrappers... which > prompted me to dump it in favour of a bespoke script based upon > blacklist.py (http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/SSH_Blocking) - > though, now, I'

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
> Also take a note that there are no "known-compromised hosts" What about hosts listed in RBLs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_blacklists. It would be interesting to see if how much correlation there is between ssh brute forcing bots and the contents of the various lists. > bec

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
> Open a Wiki page on Wikipedia, update it every so often and > provide simple > parser for it so others can recycle same IPs. Since it's a > Wiki page - others > can update it as well (including botnet owners, but then > they'd have to reveal themselves - tricky situation) :) Reveal themselves in

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > Also take a note that there are no "known-compromised hosts" > > What about hosts listed in RBLs? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_blacklists. It > would be interesting to see if how much correlation there is > between ssh brute forcing bots and the contents of the various lists

RE: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug.

2008-12-21 Thread Adam Carter
(tongue heading swiftly in the direction of cheek) Ring ring. Ring ring. "Hello, Gentoo user list speaking" "Oh hi. It's the 1990s calling. We want our plain text email back" "No"

[gentoo-user] Grep question

2009-03-01 Thread Adam Carter
I need to select all the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on an entire line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's the syntax? I cant use -A as there is a variable number of lines. Thanks.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Grep question

2009-03-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a > > > > does the same :) > > Nice... Thanks for all these answers. Interesingly when I moved the sed script (sed "s/;/\\n/g") from Linux to Solaris it failed as Solaris sed doesn't like putting the newline character as the "translated to" bit. Installing GNU sed on the

RE: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-19 Thread Adam Carter
> In my ssh logs this morning I noticed a couple login attempts with > usenames on them... I've never seen that before. It is usually just an > IP address. > > Mar 18 20:19:48 [sshd] refused connect from > postmas...@dns.cablecentro.net.co > Mar 18 23:42:44 [sshd] refused connect from 211.116.136.1

RE: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Carter
> May just be a coincidence. I'm seeing this on my wife's machine after > an update to Gnome-2.24.x from 2.22.x. No changes in disk drives here. > > If you're not against starting from a new desktop then try making a > new user and seeing if that new user has the same problem. If it > doesn't then

[gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says "click anywhere to open the console" nothing happens. I've not used v2 be

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says "click anywhere to open the console" nothing happens. I've not used v2 b

RE: [gentoo-user] libusb upgraded failed with USE "doc"

2007-10-06 Thread Adam Carter
> > This sort of error is often fixed by re-emerging openjade. > I've re emerged jadetex openjade, but still have the same > problem. I can > masked it temporaly in /etc/portage/package.use, Thanks! I also tried re-emerging openjade with no result. I re-emerged an sgml package and that fixed it.

[gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem

2007-10-24 Thread Adam Carter
Alsaconf doesnt find any sound devices, however modules (in particular snd_via82xx) are loaded; localhost linux # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss29664 0 snd_mixer_oss 12160 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_dummy 1988 0 snd_seq_oss21824 0 snd_seq_midi_event

RE: [gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem - fixed

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
> Sounds like the wrong driver is being loaded. What is the > output of lspci? > From a console, what does modprobe snd_via82xx show and > what's being sent to /var/log/messages?? I found that the Intel HD Audio module is also required, not just the via driver. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

RE: [gentoo-user] Networking Issue

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
> > > Any ideas? The /etc/conf.d/net file is very basic. All is has is > > > config_eth1=("dhcp") then the wireless stuff. I could > get eth1 to work > > > if I manually assigned an address, but now that doesn't > work either. > > > Any help is appreciated. > > You're sure that the Ethernet ca

RE: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
> Anyway, this is where things get even stranger. I've > quadruple-checked and I still don't believe it. The > Maxtor drive now PASSES smartctl -H and the "new" one > FAILS. The Maxtor still gets the dma_intr errors in > dmesg and the Samsung is said to have it's "DMA > disabled" which contradicts

RE: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
> The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for > that drive: Maximum Capacity [131071MB], fdisk sees > the whole 160G. In that case I'd look for a BIOS update. (FWIW 128 x 1024 = 131072). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] What should i use instead of /dev/usb?

2007-10-27 Thread Adam Carter
I am using some hardware that requries external drivers (no ebuild either) and it says i should; mknod /dev/usb/panel0 c 180 180 Since /dev/usb doesnt exist, what is the correct alternative? (2.6.22-gentoo-r8) thanks.

RE: [gentoo-user] ERROR: net-misc/iputils-20070202 failed

2007-11-11 Thread Adam Carter
> This is happening when emerging iputils with +doc USE. If I remove doc > from the USE flags list, then it does emerge completely. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > -- > Valmor de Almeida > > > > jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/../co > mmon/../co > mmon/dbl1sr.dsl:2:

[gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, but if i open the System -> Preferences -> Appearance dialogue it appears (i dont even need to make a change). So it looks like something is not running until i open the dialogue. Any ideas on how to fix it? Or will i have to resort to 'mv .gnome .g

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
> > My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, > Does 'nautilus' start? Try using 'nautilus --no-desktop'... > Not sure if it tries to or not, but when I try to run it as you suggest, it dies; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ nautilus --no-desktop & [1] 7059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Initializing gnome-m

[gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
I want to filter the strings; ? http:// or ? ftp:// from URLs in apache. I know i need to escape ? but i'm not sure about / and i've used '(something|otherthing|whatever)' to make the 'or's work. Order allow,deny Deny from all is that regex correct? Will egrep use the exact same reg

RE: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > I just wanted to comment something about Iain's suggestion: > > > > '^\?.*(http|https|ftp)://' > > > > If you add that '^' you're assuming that's the beginning of > the string (as > > you may already know); the thing is I cannot see the cases > where your URL > > starts with '?', the characters

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-01 Thread Adam Carter
I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it?

[gentoo-user] RE: Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Adam Carter
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I'm trying firefox-bin now, and it seems stable. I guess this means that my .mozilla stuff isnt the problem.

[gentoo-user] proftpd anonymous ftp broken

2008-07-08 Thread Adam Carter
Logging in anonymously fails, so check syslog and find; Jul 8 17:40:22 absydos proftpd[17200]: absydos - ProFTPD 1.3.1rc2 (devel) (built Sun Aug 5 06:10:17 EST 2007) standalone mode STARTUP Jul 8 17:40:28 absydos proftpd[17213]: absydos (10.28.209.110[10.28.209.110]) - FTP session opened. Jul

RE: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Adam Carter
> Is it merely a matter of using the right version of bind (for > those who run a > bind daemon locally), or does it go further than that? "This issue is addressed in ISC BIND 9.2.8-P1, BIND 9.3.4-P1, BIND 9.4.1-P1 or BIND 9.5.0a6" rix adam # emerge -pv bind These are the packages that would be

RE: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Adam Carter
> So AFAICT it was fixed in stable/x86 around 11 months ago. Ignore my earlier idoicy - from ISC's site; "YOU ARE ADVISED TO INSTALL EITHER THE PATCHES (9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, 9.3.5-P1) OR THE NEW BETA RELEASES (9.5.1b1, 9.4.3b2) IMMEDIATELY. The patches will have a noticeable impact on the perfo

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
> The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with > a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually > quite simple: > > step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib is the > only system package that requires python), portage, gentookit

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
> > A more conservative approach (which shouldn't break > anything AFAIK, but will take longer) is; > > 1. Run python-updater to move everything from 2.3 to 2.4 > > 2. Uninstall python 2.3 > > 3. Do your full emerge -uvD to update to python-updater 0.5 > and python 2.5 > > 4. (optional, you could t

RE: [gentoo-user] netstat command

2008-07-29 Thread Adam Carter
is there a way to find out the time when the port was connected in netstat command For example netstat -anp | grep 12001 Dont think so. If its a server opening the port, look for syslog messages from the daemon.

RE: [gentoo-user] move instalation from one system to another one.

2008-07-30 Thread Adam Carter
> > My old laptop is dying. I'm going to move my gentoo > installation to a new > > one. The old one was an old Pentium-M and the new one is > core due. I want to > > to tar the root and boot and .. files from the old one to > untar it to the > > new one. I want to know, What packages needs to

[gentoo-user] python-updater keeps catching same packages

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
voodoo adam # python-updater * Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 : * Adding to list: =x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 * Adding to list: =app-office/dia-0.96.1-r1 * Adding to list: =dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 And if i run python-updater again after letting it rebuild these packages it picks them

[gentoo-user] RE: python-updater keeps catching same packages

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry, should have googled first; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232467

[gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Carter
X is starting in 1280x1024, however i want it to start in 1600x1200. At the moment im using xrandr to set it manually after i start X. Here's my config; the Modeline is required. voodoo adam # egrep '(1600|1280)' /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modeline "1600x1200" 162.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201

RE: [gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-21 Thread Adam Carter
> > X is starting in 1280x1024, however i want it to start in > 1600x1200. At the > > moment im using xrandr to set it manually after i start X. > > > > Here's my config; the Modeline is required. > > Can you show us your complete xorg.conf? Its in the middle of getting hacked around, so there's a

RE: [gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-22 Thread Adam Carter
> Hm, I don't see anything strange. Maybe in the rest of your > Xorg.0.log? Its sorted - Gnome must have been resetting the resolution as it started.

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