Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James Ausmus wrote: Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be recompiled with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Ant-Core Failed Build due to Sun-SDK?

2008-01-31 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith R. wrote: Emerging (1 of 32) dev-java/ant-core-1.7.0-r1 to / snip /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.04/bin/javac: error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ... Failed compiling Ant classes !

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-01 Thread Eric Martin
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 emerge world with

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Martin
Grant wrote: I'm hoping to use the vpn in three few ways: 1. imap and smtp between my laptop and the mail server 2. ssh from my laptop to the remote server 3. cups printing from the remote server to the print server I don't think you need a VPN to SSH from your laptop to the remote

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

2008-02-22 Thread Eric Martin
Matthias Guede wrote: Make sure your working directory is in the path: PATH=${PATH}:./ ./python /usr/bin/emerge python !!Big security hole!! ./ is purposely left out of the path so people can't sneak fake programs in there. ~eric -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash 2.2.3 build not finding libguile-ltdl*

2008-02-22 Thread Eric Martin
Alma J. Wetzker wrote: environment is huge, not sure what you want. I emerged the latest guile (1.8.3) after the first error, then I looked at the build description of fixes and emerged slib (3.1.5-r1), then I reemerged guile. I still do not have libguile-ltdl*, and libqthreads* anywhere that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF TOPIC] PGP Messages Email clients

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Martin
Matt Nordhoff wrote: Chris Brennan wrote: Matt Nordhoff wrote: | Yeah, yours is the only one I'm having trouble with. :-P | | Can't find it on any of the key servers I've tried. | | (Note: Im kind of a PGP newbie. I didn't look very hard.) mmm then I will regenerate my key and resubmit it

Re: [gentoo-user] Root shell terminates after first keystroke

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: Tonight, for no apparent reason, a problem has started cropping up when I 'sudo su'. The root shell will start up fine, but after the first time I hit a key, the shell terminates - apparently normally. A sample try looks like this (I

Re: [gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: does anyone know an (virtual) block device which can do automatic defect management (if the underlying disks have badblocks) ? My idea goes like this: * one or more devices are assigned to one block device * a bunch of

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
window of data. - -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH8pKxdheOldgSlQgRAhO3AJ9+rZB8E/DSZ4vGe0+I1MdXf9IaYgCgqRNm

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
). When I compiled the temp would go up to 75C...I think the highest I ever got it was 77C.* A /little/ over 40 is too hot... *For the Americans (like me) the easy way for C - F is double it, subtract 10% and add 32. So the temps would be 104F, 167F and 171F. - -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes on Suspend to Disk ( hibernate )

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
if it will even let you suspend if that's not the case but I'll ask anyway. Does /var/log/messages and/or dmesg show anything? - -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo AMD64, games freeze!

2008-04-12 Thread Eric Martin
with the conversation. Thanks! - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
else having problems with ssh-add? Best regards, Michael Is ssh-agent running? What does ps -aux | grep ssh show? Also, env | grep SSH ought to show a bunch of ssh-agent stuff. - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schmarck wrote: | Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Michael Schmarck wrote: | Hello. | | Since this morning, I find that I can no longer add SSH keys to the | ssh key agent. I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
see that's the way it goes w/OC'ing; Intels have room to be overclocked and AMDs don't. The OP overclocked an AMD processor which I've always heard is a bad idea. Just my $0.02 - -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schmarck wrote: | Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | of course I ran eix seahorse *after* hitting reply. Teaches me not to | reply to a message 30 seconds after getting out of bed. Ok, now onto | helpful stuff... does /tmp/keyring

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] another dead email address

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Martin [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] another dead email address

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uwe Thiem wrote: | On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Eric Martin wrote: | Has anybody else who recently posted to the list gotten an email | bounce for a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Nope but since it is an unknown or illegal alias rather than | an unknown user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schmarck wrote: | Hello. | | · Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | | Ok, so looking at your original post, gvfs, gnome-vfs, and seahorse were | upgraded. | | Yes. | | I'm not much of a gnome guy but I do know that apps do all | sorts of strange

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-24 Thread Eric Martin
are simply blocked. Is there a problem with signed messages? Thanks in advance. W. Canis Sending w/PGP/MIME, email me off list if you get this. I'll also send one w/pgp not mime encoded -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-24 Thread Eric Martin
be that the | list server has problems with those mails or perhaps | those mails are simply blocked. | | Is there a problem with signed messages? | | Thanks in advance. | | W. Canis | | PS: Send at 11:12 PM CET without PGP/MIME This one isn't sent as pgp/mime - -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-05 Thread Eric Martin
went home that night and got WPA to work. Any ideas on what I have done wrong? Yes, turning on wep vs WPA ;) Thanks, Drew Sorry the only answer is do it totally differently but nobody else replied so I figured I'd chime in. -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25

Re: [gentoo-user] mythdvd on Gentoo?

2008-06-17 Thread Eric Martin
. Thanks, Mark No prob, HTH -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mythdvd on Gentoo?

2008-06-17 Thread Eric Martin
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I wonder if anyone can share how to use the mythdvd module on Gentoo? I've always emerged mythtv with the dvd flag but the mythdvd module isn't emerged. Can't help with that as I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Eric Martin
also, if/when you change useflags, and --newuse so it picks stuff up. Personally, I just emerge -uDav --newuse world to upgrade my system (upgrade, deep, ask, verbose, newuse). On 7/26/07, Samir Faci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you've just completed a proper install from the handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Eric Martin
what does ls -l /etc/fstab show? On 7/27/07, Greg Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post the content of your /etc/fstab. You should be able to do that as a normal user. Nope. I am denied access to /etc/fstab. Could this be (part of)

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic package updates

2007-07-30 Thread Eric Martin
enable crypt in the use flags for mozilla-thunderbird On 7/29/07, Kevin Lacquement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I use Mozilla Thunderbird along with the enigmail plugin. Whenever I update world, it updates Thunderbird, which then tells me to manually re-install enigmail. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with ssh login

2007-08-03 Thread Eric Martin
Are you trying to authenticate via public keys or passwords? This seems like a problem with pub keys but I don't see a -i (identity file) for ssh. Are you using an agent? On 7/31/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lists, i'm trying to remotely login to a Gentoo box via ssh. However

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which DVB-T USB tuner?

2007-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
I haven't tried any of those, but I love my Hauppauge Win-PVR 350. it makes a Cel600 w/312MB of ram an amazing mythbox On 8/2/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:18:16 +0200, pat wrote: I want to buy DVB-T USB tuner. I'm thinking about MSI DigiVOX A/D II or

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which DVB-T USB tuner?

2007-08-14 Thread Eric Martin
One DVB card? How do you manage? I have one dual-tuner card and one single tuner card in my mythbox! hardware encoding / decoding. The biggest thing that slows my box down is mysql. On 8/9/07, Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 9. August 2007, Eric Martin wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behavior when booting with softlevel=single

2007-08-15 Thread Eric Martin
have you tried appending 1 to your boot parameters in grub? On 8/12/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. When I boot using softlevel=single -- what seems to be happening is that it runs the default level and then stops all of those processes since there is actually nothing in the

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in not working

2007-08-15 Thread Eric Martin
in firefox, goto about:plugins this will tell you what plugins are in use by firefox. if the mplayer plugin isn't listed you're not using it. On 8/13/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:17:50 -0400 Phil Sexton wrote: Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Martin
The 401 unathorized errors make me think your subscription might have ran out...but I thought it was a different error. Check when you subscription expires and let me know. On 8/20/07, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:52:35 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: Has

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Martin
What pid does it get when you stop the process and start a new one; 5872 or is that only when you first start up? I had a problem similar to that a while ago but I haven't used my wireless card in ages... On 8/22/07, Daniel V. Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use wpa_supplicant with madwifi

Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Vaio vgn fe21b screen output on vga

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Martin
i ve got a Sony Vaio vgn fe21b notebook where i would like to be able to clone my screen out on the vga device but i have no clue how to start solving this problem since i dont really know what parts play a role. I found an i810 ( intel chipset ) switching tool what doesnt work for me

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount

2007-08-30 Thread Eric Martin
And NFS, well, it's NFS. I don't love it, but I've used NFS exports from a 14.k modem... So... maybe he is having internet issues, router issues, firewall issues, compilation issues... but OpenVPN and NFS, given a relatively good network environment, work more than OK. I would still use tcp

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL: how to prohibit mounting certain partitions

2007-09-01 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: (I have not get help in native language list :(. And, sorry for my English) No worries. :) I have windows Linux installed on the same hard disk. In Linux I've set up KDE +

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL: how to prohibit mounting certain partitions

2007-09-01 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs -o gid=users,umask=0227 If you'd like R/W acccess to it you need to emerge captive-ntfs, I did a search and all I can find is ntfs-3g. Does anyone know if captive turned into this? I did a quick search on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo still not up -- now no kbd driver

2007-09-02 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Boom wrote: Total: 2 packages (1 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 230 kB # equery check x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard -bash: equery: command not found emerge gentoolkit -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
On 10/26/07, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you didn't specify how you determined that it has only 131G, perhaps you should check with fdisk to see what the actual capacity is? The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for that drive: Maximum Capacity

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Partition type does iPod Nano use

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
On 10/12/07, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:16:12 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: The Nano get recognized but not it's Partition type (it works OK on a Wintendo box). Someone know which partition type an iPod Nano uses? Doesn't Apple use HFS+? Depends on the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:18:47 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: if I remember correctly, and it has been quite a while, vgscan only works if your lvm.conf is intact. You remember incorrectly. lvm.conf is not needed to use LVM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Eric Martin
James wrote: Shawn Haggett podge at podgeweb.com writes: In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK=local TIMEZONE=America/New_York CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes Is the /etc/localtime file correct? i.e.: $ cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-08 Thread Eric Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:48:11AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Pretty short, if you ask me ;) What? Pardon? Exactly. That's too basic. People asking that kind of question shouldn't be administering a system. See howto. They don't belong together. See the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-09 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 »Q« wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:05:18 +, Guanqun Lu wrote: We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek first, and then have a try on Gentoo linux sytem. Why not? Gentoo is aimed

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

2007-11-11 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:13:10AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: The question: Is there a switch that I can use to make bash run in some sort of compatibility mode for the string comparison? I.e, can I somehow

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maxim wexler wrote: Previously I had a problem with hard drive that turned out was a faulty IDE controller, not the drive, not the cable. Now I can't use /dev/hdb but /dev/hdc is OK. So my set up is /dev/hda(WinXP) and /dev/hdc(gentoo), ie, WinXP

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-28 Thread Eric Martin
Michael George wrote: I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a minute for X to start now. I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with the same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires right up as expected. Booting back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-15 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: to build other distros. It is not suitable for newbies (disregard the occasional newbie that does get it right, that's a minority and very atypical), and one really does have to have moved beyond the Oh, look! Shiny installer! mentality to appreciate it. When you get to

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash Server Sockets

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Martin
While I don't think there's a way. I took a shell scripting class a year or two ago and we used netpipes for tcp connecrions. Since it was a very bash class we'd have used bash if possible On 1/16/09, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:53 -0800, Hilco Wijbenga

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-20 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I tell if: A) USB suspend is actually on or not B) powertop is

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-22 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-22 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Martin
of the gentoo-amd64 minimal cd (and I'm adding more as I go). The liveUSB howto [1] on docs.gentoo.org is great and will answer most questions. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Martin
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Aaron Clark wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will scale the desktop and remember connections. Also, it's very easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-20 Thread Eric Martin
to monitor another port. I just chock it up as log spam unless I see definite bad patterns. But again, with public key access only and banning root from logging in via ssh I don't think anybody is getting far unless there is a flaw in ssh. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA

Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-20 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Johan Blåbäck johan.bluecr...@gmail.com wrote: I've always had usernames when it comes to sshd's log entries in auth.log, like the following

Re: [gentoo-user] svn broken ?

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Martin
to dev-util/subversion-1.5.6 and net-misc/neon-0.28.4 Thanks for a hint, Helmut. Have you tried just connecting with a browser? It could be a problem w/ the server. Also, what is the syntax of the command you're using? svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/p3yk ? -- Eric

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Martin
. Also, the kernel is the last place that you want to drag your feet for updates. If there's a bug in the kernel I want to have it fixed asap. Granted you can also argue that I'm injecting buggy code. It's two sides of the same coin. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Martin
Jorge Morais wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:48:22 -0400 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Also, the kernel is the last place that you want to drag your feet for updates. If there's a bug in the kernel I want to have it fixed asap. Granted you can also argue that I'm injecting buggy

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] chess software and libraries

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Martin
? is this what you're looking for? app-misc/chesstask I haven't used it myself but it sounds good. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Martin
Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back this up. On 4/8/09, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Often (now, perhaps always) when

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-18 Thread Eric Martin
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Martin
Marco wrote: Hi all, I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services reachable from outside) using iptables. Since I am new to the topic, could you please verify if the output of 'iptables -L -v' is considered to be a safe firewall? Thanks! Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-27 Thread Eric Martin
Marco wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Marco wrote: Hi all, I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services reachable from outside) using iptables. Since I am new to the topic, could you please verify if the output

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-28 Thread Eric Martin
maxim wexler wrote: Only 2.8mins left? The UPS unit, fairly common I suspect, is a Back-UPS ES 350 and less than a year old. It only saw service once last year during an electric storm when the house power failed for a few minutes. Why isn't it charging. Or is it? It says BATTDATE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Martin
Anthony Metcalf wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of macchanger: # macchanger eth1 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d (Intel Corporate) Faked MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6e (Intel Corporate) # macchanger eth0 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c (Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Martin
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Unplug all your electronic devices and plug in a lamp with a 100 Watt incandescent light build. With the lamp on unplug the UPS from the wall and see what happens. If the battery is dead it

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum mismatch, upgrade from torrent, fsck

2009-05-23 Thread Eric Martin
Thufir wrote: I suppose I'll have to re-download the iso if the md5sum doesn't match (which it doesn't per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ UbuntuHashes#9.04)? The problem is that the iso is corrupted? Do the md5sums match? If they do you downloaded the cd fine. If not, redownload

[gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-14 Thread Eric Martin
. Thanks! -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-16 Thread Eric Martin
CJoeB wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Martin
Stroller wrote: On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:06, CJoeB wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Martin
to defend the developers motivation. Regards Dirk -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 20008 install problem: Could not find the root block device in .

2008-07-20 Thread Eric Martin
always say) you can boot off of knoppix or the lfs (linux from scratch) disk. The only thing the cd does for you is provide a working linux environment that you can chroot from to install gentoo. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] 20008 install problem: Could not find the root block device in .

2008-07-20 Thread Eric Martin
Dale wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Jarry wrote: Hi, I just downloaded install-amd64-minimal-2008.0.iso, burned it, and tried to bootinstall. But during boot-up, a message comes: Determining root device... !! Could not find the root block device in . Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-22 Thread Eric Martin
that will let you grab your current xsession and I think that's the one. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. HTH - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Calenders

2008-07-23 Thread Eric Martin
something with it. Also, I'm pretty sure they have a new one on the net as Outlook 2003 just ran out of holidays as of 2008 so they added to the file to extend (and keep people using outlook). - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
on. just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that 'preserved-libs' stuff. snip Thank you for the advice, Alan Davis HTH -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan E. Davis wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems. Could be coincidence

Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
for another reason and rebooted which regenerated it. Problem gone. Just make sure you make a backup of it before you reboot. - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Budd, Tracy wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:42 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed... Budd, Tracy

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
. Thanks! Let us know how that turns out with the script. Also, where did you find it? - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-31 Thread Eric Martin
rewrites. 1) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig

2008-08-04 Thread Eric Martin
.config to the new sources branch and run make oldconfig just like always. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Martin
if there are any new options. Why is it not needed? I could have sworn that we touched on this a week or two ago where somebody said that /proc/config.gz could be read by make config but people nixed that. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Martin
2008-08-05 14:19 /proc/config.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # It can prove helpful at times. Dale :-) :-) yeah, but it doesn't change that you still have to run make oldconfig. I love /proc/config.gz, especially because of zless and zgrep -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Martin
are running securely however (which is why I check my stuff via imap) -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Martin
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: Doesn't Gmail support SSL? My email provider provides support for SSL connections (via HTTP, LDAP, POP). If that's the case then it would be extremely difficult (you

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
! -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
/automake: 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 TIA -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of good resources on hijacking threads. You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Eee 701 thread

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
intention to promote flames on this list, which I consider a very good one. Cheers! Best regards, Saffi No worries :) -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

2008-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior [SOLVED]

2008-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Martin
and cover.png but keep the CD folder out of it completely. How should I do this? - Grant The thing that jumps to me immediately is rsync with a --exclude=CD -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Martin
: control and monitor storag -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Martin
of remote-shell? - Grant Let me get this straight. Rsync being easy to use is a downside? I've never used rsnapshot but judging by eix it sounds like it might work... -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

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