[gentoo-user] Re: Minimal (fast and cool)

2014-02-03 Thread Hans
On 29/01/14 02:06, James wrote: I'm interested in aggregating tips, tricks, ebuild suggestions and config file snippets and examples, related to going minimal on your system, regardless if your system in resource constrained or not. The benefit is not limited to resource constrained systems.

[gentoo-user] Re: 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-13 Thread Hans
On 28/08/14 21:45, Joseph wrote: I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. Go Samsung actually made by Samsung in Korea or if you can get Hitachi actually made by Hitachi in Japan. Western Digital

[gentoo-user] Re: clone XP-Virtual to a file

2014-09-13 Thread Hans
On 11/09/14 03:37, Joseph wrote: How to close virtualbox machine (windows xp) to a file? I need to transfer it to another box. I made some notes but they are old so I'm not sure if they are applicable or there is an easier way. === 1) Shut down the virtual machine you would like to

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd: incorrect behavior when doing poweroff/reboot

2015-03-21 Thread Hans
On 22/03/15 08:44, walt wrote: I'd be 100% sure this is a systemd bug except that the problem is so obvious and (I think) so common that I can't believe I'm the only systemd user seeing it: I routinely share /usr/portage over NFS between several gentoo boxes on my wireless network. When I

[gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-10 Thread Hans
On 10/03/15 19:45, Marc Joliet wrote: Hi while I haven't had a chance to try the external HDD on my brother's Windows computer yet, I did notice one thing: when I turn the HDD off (i.e., unplug its AC) for several hours and turn it back on (with my PC still running the entire time) the problem

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-12 Thread Hans
On 05/03/15 01:10, James wrote: Hello, It's time to build a new router. Surely, I would just like to purchase hardware and run a minimized or embedded gentoo on it along with iptables and a few other packages. But, I got to reading and well it seems much has changed. Dansguardian is deprecated?

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-26 Thread Hans
On 22/03/15 05:26, German wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from user? Thanks If nothing works, I use the big red switch at the front of my box to poweroff.

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: webserver reccomendations

2015-06-28 Thread Hans
On 28/06/15 07:45, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi all, over the years when I need a web-server I have just used Apache. I am in the process of consolidating my separate services VM's for various things into LXC containers and am looking for something a bit lighter if its worthwhile. I am

[gentoo-user] Re: PPPoE ADSL modem choice

2015-06-28 Thread Hans
ports that can't be closed. Hans

[gentoo-user] Re: PPPoE ADSL modem choice

2015-06-29 Thread Hans
On 29/06/15 03:40, Mick wrote: On Sunday 28 Jun 2015 16:07:30 Hans wrote: On 22/06/15 20:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: fritzbox There are all other modems/router and then there are fritzbox versions. With very good security. Updates. And lots of niceuseful features. 2015-06-22 12:08 GMT+02

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread Hans
On 27/07/15 03:29, James wrote: wabenbau at gmail.com writes: I used to install and look after OpenSuse Desk and Laptops until systemd showed it's ugly face. Now I install and look after several Gentoo Xfce desktops and 3 OpenSuse Xfce Laptops. I use a Cut Paste script to install Gentoo on

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-26 Thread Hans
On 18/07/15 03:25, James wrote: From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting. However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge order not deterministic !?

2015-11-15 Thread Hans
On 12/11/15 19:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:35:14 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: Then use emerge --keep-going and portage will take care of skipping failing merges for you. Ah, no, that's not an option. It breaks for a reason. Sometimes I can ignore that and look for it later

[gentoo-user] Re: laptop/tablet convertibles linux compatibility

2015-11-01 Thread Hans
On 01/11/15 19:53, Stefano Crocco wrote: Hello to everyone. I'd like to buy a laptop/tablet convertible and to install Gentoo on it. Searching Google I couldn't find up to date information about the linux compatibility of this kind of device (most of the pages I found are at least a couple of

[gentoo-user] Re: old lappy fix

2015-11-05 Thread Hans
On 04/11/15 06:17, James wrote: hello, Over the years lots of folks have wondered about how to fix and old laptop to work with gentoo again, cost effectively. There seems to be (2) problems in the majority. 1. Which environment to set up for minimal old hardware:: That discussion can

[gentoo-user] Re: OT:: free pop3 mail box?

2015-10-09 Thread Hans
provider and decided to run IRedMail in VirtualBox. Now it's ISPconfig on an old laptop in VirtualBox to server as Mail, Web and local DNS server. Hans On 08/10/15 02:07, James wrote: Folks, I do not want gmail or any other big (brother) organization email. I just need a simple pop3 (small) email

[gentoo-user] Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-29 Thread Hans
using EXT4 file system? Hans

[gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-30 Thread Hans
On 31/12/15 09:15, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:45:29AM +1000, Hans wrote: I can't follow Sakaki's_EFI_Install_Guide. The system will run in VirtualBox and only have BIOS. No UEFI, EFI, USB stick as boot or key disk. You should still atleast read the guide to figure out

[gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-30 Thread Hans
to find a way to get the same result using Gentoo with OpenRC and if possible without LVM. Entering the pass phrase several times is no problem. Hans On 31/12/15 03:53, Roman Dobosz wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:34:52 +1000 Hans <li...@interworld.net.au> wrote: Is it possible to fully e

[gentoo-user] Re: speech recognition?

2016-05-26 Thread Hans
On 16/05/16 00:34, lee wrote: Hi, is there a speech recognition software or the like which is capable to listen in on a phone call in order to put on screen as text what the other person is saying? I'd like to connect that to a softphone so that someone who suffers from very bad hearing can

[gentoo-user] Re: udev detection weirdness

2016-05-26 Thread Hans
On 26/05/16 23:39, James wrote: Daniel Frey gmail.com> writes: It appears to be udev. Somewhere along in its stupid detection it decides to process USB devices before sata ports, thusly randomly renaming the boot drive to something else in the process. It took me forever to figure this

[gentoo-user] Re: dealing with distfiles bloat?

2016-03-19 Thread Hans
On 07/03/16 03:38, Alan Grimes wrote: I can't really read the stupid unformatted du output but it looks like I have 30 gb of bloat in some 3,600 files in my distfiles directory. is there any sane way to prune out some of the older versions, I am in no mood to spend all day hand-pruning these and

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get any boot method working

2016-03-26 Thread Hans
On 26/03/16 02:31, Dan Douglas wrote: I'm installing gentoo hardened on several machines all with btrfs root filesystems, the simplest of which is a single gpt partitioned disk. This is my current partitioning scheme (based on numerous conflicting explainations on the wiki and handbook): #

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-04-28 Thread Hans
On 27/04/16 21:33, J. Roeleveld wrote: On April 27, 2016 12:59:18 PM GMT+02:00, Hans <li...@c5ace.com> wrote: Tried to upgrade the kernels of my desktop and notebook fron kernel 4.1.12 upgrade to 4.4.6. Both systems freeze during booting with 4.4.6. No dmsg, No messages logs. Previous

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-04-29 Thread Hans
On 28/04/16 22:22, Hans wrote: On 27/04/16 21:33, J. Roeleveld wrote: On April 27, 2016 12:59:18 PM GMT+02:00, Hans <li...@c5ace.com> wrote: Tried to upgrade the kernels of my desktop and notebook fron kernel 4.1.12 upgrade to 4.4.6. Both systems freeze during booting with 4.4.6. N

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-04-29 Thread Hans
On 30/04/16 00:28, Michael Mol wrote: On Friday, April 29, 2016 10:56:28 PM Hans wrote: On 28/04/16 22:22, Hans wrote: On 27/04/16 21:33, J. Roeleveld wrote: On April 27, 2016 12:59:18 PM GMT+02:00, Hans <li...@c5ace.com> wrote: Tried to upgrade the kernels of my desktop and noteboo

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-04-27 Thread Hans
Tried to upgrade the kernels of my desktop and notebook fron kernel 4.1.12 upgrade to 4.4.6. Both systems freeze during booting with 4.4.6. No dmsg, No messages logs. Previous kernel upgrades always worked smooth as silk. Using: OpenRC, eudev, Xfce, Desktop configration: Genkernel with

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-05-08 Thread Hans
On 02/05/16 22:59, Michael Mol wrote: On Saturday, April 30, 2016 01:32:54 AM Hans wrote: On 30/04/16 00:28, Michael Mol wrote: On Friday, April 29, 2016 10:56:28 PM Hans wrote: On 28/04/16 22:22, Hans wrote: Kernel 4.4.6 as a bug. x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox does not compile. Reason

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-05 Thread Hans
On 05/09/16 15:31, Mick wrote: On Monday 05 Sep 2016 10:42:34 Hans wrote: On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for example a virtual

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-05 Thread Hans
On 05/09/16 17:22, gevisz wrote: 2016-09-05 3:42 GMT+03:00 Hans <li...@c5ace.com>: On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for e

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-04 Thread Hans
On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for example a virtual machine image file, from one computer to another. This hard drive is

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Customised System Rescue CD -> USB stick and UEFI

2016-09-18 Thread Hans
On 18/09/16 15:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 17 Sep 2016 22:55:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:10:28 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone managed to install a customised (or even standard) SysRescCd image onto a USB stick so that it will boot in UEFI mode? I've done

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked

2006-06-21 Thread Hans Schou
to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. The worst problem I have is that I can not do a emerge world as this gives the same error. What can I do? Remove xorg-x11 and install it again? best regards/hans -- Even if you hate images of text on the web, this tutorial

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked

2006-06-22 Thread Hans Schou
Hans Schou wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with locale and ca-certificates

2011-09-02 Thread Hans Müller
Am Freitag, 2. September 2011, 08:19:59 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: On one machine an emerge of ca-certificates complains that my locale is bad (details below). In particular it asserts that filesystem encoding is ANSI_X3.4-1968. I followed the localization guide; now my locale seems right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Hans Müller
On Saturday, 19. November 2011 20:08:36 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 19, 2011 7:28 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And, finally, yeah..that isn't just not much, that's a terribly small amount of memory. Assuming you've kept the software current, some of your applications have

[gentoo-user] Missing perl File-FcntlLock / debhelper (dh_gencontrol) fails

2012-05-09 Thread Hans Müller
, installing latest unstable dev-util/debhelper makes no difference. Thanks a lot best regards Hans

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:05:00 -0500 7v5w7go9ub0o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The SSL connection is established within the Linux VM, so all the host sees is an encrypted connection to your bank. Wrong: It will also see all the virtual memory the virtualized machine is using, including those

[gentoo-user] Re: killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-03-04 Thread Hans de Graaff
seen this issue a few times and found that the esound daemon was to blame. Killing just that got things back in a workeable state again. Kind regards, Hans -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of them is very deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is different, less

Re: [gentoo-user] Need to add gd and mysql to PHP.

2007-07-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:37:58 -0600 Mike Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm needing to update php to include both the gd and mysql extensions. I believe I have both packages installed. I emerged php with both extensions in my USE flag. [...] Looks alright. How do I get these to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Need to add gd and mysql to PHP.

2007-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:50:52 -0600 Mike Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 July 2007 06:32:53 pm Norberto Bensa wrote: Mike Diehl wrote: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 23 17:59 apache2-php5 There you have it ;-) Look inside... Well, I'm getting closer, then.

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:29:52 + Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to add text on top of a PDF, resulting in a new file. I'm not concerned with encryption, authorization, nor really editing the PDF itself -- just ending up with a new PDF with my text on top. I read

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Excessive processor usage

2007-08-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:36:36 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a rootkit: chkrootkit can be used to check whether there _are_ _known_ rootkits. BTW, there are other, similar programs that do the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown Tool hd

2007-08-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:13:58 +0100 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with a script refering to several tools, one is hd -snip- TESTECHO=$($ECHO -e '\061\062' \ | hd \ | grep -Eom1 '^[[digit:]]+[[:space:]]+[[digit:]]+[[:space:]] | +[[digit:]]+' \ tr -s '\t ' ' ' -snip-

Re: [gentoo-user] Native Language Support

2007-08-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:47:41 +0300 Sergey A. Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mail server with UK/US locales support only. Access to console have limited number of users only. Do I need NLS support? What are consequences if I switch off NLS flag in installed packages? As I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:19:31 +0300 Aleksey V. Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version 6 tells me that it can't find libstdc++.so.5. I tried to create this symlink manualy(pointing to the libstdc++ 6.0.8 ) but it didn't give me any results Emerge libcompat to get libstdc++ 5. (and undo

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet bridge

2007-08-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:38:18 + (UTC) Mateus Interciso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, basically, I want to share the internet using a Bridge on a pc with two NICS, one for internet, the other for Internal Network. Uhm, yeah, I'd like a bridge to the internet, too. To bad the internet is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

2007-08-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:53:51 + (UTC) Mateus Interciso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so my ISP gives my just one IP, as it you have already guessed, and yes, probably I did mixed up a lot of stuff, and I'm terrible sorry for this. Oh, that's just fine for me, it's probably yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

2007-08-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:48:30 + (UTC) Mateus Interciso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks a lot, this for sure cleared a lot of troubles I was having on my head. :-) The thing is, the more deeper you look into things, the more you get aware that they are more simple than you thought.

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows vista. When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount. I got the following output from dmesg: [...] How is it mounted? fstab entry? CLI?

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:06:50 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using udev-104-r13 Hm, but udev doesn't do the mount, does it? I would really be interested whether there is a fstab entry (and what it is) and what mount command you use, if any. Some software actually must be

Re: [gentoo-user] phpMyAdmin

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:15:17 + (UTC) Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd seen a phpmyadmin configuration gui at gentoo.org, but can't seem to locate it again. http://localhost/phpmyadmin gives a list of files. If those files you see actually are the phpMyAdmin files: Web

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:30:08 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fstab doesn't mention /dev/sdb1 normally I just plug the pendrive in, the icon pops up in media:/ in konqueror, I click on it and do what I need to do Hm, OK, then other daemons come into action. Unfortunately,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: phpMyAdmin

2007-08-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:24:10 + (UTC) Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that Apache needs configuration? specifically the documentroot? Is that required? No, in that case you wouldn't even see the directory listing. Your probably just not running the PHP module. Check your

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:45:59 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to mount it from the command line didn't work, here's the output from dmesg Hm, did you really use -t vfat? Your kernel log has other filesystems complaining after the FAT errors... Unable to identify

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:03:46 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add: The recompile worked. Sometimes you can't see what's wrong for looking Thanks again for all the help Fine! You're welcome, of course! (I somehow doubted that NLS support is required for FAT, too. But it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: phpMyAdmin

2007-08-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:45:28 + (UTC) Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's some more data, if it helps: [...] localhost ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/apache2 [...] APACHE2_OPTS=-D DEFAULT_VHOST #APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP5.2.2 Did you read my earlier post? rewrite that line to APACHE2_OPTS=-D

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:37:27 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, is there a switch for analog vs. digital audio output? The screenshot only shows a few controls. Yes. Just tried to switch them but nothing changes. Hm. That would include playing with those settings: Master

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:33:49 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off] Where do you see that? Last line

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: phpMyAdmin

2007-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:09:48 + (UTC) Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you read my earlier post? rewrite that line to APACHE2_OPTS=-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 and restart apache. Pardon, I may have been distracted, but I think I changed that entry several times. I tried a

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:09:39 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b.n. ha scritto: I think I have to try with the Portage alsa drivers. Ok, alsa-driver does not compile. Now I feel really lost. But the error isn't I won't compile., isn't it? With the information you provided (not),

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:03:55 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What concerns me is that alsamixer nevers shows a volume control on Master anymore, and amixer says: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined *--- no volume/pvolume* Playback channels:

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:05:59 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Managed to install alsa-driver (the unstable ones were needed). Nothing changes, except that now PCM has no volume bar, too. Sorry, I'm now left to some shots in the dark: Re-emerge alsa-libs and alsa-utils, too? There's

Re: [gentoo-user] Treason uncloaked! solution?

2007-08-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:18:16 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes I get Treason uncloaked! in dmesg when running bittorrent. The solution here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=127984 is: You'd best set iptables to block all packets from BOGON

Re: [gentoo-user] Treason uncloaked! solution?

2007-08-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:55:06 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It usually means that the other side of the TCP connection reduced the window to zero size, thus leading stupid TCP stacks to save information on a basically starved connection. The kernel just sends an

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:22:56 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have a working keyboard and a busybox shell, I'm trying to mount a USB key. I did... mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1 ...inserted a USB key, and tried mounting it. dmesg indicates that

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server for localhost

2007-08-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:16:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a setup like this - kmail connecting to dovecot @ localhost. I pop my mail off the various mail servers I use with net-mail/getmail, the docs are quite clear. Performance is slower than local mailboxes

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:59:03 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll attach relevant ifconfig, route and iptables -L output. Hm, OK. This: snip Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 10.8.0.1

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

2007-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:28:41 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always start a seperate ssh server on a different port, to test the new server and the config files. Then you can get in on a different port and fix it if your upgrade of the usual ssh server gets borked.

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:30:51 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, OK. This: snip Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 10.8.0.1 anywhere ACCEPT all --

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:50:52 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion for a proper setup would be $ iptables -F FORWARD $ iptables -P FORWARD DROP $ iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o ppp0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $ iptables -A FORWARD

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:38:26 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the kernel can handle connection state matching :) I can apply your rules with one exception: iptables -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE The same error message as before. But a different cause: My

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

2007-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does my host get root access like that? Different possibilities, but hardware access in most cases means root access (although maybe only to encrypted partitions...). Easiest: Reboot (CTRL-ALT-DEL, no password needed),

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing [OT: Issues with an article on the wiki]

2007-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:35:41 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your patience, it's finally working! OK, that's good news :-) If you don't edit the wiki, I'll do it (sooner or later). Just tell me if you don't want to see your name when I give you credit for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with USB subsystem after upgrading to 2.6.22

2007-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:44:23 +0200 Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found myself a solution to this problem (I don't know if it's the best way to do it but it works for me). I added the following two files to my system: # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/00-local.rules SUBSYSTEM==usb,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

2007-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:01:10 -0500 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, I did that. I tried to enable a few other options within SCSI, and none of them did anything. Dmesg still says it sees the device, knows it is USB, gives is an address, and designates it a configuration.

Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:07:02 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070913 Daevid Vincent wrote: I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't.

Re: [ot] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:19:06 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other day something quite funny happened to me. I was with my Laptop trying to find an open AP. I found one, but couldn't browser the internet nor get my OpenVPN (against a USA-based server) up

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

2007-09-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:25:07 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A /etc/init.d/sshd stop won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll simply the sshd master process. Because of that, additional logins won't be possible. An /etc/init.d/sshd stop/restart can very well fail. Depending on

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

2007-09-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:15:24 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but these most often were due to some configuration changes. And exactly for this is why test-restart was proposed by me.

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

2007-09-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:56:16 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I would definately prefer to always have a guaranteed working sshd running (I find OpenVPN/telnet a bit strange and an unnecessary potential security hole). If running permanently, then I agree,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:16:09 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With netstat -lp it looks like *:snpp is associated with apache2 and is using the same pid as *:http and *:https. I've never set up anything having to do with a pager. I've never had a pager. What can I do to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:06:00 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wouldn't mind satisfying my curiosity, what does the jumper do? Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm astonished that

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (50US preferably) that is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. Analogue or DVB?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:34:19 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes, I changed the file extension to '.html' Epiphany now has no problem. Does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:42:58 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another great thing about grub is that it has a limited command mode that you can enter at boot time. If your grub config contains a typo or error, you can still boot the computer without reaching for a CD. And,

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

2007-10-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:47:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: And later on: Now one problem is left. Even with normal RAM a well funded organisation can get the contents after the system is powered off. With the modern

Re: [gentoo-user] Standby

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:26:28 +0100 Paul Gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now when I press the soft power button the system suspends ( all processes appear to stop and the screen goes blank but for a flashing cursor in the top left of the 2 screens of my dual headed system) but after a few

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

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:33:40 +0200 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: However, it makes sense to clean up memory after having critical data in it -- e.g. a reboot doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:42:42 -0500 Walter Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have modem asdl zyxel 660 and activate loopback with command: ip nat loopback on Where do you enter that and why? What is the thing _you_ call a loopback? On what device or machine does it exist? You don't seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:23:38 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting up NAT works using a sysctl (or the procfs). Restricting the NAT works using iptables. I don't think that's quite right. Correct me if i'm wrong (please) but this should read, Setting up

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:33 -0700 Hex Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no harm in doing so :) If you say such things, please add a short explanation what makes you think that. After all this isn't IRC. In fact, I would not suggest doing that. While kernel developers do their best

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:44:21 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, example. I might be totally wrong, so don't believe me: The splice system call was added with 2.6.17 and corresponding headers. If you build an application that has optinal (on compile time) support for

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:25:23 +0200 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! I'm looking for some info in gentoo wiki and I think I have all fine: APACHE2_OPTS=-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SSL -D PHP5 in conf.d/apache And you have

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:50:56 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean I am at some risk with headers at a higher version than the kernel? I followed the advice at the end of the headers emerge and remerged glibc. Most probably no danger here. The interfaces of the

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:52:25 +0200 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error occurred while processing mail: -ERR [SYS/PERM] Error initializing TLS and I see this in log files: Oct 5 18:22:21 afrodita pop3[14410]: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at environment close Oct

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:04:11 +0800 Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just setup a gentoo in my dell1400 laptop,and until now,the sound problem is not solved yet. Here is the problem: $ aplay 01.mp3 ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:545:

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