Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 21 April 2006 10:34, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > > i would say you should emerge kdm > > mar martins # slocate default3.png > /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/default3.png > mar martins # equery belongs default3.png > [ Searching for file(s) default3.png in *... ] > kde-base/kdm-3.5

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-20 Thread Walter Dnes
Sorry for the delay responding to this thread. Whilst linux users' computers are immune to viruses, our bodies are not. I spent Tuesday evening through late Wednesday afternoon in bed with the flu, and I'm still not 100%. On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:51:44AM +0800, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote > Le

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-20 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 21 April 2006 07:40, Abhay Kedia wrote: > Hello All, > > I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in KControl > http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png > > When I check for the same under kcontrol on my system (KDE 3.5.2), I am > unable to find it. C

[gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello All, I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png When I check for the same under kcontrol on my system (KDE 3.5.2), I am unable to find it. Can some please help me in finding the package needed, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-20 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / > > When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get > a new and nearly identical timestamp. > > Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or "

[gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-20 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get a new and nearly identical timestamp. Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or "anything related to administer gentoo"-thingy ? Thank you very much in

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade loop for gst-plugins

2006-04-20 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:30:52PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon, > > For about the past 10 days I've been having problems with gst-plugins. > I'm in a constant upgrade/downgrade loop, and am not really sure what > brought me to this state. The only _major_ changes have been addi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - openssh and ldap [SOLVED]

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 00:24 +0200, Dave Jones wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote on 04/20/06 23:31: > > I rebooted my server box this morning. On a few of the output lines > > during bootup (noteably sshd and mysqld) it said "Could not connect to > > LDAP server" (or something like that). To my know

[gentoo-user] netfilter: -P INPUT DROP in kernel

2006-04-20 Thread Daniel Waeber
I was looking for a way to set the default rule for the INPUT chain to DROP. I do not want to change the rule with iptables -P INPUT DROP after loading the kernel, I want that the kernel/modules automatically DROPS everything after it has been loaded. You can do this with the FORWARD chain with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build wine

2006-04-20 Thread Justin Hart
Yeah, figured out that 0.9.1 compiles fine. I'll have to try 0.9.12. I'm trying to run iTunes. Justin On 4/20/06, Matthias Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 03:12 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > > Anybody know what this error is about? I can't seem to build wine. > > > > i6

Re: [gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim required by dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5 (which I don't have installed)

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/20/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand this error: You masked out the versions of php greater-than *or equal to* what you have installed, so portage naturally wants to downgrade the version. Plus, exim only has these version available: * mail-mta/exim Ava

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - openssh and ldap

2006-04-20 Thread Dave Jones
Michael Sullivan wrote on 04/20/06 23:31: > I rebooted my server box this morning. On a few of the output lines > during bootup (noteably sshd and mysqld) it said "Could not connect to > LDAP server" (or something like that). To my knowledge, I don't have an > ldap server installed on my server b

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - openssh and ldap

2006-04-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 20 April 2006 23:31, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I rebooted my server box this morning. On a few of the output lines > during bootup (noteably sshd and mysqld) it said "Could not connect to > LDAP server" (or something like that). To my knowledge, I don't have > an ldap server installe

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

2006-04-20 Thread Mick
On 20/04/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:58:29 +0200 > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > [Is cups crap?] > > Someone thinks so: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html :-)) I guess most of us have been there? What is *really* crap is the example ad

[gentoo-user] OT - openssh and ldap

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
I rebooted my server box this morning. On a few of the output lines during bootup (noteably sshd and mysqld) it said "Could not connect to LDAP server" (or something like that). To my knowledge, I don't have an ldap server installed on my server box. Ssh from client machines is extremely slow to

[gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim required by dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5 (which I don't have installed)

2006-04-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
I don't understand this error: -- Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: net-mail/mailman net-mail/dovecot mail-mta/exim media-sound/beep-media-player net-wireless/h

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:25 -0500, Bob Bao wrote: > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session > window. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread John Jolet
>> echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc >> >> next time you execute 'startx', kde will startup. >> >> for GNOME, execute this command first >> >> echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc >> >> then startx will bring gnome up. > > I think the more "offical" way is to uncomment the following lines >

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 01:11 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Bob Bao wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the > > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm w

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Erik Westenbroek
In /etc/rc.conf: Uncomment #DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" (you do this by removing the # in case you didn't know) If you are using Gnome, change xdm to gdm, and to kdm if you are using kde. Then, do "rc-update add xdm default" and it should start up at boot. On 4/20/06, Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

[gentoo-user] Can't delete printer!

2006-04-20 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
I've tried everything I can think of. * When I use foomatic-gui to delete the printer, I get a message that confirms the deletion, but when I reboot it's back! In my case, I think foomatic-gui invokes "foomatic-configure -s cups -R -n " which in turn invokes "lpadmni

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-20 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 20 April 2006 00:46 Neil Bothwick was like: > > Am I correct in understanding that I can use LVM2 to stripe a volume > > across more than one disk, just like a raid 0 setup, even if the disks > > are quite dissimilar? Would it be possible (or worthwhile) to allocate > > my old 40GB disk

[gentoo-user] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-20 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, When I try to dialup the 'net on a fresh 2.6.16 install I get: #pon /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/peers/hd: unrecognized option '/dev/ttyS0' Sure enough, there's no such file, just /dev/tty, 0, 1 ... On my 2.6.12 and 2.6.15 boxen /dev/ttyS0 is a sym-link to tts/0 and I can dial

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/20/06, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > > No. both grub and lilo work through the system BIOS. Neither can > > 'see' things not provided through the system BIOS. > > Are you absolutely sure about lilo? Checking the source and the README in the source of 22.7.1 makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Bob Bao wrote: > > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session > window. I think suppose I should get a graphic

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/20/06, Bob Bao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session > window. I think sup

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread brettholcomb
You have to install X and a window manager or app like KDE to get that. > > From: "Bob Bao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/04/20 Thu PM 03:25:28 EDT > To: > Subject: [gentoo-user] Install help > > > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread John Jolet
On 4/20/06 2:25 PM, "Bob Bao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session > w

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I think suppose I should get a graphic user interface I) think the first thing is to configure X (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). THen try startx. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-20 Thread Christer Ekholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After updating lvm2 from 2.02.02 to 2.02.03, the system mount / which > is on a primary partition but frefus to mount /usr,/var,/home and /tmp. > On the console I see: > Setting up the logical volume manager > Volume group for uuid not found: m6reV.(four times

[gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Bob Bao
Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session window. I think suppose I should get a graphic user interface like boot Than

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: loooong delay with keyboard

2006-04-20 Thread Mantas Povilaitis
On 4/20/06, Matias Grana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi; > a mate at work is using KDE (actually, he has Slackware, not Gentoo, > but I guess it's the same). All of a sudden, a strange thing happened: > When he logs in his account, the keyboard has a really long delay (about > half a second) to ec

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: loooong delay with keyboard

2006-04-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Matias Grana wrote: > thing happened: When he logs in his account, the keyboard has a > really long delay (about half a second) to echo each pressed key. KDE Control Center > Regional &... > Accessibility > Keyboard Filters > Slow Keys. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: loooong delay with keyboard

2006-04-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 20 April 2006 20:50, Matias Grana wrote: > hi; > a mate at work is using KDE (actually, he has Slackware, not Gentoo, > but I guess it's the same). All of a sudden, a strange thing > happened: When he logs in his account, the keyboard has a really long > delay (about half a second) to e

[gentoo-user] System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-20 Thread lgouv
After updating lvm2 from 2.02.02 to 2.02.03, the system mount / which is on a primary partition but frefus to mount /usr,/var,/home and /tmp. On the console I see: Setting up the logical volume manager Volume group for uuid not found: m6reV.(four times) Any idea? Thanks -- gentoo-user@ge

[gentoo-user] OT: loooong delay with keyboard

2006-04-20 Thread Matias Grana
hi; a mate at work is using KDE (actually, he has Slackware, not Gentoo, but I guess it's the same). All of a sudden, a strange thing happened: When he logs in his account, the keyboard has a really long delay (about half a second) to echo each pressed key. So to write, say, 'no', he has to press t

[gentoo-user] ndiswrapper module problem

2006-04-20 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, after updating ndiswrapper to version 1.13 i became unable to use it. I get this in dmesg: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_suspend_urbs ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_resume_urbs Assuming that the problem could be departing from the upgrade, I downgrade it to 1.11, but could not solve the

RE: [gentoo-user] Question about 2006.0 and order of NIC detectio n

2006-04-20 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Hi Jeremy, > Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: > > Is there a way I can change this so that eth0/1 are the on-board > > ports? It will save me lots of headaches later. :) > > You are looking for udev. Udev will create names for devices > (USB drives, NICs, etc) > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: config's

2006-04-20 Thread louis brazeau
On 4/19/06, Maxime Robert-Schreyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan LaMotte wrote: > > >I use the /etc/portage/package.* files for unmasking packages. > > > >Just curious if there were any packages out there to help keep those > >files organized. Basically, if the package comes out of package.mas

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Jarry
Richard Fish wrote: No. both grub and lilo work through the system BIOS. Neither can 'see' things not provided through the system BIOS. Are you absolutely sure about lilo? lilo used bios for disk sector read, but I think is not using anymore (quite a long time). Thanks to that you can have /b

[gentoo-user] portage question

2006-04-20 Thread Dan LaMotte
anyone know if you can compile something locally into your home directory using portage without being root? basically what I want to accomplish is like... ROOT=/home/lamotte/compile emerge openssh or ebuild /path/to/ebuild/ merge I would basically like to be able to install something without

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I'm not using GRUB, but I think that the way GRUB > reads disks has very little (if anything) common with linux. > Not only it gives different names to disk-partitions, grub > is like "mini-OS", which uses its own routines. It can be

Re: [gentoo-user] lan-http-replicator docs

2006-04-20 Thread Anielkis
i recommend you to use torpage http://www.kroon.co.za/torpage.php -- Ing. Anielkis Herrera González Desarrollador de Nova LNX Linux User #377809 Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas

[gentoo-user] lan-http-replicator docs

2006-04-20 Thread James
Hello http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator seems to be woefully out of date. I just had my lan-http-replicator server die and it took a while to figure out how to turn it off replicator (on a client machine) I had to look at /etc/profile.env and then issue: export

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread jarry
"Christopher E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am able to get into the system with the current setup that is the > strange thing, I am NOT using the liveCD any more, I am booting using > GRUB, it loads the kernel and then it prompts me for a root block Well, I'm not using GRUB, but I think that t

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for best tutorial on creating initramfs

2006-04-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:05:50 -0500 "Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Need to find a better tutorial on initramfs. One that doesn't rely on > tools that automate the process. In fact, an initramfs doesn't differ much from other root fs'es. Physically, it is a gz

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/20/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am able to get into the system with the current setup that is the > strange thing, I am NOT using the liveCD any more, I am booting using > GRUB, it loads the kernel and then it prompts me for a root block > device and then I enter /dev/sda6

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for best tutorial on creating initramfs

2006-04-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 15:05 schrieb ext Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74: > Need to find a better tutorial on initramfs. One that doesn't rely on > tools that automate the process. Better than what? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configurati

[gentoo-user] Looking for best tutorial on creating initramfs

2006-04-20 Thread Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74
Title: Looking for best tutorial on creating initramfs Need to find a better tutorial on initramfs. One that doesn't rely on tools that automate the process.

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher E
Hello Jarry, I am able to get into the system with the current setup that is the strange thing, I am NOT using the liveCD any more, I am booting using GRUB, it loads the kernel and then it prompts me for a root block device and then I enter /dev/sda6 <--- this is my sata drive and when I do this

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build wine

2006-04-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 03:12 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > Anybody know what this error is about? I can't seem to build wine. > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include > -DINCLUDEDIR="\"/usr/include/wine\"" -Wall -pipe > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread jarry
"Christopher E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the motherboard is a Asus K8V Delux SE I had a similar problem with Asus A8V, sata disk not recognised. Later I found out that southbridge (VT8251) was not supported... On your mobo there is VIA VT8237 southbridge, check if this is supported by kernel

[gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher E
sorry if you are geting this twice as I have also posted to the amd64 list Hello All, I figure I will also give this information to this list as I was asked some questions from the amd list. Frist part is this is not a live cd, it is booting off of the hard drive. Next thing is all of the stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:11:55 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > Am I correct in understanding that I can use LVM2 to stripe a volume > across more than one disk, just like a raid 0 setup, even if the disks > are quite dissimilar? Would it be possible (or worthwhile) to allocate > my old 40GB disk and

[gentoo-user] Can't build wine

2006-04-20 Thread Justin Hart
Anybody know what this error is about? I can't seem to build wine. i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -DINCLUDEDIR="\"/usr/include/wine\"" -Wall -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+ -Wpointer-arith -march=pentium4 -pipe -O2 -o y.tab.o y