Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers

2009-06-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 23:48:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:31:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I can't argue with that. I just get a little paranoid about auth logs > > > being sent (with credentials) over partially-open

Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers

2009-06-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 23:48:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:31:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I can't argue with that. I just get a little paranoid about auth logs > > being sent (with credentials) over partially-open networks, hence the > > attraction of encrypted traffic

Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers

2009-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:31:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I can't argue with that. I just get a little paranoid about auth logs > being sent (with credentials) over partially-open networks, hence the > attraction of encrypted traffic What about using an SSH tunnel? -- Neil Bothwick If Wile E

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Juni 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 14:07:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > please consider searching the email archives for this list in the future. > > The phonon mess has been explained only a few days ago. > > > > as a kde user you want media-sound/phonon >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers

2009-06-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 16:33:39 Mark Shields wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have decent experience with sysloggers other than syslog-ng, > > and > > be willing to share experiences? > > > > I'm especially interested in some of the adva

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Jim Cunning
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 14:07:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > please consider searching the email archives for this list in the future. > The phonon mess has been explained only a few days ago. > > as a kde user you want media-sound/phonon > all you need to know: > http://ben.liveforge.org/2009/

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:44 -0700, Jim Cunning wrote: > I followed the procedures to convert from monolithic KDE ebuilds to -meta > versions of the KDE ebuilds. Now I have a huge number of blocks that I don't > understand and cannot figure out how to fix. My apologies for the size of > the tex

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Juni 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > ('ebuild', '/', 'media-sound/phonon-4.3.1', 'merge') pulled in by > media-sound/phonon required by > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.1', 'merge') > media-sound/phonon required by > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-4.5.1', 'merge') >

Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:38:09 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >>> Unlikely, as long as you run etc-update or equivalent. The ebuild >>> takes care of migrating several config files, you only need to follow >>> the steps in the migration guide referred to in the elog messages. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:38:09 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Unlikely, as long as you run etc-update or equivalent. The ebuild > > takes care of migrating several config files, you only need to follow > > the steps in the migration guide referred to in the elog messages. > I did that with the xorg upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:31:23 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > > > > So if I want to load `fuse' at boot... where do it put it? > > > It's been the same as long as I've been using Gentoo the past 5 > > years: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.

Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:29:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> After the corg-server update, I'm dreading that upgrade. I'm still on >> the old xorg. The baselayout if not done carefully could leave a person >> with a broke OS. >> > > Unlikely, as long as you run etc-update

Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:29:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > After the corg-server update, I'm dreading that upgrade. I'm still on > the old xorg. The baselayout if not done carefully could leave a person > with a broke OS. Unlikely, as long as you run etc-update or equivalent. The ebuild takes care of mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers

2009-06-17 Thread Dale
Mark Shields wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Alan McKinnon > mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone have decent experience with sysloggers other than > syslog-ng, and > be willing to share experiences? > > I'm especially interested in some of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:31:23 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > > >>> So if I want to load `fuse' at boot... where do it put it? >>> > > >> It's been the same as long as I've been using Gentoo the past 5 >> years: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. This has always be

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Locking type 1 initialisation failed googling this finds precious little -- whether spelled with an 's' or a 'z', but check this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118275#c16 A lot like my situation: the unit boots, the above error flashes by, I log into a crippled system and enter the

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED

2009-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:14:11 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The fact that it's aligned around desktop users is of no significance > here, but looking back, it would be easy to miss that bit. > It was where you said > I also find in general that rescue systems are not very good at these > desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED

2009-06-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 17:44:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > I never said you don't want hotplugging. Set rc_hotplug to > > > > you said "automatic" hotplugging; is that something else? > > I explained that in my previous post, Alan was referring to desktop > hotplugging, like mounting removable

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:07:31 -0700 Grant wrote: > > You do have the ("perl-experimental") overlay? > > Thanks Michael. I don't have that overlay. What would it do for me? It's where other ebuilds wind up if no one puts them in the official tree. So, if there needs to be some customisation

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED

2009-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:41:14 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> Guess you're right, I don't want hotplugging. > > > > I never said you don't want hotplugging. Set rc_hotplug to > > you said "automatic" hotplugging; is that something else? I explained that in my previous post, Alan was referring

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED

2009-06-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> Guess you're right, I don't want hotplugging. > > I never said you don't want hotplugging. Set rc_hotplug to you said "automatic" hotplugging; is that something else? > "!net.*" to disable network hotplugging, and add net.lo back to the boot thanks Neil, speeds up the boot process a lot. May

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Aaron Clark
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. I use the meta-mirrors, as listed in and suggested by the commented parts of make.conf: SYNC is the server used by

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own > mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. I use the meta-mirrors, as listed in and suggested by the commented parts of make.conf: SYNC is the server used by rsync to retrieve a

Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:31:23 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > > So if I want to load `fuse' at boot... where do it put it? > It's been the same as long as I've been using Gentoo the past 5 > years: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. This has always been in the > handbook as long as I've been using

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Thinkpad lenovo 3500

2009-06-17 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Do someone know which test can I do to understand what do I miss ? Thanks, Massimiliano On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Massimiliano Ziccardi < massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a ThinkPad lenovo R500 running the latest GENTOO. > > Everything works, but I have 2 prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own > >> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. > >> Mes

Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have decent experience with sysloggers other than syslog-ng, > and > be willing to share experiences? > > I'm especially interested in some of the advanced features of syslog-ng > Premium from Balabit.com (based on and ext

Re: [gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Where do we list modules we want loaded at boot? > > When I run modprobe fuse > WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files > belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. > > /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't actually appear to

[gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Where do we list modules we want loaded at boot? When I run modprobe fuse WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't actually appear to have any modules listed but does list a herd of aliases for modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own >> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. >> Message follows: >> >> * Running emerge --sync >> !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own > mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. > Message follows: > > * Running emerge --sync > !! >

[gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. Message follows: * Running emerge --sync !! !! NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE !!!

[gentoo-user] radeon driver, hd2600 card, no dri

2009-06-17 Thread Jesús Guerrero
Hello, I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas about this. After some tinkering around I've finally managed to get somewhat working a setup with the xf86-video-ati (radeon) driver. I am using a vanilla 2.6.30 kernel, xorg-server 1.6 and x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.2. But I've tried many more

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

2009-06-17 Thread Grant
>> I'm trying to use g-cpan to pull in Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink: >> >> http://search.cpan.org/~MIKEH/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink/InterchangeKitchenSink.pm >> >> but the list of dependencies is way off.  Is g-cpan just broken? > > That's about it, yes. (I think the way perl is handled in Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution icons missing

2009-06-17 Thread Florian Philipp
William Kenworthy schrieb: > I have two systems using evolution 2.6.2 - one is fine, the other has > some (not all) icons missing - folder icon in the tree view, the > "online" icon at the bottom status bar plus some others. They show the > broken icon graphic instead. Rebuilt it with no change -

[gentoo-user] evolution icons missing

2009-06-17 Thread William Kenworthy
I have two systems using evolution 2.6.2 - one is fine, the other has some (not all) icons missing - folder icon in the tree view, the "online" icon at the bottom status bar plus some others. They show the broken icon graphic instead. Rebuilt it with no change - whats the likely cause? (perhaps p

[gentoo-user] Problem with Thinkpad lenovo 3500

2009-06-17 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Hi all. I have a ThinkPad lenovo R500 running the latest GENTOO. Everything works, but I have 2 problems: 1) OpenGL screen saver do not works 2) Graphic is not very fast. I think the first problem is related to the second one. I think (but I'm not sure) that the source of my problem is this: x

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED

2009-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:32:56 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Going cuckoo here @!#>. I said it was fixed. I uncommented the > rc_hotplug line in rc.conf and rebooted and it worked! The volumes > were found and mounted. Fantasia! Now I rebooted again having tried to > shut of dhcpcd, using rc-update

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)FIXED

2009-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:57:32 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Except Maxim doesn't want automatic hotplugging, he wants to mount > > the LV from init scripts. > In /etc/rc.conf I uncommented the line rc_hotplug="*" on a hunch and > it did the trick! That's not the hotplugging Alan was referring to