[gentoo-user] Memory stick problem

2007-12-28 Thread James Colby
All - I am having a problem with my USB thumb drive. If the drive is connected to the system on boot, the device file /dev/sdb is created, and I'm able to mount and use my thumb drive normally. If I remove the thumb drive and then replace it, or attach the thumb drive after the system has booted,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring

2007-10-17 Thread James Colby
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 04:57:54PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > I have no recommendation but would like to remind you of one thing: What you > are trying to achieve is a serious breach of privacy. > All users of this network are made aware of the Acceptable use policy of this network, and unders

[gentoo-user] Network Monitoring

2007-10-17 Thread James Colby
List Members - I am looking for some advice. We have a user on our network that we belive may be making inappropriate forum posts, violating our TOS for internet usage. I am looking for some recommendations of software that I can install on Gentoo server to help us monitor these posts. Can any

[gentoo-user] Portage through a proxy

2007-10-10 Thread James Colby
List members - Does anyone know if it possible to configure emerge to use the value of $http_proxy as my proxy? I use my laptop both at home and at work, I have a script that sets the $http_proxy env variable depending on where I am, and I would like to have emerge use that value. I have tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend questions

2007-10-03 Thread James Colby
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:32:14PM -0400, Ben Kelly wrote: > > The best solution I found was to add the following to the boot line in > grub: > > hda=noprobe hda=none > > Hope that helps. That did the trick for me as well. Thank you very much. I have another Suspend question though. I am run

[gentoo-user] Suspend questions

2007-10-02 Thread James Colby
List Members - I have trying to set up Suspend on my Dell Latitude D620 laptop. The laptop is currently running a 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 kernel. I emerged the suspend2 sources, copied the .config from the 2.6.19 directory and ran make oldconfig. I then configured the suspend options in the kernel vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread James Colby
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:37:48PM -0500, Whitt Madden wrote: > I will second Albert's message. I didn't unmerge Beryl, and unlike Albert I > did have some issues. > > On 9/13/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 1

[gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread James Colby
All - Does anyone know if there is an upgrade path from Beryl to Compiz-Fusion. I am currently running Beryl on my laptop and would like to try out the new Compiz-Fusion. Do I need to unmerge the Beryl packages before I install Compiz-Fusion? Thanks for any help that you may be able to give.

[gentoo-user] Firefox fonts

2007-03-19 Thread James Colby
List members - I am trying to run Firefox on my Gentoo laptop, and I am having trouble with the fonts. Everything else in my KDE desktop looks fine except for Firefox. I believe that it has something to do Firefox using GTK instead of QT. From my research I have found that one way to fix it is

[gentoo-user] OT: Postfix and procmail

2007-02-22 Thread James Colby
List members - I am running the Postfix MTA on my gentoo server. Postfix is receiving mail for multiple domains using the virtual_mailbox_domains directive. I was wondering if it was possible to use procmail to sort and deliver mail to my virtual_mailboxes. If so, any suggestion or documentat

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg -configure fails

2007-01-31 Thread James Colby
Try the r128 VIDEO_CARDS="vesa r128" That did the trick...thanks for the hint. This very modest box is just screaming now that Gentoo is running on it. It was running XP and the performance of this machine has increased dramatically -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-01-31 Thread James Colby
List members - I have a small home server that I have connected to the internet through a linksys router and cable modem. The linksys router is currently forwarding all ssh traffic to my gentoo box. What I would like to do is set up iptables to only allow ssh logins from a small number of inter

[gentoo-user] Xorg -configure fails

2007-01-29 Thread James Colby
List members - I am trying to install gentoo on an older HP pc. I am at the point in the handbook when I'm trying to configure X. When I run the command Xorg -configure it is failing with the following error message: (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xe100 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios emerge failure

2006-11-30 Thread James Colby
/data/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1/../../../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../libdl.a(dlerror.o): In function `dlerror': : undefined reference to `__dlerror' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [nagios] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/nagios-core-1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread James Colby
If it were me, I would still do a emerge -e world, just to be sure. Dale Does emerge -e world add anything to the world file? Do I need to add the --oneshot option to this to keep my world file clean Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread James Colby
# cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -va1 $(for pkg in */*; do cut -d' ' -f2 "${pkg}"/CONTENTS | grep -q '^/sbin/' && echo "=${pkg}" done) -- Thanks for the advice everybody. I ran this command and it just finished successfully. I had one file in /etc that needed updating, and when I tried

[gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread James Colby
List Members - I was trying to delete some files from my /sbin directory and with an unfortunate use of a wildcard accidentally deleted the entire contents on the /sbin directory. I have recovered the contents of the /sbin directory from a stage 3 tarball. I was thinking about doing an emerge w

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread James Colby
Also, try unpacking the source somewhere and doing a manual compile. Then at least you'll know if it's portage making the difference or not. alan -- Alan, thanks for the suggestion. I tried this and the compile failed with an error related to the system time. I checked the system date and it

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread James Colby
Interrupt it and post the last 100 lines or so of the output. -Richard My apologies, for the top posting. I interrupted the compile and below is some of the output from the emerge: make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/device-mapper-1.02.12/work/device-mapper.1.02.12/lib' make[1]: En

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread James Colby
nptlonly nvidia oss pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode xml xml2 xorg zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK,

[gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread James Colby
All - I am trying to emerge sys-fs/device-mapper on an older piece of hardware (AMD Duron 800, with 512Mb of Ram). The package has been compiling for something like 8 hours already. Is this normal? It seems like an awfully long time to me. As a comparison, I was able to compile the kernel in

[gentoo-user] OpenSSH security

2006-11-07 Thread James Colby
List members - I am running OpenSSH on my home gentoo server. I was examining the log files for OpenSSH and I noticed multiple login attempts from the same IP address but with different user names. Is there a simple way that I can block an IP address from attempting to log in after something li

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge fails - Can't stat a file

2006-10-16 Thread James Colby
Based on bugs.gentoo.org this is a CFLAGS issue. What are your CFLAGS? -- Bo Andresen My CFLAGS are pretty safe: CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -mcpu=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" Do you see any issues with these? Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Emerge fails - Can't stat a file

2006-10-16 Thread James Colby
List Members - I am trying emerge media-video/transcode. One of the dependencies is media-libs/jpeg-mmx and when emerge tries to compile it, it fails with the following error: /bin/install -c -m 644 ./jinclude.h /var/tmp/portage/jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1/image//usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jinclude.h cp: canno

Re: [gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread James Colby
A disk timeout error could cause a filesystem to be remounted read-only. And if /var is on the same disk, you wouldn't necessarily see the errors (since, after all, it is now read-only!). I would start by making /var a separate filesystem if you haven't already. Heck, put it on a different vir

[gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread James Colby
List members - I have a Gentoo install running inside of a vmware ESX server virtual machine. I am having a very strange issue though. Every few days the root filesystem will become read only and the only way that I can fix it is to reboot or power down the virual machine. Does anyone have an

Re: [gentoo-user] System Suspend...kind of OT

2006-06-01 Thread James Colby
On 6/1/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/06, James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/1/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, the system would hibernate and at the next power up the system would effectively boot, not just wake u

Re: [gentoo-user] System Suspend...kind of OT

2006-06-01 Thread James Colby
On 6/1/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When Windows _SUSPENDS_ (we're not talking hibernate right?), it never relaay stops running. It shuts down the display and the hard drives and sort of goes to sleep. So when you "power" back up, it simply resumes. It does not reboot. T

[gentoo-user] System Suspend...kind of OT

2006-05-31 Thread James Colby
List members - I have a laptop that I dual boot with windows and gentoo. My gentoo installation has software suspend working. When I run the hibernate script the system hibernates and then powers down. When I press the power button on my laptop I am then presented with my lilo boot menu and I

[gentoo-user] Logitech cordless

2006-05-22 Thread James Colby
List members - I am trying to use a Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse with my gentoo based laptop. When I try to boot into linux the cordless receiver is never enabled. After doing some research on google it appears that the easiest solution is to use a USB to PS2 adapter for the usb connect

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend 2

2006-05-22 Thread James Colby
Well, no idea, but you can skip that append, if you set a default suspend "device" in the kernel configuration. Alexander Skwar -- Alexander - Thanks for the tip...that worked for me. Kind regards, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Software suspend 2

2006-05-21 Thread James Colby
List members - I am trying to to set up software suspend 2 on my laptop using the instructions found on gentoo-wiki.com. I am at the section where I need to configure my boot loader (I'm using lilo) and when I add the following entry to my lilo.conf: image=/boot/gentoo-suspend2 label=gentoo-sus

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Server beta on Gentoo

2006-05-21 Thread James Colby
Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I was able to get it installed thanks! Get the ebuilds via svn as written at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122500#123 I installed it on a AMD64 in 32 and 64 Bit mode. One thing i had to do is to re-emerge vmware-modules after vmware-server.

[gentoo-user] VMWare Server beta on Gentoo

2006-05-20 Thread James Colby
List members - Does anyone on the list have any experience with installing vmware-server on a gentoo box. I followed the directions found at http://diaryproducts.net/about/operating_systems/unix/installing_vmware_server_on_gentoo_linux_part_2 but I can't get the vmware service to start. Any hel

[gentoo-user] PHP files not being executed in aliased directory

2006-04-10 Thread James Colby
List Members - I recently ran an emerge update that upgraded my apache2 installation. I am now having a problem with PHP pages located in an aliased directory. Instead of showing me the correctly rendered page I am only seeing the PHP code. PHP pages located in the DocumentRoot folder are being

[gentoo-user] Detecting when a USB device is attached

2006-02-05 Thread James Colby
List members - I was wondering if anybody knew of a package or a method that I could use to detect when a USB mass storage device is attached to my PC. What I would like to be able to do is to write a small script that would mount my USB mass storage device, sync up a directory, and then unmount

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE without ARTS

2006-01-22 Thread James Colby
Thanks for the link. I just gave in and re-enable arts for KDE. Sound is working now. On 1/22/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is exactly what I am wanting to do. But I see that it will end up not > allowing me to use system notifications. I found this link on the bug > report. > But I

[gentoo-user] KDE without ARTS

2006-01-21 Thread James Colby
List Members - I have been looking through the list archives and haven't found an answer to my question. I have compiled KDE 3.5 with "alsa -arts" in my make.conf. Now is it possible to hear System Notifications, by using an external audio player. I have set up an external audio player in Kcont

Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-20 Thread James Colby
On 11/20/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the relevant gentoo-dev thread. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=112940871726601&w=2 > > Excellent, thanks for the link. Very helpful -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] MythTV compile error

2005-11-20 Thread James Colby
List - Thanks for all of your help this weekend. I am having another issue. When I try to upgrade mythTV I am getting the attached error (I hope the attachment comes through). Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? Thanks Again, James lcddevice.cpp: At global scope: lcddevic

[gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
List Members - I have another question. I can't seem to find the divx4linux package anymore. I am trying to install it and emerge can't find it. It also does not appear to be available as a use flag for mplayer any more. Did the package change names, or am I just really tired and missing somet

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
> > I just ran into this problem last night. I ran > equery depends kdelibs > made sure NONE of them specifically depended on kdelibs-3.3.2 (in my > case they were all compiled against kdelibs-3.4.x during a few of the > past update cycles). > then I just > emerge unmerge =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
On 11/19/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > James Colby wrote: > > 3.4, is there an easy way that I can find out what package is using > > kde3 libs? > > > > *** Start

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
On 11/19/05, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Colby wrote: > > List members - > > > > I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it is failing. It is trying to > > re-compile a package that is no longer has an ebuild available > > (kdelibs-3.3.2-r7). I h

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
List members - I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it is failing. It is trying to re-compile a package that is no longer has an ebuild available (kdelibs-3.3.2-r7). I have tried running revdep-rebuild -X and revdep-rebuild --package-names, but it is still trying to compile the package. Does a

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache configuration files

2005-11-08 Thread James Colby
On 11/8/05, Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:28 -0500, James Colby wrote:> All ->> If I understand correctly the only configuration file is> now /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, is this correct?Yes.> Would it be safe to delete the configuration files

[gentoo-user] Apache configuration files

2005-11-08 Thread James Colby
All - I recently upgraded my apache2 to use the new layout.  I was wondering about which configuration files that I now have to concern myself with.  If I understand correctly the only configuration file is now /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, is this correct?  Would it be safe to delete the configuratio

[gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-10 Thread James Colby
Hi All - I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443.  I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall.  I have  searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had any luck.  Is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question...

2005-09-14 Thread James Colby
Yann - I'm not sure about the downgrade from 3.3.6 to 3.3.5, but I had the same problem with libungif.  I fixed it by unmerging giflib (emerge --ask --unmerge  media-libs/giflib).  Then re-running the update, which actually re-installed giflib for me. HTHOn 9/14/05, Yann GARNIER <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[gentoo-user] nxserver-personal install errors

2005-08-15 Thread James Colby
Hello Everyone - I am trying to emerge nxserver-personal and I am getting the following error: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1495: nxserver-1.4_src_install: command not found. I have searched BGO and didn't not see any errors similar to this. Does anyone know what might be causing it?

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.2

2005-07-30 Thread James Colby
Good afternoon - Does anybody know when the split ebuilds for KDE 3.4.2 will move into ~x86? Is there a date set? Is there a list or webpage that I can use to check for myself? Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Dependency Question

2005-04-19 Thread James Colby
Hello everyone - I apologize if this has been covered before, but I have not been able to find an answer through searching. My question, when I do an emerge -p --deep --update world emerge tells me that it wants to install kde-base and kde-libs for version 3.3.2. I have upgraded my KDE to versi

Re: [gentoo-user] Error Emerging PHP 4.3.11

2005-04-12 Thread James Colby
I am getting the same error, so you are not the only one. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. Thanks, James On Apr 12, 2005 1:23 PM, Tommy Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When doing my emarge -uavD world, and letting it upgrade from php > 4.3.10 to php 4.3.11, I get the f