Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild, avidemux and mplayer

Dale writes: > I'm in the middle of a world update. I'm sort of doing it in parts > because of the device-mapper issue. Anyway, I keep getting the > @preserved-rebuild at the end of the emerge. I run it and it wants to > run it again. When I run it again, it wants to run it again. It's the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > I just unmerged device-mapper and updated lvm2 right after that. So > > in case of a crash or something during a longer world update I still > > have an intact system. I'm not sure if it would boot with the old > > lvm2 and

[gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

Hi there! I am not running ~x86 at the moment. I like to stay on the safer side, and it has not been too much trouble. Yet. There are things in have in package.keywords, quite a lot actually. Most packages are not a problem. Examples are games-fps/quake3, games- fps/worldofpadman or games-strat

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

Maxim Wexler writes: > When I ran #emerge -C xfce4-meta, portage went through the motions of > removing the pkg but when I ran startx to see what happened xfce4 > appeared as usual. > > Same as after a boot. > > When I run the above command again, portage reports "Couldn't find > 'null/xfce4' to

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

Philip Webb writes: > There is a problem somewhere & it mb a small fix for my machine > & it wb nice to track it down if others are not experiencing it. Try 'strace xterm' in a terminal with long scrollback history, press the enter key a couple of times when it hangs, and analyze the output at t

Re: [gentoo-user] slotted package - how to switch

Helmut Jarausch writes: > >> The reason is the following bug. > >> To use an old printer (no USB connector) I've purchased > >> a USB-to-parallel adapater (since some software like VirtualBox > >> cannot handle the parallel port). [...] > First, for my PC at home, I don't have a local network and

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

Arnau Bria writes: > I've rebuild my xorg-server with no hal support, I've upgraded my > kernel to 2.6.30-r8 and rebuild "all" xf86 drivers/libs/proto > packages: [...] > Then, I use nvidia-xconf for geenrating my xorg.conf file and looks > like: [...] > Section "Device" > Identifier "

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

Thanks for your replies, guys! They have been helpful. I think I know what to do now. And that is... wait. Until I have some time to spare for this. Then, after a backup, I will perform the migration. Now let's see that this openrc and baselayout-2 is that I have read people talking about for q

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

KH writes: > Alex Schuster schrieb: > > [snip] > > Or net-misc/youtube-dl, which changes quite > > frequently to adopt to youtube changes, and I want to always have the > > newest version. [snip] > see bgo 286366 and report you are fine with it. Maybe it will bec

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

Jarry writes: > Hi, I'm getting strange mails from vixie-cron-4.1-r10: > -- > SUBJECT: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && > /usr/sbin/run-crons > > error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line > error: kernel:12 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line > --

Gentoo for many servers (was: Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once)

Alan McKinnon wrote: > clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge > -avuND world everywhere This is way cool. I just started using it on eight Fedora servers I am administrating. Nice, now this is an improvement over my 'for $h in $HOSTS; do ssh $h "yum install foo";

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

Richard Marza writes: > I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a > dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the > primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP > addresses using iptables. Something that checks to see if a minimum

Re: Gentoo for many servers (was: Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once)

Alan McKinnon writes: > On Saturday 14 November 2009 19:36:06 Alex Schuster wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge >>> -avuND world everywhere >> This is way cool. I just started usin

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

Mick writes: > On Saturday 14 November 2009 16:53:24 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man > > page for more information. > > Hmm ... how do you keep your log files under control? I am using app-admin/metalog (http://me

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

Jarry writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man > > page for more information. > > Let me ask: how do you deal with /var/log/wtmp? I think it does not > go through syslog, and even it it does, it is not easy t

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

Alan McKinnon writes: > Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? Sort of. > I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection: > > amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database > selected on "INSERT INTO images SELECT * FROM images_te

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

Neil Walker writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is > > running Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at > > 24 MB. > > Wow! Do you even need a server? It can't be doing much. My se

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 16 November 2009 21:40:42 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Alan McKinnon writes: > > > I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection: > > > > > > amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database >

Re: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?

Jarry writes: > I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but > there are not all of them... There's also /usr/local/portage/layman/*/profiles/use.local.desc Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

Renat Golubchyk writes: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 +0200 Amit Dor-Shifer > wrote: > > When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at > > the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It > > seems that up till runlevel 'default', services can be hit wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to loopback mount partition from a disk image

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > > $ fdisk -l sda.dd.img > > You must set cylinders. > > You can do this from the extra functions menu. > > > > Disk sda.dd.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 *

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

Alan E. Davis writes: > I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at /dev/sdb5 > mounted as /newroot, using > # cp -ax / /newroot > > I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I recall > there are some other steps necessary. /dev needs at least the entries co

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

Alan McKinnon mentions yet another cool utility: > xrestop is also useful Cool! Great tip! Again. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

Mike Diehl writes: > BTW, the nfs mounts are done via /etc/init.d/nfs, which does a mount -a > nfs. Not here. Are you using baselayout-2 or something? Some while ago, I had problems (not similar to yours) when mounting NFS shares before I had started /etc/init.d/nfs-client, which is called nfs

[gentoo-user] KDE4 Device Manager & Permissions

Hi there! When I plug in an USB stick (with a VFAT partition), the device manager plasmoid notifies me and allows to mount it. That's fine, but I would like the permissions to be different, so that another user is able to write to it. This user is using the same desktop, he is logged in via ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

Xi Shen writes: > when i boot my system, at the step "Wiping /tmp", it pops up an error > message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option. > in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it > used the wrong find command. Did you emerge busybox with the mak

Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

Xi Shen writes: > i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are > configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started > emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2 > remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i c

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

Xi Shen writes: > yes i use / on LVM. Me too. > i just cannot understand why the busybox in the initramfs that > genkernel generates works fine, while mine reports error. And I do not understand why the "wiping tmp" stuff actually happens while you are still in the initramfs. For me, /tmp is n

Re: [gentoo-user] GLX module not loaded...

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > I did by hand and now I have another problem: > > (II) Loading extension RECORD > (II) LoadModule: "dri" > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri > (II) UnloadModule: "dri" > (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > (II) LoadModule: "dri2" > (WW)

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

Alan McKinnon writes: > On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote: > > dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on > > the disk. > > And the resulting effect from doing that once is: > > Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you d

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

Joshua Murphy writes: > A) To fill the drive with zeros: >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ Should be enough for practical purposes. > B) And, to make it at least questionable whether you wiped it or > merely had it encrypted: >dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/ Similar method, but faster: badblocks -t

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

Willie Wong writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner > squawked: > > I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the > > /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block > > device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where i

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

Dale writes: > Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my > /home directory. I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and > muddy up the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with > the bash Gentoo uses? Links to a even better guide would be good t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

Helmut Jarausch writes: > emerge @preserved-rebuild fails to do any updating since a single > (needed) package has been masked. > But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in > kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked. > > Is it possible to tell emerge to do the other updates which do

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

Zeerak Waseem writes: > I have some questions about sets: > 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, > right? I think it's /etc/portage/sets instead. And there are also meta-sets like system, world, module-rebuild, preserved-rebuild and more, defined in /usr/share/

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

Some time ago, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote: > > I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full > > ~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while > > going from x86 to

Re: [gentoo-user] kde wont log in user

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote: > > Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for > > 8 months. > > > > It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu > > You need to give a better description. By the KDE menu, do you mean the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

Hi there! It's done! I'm at ~x86 now. The upgrade went quite smooth - had to resolve some blockers, and mask the new x.org 1.7 because it does not work at all with ati-drivers. **BUT:** After rebooting, I ran into a very nasty KDE4 bug. All authentication dialogs did not work. So I had no KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] see what's been emerged

James writes: > All, > > I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or > answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :) On 2009-06-28, the answer was this: for f in `ls -rt \`find /var/db/pkg -name "*.ebuild"\``; do basename $f .ebuild; done > I'm trying to find a file

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

Joseph writes: > On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote: > >On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote: > >>I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both > >>machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. > >>What to do about it? > >> > >>It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD sho

[gentoo-user] transkode is gone

Hi there! media-sound/transkode [*] was a nice KDE3 application for converting various audio formats into others. It's gone now, and no, it's not in the kde-sunset overlay. I cannot even find any information on why it was removed. Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with

Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

Dirk Heinrichs writes: > Am Freitag 22 Januar 2010 15:19:14 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with > > lower versions I get somewhat further, but building does not finish, > > too. > > > > Any ideas why it'

Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

Frank Steinmetzger writes: > Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > And: Do you know about a replacement which takes a bunch of audio > > files and converts them info another format? I can do this on the > > command line, but transkode already has so

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* & tty* - is it normal?

Jarry writes: > I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: > > obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l > 256 > obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l > 325 > > They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then > pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought > udev creates device-

[gentoo-user] kcontrol empty

Hi there! I'm using KDE4, but there are still some kde3.5 apps. I noticed that kmymoney2 does not use the comma as decimal point like we do this in Germany. I was about to file a bug report, but now I think it is correct, because I did my localization settings in KDE4 only. I still have lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I slow down a video game?

Walter writes: [xboing is too fast] There is a thread in the forum, with a solution to patch the code directly. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-131884-highlight-xboing.html?sid=143cb495075f44a9320a2dc2e38ff3c3 Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key

Re: [gentoo-user] "Access Violation" emerge error

ortage prevents the gthumb installer from writing to files gthumb does not own. If you want gthumb allow to do this, FEATRUES="-sandbox" emerge gthumb should work. It's probably a good idea to make a backup of this scrollkeeper_docs file just in case it gets corrupted. Ale

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab entry

the umask option: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cntfsdefaults,ro,user,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hdb8/mnt/win_jvfatdefaults,rw,user,umask=000 0 0 This gives rwx permissions for all users. See man mount or man umount for more information. Alex -- Alex Schuster

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem wars - ReiserFS 3.6 vs. JFS

/tmp/ # ls -l /mnt/tmp/dev/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root root 5, 1 Jan 8 01:12 console crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 8 01:12 null # Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > So I'm interested in what I might run into. So far it looks like it > would be ALMOST as easy as symlinking ksh to bash in /bin. Uh, this sounds scary :) > The two big things I see that will cause that not to work are lots of > calls to `print' and that bash does not

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I was really just saying that syntax at my low level of usage is largely interchangeable but for the cases I mentioned. So it makes switching scripting shells from ksh93 to bash pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crashes with latest flash

Mick writes: > When I go to http://www.speedtest.net the flash content does not show > (just a white frame in its place) and if I close konqueror I get a > "signal 11 sigserv". This is what the terminal shows: [...] > Rebuilding flash, nspluginviewer and konqueror has not fixed this, > neither ha

[gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

Hi there! I just did an emerge -uDN on my system, followed by revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean. When rebooting, my system did not come up because of missing things like /sbin/rc. Argh! Good thing I had a backup, after copying some files back the system was up again, and I could go to bed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

Dale writes: > deface wrote: > > It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated > > as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any > > baselayout, not just the version you are stating. > > > > *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

Mark Kirkwood writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other > > things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to > > keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

Jerry McBride writes: > I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple > needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. > And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware > workstation evaluation copy that is. Right, but you can use t

[gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

Hi there! I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that? I followed the guide at

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

Dan Farrell writes: > Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a > > little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up > > when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

maxim wexler writes: > Configuring qca-tls ... > Verifying Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment > ... fail > > Unable to find Qt mkspecs. Please set QTDIR > manually. Perhaps you need to install Qt 3 > development utilities. You may download them either > from the vendor of your operating s

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

maxim wexler writes: > --- Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > maxim wexler writes: > > I guess you need Qt version 3 for that, which is not > > onstalled, according > > to your emerge output: emer

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

Liviu Andronic writes: > I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set > temporary options to grub. [...] > Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain > grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come > back and see the Windows login

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

Eric Martin writes: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

Willie Wong wrote Wonko: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:24:49PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster > squawked: > > I emerged -e again, this time without distcc and ccache. All compiled > > fine, except for media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r1 > > (vf_decimate.c:26: error:

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-users] acpi fails with status 1

Pupino writes: > I'm trying to use acpid with my gentoo laptop; it catches all events > (battery, button, ac_adapter) but it can't execute the designed > script, in any case. [...] > the script is called and it will simply display "Power button pressed" > at the moment. It has execution permission

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

Uwe Thiem writes: > On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > > > Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) > > > > > > pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted > > > ro immediately and IF not much writing t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most > > > from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic > > > boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempt

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

sean writes: Unfortunately I do not have a current copy of .config. Does anyone know a less painful way of rebuilding than through make menuconfig? I have got to remember to make a backup. You may have one, try "zcat /proc/config.gz". You need to have kernel option "General setup -> Enable ac

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

Enrico Weigelt writes: > All this leads me back back to the conclusion I already had about > 10 years ago: *NEVER EVERY* buy Nvidia cards. > (I've made the big mistake buying an notebook with NV graphics, > so I even can't replace it :(() Any suggestions on which video cards to buy? I also hate t

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

Willie Wong writes: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs > squawked: > > > I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the > > > sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so > > > that I don't get the german man pages install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

Michael Schmarck writes: > I did as you described. When I now run "emerge -vpt man-pages", I get: > > # emerge -vpt man-pages > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.78 [2.42] USE="nls" LINGUAS=

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got > it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if > it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other > compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I s

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too > > small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on > > LVM. A little small because of /root/.

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

Kaushal Shriyan writes: > when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded > > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart > PRNG is not seeded > # > > No idea as what is going on I can reproduce this behaviour when I rename both /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Are they perhaps both missing on your system? W

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

Fei Liu writes: > Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is my > setup > > /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 > /dev/sda2 swap > > grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no problem. > > emerge kernel

[gentoo-user] 2 dispatch-conf questions

Hi there! Question 1: We all have replace-cvs enabled in /etc/dispatch.conf, do we, because this makes it easy to re-create old config versions. But how exactly would I get back an older version of a file? I've never seen an example yet. Would s.o. like to post a little example or point to some

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

Dale writes: > Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. > > > > How do i go ahead in fixing this issue > > > > Thanks and Regards > > > > Kaushal > > I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the > boot runlevel? Look

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

Roger Mason writes: > Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] > > Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it > > could fail? > > Some kernel option? > > grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config > CONFIG_HW

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

Remy Blank writes: > Grant wrote: > > postup() { > > if [[ ${IFACE} = "wlan0" ]]; then > > IIRC, the equality operator is "==", not "=". Both is valid in bash. I'd put a "set -xv" before the if statement, this way you see which statements, if any, get executed. Wonko -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

Robin Atwood writes: > I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE > 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page > with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something > got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using > ne

Re: [gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/

Alan McKinnon writes: For whatever reason (and it will be a good technical one) the only version of vmware-modules you can use is 1.0.0.15*. So, you need to: cd /etc/portage echo ">=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16" >> package.use emerge -avuND world Um, make this package.mask. Oh, and

Re: [gentoo-user] booting to grub prompt, but config works

Travis Osterman writes: > I'm performing a gentoo installation and have proceeding without > problem until I went to reboot. I am greeted with the grub prompt and > when issuing $>configfile /boot/grub/grub.confthe boot process > continues without issue. The grub-install command seemed to wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display

Grant Edwards writes: > On 2008-05-09, Ian Hilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you rebuild the nvidia-drivers module? > > Yes. The exact same version of nvidia-drivers was being used > for both kernels. Any other changes with things that could possibly influence the building of the drivers,

[gentoo-user] Radeon woes

Dear Gentooers, I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? I tried all sorts of ati-drivers, most (if any) did not compile. But that was because of tuxonice-2.6.29, so I downgraded to the stable tuxonice-sources-2.6.24

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon woes

Mick writes: > On Monday 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with > > ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? [...] > > I'm out of ideas now. Do you have any advice? A friend also has trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon woes

Paul Hartman writes: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> I already have the hal USE flag set. I added evdev to INPUT_DEVICES, > >> and tried again with and without existing xorg.conf. No real change >

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 3200 woes [solved, sort of]

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Montag 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC > > with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? [...] > a) the drivers you tried are acient All newer ones did not c

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

Daniel Troeder writes: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday 05 April 2009 21:45:16 Daniel Troeder wrote: > > > When updates hit the portage tree, that are known to cause problems > > > to lots of people - why not tell that directly after the "--sync"? > > > > Un

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: > > How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be > > maintained by portage). > > Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your > root filesystem (after first checking the contents).

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade error

김무성 writes: > For installing vmware > > My kernel version is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5. But I have no source files. > > So I downloaded source files. But that’s version 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. > > When I installed vmware, it told me kernel version and kernel source > files’ version no match. > > I have to kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it > > > when my keyboard became dead. > > It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X > that cannot read the keyboard. > > > I c

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

Michael Sullivan writes: > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:03 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome > > > was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last > > > night, and now she can't get her usu

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

John P. Burkett writes: > Doing "PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage emerge -D -uav world" on my amd64 > machine elicits a response that ends as follows: [...] > * Detected file collision(s): > * > */usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so > * > * Searching all installed packages for file coll

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote: > > Start-up messags: > > ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin': Permission denied > > That's a very unusual location for init scripts. Did you put them > there, instead of in the more usual /etc/init.d/?

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

Michael Sullivan writes: > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 13:45 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Michael Sullivan writes: > > > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:03 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > > > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I don't know what resolution default is.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS error when printing from GTK+ print dialog

Morten Holt writes: > When I try to print from a program using the GTK+ print dialog, e.g. > Firefox og Evince, i get the following line: > > Request from "localhost" using invalid Host: field "::1" [...] > The problem seems to have startet after a recent upgrade of CUPS. > > I hope anybody has an

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

David Relson writes: > I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got > emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome start > menu or from a gnome terminal. Now it seems that nothing happens when > I start it from the start menu. When I start it from a gnome te

[gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

Hi there! I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp is accessible again. Does anyone know why this is? This happens in KDE4, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3 kernel, audio device according to lspci is "ATI Technologie

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if > > the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp is > > accessible again. Does anyone know why this is? [.

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even > > > > if the pl

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > when you go to the multimedia settings in system settings - are those ok? > right devices? xine set? The backend is still set to Xine. As devices I have "HDA ATI SB (HDA Generic)", "HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI (HDMI Audio Output)", "Jack Audio Connection Kit" and "Esou

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