[gentoo-user] amanda run and build failure

Hi, All, After a long period of flawless behavior, I have recently (since August 2) had both runtime and build failures with amanda. I do daily gentoo updates, always use revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer, always follow post installation advice in the log. I can't reinstall amanda because the build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amanda run and build failure

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:35 PM, walt wrote: > On 08/08/2010 05:58 AM, John Blinka wrote: >> >> >> the end of the log file contains >> >> /usr/bin/install: will not overwrite just-created >> >> `/var/tmp/portage/app-backup/amanda-2.6.0_p2-r4/ima

Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

Nick Rout wrote: basically you need a floppy that will allow you to: 1. boot with networking going 2. create and mount your filesystems 3. download a stage file 4. unzip it (specifically bzip2, although if the floppy only has gzip ot zip you an repack your stage file) 5. chroot into the new fil

[gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

ges contains nothing enlightening. Neither does /var/amanda/my_host/log.* Thanks for any ideas on how to debug this! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Try "amoldrecover" for a start ... > >From what I understand, amoldrecover is for recovering files on a >=2.5 client from a < 2.5 server. My server and clients are all >=2.6. Am I misunderstanding? John

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Didn't the binary-paths change with 2.6 ? Yes. > > Check if /usr/libexec/amanda/amandad exists and adjust the xinetd-entry > if necessary. > Did that. The binaries exist and xinetd entries point correctly. (Sorry for the very lo

[RESOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

itted user-name # | | client amanda amdump server amanda amdump client root amindexd amidxtaped I used the fqdn for the client and server names in the above files. John Blinka

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

I understand what's going on, and I haven't found any enlightenment in web searches. Does anyone know what this means, where I'm stuck, and how to go forward? Thanks for any help, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Cristian Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > you can try to use "wpa_passphrase" command , that generate the network > profile for you Acces Point, copy into wpa_supplicant.conf and reboot the > device. works for me, when a trie to connect a AP with WPA encryption

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2008, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: > > > Perhps you are authenticating but then not getting a dhcp address. > > Try adding > > modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) > > wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" > > config_ath0=( "

[gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

that my password and username combination functions. I can telnet to smtp.att.yahoo.com at either port 465 or 587 and get a response, so nothing is blocking either port. Any insights or suggestions? John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have a go at adding: > > UseSTARTTLS=YES > > and remove: > > UseTLS=YES > > -- > Thanks for the suggestion, but ssmtp doesn't like it: [<-] 220 smtp119.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ESMTP [->] EHLO tobey [<-] 250 8BITMIME [->] STARTT

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > I suppose you use a wrong username. According to > http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=287 you have to use the full mail > address. Otherwise check your password for correctness. Tried that. Didn't help. I've been k

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Håkon Alstadheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Since this thread has been going on for so long without a resolution, I > thought I'd mention that I recently switched to nullmailer from ssmtp. Im > using port 587 with STARTTLS, and I find nullmailer way easier to set u

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On 5 Dec 2008, at 03:12, John Blinka wrote: > >> ... >> I've run out of patience with this and am >> now relaying my mail to smtp.gmail.com via ssmtp. That worked >> immediately w

[gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

art nfs or how to debug the problem? As always, thanks for your help! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

On 9/22/07, Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > what version of portmap, nfs-utils and baselayout are you running? Have > you tried reinstalling those 3 to make sure the config files and init > scripts are up to date? > > Please post the output of `rc-status -a` and `rpcinfo -p tobey

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

> > > that should be /etc/init.d/nfsmount start. /etc/init.d/nfs is for nfs > server. I''m confused by your answer, because tobey is the server, and /etc/init.d/nfs fails on tobey. Perhaps I don't understand something - wouldn't be the first time! John

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

> Ok, there are some funny things in there. Please also post the output of > the following commands. > > -> find /var/lib/init.d/ -name nfs | xargs ls -lh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 21 13:20 /var/lib/init.d/failed/nfs -> /etc/init.d/nfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 21 13:16 /var/lib/init.d/soft

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

On 9/23/07, Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > -> ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/ > [snip] > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old > > That shouldn't be there. Norm

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

Hi, Bogo, Your experience is similar in nature to mine. What I didn't post is that nfs isn't the only daemon that wouldn't start, and that for a month or two I've had to cajole and threaten my box - generic x86 - to get various daemons to start - all by hand, of course. All of this mystery start

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

On 9/25/07, Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:07:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > Did as you suggested. softscripts.old reappeared and no change in > inability > > to start nfs automatically, or by hand. > > Hm, does `rc def

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

to the default run level. 3) Repeated steps 1) and 2) for each additional program I wanted to add the the default run level. Everything seems to work fine now. John Blinka

[gentoo-user] djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication

meserving, ssh, or authentication to figure out what to do next. Any ideas? Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication

as dnscache), which will then know how to find your hosts by IP address. That solved the problem. Thanks! I also found http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/djbdns/index.htm to contain a clear description of how to debug djbdns. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

Peter Lewis wrote: Hi all, I've just run revdep-rebuild, after "updating world", and it rebuilt gcc-4.1.1-r3, due to the following libraries: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgcjawt.la /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgij.la Once it finished, I ran revdep-rebuild once again, ju

[gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

ybody know how to turn this behavior off? I've got the latest stable versions of vim, vim-core, and gentoo-syntax installed on my systems. Thanks for your help. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim? - SOLVED

haps this will get you started, if no-one else has more precise info. Thanks - sometimes the right Google phrase is all it takes. From your hint I found http://www.bioinspired.com/users/ajg112/computing/vim.shtml which explains exactly how to do what I want. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] why does emerge libstdc++ want to install gcc-3.3.6-r1?

Hi, all, I have 5 up-to-date gentoo machines, all of them running gcc-4.1.1-r3. On 4 of them, emerging libstdc++ proceeds as one might expect, just installing the current version of libstdc++ for gcc-4.1.1. But the 5th machine does something quite different. Why? On the 5th machine emerge -p

Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge libstdc++ want to install gcc-3.3.6-r1?

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: [SNIP] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161953 Thanks for the pointer. That helped me solve the problem. Not elegantly, but adequately. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

oup=0 ap_scan=1 network={ ssid="NETGEAR" psk="xxx" priority=5 } So, why does the rc-script suddenly think I'm using WEP encryption ? Thanks for any and all ideas. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

On 6/1/07, Naga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have been using wireless successfully for about a month, until I > upgraded madwifi-ng last night. [...] > Thanks for any and all ideas. reemerge wpa_supplican

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

On 6/1/07, Naga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: > rc-scripts: WEP key is not set for "NETGEAR" - not connecting Just a sugestion change the name. There might be other NETGEAR units in the area. Excellent idea. Try and ad

[gentoo-user] madwifi-ng upgrade installs wireless-tools; why?

stalled, I cannot connect to my wireless router. If I uninstall wireless-tools, everything works fine and I can connect. Why does emerge want to install wireless-tools? What can I do to prevent wireless-tools from being installed? Thanks for your help. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] madwifi-ng upgrade installs wireless-tools; why?

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159006 You could of course downgrade to 0.9.3-r2. Thank you for a simple and direct answer! John

[gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

eas on where to look for problems? John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

On 6/7/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:55:45 -0400 "John Blinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sshd doesn't start >nfs doesn't start >rsyncd doesn't start Are those being started (i.e. tri

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

xdm | default xinetd | default Since all of those daemons depend on network: Are there network > > settings for interfaces that fail on boot up? > > Network works fine. Does that mean: "No there are no failing network related things on boot up"? Yes, that's what it means. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

On 6/13/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: looks pretty much normal, nothing that I would call an obvious glitch in there. It's the same as two other Gentoo boxes I run, both of which start up normally, and it's the same as it was before the problems started, so I agree: rc-up

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre On Mar 10, 2012 10:38 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:58:18 +0100, pk wrote: > Btw, does anyone know which version of udev requires access to /usr? I'm > running latest stable here 171-r5 and I have separate partitions for > /

[gentoo-user] anybody have math extension working on mediawiki-1.18.2?

er to execute them, latex is installed (via texlive), and I even threw in the mathtex package, thinking that it sounded as if it must be useful without knowing whether it is actually used. Anybody have this working? Care to share how you did it, or suggest debugging techniques? Thanks, John Blinka

[gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on white pages; dark backgrounds are just "wrong" for me. And I haven't found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? Thanks for an

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: > > And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses > vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff > mode and certain syntax hig

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > You can remap the colours portage uses in /etc/portage/color.map. See man > portage and man color.map for details. > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > c:>Pre

[gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

ficantly narrower and more portable than my 1545 (14.75", 37.5 cm wide) and with as many horizontal lines in the display as possible. Any suggestions? (And, yes, I'm open to a non-Dell solution.) Thanks for your suggestions, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

> I paid the extra to get > 16:9 @ 1920x1200. Best thing I ever did laptop-wise - I can get two webpages > side by side on the screen looking very natural. Mind telling me what you got? The 1200 part sounds attractive to me. John Blinka

[gentoo-user] need help tuning distcc

multaneously, and only an occasional compilation on the faster machines. How do I convince distcc on the slow machine to send more work - all of it if possible - to the fast machines? Thanks for your help. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: need help tuning distcc

Catalin Trifu wrote: > Hi, > > Is FEATURES properly set in /etc/make.conf. > Yes, FEATURES="distcc" > I think you should use distcc-config --set-hosts to set the compiling farm > hosts and localhost is not necessary. > I've used distcc-config. All it does is write to /etc/distc

[gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start

before cron portmap need net after net.eth0 use dns logger } but this has had no effect. I would appreciate any thoughts on what the error message means, and how to get ntp-client working. Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start

Roger Mason wrote: > > I may be leading you astray, but that IP address looks like one for a private > net. Is ntp-client > looking on that private net for a time-server? > It is a private net, but ntp-client is looking at pool.ntp.org for the time server. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One way that will probably work is to start ntp-client from > /etc/conf.d/local-start > > local-start is the very last thing called during a bootup so if timing > is the problem this would be a way to skirt around it. > > Just put whatever commands start ntp-client in /et

Re: [gentoo-user] local rsync mirror problem

Daniel Iliev wrote: > Well, if your config is exactly the same as posted here, I think you > should uncomment the line "#[gentoo-portage]" ;-) > > Sigh of course, that worked. Thanks to all who pointed out the obvious. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] local rsync mirror problem

nly a similar "unknown module" message. Any ideas about what's going on? John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

compiler should be on the Opteron box, since distcc is asking the Opteron box to produce 32 bit code for the P4 box. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

sean wrote: John Blinka wrote: I think this is backwards. The cross compiler should be on the Opteron box, since distcc is asking the Opteron box to produce 32 bit code for the P4 box. Check this out. Look at the line highlighted in green. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

s. It's been grinding away most of today in insn-attrb and has accumulated a couple of hours of cpu time in the process. It'll probably be done by Monday or Tuesday. Just start the emerge then go away and ignore it. It'll finish eventually. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

located in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1, not in /usr/lib. Is this a bug, or is there something I can do to fix my system? (Other than put in soft links to the needed libraries.) John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's an ancient bug that still isn't fixed. You can either edit the .la files or create symlinks. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 So, how does one edit a .la file? John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

Alan McKinnon wrote: [In the spirit of the immortal words uttered by the young junior Vogon]: Errr,... with vi? alan Sheeesh I've never looked at the innards of a .la file - assumed that, since they were located in .../lib directories, they contain

[gentoo-user] cups is broken

by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. Thanks for your help. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. Thanks for your help. Have you tried a different browser? Try restarting cupsd # /etc/init.d/cupsd re

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

Ernie Schroder wrote: Make sure that you have the file: /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that other html pages display properly. It's there. In fact, that's the file that's being displayed improperly. Its contents are ide

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

Ernie Schroder wrote: Very strange Have you looked at the logs? /var/log/cups/access_log and /var/log/cups/error_log look at a tail of them and compare to the working machines. The logs are slightly different. Looking at http://localhost:631 on the working machine produces no errors

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

Ernie Schroder wrote: The only thing I can figure is that cups was compiled with some odd USE flag. Do you have an entry for cups in /etc/portage/package.use? No, don't even have that file. My USE flags in /etc/make.conf are: USE="-pdflib -get -gnome qt kde dvd alsa oss cdr fortran cups

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

David Helstroom wrote: Hi John, Just a quick thought - a thought quite possibly well and truly off track - could it be related to mime-types? Perhaps the CUPS web server has a problem recognising the HTML mime-type and thus is not sending them in the appropriate format (and with appropriate

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

Ernie Schroder wrote: Compare USE flage in make.conf on working vs. non-working machines. check use flags when you merged cups # equery uses cups [ Searching for packages matching cups... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

Uwe Thiem wrote: Does your /etc/mime.types file contain an entry for "text/html"? How does the line look like? I presume you mean /etc/cups/mime.types. These two files are *very* different on the working and nonworking machines. Among many other differences the affected machine's tex

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

Uwe Thiem wrote: This looks very wrong. What happens if you copy the file from the unaffected box over? Success at last! Here's what I did on the affected box: 1) emerge -C cups. After removing cups, I noted that the /etc/cups directory still existed with all of its old con

[gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

ing directory `/var/tmp/portage/pdflib-5.0.4_p1-r1/work/PDFlib-Lite-5.0.4p1-Unix-src/progs/pdflib' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../../libs/pdflib/libpdf.la', needed by `pdfimpose'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pdflib-5.0.4_p1-r1/work/PDFlib-Lite-5.0.4p1-Unix-src/progs/pdflib' Any suggestions about what to do now? Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

Bob Sanders wrote: emerge --resume --skipfirst etc-update/dispatch-conf reboot emerge pdflib Thanks, Bob. I was uanaware of those emerge options; this is an answer that is worth keeping. But what does etc-update/dispatch-conf do? John -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

John Blinka wrote: does etc-update/dispatch-conf do? Never mind. Sheesh... I didn't know about dispatch-conf and initially thought the / had something to do with a file system path. Brain cells aren't firing properly in this cold weather. Thanks for enlightening me about dis

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

Mark Knecht wrote: What's 'javascript' and how do I make this work? I don't know what the difference between java & javascript is either, but the web page you cited works for me using an up-to-date gentoo system and firefox. Clicking on the pictures on the right hand side does pop up lar

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

Willie Wong wrote: For what it's worth, I believe those people reporting "success" might be trying the wrong page. The website redirects all deep-links to the front page. To reproduce the error, go to the frontpage of smith and noble, on the left hand side, click Photo Gallery. Choose an arbi

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

Willie Wong wrote: Something is wrong on my end then. Can I have your USE flags for firefox, the version you are running, and what Javascript options you are using (i.e. from the Firefox preferences or about:config)? W -> equery uses mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages matching moz

[gentoo-user] ltsp woes

g this are welcome! Thanks for your help. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

rver was working and the time it stopped working, I have probably upgraded some portion of the ltsp package. I'm wondering whether I inadvertently clobbered part of the working configuration when I did so. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

is running, listening on eth0 and talking to ltsp terminals. But, judging from the ltsp-terminal error messages I posted originally, the terminals don't seem to think that they've made a satisfactory contact with dhcpd on the server. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

Uwe Thiem wrote: Try to correct the broadcast above. Maybe that will solve the problem already, although it's hard to understand how you fat clients can work with it. I corrected the broadcast address, but it didn't help. If the broadcast doesn't solve it, please post your /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.c

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes - problem solved

The /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file needed another line: next-server ip-address-of-server; with the upgrade to dhcp-3.0.3 (and maybe a version or two earlier). With that addition, all is now well. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box

e. I would like accelerated 2-d X11 performance for tux-racer, and don't mind using proprietary drivers such as nvidia's to get it. I'd appreciate any recommendations on mobo/processor/graphics card for this application. Thanks! John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box

Alexander Skwar wrote: > John Blinka wrote: >> Hi, all, >> >> I'm looking for hardware recommendations for building a new >> gentoo box. > > Do you have a "bigger" machine around on the same LAN, on which > you could do the building of package

[gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

v.o is unresolved! Symbol fbCloseScreen from module /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! Fatal server error: Some required symbols were unresolved X works fine, although slowly, with the "nv" driver. Any thoughts on what's going on? John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

Heitor wrote: > Hello, > > I dont know if it helps you butn I had the following problem. > > With the stable nvidia driver i got these "unresolved messages" and I > couldn't load the module when I emerge the testing driver. I saw on > the list that there was a > "x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers"

[solved?] Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

It appears that the nvidia driver wants something that isn't available when the "minimal" use flag is present during the xorg-server compile. Eliminating this use flag got rid of the unresolved symbols. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how to get ssh host based authentication working?

ideas about what might be going wrong. John Blinka debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 5 debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 5 debug1: Host 'tobey

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get ssh host based authentication working? [solved]

vici/openssh/ described exactly what I wanted to do and following it solved the problem. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

Richard Fish wrote: > Hmm, are you authenticating locally, or against a network/ldap server? locally. > > Which logs have you checked? Both /var/log/kdm.log and > ~/.xsession-errors would be relevant. > Just stuff in /var/log, including kdm.log. It contains lines like FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/sha

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

Richard Fish wrote: > > So maybe we can just double check a couple of basics: > > Do you have x11-apps/xauth merged? Yes. > What are the permissions on ~user/.Xauthority -rw--- 1 john users 605 Aug 25 22:48 .Xauthority > > Other than that, I know exactly nothing about xfce4, but maybe this > pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

> > > Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. I imagine that it is sanctioned, otherwise why would there be a --changed-deps flag to emerge? Does seem dirty. Glad you asked the question. Would love to learn why this is allowed. In my experience, it happens quite oft

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure (solved)

he solution was simple: eliminate the 0027 umask for root, and chmod o+rx /lib/modules/X.Y.Z-gentoo. Thanks for all the suggestions. They all helped. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > How do I skip grub and continue? > emerge --skipfirst --resume I had to do that several times in my 17.0 upgrades. John Blinka

[gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

And that's on a system that contains webkit-gtk-2.18.6. Can anyone explain to me why portage won't use webkit-gtk-2.18.6 to satisfy gnucash's needs? Thanks, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > They don't. Note the slot specification at the end, there is only one > version in slot 2, the one that gives all the trouble. Thanks for pointing that out. > > Your best bet is to keyword gnucash-2.7.4, which does use the up to date > we

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200::gentoo failed (compile phase)

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:56 PM Floyd Anderson wrote: I had the same problem, and, after a huge amount of experimenting, found a solution that works for me. I masked =dev-libs/icu-60.2 and then did emerge -DuNv @world. On my systems, that downgrades to icu-58.2-r1, which is compatible with webk

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote: > > Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of webkit-gtk, > portage wants me to merge a newish (testing) version of gnucas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-04-19, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > >> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >> simple unreadable (like light green). > > Yep, it's awful. People have been complaining about it for years and > years. > >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to do anything if a package masked by my profile?

o remove them explicitly by hand. Don’t know what that’s all about, but everything still works. John Blinka > >>

[gentoo-user] layman: cannot properly execute...

nd all the other ones eix complains about). And now, out of the blue apparently, the third system has started spitting out this error message as well. Any ideas on how to debug this? John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: cannot properly execute...

>> Any ideas on how to debug this? > > First of all, update all affected parties to the latest versions > (eix, portage, layman). Did that. I'm always up to date. > > Second, use divide and conqueror strategy. If this is the eix > problem, isolate it to eix only without invoking layman (or emain

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading to gcc-5 (on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> Is that the entire procedure needed? That's what I did a while back. Nothing broke as a result. John

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