Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start

2007-07-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 July 2007 10:26, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Mick ha scritto: > > Hi All, > > > > I noticed on a box of mine that hald won't start: > > == > > # /etc/init.d/hald restart > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and saving images taking so long

2007-07-16 Thread Mick
ere somewhere in the Mozilla settings how much cache and space for entries/history it is allowed to use? I am thinking of Opera here which offers you such fine tuning options. -- Regards, Mick pgpsTjIjefnSO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting cruisecontrol -> initscript

2007-07-16 Thread Mick
ruisecontrol/config.xml I wouldn't know why (I don't have java on my machines). Someone more knowledgeable on init scripts and java should hopefully be able to help. -- Regards, Mick pgpF0Xe5C6sZU.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

2007-07-17 Thread Mick
only relevant change that I recall was setting the ACPI for IDE module which I have unset since, but it still will not boot. Any ideas? -- Regards, Mick pgpnqOWKeQ85S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

2007-07-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:20, Billy McCann wrote: > Hi Mick. From what I understand, using oldconfig for major version > changes (.20 -> .21) is a bad idea. Here's what I did. It may be slow and > stupid but it worked like a charm. Sure, but I have been using oldconfig f

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

2007-07-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 14:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:20:06 -0500, Billy McCann wrote: > > Hi Mick. From what I understand, using oldconfig for major version > > changes (.20 -> .21) is a bad idea. Here's what I did. It may be slow > > an

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

2007-07-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 15:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:00:05 +0100, Mick wrote: > > It's not as if it starts to load the kernel and then fails. It just > > stops before then. Shall I wait for a future version? Am I the only > > one here with runn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation problems

2007-07-17 Thread Mick
Technologies Inc Unknown device 5811 > > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 > > Memory at ed00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > > Bingo, firewire. Also check with lshw (if you have a LiveCD) -- Regards, Mick pgpkrTVmlveaK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

2007-07-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 22:02, Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 15:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:00:05 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > It's not as if it starts to load the kernel and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
or distro's boot files, kernels, etc with another, plus if you want to try a different version of grub then you can install grub separately in the new OS partition (instead of the MBR) and chainload this from your primary grub installation. Should you wish to remove the new OS at a later da

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION="Xsession" doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
lain why you could see xterms launching before, but not any more. Anyway, just some loose thoughts. Perhaps you can reload the image afresh and see what happens then. HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgpK87HILkp39.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] notebook lcd resolution problem

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
external monitors are being picked up all the same. HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgpt6PidFluub.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
lls from this two years at a network > storage using NTFS. You could always set your flags as you need them for the new machine and the cross compile into a chroot. Finally, tar your new chrooted fs, transfer it over to the new machine and untar. That's the theory anyway. I have not p

Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
installed and started alright. If I try to restart it (or during boot) it fails. No error messages other than [!!]. I am totally in the dark with this. > sorry for my bad english No problemo! -- Regards, Mick pgpLrz4EFG8fk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem shutting down X-server

2007-07-21 Thread Mick
dm.log to find it) /var/log/messages Check the above BEFORE you restart X otherwise Xorg.0.log will be overwritten. HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgp3n4i8izXUW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem shutting down X-server

2007-07-21 Thread Mick
check under your /var/log for any fglrx logs - haven't used this driver for years and don't know what it does these days. -- Regards, Mick pgpyCQOTNm05L.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-25 Thread Mick
s a plain user and make sure CD is not showing "MM" and is set at a high enough setting. Then to see what's up with dma: look at lshw to find its "logical name:". Then use the logical name to run: # hdparm -I /dev/hdc # hdparm /dev/hdc (on my machine /dev/hdc is

Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-25 Thread Mick
ou, can't you import it from the US? Of course, it may take a tad longer to arrive and you will have to pay some import tax. -- Regards, Mick pgpjPR8pUnYg2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsprogs

2007-07-29 Thread Mick
ties are and how they work. man reiserfsck, or # reiserfsck --help try the same for reiserfstune and debugreiserfs. If you want to create a reiserfs fs then look at mkreiserfs. -- Regards, Mick pgpoQVidpU8yL.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update

2007-07-29 Thread Mick
river too old (is there a later 8139too module)? -- Regards, Mick pgpnVNkXWjaE3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update

2007-07-29 Thread Mick
el to the latest stable version (2.6.21-gentoo-r4) but still no cigar. Anything else I could try? How do I troubleshoot it? -- Regards, Mick pgpeCpTJeImxa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-29 Thread Mick
st > > Looks like they're failing to publish it via the ML > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.weekly-news/cutoff=212 > > I've posted a bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186864 > > Hopefully we'll have this solved :) I have never received it despite registering/unregistering a couple of times over the years. -- Regards, Mick pgpzdmAHi9ekn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with ssh login

2007-07-31 Thread Mick
e private key on the client, are wrong. HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgpqXk0YNsRoh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-31 Thread Mick
t;Vendor" "0002" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True" Option "Buttons" "3" EndSection == HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgpovREO1eEe6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-31 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 20:52, James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > From a terminal within X while you have booted the LiveCD run xvidtune > > (emerge > > OK I'll give this a whirl, after > emerge --emptytree world > completes. I'll try all of your s

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Sneakernet

2007-08-01 Thread Mick
est sources. The only way out that I know of is to modify the ebuild file. -- Regards, Mick pgpAyoOtbkoCH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] HP9000 laptop complete (almost)

2007-08-02 Thread Mick
y directories are empty then delete them and also delete the corresponding entry in xorg.conf. -- Regards, Mick pgpZsM165PFsq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate desn't create new empty files

2007-08-04 Thread Mick
ges { sharedscripts postrotate /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true endscript } === It seems to rotate the messages log file fine and create compressed backups within /var/log. If you have both scripts the

Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start

2007-08-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:52, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Mick ha scritto: > > On Monday 16 July 2007 10:26, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > >> Mick ha scritto: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless setup bcm4311

2007-08-04 Thread Mick
-> Device Drivers -> Network device support -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) -> Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) -> Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extension -> Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support (BCM43XX [=m]) -- Regards, Mick pgp26aG3h3ewE.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] liborbisenc.so.0 error

2007-08-04 Thread Mick
t checked. === Would you know why it happens? -- Regards, Mick pgp3Syj8F5qBW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start

2007-08-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 August 2007 11:21, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:52, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > > Mick ha scritto: > > > On Monday 16 July 2007 10:26, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > > >> Mick ha scritto: > > >>> Hi All, > > >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] liborbisenc.so.0 error

2007-08-04 Thread Mick
olve the problem ... Thanks Marc, # ls -la /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 -- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 2005 /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 # ls -la /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.0 -- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 2005 /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.0 equery belongs does not bring up any packages. -- Regards, Mick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate desn't create new empty files

2007-08-05 Thread Mick
on is not going to take place that often unless you force it. HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgpYNnzpSW2GX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error

2007-08-07 Thread Mick
einstalling. Gentoo has (almost) self-healing properties . . . :-) > I'm now totally depressed The last thing for the rest is reading the > 100 pages documentation of GRUB. It's very complicated for as an 'beginning > difficult'. You can try info grub - it is a bit more condensed (but I am not sure if it is up to date). Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick pgpeDyvG0h5y3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World Issue

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
st in case: # mirrorselect -D -s 7 should find the nearest/fastest 7 mirrors for you and enter them in your /etc/make.conf. HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgpZEtVqYcKxa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
y be underneath the card and difficult to reach without taking it out. While you're at it, repeat the exercise on the CPU. On hot days and marginal cooling systems it is not a bad idea to open the case and place an external fan to blow over it. -- Regards, Mick pgp35PlCaRb2E.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] liborbisenc.so.0 error

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
0 > > > > equery belongs does not bring up any packages. > > So it seems that it is safe to delete them ... Thanks Marc. -- Regards, Mick pgpP2YDoAVeKh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB error

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
n; or you can chainload the Gentoo installed MBR in sdb, which will thereafter read your Gentoo /boot fs and boot Gentoo from there. HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgp0crNP0r1VU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:33, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 09:22 schrieb Mick: > > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: > > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > > temperature in the case during a

Re: Hello? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error)

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
as happened at least once in the last 48 hours - I think on a thread started by Colleen. Let me know if you want to see the headers off list. -- Regards, Mick pgp3YBnNMifpk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 16:22, Ryan Sims wrote: > On 8/8/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like it. Just in case it has not been totalled you may want to > > open the case, remove the video card and use a soft brush and vacuum > > cleaner to clean i

[gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Mick
er 'drupal' and a database 'drupal' for your Drupal site and load the drupal database scheme. Any idea what I need to enter to make it work with postgres, or what I could run manually to achieve the same effect, once logged in to postgres? -- Regards, Mick pgp34gv4E4bZE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday 09 August 2007 20:29, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > about '[gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres': > > USE mysql; > > \c postgres > > > INSERT INTO user (host, user, passw

Re: [gentoo-user] liborbisenc.so.0 error

2007-08-10 Thread Mick
On Friday 10 August 2007 15:43, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:40:35 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 05 August 2007 01:03, Marc Redmann wrote: > > > > # ls -la /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 > > > > -- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 2005 /usr/li

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update

2007-08-11 Thread Mick
g 11 08:34:24 compaq cron[6224]: (root) MAIL (mailed 76 bytes of output but go t status 0x0001 ) === -- Regards, Mick pgpNMJgu0o1gu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-08-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 July 2007 00:00, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script it > > does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the subdirectories and > > files within them stay in Capital Case. >

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-13 Thread Mick
ed' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. == So gcc-3.4.5 is no longer in my system, but gcc-config tells me that it is available. Don't know what to make of this. BTW I do not suffer (yet) from the same problem like the OP. -- Regards, Mick pgpA6qMHO6jFI.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Mick
t" I guess this is system default. How can I find what is the default setting? Sorry if these are simple questions but never got my head around encodings and charactersets. -- Regards, Mick pgpehDbXZmuee.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-13 Thread Mick
On 13/08/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 13 August 2007, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: > [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade': > > # emerge -C -p -v gcc > > Wrong-ish co

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Mick
On 13/08/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mick wrote: > > - My /etc/vim/vimrc says scriptencoding utf-8, does this mean > > that this is the vim encoding and any new file will be saved with > > this encoding? > > No, scriptencoding is just the

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-14 Thread Mick
On 13/08/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > > > :set encoding > > encoding=latin1 > > > > I assume this means that it was changed from utf8 to latin1

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-14 Thread Mick
On 14/08/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > > > :set encoding > > encoding=latin1 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Receiving your own emails

2007-08-14 Thread Mick
i. Sending a message from the web will automatically be downloaded at your gentoo_user-sent folder. If you want Kmail to show them threaded then the solution you followed is probably the best. -- Regards, Mick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-15 Thread Mick
es-3.5.5 [3.5.7] USE="encode flac mp3 vorbis -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/kaudiocreator-3.5.5 USE="encode flac mp3 vorbis -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB Total: 9 packages (3 downgrades, 6 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB === Have I missed something? Did anyone else got this problem? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-15 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Naga wrote: > On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:29:28 Mick wrote: > > =app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.7-r1 =kde-base/juk-3.5.5 > > ^ > > > =media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.4-r2 =kde-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-15 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:48:17 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Thanks Naga, I should have said that a --update world did not pick > > these up. > > Did you use --deep? # emerge -upDv world -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Mick
ed to write to this device). Finally, I have had two boxen with hald problems after recent updates (it would not start). Check that dbus and hald are actually running. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

2007-08-18 Thread Mick
vant ebuild file is not in the Manifest. What do I need to do to be able to emerge this kernel? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

2007-08-18 Thread Mick
On Saturday 18 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Mick, > > > I transferred manually the ebuild files and the source file & patches, > > but it tells me that the package is masked (masked by: corruption). > > Apparently, the relevant ebuild file is not in the M

[gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Mick
Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 18 August 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am Samstag 18 August 2007 22:51:20 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: > > > > Which of the two is it suitable f

[gentoo-user] [OT] Quanta editor auto-indentation

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
r) and enter a space. Immediately, Quanta reorders my text like so: Contact Us : BTW, is there a bbedit equivalent for Linux? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
At long last I managed to find a work around to this problem, which was probably caused by Microsoft deciding to become environmentally friendly . . . If this problem applies to your NIC then you may want to read on: On Sunday 12 August 2007, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On (11/08/07 08:55) M

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
the same with gettext. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
e alsa-drivers, but the card has always worked with > in-kernel drivers, so I don't understand why shouldn't more be the case. > Any hint? Just in case this bares any resemblance to my earlier NIC problem, is your box also booting into MS Windows and did you run a MS Windows or OEM driver update since? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Cannot uninstall kworldclock-3.5.5

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
em occurred while executing the ebuild located at '/var/db/pkg/kde-base/kdeartwork-kworldclock-3.5.5/kdeartwork-kworldclock-3.5.5.ebuild'. If necessary, manually remove the ebuild in order to skip the execution of removal phases. == How do I move on? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] apache won't start due to libexpat

2007-08-20 Thread Mick
7;s wrong and how to fix it. To fix this sort of problem you need to search this ML: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/187124 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 20 August 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > 070820 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 19 August 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > >> I copied a series of dirs to my USB stick > >> & as each one was done, they took successively longer to finish, > >> tho' the

Re: [gentoo-user] Minor udev bug?

2007-08-21 Thread Mick
etc/dev.d. > > Should I file a bug report on this? I've posted an identical message a day ago but did not get a response (yet). Not sure if it made it to the list. Do you have a /etc/devfs.d/ instead? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-21 Thread Mick
tmpfs > nodev,nosuid,noexec0 0 > none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs > size=1400,nr_inodes=1M,noauto 0 0 To get dbus/hald working remove or comment out all usb mount points from your /etc/fstab. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-22 Thread Mick
so Neil is asking simple Q's for a reason, not just to add to your frustration. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user]About setting up modem and router

2007-08-22 Thread Mick
are you asking how you could configure your Gentoo to act as a router? Answers for all of the above can be sought here: http://gentoo-wiki.com http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml as well as this ML and the gentoo forums. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Video stutters until system restarted

2007-08-22 Thread Mick
th this: > > Still happening. Happened this morning at 6:00AM on eth2, when there > was no traffic control running, ruling out the possibility that it > could be caused by that. Sure, he concluded that it had nothing to do with traffic shaping. Therefore, previous causes are still under investigation; e.g. a deliberate DOS attack and what have you. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update

2007-08-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 20 August 2007, James Ausmus wrote: > On 8/19/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At long last I managed to find a work around to this problem, which was > > probably caused by Microsoft deciding to become environmentally > > friendly . . . [snip...] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
beginning of the boot process. *THE USB KEYBOARD WORKS OK > AT THE BEGINNING* I can type in "gentoo" or "gentoo-nofb". Could you try passing to the kernel the keyboard parameter at this stage? I am thinking of something like: gentoo keyboard=gb or keyboard=41, o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i586 install

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
root. > After I made that change, I even reemerged grub > and even used the grub shell.. The Grub shell is a very good way of finding where the Grub fs has been installed. From a root shell run: # grub grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,X) grub> Where X is the partition number in

[gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
use a limited shell like rssh, use an ssh chroot, modify the umask for user directories. I am interested to find out what you might have tried and what you would recommend. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
, and issue a > revdep-rebuild --library=/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0 afterwards. This > makes all the not-yet-broken apps use the new version, which could be > unmerged afterwards. In the meantime, all would be working fine. > > What do you think? Not sure that would add anything. Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
it could just be random disk corruption, but I sure hope not. It could be a semi-random fs corruption, if e.g. you run out of juice, or there was a hard crash, while that file was being read/written. If your /boot is not mounted by default then that's probably unlikely. If the machine is

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 24 August 2007, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, den 24.08.2007, 19:42 +0100 schrieb Mick: > > At that stage you should have checked if the symlink /boot/grub/menu.lst > > is still there and, or if its permissions were messed up. > > Yes, I should have. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
ng in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised. If all else fails, can you return it and get another make/model? Good luck. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp connect problem

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
your card reports it. Then run iwconfig and set up the ESSID name that the AP broadcasts. This may be required because some less developed wireless adaptor drivers need an ESSID name to be able to get an IP address - it has happened to me with rt2500. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
tall afresh after you back up your /etc and /home directories and then copy over only those configuration files that you need to restore your system to its current set up. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote > > > b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised. > > No, it's *NOT* a laptop. See > http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/deskto

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
vels I have found that going around the LiveCDs of various distros will eventually end up with a booting CD from which I can install Gentoo. Depending on the hardware the distro CD is different each time. SUSE and Ubuntu are probably slightly better than the rest. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
he USB fs show under /media/sda1, /media/disk, anywhere else? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
-x 6 root root 216 Dec 24 2006 home Is this also what your /home looks like? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed > with modern hardware. Please tell us more. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 27. August 2007 schrieb ext Mick: > > I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this > > user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This > > cascaded to di

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created > > this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by > > user_name1:users. T

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
o install a kernel > without remounting rw. > > Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed > with modern hardware. Thank you all for your explanations. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-28 Thread Mick
ps are supported with a > > wireless hardware on/off button. > > Your wireless adapter will be shut down for sure then. > > Like you say: most laptops. > > Even newer laptops don't support keyboard shortcuts running with linux. And > some laptops even don't start with wireless enabled. Isn't it a matter of mapping a couple of keys to /etc/init.d/ath0, or whatever your wireless script is? Alternatively, you could run it from a terminal. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-28 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: > > > There's two ways of doing this, either new users all have the same > > > inital primary group, or they get one based on their user name. The > > > second is preferre

[gentoo-user] DivX web player?

2007-08-31 Thread Mick
Hi All, Any idea what I need to emerge to be able to play clips from this website? http://stage6.divx.com/ I have gxine and mplayer but the website wants to download the above plugin. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] DivX web player?

2007-08-31 Thread Mick
player-1.0_rc1_p20070824 X a52 aac alsa dv dvb dvd encode gif > gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg mad mmx mp3 opengl oss png quicktime real samba sdl sse > sse2 truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis xv Thanks, I think I know why I couldn't play these files. I have emerged kmplayer but not mplayerplug-in.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro "Gentoo" UP - Cast your vote!

2007-09-01 Thread Mick
ox to an attack. More so than a binary distro Gentoo relies on an intelligent configuration to be secure. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL: how to prohibit mounting certain partitions

2007-09-01 Thread Mick
ab as noauto and mountable only by e.g. root, or a suitable group id. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and ethernet

2007-09-08 Thread Mick
ed yet by the router. You could set up the router to release the IP address sooner (if it has such a facility), power cycle the router, wait for a while before you reboot, or use dhcpcd to automatically obtain any address the router wants to give. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description:

[gentoo-user] [OT] Checking for a webcam with Nagios

2007-09-09 Thread Mick
is webcam with Nagios? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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