Re: [gentoo-user] Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:01:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > Since ssh is not running, I assume it doesn't matter at this point? > I'll check into fail2ban and denyhosts. Any one better or more > preferred than the other? AFAIK, either of those are for brute force attacks on SSHD. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:11:30AM -0600, Penguin Lover John J. Foster squawked: > Hey Willie - a 67 line sig ? > > festus My apologies. My sigs are randomly pulled from fortune (with some custom databases). Usually I try to make sure that the ones that ends up going to mailing lists are not e

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild

2009-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: > when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename > trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has > special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many > mirrors ar

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild

2009-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:53:05PM +0300, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > On 9/7/09, Willie Wong wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: > >> when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 03:27:56PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > Willie Wong math.princeton.edu> writes: > > > > On my setup, I just block almost everything (except ssh) by default > > and maintain a white-list of IPs. > > > Can you share with us

Re: [gentoo-user] running e2fsck pre-mount

2009-09-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 08:37:49PM -0600, Penguin Lover Maxim Wexler squawked: > On an Asus netbook during boot after the line > > *checking all filesystems > > there'll be a message something like 'filesystem mounted 36 times > without being checked. Check forced' then something like '17.1% > no

Re: [gentoo-user] autossh

2009-09-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:34:31AM +0530, Penguin Lover Kaushal Shriyan squawked: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Kaushal Shriyan > > wrote: > >> export AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0 > >> export AUTOSSH_POLL=100 > >> export AUTOSSH_PORT=20020 > >> e

Re: [gentoo-user] autossh

2009-09-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:38:21PM +0530, Penguin Lover Kaushal Shriyan squawked: > $env | grep AUTOSSH > AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0 > AUTOSSH_POLL=10 > > I opened a new gnome-terminal > > Any further clue ? Okay, try running autossh with the environment variable specified on the commandline, aka AUTO

Re: [gentoo-user] autossh

2009-09-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:11:20PM +0530, Penguin Lover Kaushal Shriyan squawked: > > file `which autossh` What about this command? I want to see if autossh is a wrapper script so that it has its own environment. > $ AUTOSSH_POLL=100 autossh hostxxx > autossh[16050]: checking for grace period,

Re: [gentoo-user] Display all global Use flags in force

2008-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:50:59PM +, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Is there a command that will display all global USE flags? > > I can see whats in /etc/make.conf and my 2008.0 profile at make.defaults and > the > profiles package.use. Are there more? > > A list of all use flags

[gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-03 Thread Willie Wong
emerge --update --deep --pretend world is pulling in x11-wm/enlightenment-0.16.999.050 I currently have x11-wm/enlightenment-0.16.8.14 installed, and was given to understand that the *.999 branch is the devel branch. Looking at the ebuilds show that 0.16.8.14 has KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:37:45AM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > emerge --update --deep --pretend world is pulling in > x11-wm/enlightenment-0.16.999.050 > > I currently have > x11-wm/enlightenment-0.16.8.14 > installed, and was given to understand that the *

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:58:28AM +0530, Penguin Lover Rajat Vig squawked: > The Builds are Live CVS Builds. > The default is to use the Snapshot builds which are getting pulled in. > > -Rajat > Okay, a better question then is: how does > > case ${EKEY_STATE:-${E_STATE}} in > >rel

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:08:53AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > The answer is not in the ebuild, it's in the eclass. You will find it at > $PORTDIR/ecalss/enlightenment.eclass. I'll take you through the relevant bits > step by step. Lines 34 to 58 are the relevant ones, and ever

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:42:53PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: >Thanks for joining in. I have mucho craziness in these directories! > /usr/share/locale has way too much stuff, but it doesn't have what I > want. It's missing en_US.utf8 and en_US.ISO8859-1. Also, all of what I > th

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange --depclean / mit-krb5

2008-12-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:40:42PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I wonder if someone can guess at what I'm supposed to do to be able to > complete --depclean. The machine is currently clean on emerge -DuN > world and revdep-rebuild. I don't understand how I'm supposed to > handle this mit-krb5 thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:49:50PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > Is there a clever way to enter a string (rather than write a script file) so > that md5sum will check a whole series of files in one go and report success > or error; I was thinking along the lines of if $value is ... then

[gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-15 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: I have had this line in my /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules for a couple years now BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="BackUpDrive" which matched my external USB harddrive enclosure and name it /dev/BackUpDrive for convenience.

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:16:38PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > I have had this line in my /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules for a > couple years now > > > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help [resolved]

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:16:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) squawked: > Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 15:10 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk > (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): > > Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Won

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:37:56AM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:16:38 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE", > > NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
(Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to p

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how > > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:11PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > > Basically you just need > > > > 1) Correct permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > > a) You need the line "Port 631" to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:47:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > That's why I suggested them :-) I use them a lot, especially when I > > > have to run the same set of commands on 15 different

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] Webmin Question - was Print to cups printer from Windows?

2008-12-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:13:28AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > > What the heck is "a clue by 4[1]"? > > It's a word play :-) > > Know what a 2 by 4 is? A 2 inch by 4 inch plank that you clobber someone ever > the head with when they are being thick. This is Way OT, but a two

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 & USE dvdnav

2008-12-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 02:16:09AM +, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > Anyone see what I'm doing wrong here, please? Yes. See below. > I can't seem to get mplayer to accept the dvdnav USE flag, which is always > (-bracketed) out when I pretend to emerge it: > > Yet the ebuild seems to s

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 & USE dvdnav

2008-12-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:34:56AM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > On 12/20/08, Willie Wong wrote: > > I think you can try use unmasking the flag: > > add a line to /etc/portage/package.use.mask > > It's profiles related stuff, so I think > /etc/portage/p

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 & USE dvdnav

2008-12-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 03:43:05PM +, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: >> libdvdnav-4.1.3 is keyworded ~x86, while mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 is >> keyworded x86. The USE cannot be satisfied. > > I'm really sorry, I don't understand. The dvdnav mask was added when the libdvdnav was hardmasked.

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:13:40PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've > read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data. > Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root? If you used ext2/ext3 with mke2fs

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:35:47PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > Can I change the amount reserved for root? for ext2/3, try 'man tune2fs'. W -- Proof by contradiction: Suppose the square root of 3 were rational. Then sqrt(3) = p / q, for some relatively prime integers p and q. Hence p

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeff Cranmer squawked: > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported > checking how to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:57:43AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >Again, I don't imagine ANY of what we're talking about here will > work for a Windows machine printing to a Linux cups server if a Linux > machine on the same network cannot print to that server. Technically not true. I had a Lex

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
I'll let others deal with your other questions, because they require some thought and I am not sure if I remember enough of the re-install process to deal with it. But, a few comments that I hope may be helpful: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:41:15PM -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > (4) After editing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 03:02:36PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > I hope the question is at least reasonable as the data format at each > point in the network is really unclear to me. Maybe there's a good > site to read about this? If you want all the nitty-gritty details, I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:18:27AM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> kde-base/kate >> kde-base/kdebase-startkde >> kde-base/ksmserver >> These were dependencies and therefore were not in my world file. If they >> get unmerge, things will break.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:53:07AM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked: > As I said there aren't even any terms to search for when you're > getting ignored. If I had known that the problem was html mails from > the start, then i would have already corrected the issue before > searching

[gentoo-user] GNOME users? Anyone? (Was: Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was something else long altogether))

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:45:50AM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > So, I have another theory, related to the cry "Gentoo is dying! > ${HERD} is down to one dev only!", i.e, low manpower. My guess is that > Gentoo (or at least this gentoo-user list) is low on Gnome-proficient > commenters.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:20:25AM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: > I'm not using -meta packages. Many packages they pulled in was stuff I > don't wanted (like PIM). I emerged KDE packages one-by-one and went with > what got pulled in as dependencies. Uh.. then what exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:16:05PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > This is my two cents. Since when someone comes here and posts a html > message they get told not to use html anyway, why not let them know > beforehand that html is not the "norm" on this list? I don't think it > would hurt

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:03:36PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked: > Pompous ass? Personal Vendetta? Pissed off? What world is this? > > One bug report is just an announcement that there is a problem. It > might seem to you that people get on a high horse when they say that, > bu

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 & USE dvdnav

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:52:54AM +, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > > On 20 Dec 2008, at 04:34, Arttu V. wrote: > >> On 12/20/08, Willie Wong wrote: >>> I think you can try use unmasking the flag: >>> add a line to /etc/portage/package.use.mask >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:39:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > Well, just do this. *list netiquette* If I recall correctly, if the > person is set up to get html, that will be in bold. If it is text only > then they just see the *'s. I have noticed in the past that mine has > done thi

[gentoo-user] [OT] Bold, italics, underscore convention (Was: Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug.)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
Starting a new thread because this is getting way off topic (both re: gentoo or re: the topic under discussion in the other thread) On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:25:12PM -0600, Penguin Lover ??Q?? squawked: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58 -0600 > Steven Susbauer wrote: > > > Some mail readers conver

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

2008-12-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:55:20AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > I'm really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a > hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't > do that. I don't know much about amd64, so I don't know how the 'multilib' thing wo

Re: [gentoo-user] kqemu with 2.6.26 causes qemu segfault

2008-12-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:58:26AM +, Penguin Lover Grant Edwards squawked: > AFAICT, kqemu 1.3.0_pre11 is not compatible with 2.6.26 > kernels. It seems to work fine with 2.6.25, but with 2.6.26 it > causes qemu to crash with a segfault. I've seen other reports > of similar problems on other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:36:08AM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > > try putting rc_coldplug="no" in conf.d/udev or /etc/rc.conf i would > > assume the udev init script checks both places > > I can tell you from trying that just now... that is not a good > solution. > > First setti

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, not working yet.

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 04:16:29PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I admit I have never used moto4lin before and this is my first "fancy" > phone. I'm wanting to transfer some ring tones. What I am doing with > moto4lin is to have the USB cable hooked directly to the phone. I also > have a

Re: [gentoo-user] volume buttons doesn't work

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Pat squawked: > I've bought Dell Latitude E4300 and start to install Gentoo on it, but > the volume buttons don't work. Please, could someone give me hint where > I have to start to fix it? The volume keys are not "standard" per se, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, connected, now what?

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:23:45PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I'm not sure how this will appear as far as threading. Gmail doesn't > send me a copy of my own emails so I can't reply to myself. > > I found the solution to the previous problem. I didn't have acm > compiled in my kernel

[gentoo-user] Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: After I boot into the console, if I type anything and then hit for the bash completion, it gives an error -bash: _filedir: command not found The weird thing is that if I start X and try the same in an aterm, the tab completio

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, connected, now what?

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:44:40PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > This is the device under preferences for mine: /dev/ttyACM0 After you > set that, click the "switch to p2k" button. After that, close > preferences and hit connect. Sometimes it will not connect the first > time so you may

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:13:18PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: > Oops, I should have been more clear. Although there's no such entry in my > .bashrc, and also none in /etc/skel/.bashrc, but bash completion *works* > without flaw both in login shells as well as in interactiv

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:04:45PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: > 090105 Willie Wong wrote: > > What is Uniserve? > > Sorry, I assumed the context made it clear: Uniserve is my ISP. Okay... hum, have you checked your outgoing mail logs to see if cron attempts to

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:42:40AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > Starting yesterday IIRC I've been getting one of the messages below > every time my Fetchmail cron job polls my 2 ISPs for new mail. > The content of the msg clearly comes from my own Fetchmail, > as it refers to both ISPs, but the ms

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:20:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: > If your /etc/skel/.bashrc doesn't have an entry for bash completion but > your ~/.bashrc does, then I guess it's not needed anymore but probably was > needed a long time ago. AFAIK, updates won't change files

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:27:01PM +, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: > Willie Wong writes: > > > Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: > > > > After I boot into the console, if I type anything and then hit > > for the bash

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udept dead upstream

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:54:04AM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Uhhh yeah... not developed anymore... anyone know why that is? To your original question (I seem to have lost the post, so this reply is a little bit out of order in terms of threading. Sorry!) Sometimes packages tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
Thanks. I'll try your suggestions this evening when I get home. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:33:29AM -0800, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: > Since the problem does not appear under X, bash is not broken and you > probably have a mis-configuration somehow. The rc scripts that are > run are

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:17:27PM -0800, Grant wrote: > The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to > troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it > doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. > Can anyone help with this? Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udept dead upstream

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:48:29PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I don't doubt all can be done in other ways, but that one tool > combines a lot of functionality... though I'll admit I mostly use it > for checking dependencies and reverse dependencies (q doesn't do > reverse I don't think) and just

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:28:41PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: > 090105 Willie Wong wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:04:45PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb > > squawked: > > have you checked your outgoing mail logs > > to see if cron attempts to

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:56:55AM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > Okay, running fetchmail -s (or redirecting fetchmail output to > /dev/null) will probably cure the problem of the deluge. But I still > think you MDA is misconfigured for local mail. Oops, my mistake. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-06 Thread Willie Wong
Okay, like always, this is an I-D-ten-T error. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:20:19PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > So this suggests that, though I have not checked on my laptop, that on > my aterms bash-completion is actually NOT activated, since my .bashrc > almost certainly

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 01:22:28PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > 090106 Willie Wong wrote: > > this suggests that either cron or your mailer is misconfigured. > > From the logs, you are running ssmtp. Check the config files for it > > to see why mail intended for r...@localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] installing kqemu under different kernels

2009-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:00:35PM +, Penguin Lover Frank Schwidom squawked: > But i suspect, that an 'emerge kqemu' will either deinstall > /lib/modules/2.6.26-gentoo-r3/misc/kqemu.ko before installing > /lib/modules/2.6.26-gentoo-r3_2/misc/kqemu.ko or > /lib/modules/2.6.26-gentoo-r3/misc/kqem

Re: [gentoo-user] after installing and running Xorg, my LCD colors in text mode are all wrong

2009-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:42:22PM -0500, Denis wrote: > I just installed Xorg on the older Dell machine, for which I have a > 17-inch Sony LCD screen. Before I did anything with X, my screen > colors were just like I'm used to. Now, I fired up X, got it to work > fine, and the colors are fine, b

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

2009-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:20:19AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in other words "emerge > >> --update --deep --verbose --newuse @world"). Right now, it tells me > >> this: > > read the man page. > > > > Especially the bit about bdeps - these are usually

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

2009-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
Hum, I seem to have made an erroneous assumption. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:38:05AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > The problem with this last one is not --deep. It is --update. Nevermind, I looked at the changelogs for openoffice and dev-perl/Archive-Zip, and frankly, I am pretty sure what I s

[gentoo-user] emerge -U?

2009-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
Can anyone tell me when emerge -U disappeared? I have never used it myself, but I just looked at "man emerge", and I don't see that option anymore. W -- You will be attracted to an older, more experienced person! ~what appeared in a fortune cookie on 01-14-2002 to Daniel Jonathan Peng

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -U?

2009-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:07:13AM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > > Can anyone tell me when emerge -U disappeared? > > > > I have never used it myself, but I just looked at "man emerge", and I &g

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

2009-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:10:44AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > > Hum, I seem to have made an erroneous assumption. > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:38:05AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > >> The problem with this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge -e world' question

2009-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:55:02AM +0100, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: > It's 4 years I'm using Gentoo and I can still be surprised by it. :) > This doesn't look right. Why do devs upgrade ebuilds and do not increase > the -rX versioning? Look at the Gentoo Developer Handbook http://www.gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:57:40AM -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have both USE flags and have *noticed* any problems. However, I > prefer to avoid rather than fix problems. Can you point me at > documentation for when one should have firefox and/or xulrunner USE > flags? > C.f. this thread

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:58:08PM +, John wrote: > Whenever I logout my machine crashes to a black screen and is > unresponsive. I cannot get into any terminals and have to > reboot. It is a problem with my nvidia-drivers - have > uninstalled nvidia-drivers and used X11

Re: [gentoo-user] Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think there > way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and Xterm in a X > session on another machine. I may not have sound enabled... not sure > ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:11:17PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm curious how'd you know it was readline related? Since it also appears in SSH, it is something wrong with the box, and not how you interface with it. You said "Ctrl-v fixed it", so odds are that you are not in the wrong keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X Program to show tty messages

2009-01-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:39:58PM -0200, Penguin Lover Fernando Antunes squawked: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Fernando Antunes wrote: > > > Hi. > > I looking for a way to see/monitor messages sent to the tty when a running > > X programs. > > I tryed xconsole, but it only works with /dev/

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:49:10PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a babelfish > translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it is, the author of the > message is certainly not a native English speaker. You have way t

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout and openrc issues from inside a vserver

2009-01-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:28:05AM -0800, Penguin Lover kashani squawked: > I don't run the host OS only the vserver. The latest changes to profiles > depreciated my old profile last night so I updated. I'm now using > /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/vserver as eic-sync suggested. The >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

2009-01-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:55:58PM +0800, Penguin Lover zhangwe...@realss.com squawked: > zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ LANG=en_US abiword > > However this method doesn't work for firefox and thunderbird. Both > always starts in German (note German is the last, a.k.a. least preferred > language for me,

[gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-20 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: I need some help with my memory. Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown, but the message is not echoed in

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > > Hi list: > > > > I need some help with my memory. > > > > Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:39:32AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > > Also, what is this MTRR cleanup option? I can't seem to find it? > > > are you using a recent kernel? 2.6.27 or 28? Sorry for the late reply, I was having some problems with my mail. I am using 2.6.26 righ

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > > Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the > > sys log: > > > > Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: n

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:47:00PM -0800, Penguin Lover Dake Wang squawked: > It seems to be appeared on 2.6.28 kernel. But not 2.6.26 kernel. > I got both as on my box as the gspca driver for my web camera seems only > worked on the 2.6.26 kernel. > The error I run into is mostly only cosmetic.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop

2009-01-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:02:27AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge > hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to: How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?) Are you running ~ or sta

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop

2009-01-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:14:13AM -0800, Grant wrote: > >> One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge > >> hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to: > > > > How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?) > > I just mean 2.6.25-r13 i

[gentoo-user] Strange firefox segfault

2009-01-25 Thread Willie Wong
Disclaimer: I am using a hardened x86 system. Just now I updated to Firefox 3.0.5 (which is now keyworded stable). I found that starting firefox is no problem, nor is basic, normal browsing. What is a problem is the hot-keys! In short, if I tried to type Ctrl-N for a New Window or Ctrl-T for a N

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange firefox segfault

2009-01-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:43:01AM +0200, Maxim Kremenev wrote: > Maybe u try exec firefox in console and send output ? > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > > > Disclaimer: I am using a hardened x86 system. > > > > Just now I updated to Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange firefox segfault

2009-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:44:12AM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:32:54 +0200, Maxim Kremenev wrote: > > > Or maybe extrem LDFLAGS. We want see your /etc/make.conf ) > > LDFLAGS are shown by emerge --info, as requested several pages down in > the text you qu

Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

2009-01-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:03:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover smallnow squawked: > http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 > > This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. For me, its got blocks > for all the asian characters. > > I've been through the gentoo documen

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -uD world Firefox doesn't get DNS for most pages

2009-01-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:21:53AM +0100, Penguin Lover Miernik squawked: > Installed versions: 3.0.5(06:52:35 PM 01/29/2009)(bindist dbus > ipv6 java startup-notification xulrunner -custom-optimization -gnome Just a completely random shot in the dark: can you try rebuilding firefox without

Re: [gentoo-user] hwinfo build error

2009-01-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:54:04AM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > i10_v86.c:104: error: 'VIF_MASK' undeclared (first use in this function) > i10_v86.c:104: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > i10_v86.c:104: error: for each function it appears in.) > i10_v86.c:1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hwinfo build error

2009-01-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 02:12:46PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Willie Wong writes: > > >> i10_v86.c:486: error: 'TF_MASK' undeclared (first use in this function) > >> i10_v86.c:486: error: 'NT_MASK' undeclared (first use in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange firefox segfault [Solved?]

2009-01-31 Thread Willie Wong
My strange segfault bug went away today after I rebuild firefox and xulrunner. I have absolutely no idea why. The only thing I changed is to enable the IceWeasel branding. I don't *think* that can possibly be the solution--right? W -- "So we just have to integrate around the ring to get the grav

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng +bash history

2009-02-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:31:07AM +0100, Penguin Lover Marcin Niskiewicz squawked: > It works fine (it writes history to history.log) but still it writes it to > those 3 files (debug , syslog, messages) as well ... > so now everything I type is written to 4 files (debug , syslog, messages and >

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:57:31PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > On 2/6/09, Stroller wrote: > > > > On 6 Feb 2009, at 12:36, Arttu V. wrote: > >> ... > >> Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially > >> solution) is most welcome, including pointing out stupid

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:31:41AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > file voice-message.wav > voice-message.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, > ITU G.711 mu-law, mono 8000 Hz > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:34:06PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > and some don't, like my voice

[gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

2009-02-19 Thread Willie Wong
Hi: Does anyone on the list have any experience with Tablet PCs? I know many of the Tablets have guides to installation on Gentoo-wiki. Does anyone have a personal story to share? Any suggestions of a good, sturdy, Tablet that I should consider to buy? I primarily am looking for a devi

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