Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Joseph wrote: Yes, it runs but in order to test it I need to compile something, the argument is distcc [COMPILER] [compile options] -o OBJECT -c SOURCE So in my example if I want to test it on 10.0.0.101 machine I would enter: distcc 10.0.0.103:3632 -o ? -c ? What do I put in place of OBJECT

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-26 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Well, Dells always have been rather interesting machines, from the custom power supplies to the PCI bus mastering in some slots; add in the recent discussion about Gentoo on a Dell... I just thought I'd ask before I start buying hardware. Possibly the older ones, but I haven't had trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-26 Thread maxim wexler
> Any advice would be really appreciated. > Here's what always works for me on a dual boot linux/xp box w/ xp on hda and linux on hdb and lilo doing boot duties: Prepare lilo.conf as if it knows nothing about xp, comment all the windows stuff out and install lilo to hdb1. Next, mount a floppy an

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-26 Thread maxim wexler
> > Maxim, if you want the system to boot from the hard > disk, I really think > you have no choice but to repartition and re-install > the system, with > boot as the first partition. On the Sempron there are two HDs, the 120G, pri-mast and a 3.5G(fat32) as a pri-slave. LBA is set to auto in the

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-26 Thread Colin
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: Has anyone had any experience with this? Would Gentoo install and run on this machine without any problems? Is there anything special about this machine to make you think it wouldn't? Well, Dells always have been rather interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 12:27 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Hi David, > > * David Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Saturday, June 25, 2005, 1:26:27 AM: > > > I use a shell script that connects to my machines via ssh and > > performs commands to: > [...] > > I made it so that there is a config file that

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?

2005-06-26 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On 6/22/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > learn some manners huh? Pray, what made my reply desrespectful? Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with this? Would Gentoo install and run > on this machine without any problems? Is there anything special about this machine to make you think it wouldn't? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Cannot route dynamic dns name internally

2005-06-26 Thread Travis Osterman
I recently switched from a linksys router to a gentoo-based system and have gotten along pretty well with it. One of the last things I have left to figure out is how to get dynamic dns name requests to the correct internal machine on my network. Here's the symptoms: my-dynamic-name.no-ip.com poin

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:39:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > >>Bit I think you're missing the point. These are DEFAULTS, if you >>really don't want any unnecessary GNOME packages installed, you >>should be specifically including -gnome in /etc/make.conf. > > > The po

[gentoo-user] Broken sudo

2005-06-26 Thread Chris Ong
Hi all, And recent upgrade sudo-1.6.8_p9 make sudo with password inpossible. After update sudo to the mentioned version, I get the problem and fixed by FAQ section in http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/troubleshooting.html Q) Sudo says 'Account expired or PAM config lacks an "account"

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 11:50 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Need more info from clients and servers: > architectures of each machine > gcc versions > glibc versions > > add > "DISTCCD_OPTS="${DISTCCD_OPTS} --log-level info" > to /etc/conf.d/distccd to each machine. Then chec

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:39:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > Bit I think you're missing the point. These are DEFAULTS, if you > really don't want any unnecessary GNOME packages installed, you > should be specifically including -gnome in /etc/make.conf. The point which I'm trying to make, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed Disk Recovery

2005-06-26 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Zac Medico wrote: David Busby wrote: List, I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition table. When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO errors in dmesg output, can't read sector XX. I can't get dd to dump from that drive to I have a few tools bookmarked

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Fish wrote: > Greetings list, > > I have spent most of my weekend trying to get fbsplash running on my > laptop. I've managed to resolve most of the issues (getting the > initramfs to be recognized, starting up RAID, LVM, and encryption from > the initramfs, etc). The problem I have now

Re: [gentoo-user] BaseLayout Shutdown not working

2005-06-26 Thread Robert Robinson
On 6/26/05, Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 26 June 2005 11:52 am, Robert Robinson wrote: > > On 6/26/05, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Robert Robinson wrote: > > > > So I think I slightly screwed up updating the files in /etc after > > > > e

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde Issue

2005-06-26 Thread Ian K
Holly Bostick wrote: >Ian K schreef: > > > >>I didn't know about this kde-meta package.. >>Will it get me 3.4.1? >>Ian >> >> >> > >http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=kde-meta > >kde-meta >Description: kde - merge this to pull in all kde packages >Releases alpha amd64 arm

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 won't start

2005-06-26 Thread LostSon
Switch it to kde-3.4 and it will fire right up On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 00:18 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:07:59 +0200, q-parser wrote: > > > I've just emerged kde-meta-3.4.1, but it won't start after issuing > > "startx". I changed XSESSION in /etc/rc.conf to "kde-met

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 won't start

2005-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:07:59 +0200, q-parser wrote: > I've just emerged kde-meta-3.4.1, but it won't start after issuing > "startx". I changed XSESSION in /etc/rc.conf to "kde-meta-3.4.1" but > still nothing. I think it should be "kde-3.4.1", no "meta", but I've always used a plain "kde" and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not yet quite right on iMac

2005-06-26 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 6/26/05, Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/26/05, Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --2-- Regarding the console, my problem is that I cannot get at it: > > pressing ctl-cmd-F1 (on this keyboard, cmd replaces alt) produces only a > > red screen that seems to remain for ever; how

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
Need more info from clients and servers: architectures of each machine gcc versions glibc versions add "DISTCCD_OPTS="${DISTCCD_OPTS} --log-level info" to /etc/conf.d/distccd to each machine. Then check the client and server syslogs whilst compiling. If you have a firew

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde Issue

2005-06-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: > I didn't know about this kde-meta package.. > Will it get me 3.4.1? > Ian > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=kde-meta kde-meta Description: kde - merge this to pull in all kde packages Releasesalpha amd64 arm hppaia64mipsppc ppc64 pp

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde Issue

2005-06-26 Thread Ian K
Rudmer van Dijk wrote: >On Sunday 26 June 2005 15:04, Ian K wrote: > > >>Hi there, >>I have just used the split ebuilds install from KDE. >>I have 3.4, and am having a few issues. >>It starts up fine, but as soon as I right click the normal desktop, >>it and the Mac OSX style desktop menu are bl

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde Issue

2005-06-26 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Sunday 26 June 2005 15:04, Ian K wrote: > Hi there, > I have just used the split ebuilds install from KDE. > I have 3.4, and am having a few issues. > It starts up fine, but as soon as I right click the normal desktop, > it and the Mac OSX style desktop menu are blanked. The > desktop goes black

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 won't start

2005-06-26 Thread Ian K
q-parser wrote: > Hi. > > I've just emerged kde-meta-3.4.1, but it won't start after issuing > "startx". I changed XSESSION in /etc/rc.conf to "kde-meta-3.4.1" but > still nothing. I could only start from within the X calling "startkde" > in xterm. And it still don't work properly. I've also updat

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-26 Thread Simon Castillo
Michael Haan wrote: On 6/26/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone had any experience with this? Would Gentoo install and run on this machine without any problems? It looks like it will make an ideal server/NAT gateway/distcc node/rsync server/DHCP server/DNS server/wireless AP fo

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 won't start

2005-06-26 Thread q-parser
Hi. I've just emerged kde-meta-3.4.1, but it won't start after issuing "startx". I changed XSESSION in /etc/rc.conf to "kde-meta-3.4.1" but still nothing. I could only start from within the X calling "startkde" in xterm. And it still don't work properly. I've also updated configs using etc-up

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-26 Thread Michael Haan
On 6/26/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with this? Would Gentoo install and run > on this machine without any problems? It looks like it will make an > ideal server/NAT gateway/distcc node/rsync server/DHCP server/DNS > server/wireless AP for my home network.

Re: [gentoo-user] BaseLayout Shutdown not working

2005-06-26 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 26 June 2005 11:52 am, Robert Robinson wrote: > On 6/26/05, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Robert Robinson wrote: > > > So I think I slightly screwed up updating the files in /etc after > > > emerging the baselayout, because the box now doesn't shutdown

[gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-26 Thread Colin
Has anyone had any experience with this? Would Gentoo install and run on this machine without any problems? It looks like it will make an ideal server/NAT gateway/distcc node/rsync server/DHCP server/DNS server/wireless AP for my home network. Also, I'd like to put a Pentium III in this mach

[gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-26 Thread Colin
Has anyone had any experience with this? Would Gentoo install and run on this machine without any problems? It looks like it will make an ideal server/NAT gateway/distcc node/rsync server/DHCP server/DNS server/wireless AP for my home network. Also, I'd like to put a Pentium III in this mach

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not yet quite right on iMac

2005-06-26 Thread Peng
On 6/26/05, Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Gentoo is nearly operational on my G4 iMac, but there are one or two > catches. > > --1-- KDE works and I have been able to install a proper French > Macintosh keyboard, but some characters, such as the Euro symbol, are > not prin

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed Disk Recovery

2005-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
David Busby wrote: > List, > I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition table. > When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO errors in dmesg > output, can't read sector XX. I can't get dd to dump from that drive to I have a few tools bookmarked that should work better

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed Disk Recovery

2005-06-26 Thread Benno Schulenberg
David Busby wrote: >I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition > table. When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO > errors in dmesg output, can't read sector XX. I can't get dd to > dump from that drive to file on a working drive either. You've used 'dd' with conv

[gentoo-user] Kde Issue

2005-06-26 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I have just used the split ebuilds install from KDE. I have 3.4, and am having a few issues. It starts up fine, but as soon as I right click the normal desktop, it and the Mac OSX style desktop menu are blanked. The desktop goes black, icons are removed. The menu's "file","window", etc di

[gentoo-user] Re: Failed Disk Recovery

2005-06-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 26 June 2005 20:23, David Busby wrote: > List, >I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition table. > When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO errors in dmesg > output, can't read sector XX. I can't get dd to dump from that drive > to file on a working dri

[gentoo-user] Failed Disk Recovery

2005-06-26 Thread David Busby
List, I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition table. When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO errors in dmesg output, can't read sector XX. I can't get dd to dump from that drive to file on a working drive either. It's an NTFS drive that Windows can't see at

[gentoo-user] Grub issue finally resolved. Thank you

2005-06-26 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I've been lurking on the grub threads here while trying to get grub working for the past couple of months. Let's skip my trials with w2k on s/w raid (that os is now archived ;), lilo on a USB memory stick, 30+ hours of research, trials, errors, and reboots. The directions for creating a

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 12:33 -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 00:05 -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >>Joseph wrote: > >>>I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything > >>>is simple but for some reason or another I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail-r16 is sending mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-06-26 Thread Rumen Yotov
Yousef Raffah wrote: > Humm > > This is my second qmail installation on gentoo, the first one was > perfect but this one seems quite different. In this installation I > used qmail-r16 and started configuring it based on > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml). I stopped at the point >

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Joseph wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 00:05 -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Joseph wrote: I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything is simple but for some reason or another I don't see any activity with distccmon-gnome across my network. It's very easy to no

Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD

2005-06-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Rob wrote: CFLAGS are only -o -pipe If you are using a lowercase -o, that's definitely a problem. Since -o is "output" not "Optimize" (-O). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BaseLayout Shutdown not working

2005-06-26 Thread Robert Robinson
On 6/26/05, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Robert Robinson wrote: > > > So I think I slightly screwed up updating the files in /etc after > > emerging the baselayout, because the box now doesn't shutdown, just > > kills the processes and then says system is halted

Re: [gentoo-user] grub failure or something bad about partitions

2005-06-26 Thread Martins Steinbergs
yes, Holly gave a lot of info. before installing lilo checked bios setings for HD - for master there is LBA option 'auto' or 'disable' - no entry for 'enable' tried lilo, now back with grub. will do some BIOS research, if no luck, then that old 30GB maxtor deserves to be /tmp partition or somet

[gentoo-user] Gentoo not yet quite right on iMac

2005-06-26 Thread Charles Trois
Hello, Gentoo is nearly operational on my G4 iMac, but there are one or two catches. --1-- KDE works and I have been able to install a proper French Macintosh keyboard, but some characters, such as the Euro symbol, are not printed. I understand that I have to choose another font (or charac

Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD

2005-06-26 Thread Richard Fish
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:22:45 -0700, Rob wrote: > > > >>I'm kind of lost, since the segmentation viololation is quirky, showing >>up at different steps in the rescue process. I also during using the >>i683 stage 3 tarball, ,that I ended up missing many import files, like

Re: [gentoo-user] grub failure or something bad about partitions

2005-06-26 Thread Richard Fish
Martins Steinbergs wrote: >Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes >16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/hda1 * 1 4708023728288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS >Pa

[gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-06-26 Thread Richard Fish
Greetings list, I have spent most of my weekend trying to get fbsplash running on my laptop. I've managed to resolve most of the issues (getting the initramfs to be recognized, starting up RAID, LVM, and encryption from the initramfs, etc). The problem I have now is that my system hangs in the r

[gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer

2005-06-26 Thread luis jure
something funny is happening here with ogle and mplayer: i start X, run ogle, open a dvd, and it plays ok. but if i first run mplayer, after that ogle gives a blank screen (sound is still ok). if i exit X and restart it, ogle works ok again. this happens on two very different computers (athlon

[gentoo-user] qmail and spf

2005-06-26 Thread Yousef Raffah
Hello Everyone, I would like to impliment spf with my qmail installation, I just emerged qmail and looking for the spf stuff now. The forum admin in the following post was refering to the spp framework (http://qmail-spp.sourceforge.net/) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-189506-start-0-postday

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED wrong permissions after update for /dev/null

2005-06-26 Thread pat
Sorry to all, I've forgot to update the configuration files. Pat pat wrote: > Hi, > > I've updated system yesterday and the permissions of the /dev/null > device are 660 and the owner:group is root:root so typical users have > problems :-( I thing the correct permissions are 666, but aft

Re: [gentoo-user] grub failure or something bad about partitions

2005-06-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: > hi, > > i have dual boot box, and got this message booting win and all stops there: > > booting "Windows" > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > probably this is cause i recently updated bios, anyway this is my grub.conf > (v.0.9

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Watson schreef: > Hi - I have Windows XP installed on /dev/hda1. This drive is jumpered as the > master. I installed Gentoo on /dev/hdb (which is jumpered as slave) with the > standard partitioning scheme from the Gentoo Handbook. > > I'm using LILO. > > I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev

[gentoo-user] grub failure or something bad about partitions

2005-06-26 Thread Martins Steinbergs
hi, i have dual boot box, and got this message booting win and all stops there: booting "Windows" rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 probably this is cause i recently updated bios, anyway this is my grub.conf (v.0.96-r2): boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=30

[gentoo-user] wrong permissions after update for /dev/null

2005-06-26 Thread pat
Hi, I've updated system yesterday and the permissions of the /dev/null device are 660 and the owner:group is root:root so typical users have problems :-( I thing the correct permissions are 666, but after each reboot the wrong permissions are back. Could someone point me where I have to do changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:35:19 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > It's part of the portage tree. You can override almost anything in the > profile. Some things are overriden in /etc/portage (see man portage) > but in this case you can simply add USE="-gnome" to make.conf (Holly > said it first ;-)). If y

[gentoo-user] qmail-r16 is sending mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-06-26 Thread Yousef Raffah
Humm This is my second qmail installation on gentoo, the first one was perfect but this one seems quite different. In this installation I used qmail-r16 and started configuring it based on (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml). I stopped at the point where I configured the aliases the

Re: [gentoo-user] BaseLayout Shutdown not working

2005-06-26 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Robert Robinson wrote: So I think I slightly screwed up updating the files in /etc after emerging the baselayout, because the box now doesn't shutdown, just kills the processes and then says system is halted. Doesn't attempt to stop the init.d scripts, or power down the mac

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:41:13 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev/hdb1. It seemed to work (loaded my > images OK) but gave a message saying the drive was not a master. When I > rebooted it went straight into XP. > > I suppose I could use partition magic to create /boo

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread Catalin Trifu
Try adding the port to distcc-config --set-hosts "10.0.0.101:3632 10.0.0.103:3632" When i tried to use it without a port did not not work. Catalin Joseph wrote: >I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything >is simple but for some reason or another I don't

[gentoo-user] qmail and spf

2005-06-26 Thread Yousef Raffah
Hello Everyone, I would like to impliment spf with my qmail installation, I just emerged qmail and looking for the spf stuff now. The forum admin in the following post was refering to the spp framework (http://qmail-spp.sourceforge.net/) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-189506-start-0-po

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-26 Thread Colin
Richard Watson wrote: Hi - I have Windows XP installed on /dev/hda1. This drive is jumpered as the master. I installed Gentoo on /dev/hdb (which is jumpered as slave) with the standard partitioning scheme from the Gentoo Handbook. I'm using LILO. I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev/hdb1. It see

[gentoo-user] BaseLayout Shutdown not working

2005-06-26 Thread Robert Robinson
So I think I slightly screwed up updating the files in /etc after emerging the baselayout, because the box now doesn't shutdown, just kills the processes and then says system is halted. Doesn't attempt to stop the init.d scripts, or power down the machine like it used to. I tried to re-emerge the