[gentoo-user] getting the right answer from `hostname --long'

2006-01-28 Thread reader
Just trashed the mobo on my gentoo machine and reinstalled on a different machine entirely. (sendmail-8.13.4) I'm setting up sendmail... something I've done many times but each time it has been a right pain in the butt. No exception this time... I'm not running a mailserver, just a stand alone ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-28 Thread Ian
Hey again!Im having issues.I saw on the gentoo forums that kdelibs-3.5.1 isn't on the servers yet, but I cant seem to get it to go down to 3.5.0. In order for me to get 3.5 anything I needed to unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. So I get:#USE="-arts alsa" emerge -p kicker k

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: DHCP Timeouts

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: > I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is > confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign > everything manually, there are no issues. > > Some ask if it's because association with the AP is taking too long, but > I know it is not that,

[gentoo-user] DHCP Timeouts

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign everything manually, there are no issues. Some ask if it's because association with the AP is taking too long, but I know it is not that, because I am manually startin

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.5 hours!

2006-01-28 Thread fire-eyes
Ernie Schroder wrote: > I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new record. Oh yeah? I guess this is a good time to post my problem then and break that (other than this message). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.5 hours!

2006-01-28 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Saturday 28 January 2006 12:52 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: > I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new > record. -- > Regards, Ernie post, post, post, ... :) -- Aloha => Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] 3.5 hours!

2006-01-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new record. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav klamav [solved]

2006-01-28 Thread Matthew R. Lee
Very simple, just needed to add my user to the clamav group. Problem sorted :-) Matt On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:58, Robin wrote: > There is a decent Gentoo Wiki article on configuring Clamav. Take a > look, that what I used for a guideline. Unfortunately the wiki is > down now so I can't

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild never seems to "work"

2006-01-28 Thread Sven Köhler
> What I don't understand is why doesn't it just do this: > > emerge app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-editors/gedit app-text/evince > gnome-base/control-center gnome-base/gdm because there are slotted packages - and revdep-rebuild would have to take the newest version within the same slot. That i

[gentoo-user] emerge strace fails

2006-01-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
emerge strace fails with the following errors: (updating a couple of packages since I first got these errors was successful) resource.c:478: error: `Q_SETUSE' undeclared here (not in a function) resource.c:478: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:478: error: (near initialization

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2006-01-28 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Problem solved! i compiled all the required drivers as modules and then ran alsaconf, now my sound is finally working. Thanks to you all Rafa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-28 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
* Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/01/06 10:18]: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:13:24AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote > > > "+ and "* , but only if you USE="vim-with-x". > > Did that, and it doesn't seem to help. Here's my status... > > [m3000][root][~] emerge --pretend --verbose vim > >

[gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r2 build error and locales

2006-01-28 Thread Martins Steinbergs
Hi, My problem is with flphoto and fluxbox, which doesnt have text in menus, so I decided it would be nice to add us_gb locales my make.conf has: mar martins # cat /etc/make.conf | grep LINGUAS LINGUAS="lv en" and locales.build now has: en_US en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 en_GB en_GB/ISO-88

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: It looks like the ohci and ehci drivers are fighting over the card. You don't need both, so I would disable ohci in your kernel configuration and see if that works. The card has 3 USB 1.1 sockets and a 2.0 one. Isn't it necessary to enable ohci to acce

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav klamav

2006-01-28 Thread Robin
There is a decent Gentoo Wiki article on configuring Clamav. Take a look, that what I used for a guideline. Unfortunately the wiki is down now so I can't give you a link. Just do a search when it comes back online. Robin On 1/28/06, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
Thanks again, --- mount / -o remount, noatime,rw --- gave no protests --- etc-update --- Worked this time and I updated all and moved to my home directory and were able to change a file there looked at /etc/conf.d/rc but made no chages rebooted and ended up at the same place as before * check

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 28 January 2006 10:31, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 1/28/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where does uname find kernel version? For my last 2 new kernels, uname -a > > returns some off the wall kernel version. It seems to be picking up extra > > i

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 28 January 2006 20:38, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > See man hwclock, the section on "The Adjust Function". > Thanks for the explanation and the tip. It certainly makes sense now :-) Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? I disabled it recently when I was trying to get to the root of

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 16:15, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > Thanks for the advice, > > To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed. > I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i > make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start >

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/28/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where does uname find kernel version? For my last 2 new kernels, uname -a > returns some off the wall kernel version. It seems to be picking up extra > info from God know where. It comes from the version embedded in the kernel, returned via t

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for my misstake, > --- > uname -a > Linux(none) 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #8 Thu Feb 17 13:15:44 CET 2005 i686 > Intel(R) Pentium(R) > M processor 1.70 Ghz Centurion Intel GNU/Linux > > etc-update > mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/tmp/1162

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the > > adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full > > hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). > > That was it!!! That was the fi

[gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
Where does uname find kernel version? For my last 2 new kernels, uname -a returns some off the wall kernel version. It seems to be picking up extra info from God know where. $ uname -a Linux MRK 2.6.15-gentoo-r12.6.14-r-4_new #1 Fri Jan 27 12:38:49 EST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Authenti

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
Sorry for my misstake, --- uname -a Linux(none) 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #8 Thu Feb 17 13:15:44 CET 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70 Ghz Centurion Intel GNU/Linux etc-update mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/tmp/1162': Read only file system --- That must be my old Kernel which worked O

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:15, a tiny voice compelled Fredrik Lundgren to write: > Thanks for the advice, > > To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed. > I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i > make the migration? And I haven't use

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
Thanks for the advice, To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed. I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start with? Again thanks from Fredrik - Original Message

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/27/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a USB PCI card which stopped working, meaning my scanner stopped > being detected. The problem remains also under KNOPPIX. > Can I assume the card is dead? (But it is recognized, sort of...) > > Partial output of lspci -vvv (as root): >

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and all appeared to go well (lots of updates) but when I rebooted i got > > * checking root filesystem ... > Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory > * Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for main

[gentoo-user] clamav klamav

2006-01-28 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I've just emerged clamav klamav. Everything seems to have gone fine. I did /etc/init.d/clamd restart. I went through the klamav setup, again fine. But when I try to update the database it claims it can't connect to the network. The network is up and running so its not the problem. I've loo

[gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
Dear list, I haven't used my Gentoo for more than half a year or so (it was well updated then) so the other night I made an update emerge --update system and all appeared to go well (lots of updates) but when I rebooted i got * checking root filesystem ... Failed to open the device '/dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Connection blocking

2006-01-28 Thread Robin
Are you sure the Socket Server is actually listening on the port? The app actually not running is the only real problem I can think of. On 1/22/06, Mikhail Yarmish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some time ago, when I was making socket server with python I could > connect to it via another computer f

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Petr Kocmid wrote: It looks like you have a USB 1.0 hub connected to USB 1.1 controller, if it's true, your scanner probably does not like it because of insuficient power and/or speed. I didn't connect any hub, the controller is in a PCI card and the scanner is connected t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't browse WinXP shares from gentoo

2006-01-28 Thread Robin
Can you login to the share using smbclient ? smbclient //pc_name/share To mount the share I just use mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //robin/share /mnt/smb And my PC is Windows XP SP2. One think that maybe causing a problem is the Windows Firewall It will give you strange errors

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-28 Thread Petr Kocmid
It looks like you have a USB 1.0 hub connected to USB 1.1 controller, if it's true, your scanner probably does not like it because of insuficient power and/or speed. -- Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Harald Arnesen
Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command > as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do > this, but I am not having any success. > > The command I want to execute as root is "echo -n mem > /sys/power

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 09:55, Robert Persson wrote: > I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as > root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, > but I am not having any success. > > The command I want to execute as root is "echo -n mem > /sys/p

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Robert Persson wrote: I created a bash script (/usr/local/bin/suspendtoram) like so: #!/bin/bash echo -n mem > /sys/power/status then set owner and group to root:root and made the script suid. However this doesn't work. The error message goes: /usr/local/bin/suspendtora

Re: [gentoo-user] Browser not launching.

2006-01-28 Thread Nagatoro
Nagatoro wrote: Hi, I have a very annoying problem. I can't open web links by clicking them. If I set the default (Control-Center->KDE Components->Component Chooser and File Associations) and it works from pure KDE applications but from others (eg thunderbird and xchat) it doesn't work. This b

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 06:14, Abhay Kedia wrote: > > Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do > > the job. > > How can I know what is the TZ in my environment? Just curious. "env | grep TZ" Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; f

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-28 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 27 January 2006 09:43 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: > > test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the > > exit code.   > > ... > > > As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in > > to m

[gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Robert Persson
I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am not having any success. The command I want to execute as root is "echo -n mem > /sys/power/status". I created a bash script (/usr/local/bin/