[gentoo-user] k3b, konqueror DCOP error on start

2007-04-02 Thread Jed R. Mallen
I suddenly got this upon starting k3b, konqueror after an emerge -uDN world: === Processing '/home/nocti/.joerc'...Processing '/etc/joe/ftyperc'...done IW /mnt/usb/k3b-error Row 1Col 1 11:46 Ctrl-K H for help /usr/bin/iceauth: /tmp/dcopPfMg8b:1: bad "add" comman

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: > LVM stripes data > across the drives anyway, am I gaining anything from the RAID-0? Would I > be just as well off by adding the two partitions directly to the LVM > group? > > > Hi, Neil I have to admit I've never made such tests and I'm guessing here but I would say th

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
Ryan Curtin wrote: > Instead of using iptables, you may want to try DenyHosts > (app-admin/denyhosts). It's a simple Python script that parses through > /var/log/secure (or whatever your sshd logs to) and finds IPs who have > failed authentication a certain number of times, then adds those IPs to

[gentoo-user] Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

2007-04-02 Thread Shaochun Wang
Every time I execute programs such as xdvi xcalc, I get the following message: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset My locale is zh_CN.UTF-8, as following LANG= LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 LC

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt and CC%CC$CC6 characters

2007-04-02 Thread Juho Rosqvist
OK, I solved the problem. For the record: it's worth checking whether the problem persists with a near-empty muttrc. It did not, so I went through the rc file with a fine comb once again. The culprit turned out to be this line: set meta_key = yes Unsetting the variable removes the problem. In hi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Marcus Markus Schönhaber wrote on 03/04/07 00:13: >>> ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice >>> (2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch >>> version of STLport is installed: >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860 >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron

2007-04-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
Cant believe I am the only one who has this - 3 systems I have checked so far are all the same - root cant access its crontab. Ive tried rebuilding one without pam (fcron only), but no change. bunyip ~ # esearch fcron [ Results for search key : fcron ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-process/f

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt and CC%CC$CC6 characters

2007-04-02 Thread Juho Rosqvist
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 22:18:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:10:58PM +0300, Juho Rosqvist wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 13:49:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > > > I agree that my problem is probably input related. By your reply I > > presume that

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Dave Jones wrote: > Markus Schönhaber wrote on 02/04/07 02:27: > > ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice > > (2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch > > version of STLport is installed: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1

RE: [gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

2007-04-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
> Hello Daevid Vincent, > > > > > But I have the -bin version installed... > > > > > > Some packages require the firefox or seamonkey source, to > > > build against. > > > > I also have this in /etc/make.conf > > The mplayer-plug-in ebuild contains > > DEPEND="... > || ( w

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

2007-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Daevid Vincent, > > > But I have the -bin version installed... > > > > Some packages require the firefox or seamonkey source, to > > build against. > > I also have this in /etc/make.conf The mplayer-plug-in ebuild contains DEPEND="... || ( www-client/mozilla-firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] The next step in AV

2007-04-02 Thread Grant
> I currently have an HDTV hooked up to a desktop computer running > Gentoo and xfce4, all controlled by a wireless keyboard/mouse from the > couch. It's awesome. However, I think the next step is to control > everything from a laptop on the couch. There would be a normal xfce4 > desktop on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu

2007-04-02 Thread Sylvain Chouleur
I tried to install and use lm_sensors but it don't detect any sensors. Moreover, I think it's a problem of acpi or the kernel configuration because on my debian, I don't use lm_sensors, just acpi. May be detection is bad made or may be cpu id bad used, but top show me that: top - 23:01:52 up

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Shared Libraries

2007-04-02 Thread Manish Marathe
On 4/2/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 02 April 2007, "Manish Marathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Building Shared Libraries': > I want to build all components as shared libraries. Welcome to Gentoo. That's policy, unless there are significant

RE: [gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

2007-04-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:45 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent > www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin > > Hello Daevid Vincent,

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd don't create resolv.conf

2007-04-02 Thread Sylvain Chouleur
but I want that when I launch dhcpcd manually, the resolv.conf file be created/updated And I didn't see anything about that in the manpage From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpc

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Marcus Markus Schönhaber wrote on 02/04/07 02:27: > ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice > (2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch > version of STLport is installed: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860 > Looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt and CC%CC$CC6 characters

2007-04-02 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:10:58PM +0300, Juho Rosqvist wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 13:49:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > Hello > > > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:31:34AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > > > Juho Rosqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Now, the subject _sh

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Markus Markus Schönhaber wrote on 02/04/07 02:27: > ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice > (2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch > version of STLport is installed: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860 > Looking

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd don't create resolv.conf

2007-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 April 2007, "Sylvain Chouleur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] dhcpcd don't create resolv.conf': > I know that this problem is may be not in rapport with gentoo, but i > try: When I call dhcpcd on an interface, it don't create or replace the > file /etc/resolv.conf > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?': > And what's about sharing /root ? is there any problem or not ? I never > did it but was wondering about. No, different distros will require slightly di

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

2007-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Daevid Vincent, > locutus ~ # emerge -at bittorrent mplayerplug-in xine-ui > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild U ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716 [0.99.4-r5] > USE="-debug%" > [ebuild U ] net-w

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd don't create resolv.conf

2007-04-02 Thread Sylvain Chouleur
Hello I know that this problem is may be not in rapport with gentoo, but i try: When I call dhcpcd on an interface, it don't create or replace the file /etc/resolv.conf Is there an option or anything to do in order to update this file? Thanks Sylvain Chouleur ___

[gentoo-user] How to prevent www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

2007-04-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
I keep noticing this kind of thing. locutus ~ # emerge -at bittorrent mplayerplug-in xine-ui These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716 [0.99.4-r5] USE="-debug%" [ebuild U ] net-ww

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Shared Libraries

2007-04-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. April 2007, Manish Marathe wrote: > Hello, > > I want to build all components as shared libraries. So I wanted to know, is > there any global USE Flag or any other global change I can make to the > portage environment to make all components build as shared libraries rather > than chan

[gentoo-user] Building Shared Libraries

2007-04-02 Thread Manish Marathe
Hello, I want to build all components as shared libraries. So I wanted to know, is there any global USE Flag or any other global change I can make to the portage environment to make all components build as shared libraries rather than changing each component's ebuild file to make it build as a sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt and CC%CC$CC6 characters

2007-04-02 Thread Juho Rosqvist
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 13:49:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:31:34AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > > Juho Rosqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Now, the subject _should_ read: > > > Mutt and ÅåÄäÖö characters > > [snip] > > > I'm really at a

RE: [gentoo-user] The next step in AV

2007-04-02 Thread Wayne Oliver
> -Original Message- > From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 April 2007 05:50 > To: Gentoo mailing list > Subject: [gentoo-user] The next step in AV > > I currently have an HDTV hooked up to a desktop computer running > Gentoo and xfce4, all controlled by a wireless keyboard/mou

[gentoo-user] Font size based on access method

2007-04-02 Thread Grant
I have the font sizes cranked up in xfce4 on my HDTV because I view it from across the room. I also NX in to it from my laptop though, and then I have to deal with the huge fonts on my laptop. How would you handle this situation? I could set up a different user, but I want to be able to control

[gentoo-user] The next step in AV

2007-04-02 Thread Grant
I currently have an HDTV hooked up to a desktop computer running Gentoo and xfce4, all controlled by a wireless keyboard/mouse from the couch. It's awesome. However, I think the next step is to control everything from a laptop on the couch. There would be a normal xfce4 desktop on the laptop, b

Re: [gentoo-user] headphones don't work since upgrade to kernel 2.6.19???

2007-04-02 Thread Crayon
On Monday 02 April 2007 17:47, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > For me alsa-driver (not kernel-alsa) did not work with kernel 2.6.19 > too. I upgraded to kernel 2.6.20 and latest alsa-driver, and my > problem was solved. HDA Intel has been nothing but a total disaster for me. I built a new system a few

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron

2007-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 April 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Monday 2 April 2007 16:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > moriah ~ # crontab -e > > > 22:05:13 Could not chdir to /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs: Permission > > > denied moriah ~ # > > > > > > BillK > > > > You HAVE to do that as root > > The # character in

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron

2007-04-02 Thread Alexis Lahouze
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Re: [gentoo-user] fcron

2007-04-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 2 April 2007 16:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > moriah ~ # crontab -e > > 22:05:13 Could not chdir to /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs: Permission > > denied moriah ~ # > > > > BillK > > You HAVE to do that as root The # character in the prompt usually indicates a root shell...so I guess the OP

Re: [gentoo-user] which package?

2007-04-02 Thread Boris Fersing
2007/4/2, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a > given file belongs ? > Man equery seems of little help If you want to know which package installed an existing file, use: equery b

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron

2007-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Looks like fcron has changed its user group from cron to fcron. Once > I realised this I have been able to add users to fcron and it works - > for users. > > However I have quite a number of system level root jobs that I cant > list or edit using cront

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron

2007-04-02 Thread Alexis Lahouze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 W.Kenworthy a écrit : > Looks like fcron has changed its user group from cron to fcron. Once I > realised this I have been able to add users to fcron and it works - for > users. > > However I have quite a number of system level root jobs that I cant

Re: [gentoo-user] which package?

2007-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a > given file belongs ? > Man equery seems of little help If you want to know which package installed an existing file, use: equery belongs If you know which file you want to hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant emerge gnome on my P4 box?

2007-04-02 Thread Fabio
In the future, please include also the output of emerge --info. Best regards, On 31/03/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 31 March 2007 16:38:02 Jesper Taxbøl wrote: > I have tried emerging gnome on my P4 box, to do some programming work > in Eclipse. > > My box fails

Re: [gentoo-user] which package?

2007-04-02 Thread Fabio
equery belongs /path/to/file You must be root or member of the portage group. Cheers! On 02/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a given file belongs ? Man equery seems of little help -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] which package?

2007-04-02 Thread alain . didierjean
Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a given file belongs ? Man equery seems of little help -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] fcron

2007-04-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
Looks like fcron has changed its user group from cron to fcron. Once I realised this I have been able to add users to fcron and it works - for users. However I have quite a number of system level root jobs that I cant list or edit using crontab -e or -l on multiple systems moriah ~ # crontab -e

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Adam Carter
> I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers > serving a given IP. > > I don't remember if it was nslookup, host, dig or what but not finding > it in those various man pages. I have made a different assumtion about what your question means than other posters - assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers > > serving a given IP. > > What do you with that? There's no such thing - any nameserver _can_ > return any IP. Authoritative answers c

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread James
Alan McKinnon linuxholdings.co.za> writes: > > On Monday 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > reader newsguy.com newsguy.com> wrote: > > > I know I've once known and used a command that listed the > > > nameservers serving a given IP. > > > > What do you with that? There's no such thing -

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:29 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > >> Will consider memtest as an option, but again, the memory is reasonably >> new - it was upgraded recently to have more memory on the laptop. > > aha! that rings alarm bells... new memory? no possibility it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know I've once known and used a command that listed the > > nameservers serving a given IP. > > What do you with that? There's no such thing - any nameserver _can_ > return any IP. He's actually af

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-02 Thread Ryan Curtin
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 04:03:48PM +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, guys > > Recently I was looking through my logs when I got pissed off (again) by > the big number of lines showing something like 'sshd: auth. error: > unknown user "XXX" from "some IP address"'. I wrote a script which > automati

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers > serving a given IP. What do you with that? There's no such thing - any nameserver _can_ return any IP. > I know there are online sites that will do it, Like? Alexander Skwar

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Remy Blank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers > serving a given IP. dig -x 123.45.67.89 HTH. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 01 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP': > I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers > serving a given IP. > > I don't remember if it was nslookup, host, dig or what but not finding >

[gentoo-user] fontconfig causes segment faults!

2007-04-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I just want to tell everybody that spurious segment faults with ooffice / xsane / xcdroast and probably many more packages are caused by media-libs/fontconfig . Once I upgraded from 2.3.2-r2 to 2.4.2 the problem was solved (it was just a bit hard to find out) I guess that any of the followin

[gentoo-user] [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread reader
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers serving a given IP. I don't remember if it was nslookup, host, dig or what but not finding it in those various man pages. I know there are online sites that will do it, but does anyone know a command line tool that gives that i

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:29 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Will consider memtest as an option, but again, the memory is reasonably > new - it was upgraded recently to have more memory on the laptop. aha! that rings alarm bells... new memory? no possibility it's faulty? or was fitted with a tiny

Re: [gentoo-user] headphones don't work since upgrade to kernel 2.6.19???

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I've rebooted today with kernel 2.6.19 (used 2.6.18 before). I have a Intel 945G/GZ/P/PL motherboard and a Intel hda on board soundcard (Alsamixer says "Card: HDA Intel" and "Chip: Realtek ALC260"). Look for the Bugs concerning the kernel and hda-intel drivers http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?

Re: [gentoo-user] headphones don't work since upgrade to kernel 2.6.19???

2007-04-02 Thread Roger Luethi
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:51:58 +0200, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > I've rebooted today with kernel 2.6.19 (used 2.6.18 before). I have a > Intel 945G/GZ/P/PL motherboard and a Intel hda on board soundcard [...] > Kernel version: > Linux atpcbygc 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 I don't know anything about the Gentoo k

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:35:42 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I got bitten in the latest stable kernel (2.6.19-r5). It moved SATA > support out of SCSI, and into a separate section altogether. I plowed > through "make oldconfig", hitting "N" for every option. Because I have > a SATA drive, the resu

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:02:32 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I don't mind the 30 or 40 megs for the source tarball+patches in my > distfiles directory. But the quarter gig for each minor "r" bump, most > of which I never build, is a bit much. Why install it if you're not going to build it? r bumps

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:41:18 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > No, you don't NEED to have seperate /boot partitions. The problem > might be, that the default filenames "overlap" in Gentoo and Ubuntu. > But if you make sure that this does not happen and if you setup > your bootloader (grub?) "properl

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix error message

2007-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 18:40:49 -0600, Adrian wrote: > Odd things with eix-0.7.9 0.8.8 is the latest stable eix and fixes this problem. -- Neil Bothwick I distinctly remember forgetting that. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai

2007-04-02 Thread Nelson, David J
> -Original Message- > From: Hemmann, Volker Armin > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 March 2007 23:44 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai > > > > one question makes s much of a difference. And instead of > two passwords, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the > > /boot and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for > > that distro too? > > No, you don't NEED to have seperate /b