Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > /etc/genkernel.conf > > MENUCONFIG="no" > MRPROPER="no" > CLEAN="no" > BOOTSPLASH="no" > SAVE_CONFIG="yes" > DEBUGLEVEL=5 > BOOTLOADER="grub" > USECOLOR="yes" > > > cd /usr/src/linux > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > make oldconfig > genkernel --kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-18 Thread Kent Fredric
Quite Erroneous Debate? > > Jakub is no longer a bug-wrangler, or a dev, he retired last month. > > Ah, good things still happen ? ;P Jakub was very good at his job, but he does have an attitude problem. Are you trying to emulate him, you are already halfway there? Give the guy a break :P. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Kent Fredric
sorry, top posted :S... damn gmail & forgetting. -- Kent ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x| print "enNOSPicAMreil [EMAIL PROTECTED]"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Kent Fredric
/etc/genkernel.conf MENUCONFIG="no" MRPROPER="no" CLEAN="no" BOOTSPLASH="no" SAVE_CONFIG="yes" DEBUGLEVEL=5 BOOTLOADER="grub" USECOLOR="yes" cd /usr/src/linux zcat /proc/config.gz > .config make oldconfig genkernel --kernname=WhateverFitsMyMood all the above gives you you the power to configu

Re: [gentoo-user] Force app to use specific outgoing ip address?

2007-05-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:45:18PM +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote > I have a gateway machine with a single NIC but several virtual IP > addresses. I have several instances of apache running, each bound to > listen on their own virtual IP address. All the instances of apache are > running in proxy

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread burlingk
> -Original Message- > From: Philip Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:26 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ? > Once you get used to it, you'll probably like Gentoo: most > people do. Those who leave usually

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007 02:36:06 +0300 > > David Harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for being stupid here but I don't know what else to add to this > > problem. The bad file is alutInit.c > > > > the bad line is: > > > > if (!alcCloseDevi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, David Harel wrote: > Sorry for being stupid here but I don't know what else to add to this > problem. The bad file is alutInit.c > > the bad line is: > > if (!alcCloseDevice (device)) > > > I couldn't find where the function is but obviously it returns the wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 19 May 2007 02:36:06 +0300 David Harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for being stupid here but I don't know what else to add to this > problem. The bad file is alutInit.c > > the bad line is: > > if (!alcCloseDevice (device)) > > > I couldn't find where the function is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread David Harel
Sorry for being stupid here but I don't know what else to add to this problem. The bad file is alutInit.c the bad line is: if (!alcCloseDevice (device)) I couldn't find where the function is but obviously it returns the wrong data type. I was advised to emerge sync. Did that recen

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-18 Thread David Harel
I gave mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] the file. Because I am new in bugzulla and I was afraid to attach such a file to the bug data. I didn't see him do anything with the file nor did he come back to me about it. Do you think I should attach the file to the bug report? Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-18 Thread Neil Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So yes, that is a circular dependency, even without Gentoo involved. Not everything is simple, and not everything is cut and dry. Sometimes the problem is not directly the package manager's fault. Give them time to work out all the glitches. 7.2 is fairly new. The chi

Re: [gentoo-user] firewall on a cd

2007-05-18 Thread Neil Walker
Jamers wrote: Any suggestions? Have a look at Redwall. Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
David Harel wrote: > emerge freealut failes with error: alutInit.c:150: error: wrong > type argument to unary exclamation mark. Too short. Email. Not enough. Info. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 18 May 2007 21:50:46 +0300 David Harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > > emerge freealut failes with error: alutInit.c:150: error: wrong type > argument to unary exclamation mark. Any idea? > > > I was able to build the freealut sources that gentoo wanted to download manu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 18 May 2007 18:04:16 + arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to know whether Gentoo has "simplicity" or "KISS and clean" > structure in its design as an OS ? this is the only thing that is > stopping me from using Gentoo. Gentoo philosophy says *nothing* about > simplicity, it ta

Re: [gentoo-user] firewall on a cd

2007-05-18 Thread Karl Haines
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jamers wrote: > Hello, > > I've built several gentoo based firewall and have been pretty > happy with them. Since I use older hardware, the eventual > hard drive failures are a problem. > > I am looking for input as to the best method to use to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 May 2007 17:15, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2007 18:10:41 Mick wrote: > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "boa" have been masked. > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > > request: - www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20 (masked by: pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Dale
arnuld wrote: > > i am talking of *both* methods. i don't remember anything *exactly* > but with genkernel i had exactly same weired problems when i didn't > choose VIA PATA in my kernel while compiling manually. i tried 2 times > and after that i quit generkernel and decided always to do a > trans

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: pppconfig can't find internal modem.

2007-05-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 May 2007 04:08, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:18:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my > > consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. > > This is a 1999 Dell PIII

[gentoo-user] firefox & pluggins

2007-05-18 Thread alain . didierjean
I have a whole mess of firefox, firefox-bin, pluggins that work or don't and the like. Is it feasible, on an amd64 to have a single firefox (preferably 64bits) that can play flash videos, execute java applets and is easy to configure ? What packages do I need ? Any tricks to make it work ? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
070518 arnuld wrote: >> On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> AFAIK, Gentoo filosophy is about choices. >> If you want it simple, you can keep it simple. >> If you don't, you can do it too. > yep, 99% it was *my* mistake. > hey.. i did not blame Gentoo in my earlier post. Yes, G

[gentoo-user] firewall on a cd

2007-05-18 Thread Jamers
Hello, I've built several gentoo based firewall and have been pretty happy with them. Since I use older hardware, the eventual hard drive failures are a problem. I am looking for input as to the best method to use to get a gentoo based (iptables) firewall onto a bootable CD, so I do not have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, none of those errors is Gentoo specific. It's kernel compilations problems, and you'll have those in any distribution. Even the binary ones, if you want to install a custom kernel. for the users that can't compile the kernel by himse

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 arnuld wrote: > 1.) i had a Serial-ATA drive and AMD64 on ASUS with VIA chipsets. > kernel-compilation part of Handbook asks to choose PPP options and MCE [...] > other motherboards, Intel e.g., but we can leave that to the user for > finding the spe

[gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread David Harel
Greetings, emerge freealut failes with error: alutInit.c:150: error: wrong type argument to unary exclamation mark. Any idea? -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Fax:+972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK, Gentoo filosophy is about choices. If you want it simple, you can keep it simple. If you don't, you can do it too. oh. And you discovered what was going wrong in your first 10 installations, right? Can you tell if it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:04, arnuld wrote: > OK, i found Gentoo a great incident of my life :-), 10 installations > and on 11th time i knew what went wrong in last 10 times and from > there it never went wrong ;-). i want to use Gentoo but i have one > doubt. i am much more inclined towards usin

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
OK, i found Gentoo a great incident of my life :-), 10 installations and on 11th time i knew what went wrong in last 10 times and from there it never went wrong ;-). i want to use Gentoo but i have one doubt. i am much more inclined towards using "simple" things, like simplicity in designing an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ATI has nice graphics maybe (I still prefer nVidia), but they > > are not friendly to the Open Source World. > > AMD announced last week that they will be re

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-18 Thread rzilka
> Hey gang... > > I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. > > Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing > that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings that courier has some > security issues. I was just curious which

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 18 May 2007 18:10:41 Mick wrote: > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "boa" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: - www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 > keyword) # Raúl Porcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:40:30 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > eix and portage are telling me: > > [D] www-servers/boa > Available versions: [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 > [M]~0.94.14_alpha20 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 May 2007 16:58, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2007 17:40:30 Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > eix and portage are telling me: > > > > [D] www-servers/boa > > Available versions: [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:40:30 +0100, Mick wrote: > However, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=boa is still shown > as stable. The Changelog is not showing anything to explain why it has > been masked. Am I missing something? Look in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.mask # Raúl Porcel (18 M

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 18 May 2007 17:40:30 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > eix and portage are telling me: > > [D] www-servers/boa > Available versions: [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20 > [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21 > Installed versions: 0.

[gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Mick
Hi All, eix and portage are telling me: [D] www-servers/boa Available versions: [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21 Installed versions: 0.94.13-r1(16:46:05 03/19/07)(-tetex) Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 18 May 2007 16:48, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > I'll answer another question first: The asterisk indicates consecutive > lines w/ the same data. So here, we have a full block (512 bytes, > 0x000-0x1ff) containing almost only zeros. It stops with a valid > master boot record magic number (0

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:14 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question? > > I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it. Doesn't make me wonder, as I'll explain below, there's no file system starting at offset 0 in that image of your stick...

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question? > > I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it. > > Like most USB sticks I would assume that it is either FAT32 or FAT16. > Given that this is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:14 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > No matter if I use vfat, msdos, or ntfs. It seems to me that I > > > need to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > No matter if I use vfat, msdos, or ntfs. It seems to me that I need > > to reconstruct the hex of the partition table - but don't know how to > > do this and te

[gentoo-user] Can't compile webalizer...

2007-05-18 Thread Huib van Wees
Hi all, I try to emerge webalizer, but this keeps failing... I searched on the list, but didn't find the error.. This is the error where the compile breaks: dns_resolv.o: In function `open_cache': dns_resolv.c:(.text+0x100): undefined reference to `__db185_open_4002' dns_resolv.o: In function `

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting the same errors as before: > == > # mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/sda1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, >missing codepage or

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 xorg ctrl+alt+fn doesn't work (anymore)

2007-05-18 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Friday 18 May 2007, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > Hello, > I have GenToo running on x86 and amd64 platforms with (nearly) identical > packages (mostly bleeding edge) among these xorg-x11-7.2 . > On the amd-64 platform (only),under icewm as well as under fvwm2 I > cannot longer switch to a vert

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 May 2007 10:24, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > You still seem to be missing the correct syntax. (note: this might not > solve your problem, and even issuing the right command might be of no > help, but since you asked for it, here it is). [snip . . . ] Thanks! Things don't always go as they

Re: [gentoo-user] airodump aireplay

2007-05-18 Thread Arnau Bria
On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:12:59 +0200 Bryan Østergaard wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:37:22PM +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: > > Hi, > > > > could some one tell what do I have to install if I need > > airodumop/aireplay? > > > > It's supposed to be in net-wireless/aircrack-ng, but I don't have > > b

Re: [gentoo-user] airodump aireplay

2007-05-18 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:37:22PM +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > > could some one tell what do I have to install if I need > airodumop/aireplay? > > It's supposed to be in net-wireless/aircrack-ng, but I don't have both > files... Enable the wifi USE flag and reinstall aircrack-ng. Regards, B

[gentoo-user] Peace, please [WAS: Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs]]

2007-05-18 Thread Remy Blank
Hi people, I sure didn't expect a simple thank you to people spending lots of their time ensuring that I can save mine, degenerate into a flamewar. Now, we all know about this, don't we? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 For those who don't, I'll summarize here: -

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-18 Thread Neil Walker
Dale wrote: No. The update code is built into the hardware now, if just needs a FAT partition it can read the new firmware file from. Now that is kewl!! I need to make sure the next mobo I buy has that feature. ;-) Or you can just emerge syslinux and boot a floppy image on your hd from

[gentoo-user] airodump aireplay

2007-05-18 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, could some one tell what do I have to install if I need airodumop/aireplay? It's supposed to be in net-wireless/aircrack-ng, but I don't have both files... Cheers! -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 May 2007 18:03:21 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > If A depends on B and B depends on A, you build A without support > > for B, then you can safely install B and A again with the features > > you wanted. > > Great idea. Lots of redundant compiles and manual work just because > uncle

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-18 Thread burlingk
> -Original Message- > From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:02 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular > dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-18 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ATI has nice graphics maybe (I still prefer nVidia), but they > are not friendly to the Open Source World. AMD announced last week that they will be releasing ATI drivers as OSS: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0

[gentoo-user] amd64 xorg ctrl+alt+fn doesn't work (anymore)

2007-05-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have GenToo running on x86 and amd64 platforms with (nearly) identical packages (mostly bleeding edge) among these xorg-x11-7.2 . On the amd-64 platform (only),under icewm as well as under fvwm2 I cannot longer switch to a vertual terminal by the key combination . I haven't enabled the "Dont

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 18 May 2007 10:29, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:27, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > IIRC, that is not the right syntax for mounting a loopback > > filesystem. If /tmp/r1 is the file containing the filesystem, try > > > > mount -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere > > > > and make sure you

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:27, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote: > > > Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by > > > running: > > > > > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512 > > > > > > But couldn't access it whatsoever. > > > > Oops! I could