AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Zimmerling, Alexander
>> I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private Hi, I have the same problem here. Deleting the files help, but not for long. After 3-4 Logins without any problem, the problem returns. regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Tim
Randy Barlow wrote: > Randy Barlow wrote: >> I see a package called mime-types, but it seems to install >> /etc/mime.types and not /etc/apache2/mime.types... Help? > > I found a temporary solution by symlinking /etc/apache2/mime.types to > /etc/mime.types, but that doesn't seem like the correct w

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow wrote: > I see a package called mime-types, but it seems to install > /etc/mime.types and not /etc/apache2/mime.types... Help? I found a temporary solution by symlinking /etc/apache2/mime.types to /etc/mime.types, but that doesn't seem like the correct way to go... -- Randy Barlow

[gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Hi! I just upgraded from Apache 2.0.x to 2.2.6 and am working out kinks. Right now I see * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting apache2 ... [ !! ] There is nothing in /var/log/messages and /var/log/apache2/error_log shows [Sun Oct 07 22:51:36 200

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 01:50 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: > i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a > solution for it: > > since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at > least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i > don'

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:25 -0700, Hex Star wrote: > You should take note of the error message that occurs when you > experience this problem and paste the error msg here well, that would be indeed a very good idea; however, i don't start gnome from a terminal but from gdm and i don't know where t

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Hex Star
You should take note of the error message that occurs when you experience this problem and paste the error msg here

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread felix
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:26:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A total non-issue in my experience. I've never had an LVM problem yet, > but maybe I'm just lucky. The one thing you do need to be aware of it > that you require LVM support at boot time or shortly thereafter. So > either compile

[gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a solution for it: since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i don't have a usable desktop till i type "metacity" into some terminal. ap

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 07 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: - You loose bit performance, but not much, you won't feel it without benchmarks. I very much doubt this. LVM is one extra layer between the filesystem and the physical disk and it basically consists of a mapping b

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 8. Oktober 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very > > severe problems. > > Could you give an example? ok, example. I might be totally wrong, so don't believe me: The splice system call was added with

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very > severe problems. Could you give an example? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Mick wrote: > Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have > repeatedly failed to log in? You can also have a look at denyhosts... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Hex Star
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Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer

2007-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 October 2007, pat wrote: > Hello, > > Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video > files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: > *** > Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. > Enable it at compilation. > Requested audio codec fa

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? The majority of folks around here will have used LVM :-) > I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop > box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Remy Blank wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users > > with a public key in their ~/.ssh can login. > > This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real > problem is that your logs fill with fa

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: > > Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? > Simple pros and cons? > > Pro: > - You loose bit performance, but not much, you won't feel it without > benchmarks. I very much doubt this. LVM is one extra

[gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Remy Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users with a > public key in their ~/.ssh can login. This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real problem is that your logs fill with failed log

[gentoo-user] Re: Perl module problem

2007-10-07 Thread Moshe Kamensky
Hi, Does /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm exist? What is the output of perl -le 'print foreach @INC' By the way, I run urxvt fine with the Scalar::Util that comes with perl. do you have something like /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/List/Util/Util.so Moshe

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:06:41 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the linux-headers and the kernel are completly off -sync. There is no harm in > using headers with a higher/lower version number. > But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional & allows flexib

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:13:21 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes - there are (were?) a few incompatibilities still with 64 bit > > os'es that dont exist with 32 bit. Basicly, there still doesnt > > seem to be a compelling reason to go 64bit for a desktop at the > > moment. Serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello William Kenworthy, > Basicly, there still doesnt seem to be a > compelling reason to go 64bit for a desktop at the moment. Doesn't that rather depend on your intended use of the desktop? Some apps benefit greatly fro the 64 bit environment. -- Neil Bothwick The best antiques are old fri

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/10/7, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:07 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > 2007/10/7, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much > > > the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer

2007-10-07 Thread pat
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > pat schrieb: >> Hello, >> >> Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video files >> doesn't >> work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: >> *** >> Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. >> Enable it at compilation. >> Requested a

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:33 -0700 > > "Hex Star" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no harm in doing so :) > > If you say such things, please add a short explanation what makes you > think that. After all this isn't IRC. > > In fa

Re: **SPAM** [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer

2007-10-07 Thread Łukasz Dudek
Dnia 2007-10-07, o godz. 15:45:50 pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał(a): > Hello, > > Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video > files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: > *** > Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. > Enable it at compi

[gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer

2007-10-07 Thread pat
Hello, Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: *** Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available. Enable it at c

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:07 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > 2007/10/7, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much > > the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices > > attached to it that the livecd cant deal w

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Sonntag, 07. Okt 2007, 10:40:10 +0100 schrieb Mick: > Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have > repeatedly failed to log in? I am looking here at a server which over the > last week is being attacked daily with random usernames. So the only > constant in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/10/7, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much > the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices > attached to it that the livecd cant deal with. > > The cure was to boot from a redhat 7 livecd and insta

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
Never had a problem with LVM. On a mythTV box with LVM, started with 80GB IDE, then added in a 300Gb IDE, then a few months later another 300mb, sata this time. Basicly transparent to Myth I have avoided LVM on laptops before now because its extra complexity and I'll never add multiple disks. B

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Elias Probst wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007 11:40:10 schrieb Mick: > > Hi All, > > > > Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have > > repeatedly failed to log in? > > I think you're looking for: net-analyzer/fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.o

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? > I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. > That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, > which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems mo

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:33 -0700 "Hex Star" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no harm in doing so :) If you say such things, please add a short explanation what makes you think that. After all this isn't IRC. In fact, I would not suggest doing that. While kernel developers do their bes

[gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional & allows flexibility for unforeseen st

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
071007 Florian Philipp wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> more generally you could try to install from Knoppix >> -- that's what I used when I installed my current system 4 years ago -- >> or the simple but powerful System Rescue ( http://www.sysresccd.org/ ), >> which I plan to use when I install Ge

RE: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Joost van Surksum
If you have iptables available in your kernel, a quick manual step could be to block all traffic incoming from that IP address. A statement like the following could work: iptables -I INPUT -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -j DROP (This drops all traffic coming from IP address XXX... effectively, it simply loo

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Elias Probst
Am Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007 11:40:10 schrieb Mick: > Hi All, > > Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have > repeatedly failed to log in? I think you're looking for: net-analyzer/fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.org) Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number: "09:F9:11:

[gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
Hi All, Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have repeatedly failed to log in? I am looking here at a server which over the last week is being attacked daily with random usernames. So the only constant in these repeated attempts is not the username, but the IP addr

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: 071007 Chuanwen Wu wrote: The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? You have an informed reply re your Dell, which I don't know, but more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my cur

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
071007 Chuanwen Wu wrote: > The chipset is ICH8. > So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? You have an informed reply re your Dell, which I don't know, but more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my current system 4 years a

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Dan, Dan Farrell wrote: > AFAIK you are correct, this is a bug in a few of the initscripts that > don't behave sensibly if the root fs is network mounted. thx for your answer a raised a bug report with the number: 194967. Bye Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software eng

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices attached to it that the livecd cant deal with. The cure was to boot from a redhat 7 livecd and install from that. Worked fine. Also, dell has a "legacy" mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Chuanwen Wu
The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? I have install Red Flag.But it 's i686 but not x86_64,so I can't chroot from the Red Flag to install Gentoo. 2007/10/7, Hex Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, you probably have a recent chipset (blanking on name cu