[gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, The gentoo pam-0.99 update guide says something like "it's safe to remove /etc/pam.d/*". It should say "you _must_ remove /etc/pam.d/*". So that hurdle was cleared emerge -uD world continued then this: <...> groupadd: PAM authentication failed * * ERROR: net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.9.8 fai

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Neil, Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 1:23:50 AM, you wrote: > Exactly, and by the same token, you'll find Gentoo is unsupported > whatever the kernel version. VMware Workstation is a commercial product, > so the compatibility list is more do do with compatibility with their > support team than t

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Alex, Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 12:07:50 AM, you wrote: > I do not know qemu yet, but I guess it may be easier to setup. You are > right about the recent kernels, the vmware modules did not compile for me > several times until vmware released patches. Quite annoying. But apart > from that,

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Jerry, Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 11:59:42 PM, you wrote: > That and I believe the server package requires vm support in the cpu while the > workstation does not. There are no special kernel requirements for server and workstation. -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Neil, Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 9:45:45 PM, you wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:37:22 -0200, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: >> We've been using VMware Server and VMware Server Console at our lab. >> Everything works really good. The point is that you can't use a real >> phisical partition of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam recommendation

2008-01-29 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
On Jan 30, 2008 2:28 AM, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:52 -0700, Mike Diehl wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 January 2008 09:28:23 pm forgottenwizard wrote: > > On 16:13 Sat 26 Jan , Mike Diehl wrote: > > > I'm looking for an inexpensive USB webcam that works wit

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:49:30 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:20:38 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > So, the quick question is, is VM Ware the best way to go? I think > > XP is still lurking on a partition here... and I do need to run > > Internet Extorte

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam recommendation

2008-01-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:52 -0700, Mike Diehl wrote: > On Saturday 26 January 2008 09:28:23 pm forgottenwizard wrote: > > On 16:13 Sat 26 Jan , Mike Diehl wrote: > > > I'm looking for an inexpensive USB webcam that works with both Linux and > > > Windoze. Something that I can pick up at Walm

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:04:28 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I should run my own portage server here for our 6 home > machines? You could then sync once for the lot of them, rather than for each. You might find that convenient, and the servers might appreciate it too. --

Re: [gentoo-user] pam upgrade issue

2008-01-29 Thread Hal Martin
maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Now emerge -uD world barfs at pam-0.99 and directs me > to > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml > Yeah, that guide is useless. I'm assuming that you're trying to update PAM from 0.99.8.1-r1 to 0.99.9.0? > Here, among other things, it sa

Re: [gentoo-user] pam upgrade issue

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:32:19 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > Now emerge -uD world barfs at pam-0.99 and directs me > to > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml > > Here, among other things, it says to edit certain > files, but it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:19:08 +0100 Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a > little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up > when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility > for that?

[gentoo-user] Sound isolation issue coming to a close

2008-01-29 Thread Richard Marzan
after searching long and hard i finally found someone with the same chipset as mine and with a solution/patch @ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/50903/focus=50905 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc problem

2008-01-29 Thread Greg Bowser
Every seen this error? # gcc-config -l * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid! [1] i586-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 Here's what I get when I run gcc-config-l: wheeljack firewall # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.2 * The * indicates that this is my active profile. I see that when you list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc problem

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
James wrote: Hello, Every seen this error? # gcc-config -l * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid! [1] i586-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 the system will not compile anything? Ideas on fixing? James Try: $ gcc-config 1 This will tell the system that 4.1.2 is the guy to use (I guess your

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam recommendation

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Diehl
On Saturday 26 January 2008 09:28:23 pm forgottenwizard wrote: > On 16:13 Sat 26 Jan , Mike Diehl wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I'm looking for an inexpensive USB webcam that works with both Linux and > > Windoze. Something that I can pick up at Walmart or Circuit City would > > be best. > > > >

[gentoo-user] Gcc problem

2008-01-29 Thread James
Hello, Every seen this error? # gcc-config -l * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid! [1] i586-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 the system will not compile anything? Ideas on fixing? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 29, 2008 5:04 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > First step would be eix-sync which is > > > failing with only a message > > > > > > problems runni

[gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that? I followed the guide at

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations

2008-01-29 Thread Richard Marzan
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > I tried googling around but no helpful content so far. I have a > laptop with built-in sound. It uses the HDA_intel kernel module. My > problem is that I can't silence the onboard/built-in speakers when I > plug in the headphones to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Kevin
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> First step would be eix-sync which is >>> failing with only a message >>> >>> problems running time emerge --sync >> Run emerge --sync directly so

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Library

2008-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, why do you need to upgrade your lib in the first place? And why not ask HP about it? Maybe they can provide you with an updated binary. Last point: does it work at all? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 29, 2008 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > First step would be eix-sync which is > > failing with only a message > > > > problems running time emerge --sync > > Run emerge --sync directly so you can see the actual

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:01:00 +0100 Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? > > Yes! I've found this: > (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver > not found) that is the only error reported... > But this suggests me nothing... I've looked

[gentoo-user] pam upgrade issue

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Now emerge -uD world barfs at pam-0.99 and directs me to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml Here, among other things, it says to edit certain files, but it doesn't say which ones? Unless it means all of the ones under /etc/pam.d/ I checked several of them and none

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread deface
try emerge --sync; emerge --update --newuse --deep world; emerge -- depclean On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have a machine that hasn't been updated in quite awhile I turned it on today with the intention of possibly using it to replace an older MYthTV server that is going b

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > First step would be eix-sync which is > failing with only a message > > problems running time emerge --sync Run emerge --sync directly so you can see the actual error message. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 45: Resident alien

[gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Knecht
I have a machine that hasn't been updated in quite awhile I turned it on today with the intention of possibly using it to replace an older MYthTV server that is going bad. First step would be eix-sync which is failing with only a message problems running time emerge --sync Not much help there. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HP Library

2008-01-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
James schrieb: > scsi is another interface. It's specifically a buss, which is difficult > to ease drop onto Most of my suggestions are of little use debugging > scsi problems. I don't have scsi problems, thanks. ;) Stefan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: HP Library

2008-01-29 Thread James
Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at> writes: > > 1. What type of interface are we talking about > > (rs232 serial, ethernet parallel)? > Unsure what interface you mean ... > It's a tape library connected to the host via SCSI, with an additional > Remote Management Card from HP providing webaccess,

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread b.n.
Cristian Gary ha scritto: > probe VirtualBox . Any more info on how does it compare to vmware or qemu? m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:36:43 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. > > When I was at the vmware website, browsing the "system requirements" it > listed older versions of both linux distributions and kernel versions. > Perhaps those were the "supported" settings

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-29 Thread Pupino
> any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Yes! I've found this: (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) that is the only error reported... But this suggests me nothing... I've looked at eselect and nvidia is the opengl interface... revdep-rebuild tells it's all ok.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Pupino wrote: > Hi all, > I've got a weird trouble with Xorg... > At boot Xorg is loaded (it's in the default runlevel) but it does not > load the nvidia driver, but if I restart it from the command line > (without any change in the config) it works and loads the modul

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 05:02:58 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. > > It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. When I was at the vmware website, browsing the "system requirements

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 30, 2008 7:24 AM, Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] > For completeness, the .config for my 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 kernel is here: > http://pastebin.ca/881174 Oh, I just found the IO scheduler setting. The scheduler in use is CFQ. I can't find the CPU scheduler though. I g

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build" FIXED

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mick wrote: > > > Retrace your steps and follow the guide on this > one. I'm sure that > > you can recover if you ended up with no gcc, but > don't know off hand > > what it takes to do it. (I am sure that the > forums

Re: [gentoo-user] leapfrogging versions

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > > IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202459 > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > Bingo! And awaay we go! Thanks Volker ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi James, On Jan 30, 2008 5:26 AM, James Ausmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] > Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even > with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency > upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be >

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Ionut, On Jan 28, 2008 5:04 PM, ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] > Firstly this is an overkill. secondly it has again nothing to do with > the choppy mplayer issue. Think about it: an vo=gl2 means mplayer will > not use the CPU for video rendering but the GPU hence the Cpu >

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Jerry McBride writes: > I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple > needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. > And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware > workstation evaluation copy that is. Right, but you can use t

[gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-29 Thread Pupino
Hi all, I've got a weird trouble with Xorg... At boot Xorg is loaded (it's in the default runlevel) but it does not load the nvidia driver, but if I restart it from the command line (without any change in the config) it works and loads the module normally... What could the trouble be? I have absolu

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. -- Neil Bothwick Monday is the root of all evil! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread »Q«
"Dmitry S. Makovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had impression that FF does checks of pages in your Bookmarks every > once in a while which includes updating icon etc. Could that be it? > Snoop on the wire to see what does it fetch (sorry, I don't have head > of this thread so I don't know if y

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 04:26:01 pm Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > On 1/29/08, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Mike, > > > > I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple > > needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. > > And

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 11:37:15 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Yes, it does here too*. I'm still scratching my head over how to pipe > > it into a command to filter grep output, but without involving much > > typing; that's why I went looking for so

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations

2008-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > I tried googling around but no helpful content so far. I have a > laptop with built-in sound. It uses the HDA_intel kernel module. My > problem is that I can't silence the onboard/built-in speakers when I > plug in the headphones to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James Ausmus wrote: Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be recompiled with the ne

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build"

2008-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mick wrote: > Retrace your steps and follow the guide on this one. I'm sure that > you can recover if you ended up with no gcc, but don't know off hand > what it takes to do it. (I am sure that the forums are full of > suggestions for this problem). Easy. Grab any ol

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James Ausmus wrote: > Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild > (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency > upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be > recompiled with the new CFLAGS, he would

Re: [gentoo-user] Freenet overlay

2008-01-29 Thread Marc Redmann
I've collected a few ebuilds for freenet (encrypted p2p web) and now creating an own overlay for this. I don't know if it is the most recent version of freenet but you can find freenet-0.7_alpha_pre1104 in the sunrise overlay. brgds, Marc -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Weird problem while emerging virtualbox

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
I tried to emerge virtualbox, and I got this: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-emulation/virtualbox-1.5.2-r1 to / * VirtualBox-1.5.2_OSE.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 1/29/08, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Mike, > > I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple > needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And > secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation > eval

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
Michael Higgins wrote: > Hello, folks -- > > Most days, I work remotely from the 'ndoze net via rdesktop when I have > to access it for some reason. But the bandwidth there is getting choked > as others follow suit. > > I'm thinking I'd have a better time of it if I just had my own little > toyb

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Martin
Stefan Onken wrote: Hello, I am running a x86 gentoo box as a nfs server. As a filesystem I am using XFS on a 3ware Raid system. The 3ware systems seems to be quite quick, although access via NFS seems to be very slow. Any ideas how I can improve speed ? I was expected a speed only limited

Re: [gentoo-user] leapfrogging versions

2008-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202459 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On January 29, 2008, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote: > > > > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for > > > > www.gentoo.org w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HP Library

2008-01-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
James schrieb: > Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at> writes: > > >> Has anyone ever managed to upgrade a HP Surestore Library C7201NB with >> Gentoo on the host? > > Nope. Noone ever? ;) >> The hp_ltt-tool is only available in binary form and for old OSs, but >> nothing recent and for sure not f

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 1/29/08, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's not the case with VMware Workstation. Exactly. That's exactly the point that I forgot to specify on my 1st message, hehehee. That's basically the main difference between them. -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 28, 2008 5:57 PM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:29:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > > > But the list of packages being recompiled have mostly to do with > > video, audio and transcoding. I understand it's the --newuse flag > > that's causing those, not the

RE: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations

2008-01-29 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
> -Original Message- > From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:20 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations > > > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:58 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > > I tried goo

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote: > > > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for > > > www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread ionut cucu
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:08:02 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:18:26PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > > > The output of `grep flags /proc/cpuinfo` is: > > > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr > > pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflus

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:20:38 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > So, the quick question is, is VM Ware the best way to go? I think XP is > still lurking on a partition here... and I do need to run Internet > Extorter, Outlook, etc... pretend I'm in their "domain"... VMware is a good way to go, whethe

[gentoo-user] Re: network setup

2008-01-29 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get > > > address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get any, it sets up with > > > a fixed address? How can I set up this in the /etc/con.d/net? > > config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) > > fallback_eth0=( "aaa.bbb

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:37:22 -0200, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > We've been using VMware Server and VMware Server Console at our lab. > Everything works really good. The point is that you can't use a real > phisical partition of any of your disks. You have to create a virtual > disk for the gues

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Cristian Gary
probe VirtualBox .

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
We've been using VMware Server and VMware Server Console at our lab. Everything works really good. The point is that you can't use a real phisical partition of any of your disks. You have to create a virtual disk for the guest system. It works beautifully with a virtualization-compatible processor.

[gentoo-user] leapfrogging versions

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, It occured to me that emerge IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 fails with an "unable to build" error because my present version is 0.97. So I unmerged the older one and tried again but failed once more. Was that my problem? If so, what is the accepted procedure for leapfrogging versions? Maxim

[gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, folks -- Most days, I work remotely from the 'ndoze net via rdesktop when I have to access it for some reason. But the bandwidth there is getting choked as others follow suit. I'm thinking I'd have a better time of it if I just had my own little toybox -- I mean, Windows XP installation --

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations

2008-01-29 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:58 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > I tried googling around but no helpful content so far. I have a laptop > with built-in sound. It uses the HDA_intel kernel module. My problem is > that I can't silence the onboard/built-in speakers when I plug in the > headphon

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Dexter
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:58:19 pm Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > I tried googling around but no helpful content so far. I have a laptop > with built-in sound. It uses the HDA_intel kernel module. My problem is > that I can't silence the onboard/built-in speakers when I plug in the > headp

[gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations

2008-01-29 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
I tried googling around but no helpful content so far. I have a laptop with built-in sound. It uses the HDA_intel kernel module. My problem is that I can't silence the onboard/built-in speakers when I plug in the headphones to the machine. Muting sound would lead to all jacks and audio ports to be

[gentoo-user] Re: HP Library

2008-01-29 Thread James
Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at> writes: > Has anyone ever managed to upgrade a HP Surestore Library C7201NB with > Gentoo on the host? Nope. > The hp_ltt-tool is only available in binary form and for old OSs, but > nothing recent and for sure not for Gentoo. don't forget about possible runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql on a chrooted env

2008-01-29 Thread Hieu, Luu Danh
2008/1/29, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > my pc has died, so I'm trying to take all data from the disk... > I have it connected via usb, and I'm in a chrooted env on the old > system. [snip] Hello, It might be better if you copy over the files in /var/lib/mysql rather than starting the

[gentoo-user] HP Library

2008-01-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Has anyone ever managed to upgrade a HP Surestore Library C7201NB with Gentoo on the host? The hp_ltt-tool is only available in binary form and for old OSs, but nothing recent and for sure not for Gentoo. The alternative, the Firmware-Upload via the Remote Management Card of the library doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build"

2008-01-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > > Read this guide carefully and follow it to the > > letter: > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml > > deeper and deeper... > > > "It is safe to remove the older GCC version at this > time. If you feel the need, please issue the fol

Re: [gentoo-user] Chinese reader needed WAS emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build"

2008-01-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:13:15AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > This gentoo user had a problem very similar to mine > but since the conversation is in Chinese I was unable > to determine the outcome. Maybe there's a clue in > there that will help me resolve my issue. > > http://forums.gentoo.tw/vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Chinese reader needed WAS emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build"

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This gentoo user had a problem very similar to mine but since the conversation is in Chinese I was unable to determine the outcome. Maybe there's a clue in there that will help me resolve my issue. http://forums.gentoo.tw/viewtopic.php?p=57026&sid=a41bc0f35bf390cf14bf70eabc2512df --

[gentoo-user] Freenet overlay

2008-01-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've collected a few ebuilds for freenet (encrypted p2p web) and now creating an own overlay for this. If anyone's interested in it, please let me know. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://ww

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread felix
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote: > > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for > > www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason. > > Could it be you made it its startup page? When I emerge a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread felix
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:45:41PM +, Stroller wrote: > On 29 Jan 2008, at 07:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Konqueror would be even harder, since the binary itself is less than >> 5K and all the functionality presumably comes from the libs. > > That makes me imagine it might actually be _easi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:31:28 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > > I think it would be more appropriate to include it in kprinter, but I > > tried "kprinter someurl" and it couldn't handle HTML. > Why not a pdf printer: > > net-print/cups-pdf Because you would still need something to render the

[gentoo-user] add shell enviroment variable to apache2 process

2008-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I would like to 'pass' shell environment variable to apache2. Looking at the /etc/init.d/apache2 I've noticed, that env vars are cleared with 'clear_env_except'. I've tried to add the variable to the /etc/conf.d/apache2 KEEPENV directive but it didn't help. I also tried to add line 'NLS_LANG'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Jan 2008, at 07:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:49:19AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: Here's your chance. Add the feature to Firefox. ;) ... Konqueror would be even harder, since the binary itself is less than 5K and all the functionality presumably comes from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem

2008-01-29 Thread James Homuth
At 06:58 AM 29/01/2008, you wrote: Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Every time I write address different then local server (postfix) returns info "5.7.1 (some address): Relay access denied". What should I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 08:42 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:24:37 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > $ konqueror http://url.com/page.html --output page.pdf > > > > > > It seems like a common enough thing to want to do. > > > > I was astounded to not find such an opti

[gentoo-user] Error compiling db

2008-01-29 Thread Elyahou ITTAH
When I Compile sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r11 I got this error: configure: error: cannot find java include files Where i can get the includes ?

Re: [gentoo-user] location of update-grub

2008-01-29 Thread Matthias Guede
2008/1/29, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm rebuilding my gentoo. I liked having the update-grub script polish off > kernel installs, but I cannot seem to locate it. > Somebody who has it please tell me what package it's in. > > ++ kevin > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD As far as i known thi

[gentoo-user] Postfix problem

2008-01-29 Thread Mateusz Mierzwinski
Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Every time I write address different then local server (postfix) returns info "5.7.1 (some address): Relay access denied". What should I do? I don't know is it forwarding or

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Yes, it does here too*. I'm still scratching my head over how to pipe > it into a command to filter grep output, but without involving much > typing; that's why I went looking for someone else's solution. You probably already thought about this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-29 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 29. Jan, Jan Seeger spammed my inbox with > On Tue, 29. Jan, Peter Humphrey spammed my inbox with > > On Monday 28 January 2008 16:43:29 Jan Seeger wrote: > > > > > Nope. I pasted that into a file called pipe, and it still returns Unix time

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-29 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 29. Jan, Peter Humphrey spammed my inbox with > On Monday 28 January 2008 16:43:29 Jan Seeger wrote: > > Nope. I pasted that into a file called pipe, and it still returns Unix time > stamps, thus: > > $ grep completed /var/log/emerge.log |

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 28 January 2008 15:15:09 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > The solution Mick previously found seems to work just fine even > with /var/log/emerge.log: > > # grep completed /var/log/emerge.log | perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e' > Tue Nov 2 16:57:54 2004: ::: completed emerge (1 of 1) > sys-apps/

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 28 January 2008 16:43:29 Jan Seeger wrote: > perl -npe '/^\[(\d+)\]/; @times = localtime $1; $times[4]++; > $times[5]+=1900; s/\[\d+\]/$times[2]:$times[1] > $times[3].$times[4].$times[5]/;' > > Just pipe your log through that and you will get beautiful (european) > dates instead of times

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote: > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for > www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason. Could it be you made it its startup page? Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: htt

[gentoo-user] mysql on a chrooted env

2008-01-29 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, my pc has died, so I'm trying to take all data from the disk... I have it connected via usb, and I'm in a chrooted env on the old system. (I followe handbook instructions) I'm trying to do a mysql dump, but I'm not able to start mysql: (chroot) lx-arnau / # /etc/init.d/mysql start * Starti

[gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread Shaochun Wang
Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason. Any suggestion? -- Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:24:37 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > $ konqueror http://url.com/page.html --output page.pdf > > > > It seems like a common enough thing to want to do. > > I was astounded to not find such an option in either firefox or > konqueror. I think it would be more appropri