[gentoo-user] Thunderbird text message display oddities

2008-05-16 Thread PaulNM
Hey all, I'm not having any luck figuring out what's going on here, so I hope you can help. I have Thunderbird to display all messages in text, as I prefer that over html. However, some text messages display in a smaller and lighter font than the rest. It's really annoying since one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Hilt
On Fri, 16 May 2008 at 7:07pm -0700, Bob Young wrote: I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and have the basic system installed ( without X ). The problem began after I completed a successful "emerge -DuN world" The symptom is: when I start nano, (just nano by itself, not editing a file), several hun

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

2008-05-16 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 17 May 2008, Bob Young wrote: > Can anybody explain what's going on here, and tell me how I can fix > it? > >   > > BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at > the console works okay as well. Just a guess... Did you run etc-update? Ciao Francesco -

[gentoo-user] Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

2008-05-16 Thread Bob Young
Okay, I've had this happen before and was never able to fix it, hopefully someone here will recognize what is happening and tell me where I went wrong. I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and have the basic system installed ( without X ). The problem began after I completed a successful "emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation

2008-05-16 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Fri, 5/16/08, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Friday, May 16, 2008, 3:21 PM > On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim w

[gentoo-user] Re: Daemon Group Accounts

2008-05-16 Thread King Spook
Well, naturally I wasn't going to file a bug unless someone told me they were supposed to have matching uids/gids. It just seemed odd, for example, to have clamav's uid=103, and it's gid=1004. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread James
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > I have multiple external USB drives that I use with this kernel. > However I do have a couple that don't seem to work so well. My clue is > to look at dmesg with the drive attached and then again after the > drive is first attached. In the case of a good drive I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Daemon Group Accounts

2008-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 16 May 2008, King Spook wrote: > I was looking at my users and groups on my box, and I realized that > certain services add user accounts with specific UIDs, but then just > gets the next GID for it's corresponding group. I know I, > personally, would like to have the UIDs and GIDs match

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread James
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > > On 15 May 2008, at 19:20, James wrote: > > ... > > I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1 > > in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files > > (dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the direct

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation

2008-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > > Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go > > for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples. > But when I try dialup I get this: > > Device ttyS0 is blocked by PID 3981 > > which turns out is apcupsd. S

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation

2008-05-16 Thread maxim wexler
> Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go > for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples. been following this page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_APCUPSD Kernel seems to have all the right stuff... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv apcupsd These are the packages that

[gentoo-user] Daemon Group Accounts

2008-05-16 Thread King Spook
I was looking at my users and groups on my box, and I realized that certain services add user accounts with specific UIDs, but then just gets the next GID for it's corresponding group. I know I, personally, would like to have the UIDs and GIDs match (and I spent the time with usermod, groupmod, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re enter chroot install

2008-05-16 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev > > [...] > > > Any of the above steps that are not necessary? > > Other have commented about the .../boot stuff but in dozens of times > chrooting during all kinds of install situations I've nev

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:20 AM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1 > in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files > (dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the directories and sub > directori

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 15 May 2008, at 19:20, James wrote: ... I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1 in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files (dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the directories and sub directories and see any files. ... What does `l

[gentoo-user] Could not join to Windows 2k3 domain: Failed to set servicePrincipalNames

2008-05-16 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
Hello! I'm trying to join my Gentoo box to Windows 2003 domain and I need some help. I've set up smb.conf,. krb5.conf, got a krb ticket, but I'm not able to join domain: # net ads join -U [EMAIL PROTECTED] -d2 [2008/05/16 16:13:11, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(81) added interface ip=192.16

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Marko Kocić
>> You have to put it in packages.keywords and not mask! >> > Just add following to /etc/portage/packages.mask > > =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26_rc* > =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.27_rc* > =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.28_rc* > =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.29_rc* > > On my system it wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Justin
Justin schrieb: Marko Kocić schrieb: In my portage there are only rc for 26. So just add <=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26 to your packages.keywords. I ment Yes, but then I will not be notified by portage that new version (2.6.26 final) is available. I will have to manually t

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Justin
Marko Kocić schrieb: In my portage there are only rc for 26. So just add <=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26 to your packages.keywords. I ment Yes, but then I will not be notified by portage that new version (2.6.26 final) is available. I will have to manually track versions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Marko Kocić
>> In my portage there are only rc for 26. So just add >> <=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26 to your packages.keywords. >> > I ment

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Justin
Justin schrieb: Marko Kocić schrieb: Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Justin
Marko Kocić schrieb: Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT have a ~ Then you m

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-16 Thread Marko Kocić
>> Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release >> candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? > > what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you > should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT have a ~ > > Then you may get release c

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Mick wrote: >> As a matter of interest, I remember reading somewhere that squeezing >> 1000Hz out of an old machine may have the opposite effect to that >> intended.  Is this pub talk, or have you experienced something that >> confirms this? >No, it's not just pub talk. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Mick wrote: > > You'll probably get better results with X by selecting a suitable > > process scheduler and configuring your HZ to 1000 > > Now, this I have noticed making a difference.  Not all schedulers are > born the same.  I have found that (the current version of) CFQ