Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Adam Carter
> When I do ssh google.com the process hangs until I kill it, Its probably just retrying.. adam@sphinx ~ $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries 5 ...five times because google's firewall is dropping it (so not resetting the connection), and IIRC the timeout at each retry increases (doubles?) so

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: You should continue to investigate the glibc thing. There was a thread about how it's causing problems for someone running LibreOffice I think. You might also look more at what part of Firefox s causing the lockup. Is it Firefox proper, or is it something caused by your homep

Re: [gentoo-user] Lexmark X5650 working in Gentoo Linux?

2011-07-08 Thread Carlos Sura
On 7 July 2011 22:51, Dale wrote: > Carlos Sura wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've been looking how to get working this printer in my gentoo-b0x, >> searched in gentoo wiki, but those ebuilds and links are not updated, they >> are a little bit old and none of that worked for me. >> >> I was thinking i

[gentoo-user] Re: DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread walt
On 07/08/2011 03:35 PM, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Friday 08 July 2011 19:58:47 Grant wrote: >>> host example.com >>> > What package provides host? > I'm amazed I don't have it. net-dns/bind-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
OK. Back to the original thread. Here we go again. Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox. When I log into KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and such but as soon as I start Firefox, it locks up tight. Tight enough that the kernel panics and it resets since Neil i

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Friday 08 July 2011 19:58:47 Grant wrote: >> > host example.com >> > > What package provides host? > I'm amazed I don't have it. net-dns/bind-tools it contains these basic essentials :) /usr/bin/dig /usr/bin/dnssec-keygen /usr/bin/host /u

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: On Thursday 07 Jul 2011, Dale wrote: Well, I'm going to send this then open Konsole. See if it locks up again. There was a fairly well documented problem, on the Gentoo fora at least, with the nvidia drivers, Xorg-server-1.10, KDE 4.6 and Konsole. I had it on sev

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 8 at 22:50 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: > Apart from the need to access legacy data, which Harry has resolved by > reformatting, is there any benefit in using encfs rather than the > in-kernel ecryptfs these days? Admittedly there isn't much difference, so if what you are using

[gentoo-user] Re: DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread walt
On 07/08/2011 11:58 AM, Grant wrote: >>> I'm not able to ssh to any domain, although IPs work. I get: >>> >>> $ ssh example.com >>> ssh: Could not resolve hostname example.com: Name or service not known >>> >>> I can ping domains no problem, and web browsing works. I've tried >>> rebooting and re

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 Jul 2011 23:35:21 Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Friday 08 July 2011 19:58:47 Grant wrote: > > > host example.com > > What package provides host? > I'm amazed I don't have it. net-dns/bind-tools -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread john
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:57:55 -0400 Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Friday, July 8 at 21:22 (+0100), john said: > > [...] > > LOL Well I was up and running but now when trying to create VMs I > > get (have done upgrade of around 20 packages) > > > > Uncaught error validating install parameters

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Thanasis
on 07/09/2011 01:35 AM Peter Ruskin wrote the following: > On Friday 08 July 2011 19:58:47 Grant wrote: >>> host example.com >>> > What package provides host? > I'm amazed I don't have it. > net-dns/bind-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Ruskin writes: > What package provides host? > I'm amazed I don't have it. net-dns/bind-tools Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 8 at 22:37 (+0100), john said: > ok I might be being dumb but found a way round this (through trial and > error) > > In advanced options in step 5 of 5 select "Specify Shared Device Name" > > Please note you'll need to create a bridge as well but selecting the > above removes

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 8 at 21:22 (+0100), john said: [...] > LOL Well I was up and running but now when trying to create VMs I get > (have done upgrade of around 20 packages) > > Uncaught error validating install parameters: Must pass a VirtualDevice > instance. > > Traceback (most recent call last

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:35:55 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > Having said that: > One of encfs's Achilles heel is its dependency on the boost C++ library > which is *very* sensitive wrt to API/ABI changes and the like. It also > depends on OpenSSL which also shares this notoriety (although, in my >

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread john
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:22:40 +0100 john wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:17:12 -0400 > Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > > > > > On Thursday, July 7 at 23:30 (+0100), john said: > > > > > On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:18 -0400 > > > > > > > > Have cleared up error messages using config as suggested. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 July 2011, at 20:06, Albert Hopkins wrote: > ... > I didn't want to comment on this thread (having been on both sides of > the fence). But I will say this. The best thing about Gentoo is it's a > "meta-distribution". It gives you more control and more ease to do > things "your" way. I thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread john
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:17:12 -0400 Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Thursday, July 7 at 23:30 (+0100), john said: > > > On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:18 -0400 > > > > > Have cleared up error messages using config as suggested. > > > > I still get the issue when starting /etc/init.d/libvirtd > >

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > > Anything in nsswitch.conf? It seems to be used by ssh, but not by the > > host command. Which is new to me. > > nsswitch.conf looks straighforward and should be default. I get a lot > of output from those straces. Can you tell me what to look for? For 'strange' things :) Lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-08 Thread James Wall
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Grant wrote: >> And now that I look more closely at KVM switches, it looks like they >> provide a method of controlling multiple computers via a single >> keyboard, monitor, and mouse.  I need sort of the inverse.  I'd like >> to control a single Gentoo computer via

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 8 at 17:19 (+0200), Alan McKinnon said: > On Friday 08 July 2011 09:14:36 Albert Hopkins did opine thusly: > > On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said: > > > Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the > > > ebuild shouldn't simply RDEPEND="x11-libs/gtk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-08 Thread Grant
> And now that I look more closely at KVM switches, it looks like they > provide a method of controlling multiple computers via a single > keyboard, monitor, and mouse.  I need sort of the inverse.  I'd like > to control a single Gentoo computer via multiple sets of keyboards, > monitors, and mice

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Grant
>> I'm not able to ssh to any domain, although IPs work.  I get: >> >> $ ssh example.com >> ssh: Could not resolve hostname example.com: Name or service not known >> >> I can ping domains no problem, and web browsing works.  I've tried >> rebooting and re-emerging openssh.  I am connected to an unf

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh

2011-07-08 Thread Grant
>> I'm not able to ssh to any domain, although IPs work.  I get: >> >> $ ssh example.com >> ssh: Could not resolve hostname example.com: Name or service not known >> >> I can ping domains no problem, and web browsing works.  I've tried >> rebooting and re-emerging openssh.  I am connected to an unf

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 8 at 11:55 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: [..] > Somehow I managed to really hurt the installation ... here is what I > remember having done: > > Some how I got mixed up when running as root, and attempted to mount a > users encfs directory. (Its a single user machine so it my use

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Stroller
I'm not expert enough on this subject to be *advocating* this approach, but this is how I would have expected it to behave: On 8 July 2011, at 14:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said: > >> Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the eb

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2011 06:19 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 July 2011 09:14:36 Albert Hopkins did opine thusly: On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said: Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the ebuild shouldn't simply RDEPEND="x11-libs/gtk+" (i.e. remove the explicit

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 July 2011, at 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: > ... > easy. > > Two USE flags: gtk2 and gtk3 > > in ebuild: > > DEPEND=" >gtk2? (x11-libs/gtk+:2) >gtk3? (x11-libs/gtk+:3) > " > > in src-configure() write the code such that it establishes a > precedence > > If both flags are set, bui

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Maybe encfs keeps data somewhere that I can delete and make this go > away?  But a `qlist encfs', listing all that got installed doesn't show > anything like that. I've never used encfs, but maybe strace will show you if it's accessing file

[gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry about the OT, I couldn't raise a stir on the encfs group in several days... I'm hoping someone here is experienced with encfs. Actually I'm somewhat experienced with it myself. I've been keeping encfs directory for yrs now for special stuff. Somehow I managed to really hurt the installatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:19:46 -0500, Dale wrote: That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where N is the number of seconds to wait before rebooting. Kewl !!! I just saw that in

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-08 Thread pk
On 2011-07-08 11:29, Dale wrote: > I'm just curious if it is me or a website problem. I'm not Alan but... konsole: https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?order=Importance&short_desc=konsole&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=IN_PROGRESS&bug_st

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 July 2011 09:14:36 Albert Hopkins did opine thusly: > On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said: > > Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the > > ebuild shouldn't simply RDEPEND="x11-libs/gtk+" (i.e. remove > > the explicit dep on gtk3), detect what version

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 July 2011 04:29:09 Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 08 July 2011 08:14:00 justin did opine thusly: > >> On 7/7/11 11:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> On Thursday 07 July 2011 16:01:27 Dale did opine thusly: > As the list knows, I been having random lock

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2011 03:11 PM, Stroller wrote: On 6 July 2011, at 17:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there a secret plan in place to keep users from being able to use Gtk 2 in packages that support both Gtk 2 and 3? And if yes, why? Is the user considered too stupid to grasp the awesomeness of Gt

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said: > Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the ebuild > shouldn't simply RDEPEND="x11-libs/gtk+" (i.e. remove the explicit dep > on gtk3), detect what version you have installed on your system and > then either run --enable-gtk3

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 6 July 2011, at 17:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Is there a secret plan in place to keep users from being able to use Gtk 2 in > packages that support both Gtk 2 and 3? And if yes, why? Is the user > considered too stupid to grasp the awesomeness of Gtk 3 so that the devs have > to force

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:19:46 -0500, Dale wrote: > > That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a > > panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where N is the > > number of seconds to wait before rebooting. > Kewl !!! I just saw that in the file but it is comment

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata > 1.0 possible?

2011-07-08 Thread Jens Reinemuth
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 16:18:46 schrieb Jens Reinemuth: > Hi everybody, > > i'm totally stuck with an installation of a server using SoftwareRAIDs (10) > with an adaptec aic79xx Controller... > > I thought that perhaps the drivers must be corrupted, but i found some > (older) howtos that de

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 July 2011 08:14:00 justin did opine thusly: On 7/7/11 11:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2011 16:01:27 Dale did opine thusly: As the list knows, I been having random lock ups on my system. I'm in the process of one last emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:43:58 -0500, Dale wrote: One thing I did learn, if the lights on the keyboard are blinking, it's locked up tight. That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 July 2011 08:14:00 justin did opine thusly: > On 7/7/11 11:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 07 July 2011 16:01:27 Dale did opine thusly: > >> As the list knows, I been having random lock ups on my system. > >> I'm in the process of one last emerge -e world but I'm not > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:43:58 -0500, Dale wrote: > One thing I did learn, if the lights on the keyboard > are blinking, it's locked up tight. That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where N is the number of seconds t

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
justin wrote: On 7/7/11 11:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2011 16:01:27 Dale did opine thusly: As the list knows, I been having random lock ups on my system. I'm in the process of one last emerge -e world but I'm not holding my breath it will change anything. So, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Mick wrote: I'm stating the obvious here, but have you tried restoring from a back up that you made before these problems started? I usually have a backup but I got rid of it a month or so ago. I was planning to take the drive out and use it for something else but never got ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-08 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 08 Jul 2011 05:43:58 Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Dale wrote: My current plan, finish this new install. Test the ram and hope it is OK. I can feel your pain :( This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it just because n

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata > 1.0 possible?

2011-07-08 Thread Jens Reinemuth
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 17:23:15 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi Jens, >I've never bothered with actually making the boot device RAID as > it's pretty easy to recreate if it dies. I do mirror my /boot > partition on three drives so that hopefully I can change what BIOS > looks at to boot and get

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-08 Thread justin
On 7/7/11 11:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2011 16:01:27 Dale did opine thusly: >> As the list knows, I been having random lock ups on my system. I'm >> in the process of one last emerge -e world but I'm not holding my >> breath it will change anything. So, I'm wanting to try