[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-29 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:52:44 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start > up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is > showing up. > > Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64. I just rebuilt my sys

[gentoo-user] Re: Console won't un-blank

2013-10-18 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:40:32 +0200, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > as you described. I tested some time ago with an early 3.10.x and it still > did not work. [..] And it still won't unblank with 3.11.6 either, tested just now. -h

[gentoo-user] Re: Console won't un-blank

2013-10-18 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:02:13 -0400, Michael J. Barillier wrote: > If I leave my laptop unattended (at a console, not X) and the screen > blanks, pressing a key won't un-blank the terminal. As a test, I ssh'ed > into the laptop and ran: > > # setterm -blank poke >/dev/tty$N > > (as root, for t

[gentoo-user] Re: Who creates directories in /var/run?

2013-01-21 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:18:48 +, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > some of the init scripts seem to automagically create the needed > directories under /var/run and change the ownerships to the right > values. This is the correct thing to do. > For me this fails for slapd (openldap). Where and ho

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-09 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:47:07 + (UTC) > >> The data on a medium can corrupt, and it can corrupt silently for a long >> time. > > And I'm saying I've never seen that happen. Well, that's the poin

[gentoo-user] Re: net-snmp 5.7.2_rc1 on xen

2012-12-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:06:51 +, Matt Harrison wrote: > All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses Current is 5.7.2 final.. > * Starting snmpd ... > pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci > pcilib: Cannot find any working access method. > * start-stop-daemon: failed t

[gentoo-user] Re: HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:23:40 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > If you run /etc/init.d/ zap it resets the status to > stopped. I don't know, if postfix has that option though. Doesn't work in this case. Simply killing the postfix daemons manually however does. The problem can also simply be f

[gentoo-user] Re: Packet sniffing broken recently?

2011-12-29 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:29:51 -0800, walt wrote: > This change appears to be somewhere in userland, though, not in the kernel > per se. I copied the kernel .config file from my working amd64 machine to > the 'broken' ~amd64 machine and recompiled the kernel. > > No improvement. I had to enable t

[gentoo-user] Re: CLI Torrent client(s)?

2011-12-29 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:07:10 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I'm wondering: what's your recommended CLI Torrent client(s)? And why? deluge has explicit separation between server and clients, so whether one uses the web, remote-GUI or cli simply becomes a matter of choice. Most of the time I use the

[gentoo-user] Re: squid 3.1.18 build failure

2011-12-26 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Adam, some more information: http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-dev@squid-cache.org/msg16870.html http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3440 looks like the problem was already found and fixed. Fix seems to be a simple one-liner, so if you raise a bug we can discuss it there. -h

[gentoo-user] Re: squid 3.1.18 build failure

2011-12-26 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:16:24 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > System is mostly amd64, but gcc and squid are ~amd64. > > The error appears to be at; > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > -DDEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE=\"/etc/squid/squid.conf\" > -DDEFAULT_SQUID_DATA_DIR=\"/usr/share/squid\" > -DDEFAULT_SQ

[gentoo-user] Re: The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:14:33 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Disadvantages? I'm unsure how portage will handle cases when two > machines fetch the same file at the same time. In my experience concurrent/overlapping fetches work just fine, thanks to portage's lock file. The second potential downlo

[gentoo-user] Re: Torrent with dynamics throttles

2011-08-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:02:01 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Andrea Conti wrote: >> All the other considerations apply, especially the one about capping the >> total outgoing bandwidth to something less than the actual available >> bandwidth so that the modem's tx qu

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-08 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:55:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:39:15 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > >> > That's odd, it broke local deliveries for me - and others. >> > Fortunately, nothing was lost, it just stayed in the queue while I >&

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-07 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:47:01 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:16:20 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> don't use prelink - but postfix still Works For Me(tm) > > That's odd, it broke local deliveries for me - and others. Fortunately, > nothing was lost, it just stayed in

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache and PHP5

2010-12-05 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:27:57 +0100, Dan Johansson wrote: > Today I emerged mysql, apache, PHP5, phpmyadmin and joomla on a Laptop > (~x86) to be able to play a bit with Joomla. But I can not get phpmyadmin > or Joomla to work (both with the same error). > > Mysql and apache starts OK and the the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-12-04 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:29:56 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette schrieb: > >> Been using one in my day-to-day workstation under both Windows and >> Gentoo (with ext4). > > Did you use any non-default settings when formatting? No. > As Intel-SS

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-11-19 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:37 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I > tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs. I have the older 80MB (G1) and a new 160GB G2 for another machine just arrived. The fixed TRIM-enabled

[gentoo-user] Re: running e2fsck pre-mount

2009-09-10 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:58:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > On 9 Sep 2009, at 22:12, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> ... >> IIRC the el cheapo ssd on this netbook is not smart-capable. Can't >> remember where I read that. > > I have this notion that SMART may not be a feature of SSDs or flash > memory. I a

[gentoo-user] Re: test

2009-01-05 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:09:31 +, schwido wrote: > test fail.

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update: Keyboard and mouse dead

2009-01-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:36:33 +0100, meino.crame wrote: > This morning I updated xorg-server. > I reemerged nvidia-drivers and mouse and keyboard drievers as suggested by > einfo. > I started X and keyboard and mouse were dead - but sysrq-key works and > keyboard and mouse works on the console, so

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup

2008-12-16 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:01:20 +1100, Dave Oxley wrote: > I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and > got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using > 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to hard reset > the server. Th

[gentoo-user] Re: how to downgrade to old fetching indicator?

2008-10-28 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:52:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 21:11:05 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >> Hi! >> >> How to "downgrade" to old fetching indicator (single-line instead of >> multiple lines)? > > This has been bugging me for a long time as well, I'd really liek to know

[gentoo-user] Re: lsof-4.81 working for anybody?

2008-10-27 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:09:49 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 04:01:37PM +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > >> I just tried the latest lsof-4.81 in ~x86 an dit doesn't seem to do >> anything - no output, it just silently returns. > &

[gentoo-user] lsof-4.81 working for anybody?

2008-10-26 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
I just tried the latest lsof-4.81 in ~x86 an dit doesn't seem to do anything - no output, it just silently returns. 4.80-r1 works just fine and always has. Does anybody else see this behaviour? Just making sure it's not something on my end before I hassle b.g.o. thanks Holger

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-18 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:23:27 +0100, gentoo_stev wrote: > Thanks... I was pretty sure that reserving a proportion of my LAN > bandwidth wouldn't help - though I didn't have that reference to hand. I'd > have been happy to rate-limit to 80mbps if that would have helped - though > I saw no reason tha

[gentoo-user] Re: Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-18 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:53:23 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Ah!! But Windows (XP) uses TC by default. It doesn't use 20% of the > network bandwidth unless you tweak some registry setting and/or disable > QoS in network properties. This is not the case. Please read: http://support.microsoft.com/de

[gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk priority

2008-06-08 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:01:32 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote: >> I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk >> quiet busy, like the emerge --sync command. I know it's possible to nice >> them

[gentoo-user] --as-needed in LDFLAGS - hot or not?

2008-04-25 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi, I was wondering what people's opinions are wrt. --as-needed in LDFLAGS these days. I read the (somewhat dated by now?) guide and corresponding tracker bug, and while it seems that the majority of packages works correctly these days, there still seem to be some occasional problems. Just wonder

[gentoo-user] Headlines on packages RSS feed gone?

2008-01-21 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi, I subscribe to the p.g.o RSS feed via RSSOwl. Everything worked fine until a few days ago, when suddenly the headlines disappeared - now every feed entry has "No Title". Anybody else seeing this? I searched b.g.o for a bug but didn't find anything. any clues appreciated, Holger -- gentoo-u

[gentoo-user] New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-09-08 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi. I just tried to update to the new "stable" samba 3.025c and noticed two problems: - the init script does not work (known bug #191647) - after fixing the init script, the Windows box (XP SP2) can no longer connect to shared directories despite the new server being visible and browseable. Stra

[gentoo-user] Re: What to use for hdd temperature viewing

2006-09-16 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:14:17 -0500, reade wrote: > What simple app, preferably cmdline, do people use to view hdd > temperatures? I use app-admin/hddtemp to feed my mrtg stats and it works just fine. For feeding the temperature into the proper format do something like: #!/bin/sh TEMPERATURE=`/us

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Filenames with "special" characters (äöü¤€¶) on SMB share of Linkstation HD-HLAN250

2005-11-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:55:27 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette schrieb: > >> I have the following in my smb.conf: >> >> unix charset = ISO8859-15 >> >> and Umlauts work correctly either way (Linux <-> XP), but then again I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Filenames with "special" characters (äöü€¶) on SMB share of Linkstation HD-HLAN250

2005-11-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:59:24 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > I've got a Buffalo Linkstation HD-HLAN250. This is a consumer NAS device, > which makes the built-in HD accessible via SMB and FTP. On that system, > some sort of Linux with some sort of Samba is running. > > I'm now trying to create fi

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:10:41 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2005 12:52 pm, Willie Wong wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: >> > Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? >> >> Don't know about "favored". It's the one I use =) >> >