[gentoo-user] Akregator Crashing

2006-08-25 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi, I've been attempting to start akregator-3.5.2 (as part of the kde-base/kde-meta package) for some time, and have been consistently getting crashes. The only piece of diagnostic material that I can provide is the following backtrace. Thanks in advance, Kris Kerwin - Back

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Authentication Issues

2006-08-03 Thread Kris Kerwin
hanks again for your help. Kris Kerwin On Wednesday 02 August 2006 01:10, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Hi all, > > I just performed a new Gentoo install, and am having a couple of issues > regarding authentication. I think that the problem is something to do with > PAM/Shadow. (No ... i

[gentoo-user] Authentication Issues

2006-08-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
ough this was disabled within KDE's configuration). The big problem, however, came when I could not unlock the screensaver with my password. Also, kris' attempts to change his passwd are met with the error: `Authentication token manipulation error'. Thanks in advance for all of your

[gentoo-user] pam-login and shadow-4.0.15-r2

2006-07-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi all, I haven't emerged my system in a while because of this problem, and now it is getting back to me. pam-login reports that it is being blocked by >=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2. The problem here is that there are no versions of shadow less than that that are still in the portage tree. Furt

[gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel like I'm searching fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-03 Thread Kris Kerwin
Dale, I believe that the kernels have been able to write to NTFS safely for some time, now. In fact, as I recall from the last time that I built that functionality into my own kernel, menuconfig said that there were never any reported problems with the same code that has been in place since 2

[gentoo-user] Portage Difficulties

2006-05-03 Thread Kris Kerwin
ey question, how do I fix the problem? What other information do you need to aid in diagnosing the problem? Thanks in advance for all of your help! Kris Kerwin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about TightVNC

2006-04-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Richard, Thanks. x11vnc did the trick just like I needed. Kris On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:24, Richard Fish wrote: > On 4/19/06, Kris Kerwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using TightVNC v 1.2.9-r1 from the Gentoo Portage tree. I > &g

[gentoo-user] Questions about TightVNC

2006-04-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
problems with resolution on the client-side. I simply can't fit the entire desktop onto the screen. Playing with the -geometry option fixes this problem, but leaves me with massive windows that don't fit on the screen. Any ideas here? Thanks, Kris Kerwin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Kris Kerwin
All, Samba proved to be a very simple and effective fix. Plus, as was said earlier, it doesn't break any of the rules that my school has in place. Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris On Thursday 09 March 2006 13:33, Michael Crute wrote: > On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Kris Kerwin
Good idea. I'll look around. Kris On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:56, Eric Bliss wrote: > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:28, Kris Kerwin wrote: > > Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it > > from one another's computers. However, we would like to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Kris Kerwin
do it. Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris On Wednesday 08 March 2006 20:43, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks! > > > > I have a quick question. > > > > I'm a college student. I share my print

[gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-08 Thread Kris Kerwin
if it has a dynamic IP. Third, since we're both behind a router, using something like DynDNS to provide a static contact despite the dynamic IP won't work either. So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this work, or if I'm SOL? Thank you much for your help. Kris Kerwin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] cron help

2006-01-03 Thread Kris Kerwin
ed explicitly from the command line, but will not work when called from a cron job. Here's what I entered in my crontab: --- --- # Sync GMail */5 * * * * krisbash /home/kris/bin/gmail_export/gmail_export.sh ----- Thanks in advance! Kris Kerwin [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
x27;test'" >> test_script # chmod 754 test_script # source ./test_script # echo $VARIABLE Thanks again. Kris Kerwin On Monday 02 January 2006 15:53, Alexander Veit wrote: > Kris Kerwin wrote: > > I'm having difficulties exporting environment va

[gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
as my shell. I figured that I would try the same with sh instead, but still nothing. I'm using: bash-3.0-r12 Is this a bug, or something that I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help. Kris Kerwin pgpHs75c4Bfs5.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
ary 2006 03:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:03:26 -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote: > > I recently purchased an Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder > > to record my college lectures to help with note-taking. It > > connects to the PC via a USB cord. > > Googling i

[gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

2006-01-01 Thread Kris Kerwin
rivers that are needed to support USB flash drives? Where might I find a USB flash drive under /dev? Is there anything extra that might be needed to support a digital voice recorder? Please CC my address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in your response. Thanks in advance for your help! Kris Kerwin [

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Dave, Yup. Had a feeling that you might be right about that one. It seems that the computer will still crash, but certainly not as often. My guess: there is a bigger problem that is aggravated when the computer is under more stress; ie: tracking excessive amounts of kernel complaints, etc. I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Alright! Thanks to Jonathan Wright and his program, I think that I may have found something. See what you guys think: Before the crash, the following three lines appeared (in this order) nearly 53,000 times for a total of 16MB of text: > Sep 17 13:45:51 kerwin [4314362.567000] ip_local_deliver:

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Thanks Jonathan. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not a bash or any other programmer, and was wondering if this would work. And how might I code that while loop? Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris On Saturday 17 September 2005 14:10, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Kris Kerw

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Thanks Dave. 1) The problem appears to be independant of the kernel version, as I've had it occur on a 2.6.10 and 2.6.12 kernel. 2) How might I check for flakey hardware? 3) I have had my BIOS respond after 3 crashes that the computer crashed due to excessive heat. I think that this maybe inde

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
hanks again, all, for your timely help. As always, please be sure to CC me in your response. Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Original Email - Hey all, I've been experiencing some random kernel crashes, and need a way of finding out what happened. I can't find any information

[gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-07 Thread Kris Kerwin
ion on the next boot? Thanks in advance. Kris Kerwin PS: Please CC me in your response. pgprhWzavLQxv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] growisofs Woes (was "K3B Woes")

2005-08-15 Thread Kris Kerwin
down the pipe. Thanks again, all, for your help. On Monday 15 August 2005 10:46, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Kris Kerwin wrote: > >Hey all, > > > >Was trying to burn a DVD+R using K3b today. Ran into some problems: > >:-( unable to PREVENT MEDIA REMOVAL: Operation not permit

[gentoo-user] K3B Woes

2005-08-14 Thread Kris Kerwin
ldn't let me select 'Simulate'. I believe that most of the technical information that is needed has been included below. If not, let me know. If you feel that this is a kernel-level problem, let me know if you would like me to include my kernel.conf file. Thank you for all of you

[gentoo-user] Configuring Apollon / giFT

2005-04-15 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hello all. I'm having problems running Apollon. I'm currently attributing these problems to errors in configuring giFT with the gift-setup script. I use: apollon-0.9.4-r1 gift-0.11.6-r1 gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2-r1 gift-fasttrack-0.8.7 gift-openft-0.2.1.4 When starting Apollon, it scans my shared