Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 16. März 2008, Strong Cypher wrote: > hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to > launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can > i find the log that describe the error? the xsession-error doesn t > show anything > thanks make sure th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-17 Thread Jan Seeger
On Sun, 16. Mar, W.Kenworthy spammed my inbox with > I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do > this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but > need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's. > Alternatively, the concern is

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
I have it ok I will look in kdm.log Volker Armin Hemmann a écrit : > On Sonntag, 16. März 2008, Strong Cypher wrote: > >> hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to >> launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can >> i find the log that descri

[gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-17 Thread brullo nulla
Hi folks, I am finally getting through the expat update. I am currently stuck at kdelibs for what looks like a circular problem (or a linking problem). Forums and google tell me of problems with kdelibs and expat upgrade, but mostly qt3 related -this seems not to be the case. The ebuild stops with

[gentoo-user] Re: sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Since "recently" (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use >> sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: >> >> $ LC_ALL=C sudo ls -1 >> Last login: Mon Mar 17 07:12:40 CET

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread Emil Beinroth
Hi, another thing that might help is not generating the cache at all. It appears that we can get away with what is in /usr/portage/metadata/cache. I've put -metadata-transfer into FEATURES to tell portage to skip the "Generating cache" stuff, and added the following to my /etc/portage/modules:

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
Thanks ! I don't know why I haven't found this file before ... Dale a écrit : > Strong Cypher wrote: >> hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to >> launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can >> i find the log that describe the error? the xses

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > Hello. > > Since "recently" (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use > sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: > > $ LC_ALL=C sudo ls -1 > Last login: Mon Mar 17 07:12:40 CET 2008 from winnb000488 on pts/6 > 10001~ > [...] >

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread Dale
cypherstrong wrote: Thanks ! I don't know why I haven't found this file before ... Dale a écrit : Strong Cypher wrote: hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that describ

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 17 March 2008, brullo nulla wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am finally getting through the expat update. I am currently stuck > at kdelibs for what looks like a circular problem (or a linking > problem). Forums and google tell me of problems with kdelibs and > expat upgrade, but mostly qt3 relat

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde, AGP seems to be off on kdm-4.0 only

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
Ok I have found why kdm-4.0 don't work They doesn't support seamless login over pam even with nullpassword and nopassword activated !!! I use pamusb with a key, and login won't done without password sets ... I will ask to kde team why ... I have look in kdm.log and I have found another problem (

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Chris, Strong and Emil - most excellent suggestions, and I'd love to try them out as soon as someone helps me get portage working again! Thanks, festus pgpAMIgASTf6H.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] graphic card driver status

2008-03-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm thinking about upgrading my parent's PC's graphic card because I have driver issues with their old Nvidia GF-2 MX which prevent me of using the closed source driver. Now I want to ask: What's the status of the ATI drivers? Does the free driver support 3D-acceleration on newer cards?

[gentoo-user] Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
I have found a problem in slot of kde 3.5 and 4.0 kopete 3.5 depends on app-crypt/qca:0 kopete 4.0 depends on app-crypt/qca:2 qca:0 block qca:2 so if I wan't kopete on kde 3.5 and 4.0 they is a problem How can I solve it ? qca:0 and qca:2 are really blocking each other ? can't we really remove

[gentoo-user] mount -t cifs doesn't accept //hostname/share?

2008-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
According to the docs at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Samba#Using_CIFS, the following command should work: mount -t cifs /// / \ -o "username=,uid=,iocharset=cp850,dir_mode=0770,file_mode=660" That doesn't work for me. I get this error: mount -t cifs //sidewinder/temp_xfer /mnt/tmp -o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread Matthias Guede
They don't realy blocking each other: >From qca-2.0.0-r2.ebuild: DEPEND=" !> /etc/portage/package.unmask 2008/3/17, cypherstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have found a problem in slot of kde 3.5 and 4.0 > > kopete 3.5 depends on app-crypt/qca:0 > kopete 4.0 depends on app-crypt/qca:2 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Received: from unknown

2008-03-17 Thread Jason Carson
> try to push your external ip adress in your hosts file for your domain My static IP is 66.11.182.5 and my computer is called penguin.jasoncarson.ca so what exactly would I put in /etc/hosts? > > On 3/17/08, Jason Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> When I send an email to myse

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 17. März 2008, cypherstrong wrote: ls -lh /var/db/pkg/app-crypt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 18. Jan 21:50 qca-1.0-r3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 29 10. Feb 19:09 qca-2.0.0-r2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28 10. Feb 19:10 qca-ossl-2.0.0_beta3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 10. Feb 19:02 qca-tls-1.0-r4 b

Re: [gentoo-user] Received: from unknown

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
Push this: 66.11.182.5 jasoncarson.ca penguin.jasoncarson.ca in your host file remove reference to jasoncarson.ca in the 127.0.0.1 lines Jason Carson a écrit : >> try to push your external ip adress in your hosts file for your domain >> > > My static IP is 66.11.182.5 and my computer is c

[gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-17 Thread James
dexters84 gmail.com> writes: > > I believe the size of the writes can be relevant as well. > > Stroller. > That was exactly my point. Systems based on cf card as hard drive are > usually small - one function focused devices, hence there is no need for > swap partition. To extend lifetime of

Re: [gentoo-user] Received: from unknown

2008-03-17 Thread Jason Carson
> Push this: > > 66.11.182.5 jasoncarson.ca penguin.jasoncarson.ca > > in your host file > remove reference to jasoncarson.ca in the 127.0.0.1 lines > ok, I tried that and it didn't work. I came across this... "qmail never uses /etc/hosts to determine the IP address associated with a host name."

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-17 Thread brullo nulla
> What output do you get from 'revdep-rebuild -p -i' ? Here it is: Evaluating package order... Warning: Failed to resolve package order. Will merge in "random" order! Possible reasons: - An ebuild is no longer in the portage tree. - An ebuild is masked, use /etc/portage/packages.keyword and/or

[gentoo-user] sandbox problems

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to udate kde-meta (actually, I think it never completely installed, but I'm doing an update now) and it won't get past the very first part, that of kde-base/libkpimidentities-3.5.8, because it gets this error: libsandbox: Can't resolve ge

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -t cifs doesn't accept //hostname/share?

2008-03-17 Thread Rik Koenig
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the docs at > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Samba#Using_CIFS, > the following command should work: > > mount -t cifs /// / \ > -o > "username=,uid=,iocharset=cp850,dir_mode=0770,file_mode=660" > > Tha

[gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the options, I wanted to have a option line setting but I couldn't tell if it was like PRINT_SLOTS=yes

[gentoo-user] Re: Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread Strong Cypher
yes r3 works fine thanks On 3/17/08, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Montag, 17. März 2008, cypherstrong wrote: > > ls -lh /var/db/pkg/app-crypt > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 18. Jan 21:50 qca-1.0-r3 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 29 10. Feb 19:09 qca-2.0.0-r2 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root ro

[gentoo-user] Re: mount -t cifs doesn't accept //hostname/share?

2008-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-03-17, Rik Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> According to the docs at >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Samba#Using_CIFS, >> the following command should work: >> >> mount -t cifs /// / \ >> -o >> "user

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 17 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a > million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for > the options, I wanted to have a option line setting > but I couldn't tell if it was like > > PRINT_SLOTS=yes

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde, AGP seems to be off on kdm-4.0 only

2008-03-17 Thread Dale
cypherstrong wrote: Ok I have found why kdm-4.0 don't work They doesn't support seamless login over pam even with nullpassword and nopassword activated !!! I use pamusb with a key, and login won't done without password sets ... I will ask to kde team why ... I have look in kdm.log and I have fo

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 17 March 2008, brullo nulla wrote: > > What output do you get from 'revdep-rebuild -p -i' ? > > Here it is: > > Evaluating package order... > Warning: Failed to resolve package order. > Will merge in "random" order! > Possible reasons: > - An ebuild is no longer in the portage tree. > -

[gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

2008-03-17 Thread David Blamire-Brown
Hi, This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm restriction in this part of the world in any case! I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP laptop. I would like

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a > million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the > options, Quoting from the manpage .. /etc/eixrc Global configuration file. The v

[gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread darren kirby
Hi all, I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it manually. I am wondering if there are any gotchas I should keep in mind before instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote: > I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce > 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers > (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it > manually. According to http://bu

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a >> million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for >> the options, I wanted to have a optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce > > 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers > > (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it > >

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Since "recently" (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use > > sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: [snip] > It's a recent pam update. I updated

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emil Beinroth wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a >> million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the >> options, > > Quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't > tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm > restriction in this part of the world in any case! > > I have

[gentoo-user] apcupsd

2008-03-17 Thread Michael George
Today I upgraded apcupsd from 3.10.18-r1 to 3.12.4. The ebuild installs the files differently than it did and webapp-config is used for the "install". When the emerge is complete, the cgi files are installed into /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin and are owned by root. There is also a directory /var/ww

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Mar 2008, at 18:10, James wrote: ... Wear leveling is *probably* built into the IDE to CF converter carrier board? Almost certainly not, I'd have thought. Aren't those boards just dumb pin-convertors? CF cards "talk" IDE. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd

2008-03-17 Thread Michael George
Sorry, sorry... I just needed to point my browser to cgi-bin/multimin.cgi rather than apcupsd/multimon.cgi... On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:32:43PM -0400, Michael George wrote: > Today I upgraded apcupsd from 3.10.18-r1 to 3.12.4. The ebuild installs > the files differently than it did and webapp-c

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Please !!! This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. Pointers and links greatly appreciated. TIA, festus On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it woul