Re: [gentoo-user] Where is mplayer?

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:48:05 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: >media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 > > It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285629 -- Neil Bothwi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

On 20 Sep 2009, at 01:01, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: seriously, I think you should try to get off everything you want to keep - and then replace the disk with a new one. If a disk starts throwing block errors it will only become wor

[gentoo-user] zsh users, please vote for this bug

Hi, this is for all (wannabe) zsh users: Please vote for the following bug so that we can safely use zsh as root's login shell in the future. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256494 Thanks... Dirk

[gentoo-user] tellico fails to build

hello list, i'm having problems with tellico. tellico-1* are masked, because they fail to compile with newer versions of gcc and glib. but 2.0_pre2 also fails to build while linking, thus: [...] [ 99%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/tellico.dir/reportdialog.o [ 99%] Building CXX object src

[gentoo-user] [OT] Setting up correct domainname

Hi All, Up until a few months ago the ISP of the network in question was happy to accept and relay messages from my server which runs nagios. My server gets its IP address from the ISP in question dynamically so I use DynDNS to map the subdomain.domain name to it. To be able to relay message

[gentoo-user] runlevels and service list

Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which runlevels? I am interested in hald and dbus in particular. Googling shows mostly people set them to the default runlevel, but I would like a reference or reason ... BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On 09/20/2009 03:34 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which runlevels? I am interested in hald and dbus in particular. Googling shows mostly people set them to the default runlevel, but I would like a reference or reason ... The rea

Re: [gentoo-user] tellico fails to build

On 9/20/09, luis jure wrote: > Linking CXX executable tellico > /usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so: undefined reference to > `GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile(void*)' > /usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so: undefined reference to > `GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfileName(GooString*)' > /usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so: und

[gentoo-user] [OT] Conrad SATA-II PCI Controller

[OT] Does anybody know if the "4 PORT SATA II RAID PCI-KARTE" http://www.conrad.ch/goto.php?artikel=973451 works with (Gentoo-) Linux. On the product description page it only lists Wintendo. And if yes, which kernel driver? -- Dan Johansson, *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 15:40 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/20/2009 03:34 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which > > runlevels? I am interested in hald and dbus in particular. > > > > Googling shows mostly people set them to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Setting up correct domainname

On 20 Sep 2009, at 12:30, Mick wrote: ... -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- (reason: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : invalid sender domain) -Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to smtp.ISP.com: MAIL From: SIZE=745 AUTH=<> <<< 550 5.1.0 sender

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On Sunday 20 September 2009 14:50:02 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 15:40 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 09/20/2009 03:34 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which > > > runlevels? I am interested in hald an

Re: [gentoo-user] tellico fails to build

on 2009-09-20 at 15:44 Arttu V. wrote: >Run revdep-rebuild, or just "emerge -1 poppler-qt4" for poppler's qt4 >bindings. Then retry emerging tellico. thanks for your suggestions, but i had already tried that, like i guess i tried all these obvious bets. anyone actually using tellico?

Re: [gentoo-user] tellico fails to build

on 2009-09-20 at 11:05 luis jure wrote: >thanks for your suggestions, but i had already tried that, like i guess >i tried all these obvious bets. just for the record, now i tried something else: i downgraded all the poppler packages to version 0.10.7 (instead of 0.12.0) and now it builds.

Re: [gentoo-user] tellico fails to build

luis jure wrote: > on 2009-09-20 at 11:05 luis jure wrote: > > >> thanks for your suggestions, but i had already tried that, like i guess >> i tried all these obvious bets. >> > > just for the record, now i tried something else: i downgraded all the > poppler packages to version 0.10.7 (ins

[gentoo-user] [OT] Kernel 2.2.5 in VMware guest: network problems

Sorry for being a bit offtopic here, but I simply hope for some experienced help in this group ... I run VMware-Server 2.0.1 on a gentoo amd64-box. Things work OK, I have various guests (gentoo, ubuntu, xp, solaris, ...) and all of them work fine. Right now I am trying to virtualize an ancient

[gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

Hi, I have used for testing the following combo: Configured fetchmail for my user account and configured procmail to deliver the mail. I called fetchmail by hand: It works. In my fetchmailrc there is the line mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" as said: When started by hand everything is fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED [OT] Kernel 2.2.5 in VMware guest

Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > I see "Unknown device 15ad:07a0" in lspci, which seems to show that I > use a VM with version 7 ... maybe that's too new for that kernel. Will > try to use an older one and compare. success! Posting here lead me to that idea and it helped. I attached the virtual di

[gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. Ditto in firefox. This was working. But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko installed but in the firefox settings/applications it lists: quick

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

On 09/19/2009 07:17 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt [09-09-20 04:13]: On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

Mick writes: > -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- > > (reason: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : invalid > sender domain) > > -Transcript of session follows - > ... while talking to smtp.ISP.com: MAIL From: SIZE=745 AUTH=<> > <<< 550 5.1.0 sender rejected :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

walt [09-09-20 18:14]: > On 09/19/2009 07:17 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >walt [09-09-20 04:13]: > >>On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>>walt [09-09-20 02:03]: > On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

cov...@ccs.covici.com [09-09-19 15:19]: > Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during > > > > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. > > > > > > > > > Hold down Atl, hold down Sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:50:02 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Lots of other things use them as well - not just X, so thats not a > reason (and lots of systems that dont have X but need dbus and hal). I > would like to know why they are started in the default run-level, not at > boot which seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com [09-09-19 15:19]: > > Mick wrote: > > > > > On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me > > > > > during > > > > > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgr

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: solfire:/home/mccramer>l /etc/asound.state -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122 2009-08-06 18:05 /etc/asound.state solfire:/home/mccramer>sudo rm -f /etc/asound.state solfire:/home/mccramer>sudo alsactl store alsactl: get_control:249: Cannot read contro

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote: > > When using the line: > >    @ 5 fetchmail -a > > nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded > with > >    fetchmail -a > > from the commandline. > > May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing > wrong he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 20 Sep 2009, at 01:01, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> wrote: >> >>> >>> seriously, I think you should try to get off everything you want to keep >>> - and >>> then replace the disk with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

090920 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Dbus doesn't need to be put in any runlevel, > it will be started when hald needs it. I was wondering why Htop shows it, but it isn't in the default runlevel. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, P

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >> cov...@ccs.covici.com [09-09-19 15:19]: >> >> I solved the problem: >> >> /etc/slim.conf has the >> >> daemon = no >> >> flag, so the boot process seems optically ok but hangs right >> after slim hast started. >> Shuttin

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

Dale wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > >> cov...@ccs.covici.com [09-09-19 15:19]: > >> > >> I solved the problem: > >> > >> /etc/slim.conf has the > >> > >> daemon = no > >> > >> flag, so the boot process seems optically ok but hangs righ

[gentoo-user] Re: Address Label and Envelop Printing

Willie Wong math.princeton.edu> writes: > Commercial address labels mostly have templates in OpenOffice. > The downside, of course, is that it may seem like an overkill. Avery did the trick. > (You can also make templates yourself in OO.) nice to know. thx, James

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On 09/20/2009 09:45 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 090920 Neil Bothwick wrote: Dbus doesn't need to be put in any runlevel, it will be started when hald needs it. I was wondering why Htop shows it, but it isn't in the default runlevel. /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel > either ;) Not here. -- Neil Bothwick In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Here is my inittab, its pretty short. > > > # TERMINALS > c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux > c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux > c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux > c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux > c5:2345:respawn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > >> /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel >> either ;) >> > > Not here. > > > This is all I get for bash: r...@smoker / # ps aux | grep bash dale 7254 0.0 0.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On Sunday 20 September 2009 22:06:44 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel > >> either ;) > > > > Not here. > > This is all I get for bash: > > r...@smoker / #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

On Sunday 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mick writes: > > -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- > > > > (reason: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : > > invalid sender domain) > > > > -Transcript of session follows - > > > > ... while talking to smtp.ISP.com: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 21:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- > > > > > > (reason: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : > > > invalid sender domain) > > > > > > -Transcript of ses

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2009 22:06:44 Dale wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel either ;) >>> Not h

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On 09/20/2009 10:54 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel either ;) Not here. Now that was pointless. Whatever shell you're using, geez, seriously...

Re: [gentoo-user] tellico fails to build

on 2009-09-20 at 10:19 Dale wrote: >File a roach report maybe? You know, bug report. yeah, i was thinking about doing something along that line, but i'm not sure, never filed a bug report before. any hints? on the other hand, i don't even know where to place it, is it something related to tellic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

On Sunday 20 September 2009, Daniel Troeder wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 21:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > Mick writes: > > > > -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- > > > > > > > > (reason: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected :

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 10:16 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > There's got ot be an easy answer to this, but I've looked in the portage, > emerge and make.conf man pages to no avail. Is it possible to have > emerge skip interactive ebuilds during a world update? What is an interactive ebuild? I've no

Re: [gentoo-user] tellico fails to build

luis jure wrote: > on 2009-09-20 at 10:19 Dale wrote: > > >> File a roach report maybe? You know, bug report. >> > > yeah, i was thinking about doing something along that line, but i'm not > sure, never filed a bug report before. any hints? on the other hand, i > don't even know where to p

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges

On Friday 18 September 2009 13:57:36 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 10:16 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > There's got ot be an easy answer to this, but I've looked in the portage, > > emerge and make.conf man pages to no avail. Is it possible to have > > emerge skip interactive ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:57:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > What is an interactive ebuild? I've not seen one. > > An ebuild that waits for you to input data before it continues. I've > not seen one for a long time, but they were usually used for > proprietary packages that require you to intera

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:59:02 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: > > I just tried that, and instead of skipping the upgrades, it wanted to > > download several packages to a much older version :( > > O.o > > Care to share some of the packages causing this? Maybe some packages > have interactivity marked on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:01:09 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any > >> runlevel either ;) > > > > Not here. > > Now that was pointless. Whatever shell you're using, geez, seriously... Not quite, it demonstrated the error in assum

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. I do, but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? This one: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash Looks like bash. ;-) I assume this is the d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On Monday 21 September 2009 02:11:51 walt wrote: > On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. > >> I do, but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? > > > > This one: > > > > root:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

walt wrote: > On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running >>> bash. I do, >>> but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? >>> >> This one: >> >> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash >> >> Look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:01:09 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel either ;) >>> Not here. >>> >> Now that was pointless. Whatever shell you're using, geez, seriously..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2009 02:11:51 walt wrote: > >> On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. I do, but you obviously don't. What shell does root use

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

Mick writes: >> I think you might avoid the problem by making sendmail Impersonate your >> isps domain. >> >> Using some or all of these settings in sendmail.mc >> MASQUERADE_AS(`yourISP.domain')dnl >> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`youractual.domain')dnl >> FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl >> FEATUR

[gentoo-user] Re: fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

Ward Poelmans writes: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote: >> >> When using the line: >> >>    @ 5 fetchmail -a >> >> nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded >> with >> >>    fetchmail -a >> >> from the commandline. >> >> May be I am a little overhacked today...

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

More progress/problems with KDE 4.3.1 . Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in 3.5.10 . They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this ? Krusader can no longer connect to a remote site via 'fish://'; in fact Krusader 1.80.0 (with KDE 3.5.10) won't do it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

Harry Putnam [09-09-21 04:25]: > Ward Poelmans writes: > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote: > >> > >> When using the line: > >> > >>    @ 5 fetchmail -a > >> > >> nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded > >> with > >> > >>    fetchmail -a > >> > >> from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

walt [09-09-21 02:32]: > On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >solfire:/home/mccramer>l /etc/asound.state > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122 2009-08-06 18:05 /etc/asound.state > >solfire:/home/mccramer>sudo rm -f /etc/asound.state > >solfire:/home/mccramer>sudo alsactl store > >als

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

On 09/20/2009 05:40 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. I do, but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? This one: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/b

Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only > produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. It works for me on ~amd64. I'm using mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090825 with "quicktime" USE flag enabled. Playing a quickt

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009/9/20 dhk : > I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something > happened where the icons disappeared.  When I go to the Desktop folder I > can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again > or they are displayed but off the screen.  Any ideas? > Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Harry Putnam [09-09-21 04:25]: >> Ward Poelmans writes: >> >> > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote: >> >> >> >> When using the line: >> >> >> >>    @ 5 fetchmail -a >> >> >> >> nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded >> >> with >>