[gentoo-user] Login through KDM

Hi all! Lately I can't login anymore to my GENTOO pc through KDM (ssh login works). I tried to look inside the kdm.log file, but could not see any useful message. Could someone point me to where to look to find some information? Thanks a lot, Massimiliano

[gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

Hi all! I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. After that, I ran an revdep-rebuild, but it do not works. When it tries to emerge xfce4-panel it alw

[gentoo-user] Error emergin mkinitrd

Hi all. I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. Everytime I try, I get: * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2212: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

As Jocob says, I don't use genkernel Do you think I should reopen the bug? Thanks, Massimiliano On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:23:23PM -0700, walt wrote: > > On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

Hi all. I'm trying to apply the workaround suggested in the BUG at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285 I've changed the file accordingly, however, everytime I emerge mkinitrd, the file (obviously) get overwritten. I tried to search, but didn't find anything... Is there an emerge flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

Thank you! That worked!!! Massimiliano On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: > > > I'm trying to apply the workaround suggested in the BUG at > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285 > > > > I'

[gentoo-user] Question about a strange emerge warning

Hi all. Thanks to your support, I think I got a little bit of knowledge of how emerge works, so I started cleaning my USE flags (I had lot of useless stuff...). To perform such cleaning, I started with USE=-* and than added everything I needed. It hasn't been very hard (but quite long :-) )to mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about a strange emerge warning

Thank you Volker, thank you Walt! It seems that adding the xulrunner flag was the right way to go. However euse -i xulrunner says 'Build native browser integration against xulrunner instead of firefox or seamonkey' So.. do I really need xulrunner? I think seamonkey is enought for me... To an

[gentoo-user] Where is pam_winbind.so?

Hi all! I'm here again, sorry! I'm configuring my gentoo linux so that it authenticates inside a windows domain. I was configuring PAM, when I found the pam_winbind.so file was not inside /lib/security. I tried reading many documentation, but couldn't find a way to find wich package I should eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is pam_winbind.so?

Thank you all. I was missing the pam flag (I was sure it was there, sorry!) However, the pfl package is masked... Do you think it would be a good idea to unmask it? Or, are there other tools than efile? Thanks, Massimiliano

[gentoo-user] Problem with KDESU not accepting root password

Hi All!! Long time since last time I bothered you all! ;-) I googled around and found many people having my same problem, but could not find any solution. Sudo works just great on my machine, while kdesu always says 'Bad password'. Have you any idea about what I can check to fix such issue? Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with KDESU not accepting root password

mann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Montag 05 Oktober 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi All!! Long time since last time I bothered you all! ;-) > > > > I googled around and found many people having my same problem, but could > > not find any solution. > >

[gentoo-user] Problem with update world

Hi all! Sorry to bother you again : it was a long time! I've again one problem I'm not sure I can easily solve... Today, I did: emerge -upD --newuse world but I got an error: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies done! [ebuild R ] m

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with update world

One more info you could find useful. Yesterday update world did work. Today, I've enabled the ffmpeg flag and launched an update world, getting the error Thanks, Massimiliano On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi all! > > Sorry to bother you again :

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

That solved the problem. >this was answered earlier today on this very list: Sorry, it has been my fault: I should have performed a deeper search. Thank you! Massimiliano. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 10 November 2009 16:31:34 Massimiliano Ziccardi

[gentoo-user] Problem with Thinkpad lenovo 3500

Hi all. I have a ThinkPad lenovo R500 running the latest GENTOO. Everything works, but I have 2 problems: 1) OpenGL screen saver do not works 2) Graphic is not very fast. I think the first problem is related to the second one. I think (but I'm not sure) that the source of my problem is this: x

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Thinkpad lenovo 3500

Do someone know which test can I do to understand what do I miss ? Thanks, Massimiliano On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Massimiliano Ziccardi < massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a ThinkPad lenovo R500 running the latest GENTOO. > > Everythin

[gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

No one answered to my mail so far Do you mean I should switch to windows ? ;-) Please, can someone give me some hint? Do you need some more information to be able to help me? I have a ThinkPad lenovo R500 running the latest GENTOO. Here is what I found so far. Everything works, but I have 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

Hi James, Ward, Adam! Thanks for your help! To James: Yes, I've an intel card. I followed many guides. My card is : Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller"

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

в 10:12 +0200, Massimiliano Ziccardi пишет: > > Hi James, Ward, Adam! > > > > Thanks for your help! > > > > To James: Yes, I've an intel card. I followed many guides. > > My card is : > > Identifier "Card0" > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

Thank you all. I think I'll wait, however, do you think that that is the problem that cause glxinfo | grep renderer direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer On my ubuntu machine, I get : direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965Q GEM 20090326 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

Do you mean into the xorg.conf file (I'm not very expert in configuring X...)? In my previous mail I sent the xorg.conf file. Do I have to change something? Thanks you, Massimiliano On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > 2009/6/19 Massimiliano Ziccardi : > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

Hi Adam. Thanks for your help. I read that document a while ago. It says I need : 1) gentoo-sources 2.6.29 + : I'm ok, my version is 2.6.29-r5 2) xorg-server 1.6+ : here I'm too old. I have 1.5.3-r6. however, emerge says that 1.5.3-r6 is the latest available 3) xf86-video-intel 2.6.1+: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

using the old one (and, is that a good idea?) ? Thanks, Massimiliano On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 17:32, Massimiliano > Ziccardi wrote: > > Do you mean into the xorg.conf file (I'm not very expert in configuring > > X..

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

: x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel", isn't that the default one? Surely I miss something... Thank you very much, Massimiliano On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 17:50, Massimiliano > Ziccardi wrote: > > > > However (but mayb

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

Done. After that I did: emerge -av xf86-video-intel killall -1 X However, performances didn't change much... x...@localhost ~ $ glxinfo | grep render direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer Other ideas? Thank you, Massimiliano It just means that you need to change

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

now the result. Thanks a lot, Massimiliano On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 13:16, Massimiliano > Ziccardi wrote: > > Done. After that I did: > > > > emerge -av xf86-video-intel > > killall -1 X > > Did you merge mesa again? Did you follow the guide to the letter? > > Ward > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

Rasterizer Don't know what to do more Any idea? Thanks a lot, Massimiliano On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Massimiliano Ziccardi < massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm following to the letter, now :-) > > However, it says I need xorg 1.6, so, now I&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

One more thing. Now, driconf says 'Could not detect any configurable direct-rendering capable devices. DRIconf will be started in expert mode'. Before the config changes I did, I never got this message calling driconf On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Massimiliano Ziccardi < massi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

More INFO Running driconf, I see the following message: Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". However, inside the xorg.0.log, I see: (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control (II) AIGLX: GLX_EXT_texture_fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

I'm close to the solution. If I run glxinfo | grep renderer as root, I get direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel�� GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20090114 while, if I run the same command as a simple user, I get direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Software Ras

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

Finally it works! I just had to add my user to the 'video' group. Shouldn't new user be added to such groups by default? driconf, always says Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". Thank you a lot, Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

Thank you all for your beautiful help and your patience (my thread is 33 mails long!!). This has been one of the best support I have ever got (much better than many paid support services). Thank you! Massimiliano

[gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

Hi all!! I tried today : emerge --update --deep world but I get the following error: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase ("kde-base/kdebase" is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6) I'm not very expert about emerge, have you any idea about this error? Can I solve it in some way? (Please, don't as

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

at 3:22 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: > > > emerge --update --deep world > > > > but I get the following error: > > > > [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase ("kde-base/kdebase" is blocking > > kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

>It's far preferable to let people like yourself suffer the consequences of not >reading documentation Touched :-) However, I read the documentation. It's just that this is my first gentoo installation: I didn't get I had to uninstall the older version of the software to upgrade to the new one.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

Thank you Alan. Just as an information, if it happens to something else: I've installed successfully the split ebuilds. However, after the upgrade, I had to disable UXA: with UXA Xorg didn't even start (it crashes). However (as glxgears says), FPS jumped from 500 to 1300... Thank you all, Mass

[gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan

Hi all. This is the output of dmesg | grep iwl xxx ~ # dmesg | grep iwl [1.906142] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks [1.906249] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation [1.906361] iwlagn :03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan

Thank you Alan! Works!! On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:48:34 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > This is the output of dmesg | grep iwl > > > > xxx ~ # dmesg | grep iwl > > [1.906142]

[gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

Hi all. Reading http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#kde_portage I found the following sentence: 8x-- KDE 4 is the current KDE version supported by upstream. 8x-- However, if I try to install KDE 4.2, it says KDE 4.2 is masked... Is it right? Do I have to unmask it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

ed. Again, gentoo community is the best! Thanks! --- Massimiliano On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Dale wrote: > Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > Reading > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#kde_portage > > > > I found

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

Hi Ben. Thank you too! >Duncan brought it up out of concern that KDE3 may be masked before KDE4 is marked arch stable, >and wanted to the let the AMD64 community know. That's not very nice. I can't update to KDE4 'couse it's not ready stable enough, but KDE3 could get maskedIt's seems like I'

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

>Instead of Gnome consider something like XFCE Already tried some time ago but, for some weird reason, it gave me lots of problems... >I also like fluxbox but it's probably too minimal for a committed KDE user. That's not a problem: I've used TWM, MWM and WindowMaker for quite long time too :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

I have exactly the same problem: I tried everything (well, everything I'm aware of :-) ) but I always get: [blocks B ] net-wireless/bluez ("net-wireless/bluez" is blocking net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.36) [blocks B ] net-wireless/bluez-libs ("net-wireless/bluez-libs" is blocking net-wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

Already done localhost ~ # emerge --search bluez | egrep "bluez|installed" | egrep -v "Homepage|Description" [ Results for search key : bluez ] * dev-python/pybluez Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] * net-wireless/bluez Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] * net

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

equery d bluez did not return anything... localhost ~ # equery d bluez [ Searching for packages depending on bluez... ] localhost ~ # Any other idea? Thank you!!

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

Thank you people!! I'm trying Alan's tip. I'll let you know when I'll finish : it must perform 26 compilations :-( ) Just one question : how did you notice the problem was kdesu? I didn't see any dependency from bluez... Thanks, Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

Yep, sorry. Same question : how did you notice the problem was gksu? I didn't notice any dependency from bluez... (I'd like to be able to solve these problems without bother you) Thanks, Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

Thanks a lot! Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

Hmmm.. It seems that uninstalling firefox did solve the problem Thank you all!! Today you teched me a lot of things about gentoo!!! Thank you, Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

enstag 08 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > > > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 14:14:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > > > > On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: >> > > > > > equery d bluez did not return anything...

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

hmm... an emerge-webrsync seems to have solved it Thank you a lot!!! On 9/8/09, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > I hate this Now I get this error: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > >>>> Verifying ebuild manifests > > !!! Digest verification failed:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

. Keep on this way. Thanks, Massimiliano On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 17:42:26 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi Alan... Thank you... No, I don't want gnome at all... > > > > Is a 'set USE=-gnome'

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

Hi Alan... Thank you... No, I don't want gnome at all... Is a 'set USE=-gnome' enough? Thanks, Massimiliano

[gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

Hi all (sorry to bother you again!!) I'm still in the middle of the process of updating to KDE4 Now the update blocks with and svn error: * The die message: * subversion: can't fetch to /usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src/eselect-python/trunk from https://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/python/

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

:31 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi all (sorry to bother you again!!) > > > > I'm still in the middle of the process of updating to KDE4 > > > > Now the update blocks with and svn error: > > > > * The die message: > > * subversion: c

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

Well.. as a gentoo newbie, I can say autounmask made my life much easier. Of course the error has been mine: I should have used the 'pretend' switch and look closer to the list... However, I don't think I would have noticed much: don't blame me, but many emerge aspects are still alien beasts to m

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting to VPN

Thank you! I'm giving a look to the links: I'll let you know the results! Best regards, Massimiliano Ziccardi On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi > wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Are yo

[gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

Hi All. This problem is not strictly related to gentoo, however I'm sure someone here will be able to help me in some way: sorry if I bother you! I'm having a really strange problem: for some reason, everytime I reboot my server, the default gateway gets attached to the 'lo' interface, even if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

: I'm getting crazy!! My distribution is CENTOS but couldn't get much help there, so I tried here. Thanks a lot! Massimiliano On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:24, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Mon, November 7, 2011 12:13 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi All. > > > > This pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

loopback address). Thanks, Massimiliano On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:52, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, 7. November 2011, 12:13:58 schrieb Massimiliano Ziccardi: > > Hi All. > > > > This problem is not strictly related to gentoo, however I'm sure someo

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

> > Please do NOT top-post Sorry. If asking questions on how to do things on non-Gentoo installations, > please always mention the distribution in your email. Ok, sorry again! What about the documentation? > I have noticed that most binary distros require the use of their graphical > admin to

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

Hi All. >The routes and ifconfig seems correct to me. >How is the router configured? >I specifically mean, does it have any firewall configurations redirecting >SSH-traffic to your machine? I don't have access to the routers, however they are used for many other servers too. Moreover, I tried th

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

> you have those link-local entries in your routes (169.254.0.0/16), Try > adding > NOZEROCONF= yes to /etc/sysconfig/network Already tried, but no luck... Thanks, Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

> > could you post the output of > ip route > with zeroconf disabled? Here it is! 192.168.19.0/24 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.19.95 195.75.145.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 195.75.145.122 default via 195.75.145.1 dev eth0 Thanks, Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

> > seems to be a really tricky one... > What does > tracepath 195.75.145.33 > give? Here is the output: 1: 195.75.145.33 (195.75.145.33) 0.074ms pmtu 16436 1: 195.75.145.33 (195.75.145.33) 0.039ms reached 1: 195.75.145.33 (195.75.145.33)

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

Massimiliano On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 14:59, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2011 8:38 PM, "Massimiliano Ziccardi" < > massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> seems to be a really tricky one... > >> What does > >> tracepath

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

Our network admin told me to create a lo:0 to that address to create a VIP to be balanced by the network load balancer. That is why lo:0 is there... Thanks! Regards, Massimiliano Ziccardi On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 15:01, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Am Montag, 7. November 2011, 14:35

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

src 127.0.0.1 Regards, Massimiliano On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 14:59, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2011 8:38 PM, "Massimiliano Ziccardi" < > massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> seems to be a really tricky one... > >> What does >

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

Maybe I found where the problem is! Shutting down lo:0 everything seems to work properly! However I need to configure lo:0 for local triangulation (balancing through RADWARE): how should I configure it to not conflict with the other network cards? Thanks! Massimiliano Ziccardi

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

> > try assigning a netmask of 255.255.255.255 to it. Seems to work! I'm asking to the network administrators if 255.255.255.255 is ok ! I'll let you know! Thank you all! Gentoo's mailing list il always the best one! Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem with linux server

they told me 255.255.255.255 is ok I really thank you all very much for your support! Regards, Massimiliano On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 15:48, Massimiliano Ziccardi < massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com> wrote: > try assigning a netmask of 255.255.255.255 to it. > > > Seems to wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

ve me no output: " # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la in *... ] # " On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jake Moe wrote: > On 08/13/10 23:50, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: > > > >> I'm trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

te: > >> On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: >> >> >>> Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: >>> >>> >>>> # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la<http://libxfce4util.la> >>>> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4ut

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

mands that reduces my needs to bother you here! Thank you all! You are just great! (can't say the same of other distribution's mailing lists ) Massimiliano On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Jake Moe wrote: > On 08/16/10 19:47, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > >> Some