date:20071122

I'm going by http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?
part=1chap=8 to mount the cdrom and cdrw drives, but it's failing.

There are two optical drives:  a CD-ROM and a CD-R/W; both drives work 
physically.

When I enter mount /mnt/cdrom1 or mount /mnt/cdrw1 then I hear a 
drive spin before it fails, but mount /dev/cdrom doesn't cause any 
noise.  They all fail, error messages:


arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # ll /dev/cd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 21 23:36 /dev/cdrom - hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 21 23:36 /dev/cdrom1 - hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 21 23:36 /dev/cdrw1 - hdd
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  autonoauto,user 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 autonoauto,user 0 0
/dev/cdrw1  /mnt/cdrw1  autonoauto,user 0 0

/dev/hdb1   /boot   ext2defaults1 2
/dev/hdb2   noneswapsw  0 0
/dev/hdb3   /   ext3noatime 0 1
none/proc   procdefaults0 0
none/dev/shmtmpfs   defaults0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00/mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00ext3
users,rw0 0

arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # mount -a
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No buffer space available
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrom1
mount: block device /dev/cdrom1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No buffer space available
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrw1 
mount: block device /dev/cdrw1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No buffer space available
arrakis ~ # 




thanks,

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[gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

2007-11-22 Thread Alexander Skwar

Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:47:24 +, Thufir wrote:
 
 
 Now, http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ruby/rails?full_cat shows
 that 1.2.5 is stable, though.  1.8.6_p110-r1 looks to be latest stable
 release of ruby available through portage for x86 systems.
 
 
 arrakis ~ # eix rails
 [I] dev-ruby/rails
  Available versions:
 (1.1)   1.1.6 ~1.1.6-r1
 (1.2)   ~1.2.0 ~1.2.1 ~1.2.2 ~1.2.3
  Installed versions:  1.1.6(1.1)(18:31:16 11/21/07)(doc fastcgi mysql
 -postgres sqlite -sqlite3)
  Homepage:http://www.rubyonrails.org
  Description: ruby on rails is a web-application and
 persistance framework
 
 arrakis ~ #

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix rails
* app-admin/eselect-rails
 Available versions:  0.10
 Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/
 Description: Manages Ruby on Rails symlinks

* dev-ruby/rails
 Available versions:  
(1.1)   1.1.6 (~)1.1.6-r2
(1.2)   (~)1.2.3 1.2.3-r1 (~)1.2.4 1.2.5
{doc fastcgi mysql postgres sqlite sqlite3}
 Homepage:http://www.rubyonrails.org
 Description: ruby on rails is a web-application and persistance 
framework

Found 2 matches.
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Do 22. Nov 10:13:26 CET 2007


 If I'm interpreting eix correctly there's not even an option to unmask
 1.2.5 (which shouldn't need unmasking).

You need to sync.

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[gentoo-user] Samba basics

Hi All,

This should be easy to answer, but I have had zero experience with Samba so 
far and can't readily find the answer:

I have set up a Samba server for a small office and used 'browseable No' 
extensively in the smb.cfg file, to remove a lot of otherwise visible to the 
Windows clients directories.

This has worked but not enough:  The Windows file manager still displays the 
(Linux) user home directory and a file called printers.  Is there a way of 
removing these two items from the Windows client view?

These are the few relevant excerpts from the smb.cfg file:

# Date: 2007-09-22
[global]
workgroup = Hydrodynamiki
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
cups options = raw
map to guest = Bad User
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
logon drive = P:
usershare allow guests = No
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd  -c 
Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
domain master = No
usershare max shares = 100

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes

[users]
comment = All users
path = /home/
inherit acls = yes
veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/
valid users = geoz
browsable = No
case sensitive = no
strict locking = no
msdfs proxy = no

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Weird image-serving behavior

On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Grant wrote:
 There is a photo on my website that has been served perfectly for a
 long time but today I noticed it wasn't being served and there were no
 errors printed in apache2's error_log (or ssl_error_log).  I
 downloaded the file, opened it locally just fine, uploaded it again,
 and it has since been served perfectly again.  There is nothing
 unusual about the image.  Has anyone seen anything like that before?
 Could this indicate a hard drive or memory problem?

What browser were you using for this?  I have been experiencing problems with 
Konqueror over the last month or so.  It will intermittently fail to download 
parts of webpages (mostly images).  Other browsers did not seem to have a 
problem.

Another looong shot may have to do with pmtu discovery and the possibility 
that your server was under 'ping attack', which could have caused its 
firewall to drop all pings, inc. those from your client.  This would only be 
valid if your client MTU is less than 1500.  I wouldn't hang my coat on this, 
but it sounds like a good conspiracy theory anyway . . .  :p
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-22 Thread brullo nulla

  But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is 320
  Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old partition
  table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. What happens to the
  120 Gb left? Are they recognized as an empty partition? Are they left
  unrecognized?
 
  Maybe I should just dd the MBR and then repartition the disk and use cp
  for the rest.

 You'll need to fdisk it with a LiveCD and delete the old small partition, then
 create a new one in its place occupying the rest of the new larger disk.  *BE
 VERY CAREFUL* to start the new partition *exactly* where the old one starts.
 Finally, reboot (to read the new partition table) and resize the fs  to fit
 the expanded available physical space.

Hmm. Guess I'll just dd the 512-mb grub bootloader and then proceed by
copying everything in new partitions, all from a livecd.

m.
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[gentoo-user] udevd-event 'error'

2007-11-22 Thread Adrian


Greetings.  I am getting a message when I boot, I suppose it would be
called an error, but the system is still working.  Anyhow, message is:

udevd-event [2625]: node_symlink: rename ( /dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb)
failed: is a directory

Now, there is a /dev/fb on my system, and it is a directory.  Thus, am
I right that udevd is trying to rename /dev/fb but cannot do so because
it is a directory not a file?

I tried the google/linux thing for the error message and got nothing at
all.  Grr

Suggestions on how to proceed please?  Thanks so very much.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:20:42 + (UTC) Thufir
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 arrakis ~ # eix rails
 [I] dev-ruby/rails
  Available versions:  
 (1.1)   1.1.6 ~1.1.6-r1
 (1.2)   ~1.2.0 ~1.2.1 ~1.2.2 ~1.2.3
  Installed versions:  1.1.6(1.1)(18:31:16 11/21/07)(doc fastcgi
 mysql -postgres sqlite -sqlite3)

Besides what you were told already (sync portage to see 1.2.5), you can
see above that rails is slotted. So as long as you don't explicitly
emerge it, it will keep the 1.1 and 1.2 slots separate and will only
update within each of the slots. So if you want 1.2.x, emerge it (and
then remove the 1.1 version, if you need/want to).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

2007-11-22 Thread Stroller



On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote:

...
I have set up a Samba server for a small office and used  
'browseable No'
extensively in the smb.cfg file, to remove a lot of otherwise  
visible to the

Windows clients directories.


My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to- 
newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you  
might expect. You might consider posting on the Samba mailing lists,  
which are quite busy.



The Windows file manager still displays the
(Linux) user home directory and a file called printers.  Is there a  
way of

removing these two items from the Windows client view?


The easy way to do this is to remove the [homes]  [printers]  
sections of your smb.conf (NOT smb.cfg, on my system), but of course  
that also prevents access to them.


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Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-22 Thread Stroller



On 22 Nov 2007, at 09:18, Thufir wrote:

...
arrakis ~ #
arrakis ~ # mount -a
arrakis ~ #
arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No buffer space available
arrakis ~ #
arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrom1
mount: block device /dev/cdrom1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No buffer space available
arrakis ~ #
arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrw1
mount: block device /dev/cdrw1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No buffer space available
arrakis ~ #

...

A Google seems to suggest that mount: No buffer space available is  
commonly returned when the device is already mounted.


The manpage for `mount` indicates that `mount -a` will mount all  
devices listed in /etc/fstab, so your output suggests to me that the  
CD drives are mounted when you issue this command - no wonder they  
fail when you try to mount them again separately!


I don't use optical drives very much under Linux, so please forgive  
me if I'm mistaken. I'd think that `df` would show the mount status  
of optical drives, so IMO it'd be useful to post the output of `mount  
-va  df  mount -v /mnt/cdrom`


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Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:25:48 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 gs -h gives me the following font path for Ghostscript
 Search path:
 [...]
 Where these paths are coming from?

Compiled into the binary?

 According to
 documentation: /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3/html/Use.htm The
 documentation only mention Xfree86 display servers but I would
 imagine is it is applicable to Xorg as well. So, the fonts path from
 xorg.conf should be searchable by Ghostscript as well but they are
 not.

Hm? What makes you think so? BTW, X11 output is just one driver in
Ghostscript. It doesn't have to be present at all. So the connection
between GS and X is only a thin line...

 Ghostscript doesn't know anything about them; as one of the pdf
 document was giving me an error, I couldn't convert from pdf2ps it
 was looking for: gbsn00lp.ttf font I have this font
 in /usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts/ Only when I created a link
 in: /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/
 
 ln -s /usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts/gbsn00lp.ttf gbsn00lp.ttf
 to this font it converted from pdf2ps

Yes, might happen. But it is common sense that you should embed all
needed fonts into the PDF anyway. For older versions of PDFs there was
an exception for the Base14 fonts, and those are (by means of
replacement versions) accessible from GS' own font store (the path you
said is present and works). You never know at a later point in time
whether you have the right font, with the right encoding: even if the
name matches you can't be sure.

 Shouldn't gs -h show list of path fonts from xorg.conf file?

No. If you run it that way, there's no X needed anyway. And gs -h
should just show what is configured.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Weird image-serving behavior

2007-11-22 Thread Grant

  There is a photo on my website that has been served perfectly for a
  long time but today I noticed it wasn't being served and there were no
  errors printed in apache2's error_log (or ssl_error_log).  I
  downloaded the file, opened it locally just fine, uploaded it again,
  and it has since been served perfectly again.  There is nothing
  unusual about the image.  Has anyone seen anything like that before?
  Could this indicate a hard drive or memory problem?

 What browser were you using for this?  I have been experiencing problems with
 Konqueror over the last month or so.  It will intermittently fail to download
 parts of webpages (mostly images).  Other browsers did not seem to have a
 problem.

 Another looong shot may have to do with pmtu discovery and the possibility
 that your server was under 'ping attack', which could have caused its
 firewall to drop all pings, inc. those from your client.  This would only be
 valid if your client MTU is less than 1500.  I wouldn't hang my coat on this,
 but it sounds like a good conspiracy theory anyway . . .  :p

Hi Mick,

I was using firefox 2.0.0.9 to view the image online and locally.  Weird

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[gentoo-user] Who sets the USER environment variable?

2007-11-22 Thread Dorin Scutarasu


Hi all,

I wonder if querying the USER env variable is a reliable way to get the login
name of the user who started an application, on all authentication methods -
passwd, NIS or LDAP based authentication.

So who sets this variable? is it PAM? is it some login script?

Best Regards,
Dorin Scutarasu

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[gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:20:43 +, Stroller wrote:

 A Google seems to suggest that mount: No buffer space available is
 commonly returned when the device is already mounted.

Oh, I wasn't finding that or didn't know how to interpret it.

 The manpage for `mount` indicates that `mount -a` will mount all devices
 listed in /etc/fstab, so your output suggests to me that the CD drives
 are mounted when you issue this command - no wonder they fail when you
 try to mount them again separately!

Yes, I concur with everything above.  However, I guess I left out the 
fact that there's a disc in each drive; the discs are readable.


arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # mount -a
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # mount
/dev/hdb3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)
/dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 type ext3 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # mount -va  df  mount -v /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted on /boot
mount: none already mounted on /dev/shm
mount: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 already mounted on /mnt/VolGroup00/
LogVol00
mount: proc already mounted
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/ 
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct  7 00:17 VolGroup00
drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:54 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 22 00:37 cdrom1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 21 23:54 cdrw1
drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:54 floppy
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrom
total 0
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrom1
total 0
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrw1 
total 0
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # 


thanks,

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[gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:46:33 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:


 So, what does echo $DISPLAY show? Also helpfull would be the output of
 ps -ef|grep X. How do you start X, via display manager (gdm, xdm,
 kdm,...) or with startx after text console login?

Quick response:


display manager:  gdm I believe.

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thufir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $DISPLAY

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps -ef|grep X
root  6927  6924  4 07:50 tty7 00:00:47 /usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -
auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
thufir7965  7957  0 08:06 pts/000:00:00 grep --color=auto X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 



thanks,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

Thanks Stroller,

On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote:
 On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote:
  ...

 My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to-
 newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you
 might expect. 

Hmm, I know what you mean!  :)

 You might consider posting on the Samba mailing lists, 
 which are quite busy.

Thanks, I'll look into it.

  The Windows file manager still displays the
  (Linux) user home directory and a file called printers.  Is there a
  way of
  removing these two items from the Windows client view?

 The easy way to do this is to remove the [homes]  [printers]
 sections of your smb.conf (NOT smb.cfg, on my system), but of course
 that also prevents access to them.

Is there a way to do this selectively for different users?  Some cannot be 
trusted to even look after their own linux home directories and leaving them 
visible will give rise to unnecessary queries.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot question

2007-11-22 Thread PaulNM

Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
 I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros. 
 Gentoo has a 32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64 but this guide only
 discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment within the 64bit
 Gentoo.  I was wondering if it could be used, suitably modified, to
 chroot from my x86_64 bit distro to my x86 distro.  Will it mess up one
 or the other?
 
 Tony
 
 You should be fine as long as you ignore the installation steps.  Just
make sure you have the proper options in the 64 bit kernel and use the
proper chroot command.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

2007-11-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs

Am Donnerstag 22 November 2007 schrieb Thufir:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $DISPLAY

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So it's unset, which is the reason for the error you get from gtkpod. It 
doesn't know on which display to open.

Try setting it :0 (export DISPLAY=:0) before you run the command.

However, I'm still wondering why it is unset, because the display manager 
should take care of setting it correctly.

HTH...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Joseph

On 11/22/07 15:57, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

Thank you for the input, at least I'm getting some feedback.
In the past everything worked so I take it for granted; only if things break
I'm trying to get to the bottom.

gs -h gives me the following font path for Ghostscript
Search path:
[...]
Where these paths are coming from?

Compiled into the binary?

Not a good solution but, it would be better if we input the path via a config
file.

Yes, might happen. But it is common sense that you should embed all
needed fonts into the PDF anyway. For older versions of PDFs there was
an exception for the Base14 fonts, and those are (by means of
replacement versions) accessible from GS' own font store (the path you
said is present and works). You never know at a later point in time
whether you have the right font, with the right encoding: even if the
name matches you can't be sure.

I think this is the clue.
Well, if I generate the PDF file on Linux the fonts are embedded in every PDF document when I received the file from
somebody else the fonts most of the time are not embedded.
I have one document I received (pdf file) it printed fine two weeks ago; when I try to re-printed it I can not, and I
know it is a font problem: egsample when I run pdf2ps file.pdf I get:

Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
But TimesNewRomanPSMT is not embedded.
Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
But TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT is not embedded.
Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
But ArialMT is not embedded.

How can they configure their system on Windows so the fonts are embedded?
What puzzle me is that this document printed fine two weeks ago and all of a sudden I'm getting an error so I'm
looking for a fault on my end.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Joseph

Where do you put GS_FONTPATH= 
I was trying to put it in .bashrc (re-log) didn't work;  in /etc/profile 
env-update  source /etc/profile

export 
GS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/misc:/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:/usr/share/fonts/Speedo

No difference, gs -h doesn't show these paths.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:13:50 -0700
Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  gs -h gives me the following font path for Ghostscript
  Search path:
  [...]
  Where these paths are coming from?
 
 Compiled into the binary?
 
 Not a good solution but, it would be better if we input the path via a config 
 file.

Of course, this is only the basic configuration. You can override this
by configuration file or even environment variable (so you can set it
up in your .bashrc). The environment variable is GS_FONTPATH. See the
use.html document you've already found, it should be explained there.
Also have a look at /usr/share/ghostcript/ver/lib/Fontmap.GS, but I
don't suggest editing it as it will get overwritten by updates. I'm not
sure ATM if there's a standard path for overrides in GS, maybe someone
else can comment about this.

By the way: the X server probably doesn't know of all fonts either.
Take into account that a lot of programs nowadays use fontconfig, which
is configured in /etc/fonts. Yes, this is a bit convoluted.

 Yes, might happen. But it is common sense that you should embed all
 needed fonts into the PDF anyway. For older versions of PDFs there was
 an exception for the Base14 fonts, and those are (by means of
 replacement versions) accessible from GS' own font store (the path you
 said is present and works). You never know at a later point in time
 whether you have the right font, with the right encoding: even if the
 name matches you can't be sure.
 
 I think this is the clue. 
 Well, if I generate the PDF file on Linux the fonts are embedded in
 every PDF document when I received the file from somebody else the
 fonts most of the time are not embedded.

Yeah, that's the culprit if you have to use other peoples' documents...

 I have one document I received (pdf file) it printed fine two weeks ago;
 when I try to re-printed it I can not, and I 
 know it is a font problem: egsample when I run  pdf2ps file.pdf I get:
   Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
But TimesNewRomanPSMT is not embedded.
   Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
But TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT is not embedded.
   Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
But ArialMT is not embedded.

Ghostscript should mostly be able to recover from those warnings and
use replacement fonts here. You might also want to give acroread a try
(it has command line options to generate Postscript, IIRC) or pdftops
(from poppler/Xpdf).

 How can they configure their system on Windows so the fonts are embedded?

That's hard to tell, and certainly depends on the production chain.
For most ways of generating PDF on Windows, there is a configuration
option where it is to be expected. I.e. in the printer settings for a
PDF-printer style generator, in the save as options for programs
saving to PDF natively and so on.

 What puzzle me is that this document printed fine two weeks ago
 and all of a sudden I'm getting an error so I'm looking for a fault
 on my end.

Did you do an emerge -u by chance? (Of course, this isn't a fault, but
might be the cause, and then, I'd consider it a bug)

OTOH, I think most ESP specific code is now in the main development
line (ghostscript-gpl). You might want to try this out... The newest
release is 8.61 -- released yesterday -- and is not yet in portage.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

Hi,

oops, wrote too long. So here's the follow-up:

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:42:54 -0700
Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Where do you put GS_FONTPATH= 
 I was trying to put it in .bashrc (re-log) didn't work;  in /etc/profile 
 env-update  source /etc/profile
 export 
 GS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/misc:/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:/usr/share/fonts/Speedo
 
 No difference, gs -h doesn't show these paths.

I don't think it will ever do. It is supposed to just show compiled-in
paths, so that you can see what the defaults are. I would set that
variable just like you did -- and then give pdf2ps a try.

BTW, all paths you have specified are related to bitmap fonts, which
Ghostscript will most probably not be able to make any sense of. You
should probably rather focus on the corefonts (Microsoft fonts) and
TrueType/TTF/Type1 folders.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:56:38 +0100
b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dan Farrell ha scritto:
  On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:25:06 +0100
  b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  it is; however if the partition is live the data could be messed up
  if you read half of an overwritten file or something.  in other
  words, it works really well on partitions that aren't live, and if
  the partition is live, you could potentially have a bad file.  You
  might even potentially have a bad partition.  This all is from my
  own consideration; I wouldn't bet the house on it.  
 
 Well, dd-ing live partitions was out of the question -however thanks
 for the reminder :)


I've done it, but can't say as though I intend to do it on any
important systems.  Too chancy.  

 But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is 320
 Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old partition
 table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. What happens to
 the 120 Gb left? Are they recognized as an empty partition? Are they
 left unrecognized?

Instead of dd-ing the entire drive, why not repartition the drive as
you see fit, creating partitions of the same size, and then dding the
actual partitions over to the disk, rather than the whole disk.
there's one precaution; make sure the units are the same.  most disks I
see have a unit size of 8225280 bytes, but a few old drives are
different, so be careful.  The first time I did this, i kind of
documented it here:  
http://spore.ath.cx/~dan/doc/xpmove.html
might be useful to you.  

 Maybe I should just dd the MBR and then repartition the disk and use
 cp for the rest.

you could do that, but dd should be significantly faster, because it
reads directly from the platters without going through the filesystem.  

you could dd the mbr, but I recommend simply re-installing grub to the
new drive first.  it's about as easy as using dd.  

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:14:57 +0100
brullo nulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is
   320 Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old
   partition table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk.
   What happens to the 120 Gb left? Are they recognized as an empty
   partition? Are they left unrecognized?
  
   Maybe I should just dd the MBR and then repartition the disk and
   use cp for the rest.
 
  You'll need to fdisk it with a LiveCD and delete the old small
  partition, then create a new one in its place occupying the rest of
  the new larger disk.  *BE VERY CAREFUL* to start the new partition
  *exactly* where the old one starts. Finally, reboot (to read the
  new partition table) and resize the fs  to fit the expanded
  available physical space.
 
 Hmm. Guess I'll just dd the 512-mb grub bootloader and then proceed by
 copying everything in new partitions, all from a livecd.

512 _bytes_, not MB!  and that includes the (first) partition table and
boot signature.  So really, you only want to copy 446 bytes.  

http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/procedures/mbr.html

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Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

2007-11-22 Thread Daniel da Veiga

On Nov 22, 2007 2:46 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Thanks Stroller,

 On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote:
  On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote:
   ...

  My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to-
  newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you
  might expect.

 Hmm, I know what you mean!  :)

  You might consider posting on the Samba mailing lists,
  which are quite busy.

 Thanks, I'll look into it.

   The Windows file manager still displays the
   (Linux) user home directory and a file called printers.  Is there a
   way of
   removing these two items from the Windows client view?
 
  The easy way to do this is to remove the [homes]  [printers]
  sections of your smb.conf (NOT smb.cfg, on my system), but of course
  that also prevents access to them.

 Is there a way to do this selectively for different users?  Some cannot be
 trusted to even look after their own linux home directories and leaving them
 visible will give rise to unnecessary queries.

What I'll suggest is not directly related to your Samba config
problem. It is something I found very useful while setting up my own
samba server. I guess there's even a USE flag for it. Its SWAT, its a
web based management program to control Samba settings. It is very
useful and user-friendly.

You should give it a try.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot question

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:33:15 -0600
Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros. 
 Gentoo has a 32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64 but this guide only
 discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment within the 64bit
 Gentoo.  I was wondering if it could be used, suitably modified, to
 chroot from my x86_64 bit distro to my x86 distro.  Will it mess up
 one or the other?

No, they won't effect each other, but isn't this generally how a
multi-lib system is done?  I read a howto years ago but got bored
halfway through, and since I didn't need it anyway, I gave up.  

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Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:06:37 -0200
Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 SWAT, its a
 web based management program to control Samba settings. It is very
 useful and user-friendly.
 
 You should give it a try.

++!  I am a config file editor generally, but samba is one of the 2
things I don't configure manually (the other being cups).  swat is much
easier.  
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Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:20:43 +
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 A Google seems to suggest that mount: No buffer space available is  
 commonly returned when the device is already mounted.

Possibly, but I think this is unlikely.  I have seen the 'already
mounted' error many times but never this buffer error.  
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:49:11 + (UTC)
Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I only started googling $DISPLAY, but yes, it's the same user who
 started the X session.  Normally I use GNOME, but will also try just
 X and KDE.
 

really?  in your previous message you pasted:

arrakis ~ # gtkpod
(gtkpod:11857): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: 

did you start the X session as root?  

it's important to differentiate between having permission to write to
an X display (xhost permits that) and knowing which display to write
to - $DISPLAY will be set to that if you're already in the 'X
environment' (it's an environment variable).  However, if you su or
something, you'll no longer have that environment variable.  

Generally speaking it should be set to :0 which is equivilent to
localhost:0.0 or localhost server, display 0, screen 0.  

if I were in your position I would say:
$ DISPLAY=:0 gtkpod
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Thursday 22 November 2007, brullo nulla wrote:
   But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is 320
   Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old partition
   table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. What happens to
   the 120 Gb left? Are they recognized as an empty partition? Are they
   left unrecognized?
  
   Maybe I should just dd the MBR and then repartition the disk and use cp
   for the rest.
 
  You'll need to fdisk it with a LiveCD and delete the old small partition,
  then create a new one in its place occupying the rest of the new larger
  disk.  *BE VERY CAREFUL* to start the new partition *exactly* where the
  old one starts. Finally, reboot (to read the new partition table) and
  resize the fs  to fit the expanded available physical space.

 Hmm. Guess I'll just dd the 512-mb grub bootloader and then proceed by
 copying everything in new partitions, all from a livecd.

It's your call of course, but why don't you just boot from a LiveCD, mount the 
lot and tar the contents of the suspect disk to the new disk/partitions?  The 
size of the new disk and partitions can be anything you like, as long as they 
are not smaller than the amount of data you are trying to tar into them.  
Then you can run grub from the LiveCD to install the grub boot code in the 
MBR of the new disk.  Other than the time it'll take you to partition the new 
disk (and reboot), tar should run faster than dd (it will not be copying over 
empty space) and it will be essentially defraging your data onto the new 
partition.  You may find that emerge sync runs faster than it used to.

The only reason that I would image a drive/partition with dd is if I had some 
fs corruption and wanted to try offline to fix it.

Anyway, just my 2c's.

HTH.
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[gentoo-user] [OT] BBC claim on low numbers of Linux visitors

Although off-topic this should be of interest to most of us (since it is 
potentially discriminatory against Linux users) and particularly to those of 
us who visit the BBC website.  If you live in the UK you may have one more 
reason to complain - you pay for the BBC license and you are entitled to have 
a say as to how your money is being spent!

In summary, BBC claims that the low numbers of Linux users visiting its 
website are not sufficient compared with the numbers of MS Windows users and 
therefore it will not cater to their OS needs.  As a consequence MS Windows 
specific media players and formats will be the basis of BBC content provision 
and us Linux users may or may not be able to access it.  There is an argument 
taking place as to how OS' numbers of visitors are identified and counted 
here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/highfield_bbc_linux_website_users_bafflement/

If you want to sign please see this excerpt below:

--- FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS ---
Hi,
 
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently 
signed:
 
More than 400 UK Linux users read the BBC sites
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc?e
 
I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage you to 
add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time.
 
Thanks!
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[gentoo-user] Usb device not accepting address x, error -71

2007-11-22 Thread pk

Hi,

I've just stumbled on a problem with my gentoo-sources kernel
(2.6.22-gentoo-r9). My external usb harddrive where I keep my backups
does not seem to get recognised by the kernel anymore. I have googled
this and have come up with some possible scenarios. None of them seem
like they would solve the problem. First, my uhci and ehci is compiled
into the kernel (not a module). The same setup has worked fine for a
number of 2.6 kernels (since 2-3 years back at least). I've reused the
.config file during this time with make oldconfig and going through it
manually for each upgrade.

Has anyone else encountered this problem, and more importantly has
anyone a solution to this? Is it a driver bug?

Best regards

Peter K
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-22 Thread b.n.

Mick ha scritto:
 It's your call of course, but why don't you just boot from a LiveCD, mount 
 the 
 lot and tar the contents of the suspect disk to the new disk/partitions?  The 
 size of the new disk and partitions can be anything you like, as long as they 
 are not smaller than the amount of data you are trying to tar into them.  
 Then you can run grub from the LiveCD to install the grub boot code in the 
 MBR of the new disk.  Other than the time it'll take you to partition the new 
 disk (and reboot), tar should run faster than dd (it will not be copying over 
 empty space) and it will be essentially defraging your data onto the new 
 partition.  You may find that emerge sync runs faster than it used to.

Yes, that's practically the other option I was thinking today at work
(ehm, between data analysis sessions, of course!).

Just a thing: why tar and not cp? I'm not that familiar with tar except
than for the usual tar -xzv(j)f ... Yes, I'm not an old unix dog...

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] BBC claim on low numbers of Linux visitors

2007-11-22 Thread Dale

Mick wrote:
 Although off-topic this should be of interest to most of us (since it is 
 potentially discriminatory against Linux users) and particularly to those of 
 us who visit the BBC website.  If you live in the UK you may have one more 
 reason to complain - you pay for the BBC license and you are entitled to have 
 a say as to how your money is being spent!

 In summary, BBC claims that the low numbers of Linux users visiting its 
 website are not sufficient compared with the numbers of MS Windows users and 
 therefore it will not cater to their OS needs.  As a consequence MS Windows 
 specific media players and formats will be the basis of BBC content provision 
 and us Linux users may or may not be able to access it.  There is an argument 
 taking place as to how OS' numbers of visitors are identified and counted 
 here:

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/highfield_bbc_linux_website_users_bafflement/

 If you want to sign please see this excerpt below:

 --- FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS ---
 Hi,
  
 I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently 
 signed:
  
 More than 400 UK Linux users read the BBC sites
 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc?e
  
 I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage you to 
 add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time.
  
 Thanks!
 -
   

Well, I know on my browser, I can tell it to tell the server I am using
IE or some other browser.  I wonder if other people are doing the same
so it will work correctly?  I have to do this on the myspace website or
I get errors.

There may be more Linux users than are getting reported.  Oh, yea, I
know, I'm on the wrong side of the pond.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-22 Thread Neil Bothwick

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:23:24 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:

 you could do that, but dd should be significantly faster, because it
 reads directly from the platters without going through the filesystem.  

On the other hand, it copies every byte of the disk, whether in use or
not. Unless you have a very full, and fragmented disk, copying only the
data you need is likely to be much faster. The one time I used dd to
copy an entire disk, it took a day and forever. 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Usb device not accepting address x, error -71

2007-11-22 Thread Neil Bothwick

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:07:35 +0100, pk wrote:

 I've just stumbled on a problem with my gentoo-sources kernel
 (2.6.22-gentoo-r9). My external usb harddrive where I keep my backups
 does not seem to get recognised by the kernel anymore. 

How did you configure this kernel? By using an old .config with make
oldconfig or doing it from scratch?

What does the system log show when you connect the drive (tail
-f /var/log/messages)?


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Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-22 Thread hkml


Hi Group,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other 
Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; 
Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the 
content of the first selection.


It seems that the clipboard content is overwritten as soon as I mark 
text. This behaviour is not depending on the window manager/ desktop 
environment (I tried fvwm and kde), so it is probably some X 
configuration stuff. As far as I have understood, there are 2 different 
clipboards with one being changed as soon as you mark text (pasting at 
mouse-middle-click) and the other is changed by pressing Ctrl-c (pasting 
at Ctrl-v). Is that correct?


If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into 
the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the 
possibility to change this behaviour?
I just wanted to tell you, that I solved the problem now. Starting with 
the answer that the clipboard in KDE is configurable to use different 
buffers, I changed this setting and it worked then in KDE.


After that I tried to work out, why it didn't work in fvwm over then, 
but I simply couldn't reproduce this behaviour. My apologies for the 
wrong starting point in the discussion. The problem was simply a KDE 
problem and nothing else.


Cheers,
Heinz

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Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

2007-11-22 Thread dexter




Mick pisze:

Thanks Stroller,

On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote:
  

On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote:


...
  


  

My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to-
newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you
might expect. 



Hmm, I know what you mean!  :)

  
You might consider posting on the Samba mailing lists, 
which are quite busy.



Thanks, I'll look into it.

  

The Windows file manager still displays the
(Linux) user home directory and a file called printers.  Is there a
way of
removing these two items from the Windows client view?
  

The easy way to do this is to remove the [homes]  [printers]
sections of your smb.conf (NOT smb.cfg, on my system), but of course
that also prevents access to them.



Is there a way to do this selectively for different users?  Some cannot be 
trusted to even look after their own linux home directories and leaving them 
visible will give rise to unnecessary queries.
  


I remember that there is an option to include selective config files 
based on conditions - it's been some time since my last samba 
installation (a complex one) but it looked something like this


include /etc/samba/hostname.cfg

It's just of the to of my head, but You should get the idea, in the 
example above, if a host with certain hostname was connecting to samba 
server, a specific file was included.
Unfortunatelly I don't remeber exact syntax, and tons of other things - 
I just suggest looking in this direction


regards
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[gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:37:28 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:


 did you start the X session as root?
 
 it's important to differentiate between having permission to write to an
 X display (xhost permits that) and knowing which display to write to -
 $DISPLAY will be set to that if you're already in the 'X environment'
 (it's an environment variable).  However, if you su or something, you'll
 no longer have that environment variable.

I was using su and so was losing that environment variable :(

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gtkpod

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 


which brings up gtkpod correctly.  Thank you, pardon I had no idea that I 
was leaving out relevant information.



-Thufir

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