Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-04-01 Thread Mick
On Sunday 01 April 2007 01:04, Jeff Rollin wrote: In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote: JR In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: JR HV On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: JR HV Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this JR HV week? JR HV

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 08:49 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi all, I'm having a problem. [snip] and then, the laptop shuts off on me. It does sound like an overheating thing, as already mentioned, especially since you had overheating problems before. Can you confirm that _all_ fans are

Re: [gentoo-user] depscan.sh?

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi Dale In the last episode, Dale wrote: Da Jeff Rollin wrote: Da Hi all Da Da Somehow when updating the system the file /sbin/depscan.sh has gone missing - Da please advise as to how to get it back! Da Da It is part of baselayout. So emerge -1v baselayout should work fine. Da Da Hope that

Re: [gentoo-user] depscan.sh?

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi again In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote: JR Hi Dale JR JR In the last episode, Dale wrote: JR Da Jeff Rollin wrote: JR Da Hi all JR Da JR Da Somehow when updating the system the file /sbin/depscan.sh has gone JR missing - Da please advise as to how to get it back! JR JR Da JR Da It

Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi Mick In the last episode, Mick wrote: Mi On Sunday 01 April 2007 01:04, Jeff Rollin wrote: Mi In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote: Mi JR In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Mi JR HV On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: Mi JR HV Am I the only one seeing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread b.n.
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: In almost every kernel release a security problem is found, that is fixed in a stable release. Stable release? AFAIK, *all* 2.6.x releases are stable releases. The days of double trees (2.4.x and 2.5.x) are gone. Probably I don't get what you mean. I use x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-04-01 Thread b.n.
Jeff Rollin ha scritto: Hi Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this week? So far I have had gcc, perl, perl-dependent packages, autogen and some other packages fail on me this week. What kind of failures? Is it possible is your hardware at fault? m. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, b.n. wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: In almost every kernel release a security problem is found, that is fixed in a stable release. Stable release? AFAIK, *all* 2.6.x releases are stable releases. No, they aren't. There are the 'normal' releases (for

[gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, guys Recently I was looking through my logs when I got pissed off (again) by the big number of lines showing something like 'sshd: auth. error: unknown user XXX from some IP address'. I wrote a script which automatically sets all connections from those IP addresses to be dropped. Next I

Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi again In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote: JR Hi Mick JR JR In the last episode, Mick wrote: JR Mi If my experience is anything to go by, then there Mi may be something wrong with your machine/build. JR JR Oh joy! JR JR More likely to be the machine because the build has been working fine

[gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi list I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with websites. Should this be filed as a bug? Jeff -- For a successful technology,

[gentoo-user] Re: Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote: JR Hi list JR JR I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any JR sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from JR someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with websites. JR JR Should this be

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Daniel Daniel Iliev wrote on 01/04/07 15:03: Recently I was looking through my logs when I got pissed off (again) by the big number of lines showing something like 'sshd: auth. error: unknown user XXX from some IP address'. I wrote a script which automatically sets all connections from

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:07:15 +0400, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
In the last episode, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: AG AG Do you mean www.gentoo.org? If yes: AG AG IMHO this should not be filed as a bug. The colors all over the page are AG consistent and the links, which are not exactly purple, are visible. The colors are consistent, but the links are only

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hi list I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with websites. Should this be filed as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hello Herman In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: HV On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: HV Hi list HV HV I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any HV sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from HV someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Dale
Jeff Rollin wrote: In the last episode, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: AG AG Do you mean www.gentoo.org? If yes: AG AG IMHO this should not be filed as a bug. The colors all over the page are AG consistent and the links, which are not exactly purple, are visible. The colors are consistent, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hi list I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with websites. Should this be filed as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi Thomas In the last episode, Thomas Wouters wrote: TW On Sunday 01 April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: TW Hi list TW TW I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any TW sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from TW someone who doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
Dave Jones wrote: Hi Daniel My question: what is the best way get this iptables module working w/o diverting too much from the official Gentoo installation. I mean the normal way is to use patch-o-matic to patch iptables source and vanilla kernel source, then build and install. I have

[gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3

2007-04-01 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, any ideas, why my cyrus-imapd isn't working anymore? In /var/log/imapd.log is says: Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process started Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25004]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4 Apr 1

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Daniel Iliev: Next I decided to change -j DROP with -j TARPIT and I realized that gentoo-sources doesn't provide the netfilter target TARPIT. - Best regards, Daniel I realize there is a sense of satisfaction from using the TARPIT target that is appealing, however you must

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:25:24 +0400, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: AG AG Do you mean www.gentoo.org? If yes: AG AG IMHO this should not be filed as a bug. The colors all over the page are AG consistent and the links, which are not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 08:49 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi all, I'm having a problem. [snip] and then, the laptop shuts off on me. It does sound like an overheating thing, as already mentioned, especially since you had overheating problems before. I sincerely

Re: [gentoo-user] Maya

2007-04-01 Thread Samir Faci
Well, when I said commercial version, I meant the off the shelf product, which you do have to buy. You can probably try their demo version and see how you like it. I haven't played with their free version (assuming they have a linux version of it). -- Samir On 3/27/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Flourish Conference Reminder

2007-04-01 Thread Samir Faci
I just wanted to remind everyone that the Chicago Flourish Conference is coming up this weekend. Friday, April 6th and Saturday April 7th. If you are planning on attending be sure to mark you calendars and be sure to register on the website. The main website should have information on how to

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Mick
On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:03, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys Recently I was looking through my logs when I got pissed off (again) by the big number of lines showing something like 'sshd: auth. error: unknown user XXX from some IP address'. I wrote a script which automatically sets all

[gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3

2007-04-01 Thread Sven Köhler
So as you can see, one database must be broken or in wrong format. But i have NO idea, which one it is. OK, it was the database in /var/imap/db. Deleted all files in that directory, and now everything's fine again. I wonder, what i broke by doing this. Anyway: all my mails are still there.

[gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
I have two SATA drives, I have a partition on each combined as RAID-1 on which I use LVM to create my important partitions (/usr, /var, /home etc). I have another pair of partitions combined as RAID-0 on which I have another LVM group containing less important partitions, where speed and space

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread b.n.
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, b.n. wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: In almost every kernel release a security problem is found, that is fixed in a stable release. Stable release? AFAIK, *all* 2.6.x releases are stable releases. No, they aren't. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. April 2007, b.n. wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, b.n. wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: In almost every kernel release a security problem is found, that is fixed in a stable release. Stable release? AFAIK, *all* 2.6.x releases

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 23:35:25 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: 1)I only see gentoo-sources-2.6.X-rY, I never see gentoo-sources-2.6.X.a.b-rY .What am I installing when I install gentoo-sources-2.6.x-rY? look into the changelogs ;) I don't use gentoo-sources, but AFAIK, the -rX

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Mick, Mick wrote on 01/04/07 20:44: Recently I was looking through my logs when I got pissed off (again) by the big number of lines showing something like 'sshd: auth. error: unknown user XXX from some IP address'. I wrote a script which automatically sets all connections from those IP

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Daniel Daniel Iliev wrote on 01/04/07 19:10: My question: what is the best way get this iptables module working w/o diverting too much from the official Gentoo installation. I mean the normal way is to use patch-o-matic to patch iptables source and vanilla kernel source, then build and

[gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-01 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Hello! ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice (2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch version of STLport is installed: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860 Looking at comments 34 and 37

[gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync errors

2007-04-01 Thread Adrian
Greetings all. When running emerge-webrsync I get the following message. Can anyone help me understand/fix this? Thanks very much Adrian - Updating Portage cache: 66%Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4049, in ?

[gentoo-user] update-eix error message

2007-04-01 Thread Adrian
Odd things with eix-0.7.9 when I run update-eix I get the following. help/understanding please? Adrian -- root $ update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata) Reading

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
First of all thanks for your replies, guys! I'll try to answer to all of you in one (longer) response: Dave Jones wrote: Daniel complained about the sshd messages, not iptables messages. I fully agree that he should implement pub/priv key authentication, but even so, that will not prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:49:06AM -0600, darren kirby wrote: I realize there is a sense of satisfaction from using the TARPIT target that is appealing, however you must consider: 1. These ssh bruteforce attacks are almost certainly coming from a zombie botnet, and thus there is no human

[gentoo-user] Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread Daevid Vincent
Currently I dual-boot my notebook with XP and Gentoo. I'm curious to try out all this beryl stuff and see what all the rage is with Ubuntu and the kids these days. Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread Dale
Daevid Vincent wrote: Currently I dual-boot my notebook with XP and Gentoo. I'm curious to try out all this beryl stuff and see what all the rage is with Ubuntu and the kids these days. Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot and swap ones I already have,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 20:14 Sun 01 Apr , Daevid Vincent wrote: Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for that distro too? you can and you should. -- Good evening, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became

[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread »Q«
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just make sure you name the kernels something different or that each distro is set up to use the same kernel version. Why the same kernel version? -- »Q« --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread Dale
»Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just make sure you name the kernels something different or that each distro is set up to use the same kernel version. Why the same kernel version?

[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread »Q«
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just make sure you name the kernels something different or that each distro is set up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 09:21:22AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be doing it that often. I ran df and ll between each individual unmerge. The individual kernels take approx 250 megs, freshly emerged. Compiling generates

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync errors

2007-04-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian wrote: File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 47, in _pull raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: net-analyzer/etherape-0.9.6-r1 is corrupt: dictionary update sequence element #2 has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread Dale
»Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just make sure you name the kernels something different or that

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix error message

2007-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
070401 Adrian wrote: Odd things with eix-0.7.9 I'm using 0.9.1 successfully. when I run update-eix I get the following. root $ update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata) Reading 053%Garbage at end of

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:11:42PM +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote Which risk? Which mess? There is not a risk, if you use oldconfig. With oldconfig, 99% of the updates seem to consist of added support for exotic raid controllers or network cards. Since my system has been running OK for

[gentoo-user] headphones don't work since upgrade to kernel 2.6.19???

2007-04-01 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I've rebooted today with kernel 2.6.19 (used 2.6.18 before). I have a Intel 945G/GZ/P/PL motherboard and a Intel hda on board soundcard (Alsamixer says Card: HDA Intel and Chip: Realtek ALC260). I've listened to music via headphones plugged in on the frontside. Suddenly this setup don't work