Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-14 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Justin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> If so what is the massive chinese interest in icq? > >> > >> found this in the net: > >> > >> http://www.grc.com/port_1026.htm > >> http://www.grc.com/port_1027.htm > > > > That doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been battling this weirdness for several months, and it has > been getting worse and worse. Now I can't even unpack half the man > pages. > > The short of it is that a lot of binaries on my system are linked > against gcc 3.4.9, even if

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

2008-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: > Is it a known issue with 2.6.26-rc1 kernel? How could I painlessly > migrate configuration from old 2.6.25 kernel to 2.6.26 without need > for complete reconfiguration? > make menuconfig always keeped current config before, did it change > recently? I

[gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

2008-05-14 Thread Marko Kocić
Hi all, I'm using vanilla-sources-2.6.25.1 right now. I tried to configure and build 2.6.26_rc1 like I did many times before. > create symlink to linux-2.6.26-rc1 folder > go to linux folder > make menuconfig > save > make > make modules_install install Everythinh seems to build ok, with some MISM

[gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, but if i open the System -> Preferences -> Appearance dialogue it appears (i dont even need to make a change). So it looks like something is not running until i open the dialogue. Any ideas on how to fix it? Or will i have to resort to 'mv .gnome .g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread marc
Am 14.05.2008 um Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: > My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, but if i open the System -> > Preferences -> Appearance dialogue it appears (i dont even need to make a > change). So it looks like something is not running until i open the dialogue. > Any ideas on how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

2008-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: > It might be the case. I don't currently have access to my home > laptop, but there were lots of modules that are missing. Alsa and > iptables failed to start after reboot and I ended up in console > screen which is small and in the center of the screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

2008-05-14 Thread Marko Kocić
2008/5/14 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: > > Is it a known issue with 2.6.26-rc1 kernel? How could I painlessly > > migrate configuration from old 2.6.25 kernel to 2.6.26 without need > > for complete reconfiguration? > > make menuconfig always

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

2008-05-14 Thread Marko Kocić
2008/5/14 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: > > > It might be the case. I don't currently have access to my home > > laptop, but there were lots of modules that are missing. Alsa and > > iptables failed to start after reboot and I ended up in consol

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

2008-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: > >  Perhaps the output of dmesg and the relevant bits of messages from > > the init process will be required here > > Yes, I'll  have to digg more to fix this. I just hoped that there is > some easy/fast > solution that I didn't know of :( > It is going

[gentoo-user] Masked Packages

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel Mendler
Hi, I have a lot of masked packages installed on my system. The packages are installed but not unmasked. Is there an easy way to find those packages? Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

2008-05-14 Thread Marko Kocić
2008/5/14 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: > > > > Perhaps the output of dmesg and the relevant bits of messages from > > > the init process will be required here > > > > Yes, I'll have to digg more to fix this. I just hoped that there is > > s

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

2008-05-14 Thread tecnic5
Dunno if this will get you every masked package, but at least should be quite close; if you run emerge -pv --emptytree world you can check the packages that are being downgraded, quite probably the reason for this downgrading will be that the installed version is a masked one. Just an idea.

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

2008-05-14 Thread Justin
Daniel Mendler schrieb: Hi, I have a lot of masked packages installed on my system. The packages are installed but not unmasked. Is there an easy way to find those packages? Daniel See this http://gentoo-wiki.com/Keywords http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Regenerate_package_keywords Both tips c

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

2008-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Daniel Mendler wrote: > Hi, > > I have a lot of masked packages installed on my system. The packages > are installed but not unmasked. Is there an easy way to find those > packages? How can you have a masked package installed but have not unmasked it? To find all sorts

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-14 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Well I did a little Google'ing, and i found a blog. There the author wrote: lapitopi gyuszk # snice -15 X After doing this, I ran htop and it told me that my X11 was running with -15 niceness. I experience better "responsiblity" under all of X11 (kde, firefox, konsole, anything). For example swit

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

2008-05-14 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can you have a masked package installed but have not unmasked it? By setting the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS flag in the command line when emerging? Haven't done that for a while though, so I wouldn't know if ACCEPT_KEYWORDS ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-14 Thread felix
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:19:38AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > There is no such thing as gcc 3.4.9. > > You emerged it with 4.2.3, but _at_runtime_ it's trying to get libstdc++ > from 4.1.2. Check your environment, especially all variables with PATH in > their name (env|grep PATH), as well a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-14 Thread Josh Cepek
Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Well I did a little Google'ing, and i found a blog. There the author wrote: lapitopi gyuszk # snice -15 X As already pointed out, running process with a nice value less than 0 can only be done by root, and it's usually a really bad idea to run your entire X session as

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Josh Cepek wrote: > > lapitopi gyuszk # snice -15 X > > As already pointed out, running process with a nice value less than 0 > can only be done by root, and it's usually a really bad idea to run > your entire X session as root. X (and applications running under X) > invol

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-14 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 May 13 Tuesday 09:50:24 PM +0200, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? > (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used > Debian). Before trying this, there are some kernel modifications you can try: p

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.0.4 (not a nag)

2008-05-14 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, does anybody know what's happening to KDE4 in gentoo land ? Gentoo-KDE folks were pretty responsive with previous 4.0.x releases updating portage tree etc., but now I can't find much updates on what's happening with 4.0.4. Was it 3.5.9 preparations that took priority? Note: this

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Try: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.2.3 ldd > > /usr/bin/lzma > > This works. Good. > > If this works, try running "env-update && source /etc/profile", then > > just "ldd /usr/bin/lzma" again. > > Unfortunately, this does

RE: [gentoo-user] guest additions for vbox-1.6 gentoo guest on xp host

2008-05-14 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Just to close this thread with a fix. Instead of running vboxadd-xclient in the .xinitrc file, run VBoxClient. The seamless mode works and the auto-resize guest display works too. Enjoy an almost fully functional gentoo guest inside windows xp. The only issue still pending is sharing the clipbo

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-14 Thread felix
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:40:24PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Did you check /etc/ld.so.conf, maybe 4.1.2 is still listed before 4.2.3? > > You may also need to clean up /etc/env.d a bit and running gcc-config again > afterwards also seems to be a good idea. Thanks. I started looking at it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-14 Thread kashani
Mick wrote: This is typical grc.com style FUD for paranoid MSWindows users. He is a really good salesman in IT snakeoil (his background is in marketing). I'll second this. He's clown. kashani -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail during link stage. Is it a known issue? Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove gentoo-sources

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Has emerge --depclean always removed older gentoo-sources or has something changed? I don't remember this operation. Maybe I'm forgetting something I already know on this subject but I'm drawing a blank this afternoon. I'm curious if there is a way to mask package from --depclean removin

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove gentoo-sources

2008-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:02:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >Has emerge --depclean always removed older gentoo-sources or has > something changed? I don't remember this operation. Maybe I'm > forgetting something I already know on this subject but I'm drawing a > blank this afternoon. > >I'm c

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi folks, > > libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail > during link stage. Is it a known issue? there is no 'libmad-0.2.1' on my system. But probably you are hit by flameeyes test. Just revdep-rebuilt. Or install libmad-0.

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove gentoo-sources

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:02:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>Has emerge --depclean always removed older gentoo-sources or has >> something changed? I don't remember this operation. Maybe I'm >> forgetting something I alre

[gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up

2008-05-14 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is the kernel image in /boot sufficient. Do I need to build myself a new working kernel before

Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up

2008-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove > gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently > using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is > the kernel image in /boot sufficient. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up

2008-05-14 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:42:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove > > gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently > > using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need

Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove > gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently using. > Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is the kernel imag

[gentoo-user] sendmail trb post update wrld and jump to openrc

2008-05-14 Thread reader
Following a recent jump from pre openrc to post openrc via emerge -vuD world, sendmail is now failing to authenticate with my Smart host. I'll say in advance that I am not interested in switching MTAs for the inevitable suggestions to switch to a different MTA. Far as I know nothing has changed w

[gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-14 Thread reader
Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It appears to be, at root, just another snivel about how MS does >> things with no substance. >> >> > I understand it the other way round. It is not an active knocking on > your ports, but a passive MS thing. Lots of Chinese bought a new > computer with an

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
> > My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, > Does 'nautilus' start? Try using 'nautilus --no-desktop'... > Not sure if it tries to or not, but when I try to run it as you suggest, it dies; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ nautilus --no-desktop & [1] 7059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Initializing gnome-m

[gentoo-user] Re enter chroot install

2008-05-14 Thread James
Hello, I have a installation that did not complete successfully. I need to re enter the chroot environment, using a install cd. For argue purposes, let's assume the hard drive is formatted exactly as the example in the handbook. All I want to do is emerge an older kernel and compile it. Accord

Re: [gentoo-user] Re enter chroot install

2008-05-14 Thread Espen Hustad
2008/5/15, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > I have a installation that did not complete successfully. > I need to re enter the chroot environment, using a > install cd. For argue purposes, let's assume the hard drive > is formatted exactly as the example in the handbook. All I want to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re enter chroot install

2008-05-14 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:56:29 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a installation that did not complete successfully. > I need to re enter the chroot environment, using a > install cd. For argue purposes, let's assume the hard drive > is formatted exactly as the example in the han

[gentoo-user] Re: Re enter chroot install

2008-05-14 Thread reader
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev [...] > Any of the above steps that are not necessary? Other have commented about the .../boot stuff but in dozens of times chrooting during all kinds of install situations I've never done `mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gento

Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up

2008-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > you can add lines by hand in /var/lib/portage/world > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.24-r7 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.24-r8 > > Note the use of the colon instead of the dash. Don't ask me why but > that's what works. You can't put version numbers

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > So I moved 05compiler out of the way (I want to preserve that time > stamp just in case I do need to restore it), ran env-update again, and > now lzma is happy. I can run man again! Things which failed emerge > now build -- 323 to go. F

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.0.4 (not a nag)

2008-05-14 Thread Anton S. Ustyuzhanin
Dmitry S. Makovey пишет: > Hi everybody, > > does anybody know what's happening to KDE4 in gentoo land ? Gentoo-KDE folks > were pretty responsive with previous 4.0.x releases updating portage tree > etc., but now I can't find much updates on what's happening with 4.0.4. Was > it 3.5.9 preparat