Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 28 Januar 2009, Tomas Linhart wrote: > Hello all, > > I've decided to try out KDE 4.2. I unmasked all the packages that I > needed, but when I was emerging kde-base/ksysguard I got the following > error: > > Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_ksysguard.so > [ 98%] Built ta

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Tomas Linhart
2009/1/29 Nick Cunningham : > > > Some basic info like emerge --info (or paludis equivilant) would be a good > start, likewise confirming that the build still fails with portage would > also be useful (im not saying anything about paludis before any flamewars > start, just wanting to rule out the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >> > on my network in wireshark? >> >> ifconfig eth1 promisc >> >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >> automatically, so there

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo mail server

2009-01-28 Thread Tom Brown
Freakin awesome guys! Thank you very much for your replies. This is what I got out of it: 1) Gentoo evolves. There are no major upgrades. This is a huge "go with gentoo" point. I've never seen an operating system that didn't have issues after a major upgrade. This means an updated system with gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
> Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automat

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/28 Tomas Linhart > Hello all, > > I've decided to try out KDE 4.2. I unmasked all the packages that I > needed, but when I was emerging kde-base/ksysguard I got the following > error: > > Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_ksysguard.so > [ 98%] Built target kdeinit_ksysguard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:41:23 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > You want to get rid of ALL of them? > > > > rm -rf /usr/portage/packages/* > > If that's safe, then I guess that'll do :P Even rm -fr /usr/portage/packages is safe. If you want to do it selectively, remove the tbz2 files from $

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > >> > =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 >> > >> > in /etc/portage/package.keywords >> > >> > but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 >> > which fails, so the whole

[gentoo-user] Re: How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Shawn Haggett wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:14:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-28 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:14:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with > 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by > hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed. You want to get r

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: >> Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was >> surprised too. My laptop and the "remote" system are 15 feet away >> from each other on the same wireless netw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Grant wrote: >>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >>> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >>> > on my network in wireshark? >>> >>> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>> >>> But at least tcpdump puts the int

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Man Shankar
On 20:41 Wed 28 Jan , momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: > Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). > > I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug > before masking it. > > > Momesso Andrea > > +1 FWIW, have been using that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
> Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > on my network in wireshark? > ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatic

[gentoo-user] Disable xterm scroll-to-bottom and auto scrolling

2009-01-28 Thread David Sveningsson
Hi, I disabled xterm scroll-to-bottom using -si but it is pretty much useless since the output keeps scrolling anyway. I would like to be able to scroll freely in the terminal output without any interfering automatic scrolling. Like Terminal.app in Mac OSX. I've tried reading the manual and googled

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread momesso . andrea
Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug before masking it. Momesso Andrea -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:10:05 To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Saphirus Sage
Grant wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? >>> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>> >>> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: > Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was > surprised too. My laptop and the "remote" system are 15 feet away > from each other on the same wireless network, with the router in > between. Most X programs store thei

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
>> That's the weird part. Local gimp and remote gimp side-by-side on the >> same screen look different. For example, the edges of the buttons and >> widgets in local gimp are rounded but they aren't in remote gimp. Not >> a big deal though. > > So what do gimp look like when you run it locally o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >> > on my network in wireshark? >> >> ifconfig eth1 promisc >> >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >> automatically, so there

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > > =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 > > > > in /etc/portage/package.keywords > > > > but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 > > which fails, so the whole process is stopped. > > echo \>x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 >> /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Saphirus Sage
Dominic Kexel wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:17:18 +0100 > Miernik wrote: > > >> Grant wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >>> promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >>> on my network in wireshark? >>> >> if

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Grant wrote: > > When I ssh -X, start gimp, close gimp, and close the ssh session, the > terminal prompt disappears and only the cursor is visible in the > terminal. I have to ctrl+c to bring the prompt back. This doesn't > happen with ssh -X unless I open gimp

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread pk
Grant wrote: > That's the weird part. Local gimp and remote gimp side-by-side on the > same screen look different. For example, the edges of the buttons and > widgets in local gimp are rounded but they aren't in remote gimp. Not > a big deal though. So what do gimp look like when you run it lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Dominic Kexel
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:17:18 +0100 Miernik wrote: > Grant wrote: > > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > > on my network in wireshark? > > ifconfig eth1 promisc > > But at least tcpdump put

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Tomas Linhart
Hello all, I've decided to try out KDE 4.2. I unmasked all the packages that I needed, but when I was emerging kde-base/ksysguard I got the following error: Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_ksysguard.so [ 98%] Built target kdeinit_ksysguard Scanning dependencies of target ksysguar

[gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Miernik
Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so there is a ch

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > on my network in wireshark? wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor Something like that. Not s

[gentoo-user] wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Miernik wrote: > I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently > in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and > prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold > (like in Debian)? > > I tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to mysql

2009-01-28 Thread Alejandro
2009/1/28 AllenJB > Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Afternoon all, >> >> I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want >> to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. >> This is what happens: >> >> $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet >> Enter password:

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to mysql

2009-01-28 Thread AllenJB
Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. This is what happens: $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet Enter password: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQ

[gentoo-user] Network access to mysql

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. This is what happens: $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet Enter password: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'serv.ethnet'

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Jan 2009, at 15:33, Miernik wrote: I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried inserti

[gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Miernik
I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried inserting: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in /etc/portag

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Jan 2009, at 12:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote: I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to music. He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and whatever he can find. I don't know whether the

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 22:50:59 Paul Hartman wrote: > Overall I would say at this poin, other than the Last.fm support, I > prefer the old Amarok in almost every way to the new one. UI was > better, performance was better, display of collection was better. > Maybe there are some new features t

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote: > I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to music. > He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and whatever he > can find. I don't know whether the BBC streams in mp3 or just allows you to download

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:51:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > The one thing I'm not liking about it was it is that it created > /etc/portagexs which now stops me from bash auto-completing my tab > commands the way I'm used to doing it for all these years. A trade > off... That's fixed in the latest Po