On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 04:29:49PM +, James wrote:
> My son wants a droid phone. I'm pushing him towards the HTC droid
> as I think we can customize it, if not eventually run embedded
> Gentoo on this phone.
I have a G1, normal model, not flashed. I too wanted it because of
its physical key
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:39:20PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I downloaded it and so far it looks OK, but need to play more. First thing I
> need to figure out is how to make it refresh the inbox when, and only when, I
> click the button myself. I don't quite do this "beep at me every time th
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> That's (S)creen (O)f (D)eath. I thought I had fixed this problem on my
> eee. I would get these SODs, black usually, but sometimes white and
> once green while connected to the web(don't know if that's
> significant). At first I
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:08:18 Iain Buchanan wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:18 +, Mick wrote:
>> > On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:09:01 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > > Gdm itself has a config option to disallow root logins
>> >
>> > Ahh, u
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mick wrote:
>> On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:08:18 Iain Buchanan wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:18 +, Mick wrote:
>>> > On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:09:01 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> > > Gdm itself
Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Anybody guess what's happening here?
>
Well, it is just a guess but, from what you have said, it
sounds like either a problem with the video driver or
a hardware problem. :(
Be lucky,
Neil
http://www.easy-ebay.com
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:06:02 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > I think it is being over-cautious, which results in packages being
> > rebuilt multiple time unnecessarily, but I's rather give it the
> > chance to fix itself. That said, I've never had a list anything like
> > 50 packages long, but I do
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 13 November 2009 01:21:49 Joshua Murphy wrote:
>> Useless? well, not exactly. ~amd64 marked packages in it are
>> redundant, but every box I put wine on runs git builds
>> (=app-emulation/wine- in the portage tree), and as such
On 11/12/2009 10:01 PM, Mick wrote:
I should know how to do this ...
It isn't as simple as commenting out vc7 in /etc/securetty, right? The
persistent offenders would try to start another X session on a different vc.
Is there a trick I could add in /etc/pam.d/login or one of the /etc/pam.d/gdm
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:06 -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> I have a G1, normal model, not flashed. I too wanted it because of
> its physical keyboard, but then someone developed a pay program ($5 I
> think, well worth it) called Better Keyboard which has been so good
> that I don't use the ph
Am Samstag 14 November 2009 10:21:35 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> You cannot impose any restrictions to the root user. root is
> unrestricted by definition. It's useless to even start thinking about
> trying.
Ever heard about SELinux?
Bye...
Dirk
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Jacques Montier a gentiment tapote:
> Julien Gormotte a gentiment tapote:
>
>> Ok, this is interesting :
>> libpng12.so.0
>> libQtSvg.so.4
>> I suppose the icons are in png or svg format, and k3b is not able to
>> load them because this lib is missing...
>>
>> Did you tried a revdep-rebuild ? mayb
On Samstag 14 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote:
> Jacques Montier a gentiment tapote:
> > Julien Gormotte a gentiment tapote:
> >> Ok, this is interesting :
> >> libpng12.so.0
> >> libQtSvg.so.4
> >> I suppose the icons are in png or svg format, and k3b is not able to
> >> load them because thi
Hi, I'm getting strange mails from vixie-cron-4.1-r10:
--
SUBJECT: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
/usr/sbin/run-crons
error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line
error: kernel:12 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line
--
What does
On 11/14/2009 12:12 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Samstag 14 November 2009 10:21:35 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
You cannot impose any restrictions to the root user. root is
unrestricted by definition. It's useless to even start thinking about
trying.
Ever heard about SELinux?
Bye...
Ever h
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 09:30:42AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:06 -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> > Plus it does
> > not have multitouch like the iPhone or the new Motorola Droid, which
> > would be a big improvement.
>
> That's a software limitation, the touchscreen
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> I already posted how do downgrade to 1.6.5 correctly :P
>
I have a slightly different case, but related -- I tried the upgrade
because I saw a message that the new nvidia drivers would actually work,
but xorg-server 1.7.1 would not compile and so I followed the
ins
Jarry writes:
> Hi, I'm getting strange mails from vixie-cron-4.1-r10:
> --
> SUBJECT: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
> /usr/sbin/run-crons
>
> error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line
> error: kernel:12 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line
> --
Hello,
I've sent several emails to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org, in an
attempt to unsubscribe myself from this Gentoo list, but this has not worked.
Could any of the admins plese remove my email address from all Gentoo lists.
Thanks.
Msg sent via @Mail - http://atmail.com
On 11/14/09, Neil Walker wrote:
> Maxim Wexler wrote:
>> Anybody guess what's happening here?
>>
>
> Well, it is just a guess but, from what you have said, it
> sounds like either a problem with the video driver or
> a hardware problem. :(
>
hmm, ran #emerge -pv xf86-intel-driver and it came back
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge
> -avuND world everywhere
This is way cool. I just started using it on eight Fedora servers I am
administrating. Nice, now this is an improvement over my 'for $h in
$HOSTS; do ssh $h "yum install foo";
Hey list
I need some help. I am trying to set up my wireless lan on gentoo. I
have recompiled kernel. Every attempt at configuring /etc/conf.d/net
end in faed to configure wireless for wlan0 i have folowed the advice
given when it fails and give info/advice to resolve but nothing has
worked thus f
Hello,
I have a 20 inch aluminum imac:
uname -a
Linux pyrope 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #9 SMP Sat Nov 14 14:04:55 NST 2009 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
The sound card is listed by lspci as:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Hey guys
I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless
i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on
gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples
but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wla
hey guys
sorry for the double post I was under the impression the 1st mail's sending
failed thus the 2nd mail ignore the 1st mail
sorry again for any inconveniance cuased
regards
nelis
came...@cameronlowe.com wrote:
Hello,
I've sent several emails to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org, in an
attempt to unsubscribe myself from this Gentoo list, but this has not worked.
Could any of the admins plese remove my email address from all Gentoo lists.
Thanks.
Msg s
> redirect to a file, bash it into suitable shape with your Unix text tools of
> course, use said file as input to wget.
>
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>
Here
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users
I found this gem:
emerge -fpu world | sort | uniq | sed '/\
Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Meanwhile, I'll wait and see; the problem was intermittant; sometimes
> the SOD appeared in a few minutes, sometimes it took days.
>
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. :)
Be lucky,
Neil
http://www.easy-ebay.com
On Saturday 14 November 2009 19:55:15 Nelis Botha wrote:
> Hey list
>
> I need some help. I am trying to set up my wireless lan on gentoo. I
> have recompiled kernel. Every attempt at configuring /etc/conf.d/net
> end in faed to configure wireless for wlan0 i have folowed the advice
> given when i
On Saturday 14 November 2009 19:36:06 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge
> > -avuND world everywhere
>
> This is way cool. I just started using it on eight Fedora servers I am
> administrating. Nice, now this is an
On Saturday 14 November 2009 17:13:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 11/14/2009 12:12 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Am Samstag 14 November 2009 10:21:35 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> >> You cannot impose any restrictions to the root user. root is
> >> unrestricted by definition. It's useless to eve
On Saturday 14 November 2009 07:01:19 Joshua Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mick wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:08:18 Iain Buchanan wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:18 +, Mick wrote:
> >> > On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:09:01 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> > > Gd
On Saturday 14 November 2009 11:30:42 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > I have not looked into these new phones much because my G1 is only a
> > year old, still runs fine, and still has a year to go on the danged
> > contract. But if I were looking for a new phone today, I would start
> > by investigating
On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:17:13 Dale wrote:
> Just picking on this one since it is newer. ;-) I finally got through
> the other stuff, with arts enabled since it griped about the change
> before, and I am now disabling arts. I think it wanted it so badly
> because I was doing a preserve
On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:13:06 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > However, it did get to the point where it was complaining about two
> > packages and the number of files to be rebuilt went (IIRC) 52, 50, 50,
> > so I decide since it was rebuilding 50 packages the 2nd & 3rd times it
> > wasn't going t
On Saturday 14 November 2009 03:06:02 Mark Knecht wrote:
> It wasn't that I had 50 packages in the emerge -DuN @world. That was
> something like 10. It was after that finished and I ran
> @preserved-rebuild that it said 50 packages were effected by something
> it found, but those 50 were all depend
On Friday 13 November 2009 23:35:21 James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > Do you mean "droid" as a synonym for Android?
>
> yes,
> Verizon is offering the HTC ERIS (DROID) phone, in
> addition to the Mot DROID phone:
> http://www.htc.com/us/product/droideris/specification.html
Nice
As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an
experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't
quite work :-<
The ebuild's src_compile function is:
src_compile() {
./build.sh || die "build.sh failed"
}
When I run "emerge =dev-lang/openwat
Am Samstag 14 November 2009 16:13:04 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> Ever heard about make menuconfig?
???
Bye...
Dirk
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On Saturday 14 November 2009 21:32:39 Mick wrote:
> > Approach security a little more sanely and don't give untrusted users
> > root access? If you have to take steps to restrict the root account,
> > you need to rethink who has use of it. Preventing damage in the event
> > that the system does get
On Saturday 14 November 2009 20:55:16 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> > redirect to a file, bash it into suitable shape with your Unix text tools
> > of course, use said file as input to wget.
> >
> >
> > --
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> Here
>
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Gentoo_for_dial
David Relson a écrit :
> As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an
> experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't
> quite work :-<
>
> The ebuild's src_compile function is:
>
> src_compile() {
> ./build.sh || die "build.sh failed"
>
I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a dictionary
attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the primary targets. Is
there a script or tool to block the offending IP addresses using iptables.
Something that checks to see if a minimum of attempts has occured and blo
Richard Marza writes:
> I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a
> dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the
> primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP
> addresses using iptables. Something that checks to see if a minimum
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Saturday 14 November 2009 19:36:06 Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge
>>> -avuND world everywhere
>> This is way cool. I just started using it on eight Fedora servers I am
>> administrat
Hi group,
I'm using the nvidia framebuffer(CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y) but I can't get
scrollback to work for more than a few lines. I've added
'fbcon=scrollback:128' to my kernel line in grub.conf but scrollback
is still disabled.
Is there some nvidia specific way to do this?
David Relson schrieb am 14.11.2009 21:33:
> As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an
> experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't
> quite work :-<
>
> The ebuild's src_compile function is:
>
> src_compile() {
> ./build.sh || die "bu
David Relson schrieb am 14.11.2009 21:33:
> As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an
> experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't
> quite work :-<
>
> The ebuild's src_compile function is:
>
> src_compile() {
> ./build.sh || die "bu
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:21:50 +0100
Xavier Parizet wrote:
> David Relson a écrit :
> > As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an
> > experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't
> > quite work :-<
> >
> > The ebuild's src_compile function is:
> >
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:17:13 Dale wrote:
Just picking on this one since it is newer. ;-) I finally got through
the other stuff, with arts enabled since it griped about the change
before, and I am now disabling arts. I think it wanted it so badly
because I wa
On Saturday 14 November 2009 23:49:23 Richard Marza wrote:
> I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a dictionary
> attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the primary targets. Is
> there a script or tool to block the offending IP addresses using iptables.
> Something
On Saturday 14 November 2009 22:46:18 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Samstag 14 November 2009 16:13:04 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> > Ever heard about make menuconfig?
>
> ???
The account foolishly being "prevented" from bypassing SELinux is root.
So, configure a new kernel, disable SELinux, build,
greets ...
As mentioned lately in another thread I moved to amd64 unstable last week.
So far OK ... but:
I see X11 crashing repeatedly but I don't have a clue what component
might be the reason.
Sometimes my gnome-session (2.28) works for hours, sometimes for minutes.
It crashes when starting
- Original Message -
From: "Alan McKinnon"
To:
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd
On Saturday 14 November 2009 23:49:23 Richard Marza wrote:
I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a d
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:13:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Is this a desktop machine?
What difference does that make?
>
> If so, dump the net.* scripts and just run wicd.
>
> Why? Because it just works.
Agreed, but on laptops and netbooks too.
--
Neil Bothwick
Why is it that when you trans
On Sunday 15 November 2009 00:40:48 Dale wrote:
> > The only reason arts ever existed at all was to do sound mixing in
> > software in the days when hardware generally did not do that.
> >
> > These days alsa takes care of all of that. OSS-4 does a better job I
> > hear, but in any case you do no
On Sunday 15 November 2009 00:12:26 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I'm using the nvidia framebuffer(CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y) but I can't get
> scrollback to work for more than a few lines. I've added
> 'fbcon=scrollback:128' to my kernel line in grub.conf but scrollback
> is still disabled.
>
> I
Hi list,
I want to keep two kernels in my pc, but have some problems on video
card driver and vbox:
pc ~ # cd /lib/modules/
pc modules # ls
2.6.28-tuxonice-r10-tuxonice 2.6.30-tuxonice-r6
pc modules # uname -r
2.6.28-tuxonice-r10-tuxonice
pc modules # eix -I nvidia
[I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
On 11/14/09, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 15 November 2009 00:12:26 Maxim Wexler wrote:
>
> Yes, use vesa. It's slow at high res, but works.
>
> The nvidia framebuffer does not work with nvidia-drivers
Yeah, I found that out just after mailing the above. But now that I'm using vesa
how do I e
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:34:46 +0100
Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> David Relson schrieb am 14.11.2009 21:33:
> > As background, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233097 has an
> > experimental, unsupported ebuild for openwatcom-1.7.1 and it doesn't
> > quite work :-<
> >
> > The ebuild's src_compi
Hi,
How do I properly clean up this problem with emerge?
Thanks,
Mark
dragonfly ~ # revdep-rebuild -ip
* Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
* Checking reverse dependencies
* Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
* will be emerged.
* Collect
On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
> app-crypt/-MERGING-gnupg
>
remove that from world file and the directory from /var/db/pkg and then re-
emerge gnupg.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> How do I properly clean up this problem with emerge?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
Seems that I was able to do
emerge gnupg
emerge -C gnupg
emerge --depclean
and now revdep-rebuild -ip is clean.
Cheers,
Mark
On 14 Nov 2009, at 20:46, Alan McKinnon wrote:
...
You are right of course, but in this particular case the guy who pays
wants to have root access.
And you agreed to work like that?
So when he fucks things up good royal and proper, will he gladly
accept his
shafting and pay you more to und
On 14 Nov 2009, at 17:55, Nelis Botha wrote:
...
I need some help. I am trying to set up my wireless lan on gentoo. I
have recompiled kernel. Every attempt at configuring /etc/conf.d/net
end in faed to configure wireless for wlan0 i have folowed the advice
given when it fails and give info/advic
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:25:13 +0100, Stroller
wrote:
On 14 Nov 2009, at 17:55, Nelis Botha wrote:
...
I need some help. I am trying to set up my wireless lan on gentoo. I
have recompiled kernel. Every attempt at configuring /etc/conf.d/net
end in faed to configure wireless for wlan0 i have f
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