Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:10:00 +0100, Stroller wrote: > The widespread SSIDs of > "Linksys" and "Netgear" must be ignored, unless it is possible to > identify them by MAC address without authenticating. It is, try "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan" to see all APs in range, with their SSIDs and MAC addres

[gentoo-user] Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Damian
After installing network manager I got the following message: L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: L polkit-auth --grant org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.modify --user "USERNAME" However, po

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 04/22/2010 12:17 PM, Damian wrote: > After installing network manager I got the following message: > > L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the > L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: > L polkit-auth --grant > org.freedesktop.network-manager-set

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b does not find burning device

2010-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > K3b suddenly cannot find any burning device of my system. > Hald is running. vlc can acces the drive for playing dvds. > kdebase-runtime-meta is installed. k3b was recompiled without > problems. The Configuration dialog of k3b states for both > kind of drives "none". A

[gentoo-user] /dev/.udev - safe to remove ?

2010-04-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi rkhunter showed a warning because there is a /dev/.udev directory on my machine. qfile didn't find any 'owner'. Is it safe to remove that directory? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/.udev - safe to remove ?

2010-04-22 Thread Bert Swart
Hi, No, you should allow this dir: set ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/dev/.udev in /etc/rkhunter.conf Regards, Bert On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:35:30PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi > > rkhunter showed a warning because there is a > /dev/.udev > directory on my machine. qfile didn't find any 'owner'. > I

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Damian
Xavier Parizet writes: > On 04/22/2010 12:17 PM, Damian wrote: >> After installing network manager I got the following message: >> >> L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the >> L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: >> L polkit-auth --grant >> or

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl 2.1.23 remote server rejected your credentials

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
Hi! I changed the restrictions line like you said: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination but this way it will try to see if the ip is part of mynetworks first, and as it wont be it will reject or ... because

[gentoo-user] mixing python-2 and python-3 howto

2010-04-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Here, several month ago I had problems since I had Python-2.x and Python-3.x installed. Therefore I have masked Python-3.x since then. Meanwhile there are packages (like portpeek-2.0.1) which require Python-3.x . Is it safe to have both Python-2 and Python-3 installed. I know they are slotted and

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl 2.1.23 remote server rejected your credentials

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
I changed back to a saved /etc/postfix/main.cf file I had. The PLAIN LOGIN auth reappear fine, STARTLS work still testsaslauthd -u u...@domain.com -p password 0: NO "authentication failed" logs: Apr 22 14:08:48 xx saslauthd[12159]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=u...@domain.com] [service

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: [...] > > > solve this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being > > > very unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it > > > doing in this time? > > > > Fuck knows what ama

Re: [gentoo-user] mixing python-2 and python-3 howto

2010-04-22 Thread Justin
On 22/04/10 15:29, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Here, > > several month ago I had problems since I had Python-2.x and Python-3.x > installed. Therefore I have masked Python-3.x since then. > Meanwhile there are packages (like portpeek-2.0.1) which require > Python-3.x . Is it safe to have both Python

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-22 Thread ubiquitous1980
On 21/04/10 01:26, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Paul Hartman schrieb am 20.04.2010 17:03: > >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:58 AM, ubiquitous1980 >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Daniel >>> >>> The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are >>> installed: >>> >>> net-print/hplip

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.04.2010 11:09, schrieb Stroller: >> OK, a bit more RAM wouldn't hurt here. >> But I am compiling stuff right now. > > I would add more. > > Services mysteriously dying, surely that could be because the kernel is > killing them off due to an out-of-memory condition? Shouldn't the kernel *s

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 April 2010 17:31:33 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 21.04.2010 11:09, schrieb Stroller: > >> OK, a bit more RAM wouldn't hurt here. > >> But I am compiling stuff right now. > > > > I would add more. > > > > Services mysteriously dying, surely that could be because the kernel is >

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 22.04.2010 17:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> Shouldn't the kernel *swap* then ? > > No, the OOM killer kicks in when the kernel has no more virtual memory, > including swap. Either way, more RAM is the answer. Or fidn the app with the > memory leak if you are unlucky enough to have one of tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Grant
>>> Could this be the problem? >>> >>> # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log >>> (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or >>> directory >>> (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] mixing python-2 and python-3 howto

2010-04-22 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 16:12 +0200, Justin wrote: > There will be an announcement, when py-3.* goes stable and is > supported > to be used as system python. Yes, so make certain you leave instructions in your will ;) (if you didn't get that then just ignore it)

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 April 2010 18:24:08 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 22.04.2010 17:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > >> Shouldn't the kernel *swap* then ? > > > > No, the OOM killer kicks in when the kernel has no more virtual memory, > > including swap. Either way, more RAM is the answer. Or fidn the a

[gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved?

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
Hi, I can't emerge php4 anymore: USE="cli apache2" emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' '=dev-lang/php-5*' Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/php-4*". Is there a new way to do so ? thx Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
ubiquitous1980 schrieb am 22.04.2010 16:23: > On 21/04/10 01:26, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> I do not own an all-in-one printer so I can not test, but if Paul's >> suggestions >> do not work can you tell me the permissions of your device. >> >> lsusb >> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Founda

[gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved?

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
following this: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/php/wiki/InstallOverlay 'gentoo-php-overlay' seems now to be 'php' Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?

2010-04-22 Thread Jarry
On 21. 4. 2010 9:43, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Jarry wrote: s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100 It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up I get this message: INIT: ID "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes How can I control that respawn speed, or prohibit thi

[gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved? => removed

2010-04-22 Thread laurent
..just removed php-4 and all is working fine :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 April 2010 17:47:23 Grant wrote: > >>> Could this be the problem? > >>> > >>> # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > >>> (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) > >>> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) > >>> (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to o

[gentoo-user] What are you waiting for!

2010-04-22 Thread Damian
Since today, whenever I try to shutdown the laptop I get messages saying "waiting for net.wlan0 (XX) seconds" Where X varies between 50 and 5. And I got this message for every service that is stopped. The problem looks similar to what's described here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread walt
On 04/22/2010 09:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On my web and mail servers I have no swap at all, they do have lots and lots of RAM; my Sybase database servers have enormous amounts of swap... Hm. Does that mean your database servers are allowed to be slower than the web and mail servers?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 April 2010 23:16:56 walt wrote: > On 04/22/2010 09:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On my web and mail servers I have no swap at all, they do have lots and > > lots of RAM; my Sybase database servers have enormous amounts of swap... > > Hm. Does that mean your database servers are a

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: [...] > The penultimate paragraph says that you should copy _some_ file from > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ penultimate Egad... does that mean its explosive? ... : ) [...] > >> [...] >> 17 >> 18 >> 19 us >> 20 >> 21 >> [...

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote: >> I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented >> than any of the other pretenders. > > One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and > what their "feature list"

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: >> Internet mail is quite complex, yes. > This statement is the source of the confusion surrounding sendmail. > Internet mail is not complex, it is stunningly simple: > mail comes in, > look up where it should go, > send it there [...] Egad, I had no idea it was so simp

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-22 Thread ubiquitous1980
Hello Daniel, Sorry for the omission in last email: localhost ubiquitous1980 # ls -al /dev/bus/usb/005/004 crw-rw-r-- 1 root scanner 189, 515 2010-04-23 07:42 /dev/bus/usb/005/004 localhost ubiquitous1980 # ls -al /dev/usb/lp0 ls: cannot access /dev/usb/lp0: No such file or directory localhost ub

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Apr 2010, at 17:24, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 22.04.2010 17:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Shouldn't the kernel *swap* then ? No, the OOM killer kicks in when the kernel has no more virtual memory, including swap. Either way, more RAM is the answer. Or fidn the app with the memor

[gentoo-user] modules.audoload.d is not autoloaded

2010-04-22 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have some modules putted in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and my kernel is 2.6.32-gentoo-r7. but after system started up, i found those modules are not loaded. running 'rc-update show', i can see the 'modules' is in 'boot' runlevel. if i load those modules manually, they can be loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-22 Thread ubiquitous1980
Daniel, Some additional info in the log file: Thanks ubiquitous1980 hp-check[29672]: info: : Initializing. Please wait... scheduler is running 1.3.11 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 #2 SMP Thu Apr 22 22:02:49 WST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz GenuineInte

Re: [gentoo-user] modules.audoload.d is not autoloaded

2010-04-22 Thread Steffen Loos
Am 23.04.2010 05:43, schrieb Xi Shen: hi, i have some modules putted in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and my kernel is 2.6.32-gentoo-r7. but after system started up, i found those modules are not loaded. running 'rc-update show', i can see the 'modules' is in 'boot' runlevel. if i load tho