[gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want. Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere. I don't want to register a whole bunch of files to watch, I just want to watch an entire moun

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 02:02 AM, Indexer wrote: > I have solved this issue late last night. I took my inspiration from > fedora, who has a really nice automatic tool for adding ldap servers, > and i looked at their changes. The issue was that pam_unix was set as > required, not sufficient / optional. I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 23:40:20 Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my > > gmail account sent from my crontab. > > > > First, is related to the title which is: > > > > Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && > > /usr/sbin/run-crons >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.05.2010 23:24, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > I'm using sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.1_rc1 since 02.05.2010 and didn't have > any issues. > Please decrypt your partition from the command line, so we can see if it > is a cryptsetup/luks/kernel problem or a pam_mount problem. > > Cmdline should something

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: KH writes: Am 04.05.2010 21:41, schrieb Dale: I have with-bdeps set in my make.conf so that it is enabled each time. I just ran the command given above and it found over 40 packages that need to be upgraded. I'm not even going to claim that I understand all

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-04 Thread Indexer
I have solved this issue late last night. I took my inspiration from fedora, who has a really nice automatic tool for adding ldap servers, and i looked at their changes. The issue was that pam_unix was set as required, not sufficient / optional. I also found that in fedora they do includes in th

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread walt
On 05/04/2010 10:38 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.05.2010 18:54, schrieb walt: pam_mount(mount.c): crypt_activate_by_passphrase: Operation not permitted I don't have a pam_mount, where does it come from? Perhaps it needs a reference to pam_ssh.so? What do you mean with "where does

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Schuster
KH writes: > Am 04.05.2010 21:41, schrieb Dale: > > I have with-bdeps set in my make.conf so that it is enabled each > > time. I just ran the command given above and it found over 40 > > packages that need to be upgraded. I'm not even going to claim that > > I understand all the chicken scratch

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 00:17:09 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my gmail > account sent from my crontab. > > First, is related to the title which is: > > Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons > > I am not sure what

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my > gmail account sent from my crontab. > > First, is related to the title which is: > > Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && > /usr/sbin/run-crons > > I am not sure what this "test -x" part represents? It means:

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-04 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/05/04 Mick : >   Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons > > I am not sure what this "test -x" part represents? The `test -x ' part means "Test that is executable." and, implicitly, tests that the file exists. Sorry not to be more helpful. -- Jason Dusek Linux User #5

[gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-04 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my gmail account sent from my crontab. First, is related to the title which is: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons I am not sure what this "test -x" part represents? The second question is related

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/03/2010 02:37 PM, Indexer wrote: > > On 03/05/2010, at 9:41 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:41, Indexer wrote: >>> I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate >>> users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/04/2010 09:28 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 04.05.2010 19:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> I don't yet have the whole picture ... > > I did some "emerge -avuDN world", quite some packages updated even > though I am doing "emerge -avu world" nearly every day ... > > After a reb

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread KH
Am 04.05.2010 21:41, schrieb Dale: <---cut---> update_orphans.sh<--cut-> #!/bin/sh eix -u | gawk '/^\[U\] / { print $2; }' | xargs -r emerge -v1uD exit $? <---cut---><--cut-> I run it immediately after the main

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Dale
KH wrote: Am 04.05.2010 16:59, schrieb David W Noon: On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:00:01 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages: [snip] Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have newer versions, and indeed,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.05.2010 19:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I don't yet have the whole picture ... I did some "emerge -avuDN world", quite some packages updated even though I am doing "emerge -avu world" nearly every day ... After a reboot and setting debug to 1 for pam_mount it says: May 4 21:25:38

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.05.2010 18:54, schrieb walt: >> pam_mount(mount.c): crypt_activate_by_passphrase: Operation not >> permitted > > I don't have a pam_mount, where does it come from? Perhaps it needs > a reference to pam_ssh.so? What do you mean with "where does it come from?" ? It's in portage ... for exa

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread walt
On 05/04/2010 03:06 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I use an encrypted /home mounted by pam_mount, it reads the key from a file so there is no keyboard involved. When I login I don't get /home mounted. /var/log/messages says: pam_mount(mount.c): crypt_activate_by_passphrase: Operation not per

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread KH
Am 04.05.2010 18:19, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the following situation puzzles me a lot. My 'standard' way of updating is emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree @system @world but it didn't update anything. Sti

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > the following situation puzzles me a lot. > > My 'standard' way of updating is > emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree @system > @world > > but it didn't update anything. > > Still, eix confirmed there were

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread KH
Am 04.05.2010 16:59, schrieb David W Noon: On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:00:01 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages: [snip] Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have newer versions, and indeed, emerge -auv

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 4 May, Kraus Philipp wrote: > > Am 04.05.2010 um 13:09 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > >> On Sat, 1 May 2010 12:58:34 +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: >> I would suggest dual-booting... >>> >>> Sorry, that's no solution, because it is only one network service, >>> that >>> need's a older glibc. I

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-04 Thread Kraus Philipp
Am 04.05.2010 um 13:09 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sat, 1 May 2010 12:58:34 +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: I would suggest dual-booting... Sorry, that's no solution, because it is only one network service, that need's a older glibc. I can't reboot a server at any time or create a new physical

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:00:01 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages: [snip] >Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have >newer versions, and indeed, >emerge -auv1 -j4 --keep-going $(qlist -IC kde-base/)

[gentoo-user] Re: libdb no longer slotted?

2010-05-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-04, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2010/5/4 Grant Edwards : >> Is libdb no longer slotted? > > This is bug #318367 [1]. It looks like the issue is already fixed in > the tree. So just sync your portage tree and the error should be gone. > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/318367 That wasn't ther

[gentoo-user] Re: libdb no longer slotted?

2010-05-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-04, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 4 May, Grant Edwards wrote: >> It seems that sys-libs/db used to be slotted (I previously had 3 or 4 >> versions installed). But todays update is failing becuase Python wants >> libdb-4.7 and Perl wants libdb-4.3. They won't both install because of >> fi

Re: [gentoo-user] libdb no longer slotted?

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/5/4 Grant Edwards : > Is libdb no longer slotted? This is bug #318367 [1]. It looks like the issue is already fixed in the tree. So just sync your portage tree and the error should be gone. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/318367 -- Daniel Pielmeier

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > My 'standard' way of updating is > emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree > @system @world > > but it didn't update anything. > > Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have > newer versions, and indeed, > emerge -auv

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Iain Buchanan writes: > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > [snip] > > > All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I > > make a LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while > > the backup is still in progress. > > hmm, never got int

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 1 May 2010 12:58:34 +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: > > I would suggest dual-booting... > > Sorry, that's no solution, because it is only one network service, that > need's a older glibc. I can't reboot a server at any time or create a > new > physical server Have you considered virtuali

Re: [gentoo-user] libdb no longer slotted?

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 4 May, Grant Edwards wrote: > It seems that sys-libs/db used to be slotted (I previously had 3 or 4 > versions installed). But todays update is failing becuase Python wants > libdb-4.7 and Perl wants libdb-4.3. They won't both install because of > file collisions. > > Is libdb no longer slotte

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread KH
Am 04.05.2010 12:17, schrieb Bert Swart: On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:09:25PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 4 May, Bert Swart wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the following situation puzzles me a lot. My 'standard' way of updating is emerge --keep-

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Bert Swart
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:09:25PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 4 May, Bert Swart wrote: > > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> the following situation puzzles me a lot. > >> > >> My 'standard' way of updating is > >> emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 4 May, Bert Swart wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> the following situation puzzles me a lot. >> >> My 'standard' way of updating is >> emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree @system >> @world >> >> but it didn't upd

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2010 18:56, schrieb Jason Dusek: > I have an encrypted block device, `/dev/sda2', which is > mounted as my root filesystem. I recently installed this > system -- I've been away from Gentoo for awhile -- and used > gentoo sources 2.6.31-r6. When the kernel upgrade rolled > around,

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 May 2010 13:44:50 +, Colleen Beamer wrote: > I can't disable my xdm login script. My computer boots to the login > screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a > terminal session. At the GRUB menu, add "gentoo=nox" to the kernel options, using the method explained

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Bert Swart
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > the following situation puzzles me a lot. > > My 'standard' way of updating is > emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree @system > @world > > but it didn't update anything. > > Still, eix confirmed

[gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the following situation puzzles me a lot. My 'standard' way of updating is emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree @system @world but it didn't update anything. Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have newer versions, and indeed, emerge