Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

Adam Carter wrote: I just did a killall kopete and it did stop. Is there a way to "see" what it is sending/receiving? I'm talking like is it a jpeg, some other file or something else? rix portage # nmap -p 5050 -sV cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

I own a samsung and I don't recommend anyone to buy one. Nothing in particular wrong (brightness control not working by default), but I don't like it. Regards Petri Rosenström On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Fernando Antunes wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Thomas Yao wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:28:21PM -0700, walt wrote > Does your BIOS let you set the AGP aperture manually? Couldn't hurt to make > it bigger if you're able. The comment about 'stolen memory' sounds a bit > evil ;) The BIOS only has options for 32/64/128 megabytes. Intel cheaped out with t

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it will provide. Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage I see that /usr/portage and /var/tmp are using approxi

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

> > Hi, > > I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted > before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my > previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and > the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. > > Things w

[gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. Things were so much easi

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

> > I just did a killall kopete and it did stop. Is there a way to "see" what > it is sending/receiving? I'm talking like is it a jpeg, some other file or > something else? > > rix portage # nmap -p 5050 -sV cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-17 11:27 EST

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

On 16 Aug 2010, at 20:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller wrote: On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know wh

[gentoo-user] >=www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264

I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and later than 6.0.472.33 no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg, and seem to lose support for h264 videos (test any non-webm, html5 video at youtube; it will never load). I've tried doctoring the ebuild to use the system-provided ffmpeg, which does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

Adam Carter wrote: r...@smoker / # netstat -p Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43577 rdis.msg.vip.sp1

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: > xfer 13 bytes >

[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

Last week I got a message the my /var partition was almost full. Since it was 10G and I am using lvm2 I added 5G more to it. This evening I got the same message, now I had to investigate. When I did I found that /var/log/messages is huge. # ls -lh /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 12G Au

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

Bill Longman gmail.com> writes: > So, there are two problems but the most serious one right now is that > you don't have the /mnt/cdrom directory. Make it. That will solve the > first problem. Ok /mnt/cdrom built. > The second is that you need to tell "mount" that the disk in your CD > drive ha

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick wrote: > Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. > > Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. > > I have been using tar, star and rsync.  They all work and they can all make > incremental back ups.  You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

> r...@smoker / # netstat -p > Active Internet connections (w/o servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > PID/Program name > tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43577 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http > TIME_WAIT - > tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43438

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2010 22:55:23 Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with Yahoo at these addresses: cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >  I'm running 64-bit Gentoo on an Intel 4-core i3 with an Intel integrated > graphics controller.  An excerpt from dmesg follows, with the video- > related stuff.  Note the two lines that I've split off.  They mention > the mtrr type mismatch an

[gentoo-user] Re: dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

On 08/15/2010 04:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running 64-bit Gentoo on an Intel 4-core i3 with an Intel integrated graphics controller. An excerpt from dmesg follows, with the video- related stuff. Note the two lines that I've split off. They mention the mtrr type mismatch and the allocati

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/16/2010 02:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi all, >>    I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to >> even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. >> >>    Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fas

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

Mark Knecht writes: >Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x > processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, > Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend Oh my, this is fast. > server is an old PowerPC which takes lit

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

On 08/16/2010 02:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, >I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to > even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. > >Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x > processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote: > On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon > > > > > > > wrote: > > > [...] > > > Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, > > > userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars c

[gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

Hi all, I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, Gnome and KDE) in around 4 ho

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

Am Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:00:49 -0700 schrieb Bill Longman : > On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: > >> Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 > >> > >> schrieb Daniel D Jones : > >>> Is there any way to run genkernel without it running

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

On 08/16/2010 12:47 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > nspluginwrapper currently doesn't allow flash player to work, don't know > why... You could look at swfdec-gnome too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera > broke, and I had to get > one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for.  I wound up with a > fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera > and video recorder that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Indexer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > Well, I'm a newb in video, but it was suggested to me by someone who uses > > it, so I wanted to try. > > Mplayer comes with a program called mencoder, which will do your video > encoding.

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> ... >> >> My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my >> camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what >> to look for. I wound up with a

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:54:02 +0200 Roman Dobosz wrote: > Vendor_info: 'PIONEER ' > Identifikation : 'DVD-RW DVR-216D' > Revision : '1.08' Damn. So this was really Pioneer (and partially my) fault. After firmware upgrading, cdrecord is working just fine. Unfortu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

Le Monday 16 August 2010 21:39:13, Johannes Kimmel a écrit : > On 08/16/2010 08:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! > > > > Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile > > ? > > > > All my web browsers (k

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

On 08/16/2010 08:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:29:45 +0200 joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > It seems that the workaround for the Pioneer firmware bug does not handle the > multi-border case. So, it means, that this is hardware failure? > > Track Sess Type Start Addr End Addr Size >

[gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! C

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Thomas Yao wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valmor de Almeida > wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series > >> to hack gentoo or any other L

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

On 08/16/2010 09:07 AM, Jarry wrote: > On 16. 8. 2010 17:29, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longman: That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests share

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

On 16. 8. 2010 17:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longman: That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests share the same kernel. This brings certain security implications

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/14/2010 12:32 PM, Jarry wrote: >> On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >>> * Bill Longman  wrote: >>> Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. >>> >>> well, these solutions are way "bigger" (iow

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

On 08/16/2010 02:57 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Which all goes to say you should resist the creation of any such lookup tool > with every fibre of your being :-) Alan, if I ever get near your part of your continent, I'm going to buy you a beer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

On 08/15/2010 09:07 PM, James wrote: > Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > >> So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? > > mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/ > mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sr0 >I will try all types mentioned in /etc/f

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

On 08/15/2010 08:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my > camera broke, and I had to get > one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up > with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera > and video recorder that's super ligh

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 >> >> schrieb Daniel D Jones : >>> Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig >>> command? I can work around the issue by saving my .

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

On 08/15/2010 01:11 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and > restore of > the mbr. > > And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems > when the new > harddisk has a different size? > Just tar up

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

On 08/14/2010 12:32 PM, Jarry wrote: > On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> * Bill Longman wrote: >> >>> Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. >> >> well, these solutions are way "bigger" (iow: more resource >> intensive), since they run a complete opera

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

Roman Dobosz wrote: > Also, cdrecord doesn't work: > > # cdrecord -v -dev=4,0,0 /mnt/data/t.iso > cdrecord: No write mode specified. > cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode. > cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. > cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependen

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon > > > wrote: > > [...] > > Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, > > userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the > > files/folders that were modified since las

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

On 16 August 2010 03:15, Alex Schuster wrote: > Nganon > writes: > > > Hello all, > > > > My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something > > that I started > > to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two > > main questions in mind: what to and how to ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

On Monday 16 August 2010 10:38:17 Dale wrote: > I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me > many ages ago. I didn't either until you mentioned it, for which thanks. :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

On Monday 16 August 2010 11:38:17 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: > >> Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > >>> # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la > >>> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

> > Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not > installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't > know. > Well, I'm not very expert about gentoo... I though it would query some kind of database to ask what package contains a certain file N

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la in *... ] # " Equery doesn't give any

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: > Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la > > [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la > > in *... ] > > # > > " > > Equery doesn't give any results because it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon wrote: > [...] > Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, > userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the > files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as > userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, us

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Thanks all. Installing portage 2 and uninstalling some other package now I'm able to update the system. I've uninstalled xfce, firefox (??!) and kde. Now the update seems to proceed. Then I'll reinstall everything. However, I tried emerge belong on my system, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

Thanks all. Installing portage 2 and uninstalling some other package now I'm able to update the system. I've uninstalled xfce, firefox (??!) and kde. Now the update seems to proceed. Then I'll reinstall everything. However, I tried emerge belong on my system, but it gave me no output: " # equer

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super