Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel module signature now shown on modinfo

2018-04-12 Thread Dave Trombley
This has been broken for almost two years; the signature format switched to PKCS#7 and modinfo doesn't support it. It's not as simple as just patching kmod because evidently the kernel change regressed or disrespected the relevent structure in the modules in a way that makes it impossible for kmo

[gentoo-user] XOrg / XRanR segfault starting X

2016-08-17 Thread Dave Trombley
Hi all! New to Gentoo, just followed the handbook install for amd64 and then for XOrg. I'm seeing the server segfault on 'startx'. Here is the console output (and I've attached the logfile). X.Org X Server 1.17.4 Release Date: 2015-10-28 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Opera

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4rc2 Network Manager Applet

2010-01-26 Thread Dave Oxley
It's ok I found it. kde-misc/knetworkmanager. I had a local ebuild that was overriding it which didn't compile and that was confusing me. Cheers, Dave. On Wednesday 27 January 2010 10:16:37 Dave Oxley wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just installed KDE 4.3.95 from the kde o

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4rc2 Network Manager Applet

2010-01-26 Thread Dave Oxley
Hi All, I've just installed KDE 4.3.95 from the kde overlay and was expecting the network manager applet to be installed by default but it doesn't appear to be. Does anyone know how I install this? Is it an ebuild that's not part of the @kde-4.4 set? Cheers, Dave.

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dave Jones
Neil Bothwick wrote on 25/10/09 00:51: > I suppose you're also in favour of McDonalds putting "Warning, contents > may be hot" notices of their coffee cups? Off topic?

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 25/10/09 01:38: > Oh please, grow up, get a life and stop sounding like a spoilt brat. Thank you for this constructive and original comment. Just as useful as your other postings on this thread.

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 24/10/09 22:18: >>> Why should they do it again when you could just as easily find >>> the previous answer yourself. >> I'll answer my own question, including detail which may be useful >> to other users > It's only useless so you since you have not done the usual research

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Jones
Neil Bothwick wrote on 24/10/09 09:53: > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:16 +0200, Dave Jones wrote: >> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either >> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group. > Seeing as how this has been discu

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-23 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 24/10/09 01:39: > On Saturday 24 October 2009 01:25:44 Dave Jones wrote: >> Ran an eix-sync followed by an emerge -puDNv world. >> It reported that my 'profile' was no longer supported, and suggested >> switching to the 'default/

[gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-23 Thread Dave Jones
-firebird -mysql -odbc -pch -postgres) I do not want either mysql or KDE4 on my 'stable' desktop host. Any ideas what's happening? Or how to fix it without installing mysql? Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: >>> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. >> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running >> Gentoo as a guest inside anoth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: >>> why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is >>> patched by gentoo? >> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. > Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running > Gentoo as a g

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.3

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Oxley
Ah. Got it. Don't know how I missed that. It's been a long day and I must have missed that I didn't have 1.41.8 installed. Thanks, Dave. Alan McKinnon wrote: > Look at the output again. You don't need an earlier version of > e2fsprogs-libs, > you need the ver

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.3

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Oxley
I'd already looked for a later version of e2fsprogs-libs but there isn't one. Any other ideas? Cheers, Dave. Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:28:30 Dave Oxley wrote: > >> I'm trying to emerge kde-4.3 but get the following block that I've b

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.3

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Oxley
I'm trying to emerge kde-4.3 but get the following block that I've been unable to resolve. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers, Dave. [blocks B ] =sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.0 required by ('installed', '/', 'app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r6', 'nomerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement

2009-08-03 Thread Dave Jones
t; Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC > into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Installing Pidgin 2.5.8 fixed the hanging session initiation problems caused by recent Yahoo network changes. Cheers, Dave

[gentoo-user] iptables firewall script

2009-07-17 Thread Dave
cifs shares, if anyone has those i'd appreciate them. This is a single nic box, not a router just an internal client i'd like to protect. Adapted from: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/18139.html Thanks. Dave. #!/bin/bash # # Script for iptables firewall # define variables IF_

[gentoo-user] iptables

2009-07-15 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm looking for a guide for iptables specifically for gentoo 2.6. I was also wondering if anyone was using apf "Advanced Policy Firewall" on a gentoo 2008.0 2.6 machine? Thanks. Dave.

RE: [gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages

2009-07-13 Thread Dave
Hi, Thanks! That thread did it. Thanks. Dave. -Original Message- From: Adam Van Ymeren [mailto:adam.v...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 7:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:54:32PM

RE: [gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages

2009-07-13 Thread Dave
mit-krb5-1.6.3-r6', 'merge') ('installed', '/', 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.8', 'nomerge') pulled in by sys-fs/e2fsprogs required by world sys-fs/e2fsprogs required by system >=sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.34 required by ('installed&#

[gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages

2009-07-12 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm trying to install git on gentoo. I'm getting a dependency that is masked, it's a perl lib and am wondering a workaround? Thanks. Dave.

RE: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-09 Thread Dave
Hello, I had the LSI driver loading as a module. I recompiled the kernel and made it monolithic, put in the raid and other drivers in that way and rebooted. It is working! That also explains another unrelated issue. Thanks a lot. Dave. -Original Message- From: Nick

RE: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-09 Thread Dave
kernel config file i do have CONFIG_MD_RAID1 set to Y. I've just tried compiling a genkernel and got the same error when i tried to load it. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. -Original Message- From: Nick Pappin [mailto:npap...@latahfcu.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:12

[gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-08 Thread Dave
ler. I then thought boot with the minimal iso again, which i did and atempt to mount /dev/md3 manually. I'm getting an error that i must specify the filesystem type and when i do type mdraid is unknown. Any help welcome. Thanks. Dave.

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
board and mouse in xorg.conf. Since implementing xorg 1.5.3 with evdev, I use the KDE keyboard tool to change the keyboard layout 'on the fly'. In KDE I've set up my keyboard as a generic 105 key international, with two layouts: US and US International. With the keyboard set to US International using KDE keyboard tool, the deadkey combinations produce accented characters as expected. Hope this helps. Cheers, Dave

[gentoo-user] Procmail mail ownership

2009-03-16 Thread Dave Oxley
have any ideas how to fix this? Cheers, Dave.

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009-01-19 Thread Dave Jones
x11-libs/qt required by world > == > > I am running vlc-0.9.8a which is the only one available. How could I > go about this? > I had a similar problem here. emerge -C qt-4.3.3 emerge -auDNv1 qt emerge -av vlc emerge -auDNv world Did the trick for me. My vlc USE flags: X a52 aac alsa cdda cddb cdio dbus dvd ffmpeg flac hal httpd libgcrypt libnotify matroska mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin ogg opengl png qt4 samba sdl sse stream svg theora truetype vcd vorbis win32codecs xml xv As an additional benefit, since the update to the new qt4 libraries the VLC UI buttons are not messed up any more. (bug 246116) Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Jones
. Thanks. >> > > That's right: no more password logins. However, you should (optionaly) lock > your key with a passphrase. > You can use ssh-agent if you want to do a (one-time) unlock of a passphrase-protected key pair. `eval ssh-agent` will do the trick nicely, assuming you're on a *nix client. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Jones
out a passphrase, you can add a passphrase using ssh-keygen -p Entering a passphrase encrypts the private part of the key, which you keep only on the server. You only need the public part of the key on the client. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup

2008-12-17 Thread Dave Oxley
Holger Hoffstaette wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:01:20 +1100, Dave Oxley wrote: I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Oxley
-r4 and all was stable again. The config used for both kernels was the same and it happened after irregular intervals of between 5 hours and 9 hours. Anyone have any ideas? Things are back to normal now but I will obviously be wary about my next kernel upgrade. Cheers, Dave. Dec 15 23:28:07

Re: [gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Jones
#x27;world music' that uses such characters. > > Version is 1.5.1-r1, USE flags are: 'chardet nls session sse2' The same audacious version played Jethro Tull Bourée and Animalée tracks fine here. My USE flags are 'nls session sse2' Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Jones
KH wrote on 04/12/08 19:47: > I have been told not to touch the Samsung drivers. I am using > net-print/foo2zjs. foo2zjs works well with the cheap HP CLJ1600 laser printer. Cheap, fast, no more expensive dried-up inkjet cartridges, good deal. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-24 Thread Dave Jones
some configuration work to get it running properly, though it works more or less 'out of the box'. openntpd is a simplified ntp. It is very easy to set up, but has less possibilities than the 'standard' ntp. Both packages are lightweight, with very low system overhead. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoe to stop em8300-modulesinstalling?

2008-11-19 Thread Dave Jones
here. > If you are new to Gentoo, add the -v option to emerge so it will show > the USE flags and other info that may shed some light. Removing the USE=dxr3 flag seemed to work for me. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] udevinfo - where is it

2008-10-23 Thread Dave Jones
Helmut Jarausch wrote on 23/10/08 12:29: > I have a recent GenToo system (udev-130-r1) but I cannot > find the utility 'udevinfo' > Which package contains it? sys-fs/udev

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1 fails before compile starts

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Jones
die "Failed to determine VM for building." * The die message: * Failed to determine VM for building. * === Run python-updater. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Oxley
official ebuilds? Cheers, Dave.

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Oxley
Stroller wrote: On 27 Aug 2008, at 05:28, Dave Oxley wrote: ... I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. ... Hi

[gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-26 Thread Dave Oxley
tion whether this would work to expand a partition. So basically does anyone have any experience moving from an fdisk partition table to a GNU parted partition table without losing filesystems, data, etc? Cheers, Dave.

Re: [gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread Dave Jones
I am fairly clueless about Java, and have no idea what these two packages even do. I am just trying to do a 'emerge -uD world' and portage seems to want to update both of them Thanks for consideration, -d As illogical as this may sound, you probably need to run python-updater to fix this problem. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Java configuration is hosed

2008-07-22 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Kevin, Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 22/07/08 20:03: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 22/07/08 18:51: I cannot emerge the latest xulrunner, but the root cause appears to be my Java configuration. I haven't tou

Re: [gentoo-user] Java configuration is hosed

2008-07-22 Thread Dave Jones
java_config_2 treat ~ # Which seems to mean there should be a file /usr/bin/java-config-2, but there is not. Where should it come from? I had the same problem yesterday, ran python-updater to fix it. That did an awful lot of re-compiling (including OpenOffice), but it worked for me. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-11 Thread Dave Oxley
at least it's ok now. Cheers, Dave. Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008, Dave Oxley wrote: I've installed 9.4.2-P1 but http://www.doxpara.com/ says I'm still vulnerable. What more do I need to do? you need to install the updated tools to. Clien

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Dave Oxley
I've installed 9.4.2-P1 but http://www.doxpara.com/ says I'm still vulnerable. What more do I need to do? Cheers, Dave. Mick wrote: Hi All, Have you seen this? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080709/ttc-us-it-internet-software-crime-e0bba4a.html and this? http://www.doxpara.c

[gentoo-user] Snort

2008-07-03 Thread Dave Oxley
orking. But how can I confirm it's 'preventing' attacks as well as detecting them? Cheers, Dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhs6RkACgkQx43ifHzpDV

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing my router

2008-06-29 Thread Dave Oxley
Daniel Iliev wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +1000 Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So what I want to do is setup my switch as a router. No can do. My switch is a SGE2000P which is also a layer 3 router. I'm a bit of a newbie on advanced networking but I t

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Dave Jones
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote on 28/06/08 14:12: so, have you asked to become its maintainer to fix the bugs? Lacking the necessary skills, no. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 28/06/08 08:54: The ~x86 branch seems to have settled into not-so-cutting-edge anymore, quite similar to what other distros release - Ubuntu for examples. x86 seems to be taking it's lead lately from Debian :-) Would it were so! tcp-wrappers bug 158306, opened on 2006

[gentoo-user] Replacing my router

2008-06-27 Thread Dave Oxley
d I be able to or need to prevent one VLAN from seeing the second VLAN? What is STR and do I need to set this up? Any other suggestions? Cheers, Dave. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox downgrade?

2008-05-19 Thread Dave Oxley
ibs/nspr ~x86 dev-libs/nss ~x86 x11-libs/cairo ~x86 x11-libs/pixman ~x86 net-libs/xulrunner ~x86 www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin ~x86 mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird ~x86 dev-libs/nss ~x86 x11-plugins/enigmail ~x86 /etc/portage/package.unmask (part of): www-client/mozilla-firefox dev-libs/nspr d

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-22 Thread Dave Jones
except root and boot) are on LVM, I can't get to see if i accidentally installed something wrong, and I can't even try to re-emerge lvm etc. Any tips would be greately appreciated. Add lvm to your boot run level for baselayout-2: rc-update add lvm boot Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding the port NFS runs on

2008-03-14 Thread Dave Jones
p the ports you want to use: OPTS_RPC_MOUNTD="-p n" OPTS_RPC_STATD="-p m -o pp" Modify /etc/sysctl.conf to set up the lockd port: fs.nfs.nlm_udpport = xx fs.nfs.nlm_tcpport = xx NFS uses port 2049 as standard, portmap uses port 111 Cheers, Dave -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Jones
y systems lean and mean, so I turn off options I don't require, rather than including them 'just in case.' That's the beauty of Gentoo: we have choice. To each their own. It's called freedom. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Jones
he hp-setup in the new hplip probably needs the parport USE flag to determine whether to support parallel port probes. Without the parport USE flag, I guess that it assumes that you're not interested in them. > Thanks, and I'll get that info when I have things a bit more stable.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-03 Thread Dave Jones
running, and thanks for the timely reminder to do a backup! 8-) Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip The contents of /etc/hp/hplip.conf and the output of: hp-check - and - hp-probe -bpar would also be interesting. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-03 Thread Dave Jones
96 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT=m ls /dev/par* shows: /dev/par0 /dev/parport0 /dev/parport1 /dev/parport2 /dev/parport3 Do you have a standard parallel port, or a special IO card? Have you modified /etc/udev.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-02 Thread Dave Jones
. Digging slightly deeper, I found the /usr/bin/hp-probe > program. It lets me specifically request a probe of LPT, but finds > nothing there. The printer remains attached. I'm even more deeply > stumped than before. Try: hp-setup -i /dev/parport0 See if that helps. Try hp-setup -

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-01 Thread Dave Jones
er necessary with recent hplip ebuilds. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Oxley
ent a --depclean from trying to delete my KDE 3.5 though? Cheers, Dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHlJ8Tx43ifHzpDVURApy/AJ9Qe5xpDh2XyPnQApSojap0DJ4+AwCfSgPk wBK0vJe/7ToC+Id/c85tUV4=

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Dave Jones
ern hardware. > Unless you want to use LVM. Trying to boot a partition which starts above the 160GB BIOS limit won't work either. Grub cannot cope with it. Creating a small boot partition under the 160GB line got the system booted fine. Cheers, Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Dave Jones
mysql problems at the gentoo-wiki site. Later on that day, the site was down. Cheers, Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE & HAL - Tray icon

2007-07-30 Thread Dave Oxley
Mauro Faccenda wrote: > On Monday 30 July 2007 20:36, Dave Oxley wrote: > >> Just a simple question: Is there a try icon for unmounting removable >> hardware (USB sticks etc)? Currently I go into konquerer and browse to >> media://, right mouse click and click 'safe

[gentoo-user] KDE & HAL - Tray icon

2007-07-30 Thread Dave Oxley
Just a simple question: Is there a try icon for unmounting removable hardware (USB sticks etc)? Currently I go into konquerer and browse to media://, right mouse click and click 'safely remove'. Its just a little annoying! Cheers, Dave. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware

2007-07-13 Thread Dave Jones
sappeared, but also vmware-server and vmware-workstation. I've just done a re-sync, and they seem to have been reinstated. Cheers, Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Jones
jects. The documentation is very sparse. It does miss the immediacy of the firestarter GUI though. Cheers, Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Email to Hotmail not working

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Oxley wrote: > I am unable to send email to hotmail. I thought I had a misconfiguration > in sendmail, but I have just tried a telnet (See below). Although I can > send emails to hotmail without an error or undeliverable report, none >

Re: [gentoo-user] Email to Hotmail not working

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Walker wrote: > Dave Oxley wrote: >> I am unable to send email to hotmail. I thought I had a misconfiguration >> in sendmail, but I have just tried a telnet (See below). Although I can >> send emails to hotmail without an e

[gentoo-user] Email to Hotmail not working

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Oxley
I reply to an email I sent from my hotmail. Does anyone have any ideas? Cheers, Dave. Here's the telnet session with my email addresses modified for the archives ;) ~ # telnet mx4.hotmail.com 25 Trying 65.54.245.104... Connected to mx4.hotmail.com. Escape character is '^]'. 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Oxley
as expected until I changed it to netboot. I have modified the grub.conf for my new netboot config and as I said the initial screen shows up but the progress bar never progresses and the text remains as 'Initialising kernel' until X starts! Cheers, Dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

[gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Oxley
ot over PXE (static IP address) it never gets the routes. Any ideas? Cheers for any help, Dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGN+qIx43ifHzpDVURAvs8AJ0beY2IwdF6l5eeo1gonpcmXQIRVACfaCUH ifwMdsg9q

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-17 Thread Dave Jones
e default maximum file size value is +- 1MB if I remember it right. No idea about Gwenview though, sorry. Cheers, Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
the same failure. Seems you might be right about the gentoo-sources being incompatible with the tarpit module. Sorry, but I'm fresh out of ideas. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
when Gentoo was the darling of the press, just a year or so ago. Let's hope that the developer issues are solved before the rumours about the impending death of Gentoo become reality. Losing Gentoo would be an enormous loss to the Open Source community. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
v4/netfilter/ipt_TARPIT.ko] undefined! > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make: *** [modules] Error 2 > test linux # Your .runme process ssem sOK, though I usually use ./runme extras to do the kernel updates. I'll try the same as you did here to see if I get the same problem. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
s. I hope that they will resolve their (mainly political) problems soon. The stories have not been good for the image of Gentoo, either as an organisation or as a distribution. As it stands, Gentoo continues to be my distro of choice. It would take a lot of grief to make me swap to another distro. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
e to do? Bug # 172860 has been reopened. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
bugzilla. Oh well, patience is a virtue. Or so they say. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
es, stage 2. > MODPOST 159 modules > WARNING: "neigh_hh_output" [net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TARPIT.ko] undefined! > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make: *** [modules] Error 2 > == > So, I'm still looking for advices. Did the patches apply OK? Did you do: cd /usr/src/iptables svn update cd /usr/src/patch-o-matic-ng svn update .. before updating your kernel? What kernel are you running? Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
t all related messages. Daniel complained about the sshd messages, not iptables messages. I fully agree that he should implement pub/priv key authentication, but even so, that will not prevent the flood of ssh messages in syslog. Adding an unlogged iptables DROP target rule for port 22 will supp

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
ith Gentoo. cd /usr/src svn co https://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter/trunk/patch-o-matic-ng svn co https://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter/trunk/iptables cd patch-o-matic-ng ./runme extra cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig make && make modules_install && make install make sure you have USE "extensions" in your make.conf emerge iptables Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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2007-03-13 Thread Dave Armstrong
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RE: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Rea
Often this is the case especially with many so called "good deals". A lot of the power supplies coming out of China are built for selling and not for performance. In my own experience I have found Corsair Modular Power Supplies to have reliable capacitors and provide steady amps. Expect to pay m

[gentoo-user] dhcpd and routes

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Oxley
192.168.1.199; option routers 192.168.1.1; } So the question is how can I setup dhcpd to automatically setup the route command for all clients using the dhcpd? Cheers, Dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

[gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-01-31 Thread Dave Oxley
fixes it. How can I find out what the problem is? Is there a way of testing the RAM? Is it possible that it is the nvidia drivers still (I am often playing music when I run an emerge)?? Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comme

[gentoo-user] A bash > query ...

2007-01-01 Thread Dave S
I know that > /dev/null redirects standard output , and that 2> /dev/null redirects standard error Is there an expression that redirects standard output and standard error - at present I am using the ungainly > /dev/null 2> /dev/null Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] large .avi video files, re-encode ?

2006-12-28 Thread Dave S
On Thursday 28 December 2006 17:39, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Dave S wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a bunch of .avi video files that I use in a openoffice > > presentation, they are nice and clear but really large files (1 - 2 GB > > each !)

Re: [gentoo-user] large .avi video files, re-encode ?

2006-12-28 Thread Dave S
On Thursday 28 December 2006 17:40, Strong Cypher wrote: > could you give us the original format of your video ? The .avi files were directly generated by a screen capture program Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] large .avi video files, re-encode ?

2006-12-28 Thread Dave S
On Thursday 28 December 2006 17:39, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Dave S wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a bunch of .avi video files that I use in a openoffice > > presentation, they are nice and clear but really large files (1 - 2 GB > > each !)

[gentoo-user] large .avi video files, re-encode ?

2006-12-28 Thread Dave S
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
Norberto Bensa wrote: Dave Oxley wrote: I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild 2.6.19 sucks. Not only it moved CONFIG_SATA_* to

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
Douglas Linford wrote: Dave, This may sound goofy...but do you have any external drives connected to you box, ie, USB, ieee, or card readers? When I had my extenal USB hard disk turned on or my internal card readers connected when I booted Gentoo, boot would stop and it would say the same

[gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
. I don't know whether its the onboard ICH5 SATA or the ARCMSR controller that it cannot find. I have 2 disks on the onboard controller (sda and sdb) and 1 raid volume on the ARCMSR (sdc). Can anyone help me please? Cheers, Dave. blackadder ~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250

Re: [gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem [solved]

2006-11-28 Thread Dave Jones
ichael, thanks, this fixed the problem. Also thanks to everyone who responded to my question. The answers taught me how udev works, that's really useful, can't be bad. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem

2006-11-27 Thread Dave Jones
h /dev/dsp0? Thanks in advance for any help or advice you may be able to give. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles on samba and 2.6.18

2006-11-08 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:09:23 +1100 Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Since upgrading to the 2.6.18 kernel I get this on my client machine >> when trying to emerge. I

[gentoo-user] distfiles on samba and 2.6.18

2006-11-05 Thread Dave Oxley
es] comment = Portage distfiles path = /usr/portage/distfiles valid users = root public = yes writable = yes write list = @portage printable = no create mask = 0664 directory mask = 2775 Client fstab: //server/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles cifs username=root,pass

[gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Dave V
Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain the packages. Dave -- He wasn't strictly

[gentoo-user] logcheck rule problem

2006-10-11 Thread Dave S
- kind of irritating. Any suggestions ? Dave (PS its a ubuntu system ... just err ... you guys are more tech savy :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to execute some scripts after an emerge

2006-10-06 Thread Dave V
A simple solution would beto use && : emerge -u world && echo do whatever you could also write a wrapper script relatively easily Dave On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:56:21 +0200 Robert Welz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > Are there hooks in portage with which I

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