Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:39:36 -0400 Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/07, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drm driver is part of the kernel; should I upgrade to -rc4 or downgrade to 2.6.21.4? I'm pretty unsure, but reverting to a stable version is at least worth a try.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Firefox's Connecting

2007-06-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 13:21:13 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the ping times are normal. I'm having problems with the site intermittently hanging while I'm browsing, even as ping times are coming back normal. That's what makes me think it should be a problem with the software on

Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load

2007-06-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 23:29:49 -0400 Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebooted into my 2.6.22-rc3-rsdl1.0-hrt2 kernel and the X server crashes (reminds me of Beryl on Ubuntu, but this time, there is a blank black screen and no mouse). The problem is, my laptop has no serial port, and

Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load

2007-06-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:10:19 -0400 Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: last time I did ssh was when installing LFS; been a looong time and I forgot. Refresh my memory, please? I have sshd on my laptop, putty on my desktop Just start sshd (it's usually configured to run straight out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000 Tim Allingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment dd if=/dev/source partition of=/dev/destination partition Remote Environment probably means a) read-only mounted root FS or b) a boot into another

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:03:52 +0200 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, since your awesome efforts last time, everyone here already knows you're the most polite bug reporter, absolutely fair and I'm really tired of your boring personal attacks. In fact, it was the first

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:55:45 -0400 John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sshd doesn't start nfs doesn't start rsyncd doesn't start Are those being started (i.e. tried to) at boot? Is it just fail then for you? There should at least be a bit of debug info in the output at

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:19:26 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running: nc localhost smtp allows me to send mail so I guess I'm good Hm, better test if it allows other people to do the same -- if it can be reached via the internet or potentially harmful other

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:13:09 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running: nc localhost smtp allows me to send mail so I guess I'm good Hm, better test if it allows other people to do the same -- if it can be reached via the internet or potentially harmful other

Re: [gentoo-user] perm link

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:09:34 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to create a permanent link as such ln /dev/sr1 /dev/dvd And it works fine, but when the system is rebooted, link gone. What am I doing wrong? low level: You're creating the link on a tmpfs. This is by definition

Re: [gentoo-user] perm link

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:32:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will need to create a udev rule for this Something like: # cdrom symlinks and other good cdrom naming KERNEL==sr[0-9]*|hd[a-z]|pcd[0-9]*, ACTION==add, IMPORT{program}=cdrom_id --export $tempnode

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:07:42 +0200 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just as I thought, certain folks had their lessons now it's maybe worth contributing someting, it starts again: Critical bugs are simply declared invalid. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180935 Again

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, short correction/addition: On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:48:17 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] complicated solutions like e.g. using readlink(1) [...] or just throwing in find's -L switch. -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:45:10 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and see if something happens, but how do I test if postfix actual sends my mail? Errrm... Send a mail? (No, not to this list, at least not,

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:07:33 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and see if something happens, but how do I test if postfix actual sends my

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:56 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I guess I should have expected it to rather simple to test. But I have never tried to configure a mailserver before hence my somewhat naive question. So what I did was to change my smtp server in

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:21:03 +0200 Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: You need to load the kernel from the swap, in the time it loads, you have no running kernel (well, there is a little part, but that one has no clue about network). No, that's not entirely true.

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:48 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, my id_dsa is my private key not my public key. My public key is id_dsa.pub but you will need your private key to be authenticated. that's why it is *private*. That's right, so why does it:

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:08:38 -0400 Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mauro Faccenda wrote: being a redhat, i suppose that it uses redhat with more less the default configuration, that tries to read your public key on your user home in the server (~/.ssh/authorized_users or

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:28:09 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sshd will always search in the home directory as specified in /etc/passwd (in the normal case) or more sophisticated solutions like LDAP or NSS. So make sure it really *is* configured as the home directory. Aha!

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 25 May 2007 15:19:30 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another user had some trouble because Kaffeine couldn't play .ogg-files. In the end we found out that he activated the necessary USE-flag and re-emerged xine-lib but Kaffeine kept using the old lib which was

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:59:23 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know swapon doesn't work on regular files, so to add my swap I need to first use losetup to set up /dev/loop0 as my swap device. Then swapon /dev/loop0 works. but how can I enable swap on loop0 before the

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge sys-block/nbd

2007-05-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:38:48 -0400 Michael George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to emerge sys-block/nbd for my LTSP system. I get the error: configure: error: Could not find an nbd.h from 2.6 or above. What's the version of your linux-headers package? But locate nbd.h gives me:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:57:14 +0400 Andrey Gerasimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious: why nobody suggests to allow Portage to use the preferred method of binary distros: emerge several interdependent packages in one transaction. Because this just wouldn't work. They're not called

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:30:46 +0800 Andrew Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the situation where I have to connect to a remote, it's still in my office but X will be running across the network, Sun server so that I can run a CAD system. In the past I've done this from Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:22:39 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the usual way to use remote X-based programs is just to let SSH do that. It can provide a tunnel for X. This is especially easy if the remote SSH server daemon has set its X11Forwarding

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting the same errors as before: == # mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/sda1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, missing codepage or other

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:14 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question? I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it. Doesn't make me wonder, as I'll explain below, there's no file system starting at offset 0 in that image of your stick... Like

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:00:27 +0100 (BST) Joost Roeleveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB booting a USB harddrive

2007-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:03:15 +0100 Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if I follow the commands at the doc mentioned above, should all work fine? the dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (or whatever) is of particular concern, as it's a scary command to run on a disk with non

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why won't my computers use their own DNS servers?

2007-05-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:18:02 -0500 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my network I have two computers, camille.espersunited.com (70.234.122.250) and catherine.espersunited.com (70.234.122.251). Each of these two computers runs its own local DNS server. They do this to speed up

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote administration of a server

2007-05-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:42:45 -0300 Daniel van Ham Colchete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about other options, does anyone have any other tip for me? Am I going in the right direction? The two options you've mentioned are quite different. One gives console access, the other basically

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:50:42 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I can install an rpm after emerging rpm itself, there is no need to convert it. All I have to do is to make portage aware of this package. Of course I would have to take care of dependencies myself and let

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 7 May 2007 23:12:31 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = $ echo $TERM rxvt $ sudo echo $TERM rxvt = which is the same like my Gentoo box. That doesn't matter. Question is rather whether the target machine has an entry in its terminfo db

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:48:20 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens when you; emerge -pv xorg-x11 What do you mean, What happens? It emerges, no error messages. Well, with the -p flag it should just pretend to. And show the effective USE flags, which might be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 20:18:46 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, OK, I see. Does your kernel's command line contain a valid video=... setting? I'm not sure what you mean here. In my make.conf file, I have the line video_cards=nvidia No, I'm talking about boot loader

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 May 2007 22:38:27 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The final remaining problem is with the 3 statements scattered through the rules... -A ICMP_IN -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED -A TCP_IN -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -j UNSOLICITED -A UDP_IN -p udp -m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:47:21 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is booting, the font doesn't resize - something do do with the framebuffer, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 04:03:23 +0200 Paul Sebastian Ziegler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the purpose of this? To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. This doesn't make sense to me. ROOT is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:14:03 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the font doesn't resize mean exactly and how's that looking errorneous to you? It's not that it's erroneous. I'm just being a bit anal. In all my other Gentoo installations, when the computer boots

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, Am Montag, den 30.04.2007, 17:24 +0200 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Montag, 30. April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Yes, CONFIG_UNIX=y that is not the reiserfs option. I'm aware of that. But another PC with the 2.6.19 kernel and an IDE drive panicked until I set

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade using binary packages

2007-04-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:53:54 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an underpowered system which runs mythtv. Machine architecture? 1. On a i686 machine generated the binary packages using tips from this list.. [...] 5. Almost at the end of the glibc emerge ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200 Iván Pérez Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, when I try to update to a newer kernel (say 2.6.17 or 2.6.20), my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Understanding sshd response

2007-04-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:08:03 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this mean? Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version RomCliSecure_4.12 debug1: no match: RomCliSecure_4.12 That's in compat.c, l.58ff. (4.6pl1). There's a table with server/application specific

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:41:34 -0700 Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who'd have thought a Promise SATA300 TX4 would be unsupported in 2006.1? In all honesty, it's probably not absolutely unsupported. Switch your SATA controller to compatibility mode in BIOS, don't care for DMA, and it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:19:14 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's actually my upload rate that's difficult to limit. That's not inbound traffic right? Right. You should be able to shape upload quite well. Did you try to lower allowed upload bandwith further below the nominate

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:00:04 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a lot of testing, these numbers seem to give me the best performance as far as bittorrent download speed. How can that be? Is DOWNLINK my upload and UPLINK my download? Hm, usually not. Are you by chance

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: problem :eht0 not getting detected

2007-04-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, BTW, learn about why top-posting is bad if you can spare some time... On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:54:56 -0700 agam gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ya there were 4 driviers but none worked tried all optons only rtl-8150 lods but is not shown in the ifconfig or ifconfig -a does it output

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:32:34 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Aargh! This seems to be the new excuse for writing ridiculously short mails w/o much information and background now. IMHO, a stupid excuse. BUT you provided a great

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:37:19 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a lot of testing, these numbers seem to give me the best performance as far as bittorrent download speed. How can that be? Is DOWNLINK my upload and UPLINK my download? Hm, usually not. Are you by chance shaping the

Re: [gentoo-user] dr.dk

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:35:16 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to play streaming radio from http://www.dr.dk. I followed one of the links from http://www.dr.dk/netradio/afspillere.asp, but totem just bitches about 'no uri handler implemented for mms:'.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:07:35 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Well, the automatically determined average age (measured by typing speed, length of sentences and number of spelling errors as well as number of started flamewars) is 12,78 years. But

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:45:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:46:42 -0500, Fabio wrote: Well, when I started with Gentoo Linux almost a year ago, I emerged --sync more than twice per week. I never experimented any damage or error. I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:24:03 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have packet shaping set up on my Gentoo router with iptables, shorewall, and The Wonder Shaper which is a /etc/shorewall/tcstart file. It seems to be working since internet radio is now full of hiccups. :) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:46:40 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got the above error on first reboot of fresh system. Was udev compiled running the kernel in question? (Most probably not needed, though) Is kernel-headers matching that kernel version? That would probably be an

Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu

2007-04-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:05:09 +0200 Sylvain Chouleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to install and use lm_sensors but it don't detect any sensors. Since there are really lots of drivers, I just guess you didn't compile the right ones when building your kernel. Moreover, I think it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge human readable format.

2007-04-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:23:28 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to deal with --si or -H when using df as an example. By default, size unit is byte, but when you want to understand the numbers with no mental extra operation, It is quite good to print the more suitable unit. Let's see

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Conf

2007-03-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:46 +0200 Kyle Vorster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am trying to do is set server-wide 'custom' error pages, but when a user uploads his own set of 'custom' error pages it should over-right the server-wide pages and display the users pages. so looking at

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh escape command

2007-03-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:38:41 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, most likely the OP was typing something/anything that gave him a empty prompt without hitting a newline (hitting ^C, ^Z on a running program or just on the shell, typing something and hitting backspace to delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list software recommendation

2007-03-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:10:59 +0100 Stephan Eberle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I need help on this one. I have a Gentoo Linux server set up and running on a Strato Server (german dedicated server hoster) and would like to install a mailing list software. Unfortunately my mail server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encfs forgot passwd following update world

2007-03-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:45:32 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few fairly important things in that encrypted raw source directory, any suggestions how I might retrieve them? Go back to a previous version of OpenSSL. There's an incompatibility with newer versions. See the encfs-users

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and maps

2007-03-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:02:36 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't think about trying something like that. I tried renaming .mozilla and it worked fine. I guess that does the same thing as a new profile. So I guess it is something in there. Any idea what that would be? From

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:55:33 +0100 Arnaud FARINE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yesterday I worked late!! And it has worked! Hurray! Otherwise, what tools are you using to synchronize (if you had tested some products, perhaps are you a preference)? I use Kontact and my gentoo is installed

Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time

2007-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:45:42 -0330 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My home province (Newfoundland Labrador) has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to adopt daylight savings time from 11 to 04 November, rather than the more common dates in April October. Can someone tell me what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:23:27 +0100 Arnaud FARINE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've upgraded my kernel too in 2.6.20, but the problem is the same ! I start dccm processus with my user. I start synce-serial-start with root account When I plug my device a connection appears and is closed

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:21:02 +0100 Arnaud FARINE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok thanks for your answer...perhaps can you save me !! :-) Hopefully! At least, I managed to make a connection to my WM5 PDA. I'm not using any synchronization, however, just filesystem access. A suggestion right at

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:40:28 +0100 Arnaud FARINE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great answer !! I understand that I must use the subversion If I would like to have a chance to make something ;-) I think so. When I tried it using the (masked) version that is in Portage, it failed miserably. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet not working after instillition

2007-02-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:48:26 -0800 (PST) Harbir Singh Hundal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think i did copy resolv.conf during instilation, but anyway I have recopied and not its working. Please tell a bit about your network infrastructure. When there's a DHCP server running: Did you set it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:27:08 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:07:52 +0100 (CET) paulie.x [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to the OP: Configure your terminal accordingly (for console: set consoletrans and -font correctly) or if you didn't yet, install a unicode-aware terminal program. It is not true because I'm already using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:49:42 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to require a lot of round-trips between client and

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-21 Thread Hans-Stefan Bauer
Hallo, today I updated portage and installed the newest kernel. uname -a now says Linux storm1 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 15:45:46 CET 2007 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux Now DLM and GFS2 are compiled as modules storm1 linux # grep DLM .config

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Hans-Stefan Bauer
Hallo, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schrieb: On Monday 19 February 2007 02:47, Hans-Stefan Bauer wrote: storm1 hsbauer # /etc/init.d/gfs start * Starting gfs cluster: * Loading lock_dlm kernel module ... FATAL: Error inserting lock_dlm (/fs/gfs_locking/lock_dlm/lock_dlm.ko): Unknown symbol

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:33:32 +0100 Hans-Stefan Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merging sys-cluster/dlm-kernel-1.03.00 to / --- /cluster/ /cluster/dlm.ko Hm. What does uname -r say on your system? What's /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source linked to? Valid kernel location? -hwh -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Hans-Stefan Bauer
Hallo, Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:33:32 +0100 Hans-Stefan Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merging sys-cluster/dlm-kernel-1.03.00 to / --- /cluster/ /cluster/dlm.ko Hm. What does uname -r say on your system? What's /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source linked

[gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-19 Thread Hans-Stefan Bauer
Hallo, we are trying to install the gfs file system on a HP Proliant DL385 Server running Gentoo Linux to set up a cluster system. Here the output of uname -a: Linux storm2 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 #2 SMP Fri Feb 2 10:03:25 CET 2007 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 GNU/Linux After

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

2007-02-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:31:31 -0500 Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I cannot trust the tools provided by the OS for finding out whats going on-- than what can I trust -- this is intolerable! - if it is simply a situation if a non root user not being able to see root

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem

2007-02-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:54:42 +0100 Roman Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ifconfig eth0 gives me this: Link encap: UNSPEC HWaddr 44-4F-C0-00-14-31-AC-10-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 [...] I'm pretty sure the Mac-Addr is too long.. that's weird, Also, when using Sabayon, the first line

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to non-NPTL profile

2007-02-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:17:40 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 16:23:23 Pawel K wrote: There is a bit contradictionary information about that at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml and http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL You should of

Re: [gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

2007-02-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:27:13 +0530 Ásgeir Halldórsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone found a solution to how to load the firmware dirvers on boot in 2.6.18+ kernels. I read something about you need to put the /lib/firmware files into initrd. But I dont know how or where to put

Re: [gentoo-user] Putting gentoo to work :)

2007-02-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:43:16 +0200 Alexandru Mincu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My setup will look like this: big server with 2 or 3 gigabit ethernet cards and lots of sata drives in a big raid array. disk less workstations with 512mb or 1gb of ram, nvidia or integrated video and a gigabit

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:37:05 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you are not putting the kernel on the real /boot and your grub and kernel images are all... stored somewhere else, like the real /boot? Yes, /boot _is_ apparently on a single partition (see grub

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-02-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:45:53 +0100 Pawel Kraszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dnia środa, 31 stycznia 2007, James Colby napisał: I have a small home server that I have connected to the internet through a linksys router and cable modem. The linksys router is currently forwarding all

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2007-01-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:37 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried creating diagrams in xfig. It works fine for my LaTeX documents, but does not export well to PNG for use in web pages. Hm, what do you mean by saying not so well? If it's just that it isn't antialiased

Re: [gentoo-user] did anything major change in acpi?

2007-01-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:34:51 + Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reinstalled and there for upgraded my kernel form 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, and also upgraded all the acpi related stuff like acpid. My laptop overheats a lot now, it is around 90-96 degrees celcius when compiling,

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:25:20 +0100 jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used cfdisk and I'm sure that I allocated whole disk (I just deleted remaining partition and created new one and just confirm size, because it should take whole disk, and even if not, it souldn't create new partition on

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:37:16 +0100 jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything was fine mean; I created partition and then formatted it without any errors or warnings. There are messages from syslog: --- Jan 22 23:43:16

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:17:58 +0100 jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I copied data from 160GB partition on DiskA to temporary space on DiskB, then I deleted remaining NTFS partition on DiskA and created one 200GB ext3 partition (I think so. In cfdsik I chose partition type '83

Re: [gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

2007-01-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi again, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:38:47 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy driver in the kernel. Probably the easiest way to archieve what you want is to write a module

Re: [gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

2007-01-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:18:20 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if there is some driver+tools that could present an x11 display as a v4l device? Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy driver in the kernel. Probably the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

2007-01-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:46:36 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks HW, this is what logrotate -d shows re. portage logs: # logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf [snip...] rotating pattern: /var/log/portage/*.log weekly (1 rotations) [snip...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

2007-01-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:24 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen: [...] Anyone? Anything I could look into?

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:37:27 +0100 (CET) qfpvajdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for servers). Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd artifacts on screen

2007-01-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:30:17 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I've noticed that I tend to get strange smudging effects on text displayed in X. I've attached a small (5k) .png that shows the effect (it's the smudge on the word have). [...] (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:40:21 + b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated machines

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:03:59 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I'm quite happy with $ iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE $ iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $ iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -m

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi needs ESSID to connect?

2007-01-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:50:26 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to connect to a wireless access point unless it is set to announce its ESSID. Not announcing the ESSID won't help much, anyway. FWIW, if there are no beacons in the air, how should your WiFi client tell what

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:10:45 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, so i think that i have to get familiar with iptables itself, because i want to some more than routing. I will try this rules in the evening and tell you if it works. No fears, iptables is easy

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:27:11 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can connect from the router to the internet. I can log in from the router to the desktop per ssh and back. I have set up an rsync on the router and rsync works from the desktop. I have set up dnsmasq on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:45:13 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This here: /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 gentoo-vdr.linux gentoo-vdr 192.168.0.2 gentoo.linux gentoo ::1 localhost I think localhost is assigned to

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