gmane.linux.gentoo.user

do we have the package "ncurses-devel" or something like that?

Du Zhongdong — 2008-12-03T03:43:18

Hi, all. I've setup gentoo on my Vmware, everything's ok. Now I want to re-check my kernel config, #cd /usr/src/linux [Wed Dec 03, 11:38 AM] axdu< at > linux$ make menuconfig *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the *** required header files. *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries. *** *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again. *** make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1 make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 I try to emerge ncurses-devel but emerge says: [Wed Dec 03, 11:40 AM] axdu< at > linux$ sudo emerge ncurses-devel Calculating dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "ncurses-devel". what's the problem with ncurses-devel? if there's no such thing in GENTOO_MIRRORS, where can I download the source? thanks in advance

gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

Andrew Gaydenko — 2008-12-02T19:10:34

Is it normal? I'm on ~amd64.

Mouse & keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

Erik Hahn — 2008-12-02T17:02:37

What is wrong with my nat table?

Shaochun Wang — 2008-12-02T10:36:18

Hi all: Today I found that there is a lot of unexpected staff in my iptables system when I executed the --list command as following: # iptables -t nat -L Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http-alt redir ports 59263 REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:https redir ports 59264 REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:imaps redir ports 59265 ....(omiting 78 rules) Does anyone know why such rules exit here?

Anyone managed to install Intel C++ 11 on Gentoo AMD64?

Nikos Chantziaras — 2008-12-02T10:02:48

There's no ebuild for Intel C++ 11, so I'm trying to install using Intel's installation script. It barks that I don't have these: libstdc++.so.5 32-bit libstdc++ 32-bit libstdc++5 32-bit glibc 32-bit libgcc I have app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat installed though. Anyone managed to make this thing install?

VIM Undo Command

Supreme — 2008-12-02T09:16:43

I have a odd issue with vim. The undo last action command which is (u) does not work in vi. The undo all changes command (Shift+u) works just fine. Anyone ever run into this problem or know how I can fix this issue. This problem is related to all the user on the system not just one user. This is the error I get when I try to use the undo command: "'u' is not implemented" . I am using version 7.2.021 of vim. I have this same version installed on a 64 bit version of Gentoo and I am not seeing this problem. J.J.

Automounting of USB drives

AJ Spagnoletti — 2008-12-02T00:15:21

I have finally reached the point where I use enough USB media (external hard drives and flash drives) that I would like to set up a system to automount the media devices for me. I have read in the past about hal + ivman and a bit of googling has brought up AutoFS as well. I was just wondering what the best system to automount USB media would be. I am looking for something that is relatively easy to set up and is also well maintained. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. AJ

ssmtp & at&t woes

John Blinka — 2008-12-01T22:34:39

I recently switched to at&t from another isp. At that other isp, my ssmtp setup worked perfectly. With at&t, a similar ssmtp setup (modified appropriately to point to at&t's smtp server) does not work at all. AT&T told me to use the server smtp.att.yahoo.com and port 465. So my ssmtp.conf file looks like: Debug=YES root=xxx< at >att.net mailhub=smtp.att.yahoo.com:465 AuthUser=xxx AuthPass=yyy rewriteDomain=att.net FromLineOverride=YES UseTLS=YES and my revaliases file looks like root=xxx< at >att.net:smtp.att.yahoo.com:465 The result of the command mail -v -s test xxx< at >att.net is: [<-] 220 smtp122.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ESMTP [->] EHLO tobey [<-] 250 8BITMIME [->] AUTH LOGIN [<-] 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 [->] am9obi5ibGlua2E= [<-] 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 [<-] 535 authorization failed (#5.7.0) send-mail: Authorization failed (535 authorization failed (#5.7.0)) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 I read somewhere that some people can't get at&t's port 465 to work with ssmtp and that they have used port 587 successfully. Not so for me. Using port 587 (replacing 465 by 587 in ssmtp.conf and revaliases), the result of mail -v -s test xxx< at >att.net is: SSL_connect: Success send-mail: Cannot open smtp.att.yahoo.com:587 Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 I have no problem at all sending mail to my att.net account from various gmail accounts I use, so I know that my password and username combination functions. I can telnet to smtp.att.yahoo.com at either port 465 or 587 and get a response, so nothing is blocking either port. Any insights or suggestions? John Blinka

OpenOffice-bin spellchecker not working

James — 2008-12-01T15:27:16

Any ideas how to fix? ispell, hunspell, aspell, myspell-en and aspell-en are all installed. James

waiting for Godot & uevents

Philip Webb — 2008-12-01T12:46:30

My back-up box has an irritating problem, which was discussed here in a thread which ended 080731 (msg 73690) apparently unresolved. At boot, it says "populating /dev with existing devices thro' uevents ... ". On this my everyday machine, it all goes successfully & very quickly, but on the other it says "waiting for uevents to be processed" & takes a very long time to finish whatever it's doing ( c 2 min ). Both machines have Udev-124-r1 & I copied /etc/udev/rules.d/* from this one to the back-up & rebooted it, but without any change. Was this problem ever resolved ? Does anyone have suggestions ?

Unable to download Imagemagick

ert256 — 2008-12-01T12:03:11

Hello Since last week, i'm unable to download new imagemagick sources. This is what i get from emerge : ert16< at >skarpeta ~ $ sudo emerge -vu imagemagick These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.4.6 [6.4.0.6] USE="bzip2 corefonts%* jpeg jpeg2k openmp%* perl png svg tiff truetype xml zlib -X -djvu -doc -fontconfig -fpx -graphviz -gs -hdri -jbig -lcms -nocxx -openexr -q32 -q8 -raw% -wmf" 8,650 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 8,650 kB 'http://gentoo.dsv.agh.edu.pl/distfiles/ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2' --2008-12-01 12:59:40-- http://gentoo.dsv.agh.edu.pl/distfiles/ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2 Resolving gentoo.dsv.agh.edu.pl... 149.156.124.22 Connecting to gentoo.dsv.agh.edu.pl|149.156.124.22|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2008-12-01 12:59:40 ERROR 404: Not Found. 'ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2' --2008-12-01 12:59:41-- ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.imagemagick.org... 74.63.3.20 Connecting to ftp.imagemagick.org|74.63.3.20|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/ImageMagick ... done. ==> SIZE ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2 ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2 ... No such file `ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2'. !!! Couldn't download 'ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.4.6' !!! can't process invalid log file: merge.ERROR When i'm trying to download it manually i get : wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2 --2008-12-01 13:01:30-- ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2 => `ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.imagemagick.org... 74.63.3.20 Connecting to ftp.imagemagick.org|74.63.3.20|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/ImageMagick ... done. ==> SIZE ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2 ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2 ... No such file `ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2'. Thank You for Your help ?

USB permissions glitch

Philip Webb — 2008-12-01T10:42:48

Something keeps resetting the permission for /mnt/usb to 755 , which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user. My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:haldaemon,purslow'; in /etc/fstab I have : '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' (I never use > 1 USB device at a time, so this is ok). Till last week, it worked as expected & there's been no change in Udev rules. I've made a work-around by amending the Bash alias I use to mount it to alias musb='mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb ; chmod 777 /mnt/usb' , which does solve the problem, but is there a more conventional method ?

lanmap ebuild

Ricardo Saffi Marques — 2008-11-30T12:36:10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! First of all: Lanmap (http://www.parseerror.com/lanmap/) - "lanmap sits quietly on a network and builds a picture of what it sees." Since Lanmap is not on the official portage tree, does any of you know any overlay that provide ebuilds or any other way to "canonically" install Lanmap on Gentoo? I checked the developer's website and found out his Subversion Repository is currently offline. He links to "zipped snapshots of revisions", but they are all very old (latest from Mar/2006). I know there is a package of Lanmap for Debian, but I don't know whether it is up-to-date or not. In case there is no answer for my questions, do any you recommend an alternative for Lanmap? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Saffi - -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/ ====================================================== Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS Institute of Computing - IC P.O. Box: 6176 University of Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil ====================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkkyiLoACgkQjUOIEC3P9790xgCeNiUCoXLVM+NSbOWHvMWn3p2K nAcAniP0RuEpSXARXeWHvRk7tXbcK5oI =XLI7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

audacious 1.5 not playing

Michael George — 2008-11-30T10:33:56

I updated audacious and audacious-plugins from 1.4.6 and .5 to 1.4.1-r1 and r3, respectively. It comes up and seems to operate fine, but it won't play my ogg files. It doesn't even seem to try. I downgraded to 1.4.6/5 and it plays fine. I'll be testing it on mp3 files today, I hope, to see if it's a problem unique to 1.5.x. Anyone else having problems with audacious 1.5.x?

FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-11-30T10:06:57

Hi, I want to analyze an VFAT image to gather information of its structure. Does anyone know of an VFAT analyzer/editor? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Have a nice weekend! mcc

Conditional TMOUT variable

Mick — 2008-11-30T09:48:15

Hi All, I've exported TMOUT=1200 to make sure an absent minded colleague does not leave his console logged in as root and walk away. This has the desired effect - except that when I am su'd in via SSH it also kicks in and logs me out midstream whatever I have been doing at the time. Is there something to take account of user activity before allowing TMOUT to kick in?

something is filling up the filesystem

Pupino — 2008-11-30T01:15:20

Hi all, i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near 1k per minute. I have just few programs running and none of them should save that much information on the disk. Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of where to start to investigate. Anyone have ever got a similar problem? Thanks to all, Davide

boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

7v5w7go9ub0o — 2008-11-29T20:57:50

A few years back I installed gentoo and everything worked fine, except that the OS bootup messages were too "big", and scrolled by too fast. Somewhere I found a tweak (IIRC, it involved recompiling the kernel) that handled it fine - i.e. the font was reduced dramatically after the bios was booted, right at the beginning of the OS booting. Today I replaced my monitor with an HDTV monitor which works fine during the bios boot; works fine after X is booted; but is "shakey" and unreliable during the OS boot. I have worked around these symptoms by adding vga=ask to lilo.conf, and then telling it to use vga. Questions: 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to change the boot message "size" during boot? It is possible that I simply added a framebuffer, but it seems that I changed some config. somewhere as well. 2. Anyone have a workaround for using a new HDTV monitor with an older ATI graphics card? TIA

Open Source Family Tree software?

Mark Knecht — 2008-11-29T18:34:17

Anyone have any recommendations of something in portage. (Or not in portage?) I found gramps in portage. I did not find Lifelines. I haven't uncovered any other project names as yet. Thanks, Mark

mp3/ogg editing

2008-11-29T15:07:59

Hi, I am looking for a ogg/mp3 editing softwarei (gui), which is able to cut/append such streams without loss due to reencoding. What software is worth trying ? Thank you very much for your help in advance! Kind regards, mcc

pager independant of window manager

Harry Putnam — 2008-11-29T06:30:03

Can anyone tell me if there is a desktop pager that can be run regardless of window manager? I suspect the kde (kpager) might do it but I'm not willing to fuss with the kdelibs and qt-3.3 pkgs required to install it. Browsing through portage, It appears there is not such a critter.