I've just installed mozilla-firefox, and uninstalled firefox-bin, and now it works, so I'm guessing the problem is buried somewhere in all that emul-crap that us x86_64 users have to put up with.
I'm having the same problem with firefox-bin and thunderbird-bin (yes, on an amd64), and I don't want ...

Thanks much! Cheers -Ross

I've been using the recommended /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf file from code listing 4.1 of the Gentoo Security Handbook , but that file no longer works since upgrading to syslog-ng v3.0.4. There are apparently several significant syntax changes to the conf file format. I know I could RTFM, but ...

Didi you emerged/unmerged sys-libs/libcap-2.11 recently (POSIX capabilities) ? Or maybe some other libs, therefore I'd advice a "revdep -- --ask".
That's possible -- I'll try it when I get home tonight. Thanks -Ross
Alas, revdep-rebuild turned up nothing :( . I did not have sys-libs/libcap ...

toralf wrote:Didi you emerged/unmerged sys-libs/libcap-2.11 recently (POSIX capabilities) ? Or maybe some other libs, therefore I'd advice a "revdep -- --ask".

That's possible -- I'll try it when I get home tonight. Thanks -Ross

Good idea, but I'm definitely logged in as root when I'm trying all this According to your prompt, you're not.
OK, if you want to see the full cut-n-paste, here it is: root@porcupine ~ $ dnsmasq

dnsmasq: setting capabilities failed: Operation not permitted
root@porcupine ~ $ dnsmasq -d
dnsmasq ...

looks like you're not starting it as root? you need to do that for it to work properly. It would normally switch to user nobody once it's done with it's startup - that bit is probably failing coz you're not root.

It works with -d because that disables the switch user bit

Good idea, but I'm ...

I had dnsmasq running on my server for a long time, but now it won start from init.d. I get the following error message: $ /etc/init.d/dnsmasq start
* Starting dnsmasq ...

dnsmasq: setting capabilities failed: Operation not permitted [ !! ]
Same error when I try to run dnsmasq straight from the ...

I've been going crazy for the past week! I've been using this thread's tutorial/method with great success for several years now, but last Sunday (Nov18) I upgraded postfix to v2.4.5 and ever since then I can't get local delivery to work! I tried downgrading back to v2.3.6, but no luck. I tried ...

I've been going crazy for the past week! I've been using this thread's tutorial/method with great success for several years now, but last Sunday (Nov18) I upgraded postfix to v2.4.5 and ever since then I can't get local delivery to work! I tried downgrading back to v2.3.6, but no luck. I tried ...

Bad choice of words then, I meant "new" as in "newly emerged", not "new version compared to the current one"

Your "old" nxserver-freenx (with USE=-nxclient) owns the file /usr/bin/nxclient. Emerging freenx with USE=nxclient will pull in net-misc/nxclient, which would also install /usr/bin/nxclient ...

To handle blocked packages, the best way is usually to remove the old package and then emerge the new package (in this case nxserver-freenx)

The blocker is here because switching the nxclient USE flag would cause file collisions on nxclient between nxclient and freenx
Thanks for your reply, but I ...

I've been running nxserver-freenx for years without problems :D , but now I want to include nxclient on my gentoo system. The problem is that when I add in USE=nxclient I get into a seemingly unresolvable block :? :
# USE=nxclient emerge -vp nxserver-freenx

These are the packages that would be ...

Something is not right with c o l o r s between xorg 7.x (I'm on 7.1 right now) and nxserver-freenx (0.5.0-r1) :( . I keep getting errors like this when I run terminals: xterm: Cannot allocate color green
xterm: Cannot allocate color white
xterm: Cannot allocate color black
aterm: can't load color ...

Something is not right with c o l o r s between xorg 7.x (I'm on 7.1 right now) and nxserver-freenx (0.5.0-r1) :( . I keep getting errors like this when I run terminals: xterm: Cannot allocate color green
xterm: Cannot allocate color white
xterm: Cannot allocate color black
aterm: can't load color ...

Please check this: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html
Easiest way to get IE on Linux these days.
Sure, but there seems to be a bug in it that doesn't allow you to install digital certificates :( . 00GENT00 seems to have gotten digital certificates working, but I haven't tried his ...

current svn *might* fix that. See http://sources.catmur.co.uk/viewcvs/svn/udept/dep?r1=543&r2=629&diff_format=h
Didn't work for this :( :
REGULAR make.conf FILE: PORTDIR=/mnt/nfs_portage
DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles
PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages
RPMDIR=${PORTDIR}/rpm
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage ...

Actually, I was trying to emerge Ardour 0.99.3, but even trying Ardour 0.99.2 (which I've just tried to emerge), I run into the same problem--a string of SCONS-related ACCESS DENIED messages and a failure to emerge Ardour.

I have tried emerging Ardour 0.99.3 and 0.99.2 on a backup installation of ...

udept's /etc/portage/ cleaner doesn't work well with layman.
I meant to report this earlier. The reason is because of yet another undocumented syntax feature of make.conf. Layman sources in its own make.conf as so: source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf I looked into the udept code but it wasn ...

Actually, I can compile and run Ardour 0.99.2 from portage without any problems now . This is on a newer x86 box than I was using before. Are you still having problems with v0.99.2?
-RPM

Thanks again for this eXtremely useful script! :)

I tried to figure out how to use your functions to validate the /etc/portage/package.keywords file, but my mind went soft :? . I wrote an external script that uses the output from "dep -e" to figure it out, but I bet you could add an Info function ...

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So I guess that your "dirty" solution might be the only good one if this is checked too early.
But the right script should be the one looking for a /boot/System.map with a more comprehensive warning message. That would be cleaner no ?

Like this :

if [ -d "`depdir`" -a -f /proc/modules ...

Many alsa drivers produce distorted sound when both master and PCM volumes are at 100%.

Does it sound the same if you play PCM at 70-80% volume?
No, I keep the volume at 75 or less. I've gotten Amarok to sound good (by upgrading to v1.4.0a-r1), so I'm reasonably happy now, but I'm still disturbed ...

Sorry, guys. This is what happens when you self-host over a residential line.

I'm looking at VPS options (VPSLink looks fairly sweet, though Virtuozzo are fairly cool as well) and hope to have it all back up by the weekend.
Still no love. Not complaining since v0.5.93.1 is working fine for me ATM ...

Has anyone tried this and had it work? I didn't find anything in bugzilla, but maybe I didn't search properly? This issue has annoyed me for months now and would like to try this solution tonight.
Please let me know.
Thanks! -RPM