Lately, my Adobe Flash on Gentoo amd64 complained about being blocked by the Adobe Flash 10.0 license and since yesterday the 10.1 one. Blocked by a license? Had never seen that before…
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Gentoo blocker: AdobeFlash-10.1 license
June 21st, 2010 by EwaldSigning PGP/GnuPG keys using caff and sSMTP
February 10th, 2010 by EwaldAfter attending the keysigning party at FOSDEM 2010, I came home with a large list of PGP/GnuPG keys I needed to sign. At the conference, there was a brief mention of using caff to make this task easier and soon enough, the first emails sent using caff came rolling in. Problem was… I had no experience whatsoever using caff, and the documentation was rather brief. I did manage to figure it all out though.
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Mounting a remote file system over ssh using sshfs and non-standard settings
January 19th, 2010 by EwaldAs usual I had the desire to have a non-common set-up, which was presumably more secure or at the very least more fun to get working. In this case, after rebuilding my server, I wanted to recreate the sshfs setup I had going on in the past, but this time while using a separate IdentityFile, non-common portnumber and incorporated in my /etc/fstab file. Somehow I forgot how I managed to get that working in the past, so for my own sake and the sake of others seeking help with this, I wrote down the steps I took to get this working, below.
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NTPq refuses to provide info on peers
December 23rd, 2009 by EwaldWhile equipping my fresh Gentoo server with NTP capabilities I was wondering why after a couple of minutes after starting ntpd, ntpq -p (or ntpq -c peers) was shouting “ntpq: read: Connection refused” at me… What is going on?
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KSplash freeze using KDE 4, hardened-sources and SELinux enabled
December 11th, 2009 by EwaldHad a rather unpleasant bug for about a week and could not figure out what the exact issue was. Problem: when booting KDE, the KSplash screen would load and when the KDE gears appeared, the whole system would lock up. As in freeze, not able to switch to different terminal, nothing.
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Gentoo ten year anniversary
October 12th, 2009 by EwaldI know, I know, I’m a week late, but still: congratulations Gentoo on ten years of sweet compiling!
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“Couldn’t load XPCOM” after Firefox upgrade
July 27th, 2009 by EwaldAfter Mozilla Firefox 3.5(.1) was finally unmasked in Portage, I upgraded from 3.0. Unfortunately, after the update, Firefox would not start anymore and when started from a terminal, it would leave me with a cryptic “Couldn’t load XPCOM.”.
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This week’s blockers: perl-core/Compress-Zlib and perl-core/IO-Compress-Zlib
June 21st, 2009 by EwaldLess than a week after my previous post on blockers caused by poppler, perl-core/Compress-Zlib and perl-core/IO-Compress-Zlib pop up as blockers in my emerge -uDN world.
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emerge -u world causes poppler blocks
June 15th, 2009 by EwaldWhen updating world, as we should all do every now and then, yesterday I was confronted with a number of different blocks relating to poppler. Usually I find it easiest to unmerge a blocking package by hand and see if the dependency conflict resolves itself. This time that wasn’t quite what I needed.
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