[gentoo-user] OT: font management software
I admit - I'm adicted to fonts. Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? I need to see what the fonts look like and be able to install what's not installed. I found Fontlinge which isn't in portage and consists of a gazillion dependencies. Any more?Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players
В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 17:28 Alex написал(a): On Saturday 27 August 2005 20:57, Roman Makurin wrote: What I need to do ? :-) I've been looking for the same thing for some days now... The good thing I just found a solution (well at least it worked for me :) ) You have to enable direct raw access in the kernel: Device Drivers --- ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --- [*] IDE Taskfile Access boot with your new kernel and enjoy your movies ;) The problem has gone with xine-lib-1.1.0-r2 :-) pgpbAmExHKs3s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet? Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which one is the solaris or sunos machine... Sure, but that's not what he's looking for... perhaps I read the initial post wrong...I was under the impression that he had a headless sun box with a static ip on a known subnet, but the exact ip wasn't known. ... what about arp? Just a thought Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems
Sounds like bad memory. Run memtest86? On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Joshua Armstrong wrote: They are syncing from the same mirror. I haven't tried changing mirrors though. If it helps, when I read the kernel logs I notice that during the time it's syncing, I see a lot of readlink() failed: I/O error for files in /usr/portage. I've run fsck on the disk and it detects no errors. All other apps can read all the files in /usr/portage without a problem. Thanks for all your help! On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:02 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Joshua Armstrong schreef: Hello, I'm having a problem with rsync on one of my servers. Every time I rsync from one of the gentoo portage mirrors, it tells me rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1064). I've tried re-emerging rsync and re-emerging portage but to no avail. I know it isn't a firewall/routing issue because all my other Gentoo boxen can sync without a problem. Thanks! Are the other boxes that aren't having the problem syncing with the same server as the box that is having the problem? Have you tried changing the mirror that the box with the problem is syncing with? Holly -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
For a _great_ place to read about ebuilds go to: http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ It has next to everything :) -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software
050831 Martin S wrote: Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what the fonts look like Gfontview Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd Xfontsel (both part of Xorg). and be able to install what's not installed. Well, this is Gentoo, so you use 'emerge' to install things ... (grin). Apart from the basic media-libs/freetype , the other font packages are in /usr/portage/media-fonts . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software
What I'm looking for is something like http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/xfonter.html or http://www.neuber.com/typograph/index.html Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
On 30 August 2005 16:31, bshlists wrote: On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way you generate the initramfs. If you compile it into the kernel (instructions on the Wiki; see How-to fbsplash), it will start up at the very start. If you load it as a separate initrd, you have to wait for the framebuffer to initialize before the splash can start (which takes a short while). Naturally, if you change from loading an initrd to compiling the initrd into the kernel, you do have to change a config file (grub.conf, to remove the initrd= line, since you no longer have one), but changing the file alone won't make any difference if you haven't changed the way you create the initrd in the first place. HTH, Holly Okay. The method I used was by genkernel and the initramfs I'm using was to get the autodetection feature. If I change this don't lose that ability or does it matter? genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=yourtheme --gensplash-res=1024x768 all or whatever resolution you want. You can use the initramfs as usual. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:38 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet? Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which one is the solaris or sunos machine... Sure, but that's not what he's looking for... perhaps I read the initial post wrong...I was under the impression that he had a headless sun box with a static ip on a known subnet, but the exact ip wasn't known. ... what about arp? That was the answer given in an alomst identical problem recently on this list (or was it another??) arp will rely on the box having actually done something within arp's cache period. if there is no network activity, there may be no arp entry. Just a thought Frank -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:38 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet? Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which one is the solaris or sunos machine... Sure, but that's not what he's looking for... perhaps I read the initial post wrong...I was under the impression that he had a headless sun box with a static ip on a known subnet, but the exact ip wasn't known. ... what about arp? That was the answer given in an alomst identical problem recently on this list (or was it another??) arp will rely on the box having actually done something within arp's cache period. if there is no network activity, there may be no arp entry. Just a thought Frank ping broadcast ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:42 +0800, Destromy wrote: ping broadcast ? now we are going in circles. not every device responds to ping - its optional in linux and people often turn it off because of various DOS attacks based on icmp. also some OSes don't seem to respond to broadcast ping, even though they respond to ping to their own address, windows being an example. So, all techniques in this thread seem to have validity, but not all of them will work in all circumstances. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere
Thank you the the hwclock tip it will solve my problem exactly. Unfortunatly it seems my problems were deeper and beyond the scope of this thread really, the loss of time was due to something within the kernel that I built last week I also realised that my hard disk performance had fallen dramatically, again due to some option selected or not within the .config. After a 6 hour session of tweaking last night, I decided to take the honourable way out and deleted the 2.6.12-r9 kernel and reverted to a 2.6.11.5 that came from a genkernel setup some time ago that has served me well for the last few months. Thanks for help on time issue, some reading to be done I think stu On 8/30/05, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 August 2005 15:17, Stuart Howard wrote: thanks for the response So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean ought not to have removed it as it should belong to something [world , system ] I may give up on chrony and put a ntp on and see if that cures it, though I prefer not to just mask a problem if there is one, could a clock slowdown be something as serious as an indication of hardware problems? Not really since your clock is on time after a boot. Please understand that there are two clocks involved. One is a hardware clock. The other one is the system clock which is software. date shows the system clock. During the boot process, the content of the hardware clock is copied to the system clock. That's why your system clock is correct after booting. It also shows that your hardware clock is doing fine. Your system clock is misbehaving. Whatever the reason for its sluggishness, ntpd or ntpdate (using an ntp server near you) should solve. Or, since your hardware clock is alright, a simple hwclock -ru (if your clock is set to UTC) or hwclock -r (if not so) should do the trick. Let cron execute it every hour or so. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:40 -0400, Sean Higgins wrote: It exists as an option with dispatch-conf, as do options to automatically replace files if the only differences are whitespace and comments. But, it does not automatically do an update if the original file has not changed. That would be a cool feature. How often are files changed, for example in /etc/init.d, but you have not changed that file? I would love the option to automatically update any configuration file that I did not change from the original install. No it does not do it automatically, that would be dangerous, You have to enable the option first in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf # Automerge files that the user hasn't modified # (yes or no) replace-unmodified=yes -- Neil Bothwick Guns don't kill people--it's those little pieces of lead. pgpDRImQfMrBC.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] [OT]: shm problem: ** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list - urgent help needed
Hi all. I've crashed shm with a perl-script (IPC::Shareable). shmget returns IPC::Shareable::SharedMem: shmget: File exists, if I remove all shared memory segments created by the app with ipcrm I get the following glibc error: ** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list Nothing helps (reboot also not), I can't get it working again. If I trace it with strace I get a lot of segfaults. Knows somebody a solution for this problem? Regards Christian -- pgpPwrDKx3R7Q.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the network problem: first thing to know - have you updated your config files with etc-update or dispatch-conf? I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it doesn't really archive all of etc now. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get LVM2 off a drive?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: I did an experiment with LVM2 to see how it worked, but I put it inside of partition 3. I then wanted to remove it and put it in partition 4 instead. (More like Neil's setup.) However, the system keeps finding the old vg1 volume group. I went so far as to remove all partitions, put on a new partition, make a new file system, then remove that filesystem and do my final ones with LVM2 in partition 4 but the system still finds the old vg1 volume group and complains that sda3 is too small. The easiest thing to move lvm partitions from one physical partition to another is as follows: 1. pvcreate new (create lvm2 data on the partition) 2. vgextend vg new (adds the new partition to the volume group) 3. pvmove old (moves the extends to the new partitions) 4. vgreduce old (removes the old partition from the volume group) 5. pvremove old (wipes the lvm2 markings from the partition) I guess this is in the partition table? If so how do I completely remove the LVM2 data and set the table back to default? Hopefully this was what you were looking to do. Thanks in advance, Mark Regards, Petteri Räty -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDFX1/cxLzpIGCsLQRAqu2AJwNL5i9UJDejNPpC3eJiSwHsXNgEwCfbj58 8VKgQzOye3TLiAX2+Noex+8= =7T7+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] rsnapshot is deleting the very stuff it is supposed to backup
Following a major update world. My rsnapshot scripts are deleting the files they are supposed to backup. I've made no changes in my own conf files other than to add the version notation: config_version1.2 After seeing errors that seemed to indicate it was no needed. Something has changed that is wreaking havoc with my backups. ~/Mail gets deleted (nearly all directories inside). And I see it was my rsnapshot mail conf file that did it. Waa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix
On 8/30/05, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 August 2005 13:09, Ric de France wrote: What is the bug suggesting to do to fix it: a) Wait for the fix to be sync'ed into portage? b) Emerge gst-plugins-flac? It's (b) Or you could do $ emerge --oneshot gst-plugins-flac (which wont record it in your world file) and wait for the fix to be synced into portage. :) Thanks for the suggestion here... I tried what you said, but to no success... Anything else you could suggest, or do I just track the bug and see wait for when the fix gets implemented? Btw. There is no rush on this... it's not like my system is unusable... everything still works fine... it's just that this stops the rest of the world from being updated... no biggie... but I am seriously grateful for all the suggestions... ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:42:51 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: first thing to know - have you updated your config files with etc-update or dispatch-conf? I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it doesn't really archive all of etc now. Have you enabled rcs in the config? This makes it backup the changes, so you can roll back. -- Neil Bothwick This is as bad as it can get; but don't bet on it. pgpFHlhAuGKXQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 06:06, Makurin Roman wrote: The problem has gone with xine-lib-1.1.0-r2 :-) Yay! :) the devs know better ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp11riY59DLC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:59, Ric de France wrote: Anything else you could suggest, or do I just track the bug and see wait for when the fix gets implemented? Do you use 2.4 or 2.6 linux-headers? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68087 It seems that this problem exists only with 2.4 headers. -- Cheers, Alex. pgp0FbrYaGhUB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?
Hi Matt,
on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 14:54:46, you wrote:
I'm not trying to do anything complicated like protect a LAN or include
a DMZ or run an ftp server or anything like that. I'm just looking for
a quick and easy way to add another layer of protection to my desktop by
closing all unused ports.
Well, if they are unused, they are closed, no need to worry about them.
The only thing you'd need some packet filter (a firewall is something
different, although the term sounds so good that the marketroids have
established it even for simpler things than iptables) for is if you want
*restrictions* on some ports, like to open your web server to the LAN
but not the internet.
On Windows, the situation is a little different as you don't have a lot
of control about what program opens what ports if you don't know your
system inside-out. And many programs love to connect to their masters
and tell them all kinds of stuff about your system, so you'd usually
want to block these on an application level.
If you just want something that pops up once in a while and gives scary
messages, there's the ususal Perl one-liner :)
perl -e 'use Tk;while(1){sleep(rand(290)+10);new
MainWindow(title,Boo!)-Button(-text,HackAttack!!!one!\n\nBlock)-pack;MainLoop}'
cheers!
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: ... what about arp? If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know what the mac address isthen you're stuck. Of course, if it's a small, home network, you could always just turn off all the other computers except that one and the one you're on and ask the router who's connected. be quicker just to launch nmap and go get some coffee. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix
On 8/31/05, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:59, Ric de France wrote: Anything else you could suggest, or do I just track the bug and see wait for when the fix gets implemented? Do you use 2.4 or 2.6 linux-headers? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68087 It seems that this problem exists only with 2.4 headers. Yep... running 2.4 kernel, so I guess I'm using the 2.4 headers... I'll read more into the bug and try to fix / patch myself... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
Fernando Canizo schreef: El 30/ago/2005 a las 22:36 -0300, Holly me decía: Normally what one would do is place all modified ebuilds in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... Thank you very much. You should take advice from Nick and make it a howto. I'm surely going to translate to spanish and put it in my blog, maybe i would add something if i get to make it work ;) Thanks, and more power to you! I can't make it work but it's after 2 AM and maybe i just need to read some docs. ebuild says: # ebuild /usr/local/portage/mail-client/mutt/mutt-conan-1.5.8-r2.ebuild digest !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'mail-client/mutt-conan-1.5.8-r2' not specified: !!!None !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'mail-client/mutt-conan-1.5.8-r2' not specified: !!!None doebuild(): aux_get() error reading mail-client/mutt-conan-1.5.8-r2; aborting. The probelm here is (likely) that the name of the package (for the purposes of the ebuild) is 'mutt-conan', not mutt. The format for an overlay folder (like Portage) is cat-egory/package-name/package-name.and-version.ebuild so your ebuild should likely be in /usr/local/portage/mail-client/mutt-conan/mutt-conan-1.5.8-r2.ebuild rather than just 'mutt'. I get caught by that one all the time to create the manifest file (so that Portage knows what files are associated with the ebuild, and can calculate their MD5 sums to check them for corruption when emerging). I did it by hand, first time, when modified ebuild in /usr/portage The thing is, that ebuilds in your overlay aren't overwritten or touched in any way by Portage, so you don't have to keep 'redoing' the ebuild every time you emerge sync. Cool, that's what i wanted. But i have to fix version in /etc/portage/packages.mask if i want to forbid mutt being upgraded, have i? Not necessarily, because your package is called mutt-conan, not mutt. So all you have to do is not emerge mutt-- as long as you don't emerge a package that depends on mutt, which I don't know if there are any, you should be good to go. If your package was called mutt, you could mask all versions above the one you used, just like you would for any other ebuild, but I wouldn't do that myself, because then how will you know if the package was upgraded (possibly folding in your changes, or, if not, nonetheless incorporating features that you might want in your modified ebuild anyway). In other words, not masking the original package makes it easier to know when to update your overlay ebuild, imo. You might want to check your virtuals, though, and/or package.provided, to let Portage know that mutt is provided by mutt-conan. If the ebuild in Portage hasn't changed, your modified ebuild will always be newer; if the ebuild in Portage has changed, it's quite likely that whatever patch or functionality you were waiting for has been merged into the main tree upstream, or backported into the ebuild, so you have an easy migration path back into main Portage (and of course, if you care enough about the application and its patchset to modify an ebuild and put it in your overlay, checking the ChangeLog of any updated ebuilds is not an onerous task). Well, i've not synced for a while, but i think sooner or later will do. Emm... the patch isn't going to be upstream soon if ever. I asked for some behaviour in mutt-user mailing list and someone give me this patch. Now i'm asking there to put it in the core, but that could not happen. Is this a behaviour that a significant portion of the mutt userbase might want? Or are you just weird ;) ? If you're just weird, use your overlay and be happy. If you think it might be useful to other mutt users, submit it to b.g.o (make sure to explain the circumstances so they don't go irritating upstream with a patch that upstream has no interest in). Or, if there's an unofficial 'mutt users' site or two, you could offer it to them to host, so that non-gentoo mutt users would have access to it as well. Or, if there's some way to 'modularize' mutt, you could look into turning the patch into a 'plugin' (if such things exist, I know nothing about mutt), so that it would be optional to those who wanted to use it. So that's the userland solution, but yes, if you want the patch included in Portage (which is likely to happen anyway, if it's a patch from upstream), the place to submit it for inclusion (preferably with the modified ebuild attached as well), would be bugs.gentoo.org (b.g.o). Well, maybe i try it, the patch is so simple that even if never gets to mutt core, i think it wouldn't do any damage to maintain it in gentoo. I can do that. :) Yes, you can. Isn't Gentoo great? Did you know yesterday that even you could contribute to development? $DEITY, I *love* that ! Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 05:50 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: ... what about arp? If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know what the mac address isthen you're stuck. Not necessarily. If the machine has had network activity it may be shown by arp -e. If you have a smallish network and can identify the other machines, its a matter of elimination. i.e. you look at the list of IP addresses shown by arp -en and eliminate the ones you know. Of course, if it's a small, home network, you could always just turn off all the other computers except that one and the one you're on and ask the router who's connected. be quicker just to launch nmap and go get some coffee. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? if it is pingable then emerge fping and fping -g 192.168.0.0/24 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Hi Nick, on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 20:30:14, you wrote: arp will rely on the box having actually done something within arp's cache period. What's more, ARP resolves IP addresses to MAC addresses and the IP address is what the OP wanted to find out in the first place. I'd try in this order: 1. Broadcast ping 2. for n in `seq 1 254`; do ping /dev/null -c1 -W1 192.168.0.$n; \ [ $? == 0 ] echo $n is up; done 3. nmap cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpbm2KbnPfNZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network
Roy, looks like my first impulse about an update... IE, that it would be a pita is coming true... hehe Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the network problem: hostname and domainname migrated from /etc to /etc/conf.d Has /etc/domainname just moved to /etc/conf.d or is it a new filename with different notation? I see my old domainname file in etc and something called: /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname which appears to be unchanged by the update and has a Mar 22 date on it. It says simply: local.net0 (which is correct) This is the only uncommented line in pre update /etc/domainname: # When setting up resolv.conf, what should take precedence? # If you wish to always override DHCP/whatever, set this to 1. OVERRIDE=1 So just move it bodily to /etc/conf.d? Regarding dmesg. Network devices are being recognized normally. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software
Philip Webb schreef: 050831 Martin S wrote: Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what the fonts look like Gfontview Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd Xfontsel (both part of Xorg). and be able to install what's not installed. Well, this is Gentoo, so you use 'emerge' to install things ... (grin). Apart from the basic media-libs/freetype , the other font packages are in /usr/portage/media-fonts . And of course, you can download fonts from any of those font collection pages on the net and extract/copy them into /usr/share/fonts/TTF (assuming they're truetype, naturally), run fc-cache and they'll work fine. I had an attack of fontmania recently myself, looking for 'nice' fonts that weren't ComicSansMS that actually had ë, ö, ¤ (that's the Euro symbol, if you can't see it), and *also* had bold and italic variants (which was the problem). It's almost enough to make me wish I spoke/wrote CJK-- there are a lot more complete fonts for Asian languages (and they're much easier to find), than truly complete sets for ISO8859-15. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
If some other machine wants to communicate with some second other machine ... say secmachine.homenet.com it connects to the DNS server of homenet.com. (This step won't be done if IP addresses are in use. The DNS server then sends the IP address to firstmachine.homenet.com or firstmachine uses the known one. Next firstmachine will broadcast an ARP whois ip.of.sec.srv request. sec.srv or secmachine will answer with an ARP reply which contains the IP and the MAC address. Firstmachine then initiates the communication using this MAC address. Don't forget. The transport layer is ETHERNET. There don't exist IP addresses. Just for clarification. arp will do exactly this and arpd can even collect such information because every machine on a subnet will see all of the requests and replies. Regards Frank On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 05:50 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: ... what about arp? If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know what the mac address isthen you're stuck. Of course, if it's a small, home network, you could always just turn off all the other computers except that one and the one you're on and ask the router who's connected. be quicker just to launch nmap and go get some coffee. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:42:51 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: first thing to know - have you updated your config files with etc-update or dispatch-conf? I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it doesn't really archive all of etc now. Have you enabled rcs in the config? This makes it backup the changes, so you can roll back. No, I just used it sort of blindly and in many cases choose to `e' edit the new file, where upon I'd read the old file into the new and take what looked like it needed to be taken into the new file. Then save exit and chose `u' (use new). So I guess the result should have been a very manual merging. There were some 128 new conf files. The vast majority I just accepted as is since I'd not done any conf changes on most of them. I was under the conception that the archiving mechanism did a backup of all of etc but apparently that is not the case. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 18:42, Harry Putnam wrote: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the network problem: first thing to know - have you updated your config files with etc-update or dispatch-conf? I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it doesn't really archive all of etc now. You've hit a bug in dispatch-conf. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 was previously a file. Now it's a symlink to net.lo. dispatch-conf fails to handle that change correctly. Hence, delete /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and recreate it as a symlink and all should be fine. -- Jason Stubbs pgp1817pdiPRP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?
I'm not trying to do anything complicated like protect a LAN or include a DMZ or run an ftp server or anything like that. I'm just looking for a quick and easy way to add another layer of protection to my desktop by closing all unused ports. Go to gentoo-wiki.com and search for newbie iptables there's a quickstart guide that should tell you in 3 minutes or less the things that you need to know. -- 8^) Laterz- ~Alvin http://CoolAJ86.Havenite.net --- Dad: There's good-looking, there's excellent looking, and then there's me. begin:vcard fn:Alvin A ONeal Jr n:ONeal;Alvin adr;dom:;;34 Fletcher Lane;Shelburne;VT;05482 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:1.802.877.2938 tel;home:1.802.985.5277 tel;cell:1.802.578.0599 note;quoted-printable:DoB: 19860616=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://coolaj86.havenite.net version:2.1 end:vcard
[gentoo-user] Any exper or experienced rsnapshot users here, please read
My rsnapshot conf files consist of: /etc: rsnapshot_Mail.conf rsnapshot_Etc.conf rsnapshot_Home.conf rsnapshot_News.conf There run at all the normal intervals. hourly, daily, weekly, monthly Suddenly following a full update with world -u from a well out of date system, all these conf files have reported having deleted what used to be their backup targets. ~/Mail has many directories deleted ... ditto the other targets. Following the update I got errors from rsnapshot that my conf files were missing a config_version parameter. I inserted that paramater as `config_version \t\t =(with tabs)=1.2' into each. Plus I renamed the /etc/rsnapshot.conf.default to rsnapshot.conf.default_DONT_USE_FOR_NOW_082905. I wasn't sure what role this file plays. Following these changes my conf logs show the targets being deleted at least partially. What on earth have I done? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Or, if there's some way to 'modularize' mutt, you could look into turning the patch into a 'plugin' (if such things exist, I know nothing about mutt), so that it would be optional to those who wanted to use it. Or you could add a USE flag, so the patch was only applied for those who want it. -- Neil Bothwick without C people would code in Basi, Pasal and Obol pgpRnjAb2WsJO.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install
Hi all, I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done some googling but to no avail. Would someone be so kind as to point me to appropriate doco for the installation and configuration of the nVidia graphics drivers. I've currently got the machine to boot up and can then load up kde in 640x480 resolution. The mouse dosn't work, but I'm assuming all of that is a part of the X11/nVidia/OpenGL config. Now I just need some doco. Any pointers greatly appreciated, Andrew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install
Andrew Lowe wrote: I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done some googling but to no avail. Would someone be so kind as to point me to appropriate doco for the installation and configuration of the nVidia graphics drivers. PLEASE don't ask stuff that hits #1 in a google search... Find it yourself: http://www.google.ch/search?q=gentoo+nvidia Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.
Greetings; When I try to run pixie I get the following result: Wed Aug 31 06:23:19 ~ skippi $ pixie pixie: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdpstk.so.0: undefined symbol: DPSDefaultErrorProc I tried to re-emerge pixie in order to see if that gave me any useful error messages. It emerged quite happily, no problem. I did a linux google search for this error message and found nothing at all, which strikes me as odd . . . Also checked the bug reports for anything on pixie and found nothing. I guessing (and guessing I am) the problem isn't with pixie, but with one of the libraries it needs. Is the thing to do find out which package libdpstk.so.0 is a part of and try to re-emerge that package? Any suggestions? Much thanks. Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com Purchase from On The Fly: http://204EastSouth.com/OTFStore.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done some googling but to no avail. Would someone be so kind as to point me to appropriate doco for the installation and configuration of the nVidia graphics drivers. I've currently got the machine to boot up and can then load up kde in 640x480 resolution. The mouse dosn't work, but I'm assuming all of that is a part of the X11/nVidia/OpenGL config. Now I just need some doco. Any pointers greatly appreciated, Andrew http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml, isnt mouse configuration part done in the configuration of x ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Or, if there's some way to 'modularize' mutt, you could look into turning the patch into a 'plugin' (if such things exist, I know nothing about mutt), so that it would be optional to those who wanted to use it. Or you could add a USE flag, so the patch was only applied for those who want it. I thought of that, but since I don't know what the patch is or does, I didn't know if that would be appropriate. Though, come to think of it, if there's local USE flags like GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE (forgot what ebuild that's on, but saw it again yesterday during a light world update, makes me laugh), or -insecure-drivers, I suppose that the patch could have its own USE flag, no matter what it does. But do you know the answer to Nick's question about what I said earlier? In a 'conflict' between two ebuilds of the same name and version, one in Portage and one in the overlay, does the choice of which one is used if I emerge the relevant package rely on which one is most recent(ly modified), or the location-- i.e., will the overlay ebuild always beat the Portage ebuild even if the Portage build is newer (because it was updated without changing the version number), or will the newer ebuild always win out, whether it's in overlay or main Portage? I think it's the latter, but I was tired when I wrote that, and offhand don't remember where to look it up to verify. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
El 31/ago/2005 a las 03:37 -0300, Nick me decía:
no no, you put the epatch command in your ebuild file (your own version
that you put in PORTAGE_OVERLAY.) Then the patch gets applied to the
mutt source file before compilation.
Ah... Already did that! In my modified ebuild what i did was to copy
lines from other patches and then adecuate them.
I don't understand this either, if i put something un *my* portage
tree the mirrors get infested?
no. lets start again.
there are two places that portage can get the patch from.
1. If it is small you can put it in ${FILESDIR} which is, in our case:
/usr/local/portage/mail-client/mutt/files/cool-all-mutt.patch
Then it is only on your system. If your revised ebuild gets accepted
into portage then the patch file will also get in the portage tree and
every gentooista will eventually get it via emerge sync.
2. If it is large, or if it is, for example, a commonly available public
patch (for example that some third party has published) then you can
instruct portage to download it from the net by specifying a SRC_URI,
viz:
SRC_URI=http://some.place.net/pub/patches/mutt/cool-all-mutt.patch;
You can do that in your private OVERLAY ebuild, and as you say you found
the patch on the net, that may be the best way to do it.
Cool, that's what i'll do.
Again, if your revised ebuild gets accepted and if the powers that be
get with it, the patch file might also get into the gentoo mirrors,
meaning that it is easier to get with more redundancy.
I'm gonna try to file the bug report asking for it to be in portage
this afternoon. (got to go running now)
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RE: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.
pixie: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdpstk.so.0: undefined symbol: DPSDefaultErrorProc A google search for libdpstk indicates that this is a core library for x11 with some references to it being obsolete. I've got one for my xorg-x11 install, so it must not be too obsolete... A google search for DPSDefaultErrorProc brought back a pointer to the header file xc/include/DPS/dpsclient.h which seems to indicate that DPSDefaultErrorProc is the default error handler for postscript error reporting. Being that it's the default, it definitely should be in the libs... Using the nm tool with find, I see that the DPSDefaultErrorProc is marked as undefined in libdpstk.so, but appears to be defined in libdps.so. So it would appear that you have some sort of linking issue going on... For a quick fix I'd suggest trying to build pixie manually and ensure that you include a -ldps in your LDFLAGS. Whether it's a bug or not in the ebuild I couldn't venture to guess. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
El 31/ago/2005 a las 08:39 -0300, Holly me decía: The probelm here is (likely) that the name of the package (for the purposes of the ebuild) is 'mutt-conan', not mutt. The format for an overlay folder (like Portage) is cat-egory/package-name/package-name.and-version.ebuild so your ebuild should likely be in /usr/local/portage/mail-client/mutt-conan/mutt-conan-1.5.8-r2.ebuild rather than just 'mutt'. I get caught by that one all the time And i get caught even after reading this. But now i read a second time and get that the *directory* where the ebuild remains *must* have the same name as the package. I didn't pay attentio to this: /usr/local/portage/ ... /mutt-conan/ ... But before realizing that i just changed the name back to *mutt* alone and the command run sucessfull. So i decided to let that way since emerge will tell from where comes the ebuild, as you say. I can't wait to see this tested, i'm doing a sync right now and gonna unfix mutt version in packages.mask so this afternoon will check what happens when i try to 'emerge mutt' (surely gonna be a new version) Is this a behaviour that a significant portion of the mutt userbase might want? Or are you just weird ;) ? Well, you use thunderbird, so maybe you're more like a mouse user. This is the thing: in mutt you can flag a message as important (you got only one flag), also you have a 'ctrl-d' command that deletes a full thread. Sometimes threads get off-topic (an unconstructive flame for example) and when i realize that, and don't like the new topic i just 'ctrl-d' them. But what if i've flagged some message? It means that it's important to me, so i wanted to remain undeleted. The actual behaviour of mutt just delete everything. That's what the patch provides me, and with a single line of code. Simple. And David (the autor) do it so well that even added a new option for it to be in '~/muttrc' and let the default to be the old behaviour. So i think this patch can get to portage easily. By the way, if anyone interested, this is it: http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/sw/mutt/patch-1.5.8.dgc.flagsafe.1 If you think it might be useful to other mutt users, submit it to b.g.o Doing this later. :) Yes, you can. Isn't Gentoo great? Did you know yesterday that even you could contribute to development? $DEITY, I *love* that ! Yeah! I think it's time to read Nagatoro link now. -- Fernando Canizo - http://www.lugmen.org.ar/~conan/ #if 0 linux-2.2.16/fs/buffer.c -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] booting into single mode
Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label = Single root = /dev/hda3 append=S read-only but it boots to a login prompt as usual. Replacing 'S' with 'single' doesn't work either. Does anyone have single mode set up satisfactorily ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:53:21 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Have you enabled rcs in the config? This makes it backup the changes, so you can roll back. No, I just used it sort of blindly... Not the best way to operate Gentoo :( I was under the conception that the archiving mechanism did a backup of all of etc but apparently that is not the case. It archives what you change. So if you copied your settings into the new config file and then let dispatch-conf replace the old one with it, the old settings will be archived. -- Neil Bothwick Beware of geeks bearing GIF's pgpNwzuXz4G5Q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:42:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But do you know the answer to Nick's question about what I said earlier? In a 'conflict' between two ebuilds of the same name and version, one in Portage and one in the overlay, does the choice of which one is used if I emerge the relevant package rely on which one is most recent(ly modified), or the location-- i.e., will the overlay ebuild always beat the Portage ebuild even if the Portage build is newer (because it was updated without changing the version number), or will the newer ebuild always win out, whether it's in overlay or main Portage? The overlay takes priority, even if the file date in the main portage tree is newer. It's easy to test. copy a directory from the main tree to your overlay, touch the latest ebuild in the main tree and emerge -pv the package. You'll see that emerge picks the overlay version. I noticed this when I wrote my own ebuild for a package and then someone put it in portage. The first I new was when they released an r1 ebuild and emerge --update world picked it up. When you think about it, the very name overlay indicates that this is how it should work. -- Neil Bothwick I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. pgpj8srpnXHJb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode
On 2005-08-31 09:25:48 -0400 (Wed, Aug), Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label = Single root = /dev/hda3 append=S read-only but it boots to a login prompt as usual. Replacing 'S' with 'single' doesn't work either. Does anyone have single mode set up satisfactorily ? Not tested but found in 'man init', section 'BOOTFLAGS': -b, emergency Boot directly into a single user shell without running any other startup scripts. ..so, try with append=emergency The difference lies in that 'single' tells the init process to read and execute entries in /etc/inittab, while 'emergency' tells to not do it. You may also try with append=init=/bin/bash or that nice rescue-shell which name just slipped out of my memory.. /bin/sash maybe. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by 'grep -i virus $MESSAGE' Trust me. pgpUgs0J9GGVL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X100P clone
+++ Walter Willis [gentoo-user] [Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:42:07PM -0500]: yes include : #rc-update add zaptel default #rc-update add asterisk default and after #rc-update del asterisk # reboot and reboot normality, charge modules etc, etc. login in gentoo linux and : #/etc/init.d/asterisk start and #ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?SN 16:48 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] snippage mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -b 2048 -f 4096 fpm-calm-river.mp root 9101 0.0 0.3 2440 832 pts/0R+ 16:54 0:00 ps aux but no work!!! for asterisk is necesary sound card I do not believe so. I had a similar issue to what you are seeing. Oddly enough I'm not sure how I fixed it but doing the following seemed to help: rmmod wcfxo rmmod zaptel sleep1 modprobe zaptel modprobe wcfxo sleep 1 ztcfg -vvv asterisk -c I know it seems no different from what you've been doing (same here), but do them right in a row like that and I think you may get asterisk to start working. As an aside, for me the interface seems to stop listening after a certain amount of time (a few minutes I think). I can't seem to find anybody else having this problem. If you hit it too then it's likely a Gentoo specific issue... -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms. // - Alan Perlis pgpbYE5XeDLGY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:08PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: You should use rc-update to run the startup script. Local is for commands that you want run, not really a great way to run other startup scripts. The command you want is probably `rc-update add rc.firewall default`. -Mike Thanks - I'll do this when I get home tonight. But a question remains. Why didn't it work even if not the proper way of doing it? Why did a restart of the /etc/init.d/local script work properly? John -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. pgpyEA74fLPnO.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] rc script opacity
The script /etc/conf.d/rc contains the following lines : # RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE allows you to have different /etc/conf.d files # based on your runlevel - if a conf.d file for your profile does not exist # then we try and use the default one. # To enable runlevel selection at boot, append softlevel=foobar to your # kernel line to change to the foobar runlevel. Or rc foobar at the command # prompt. RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE=yes Can anyone explain what this means ? Eg how do you define different conf.d files ? Why does it suddenly talk about enabling runlevel selection at boot ? What does it mean by kernel line ? What is the command prompt here ? The kernel doc for parameters has nothing about softlevel. Have I had too long a day or is this something which needs updating ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode
On Wed 31.08 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? You can always do that by appending init=/bin/sh (for example) to the kernel line when booting, so when lilo comes up, you append this text to the kernel name. You don't need to change lilo.conf unless you need this very often, then it might be convenient to do so. In lilo.conf you would also just put append=init=/bin/sh to the kernel entry. Bert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:42:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But do you know the answer to Nick's question about what I said earlier? In a 'conflict' between two ebuilds of the same name and version, one in Portage and one in the overlay, does the choice of which one is used if I emerge the relevant package rely on which one is most recent(ly modified), or the location-- i.e., will the overlay ebuild always beat the Portage ebuild even if the Portage build is newer (because it was updated without changing the version number), or will the newer ebuild always win out, whether it's in overlay or main Portage? The overlay takes priority, even if the file date in the main portage tree is newer. OK, now that I'm thinking about it more (given that I'm actually awake now), I do remember that I had to remove my overlay build of taskjuggler in order to emerge the one that had been included in Portage. So I was mistaken. It can happen, sorry ;) . Which is why, of course, I asked you, Neil (because you know, like, everything, just about :D ). It's easy to test. copy a directory from the main tree to your overlay, touch the latest ebuild in the main tree and emerge -pv the package. You'll see that emerge picks the overlay version. You should know better than using the phrase 'it's easy' and the command 'touch' whatever in the same sentence when you're talking to me :) . I kinda know how to 'touch', and I just learned how to 'grep' simple strings (the operative word being 'simple'). It *is* easy, but honestly, I'm well known to be the village idiot when it comes to the CLI, so your easy test doesn't come naturally to me at all. :P But it's good to be reminded of how such things can quickly be done. Repeat it often enough, and it might even get caught in the sieve that can be my brain. I noticed this when I wrote my own ebuild for a package and then someone put it in portage. The first I new was when they released an r1 ebuild and emerge --update world picked it up. Yes, I think that's what happened to me with taskjuggler as well. When you think about it, the very name overlay indicates that this is how it should work. I suppose there's no way to avoid there being *some* issue-- this way, you have to actively watch Portage to see if today is perhaps the happy day that your overlay build is obsoleted; the other way, Portage would be obsoleting your overlay build arbitrarily. I don't see either of these as optimal conditions (since the goal, imo, is to be using Portage builds and as few overlay builds as possible, and neither of these conditions gives you a painless way to Return To Portage, as it were), but I agree that the way it's currently done is the better of two sub-optimal choices. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
On August 31, 2005 04:02 am, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 30 August 2005 16:31, bshlists wrote: On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way you generate the initramfs. If you compile it into the kernel (instructions on the Wiki; see How-to fbsplash), it will start up at the very start. If you load it as a separate initrd, you have to wait for the framebuffer to initialize before the splash can start (which takes a short while). Naturally, if you change from loading an initrd to compiling the initrd into the kernel, you do have to change a config file (grub.conf, to remove the initrd= line, since you no longer have one), but changing the file alone won't make any difference if you haven't changed the way you create the initrd in the first place. HTH, Holly Okay. The method I used was by genkernel and the initramfs I'm using was to get the autodetection feature. If I change this don't lose that ability or does it matter? genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=yourtheme --gensplash-res=1024x768 all or whatever resolution you want. You can use the initramfs as usual. Uwe Thanks for the suggestion. After reading Holly's suggestion I did more reading and found what you just posted. What seemed to mess my attempts up was that I had to delete the old initramfs before running the above command or I would just get the same results. Once that was sorted you everything was good. :-) -- DWW -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:25:48 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? Yes. Append softlevel=single to kernel boot parameters. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode
050831 Mariusz P?kala wrote: On 2005-08-31 09:25:48 -0400 (Wed, Aug), Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label = Single root = /dev/hda3 append=S read-only but it boots to a login prompt as usual. Replacing 'S' with 'single' doesn't work either. Does anyone have single mode set up satisfactorily ? Not tested but found in 'man init', section 'BOOTFLAGS': -b, emergency Boot directly into a single user shell without running any other startup scripts. so try with append=emergency Yes, that does make progress: the start-up process suspends, while you have a chance to enter the root password for maintenance; after that, you have to exit with 'exit', when the process resumes (or you can enter ^d it skips maintenance mode). maintenance mode seems to be equivalent to booting as root, but ... The difference lies in that 'single' tells the init process to read and execute entries in /etc/inittab, while 'emergency' tells to not do it. ... presumably it stops just before looking at inittab . You may also try with append=init=/bin/bash or that nice rescue-shell which name just slipped out of my memory. Do you mean Busybox ? /bin/sash maybe. That got superseded IIRC. Thanx for the advice. Does anyone else have further light to throw ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity
Philip Webb schreef: The script /etc/conf.d/rc contains the following lines : # RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE allows you to have different /etc/conf.d files # based on your runlevel - if a conf.d file for your profile does not exist # then we try and use the default one. # To enable runlevel selection at boot, append softlevel=foobar to your # kernel line to change to the foobar runlevel. Or rc foobar at the command # prompt. RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE=yes Can anyone explain what this means ? Eg how do you define different conf.d files ? Why does it suddenly talk about enabling runlevel selection at boot ? What does it mean by kernel line ? What is the command prompt here ? Some people,. for example, laptop users, may boot their computer under varying conditions. A laptop may be booted on the street, in which case there is no network available. Or it may be booted when docked, in which case there may be a network available (if you're at home or work), or there may be a network available that only has limited capacity (if you're in a hotel or an internet cafe). So it can be useful to be able to create a profile for varying but known conditions under which the computer may be booted (there's no point in starting network services in the event that you know you're not connected to a network, but there's also no point in making 'no network startup' the only possible setting, because then it's a PITA to get the network started on those occasions that you are connected to a network at boot). Therefore, you can have profiles for 'home' (which would start the network with your known LAN settings), 'out' (which would not start the network at all, because you're in a park or on a client's site), or 'away' (which would start a network, but detect the settings manually, because you're in a hotel on a business trip, and you don't know their settings offhand). The 'kernel line' being referred to is the line in your bootloader that specifies the kernel and parameters that should be called when you select that entry in the bootloader menu. The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). I don't know how you define rc.conf files for softlevels, since I don't need softlevels, but I have seen discussions of this on the list in the past. There's probably a Wiki entry on the subject as well. But if you don't boot your computer under varying conditions, you don't really need to worry about it anyway. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network
James schreef: Say 'Hello, to my little friend' arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done already)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software
And of course, you can download fonts from any of those font collection pages on the net and extract/copy them into /usr/share/fonts/TTF(assuming they're truetype, naturally), run fc-cache and they'll work fine. I had an attack of fontmania recently myself, looking for 'nice'fonts that weren't ComicSansMS that actually had ë, ö, ¤ (that's theEuro symbol, if you can't see it), and *also* had bold and italicvariants (which was the problem). Yes, sure I can do it manually. Something to manage 2000+ fonts would be handy though, opening and closing KFontViewer for each and every of those 2000+ fonts is a bit inefficient. Also, it would be neat to have the fonts sorted into groups when searching for what font to use. (I know I'm a fontoholic). Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] power management on laptop
How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums, etc., but they seem to be split on whether this box uses acpi or apm. I have looked at numerous articles saying that they upgraded the bios regarding this, but when I read the changelogs on every version of bios since this one (A04) [the latest is A13], they all say that they added fixes for bugs in suspend and added support for new cards. None of them say And we went from APM to APCI , or anything like it. It appeared as though apm was supported in this box, since my first go at the battery applet showed that the battery had 100% power, and, after installing apcid, the battery constantly shows 0. Any input is appreciated. it's a small thing, really, but now that I've started looking into it, I can't let go until I find a solution. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:40 -0400, John Dangler wrote: How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums, etc., but they seem to be split on I believe there would be 2 ways to try. Well, try both. And see what works better for you. I use ACPI because it works better for me. :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:48:24 up 2:58, 5 users, load average: 1.21, 1.31, 1.44 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: James schreef: Say 'Hello, to my little friend' arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done already)? Hello Holly, I'm not sure what 'b.g.o.' refers to, (sorry I don't get out much). If your saying that why don't I make a formal request, well, I figure I've already requested too much (jffnms, updated zoneminder, netenv) None of which is completed (unmasked). I figure I've worn out my welcome at gentoo.* I've been 'schooled' several times that I need to read up on creating ebuilds, and start contributing (actually I agree with this sort of public spanking...) Contributing ebuils is on my to_do list, but, I have yet to get a project completed. I'm a little 'gun_shy' as to receiving another disertation on my ineptness... So when I'm confident that I can contribute ebuilds, I'll let your and the 'greater gentoo' community know. Somebody else what looking for a solution to finding ethernet based hardware on a 802.3 wiring topology. As an espiring emebedded hack, I often get minimal stacks working with the mac address. So I have experience with ARP (much more than most are interested in). Arpscan can be useful. So my reply should have been truncated(again another scolding well deserved).. New Answer: arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ sincerely, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install
Christoph Gysin wrote: Andrew Lowe wrote: I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done some googling but to no avail. Would someone be so kind as to point me to appropriate doco for the installation and configuration of the nVidia graphics drivers. PLEASE don't ask stuff that hits #1 in a google search... Find it yourself: http://www.google.ch/search?q=gentoo+nvidia Can't see the wood for the trees!!! I looked all over the gentoo site and for some reason just couldn't find it. I'm sure I tried google, but as to what bizarre combination of keywords I tried I have no idea. This never came up as the top result - bugga! Andrew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Nagios
I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. I had emerged Apache and nagios; I edited commonapache.conf putting the following lines: ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/nagios/sbin/ Alias /nagios/ /usr/nagios/share/ Directory /usr/nagios/sbin AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks /Directory and on cgi.cfg I putted use_authentication=0 when I try to access http://127.0.0.1/nagios/ I got : Forbidden You don't have permission to access /nagios/ on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80 any one have a clue of what is happening ? apache and nagios are running correctly . -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios
does apache have read-access to the nagios sub? I've done nagios on redhat, and will hopefully be doing it on gentoo soon. On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:02, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. I had emerged Apache and nagios; I edited commonapache.conf putting the following lines: ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/nagios/sbin/ Alias /nagios/ /usr/nagios/share/ Directory /usr/nagios/sbin AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks /Directory and on cgi.cfg I putted use_authentication=0 when I try to access http://127.0.0.1/nagios/ I got : Forbidden You don't have permission to access /nagios/ on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80 any one have a clue of what is happening ? apache and nagios are running correctly . -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:50 +, James wrote: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: James schreef: Say 'Hello, to my little friend' arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done already)? Hello Holly, I'm not sure what 'b.g.o.' refers to, (sorry I don't get out much). If your saying that why don't I make a formal request, well, I figure I've already requested too much (jffnms, updated zoneminder, netenv) None of which is completed (unmasked). I figure I've worn out my welcome at gentoo.* I've been 'schooled' several times that I need to read up on creating ebuilds, and start contributing (actually I agree with this sort of public spanking...) Contributing ebuils is on my to_do list, but, I have yet to get a project completed. I'm a little 'gun_shy' as to receiving another disertation on my ineptness... So when I'm confident that I can contribute ebuilds, I'll let your and the 'greater gentoo' community know. Somebody else what looking for a solution to finding ethernet based hardware on a 802.3 wiring topology. As an espiring emebedded hack, I often get minimal stacks working with the mac address. So I have experience with ARP (much more than most are interested in). Arpscan can be useful. So my reply should have been truncated(again another scolding well deserved).. New Answer: arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ sincerely, James b.g.o. = http://bugs.gentoo.org (Gentoo's bug tracking system) Eric -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] WEP woes
Im having a heck of a time getting wep to work with either iwconfig or wpa_supplicant, ive followed the how-to, read over the wiki pages, and looked at the example file in /etc and i still cannot get it to let me connect with WEP, i can see the AP, get the freg/voltage etc, but i cant get an ip from it. my setup is this: i have a wireless access point at home that i want to connect to using WEP and also an AP at the office that i want to connect to using WEP, i can connect to both with WEP turned off, so i know my wireless is working. does someone have a similar setup on their machine that they could possibly post their config file? either conf.d/net or conf.d/wireless or both, (im just using /net per the how-tos) my config as of now looks like this: modules=( wpa_supplicant ) wpa_supplicant_eth1=-prism54 wpa_timeout_eth1=30 #associate_order=any #essid_eth1=any #preferred_aps=( computernick ) #associate_order_eth1=any key_computernick=s:c0mputernick! enc open #key_ESSID2=[1] s:CE73E751EE [1] enc open #preferred_aps=( ESSID1 ) #config_ESSID1=( dhcp ) #fallback_ESSID1=( 192.168.0.55/24 brd 192.168.0.255 ) #fallback_route_ESSID1=( default via 192.168.0.69 ) #config_ESSID2=( dhcp ) #fallback_ESSID2=( 192.168.1.200/24 brd 192.168.1.255 ) #fallback_route_ESSID2=( default via 192.168.1.2 ) #dhcpcd_eth0=-t 15 #dhcpcd_eth1=-t 15 i commented out alot of stuff for troubleshooting purposes but it didnt help. i cant get either one to connect with WEP enabled. i want to try to get wpa working because from what i have read and heard it is more advanced that iwconfig, lets you connect to wpa enc and i think it does scanning as well. any help or a config file would be greatly appreciated. thanks Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode
050831 Bert Buchholz wrote: On Wed 31.08 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? You can always do that by appending init=/bin/sh to the kernel line This gets the same result as 'append=emergency', ie it stops before inittab asks for the root password; afterwards, it exits into the regular start-up process (thanx to the other user who also suggested this). The other suggestion -- 'append=softlevel=single' -- doesn't work (no do 'S' or '1'): it says it can't find such a runlevel. It looks as if this is a typically elegant Gentoo solution, but unfortunately one which has not been documented properly anywhere. Anyway, the conclusion is that for emergencies have an entry which contains 'append=emergency'; also, have a rescue diskette (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums, etc., but they seem to be split on whether this box uses acpi or apm. Tuxmobil[1] and Linux on Laptops[2] are your friends ;-) Cheers, Renat [1] http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html [2] http://www.linux-laptop.net/ -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios
Yep; every one has reading and executing permitions on all nagios tree (snip) On 8/31/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does apache have read-access to the nagios sub? I've done nagios on redhat, and will hopefully be doing it on gentoo soon. On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:02, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. I had emerged Apache and nagios; I edited commonapache.conf putting the following lines: ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/nagios/sbin/ Alias /nagios/ /usr/nagios/share/ Directory /usr/nagios/sbin AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks /Directory and on cgi.cfg I putted use_authentication=0 when I try to access http://127.0.0.1/nagios/ I got : Forbidden You don't have permission to access /nagios/ on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80 any one have a clue of what is happening ? apache and nagios are running correctly . -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?
[quote] Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high memory. [/quote] I have 1.5Gb of RAM, will this be useful for me? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:23:18 up 3:33, 5 users, load average: 0.20, 0.70, 1.11 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios
what's in the /var/log/httpd/error_log for that attempt that fails? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Nagios
Allan Spagnol Comar allan.comar at gmail.com writes: I was wondering if someone can help running a nagios on a gentoo sever. Hello Allan, You might want to consider 'jffnms' as it has many more feaures than nagios. it's in portage, currently masked. YMMV James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios
I had an issue with Nagios on Gentoo, and it the ebuild putting the config file in the wrong directory. Check this out: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103060HTH,-- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477Rio de Janeiro - Brazil|
Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). It's the normal (root) shell prompt. You can use the rc command to switch runlevels after booting. To use your example, you're using your laptop on the train, with the out runlevel because there's no network. Then you arrive at home or the office and want to switch to the relevant profile and start the services, so you run rc home. I don't know how you define rc.conf files for softlevels, since I don't need softlevels, but I have seen discussions of this on the list in the past. There's probably a Wiki entry on the subject as well. There doesn't appear to be anything on the wiki, which is a shame, because this looks a useful feature. -- Neil Bothwick If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. * Wright pgpgKnD3M0xzq.pgp Description: PGP signature
RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop
Renat~ Good Call!! I found a little block of text on tux where someone had apm loaded by default, and, after adding acpi, had nothing working. As I read through the text, the poster mentioned looking in modules.autoload.d several times and seeing nothing being added (they didn't add anything themselves, and apparently assumed that the addition of the package would handle it). I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the applets are showing properly in gnome now! Thanks to you and Holly for the patient replies on this. John D -Original Message- From: Renat Golubchyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:19 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums, etc., but they seem to be split on whether this box uses acpi or apm. Tuxmobil[1] and Linux on Laptops[2] are your friends ;-) Cheers, Renat [1] http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html [2] http://www.linux-laptop.net/ -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags
Hi,
I've just recently (the last 4 or 5 days) been experiencing some
lock-ups on Firefox. As far as I can tell these seem to come only when
visiting certain web pages that have more multimedia content. When
Firefox locks up it can be killed from a terminal and restarted. There
are no messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages.
In reviewing changes recently made I noted that the newest thing,
for me, was changing some USE flags. What I thought I was doing was
better matching the processor in each machine but possibly this is
causing the problem.
On my laptop, a P4 / ATI machine, I went about it like this:
flash ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
stepping: 9
cpu MHz : 3067.965
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
xtpr
bogomips: 6078.46
flash ~ #
I then looked for CPU flags that had an equivalent USE flag and that
might be of use for faster graphics. On this machine I chose mmx, sse
sse2. Armed with that I changed my make.conf file to look like this:
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
automatically built this stage
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
USE=mmx sse sse2 gnome kde -arts ladspa nptl nptlonly ladcca
audiofile gimp gimpprint ppds usb alsa cdr dvd dvdr dvdread caps jack
jack-tmpfs fluidsynth tcltk sndfile v4l v4l2 mysql flac xscreensaver
samba i8x0 mythtv apache2 lirc mjpeg xvid real
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
MAKEOPTS=-j2
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp
http://www.zentek-international.com/mirrors/gentoo/;
ALSA_CARDS=atiixp
VIDEO_CARDS=radeon
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
I should note that I only remember adding sse2. mmx and sse where
there before and I had no problems.
QUESTION 1: Is this the right way to go about doing this sort of
thing? Or are the CPU flags supposed to become part of the CFLAGS line
also?
QUESTION 2: Are there any known problems with sse2 support? I think
I've added this on 3 machines and all 3 machines have experienced at
least one, if not more, lockups.
Certainly I can just remove the sse2 flag and recompile but I thought
I'd ask first.
Thanks,
Mark
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Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the applets are showing properly in gnome now! Thanks to you and Holly for the patient replies on this. John D what autoload settings did you use? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs
Hello Gentoo-Users, I've recently done an emerge -tuvD world and dhcpcd was updated from version dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r11 to version 2.0.0. The emerge went fine, no error message, no note to update config-files, everything seemed to be fine. But at the next reboot, I wasn't able to get an IP adress, and the boot process hanged at that stage. The last thing shown looked like the MAC adress, although I'm not sure on that. The only thing I could do to get my working gentoo back was booting with knoppix, chrooting and going back to the old version of dhcpcd. Now everything works fine with the old version again, but I'd like to know if that is a bug or if I've done something wrong. TIA Christoph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another
On 8/31/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks - I'll do this when I get home tonight. But a question remains.Why didn't it work even if not the proper way of doing it? Why did a restart of the /etc/init.d/local script work properly? I really couldn't say why it didn't work unless perhaps local is run as an unprivileged user. I am pretty sure that's not the case soI'm not sure. -Mike -- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
RE: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop
Nick~ so far, here is what's in my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file - ac b44 battery button fan processor thermal ipw2100 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt ieee80211_crypt_wep ieee80211_crypt_ccmp ieee80211_crypt_tkip nvidia #iptables -- This BORKS ipw right now... 8/29 : JD John -Original Message- From: Nick Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the applets are showing properly in gnome now! Thanks to you and Holly for the patient replies on this. John D what autoload settings did you use? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs
Christoph Daldrup: I've recently done an emerge -tuvD world and dhcpcd was updated from version dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r11 to version 2.0.0. The emerge went fine, no error message, no note to update config-files, everything seemed to be fine. But at the next reboot, I wasn't able to get an IP adress, [etc.] I emerged -uvDN world on Sunday and dhcpcd 2.0.0 is masked. HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios
Thank you all; I found the error on apache config; I had allowed the /usr/nagio/share directory and it work; I will give a look at jffnms as well to check it out On 8/31/05, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had an issue with Nagios on Gentoo, and it the ebuild putting the config file in the wrong directory. Check this out: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103060 HTH, -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags
Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs
Am 31.08.2005 18:44 schrieb Sergio Polini: I emerged -uvDN world on Sunday and dhcpcd 2.0.0 is masked. According to http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?dhcpcd-2.0.0 , it isn't anymore, at least for amd64, x86 and sparc. ;) On my local system, it ist masked through the package.mask file now. Christoph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags
On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember. Thanks Volker. I'll give it a try. I'm still interested in the right way to really set up these flags though. I was looking at some of the online docs and found stuff like this in some emails: I'm compiling currently with -mfpmath=387 -msse -mcpu=pentium3 -march=pentium3 and gcc 3.1.1-4 from the very latest experimental cygwin distribution. Obviously I'm not intested in cygwin, etc., but when I saw -msse it made me wonder if I was supposed to change my CFLAGS line from CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer to CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmx -msse -msse2 I understand that the USE flags control what options are built into a pachage, but in the case of CPU flags do they also control the compiler flags that are used to build the package? Not being a programmer this is one part I'm confused about. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
Fernando Canizo schreef: Is this a behaviour that a significant portion of the mutt userbase might want? Or are you just weird ;) ? Well, you use thunderbird, so maybe you're more like a mouse user. Yes, but I'm getting over it. Also I need to know how to work with at least one CLI email client in the event that I don't have X available (I have a fallback no-X alternative backend set up for most basic functionality, exept email-- and heaven knows I never want to have to try and read my ISP's webmail via lynx/elinks). This is the thing: in mutt you can flag a message as important (you got only one flag), also you have a 'ctrl-d' command that deletes a full thread. Sometimes threads get off-topic (an unconstructive flame for example) and when i realize that, and don't like the new topic i just 'ctrl-d' them. But what if i've flagged some message? It means that it's important to me, so i wanted to remain undeleted. The actual behaviour of mutt just delete everything. That's what the patch provides me, and with a single line of code. Simple. And David (the autor) do it so well that even added a new option for it to be in '~/muttrc' and let the default to be the old behaviour. So i think this patch can get to portage easily. By the way, if anyone interested, this is it: http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/sw/mutt/patch-1.5.8.dgc.flagsafe.1 That really sounds incredibly useful. I can't imagine why upstream wouldn't include that functionality. But obviously I know nothing about Mutt, much less Mutt development goals. If you think it might be useful to other mutt users, submit it to b.g.o Doing this later. Glad to hear it. I'm sure I'll want it if I ever get around to using Mutt. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). It's the normal (root) shell prompt. You can use the rc command to switch runlevels after booting. To use your example, you're using your laptop on the train, with the out runlevel because there's no network. Then you arrive at home or the office and want to switch to the relevant profile and start the services, so you run rc home. oh, DUH! (What is wrong with my brain??) Now I see what devs (and you) mean when they say that Gentoo is heavily customized. If I was still running Slack, I would have immediately realized the similarity between running 'rc softlevel' in the console, and running 'init 3' in the console (so I would have remembered that it's perfectly possible and feasible to change runlevels from the command prompt). But clearly, 'the Gentoo way' is slowly erasing 'the Linux way' from my mind, not dissimilar to the way that I often now can remember the word for a concept easier in Dutch than I can in English. It's perfectly normal, and not really a bad thing, but it's disturbing when it pops up in your face like that. I don't know how you define rc.conf files for softlevels, since I don't need softlevels, but I have seen discussions of this on the list in the past. There's probably a Wiki entry on the subject as well. There doesn't appear to be anything on the wiki, which is a shame, because this looks a useful feature. Volunteers? :) But isn't it in the docs somewhere, or has that not yet been written either (that would be odd, especially given all the updates that the Documentation team has been doing lately)? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...
Qiangning Hong wrote: Antoine wrote: When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Add the following line into prefs.js of your Thunderbird profile: user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, firefox); I believe Thunderbird has changed its default behavior from some version. Make sure you stop Thunderbird first. If you edit prefs.js while Tbird is running, it will be overwritten when the next time you stop it. I think the recommended way to do this is to put things like this in user.js. Same for Firefox. Cheers, Kevin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?
Ow Mun Heng wrote: [quote] Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high memory. [/quote] I have 1.5Gb of RAM, will this be useful for me? Not sure but: 3rd-level pagetables are for systems with a *lot* of memory that don't want to waste space in the lowest gig of mem (to keep addresses of high mem.). So basically no advantage with 1.5 gig Cheers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember. Thanks Volker. I'll give it a try. I'm still interested in the right way to really set up these flags though. I was looking at some of the online docs and found stuff like this in some emails: I'm compiling currently with -mfpmath=387 -msse -mcpu=pentium3 -march=pentium3 and gcc 3.1.1-4 from the very latest experimental cygwin distribution. Obviously I'm not intested in cygwin, etc., but when I saw -msse it made me wonder if I was supposed to change my CFLAGS line from CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer to CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmx -msse -msse2 I understand that the USE flags control what options are built into a pachage, but in the case of CPU flags do they also control the compiler flags that are used to build the package? Not being a programmer this is one part I'm confused about. AFAIK the CFLAGS ONLY control the optimiziation, while the USEFLAGS only control the configuration - if somebody built in some optimiziation for mmx/sse, fine, this would be 'activated' by the useflags, not the cflags. hm, about your CFLAGs, I suppose, -march=pentium4 already sets them (mmx/sse), but this is something easily found in man gcc ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags
please check it this is a flash animations proble. if it is then set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=yes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:06:17 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: When you think about it, the very name overlay indicates that this is how it should work. I suppose there's no way to avoid there being *some* issue-- this way, you have to actively watch Portage to see if today is perhaps the happy day that your overlay build is obsoleted; the other way, Portage would be obsoleting your overlay build arbitrarily. As long as your build is working the portage one wouldn't really obsolete it. However, if you've altered an ebuild to suit your needs, you don't want it replacing by the portage one just because the dev has corrected a typo in a comment, altering the file's date. I don't see either of these as optimal conditions (since the goal, imo, is to be using Portage builds and as few overlay builds as possible, and neither of these conditions gives you a painless way to Return To Portage, as it were), but I agree that the way it's currently done is the better of two sub-optimal choices. I suppose it would be possible to write a script that compares the ebuild of everything you have installed from an overlay with the main portage tree and warns you if there's been an update. -- Neil Bothwick Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups. pgpruXNlp4Omo.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql
I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld started 050831 15:47:30 Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use 050831 15:47:30 Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ? 050831 15:47:30 Aborting 050831 15:47:30 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 050831 15:47:30 mysqld ended I tried netstat | grep '3306': bullet mysql # netstat | grep '3306' bullet mysql # The output was blank, so I assume that port 3306 is NOT in use. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i
Has someone this card? I tried to configure it but no chance :-( I found a pair letters about patch but for old kernels. I cannot access to device. I don't know what I need exactly: the device (dvb and analog) are in /dev Any tip? Thanks, Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpEU2hbw0lBl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld started 050831 15:47:30 Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use 050831 15:47:30 Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ? 050831 15:47:30 Aborting 050831 15:47:30 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 050831 15:47:30 mysqld ended I tried netstat | grep '3306': bullet mysql # netstat | grep '3306' bullet mysql # The output was blank, so I assume that port 3306 is NOT in use. Any ideas? Try netstat -an | grep 3306. The -n option forces netstat to show port numbers and not translate them to familiar names. The -p option is also useful to determine what program has opened the port. Eric -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:20 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld started 050831 15:47:30 Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use 050831 15:47:30 Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ? 050831 15:47:30 Aborting 050831 15:47:30 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 050831 15:47:30 mysqld ended I tried netstat | grep '3306': bullet mysql # netstat | grep '3306' bullet mysql # The output was blank, so I assume that port 3306 is NOT in use. Any ideas? Try netstat -an | grep 3306. The -n option forces netstat to show port numbers and not translate them to familiar names. The -p option is also useful to determine what program has opened the port. Eric I ran netstat with -an grepping for port 3306. It found it: bullet ~ # netstat -an | grep 3306 tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN so I grepp'd netstat for mysql: bullet ~ # netstat | grep 'mysql' unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTING 0 /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock It was running, so I tried using the mysql client: bullet ~ # mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) bullet ~ # I don't understand this... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luigi Pinna wrote: Has someone this card? I tried to configure it but no chance :-( I found a pair letters about patch but for old kernels. I cannot access to device. I don't know what I need exactly: the device (dvb and analog) are in /dev Any tip? Thanks, Luigi Simply, I tried it, but gave it up... Support for this Card is very rare... only some geeks out there have made it work... Pinnacles Support is nuts, haven't answered mails vor 3/4 of a year by now... and the support-board of Pinnacle is a user help user only board... Anyway, good luck... BeowulfOF -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDFiLYcZpid1GuHxcRAmCJAJ487GfoiDloyQ/lxZMlyZLSmZCEQACeJHLT LvPmMyDEn2FBj4Sb//MgO64= =sFW6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql
Michael Sullivan wrote: I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld started 050831 15:47:30 Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use 050831 15:47:30 Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ? 050831 15:47:30 Aborting 050831 15:47:30 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 050831 15:47:30 mysqld ended check the output of ps aux look for mysqld processes in the list - if it is running then try killing the mysqld processes or restarting the machine I tried netstat | grep '3306': bullet mysql # netstat | grep '3306' bullet mysql # netstat -n | grep 3306 or netstat | grep mysql might be better The output was blank, so I assume that port 3306 is NOT in use. Any ideas? Do you have something else that could be using the port - a rootkit or someone else running a service on the box? -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:37 +0100, Tim Igoe wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld started 050831 15:47:30 Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use 050831 15:47:30 Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ? 050831 15:47:30 Aborting 050831 15:47:30 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 050831 15:47:30 mysqld ended check the output of ps aux look for mysqld processes in the list - if it is running then try killing the mysqld processes or restarting the machine I tried netstat | grep '3306': bullet mysql # netstat | grep '3306' bullet mysql # netstat -n | grep 3306 or netstat | grep mysql might be better The output was blank, so I assume that port 3306 is NOT in use. Any ideas? Do you have something else that could be using the port - a rootkit or someone else running a service on the box? I did ps aux | grep 'mysqld' and got a listing of several mysqld processes. I killed each one using kill -9 and then rebooted the machine. Once it was fully rebooted I issued another ps aux | grep 'mysqld'. Here is the output: bullet ~ # ps aux | grep 'mysqld' root 8115 0.0 1.5 2216 948 ?Ss 11:50 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/my.cnf mysql 8151 0.2 3.9 38728 2416 ?S11:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock mysql 8153 0.0 3.9 38728 2420 ?S11:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock mysql 8154 0.0 3.9 38728 2420 ?S11:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock mysql 8155 0.0 3.9 38728 2420 ?S11:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock root 8848 0.0 0.8 1448 492 pts/0S+ 11:51 0:00 grep mysqld bullet ~ # I have no idea why so many of them are being started. How do I stop my system from starting more than one mysql daemon? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
