[gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems
Hi, update-eix won't work anymore: If I try to start it, it prints Reading Portage settings .. and starts gobbling up memory at an amazing rate. At a memory usage of about 770MB (according to top) the process stops with the message Aborted (nothing else). What now? Puzzled, Wolfgang -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)
bash: lsof: command not found. I must be missing something Robin On 2/2/06, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A while ago I posted a question to this list asking how to be sure updated software has taken effect on your machine. Gentoo makes it easy to install updated software, but what about being sure the newly updated software is actually running in place of the old version? The concensus seemed to be that there are really only two ways to do this: A third way. Run (as root) lsof | grep -i del This will allow you to see which applications are using deleted files (ie those that have been replaced). Then you just have to restart the applications concerned. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:56:16 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Again, my *guess* is that with a *very* modern drive where the manufacturers simply cannot squeeze any more data onto the platter, that even the NSA would not be able to recover any data. But it may be that is just what they /want/ us to think... There is always room for more data on the platter, simply because the manufacturers cannot push things right to the limit and still guarantee that the drives will still run reliably three years later. Of course, as manufacturing techniques become more sophisticated, tolerances become smaller, so it will be more difficult, but not impossible. I'm sure you won't find the NSA HOWTO on recovering data on Google :) -- Neil Bothwick ST:TNG Diner - Now Featuring Our All You Can Assimilate SmorgasBORG! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 16:29, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing the mouse protocal to ExplorerPS/2. Although the mouse works OK It still appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. I have noticed that on boot I get an error module mousedev not found and something else but I don't appear to have a boot log!!! For besides the hardware related messages in dmesg and xorg.0.log messages you can also check the last boot cycle in /var/log/syslog. Mick I don't have a directory /var/log/syslog. I have been looking for a boot log, I suppose I need to turn it on somehow. Do you know how? Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:37:53AM -0500, Robin wrote: bash: lsof: command not found. I must be missing something Have you emerged sys-process/lsof? The binary is in /usr/sbin/, so it might not be in your path. Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X
On Thursday 02 February 2006 08:11, Stefan Istvan wrote: If other part of the log is needed to find out what's wrong, tell me, and I will provide it. ok, I am way out of my waters. I think, you should try it here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=forumid=14 it is the nvidia support forum. Maybe a search there will give you an answer, but if not, you should run nvidia-bug.sh (as root) and post it there together with your qiestion/problem. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:11:27 +0100, Stefan Istvan wrote: Yes, I know that the new version of Nvidia driver does not support my card, when I tried to install it warned me about it. So, I put those two lines into the package.mask file, and I installed nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 and nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6. I'm using 1.0.7174-r2 and 1.0.7174-r5 here on a TNT2. I think, that X complains not about the kernel module, but the nvidia module of Xorg, which is located in /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o and part of the nvidia-glx package. Here is some part of the X log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! It definitely states the problem is with the kernel module. Try the 7174 version, some of the earlier ones had problems with udev. -- Neil Bothwick Beware of cover disks bearing upgrades. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:37:31 -0800, Grant wrote: 2. reports what version of installed software is actually running and it's up to the user to figure out what needs to be done if installed and running software versions do not match (probably better) 3. Whenever an ebuild installs a script in /etc/init.d, it checks to see whether the service is already running. If it is, it sends an ewarn message. Now that portage is able to mail these messages, they no longer get lost in the reams of output from an emerge, so they are now genuinely useful. -- Neil Bothwick The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)
How do we do that? man emerge, man portage and man make.conf dont mention this. Which docs should I be looking at? BillK On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:47 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:37:31 -0800, Grant wrote: 2. reports what version of installed software is actually running and it's up to the user to figure out what needs to be done if installed and running software versions do not match (probably better) 3. Whenever an ebuild installs a script in /etc/init.d, it checks to see whether the service is already running. If it is, it sends an ewarn message. Now that portage is able to mail these messages, they no longer get lost in the reams of output from an emerge, so they are now genuinely useful. -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:02:43 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: How do we do that? man emerge, man portage and man make.conf dont mention this. Which docs should I be looking at? /etc/make.conf.example As it's only in ~arch portage at the moment, it doesn't appear to have made its way into the man pages yet. I noticed the changes when running dispatch-conf. -- Neil Bothwick I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 February 2006 10:04 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 16:29, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing the mouse protocal to ExplorerPS/2. Although the mouse works OK It still appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. I have noticed that on boot I get an error module mousedev not found and something else but I don't appear to have a boot log!!! For besides the hardware related messages in dmesg and xorg.0.log messages you can also check the last boot cycle in /var/log/syslog. Mick I don't have a directory /var/log/syslog. I have been looking for a boot log, I suppose I need to turn it on somehow. Do you know how? Thanks I'll try to look into it tonight (away from my PC now) and get back to you. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Stroller wrote: On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:32, Alexander Skwar wrote: Stroller wrote: ... a data recovery specialist last year offered to return 17gigs worth of data from a hard drive that had died containing only 8 gigs of files. Died hard drives are a *COMPLETELY* different matter. The additional 9gigs of data were files that had been deleted and not over-written. Okay. Not a completely different matter at all, Yes, it is. as formatting may only delete replace the partition table. Depends on how you define format. My definition of format is dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda. So, yes, it is a completely different matter. Alexander Skwar -- I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Stroller wrote: On 1 Feb 2006, at 18:27, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 17:03 -0800, Grant wrote: I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard diskIs it true? Short answer for your question is... No. It's not true. ... suppose you have deleted file. This operation only removes entry in you directory table, but not the file itself. Or you did format you hard drive. That will rebuild only file structure on you hard drive. Normally that means that you overwrite about 5% of you drive. All other data is intact. Just read it. I think you just contradicted yourself. No, I don't think he has. ...If you do `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd then there is no chances you'll get you data. Why? Because all byte and bits on your hard drive became 0. This is not what normally (or at least, _always_) happens when you format a hard-drive. Well, depends on the definition of format. If you define format as overwrite partition table, than you're right. But that's hardly what I'd call format. Alexander Skwar -- I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts in this thread are saying. Too bad. But it's very much to what makes sense and what I've heard. Those are all just rumors and myths? I'd say so, yes. Or do you have SOLID FACTS that they are not rumors? Alexander Skwar -- I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Dale wrote: Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts in this thread are saying. Those are all just rumors and myths? - Grant I think we all know it can be done. No, we don't. Governments do it all the time. Data recevery people do it too. Do they? Why don't they advertise this? Years ago I worked at a computer place and the hard drive crashed. The heads physically pulled up the magnetic media in a couple places. They still got almost 80% of the data back. AGAIN: That's a died hard disk. That's *COMPLETELY* different matter. And if you read what he wrote, you'll find that he also said that recovering data from died hardware is possible. I'm sure the NSA, CIA and a few others can get data back off just about anything. It's just a matter of how much money you want to spend and how much time you want to put into it. Interesting point, though - if your data is worth just a few thousand bucks, than it will most of the time not make sense to waste the money on it. Alexander Skwar -- I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] wireless problem
Hello all,
Using a Dell latitude x1, dual-boot with w$ xp; on my campus they have a
wireless network which I can access with my mail login and password. It
works without a problem on w$.
On my gentoo I installed wpa_supplicant with the following item in
the conf file:
network={
ssid=Universite Paul Cezanne
identity=mylogin
password=mypassword
priority=5
}
Here mylogin and password are also (of course) what I enter to access the
network when on w$.
When I type iwconfig I obtain this:
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:Universite Paul Cezanne
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:12:DA:AE:5A:50
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=91/100 Signal level=-37 dBm Noise level=-80 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:5350 Missed beacon:0
Seems to indicate I am actually connected?
But then I can't access the network (firefox doesn't find anything).
Maybe it the identity/password which is not correct?
Thanks for any help,
--
Jean
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Alexander Skwar wrote: Dale wrote: Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts in this thread are saying. Those are all just rumors and myths? - Grant I think we all know it can be done. No, we don't. Yes, some of us do. Governments do it all the time. Data recevery people do it too. Do they? Why don't they advertise this? They didn't advertize the U2 spy plane either. It existed though. They don't always tell us everything. Interesting point, though - if your data is worth just a few thousand bucks, than it will most of the time not make sense to waste the money on it. Alexander Skwar Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:32:16 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Governments do it all the time. Data recevery people do it too. Do they? Why don't they advertise this? For the same reason the British government sold Enigma machines to Commonwealth countries for almost thirty years after they had cracked the code. If you tell people you can break their security, they are more likely to upgrade it. -- Neil Bothwick Death to all fanatics! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 10:43, Paul wrote: On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 17:21, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/31/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have added the option line but it has made no difference, I am still deleting 2 messages sometimes, it seems to be completely random, as does the problem with the second copy of a message opening in another window. Also I sometimes click on the terminal program or the personal files icon and 2 instances open. This is very weird UPDATE I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. I have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could have caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know which programs a usb mouse uses. Any ideas out there Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:49 +0100, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: When I type iwconfig I obtain this: eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:Universite Paul Cezanne Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:12:DA:AE:5A:50 Seems to indicate I am actually connected? this indicates you are associated with the AP whose mac address is 00:12:DA:AE:5A:50 But then I can't access the network (firefox doesn't find anything). next you have to make sure you have an ip address (ifconfig eth1) and the necessary routing (route -n) dhcp should set this up for you. See what those two commands say for starters. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au The early worm gets the bird. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
heres my /etc/conf.d/net might give you some pointers if you dont want to use dhcp... config_ath0=( 192.168.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255 ) routes_ath0=( default gw 192.168.2.1 ) essid_ath0=belkin54g config_eth0=( 192.168.0.7 ) hth... On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:14, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:49 +0100, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: When I type iwconfig I obtain this: eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:Universite Paul Cezanne Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:12:DA:AE:5A:50 Seems to indicate I am actually connected? this indicates you are associated with the AP whose mac address is 00:12:DA:AE:5A:50 But then I can't access the network (firefox doesn't find anything). next you have to make sure you have an ip address (ifconfig eth1) and the necessary routing (route -n) dhcp should set this up for you. See what those two commands say for starters. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au The early worm gets the bird. pgpu9fuUOzKXg.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 February 2006 12:39 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 10:43, Paul wrote: On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 17:21, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/31/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have added the option line but it has made no difference, I am still deleting 2 messages sometimes, it seems to be completely random, as does the problem with the second copy of a message opening in another window. Also I sometimes click on the terminal program or the personal files icon and 2 instances open. This is very weird UPDATE I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. I have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could have caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know which programs a usb mouse uses. Any ideas out there Others have experienced problems with the latest udev update (unstable?). This may only apply to setups with bespoke udev rules; did you have any special udev rules for your USB mouse? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cellphones and gentoo
Hello, Well it's time to get a new cell phone (current LG died). Listening to some hacks, I've decided to get a wifi enabled cell phone, or a foreign made wifi device, just to have some fun. Alltell does not seem to support any wifi enabled cellphones. I may have to switch cellphone providers. I have a 'flat rate' unlimited plan with Alltell (4 counties in florida are unlimited) for $59 mo. Alltel's voice network is rarily congested. Their phones choices: http://www.alltel.com/phones/index.html are depressing. I've been thinking about T-mobile and a plan for voice and wireless data access to the internet. (Anyone happy with T-mobile?) Motorola and other cellphone vendors have bluetooth support and some wifi support built into the phones. Anyone got a wifi enabled cell phone working with Gentoo? Another wifi only portable handset? I also noticed 'kdebluetooth'. Since my portable does not have bluetooth built in, does any pccard vendor provide hardware ( driver) that works with gentoo? I did notice Alltel is selling the blackberry 7250. Anyone like this phone and does it work well with Gentoo? thoughts and suggestions are most welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
Le 02 février à 15:55:55 Simon Prosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | heres my /etc/conf.d/net might give you some pointers if you dont want to use | dhcp... | config_ath0=( 192.168.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255 ) | routes_ath0=( default gw 192.168.2.1 ) | essid_ath0=belkin54g | config_eth0=( 192.168.0.7 ) | hth... | On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:14, Iain Buchanan wrote: | On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:49 +0100, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | When I type iwconfig I obtain this: | | eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:Universite Paul Cezanne | Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: | 00:12:DA:AE:5A:50 | | Seems to indicate I am actually connected? | | this indicates you are associated with the AP whose mac address is | 00:12:DA:AE:5A:50 Oh! I though it was *my* mac address (flush) | | But then I can't access the network (firefox doesn't find anything). | | next you have to make sure you have an ip address (ifconfig eth1) and | the necessary routing (route -n) | | dhcp should set this up for you. | | See what those two commands say for starters. [...] Thanks a lot Simon and Iain; I will try dhcp tomorrow morning, cheers -- Jean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On 2/2/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UPDATE I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. I have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could have caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know which programs a usb mouse uses. Any ideas out there Hm, ok, for a USB mouse we are just talking kernel drivers...so let's have a peak at your kernel configuration. Please post the output of: zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -e USB -e MOUSE | grep -v ^# or if you don't have /proc/config.gz: grep -e USB -e MOUSE /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -v ^# -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mod_php USE Flag question
I was looking at some of the flags associated with mod_php using the equery u mod_php command. And something going me wondering about the pam USE flag. Should I consider removing it and Re-emerging ? This is what the description says: Adds support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip What I don't get is the DANGEROUS part. I am just curious. I posted to the #gentoo and searched the forums without result. And idea would be appreciated. Thanks : -) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] any ebuild for Petite Chez Scheme or compatible scheme implementation ?
I don't know much about scheme's variation and license, I'm just wondering why there's no Petite Chez Scheme. If I can't get it, which is a compatable one to this implementation can emerged in gentoo ? Thanks a lot! Lingyun
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:11:27 +0100, Stefan Istvan wrote: Yes, I know that the new version of Nvidia driver does not support my card, when I tried to install it warned me about it. So, I put those two lines into the package.mask file, and I installed nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 and nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6. I'm using 1.0.7174-r2 and 1.0.7174-r5 here on a TNT2. I think, that X complains not about the kernel module, but the nvidia module of Xorg, which is located in /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o and part of the nvidia-glx package. Here is some part of the X log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! It definitely states the problem is with the kernel module. Try the 7174 version, some of the earlier ones had problems with udev. I've tried the version you suggested, but have the same result. But I found this in the kernel log: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :01:00.0 disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 201 NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7174 Tue Mar 22 06:44:39 PST 2005 What does this mean? Thanks, Istvan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /dev/ttyS* linked to /dev/tts/? and vise versa
Hello, after updating to udev-0.79? my /dev/ttyS0 wasn't working any more, when I looked in /dev I found it was a link to /dev/tts/0. When I did ls -l /dev/tts/0 it was a link to /dev/ttyS0, so that was the reason. I don't know anything about creating nodes in /dev, but with a lot of luck, I managed to solve the problem by typing: rm /dev/ttyS0 mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 1 0 reboot I now could access /dev/ttyS0 again, but I must admit that I didn't know what I was doing when I created the node. - Is there bug in the latest udev rules? - what is the prefered way of solving my problem? Thanks for any reply. Kind regards, Henk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:39, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/2/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UPDATE I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. I have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could have caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know which programs a usb mouse uses. Any ideas out there Hm, ok, for a USB mouse we are just talking kernel drivers...so let's have a peak at your kernel configuration. Please post the output of: zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -e USB -e MOUSE | grep -v ^# or if you don't have /proc/config.gz: grep -e USB -e MOUSE /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -v ^# I do not have any udev rules for the mouse. This is the info you asked for - Thanks for the interest. CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1280 CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=1024 CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y CONFIG_USB=y CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09=y CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR55=y CONFIG_USB_HID=y CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y CONFIG_USB_IBMCAM=m CONFIG_USB_KONICAWC=m CONFIG_USB_OV511=m CONFIG_USB_SE401=m CONFIG_USB_SN9C102=m CONFIG_USB_STV680=m CONFIG_USB_PWC=m Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev 084 breaks USB?
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 20:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: Today I updated from udev-081-r1 to udev-084. Since then, I can no longer use my USB devices, like my mouse or my flash card reader. Did anyone else notice this? udevmonitor may help to diagnose your problem. -- Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, update-eix won't work anymore: If I try to start it, it prints Reading Portage settings .. and starts gobbling up memory at an amazing rate. At a memory usage of about 770MB (according to top) the process stops with the message Aborted (nothing else). What now? Puzzled, Wolfgang You should probably file a bug with the eix developers [1] (unless one has already been filed). If it doesn't get past Reading Portage settings .. then I would guess that it is having trouble parsing one or more config files such as make.conf or those in /etc/portage/. Zac [1] http://dev.croup.de/proj/eix/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD4kCF/ejvha5XGaMRAtfVAKDwzxIq1c+HcXRIxC2UstnghM3jNwCfVlj/ 9LR4kbzGt8Kfbjmlt3ku5Bs= =FiEp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 06:34 pm, Patrick Börjesson wrote: On 06/02/01 16:32, Eric Bliss wrote: I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create an infinite loop? bob: bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking it should work safely, but I can't seem to find the reference to in in the documentation, although I know it's gotta be in there somewhere. According to `man 8 local` on line 56, it seems what you're trying to do should work as you wrote it. Thanks. I kept looking through man aliases, man postalias, man newaliases... I knew I'd seen a reference to this kind of thing before. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Redefining a single key in Xorg 6.8?
I run x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and would like to redefine a single key on the keyboard. I found a number of tutorials on how to create a completely custom keyboard layout, but this seems like overkill. How do I change this one key without creating a whole new layout, preferably only for my own account? -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * . No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings . * * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * * PGP/GnuPG encrypted e-mail preferred * OpenPGP key ID: 0xBDE9ADA6 * pgpUBj7MivKuO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On 2 Feb 2006, at 11:28, Alexander Skwar wrote: This is not what normally (or at least, _always_) happens when you format a hard-drive. Well, depends on the definition of format. If you define format as overwrite partition table, than you're right. But that's hardly what I'd call format. I was referring to the definition of format generally used by the authors suppliers of formatting utilities. If you format a disk in Windows, or certainly if you quick format it, it doesn't run a quick call to `dd if=/dev/zero of=/de/hdX`; it merely overwrites the partition table so the data IS often recoverable after a format. If you were merely formatting a disk for your own use, had no expectation that it would fall into anyone else's hands, and were in a hurry to use the disk with its new filesystem on it, you would surely be wasting time were you to insist on blanking every single bit on the device - it's simply not necessary. I am not qualified to comment on recovery of data from a disk that has been wiped with zeros in the way you describe, nor from one which has been shredded properly with repeated iterations of random non- random bits, but there certainly does seem to be a lot of hearsay on the subject. I would consider the a disk that's been comprehensively overwritten once to be unrecoverable from the practical perspective of the original discussion (a mate in the pub) but do consider a disk that's been over-written with shred to be unrecoverable as far as my customers' commercial data is concerned. Whilst writing this I looked up `info shred` which claims: If you have sensitive data, you may want to be sure that recovery is not possible by actually overwriting the file with non-sensitive data. However, even after doing that, it is possible to take the disk back to a laboratory and use a lot of sensitive (and expensive) equipment to look for the faint echoes of the original data underneath the overwritten data. If the data has only been overwritten once, it's not even that hard. The best way to remove something irretrievably is to destroy the media it's on with acid, melt it down, or the like. The info page references Peter Gutmann's paper `Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory'. I'm not qualified to assess this paper fully, and hard-drives have progressed considerably in the last decade, but my naive reading of the conclusion seems to support the suggestion that a single write may not be sufficient to thwart a determined attacker: Data overwritten once or twice may be recovered by subtracting what is expected to be read from a storage location from what is actually read... it is effectively impossible to sanitise storage locations by simple overwriting them, no matter how many overwrite passes are made or what data patterns are written. However by using the relatively simple methods presented in this paper the task of an attacker can be made significantly more difficult, if not prohibitively expensive. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html which concludes: I state once again that I'm not really qualified to comment on the subject to this depth, so I offer these references merely for your perusal. I would be grateful if you refrained in any future responses from the sneering manner you have employed in those to date. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Dale wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Dale wrote: Grant wrote: I think we all know it can be done. No, we don't. Yes, some of us do. Well, some believe it to be possible. But not we all do think so and much less know it. Data recevery people do it too. Do they? Why don't they advertise this? They didn't advertize the U2 spy plane either. It existed though. They don't always tell us everything. But why should data recovery people not advertize this? It would or at least could generate some business. Alexander Skwar -- Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
Stroller wrote: On 2 Feb 2006, at 11:28, Alexander Skwar wrote: This is not what normally (or at least, _always_) happens when you format a hard-drive. Well, depends on the definition of format. If you define format as overwrite partition table, than you're right. But that's hardly what I'd call format. I was referring to the definition of format generally used by the authors suppliers of formatting utilities. If you format a disk in Windows, or certainly if you quick format it, it doesn't run a quick call to `dd if=/dev/zero of=/de/hdX`; it merely overwrites the partition table so the data IS often recoverable after a format. Yes, that's correct, as you are referring to quick format. If you were merely formatting a disk for your own use, had no expectation that it would fall into anyone else's hands, and were in a hurry to use the disk with its new filesystem on it, you would surely be wasting time were you to insist on blanking every single bit on the device - it's simply not necessary. But with normal hardware, you cannot be sure that you overwrite every single bit on the harddrive when you shred it with some software tool. I'm referring to mapped away bad sectors. Those sectors might contain interesting data. But with normal tools, you won't be able to ever get to those sectors. I am not qualified to comment on recovery of data from a disk that has been wiped with zeros in the way you describe, nor from one which has been shredded properly with repeated iterations of random non- random bits, but there certainly does seem to be a lot of hearsay on the subject. Yes, that's absolutely correct. And, once again, it totally baffles me, that there are so extremely few reports of overwritten data being recovered. Be it once with 0, be it multiple times with a Gutman algorithm. I would consider the a disk that's been comprehensively overwritten once to be unrecoverable from the practical perspective of the original discussion (a mate in the pub) but do consider a disk that's been over-written with shred to be unrecoverable as far as my customers' commercial data is concerned. Well. If you believe in data recovery to be possible, than you cannot be sure that a shredded disk is not recoverable. I most certainly do agree, that a shredded disk is not recoverable - but IMO even a drive overwritten once with 0 is not recoverable, if we disregard mapped away sectors. Whilst writing this I looked up `info shred` which claims: If you have sensitive data, you may want to be sure that recovery is not possible by actually overwriting the file with non-sensitive data. However, even after doing that, it is possible to take the disk back to a laboratory and use a lot of sensitive (and expensive) equipment to look for the faint echoes of the original data underneath the overwritten data. If the data has only been overwritten once, it's not even that hard. How old is that? I don't think that this is still true wrt. modern drives. The best way to remove something irretrievably is to destroy the media it's on with acid, melt it down, or the like. Yep. The info page references Peter Gutmann's paper `Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory'. Which is *extremely* old now and refers to technologies that are long gone. Modern drives don't resemble MFM much anymore. Because of that, I've got my doubts about how much of the Gutman paper is still valid. I'm not qualified to assess this paper fully, and hard-drives have progressed considerably in the last decade, Exactly. Development in hard drive technology has progressed enourmously. I state once again that I'm not really qualified to comment on the subject to this depth, Me neither. I would be grateful if you refrained in any future responses from the sneering manner you have employed in those to date. Pardon? Alexander Skwar -- What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me... the most dreadful thing. -- Peter Straub, Ghost Story -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
All very interesting, the fact is that a hard drive is a physical medium and the magnetic field is very malleable. It is very possible to recover the data even if some random trash has been written over it. The way hard drives use elaborate algorithyms to 'guess' the contents with huge accuracy suggests that any approach is possible. This one reason why real security experts run multiple ie 14 passes at least with random data and very likely use Electromagnets of extreme power to reduce the chance of data recovery. While the practicality is not there to recover data that has been overwritten a couple of times is economically untennable, I'm sure the NSA can do it if it really wanted your data, of course you would have to REALLY PISS THEM OFF to force their hand. Data recovery firms could do it if you paid them enough. On 2/2/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Dale wrote: Grant wrote: I think we all know it can be done. No, we don't. Yes, some of us do. Well, some believe it to be possible. But not we all do think so and much less know it. Data recevery people do it too. Do they? Why don't they advertise this? They didn't advertize the U2 spy plane either. It existed though. They don't always tell us everything. But why should data recovery people not advertize this? It would or at least could generate some business. Alexander Skwar -- Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
I think it's safe to say that none of us really knows what resources are available to certain organizations to aid in data forensics. I have personal experience with data recovery, at least peripherally. A company I worked for was the subject of an attack by a disgruntled ex-employee who managed to erase a LOT of crucial corporate data, but mostly just using rm -rf type techniques. The data was nearly 100% recovered over the course of three weeks or so. I can't say much more about the specifics of the situation, as it became a criminal matter and law enforcement was involved and I don't want to put myself in the position of having to answer to the FBI and Treasury Dept. A friend who worked for the same company was a submariner in the US Navy - what his exact role was, I don't know (he was very secretive about it) but he did say that the unofficial rule with his Navy colleagues was that the only way to guarantee a disk to be unrecoverable was to put a bullet through it. I think that various government agencies and corporate entities have far more ability to recover data than we're aware. I had read somewhere several years ago that the NSA considered magnetic media to be unrecoverable if it was completely overwritten with random data, and then all zeroes, three times. Best guess really is that none of us truly knows, and if somebody is looking to destroy data, the media should be physically destroyed. cheers, Chris -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: mod_php USE Flag question
On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:08, Robin wrote: I was looking at some of the flags associated with mod_php using the equery u mod_php command. And something going me wondering about the pam USE flag. Should I consider removing it and Re-emerging ? This is what the description says: Adds support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip What I don't get is the DANGEROUS part. I am just curious. I posted to the #gentoo and searched the forums without result. And idea would be appreciated. PAM is used for authentication of users. If you would disable it for packages like openssh this could lock you out of your system is there is no fallback for user authentication. Which is why you shouldn't flip (switch between on/off) the pam USE flag without giving it a certain degree of thought. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Redefining a single key in Xorg 6.8?
On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:39, Michael Kjorling wrote: I run x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and would like to redefine a single key on the keyboard. I found a number of tutorials on how to create a completely custom keyboard layout, but this seems like overkill. How do I change this one key without creating a whole new layout, preferably only for my own account? Have a look at xmodmap, it allows you to (re)map keys. The manpage should provide you with enough information and examples. # man xmodmap -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Redefining a single key in Xorg 6.8?
Michael Kjorling wrote: How do I change this one key without creating a whole new layout, preferably only for my own account? See 'man xmodmap', the examples near the end, things like: xmodmap -e keycode 240 = a A space Return Put the required xmodmap command in your .bashrc. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] usb-storage module
Hello guys. I need to plug usb-flash card in vmware but usb-storage module taking up control before it. So if understand right - I need to unload that module. But I can't see it with lsmod but can with ps aux. So what should I do to plug it? lsmod: vmnet 28740 - vmmon 166604 - snd_seq_midi6560 - snd_seq_midi_event 5704 - snd_seq50352 - snd_pcm_oss47264 - snd_mixer_oss 16584 - nvidiafb 48004 - cfbcopyarea 3528 - cfbimgblt 2568 - cfbfillrect 3464 - softcursor 1544 - fb 39720 - snd_ens137014436 - snd_rawmidi20224 - snd_seq_device 6772 - snd_pcm81220 - snd_timer 20812 - snd_page_alloc 8144 - snd_ak4531_codec6856 - snd45284 - soundcore 6816 - nvidia 3464924 - ps aux: root 7356 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S21:38 0:00 [usb-storage] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
SOLVED: [gentoo-user] Redefining a single key in Xorg 6.8?
On 2006-02-02 19:51 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See 'man xmodmap', the examples near the end, things like: xmodmap -e keycode 240 = a A space Return Great, thanks! I thought xmodmap was what I was looking for but missed the part on the -e switch. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * . No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings . * * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * * PGP/GnuPG encrypted e-mail preferred * OpenPGP key ID: 0xBDE9ADA6 * pgp2dgJZm0IHm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] usb-storage module
On 2/2/06, Mikhail Yarmish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys. I need to plug usb-flash card in vmware but usb-storage module taking up control before it. So if understand right - I need to unload that module. But I can't see it with lsmod but can with ps aux. So what should I do to plug it? This means usb-storage is built into your kernel (=y instead of =m in the .config file) instead of as a module. So you need to reconfigure and rebuild your kernel to modularize it. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?
Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using it to 'optimize' their gcc/system. Anyone care to comment? -- Luke can't levitate his X-Wing out of the bog. Luke Skywalker: I can't. It's too big. Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Yes, even between the land and the ship. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?
Jeff wrote: Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using it to 'optimize' their gcc/system. Anyone care to comment? Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly at someones suggestion). It is supposed to offer better thread support, especially if you have an SMP or dual core system. I have an SMP system. Maybe it was just for me, but this turned into a total disaster. I later found that it was due to setting ntplonly, which apparently disables old, non-ntpl support entirely. Which is very very bad for apps that don't yet support ntpl, or something like that. My suggestion is to talk to gentoo devs, and decide for yourself if you think it's worth it. And by all means stay away from ntplonly. Today my system is ntpl (without ntplonly), on an SMP system, and I don't notice any improvement at ALL. Which is VERY annoying considering the complete insanity I went through for about a week. Yes, I know only some apps support ntpl, but the impression given to me was that it would speed up the whole system. Which is certainly not true. Yes, others can flame me. Good Luck. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb-storage module
Richard Fish wrote: On 2/2/06, Mikhail Yarmish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys. I need to plug usb-flash card in vmware but usb-storage module taking up control before it. So if understand right - I need to unload that module. But I can't see it with lsmod but can with ps aux. So what should I do to plug it? This means usb-storage is built into your kernel (=y instead of =m in the .config file) instead of as a module. So you need to reconfigure and rebuild your kernel to modularize it. -Richard Oh. Thanks a lot man! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo experiences with wireless router Sitecom WL-114
Hi list, i'm currently using a wireless Sitecom router WL-114 with my ADSL Netgear modem, and eveything works smoothly. However i have two problems: 1) as of the printed manual the WL-114 supports the WPA cryptography option. But using the web interface program it does not appear as options. 2) i'm not able to upgrade the firmware to newer versions: it seems to upgrade succesfully but, after rebooting, the router appears to have the same older version. Does anyone experienced any of this? Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?
Ooop... my apologies... it's NPTL! Duh me!!! http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL fire-eyes wrote: Jeff wrote: Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using it to 'optimize' their gcc/system. Anyone care to comment? Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly at someones suggestion). It is supposed to offer better thread support, especially if you have an SMP or dual core system. I have an SMP system. Maybe it was just for me, but this turned into a total disaster. I later found that it was due to setting ntplonly, which apparently disables old, non-ntpl support entirely. Which is very very bad for apps that don't yet support ntpl, or something like that. My suggestion is to talk to gentoo devs, and decide for yourself if you think it's worth it. And by all means stay away from ntplonly. Today my system is ntpl (without ntplonly), on an SMP system, and I don't notice any improvement at ALL. Which is VERY annoying considering the complete insanity I went through for about a week. Yes, I know only some apps support ntpl, but the impression given to me was that it would speed up the whole system. Which is certainly not true. Yes, others can flame me. Good Luck. -- Darth Vader: The force is with you young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Bugday reminder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alright everybody, it's time again to start breaking your systems and reporting bugs. It will be on next Saturday, 2006-02-04 :-) This time we would like people to try out some packages in ~arch and see how they run, so we can get them moved to stable. I'll see if I can get a list together of packages. As always, if people have questions, we are at #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net Hope to see you all there. Bjarke -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD4n5LO+Ewtpi9rLERArn7AJ97gnm2QOR/8SktAp5gXG1e9a7iMgCgxe6h oE2mbOLKZmY7m5jjIts/wUw= =eGYa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool
Hi, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for a utility that could be used for indexing the contents of the dozens and hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs that I've amassed over the years. I was kind of thinking just a heap of text files with the contents of 'tree' or 'ls -R' or something, but it would be nicer if there was some kind of metadata gathering, such as ID3 tags / JFIF / MPEG info etc. etc. Are there tools available that are any good at this? Any suggestions? Thanks! Tom Try cdcat (cdcat.sourceforge.net)! HTH. Cheers, Tamas Sarga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue
Hmmm ... ``man'' thet's what? Can you explain it a bit? ;) I've tried some help pages to get my custom settings working. Well, upgrade means your customizings go to hell. We're o Linux or on Windows? Well, we're on Linux. Windows don't know customizings at all. ;) Maybe I'll start over from scratch over weekend. ... but it's annoying. Best Gentoo rule: NEVER DO ``EMERGE -U WORLD!!'' ? Don't get me wrong but it's a thing happening VERY often. The last upgrade cut me off from the net. I had to ``ifconfig'' ``route'' manually. Thanks god, that the upgrade the day after fixed this. This way we'll never become an accepted (and supported) distro. Just an IMHO Frank On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:07 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/1/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/1/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been a _lot_ of changes in udev, and most likely your Oh, forgot to mention...man udev. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:17:00 +0100, Franta wrote: I've tried some help pages to get my custom settings working. Well, upgrade means your customizings go to hell. We're o Linux or on Windows? Your are on Linux, which means you have more control but have to take responsibility for your own actions. Custom udev rules should go in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules, like in says in the guide. /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules is for system rules and may be updated along with the software. -- Neil Bothwick Computer (n): A device designed to speed and automate errors. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] eclipse on amd64 and a general question
HI!!! I've been reading some bug reports in different pages about problems loading eclipse on amd64. As it is masked, you have to unmask it both in package.keywords and package.mask. I've tried many combinations (as I really don't a have a clue of what i'm doing) of ~x86 and ~amd64 architectures. Finally, everything is unmasked under ~x86, but it doesn't work... :-( I've read is a bug solved in blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03, but it still doesn't work. Did anyone run succesfully eclipse under AMD64. And a more general question is the famous UNMERGING. If I want to remove all the packages that have been merged together with the eclipse (or any other), the dependencies. Thanks a lot, (and thanks for answering such a basic question) .alvaro.castro. __ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 23:17 +0100, Franta wrote: Best Gentoo rule: NEVER DO ``EMERGE -U WORLD!!'' ? Don't get me wrong but it's a thing happening VERY often. The last upgrade cut me off from the net. I had to ``ifconfig'' ``route'' manually. Thanks god, that the upgrade the day after fixed this. are you fixing your ._cfg files after you do an update? -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -Benjamin Disraeli -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Error: Couldn't find a font for 'Helvetica'
Hi all, evince (the nice lite pdf viewer) is giving me this error: Error: Couldn't find a font for 'Helvetica' by the pageful. And the font it uses seems to be squished up, and in some cases I even get many blank pages. This happens with just about any pdf. I have quite a few font packages installed, but is there something I might be missing? Do I need to set some configuration option for font directories somewhere? thanks for any ideas, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. -- Lynch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: eclipse on amd64 and a general question
On Friday 03 February 2006 00:00, Álvaro Castro wrote: HI!!! I've been reading some bug reports in different pages about problems loading eclipse on amd64. As it is masked, you have to unmask it both in package.keywords and package.mask. I've tried many combinations (as I really don't a have a clue of what i'm doing) of ~x86 and ~amd64 architectures. Finally, everything is unmasked under ~x86, but it doesn't work... :-( I've read is a bug solved in blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03, but it still doesn't work. Did anyone run succesfully eclipse under AMD64. Yes, I have been running eclipse for some time now. I've seen a few workarounds for the problems with eclipse in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-283429.html And a more general question is the famous UNMERGING. If I want to remove all the packages that have been merged together with the eclipse (or any other), the dependencies. You can use this: # emerge depclean -a BIG FAT WARNING: the success of this command relies heavily on the state of your system. If you have maintained your system well it will only clean the dependencies that are not actively used. If you haven't maintained your system that well it might unmerge some essential packages as well. By actively I mean dependencies controlled by USE flags. Some packages will still use a library even though it's not in the packages (R)DEPEND list. Make sure you review the list of packages before proceeding to unmerge them. If you see a package that doesn't belong on the unmerge list you can add it to the portage world file with `emerge --noreplace packagename` After you've unmerged dependencies with depclean you must run the following command to fix broken libraries/executables that were using the a passive dependency. # revdep-rebuild -p revdep-rebuild is part of app-portage/gentoolkit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cellphones and gentoo
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:26 +, James wrote: I've been thinking about T-mobile and a plan for voice and wireless data access to the internet. (Anyone happy with T-mobile?) I don't know how they are nationally, but T-Mobile was awful here in the Tucson area. Enough that I cancelled and switched to Verizon. Try: http://www.cellreception.com as a starter to narrow things down. -Quag7 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click
Hi, How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one gets on the Gnome desktop? I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of today's updates on two of our machines. Thanks in advance for letting me know how to do this. thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!
Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file. And, at 24 bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss! Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created an xterm of output or so. Drat! OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is a HP ZD8000 with an ATI X600 Mobile Radeon. Any ideas what is going on? Clearly it is related to X and fglrx, as the xorg.conf ATI driver doesn't do this. Modules: agpgart ati_agp fglrx Thanks, Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!
Perhaps you should try lprng instead of CUPS as your print spooler - it may be a better option for what you're trying to do. Did emerge -C cups and emerge lprng now every attempt at using lpr results in Get_local_host: hostname 'sarawak' bad What do they mean bad? When I run hostname, sarawak appears. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Backup device (sata hdd) best filesystem
I'm about to format 2 200gb sata drives and one 300gb ATA for use as recipients of all backups. This will mostly consist of rsnapshot created files. And a number of tar.gz and other compression type files maybe some ISO type files etc. I'm backing up two winxp video/sound editing machines 2 gentoo boxes including my person main desktop and laptop and my wifes winxp home box. I guess one consideration would be what file system works well with remote network backup tools like rsnaphot or bacula. All of ext2 ext3 and reiserfs seem to do about the same to me. I've seen comments many times about the virtues of reiserfs and that is currently what most of my desktop is (except ext2 boot). That is new for me I always used ext2 then ext3 when it became common. I've seen nothing remarkable using reiserfs but have no real idea of what to expect and really NO idea what would make a good backup fs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backup device (sata hdd) best filesystem
On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:12 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm about to format 2 200gb sata drives and one 300gb ATA for use as recipients of all backups. This will mostly consist of rsnapshot created files. And a number of tar.gz and other compression type files maybe some ISO type files etc. I'm backing up two winxp video/sound editing machines 2 gentoo boxes including my person main desktop and laptop and my wifes winxp home box. I guess one consideration would be what file system works well with remote network backup tools like rsnaphot or bacula. All of ext2 ext3 and reiserfs seem to do about the same to me. I've seen comments many times about the virtues of reiserfs and that is currently what most of my desktop is (except ext2 boot). That is new for me I always used ext2 then ext3 when it became common. I've seen nothing remarkable using reiserfs but have no real idea of what to expect and really NO idea what would make a good backup fs. I've not done any benchmarking...however, due to the way they work, what i've heard is that reiser is better for lots of small files, while ext3 performs better with fewer large files. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.
On Friday 03 February 2006 12:01, Willie Wong wrote: For konquerer and kview, did you install ksvg? No but now I did and it works great in KDE related things. Thanks a lot for this :) Which version of eog do you have? 2.12.2 should have support for image/svg+xml Since you have problem with svgz files in both firefox and eog, please check your /etc/mime.types file to make sure that both svg and svgz are associated with image/svg+xml. I am using eog-2.12.2. I did not have mime-types installed thus no /etc/mime.types. Now, I have emerged it but have a different problem in Firefox. When I try to open svgz files it shows the following error -- XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: file:///foo.svgz Line Number 1, Column 1: -- eog doesn't change its behaviour and sits there as I explained earlier. Thanks for the ksvg idea and will be reall greatful if firefox worked as well. -- Regards, Abhay pgpdaVNoNnFkI.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] ImageMagick -contrast-stretch
Hi, The ImageMagick option -contrast-stretch is not recognised in my installation (6.2.5 01/31/06 Q16). The option is documented on the IM web-site. If the option exists on your installationi, or you have any insights, please reply here with your version, so I can decide whether and where to file a bug-report. You can do something like this: convert input.jpg -contrast-stretch 10% output.jpg Thanks. J Green -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
