Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs
On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:38, Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi, I want to make copies of our PS/2 game CDs so that they can use the copies and we can put up the originals. They seem to either scratch real easy or they are really touchy about scratches. Does anybody here know of a way to do this? This is Linux, surely someone has found a way. Thanks. Sorry so far off topic. I can't be the only one with kids around. ;-) Dale :-) Copying the CD/DVD is easy enough, just use your standard tools although I don't believe dual layer discs can be copied properly yet ie. Gran Turismo 4. However, getting them to actually play on the PS/2 is a whole other matter. You'll need to have your PS/2 modded to support playing copied games, which may or may not be legal where you live. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dbus checksum fail
On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:48, Kumar Golap wrote: I am trying to updat dbus to the latest and i get the following # emerge -uv dbus Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/dbus-0.62 to / checking ebuild checksums !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/sys-apps/dbus/dbus-0.62.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 3913 !!! Expected: 3863 Any clue what could be wrong...i am on a ~amd64 architecture Thanks Kumar You may have a corrupt or incomplete download. Otherwise the ebuild may just have the wrong filesize which should hopefully be corrected by the next time you sync. If you're sure the download is fine you can re-digest the ebuild by executing # ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/dbus-0.62.ebuild digest -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boinc setiathome on AMD64
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 00:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone on this list using BOINC+setiathome on AMD64? If so, what was your process for getting it working? From what I can tell, the setiathome package in portage is out-of-date. Furthermore, the x86_64 BOINC+setiathome ebuilds never worked correctly (in particular, /etc/init.d/boinc attach). So, it looks to me as though we must do a manual install if we want to run BOINC+setiathome on an Athlon64 CPU. Does anyone have any guidance for doing this with as little hassle as possible? Thanks! Matt i did replace compilled setti executabe with fedora binary one with big performance boost actualy setti project could be idle for some time, check that before waste more time m -- Linux 2.6.16-ck11 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 08:58:20 up 15 min, 1 user, load average: 0.90, 0.66, 0.44 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM
* Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-21 00:15]: I upgraded yesterday to 2.6.17 and also noticed that there was no split option. Not thinking much of it I installed the kernel which works fine, except now /proc/kcore reports 897M, and `free` something to that effect too. So I take it I'm only using just less than 1/2 my RAM now, correct? Right. With 2GB of RAM, Do I now have to enable the embedded option (which gives me a lot more options, most likely all of which I don't need), and then select the 2/2 split, or ? Actually, I side with the kernel developers on this; the fact that they're hiding the VMSPLIT options is basically a subtle hint that they don't want people using them who don't *really* know what they're doing. I strongly suggest using CONFIG_HIGHMEM, and sticking with the default 3/1 split. (I mean, it's *slightly* slower, but on the other hand what caused them to do this was random breaking of java that took a long time to diagnose.) That said... I noticed too that if I select the embedded option, but unselect all new options that come with it I still get the memory split options. Is this the right way to go? NO. As in, all of those options (with the exception of CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS) default to yes, and all of those defaults are very important. If you disable them, you will, for example, break most of the kernel's logging (printk), lose the ability to get core dumps, and lose futexes (which will break a lot of modern threading). Basically, saying no to any option option on that page (with the exception of the KALLSYMS stuff) *WILL* break your system. So, make sure that everything, except CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS, on that page is enabled. (that might be what you meant in the first place, of course, but it's worth making sure...) All you need to be able to select the VMSPLIT options is CONFIG_EMBEDDED (that is, saying yes to the Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) item) which doesn't actually have any impact on the code. Hope this helps. -- David Klempner pgpOKI6BImABq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM
* Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-20 16:51]: I figured it out. The VMSPLIT options are *not* available on 64-bit systems. (Phew. It's neither encroaching madness nor Alzheimer's.) Yeah... I suppose I wasn't paying close enough attention to what you were saying. :-) The VMSPLIT options are about how the kernel uses the 32 bit address space (specifically, what fraction of the address space of each process it reserves for its own use). A large portion of what a 64 bit system gets you is more than 32 bits worth of address space, so I'm fairly sure the entire issue is moot. :-) (On the other hand, I have still yet to look really closely at the gory details of how AMD64 works, and how linux uses it. I had a decent idea, way back when the only implementations available were simulators, but that was a while ago and I've forgotten a lot of it. As such, I might be wrong.) -- David Klempner pgpehjRSoldKu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel cannot find files
thanks On 6/20/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 01:56, Trenton Adams wrote: Nope, those mirrors do not change anything. I tried to use default mirrors, and it only tried three mirrors. Don't know why it's not working. Very odd. They must have moved it on the mirrors. Just download it manually at put it in $DISTDIR. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137241 -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Hello, after some update (I can't recognize with I made) I had some problems with kicker. The taskbar didn't return from automaticle blend out. After reinstallation of kdelibs and kicker I solved this problem. But there are also some problems remained. 1. Starting kde I get an error that kcminit failed. I tried to reinstall kcminit, but it does not solve the problem. 2. My soundserver arts hangs. A reinstallation of arts does not help. Can anyone help me? There is also an other problem. I notify that I get an warning while configuration some kde packages: * configure: WARNING: Your libstdc++ doesn't appear to be patched for visibility support. Disabling -fvisibility=hidden checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ supports -fvisibility=hidden... (cached) no * revdep-rebuild does not found any broken packages except of two binaries: openoffice-bin and ekiga Best regards Christian * emerge --info: Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) = System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr; LINGUAS=de MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages' PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage/myoverlay /usr/local/portage/gentoo.de /usr/local/portage/spyderous/overlay SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=x86 X acl alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr chipcard cli crypt cups curl dba dri dtaus dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm geldkarte gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hbci icq idn imagemagick imap imlib intel8x0 ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jpeg jpeg2k jpg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mplayer mpm-perchild mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ofx ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php png posix postgres ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline recode reflection ruby samba sdl session spell spl sqlite ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS * emerge -s libstdc++: * sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 Latest version available: 3.3.4 Latest version installed: 3.3.4 Size of files: 22,784 kB Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/ Description: Compatibility package for running binaries linked against a pre gcc 3.4 libstdc++ License: GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 * virtual/libstdc++ Latest version available: 3.3 Latest version installed: 3.3 Size of files: 0 kB Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/ Description: Virtual for the GNU Standard C++ Library License: GPL-2 -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dbus checksum fail
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:18:06 -0600, Kumar Golap wrote: !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/sys-apps/dbus/dbus-0.62.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 3913 !!! Expected: 3863 sync again, this was fixed yesterday. If it still fails, try another mirror. -- Neil Bothwick And what else floats.? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:53:18 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: It seems that transcode ripping stopped short. The movie has 187351 frames, but only 152564 were ripped. This is most likely a problem with your transcode/libdvdread installation, resp. a problem with this specific DVD. I see this error, but usually near the start of the rip. I get rid of it by setting Grab subtitle preview images to No. -- Neil Bothwick Windows - software package to turn a 486 into an Etch-A-Sketch! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi David, David Klempner wrote: Actually, I side with the kernel developers on this; the fact that they're hiding the VMSPLIT options is basically a subtle hint that they don't want people using them who don't *really* know what they're doing. Like me .. hence all the questions ;-) I just want to be able to use my full RAM, as having 2GB and using 1GB is just uncool ;-) I strongly suggest using CONFIG_HIGHMEM, and sticking with the default 3/1 split. (I mean, it's *slightly* slower, but on the other hand what caused them to do this was random breaking of java that took a long time to diagnose.) That said... OK. I definitely will keep this in mind. I noticed too that if I select the embedded option, but unselect all new options that come with it I still get the memory split options. Is this the right way to go? NO. As in, all of those options (with the exception of CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS) default to yes, and all of those defaults are very important. If you disable them, you will, for example, break most of the kernel's logging (printk), lose the ability to get core dumps, and lose futexes (which will break a lot of modern threading). Basically, saying no to any option option on that page (with the exception of the KALLSYMS stuff) *WILL* break your system. So, make sure that everything, except CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS, on that page is enabled. (that might be what you meant in the first place, of course, but it's worth making sure...) All you need to be able to select the VMSPLIT options is CONFIG_EMBEDDED (that is, saying yes to the Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) item) which doesn't actually have any impact on the code. Sorry, but one thing remains unclear. Ignoring the fact that adding embedded extras to your kernel on a non-embedded system just to get the the VMSPLIT options is (in my opinion) confusing and unlogical, is this step actually needed considering I (according to your advice) would take the default VMSPLIT anyway? What I mean is simply: If I enable HIGHMEM4GB to allow the kernel to use my 2GB of RAM, do I still need to add the embedded options (as you explain above), or is simply using HIGHMEM4GB enough? It's maybe a tough question is ask, but you definitely seem to know exactly what you are talking about ;-) Hope this helps. Is sure does! Any advice to the above question? With that I should be complete I think ;-) Where do you get your information from btw (I'm curious as I didn't find much via Google explaining as clear as you did)? Thanks again, Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEmQt3Ct0ZF9kLPvYRAt69AKCe/ClqjzQHMTZ3yvuNQ9sXwVbFsQCeMdwb BREkUr+u9/o9K8ZImMCdJmM= =8vc3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
Hi, I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went well until the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashing loggin box. I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am faced with not being able to loggin at all. This raises a few questions about my own inadequacies :- 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? 2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I can loggin how can I restore the files from the backup? 3. It appears that a freetype update was the cause of this failure, but this information was hard to find on the forum's (I was lucky). I had an old installation cd and chroot'ed and emerged the previous version of freetype, rebooted and all is well (I hope). 4. How can an update like this get into ~x86 tree when it plainly causes a major problem? I wonder if I should revert to just x86. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
On 6/21/06, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went welluntil the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashingloggin box.I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am faced with not being able to loggin at all.This raises a few questionsabout my own inadequacies :-1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state?Whattools do I need? You answered yourself in point 3. It's also possible to boot in single user mode (edit kernel line in grub and add 1 to the end) and remove xdm from default bootlevel, so on next reboot you are console only and can downgrade freetype. 2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I can loggin how can I restore the files from the backup?Again, single user or livecd. 3. It appears that a freetype update was the cause of this failure, but thisinformation was hard to find on the forum's (I was lucky). I had an oldinstallation cd and chroot'ed and emerged the previous version of freetype, rebooted and all is well (I hope).Good. 4. How can an update like this get into ~x86 tree when it plainly causes a major problem?I wonder if I should revert to just x86.That's what ~arch is for, packages are TESTED there, not all problems can be known beforehand. Of course after the bug was reported, the first thing they should have done was to package.mask it to prevent problems even for more users, because now it was a known major problem.But still if you run ~arch, you should be ready for problems. If you don't want, revert to arch...Caster
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went well until the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashing loggin box. I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am faced with not being able to loggin at all. This raises a few questions about my own inadequacies :- 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from another box. As a last resort you could boot a live CD chroot and fix things. 2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I can loggin how can I restore the files from the backup? By booting from a live CD. 3. It appears that a freetype update was the cause of this failure, but this information was hard to find on the forum's (I was lucky). I had an old installation cd and chroot'ed and emerged the previous version of freetype, rebooted and all is well (I hope). Yes, it was a patch to freetype that caused this. I got bitten too. 4. How can an update like this get into ~x86 tree when it plainly causes a major problem? Because ~arch is for testing. A ~ keyword only guarantees that it works for the ebuild's author, that's why it is called testing, you are the tester. Had this bug made it through to the stable tree, you would have cause for complaint. I wonder if I should revert to just x86. If you are not willing to accept the risks and responsibilities of running a testing system, then the answer is probably yes. -- Neil Bothwick Bumper Sticker: If you can read this, you are in phaser range. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from another box. As a last resort you could boot a live CD chroot and fix things. How do I boot without x? (I've got a feeling I should know this) I am using grub. 2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I can loggin how can I restore the files from the backup? By booting from a live CD. I tried that but my cd didn't have rsync on it Its 2005.1 created Sept 05 -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
2006/6/21, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from another box. As a last resort you could boot a live CD chroot and fix things. How do I boot without x? (I've got a feeling I should know this) I am using grub. You have 2 options : - add 'single' or '1' to the grub boot params. - press I (interactive mode) during init and then choose to NOT start xdm when the init script asks for it. HTH. Boris. 2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I can loggin how can I restore the files from the backup? By booting from a live CD. I tried that but my cd didn't have rsync on it Its 2005.1 created Sept 05 -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Quiconque me parle de Dieu en veut à ma bourse ou à ma liberté. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
Paul Stear wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from another box. As a last resort you could boot a live CD chroot and fix things. How do I boot without x? Hit I when the system prompts if interactive mode mode should be used. I usually hold I all the way from after the boot loader until something happens... Another way: If you use grub, you can edit the boot command line. Add init=/bin/sh to the end of the boot command line. Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
Another way: If you use grub, you can edit the boot command line. Add init=/bin/sh to the end of the boot command line. Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The same method applies to lilo too. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage: missing pieces
I think a piece might be missing from Portage. I'll depict my workflow as an example. I'm preparing to upgrade: # emerge --sync # emerge -Dp world [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXi-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXrandr-1.1.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/randrproto-1.1.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-misc/makedepend-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libdrm-2.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.2.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/glproto-1.4.7) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.0.3) ... etc, lots of blockers ... Ok, let's try and find why it wants to downgrade to xorg-x11-6.9: # equery d xorg-x11-6.9 [ Searching for packages depending on xorg-x11-6.9... ] none found # Ok, no reason, apparently. Maybe it's already merged then? # emerge -C xorg-x11-6.9 --- Couldn't find 'xorg-x11-6.9' to unmerge. Nope. Now I'm getting uncertain. Don't I have xorg-x11 at all? # emerge -C xorg-x11 x11-base/xorg-x11 selected: 7.0-r1 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 3 CTRL-C Exiting on signal 2 Whoops. Yep, it's there. Ok, so status is that I have xorg-x11-7.0, I don't have 6.9, no packages actually wants xorg-x11-6.9, but whenever I use emerge -D world, Portage sees it as a blocker anyway. Is there a piece missing in this puzzle, in particular the one that will tell me why on earth Portage thinks version 6.9 is a blocker? Or is the piece in place but I'm not looking hard enough? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Hi folks, I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... Smells like a bug. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 - -- DSL ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- Webshops -- - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:34, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... Smells like a bug. More like you have to add the user to the cron grup. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
Daniel Iliev wrote: Another way: If you use grub, you can edit the boot command line. Add init=/bin/sh to the end of the boot command line. Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The same method applies to lilo too. True. But with lilo, you've got to modify the lilo.conf (or what's it called?) and run lilo, don't you? Or can you modify the boot command line on-the-fly in the boot menu? Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. Remember that the user must be in the cron group to be able to use cron/crontab. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - VPN Mail Project - http://vpnmail.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica - http://www.buanzo.com.ar Genetic - A multiplatform Gentoo Portage Frontend - http://genetic.sourceforge.net for f in www blog linux-consulting vpnmail; do firefox http://$f.buanzo.com.ar ; done -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmTBNAlpOsGhXcE0RAgrZAJ9+t4inis6bXZHoebPYWuEEVJtGeACeOtMO o1BdoTJwRjmITuR/5uVQ98g= =biao -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:39, Alexander Skwar wrote: True. But with lilo, you've got to modify the lilo.conf (or what's it called?) and run lilo, don't you? Or can you modify the boot command line on-the-fly in the boot menu? Of course: after selecting an entry from the lilo menu, just append the parameters you need to the command line (shown at lilo the prompt) *before* hitting enter. Well, no flame, but it's probably easier than with grub, where you have to explicitly press some key to modify the command line. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. Correct. It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... No, that's not a fix. That's a break in. Smells like a bug. How do you get that idea? It rather smells, as if you haven't done the slightest checks and it sounds as if everything is working as intended. Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 13:34 schrieb ext Enrico Weigelt: I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab with crontab -e. This didn't work: permission denied. Looks quite normal. It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... Or by editing /etc/cron.allow (may be a different file, depending on cron flavour). Smells like a bug. Works as designed. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstra�e 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 D�sseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpRzeVciqQXm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:39, Alexander Skwar wrote: True. But with lilo, you've got to modify the lilo.conf (or what's it called?) and run lilo, don't you? Or can you modify the boot command line on-the-fly in the boot menu? Of course: after selecting an entry from the lilo menu, just append the parameters you need to the command line (shown at lilo the prompt) *before* hitting enter. Well, no flame, but it's probably easier than with grub, where you have to explicitly press some key to modify the command line. Hm - can you also *modify* the boot commands? Say, the boot command in lilo.conf contains vga=123 and now, for whatever reason, you want vga=ask - what to do? Alexander Skwar -- Then you admit confirming not denying you ever said that? NO! ... I mean Yes! WHAT? I'll put `maybe.' -- Bloom County -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: missing pieces
add virtual/xft ~x86 to /etc/portage/package.keywords On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: I think a piece might be missing from Portage. I'll depict my workflow as an example. I'm preparing to upgrade: # emerge --sync # emerge -Dp world [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXi-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXrandr-1.1.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/randrproto-1.1.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-misc/makedepend-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libdrm-2.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.2.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/glproto-1.4.7) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.0.3) ... etc, lots of blockers ... Ok, let's try and find why it wants to downgrade to xorg-x11-6.9: # equery d xorg-x11-6.9 [ Searching for packages depending on xorg-x11-6.9... ] none found # Ok, no reason, apparently. Maybe it's already merged then? # emerge -C xorg-x11-6.9 --- Couldn't find 'xorg-x11-6.9' to unmerge. Nope. Now I'm getting uncertain. Don't I have xorg-x11 at all? # emerge -C xorg-x11 x11-base/xorg-x11 selected: 7.0-r1 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 3 CTRL-C Exiting on signal 2 Whoops. Yep, it's there. Ok, so status is that I have xorg-x11-7.0, I don't have 6.9, no packages actually wants xorg-x11-6.9, but whenever I use emerge -D world, Portage sees it as a blocker anyway. Is there a piece missing in this puzzle, in particular the one that will tell me why on earth Portage thinks version 6.9 is a blocker? Or is the piece in place but I'm not looking hard enough? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Shaochun Wang(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH.D Candidate Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Science -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
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[gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
Hi folks, I've just emerge'd inetd, and this installed xinetd. How can I get inetd installed ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 - -- DSL ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- Webshops -- - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
2006/6/21, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, no flame, but it's probably easier than with grub, where you have to explicitly press some key to modify the command line. I agree. I don't want to say anything like lilo is better (I personally prefer grub because I always forget to run lilo after I changed anything at the boot volume), but modifying the command line is way easier. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nico Schümann wrote: 2006/6/21, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, no flame, but it's probably easier than with grub, where you have to explicitly press some key to modify the command line. I agree. I don't want to say anything like lilo is better (I personally prefer grub because I always forget to run lilo after I changed anything at the boot volume), but modifying the command line is way easier. Definitely. In any case, I would like to add that one must choose lilo or grub depending on lots of different aspects. For example, I have an ASUS a7n8x-e deluxe mobo at home, with two sata drives and one ide hdd. The boot options on the BIOS do not allow me to specify from WHICH sata drive I want to boot. So, grub sometimes had the ugly timestamp error (if my memory is not failing here). I had to go back to lilo to avoid the problem. And I like both! :P - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - VPN Mail Project - http://vpnmail.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica - http://www.buanzo.com.ar Genetic - A multiplatform Gentoo Portage Frontend - http://genetic.sourceforge.net for f in www blog linux-consulting vpnmail; do firefox http://$f.buanzo.com.ar ; done -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmTtNAlpOsGhXcE0RAij4AJ9QtKv+kyuRjIhnbTPt7Eonf9UwPACfebFv ZeQB4bbwn79wwICfJTAypkI= =JL5w -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 07:26, Mike Huber wrote: My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors is for memory address space (4Gigs of virtual memory space without PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like 128Terrabytes of addressable memory). There must be some advantage associated with being able to hold two long ints in one register (or some such relationship there). Anyone know detailed explanations for situations where 64-bit is more/less beneficial and why? large numbers? but the 64bit amd extension is really, really helpfull, when you need registers. The additional registers are a huge advantage and can give you a nice boost. Can, not have too - it depends on the task and how the software was compiled. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, hiya I've just emerge'd inetd, and this installed xinetd. How can I get inetd installed ? compile frm source, or get an outside-portage ebuild. google for inetd ebuild, for example. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - VPN Mail Project - http://vpnmail.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica - http://www.buanzo.com.ar Genetic - A multiplatform Gentoo Portage Frontend - http://genetic.sourceforge.net for f in www blog linux-consulting vpnmail; do firefox http://$f.buanzo.com.ar ; done -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmTt6AlpOsGhXcE0RAmQJAJ4p7zUXcZZBXnOn/AZpTsVIEUGOFwCdFFzu A9QuT07I2MYFdN90ptabbFo= =JnAS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user]
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 08:35, Christian Panten wrote: Hello, after some update (I can't recognize with I made) I had some problems with kicker. The taskbar didn't return from automaticle blend out. After reinstallation of kdelibs and kicker I solved this problem. But there are also some problems remained. 1. Starting kde I get an error that kcminit failed. I tried to reinstall kcminit, but it does not solve the problem. 2. My soundserver arts hangs. A reinstallation of arts does not help. Can anyone help me? clean out /tmp clean out the temp '.' files in your home directory (like .Dcop and co). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
On 6/21/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just emerge'd inetd, and this installed xinetd. How can I get inetd installed ? inetd is a virtual package that is provided by xinetd now. anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! -- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lustosa.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 13:34 schrieb ext Enrico Weigelt: It is easy to fix, by chmod ugo+s, but after an update, the shit starts again ... Or by editing /etc/cron.allow Nah, doesn't help. Just have a look at /usr/bin/crontab. Smells like a bug. Works as designed. Yes. Alexander Skwar -- economist, n: Someone who's good with figures, but doesn't have enough personality to become an accountant. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:58, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hm - can you also *modify* the boot commands? Say, the boot command in lilo.conf contains vga=123 and now, for whatever reason, you want vga=ask - what to do? You pass vga=ask on the fly on the command line and this takes precedence over whatever is in lilo.conf. The same happens for the root=, initrd=, ramdisk=, and other kernel parameters. As an example, consider the root= option: if you mistakenly put the wrong root= in lilo.conf, it would be impossible to recover without booting a live cd or some other kernel. Instead, you pass a different root= options on lilo command line (which passes the option to the kernel, of course) and you can boot without having to resort to external media. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Nico Schümann wrote: 2006/6/21, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, no flame, but it's probably easier than with grub, where you have to explicitly press some key to modify the command line. I agree. I don't want to say anything like lilo is better (I personally prefer grub because I always forget to run lilo after I changed anything at the boot volume), but modifying the command line is way easier. Definitely. Is it? How do you *modify* the command line (ie. change it, instead of just adding to it)? Alexander Skwar -- It's easy to get on the internet and forget you have a life -- Topic on #LinuxGER -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14:18, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've just emerge'd inetd, and this installed xinetd. How can I get inetd installed ? Well, if you *really* want it [1]. I do agree with the others. You should just use xinitd as it is superior to inetd. [1] http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/cgi-bin/pfs-web.pl?filter-search_file=/etc/init.d/inetd -- Bo Andresen pgpW5DBIKwg1i.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: missing pieces
On 6/21/06, Molle Bestefich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a piece might be missing from Portage. I'll depict my workflow as an example. I'm preparing to upgrade: # emerge --sync # emerge -Dp world [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXi-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXrandr-1.1.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/randrproto-1.1.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-misc/makedepend-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libdrm-2.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.2.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/glproto-1.4.7) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.0.3) ... etc, lots of blockers ... Ok, let's try and find why it wants to downgrade to xorg-x11-6.9: # equery d xorg-x11-6.9 [ Searching for packages depending on xorg-x11-6.9... ] none found # Ok, no reason, apparently. Maybe it's already merged then? # emerge -C xorg-x11-6.9 --- Couldn't find 'xorg-x11-6.9' to unmerge. Nope. Now I'm getting uncertain. Don't I have xorg-x11 at all? # emerge -C xorg-x11 x11-base/xorg-x11 selected: 7.0-r1 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 3 CTRL-C Exiting on signal 2 Whoops. Yep, it's there. Ok, so status is that I have xorg-x11-7.0, I don't have 6.9, no packages actually wants xorg-x11-6.9, but whenever I use emerge -D world, Portage sees it as a blocker anyway. Is there a piece missing in this puzzle, in particular the one that will tell me why on earth Portage thinks version 6.9 is a blocker? Or is the piece in place but I'm not looking hard enough? -- Try emerge -Dtpv world, it will give you a hierarquical tree that will show what package is seeking to downgrade xorg. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 04:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: I see this error, but usually near the start of the rip. I get rid of it by setting Grab subtitle preview images to No. Hm. I always see it at the end, and it makes no difference what I have the grab subtitle setting at. Thanks for the reply :) -- When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you. And then they are purified, and become a holy fire in you. -- Ancient Hasidic Saying -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Grub, Hardened, and AMD64
On 6/20/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: I am building a server (AMD Opteron 64) and as a matter of policy I always run the hardened profile on my servers. Now this is my first time doing an install on an AMD64 architecture with hardened and so far it has gone relatively well. The thing that is giving me the most problems is Grub. When I try to emerge it in the hardened chroot the config script bombs out with an error 'C compiler cannot create executables'. One suggested solution was to disable sandbox in features and try again, no such luck. My next thought was to build a second chroot with a regular (non-hardened) tarball and build a package of grub (compiled using the static useflag) then emerge that in the hardened environment. Does this make sense? Is it likely to work or should I be doing something else? Any help would be appreciated. Note that simply not using the hardened profile is not an option here. I emerged Grub in a separate non-hardened chroot, built a binary package and emerged it into my hardened chroot and everything worked like a charm. I did use the custom-cflags and static USE flag on the build, I'm not sure if custom-cflags is needed but I'm pretty sure static is required since the 32bit libs aren't available on my system outside of the chroot used to build the package. If I'm wrong on this let me know. If anyone else happens to be running an Opteron processor and would benefit from the package I would be glad to post it. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Hi folks, Putting the users into the cron group fixed it. Okay, as it should be ;-o In all these years I never had a system which required this. For security reasons, this is not bad, so certain users can be both allowed to have an crontab but forbidden to edit it. But this is quite inconvenient, if you have dozens of users and want to allow them all to edit their crontabs. I would prefer an more advanced crontab(1) program, which can be executed by all, but has an finer permission config. It also could allow more checks (ie. via external filters ?) against the to-be-installed crontab (ie. limit the amount of jobs or set minimum intervals for some folks). cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 - -- DSL ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- Webshops -- - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:04:04 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: You pass vga=ask on the fly on the command line and this takes precedence over whatever is in lilo.conf. The same happens for the root=, initrd=, ramdisk=, and other kernel parameters. What happens if something is wrong with your initrd and you need to remove the initrd= option from the command line? -- Neil Bothwick KPLA Klingon Radio : All glory, all the time! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot
On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there ingentoo land.Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generallyunhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a mkfs /dev/sda1 (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel stuff back on /boot.I wasconfident this would do it, but no go.Just to be sure nothing was leftout, I even went through the grub set up process again as Daniel recommended in another post in this thread.Still no change.Seems nothing unusual. The boot process continues just prior to the INIT 2.86 line when theinit.d stuff is kicked off.While booted with the livecd, I checked and/sbin/init really is there (mine, not the livecd one).But when I tried to pass init=/sbin/init as a kernel arg in grub.conf, I got the samepanic along with a message that /sbin/init couldn't be executed (orsomething similar - I forgot to write it down).But since I only hosed /boot and then reinstalled grub and kernel, I'm not sure why I'm not inbusiness yet.Any ideas?Bueller?Bueller?although the panic complains that init can not be executed, the problem may not be caused by init, make sure to pass the correct root arg to kernel, which is your root partition, not the same root when you are in grub's shell. Thanks,Frustrated in Pennsylvania (aka Mike)Mike Markowski wrote: Well, when I do it, I do it right.Through a bad combination of typos and missing an enter I deleted everything in /boot.:-( This is what I did to (try to) recover: # cd /boot # mklost+found # emerge grub [...edited grub.conf...] [...recompiled kernel modules and installed...] I *thought* that's all I'd need, but upon boot up: Warning:unable to open an initial console Kernel panic- not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel I compiled the kernel myself, not with genkernel.I'm stumped at the moment would be glad to try any ideas anyone might have. Many thanks! Mike--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list hope the snippet from my grub.conf helps:title GENTOO BOXroot (hd0,6) # the /boot partition kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda9 # the / partitionwell, I assume these stuff is quite basic to you, but before I could see what exactly your configuration is, this is all I could think about. good luckdaniel
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 14:29 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: Or by editing /etc/cron.allow Nah, doesn't help. Just have a look at /usr/bin/crontab. Yes, you're right. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstra�e 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 D�sseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpMxceJCVSzk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
2006/6/21, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What happens if something is wrong with your initrd and you need to remove the initrd= option from the command line? I'd try things like initrd= for example. Maybe it's ignored. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
Having given up on dvdrip for ripping dvd's, i've since moved on to a howto I was pointed at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts subq=4:bframes=4:b_pyramid:weight_b:pass=1:psnr:bitrate=4452:threads=2:turbo=1 -oac copy -ofps 24000/1001 -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 0 -slang en -o pass1.avi 2 (which whines about not finding the log file, so I have to rename divx2pass.log.temp to divx2pass.log manually -- donchya love having to figure things out): mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,spp,scale,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -ovc x264 -x264encopts subq=5:4x4mv:8x8dct:frameref=3:me=2:bframes=4:b_pyramid:pass=2:psnr:bitrate=4450:threads=3 -oac faac -faacopts object=0:tns:quality=100 -ofps 24000/1001 -o pass2.avi However there is a problem with pass 2. I have tried this on two seperate systems, and the exact same thing happens: MEncoder 1.0pre8-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8) MMX2 supported but disabled CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. 93 audio 211 video codecs init_freetype get_path('font/font.desc') - '/home/sgtphou/.mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: /home/sgtphou/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using MMX Optimized OnScreenDisplay [file] File size is 7733315584 bytes STREAM: [file] /home/sgtphou/fire-eyes/temp/mencoder/xmen-2/title1/vob/title1.vob STREAM: Description: File STREAM: Author: Albeu STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi) success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xccf10800 Checking for YUV4MPEG2 ASF_check: not ASF guid! Checking for NuppelVideo Checking for REAL Checking for SMJPEG Searching demuxer type for filename /home/sgtphou/fire-eyes/temp/mencoder/xmen-2/title1/vob/title1.vob ext: .vob Trying demuxer 2 based on filename extension system stream synced at 0xD (13)! == Found video stream: 0 == Found audio stream: 131 == Found audio stream: 128 == Found audio stream: 137 == Found audio stream: 132 == Found audio stream: 133 == Found audio stream: 130 MPEG Stream reached EOF ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) MPEG-PS file format detected. == Found subtitle: 0 == Found subtitle: 1 == Found subtitle: 2 == Found subtitle: 3 == Found subtitle: 4 == Found subtitle: 5 == Found subtitle: 6 == Found subtitle: 7 Searching for sequence header... OK! VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x1002 size:720x480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334 == Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 dec_audio: Allocating 3840 bytes for input buffer. dec_audio: Allocating 6144 + 65536 = 71680 bytes for output buffer. Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform AC3: 2.0 (dolby) 48000 Hz 192.0 kbit/s A52 flags before a52_frame: 0x2A A52 flags after a52_frame: 0xA Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000-192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) == Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.00, round: 1 Opening video filter: [hqdn3d=2:1:2] Opening video filter: [scale] SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling) Opening video filter: [spp] Opening video filter: [crop w=720 h=352 x=0 y=62] Crop: 720 x 352, 0 ; 62 == Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6. Trying filter chain: crop spp scale hqdn3d expand x264 Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling) Trying filter chain: scale crop spp scale hqdn3d expand x264 The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) == Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le - 0Hz/0ch/??... [libaf] Adding filter dummy [dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le [dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le AE_FAAC, sample_input: 2048, max_bytes_output: 1536 Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le - 48000Hz/2ch/s16le... [dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le [dummy] Was
Re: [gentoo-user] (kcminit failing, arts hanging)
Christian Panten wrote: after some update (I can't recognize with I made) Run 'genlop -u --list --date 2 days ago' to see what you updated in the last two days, or whenever you started noticing the problems. Anything alsa-like in there? 1. Starting kde I get an error that kcminit failed. What does it say when started from the command line? 2. My soundserver arts hangs. Using full CPU? I notify that I get an warning while configuration some kde packages: It's a warning, not an error. It can be ignored. CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config You still have kde-3.4 stuff installed while using 3.5? Find it all and remove it. Especially kdepaths-3.4 from /etc/env.d/, then run env-update, and re-login. PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage/myoverlay /usr/local/portage/gentoo.de /usr/local/portage/spyderous/overlay How about unsetting PORTDIR_OVERLAY and trying an 'emerge -Du world' to see if that cures it? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:38, Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi, I want to make copies of our PS/2 game CDs so that they can use the copies and we can put up the originals. They seem to either scratch real easy or they are really touchy about scratches. Does anybody here know of a way to do this? This is Linux, surely someone has found a way. Thanks. Sorry so far off topic. I can't be the only one with kids around. ;-) Dale :-) Copying the CD/DVD is easy enough, just use your standard tools although I don't believe dual layer discs can be copied properly yet ie. Gran Turismo 4. However, getting them to actually play on the PS/2 is a whole other matter. You'll need to have your PS/2 modded to support playing copied games, which may or may not be legal where you live. Crap. We recently had a $60.00 game to get scratched. Maybe they need to play Uno or something. I would hate to mod the thing but I wish there was a way to copy it and it work. I may try it just to see. I still beleive in the fair use thing. I'm not going to sell the copies. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: What happens if something is wrong with your initrd and you need to remove the initrd= option from the command line? Good question! In this regard, grub is certainly better since it shows you the complete command line, and you can tweak everything you want. Anyway, passing an empty initrd= could possibly work (I never tried this). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:32:31 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: But this is quite inconvenient, if you have dozens of users and want to allow them all to edit their crontabs. egrep ^.*?:.*?:.*?:100: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | while read u do gpasswd -a $u cron; done will add all users from group GID 100 (users on this system) to the cron group. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as he was given another bad script. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs
On 6/21/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:38, Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi, I want to make copies of our PS/2 game CDs so that they can use the copies and we can put up the originals. They seem to either scratch real easy or they are really touchy about scratches. Does anybody here know of a way to do this? This is Linux, surely someone has found a way. Thanks. Sorry so far off topic. I can't be the only one with kids around. ;-) Dale :-) Copying the CD/DVD is easy enough, just use your standard tools although I don't believe dual layer discs can be copied properly yet ie. Gran Turismo 4. However, getting them to actually play on the PS/2 is a whole other matter. You'll need to have your PS/2 modded to support playing copied games, which may or may not be legal where you live. Crap. We recently had a $60.00 game to get scratched. Maybe they need to play Uno or something. Do as some of my friends do. Rent the discs at a local store... I would hate to mod the thing but I wish there was a way to copy it and it work. I may try it just to see. I still beleive in the fair use It won't, you have to take it to someone to install a modchip, and that's, well, pretty illegal, at least where I live. thing. I'm not going to sell the copies. Well, they really don't care about that... -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:37:27 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: What happens if something is wrong with your initrd and you need to remove the initrd= option from the command line? Good question! In this regard, grub is certainly better since it shows you the complete command line, and you can tweak everything you want. Anyway, passing an empty initrd= could possibly work (I never tried this). When I find myself in that situation, I want something more than could possibly work :( Anyway, I rarely edit the command line. I forgot to re-run lilo far more often, so it's GRUB for me. Those of you that only use x86 based system don't know how lucky you are to have two decent bootloaders. If you took the worst aspect of LILO and GRUB and added some extra user-hostility for luck, you'd still have something a hundred times better than yaboot, the PPC bootloader :( -- Neil Bothwick Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 16:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: egrep ^.*?:.*?:.*?:100: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | while read u do gpasswd -a $u cron; done will add all users from group GID 100 (users on this system) to the cron group. Well... awk -F: \$4~/^\ `awk -F: '$1~/^users$/{print $3}' /etc/group`\ \$/{print \$1} /etc/passwd | \ while read user; do gpasswd -a $user cron done ;) -- Bo Andresen pgpwrvR41zvqp.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?
Hi folks, is there any tool for changing the colors of the linux console ? (or at least invert them). I'm currently sitting in the garden with my notebook, the sun is shining bright, and its really hard to read anything ... thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 - -- DSL ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- Webshops -- - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
* Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ? Wouldn't it make more sense to let inetd be an virtual package which can be configured by some useflag to get either classic inetd or xinet in, maybe xinet as default ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 - -- DSL ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- Webshops -- - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help with nvidia fake raid.
Hi list, I have been trying for 5 days now to install a gentoo system on a nvidia mother board with fake raid, I already have a windows system on the machine that needs the raid and I want to install gentoo on it. I have followed instructions on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid I was succeeded on installing gentoo base system and grub :-), but, when I boot the systems ask for real_root /dev/mapper/nv_ device I had try the hard way, open a shell when it ask for real_root and on /dev/mapper is just control. I had try with genkernel and on the same situation on /dev/mapper/ has control and my disk, but none of the partitions. I am so close of making this work, but is really frustrating get stuck in something like that for so long. Thanks for attention, Allan -- An application asked: Requires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
Hi Having given up on dvdrip for ripping dvd's, i've since moved on to a howto I was pointed at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder Not sure how much of a help it is, but ages ago I was playing about with linux avi/mpeg - dvd ripping etc.. and did write up a couple of notes on the matter and placed on my site. Again not sure how much help they are, was doing it in 2005 but now do not rip dvd's anymore since dvd's are cheaper now than cd to backup incase of any scratches. http://www.designersoft.co.uk/tutorials/tutorialroom/1-1.html Thanks Ian I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts subq=4:bframes=4:b_pyramid:weight_b:pass=1:psnr:bitrate=4452:threads=2:turbo=1 -oac copy -ofps 24000/1001 -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 0 -slang en -o pass1.avi 2 (which whines about not finding the log file, so I have to rename divx2pass.log.temp to divx2pass.log manually -- donchya love having to figure things out): mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,spp,scale,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -ovc x264 -x264encopts subq=5:4x4mv:8x8dct:frameref=3:me=2:bframes=4:b_pyramid:pass=2:psnr:bitrate=4450:threads=3 -oac faac -faacopts object=0:tns:quality=100 -ofps 24000/1001 -o pass2.avi However there is a problem with pass 2. I have tried this on two seperate systems, and the exact same thing happens: MEncoder 1.0pre8-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8) MMX2 supported but disabled CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. 93 audio 211 video codecs init_freetype get_path('font/font.desc') - '/home/sgtphou/.mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: /home/sgtphou/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using MMX Optimized OnScreenDisplay [file] File size is 7733315584 bytes STREAM: [file] /home/sgtphou/fire-eyes/temp/mencoder/xmen-2/title1/vob/title1.vob STREAM: Description: File STREAM: Author: Albeu STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi) success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xccf10800 Checking for YUV4MPEG2 ASF_check: not ASF guid! Checking for NuppelVideo Checking for REAL Checking for SMJPEG Searching demuxer type for filename /home/sgtphou/fire-eyes/temp/mencoder/xmen-2/title1/vob/title1.vob ext: .vob Trying demuxer 2 based on filename extension system stream synced at 0xD (13)! == Found video stream: 0 == Found audio stream: 131 == Found audio stream: 128 == Found audio stream: 137 == Found audio stream: 132 == Found audio stream: 133 == Found audio stream: 130 MPEG Stream reached EOF ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) MPEG-PS file format detected. == Found subtitle: 0 == Found subtitle: 1 == Found subtitle: 2 == Found subtitle: 3 == Found subtitle: 4 == Found subtitle: 5 == Found subtitle: 6 == Found subtitle: 7 Searching for sequence header... OK! VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x1002 size:720x480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334 == Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 dec_audio: Allocating 3840 bytes for input buffer. dec_audio: Allocating 6144 + 65536 = 71680 bytes for output buffer. Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform AC3: 2.0 (dolby) 48000 Hz 192.0 kbit/s A52 flags before a52_frame: 0x2A A52 flags after a52_frame: 0xA Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000-192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) == Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.00, round: 1 Opening video filter: [hqdn3d=2:1:2] Opening video filter: [scale] SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling) Opening video filter: [spp] Opening video filter: [crop w=720 h=352 x=0 y=62] Crop: 720 x 352, 0 ; 62 == Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6. Trying filter chain: crop spp scale hqdn3d expand x264 Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling) Trying filter chain: scale crop spp scale hqdn3d expand x264 The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
On 6/21/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ? The answer to this 'why' can be found here: http://www.xinetd.org/faq.html#why Wouldn't it make more sense to let inetd be an virtual package which can be configured by some useflag to get either classic inetd or xinet in, maybe xinet as default ? inetd is way too old. I tried googling for it, and I couldn't even find source downloads for it. It's like wanting to use in.telnetd and telnet instead of ssh because the former has always served well. However, if you can find the sources to it, you can always compile and use it, can't you? -- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lustosa.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
On 6/21/06, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inetd is way too old. I tried googling for it, and I couldn't even find source downloads for it. Just to complement it, inetd _can_ be found in portage, in package sys-apps/netkit-base -- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lustosa.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nvidia fake raid.
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi list, I have been trying for 5 days now to install a gentoo system on a nvidia mother board with fake raid, I already have a windows system on the machine that needs the raid and I want to install gentoo on it. I have followed instructions on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid I was succeeded on installing gentoo base system and grub :-), but, when I boot the systems ask for real_root /dev/mapper/nv_ device I had try the hard way, open a shell when it ask for real_root and on /dev/mapper is just control. I had try with genkernel and on the same situation on /dev/mapper/ has control and my disk, but none of the partitions. I am so close of making this work, but is really frustrating get stuck in something like that for so long. Thanks for attention, Allan Hi, No experience with RAID but do you have a separate /boot partition. Assume you're also using an initrd (with genkernel ... --dmraid ...). HTH.Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM
* Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-21 04:12]: Sorry, but one thing remains unclear. Ignoring the fact that adding embedded extras to your kernel on a non-embedded system just to get the the VMSPLIT options is (in my opinion) confusing and unlogical, is this step actually needed considering I (according to your advice) would take the default VMSPLIT anyway? What I mean is simply: If I enable HIGHMEM4GB to allow the kernel to use my 2GB of RAM, do I still need to add the embedded options (as you explain above), or is simply using HIGHMEM4GB enough? It's maybe a tough question is ask, but you definitely seem to know exactly what you are talking about ;-) Right; the right thing to do here is to not touch VMSPLIT at all, which means there's no reason to be messing around with CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Just set HIGHMEM4GB and be done with it (but, if you're editing a config where you've already done so, make sure that you still have all of the CONFIG_EMBEDDED dependent options set correctly before you unset it: enable every one of the standard kernel features except for the extra pass, and then make sure you have the default 3/1 VMSPLIT) Hope this helps. Is sure does! Any advice to the above question? With that I should be complete I think ;-) Where do you get your information from btw (I'm curious as I didn't find much via Google explaining as clear as you did)? I did some googling about a year and a half ago, when I finally upgraded my desktop from 512MB to 1GB and ran into these issues for the first time, and I've spent some time poking around the kernel sources before. -- David Klempner pgpy6jT8opukm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:21 -0500, David Klempner wrote: * Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-20 16:51]: I figured it out. The VMSPLIT options are *not* available on 64-bit systems. (Phew. It's neither encroaching madness nor Alzheimer's.) Yeah... I suppose I wasn't paying close enough attention to what you were saying. :-) Well, it took way longer than I would have wished for me to catch on. You'd think the total absence of any VMSPLIT options in *any* of my saved config files would have been a sufficient hint, but no The VMSPLIT options are about how the kernel uses the 32 bit address space (specifically, what fraction of the address space of each process it reserves for its own use). A large portion of what a 64 bit system gets you is more than 32 bits worth of address space, so I'm fairly sure the entire issue is moot. :-) You're most certainly right. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo on an AMD 64bit portable
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 20:34 +, James wrote: Hello, I've seen snipits of various issues related to running gentoo on a 64 bit amd processor. In particular, I'd like to get a 'low power' chip such as the Turion in a portable. I have a Turion MT-32 laptop (ABS Mayhem F-15 A40 which is actually an MSI-1011 and only sold by NewEgg for $900.) One of my concerns is whether to use 32 bit or 64 bit Gentoo on a 64 bit AMD portable. Is there a document I can read somewhere that explains the merits and problems on how to set up Gentoo on a 64 bit machine? If not can somebody explain the caveats of 64 bit (amd) gentoo? I do not wish to be on the 'bleeding edge' of 64 bit AMD issues, but, I'd like to access the power. I'm running a variety of 32 bit stable gentoo systems now, with relative ease. I've basically had no problems running a 64-bit system other than the well-known mplayer flash-type problems, except when I go and try to compile open source applications. Many make fundamental assumptions about data layouts and sizes that are simply not true for 64-bit systems. BTW, I have had ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 for months now without any serious problems, although I do run into the occasional (non-essential) package which won't compile. They are usually fixed (or a patch provided) in a reasonable amount of time. I'd unhesitantly run a 64-bit system on an AMD64 system again. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nvidia fake raid.
no, I do not have a separated boot partition because I just have 2 disks with the raid, so I cannot have the separated boot partition. But the boot starts and initrd and linuxrc are loaded ( apparently ). On 6/21/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi list, I have been trying for 5 days now to install a gentoo system on a nvidia mother board with fake raid, I already have a windows system on the machine that needs the raid and I want to install gentoo on it. I have followed instructions on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid I was succeeded on installing gentoo base system and grub :-), but, when I boot the systems ask for real_root /dev/mapper/nv_ device I had try the hard way, open a shell when it ask for real_root and on /dev/mapper is just control. I had try with genkernel and on the same situation on /dev/mapper/ has control and my disk, but none of the partitions. I am so close of making this work, but is really frustrating get stuck in something like that for so long. Thanks for attention, Allan Hi, No experience with RAID but do you have a separate /boot partition. Assume you're also using an initrd (with genkernel ... --dmraid ...). HTH.Rumen -- An application asked: Requires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:01:51 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts subq=4:bframes=4:b_pyramid:weight_b:pass=1:psnr:bitrate=4452:threads=2:turbo=1 -oac copy -ofps 24000/1001 -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 0 -slang en -o pass1.avi Hm, threading, eh? Ever tried disabling it? 2 (which whines about not finding the log file, so I have to rename divx2pass.log.temp to divx2pass.log manually -- donchya love having to figure things out): The question is rather why mencoder doesn't name it like this. The mencoder man page clearly tells that it should. It supposedly wasn't existing at that point, right? mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,spp,scale,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -ovc x264 -x264encopts subq=5:4x4mv:8x8dct:frameref=3:me=2:bframes=4:b_pyramid:pass=2:psnr:bitrate=4450:threads=3 -oac faac -faacopts object=0:tns:quality=100 -ofps 24000/1001 -o pass2.avi Oh, 3 threads now. Again: Did you try using only one thread? Are all those additional libraries you might have compiled into mplayer thread-safe? BTW: Is there a reason why in pass one you're using a cropped, scaled version of the movie and in pass two a _not_ scaled version? This will probably result in different blocks and will probably have (minor) bad influence on b/w calculation... However there is a problem with pass 2. I have tried this on two seperate systems, and the exact same thing happens: [...] Segmentation fault Segfaults are not that uncommon if you have problems with interfering threads. If you have a little time, you may also want to do an emerge -e mplayer to sort out problems that are due to compiler change and similar. BTW: Are you overriding the mplayer ebuild's own CFLAG settings? Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Well, hard to imagine what you've already tried, but try the things mentioned above. HTH, -hwh PS: (Insert my typical whine about video on linux being a pain here) (Insert my typical whine about whining about video on linux here :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ? Because most of us switched to xinetd at least six years ago. :-) kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Help with nvidia fake raid.
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:34, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: no, I do not have a separated boot partition because I just have 2 disks with the raid, so I cannot have the separated boot partition. But the boot starts and initrd and linuxrc are loaded ( apparently ). Why not? Can you explain with some details? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.17-gentoo, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Tue Jun 20 20:17:15 CEST 2006 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.92 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with nvidia fake raid.
I thought I had make clear before, lousy english . I had a separated boot partition but in the raid set, this was what I really mean on previous e-mail. sorry, anyway, I don´t know why it doesn´t work. once that the boot starts. :( On 6/21/06, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:34, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: no, I do not have a separated boot partition because I just have 2 disks with the raid, so I cannot have the separated boot partition. But the boot starts and initrd and linuxrc are loaded ( apparently ). Why not? Can you explain with some details? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.17-gentoo, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Tue Jun 20 20:17:15 CEST 2006 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.92 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- An application asked: Requires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Try the script provided on my company's web site (http://www.SysEx.com.na) under Linux tips and tricks. It's tip #5. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ? It's more modern. Wouldn't it make more sense to let inetd be an virtual package which can be configured by some useflag to get either classic inetd or xinet in, maybe xinet as default ? Why? The current way is quite fine, IMO. You can easily select which package to install, why depend on some USE flag? Alexander Skwar -- In Blythe, California, a city ordinance declares that a person must own at least two cows before he can wear cowboy boots in public. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Enrico Weigelt wrote: But this is quite inconvenient, if you have dozens of users and want to allow them all to edit their crontabs. Why is that inconvenient? Just put them in the appropriate group - where's the problem? Alexander Skwar -- Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges. -- Beyond the Fringe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any tool for changing the colors of the linux console ? (or at least invert them). Hm, you're really talking about the console? If you were talking about an xterm, it might be easier - at least with gnome-terminal, it's easy to change all the colors on the fly. Other terminals might have the same ability. But as far as the real console is concerned - no clue. Alexander Skwar -- QOTD: The baby was so ugly they had to hang a pork chop around its neck to get the dog to play with it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)
On 6/16/06, Claudinei Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd created an initramfs wich mount the nfs share and do the pivot_root (actually switch_root from busybox) but the problem is exactly at this moment, 'cause when I try to do the switch_root and start the real init from the nfs share, the system appears to freeze but after some seconds it do print a message Rebooting System and just reboot the machine. Sorry for the late reply...I've been on offline (vacation) for several days. pivot_root is specifically *not* allowed from an initramfs environment. What you want to do is simply mount the new root filesystem, chroot into it, and execute init. Something like: cd /new_root ; exec ./bin/chroot . ./sbin/init $@ dev/console dev/console 21 If you are *extremely* tricky, and use a symlinked /lib directory, you can actually delete everything from the initramfs before doing the chroot/init calls. Let me know if you need some more details on this. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] Vmware and Ctrl-E (power Off)
On 6/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting really frustrated. (googling didn't help cos not sure what to input as search string) I believe there is a Do you really want to shut down diaglog box somewhere. Can anyone let me know where that is?? In ~/.vmware/preferences, find the setting 'hint.vmui.poweroff'. Change it from 'FALSE' to 'TRUE'. You might want the same thing for hint.vmui.reset. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] Vmware and Ctrl-E (power Off)
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:58 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 6/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting really frustrated. (googling didn't help cos not sure what to input as search string) I believe there is a Do you really want to shut down diaglog box somewhere. Can anyone let me know where that is?? In ~/.vmware/preferences, find the setting 'hint.vmui.poweroff'. Change it from 'FALSE' to 'TRUE'. You might want the same thing for hint.vmui.reset. I'll give it a go. Many Many Thanks. HTH, -Richard -- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pivot_root is specifically *not* allowed from an initramfs environment. What you want to do is simply mount the new root filesystem, chroot into it, and execute init. Something like: cd /new_root ; exec ./bin/chroot . ./sbin/init $@ dev/console dev/console 21 If you are *extremely* tricky, and use a symlinked /lib directory, you can actually delete everything from the initramfs before doing the chroot/init calls. Let me know if you need some more details on this. Hm, I'm pretty sure that it is well possible to pivot_root from an initramfs. Isn't that the whole point of pivot_root? But you may be right that it is not possible for NFS mounts, I never tried that before. In fact, the approach you took is weak. /sbin/init wouldn't run as PID 1 in this case which is bad for the situation that the calling script (which _has_ PID 1) dies. The kernel would recognize this and reboot (and/or panic, not sure). To avoid this, one has to exec the init from the script. So basically it boils down to this /init in the initramfs: #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/sbin modprobe supermightyrootfsprovidingmodule \ mount -t blahfs /dev/whereitis /mnt/stagetwo \ cd /mnt/stagetwo \ pivot_root . /mnt/initramfs || reboot -f exec /sbin/init Note that I assume /mnt/stagetwo exists in initramfs (as well as modprobe, mount, pivot_root and reboot) and /mnt/initramfs exists in the to-be-mounted fs. Note that the last point may prevent pivot_root'ing in a scenario where an NFS root fs is desired (because I'm not sure if it can have mounts in it, but that would be needed for proc, sys and dev, too, so it _may_ work here, too). The call to /sbin/init happens in the new fs because pivot_root manipulates the namespace of the calling process. Exec'ing is important so that /sbin/init gets PID 1 and we don't have a process which depends on the initramfs anymore, so we can unmount it at a later point. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:48:34 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Try the script provided on my company's web site (http://www.SysEx.com.na) under Linux tips and tricks. It's tip #5. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad
On 6/17/06, marco restelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works fine, but the touchpad. Indeed I have all the advanced features working: double click, scroll ... but using the touchpad when the CPU load is hight the mouse starts jumping around and clicking everywhere. I see two problems in your dmesg output: warning: many lost ticks. Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts rip __do_softirq+0x45/0xc9 Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, particularly the clock= option. clock=pmtmr might be the best option here...although I'm not sure it applies to amd64. input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1 APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) Booting with noapic (again, see kernel-parameters.txt) should help. It might also clear up the time issue above. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked
Hi I have several Gentoo installations which works fine but this one id broken. When I do a: emerge xorg-x11 I get: Calculating dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!!(dependency required by x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 [ebuild]) I then tried to remove setxkbmap: --- Couldn't find setxkbmap to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. The worst problem I have is that I can not do a emerge world as this gives the same error. What can I do? Remove xorg-x11 and install it again? best regards/hans -- Even if you hate images of text on the web, this tutorial... -- http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked
Hans Schou wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!!(dependency required by x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 [ebuild]) I then tried to remove setxkbmap: No, you musn't remove setxkbmap, you must unmask it: echo x11-apps/setxkbmap ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)
On 6/21/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700 Hm, I'm pretty sure that it is well possible to pivot_root from an initramfs. Isn't that the whole point of pivot_root? But you may be right that it is not possible for NFS mounts, I never tried that before. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email that I received from Andrew Morton that made it clear that Al Viro was opposed to pivot_root being used from an initramfs. (BTW, viro's comments are not very polite, but you have to expect such directness from kernel hackers!) Note, be sure we are talking about an initramfs here, not an initrd. From an initrd it is still possible and supported to use pivot_root. In fact, the approach you took is weak. /sbin/init wouldn't run as PID 1 in this case which is bad for the situation that the calling script (which _has_ PID 1) dies. The kernel would recognize this and reboot (and/or panic, not sure). To avoid this, one has to exec the init from the script. No, this works perfectly. I use it every time I boot my kernel, and my init *is* PID 1. The exec ./bin/chroot part replaces the shell executing the /init script with the chroot command, so chroot then becomes PID 1. Chroot then does an exec of ./sbin/init so that init becomes PID 1. So basically it boils down to this /init in the initramfs: #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/sbin modprobe supermightyrootfsprovidingmodule \ mount -t blahfs /dev/whereitis /mnt/stagetwo \ cd /mnt/stagetwo \ pivot_root . /mnt/initramfs || reboot -f exec /sbin/init Be warned that if you do this, and then you try to mount --move anything, your kernel will probably hang. But again, in recent kernels, pivot_root *should* be returning -EINVAL if you do this. Indeed I just checked my 2.6.16 sources, and the code that returns EINVAL in sys_pivot_root for unattached mounts is still there: error = -EINVAL; if (user_nd.mnt-mnt_root != user_nd.dentry) goto out2; /* not a mountpoint */ if (user_nd.mnt-mnt_parent == user_nd.mnt) goto out2; /* not attached */ if (new_nd.mnt-mnt_root != new_nd.dentry) goto out2; /* not a mountpoint */ if (new_nd.mnt-mnt_parent == new_nd.mnt) goto out2; /* not attached */ So unless your the pivot_root program is doing something other than sys_pivot_root(), I don't see how this can possibly work on a recent kernel. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)
On 6/21/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email -1,000,000 points for not including the email... -Richard From - Thu Aug 18 13:01:31 2005 X-Account-Key: account1 X-UIDL: f9050c2168cec49d57cb44456faba2d8 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 66.218.93.224; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:24:05 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.172.181.4] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Authentication-Results: mta107.pa.mail.re2.yahoo.com from=osdl.org; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received: from 65.172.181.4 (EHLO smtp.osdl.org) (65.172.181.4) by mta107.pa.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:24:05 -0700 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j7IHO3jA023758 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:24:03 -0700 Received: from bix (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with SMTP id j7IHO2iP028972; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:24:02 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:22:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pivot_root-circular-reference-fix-2.patch Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.45__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.114 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 cw viro: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc5/2.6.13-rc5-mm1/broken-out/pivot_root-circular-reference-fix-2.patch viro WTF? cw -EWTFWTF? viro akpm: patch is an utter bullshit viro akpm: we are _NOT_ allowing to change namespace root viro not with pivot_root(), not with anything else viro moreover, I distinctly remember having such check in sys_pivot_root() viro where the hell had it gone? cw viro: what about depricate pivot_root since it's the source of so much angst? (i used it myself and im not sure how to avoid it here but there must be a way) * viro goes to look through history viro LARTs are needed, apparently olaf or -einval for pivot_root on rootfs (if thats detectable) viro of course it is -- plai_ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has joined #kernel viro sigh... viro what we should do is prohibit any mount activity on detached vfsmounts, *period* viro akpm: please, consider that patch in its current form strongly vetoed crlf viro: if you restructure vfsmount trees to not depend on namespaces, there's no need for that restriction akpm viro: OK. You were cc'ed on it a lot at the time.. viro akpm: -*-Mutt: /var/spool/mail/viro [Msgs:23748 New:21604 Del:83 Post:31 128M]---(threa
Re: [gentoo-user] Using unencrypted wireless lan
On 6/20/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! To do some testing, I'd like to use my WLAN in unencrypted mode, ie. no WEP, no WPA. How would I configure that in my /etc/conf.d/net? essid_eth1=fishnet mode_eth1=managed But I think you really want to put this in /etc/conf.d/wireless instead of /e/c.d/net, depending upon your version of baselayout. Also read /etc/conf.d/wireless.example. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 6/21/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thing. I'm not going to sell the copies. Well, they really don't care about that... Yea, they just want to make us keep replacing the ones that get scratched. It's just a bonus for the security of making copies. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:29:26 -0400 fire-eyes wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 04:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: I see this error, but usually near the start of the rip. I get rid of it by setting Grab subtitle preview images to No. Hm. I always see it at the end, and it makes no difference what I have the grab subtitle setting at. Thanks for the reply :) Try here: http://www.exit1.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=dvdrip-usersrestrict=exclude=words=%22It+seems+that+transcode+ripping+stopped+short.%22method=andformat=builtin-longsort=score -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:51:51 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email that I received from Andrew Morton that made it clear that Al Viro was opposed to pivot_root being used from an initramfs. (BTW, viro's comments are not very polite, but you have to expect such directness from kernel hackers!) Note, be sure we are talking about an initramfs here, not an initrd. From an initrd it is still possible and supported to use pivot_root. OK, I have to apologize. I totally missed that you were exec'ing chroot. OK, I definately stand currected. But I was pretty sure I once did this from initramfs. But that was admittedly back in the 2.6.10 days, I think. Of course in this case /sbin/init also gets PID 1. -hwh (happy to not have been the one complaining to the kernel devs :-) and also forgetting to send attachments. I need a plugin that saves me from doing this, e.g. searching for the word attachment and complaining if there isn't one...) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:03, Nick Rout wrote: dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. It looked that way to me, however in every test I tried, after ripping it always said only X out of a total of Y frames were ripped, and it was always somewhere around 20 - 30% less. Did that on two systems. In short, it looked good to me but I gave up on it after fighting with it for a week. -- When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you. And then they are purified, and become a holy fire in you. -- Ancient Hasidic Saying -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot
Norberto Bensa wrote: Mike Markowski wrote: Any ideas? Bueller? Bueller? Please post: $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst $ ls -l /boot $ sudo fdisk -l $ ls -l /dev/console $ ls -l /dev/initctl $ ls -l /dev/null Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got the info below after 'chrooting' from a livecd boot. I don't know what the pipe is for, so time to start reading. But I wanted to get this posted soon as I could. Thanks, Mike livecd / # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 10 default 0 title Gentoo 2.6.17 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 # Change the colors. title Change the colors color light-green/brown blink-red/blue livecd / # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 249 1959930 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 250972976148100 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 1040 MB, 1040187392 bytes 32 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1984 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1024 * 512 = 524288 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 11984 10157926 FAT16 livecd / # ls -l /boot/ total 2218 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jun 20 20:09 boot - . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36667 Jun 19 19:32 config-2.6.17-gentoo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root1024 Jun 20 20:06 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2208825 Jun 20 19:39 kernel-2.6.17-gentoo drwx-- 2 root root 12288 Jun 20 20:07 lost+found livecd / # ls -l /dev/console crw--- 1 root tty 5, 1 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/console livecd / # ls -l /dev/initctl /bin/ls: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory livecd / # ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Feb 13 19:03 /dev/null livecd / # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Update: mencoder: error encoding, following howto
Following the suggestion of some people here, I tried the following items, one at a time, and tried to encode again, and the symptoms never changed. a) Remerge x264-svn without threads support b) Remerge mplayer without custom-cflags or cpudetection CFLAGS I did find a forum entry (not forums.gentoo.org) which talked about this exact same issue, which seemed to be related to x264 itself. Unfortunately the thread ended in February 2005, and the site won't let me get further information from that user... This is a real pain, I am looking for ideas. I am not looking for different tools, I have spent two weeks on this and am sick of bouncing between a dozen tools. -- When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you. And then they are purified, and become a holy fire in you. -- Ancient Hasidic Saying -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)
On 6/21/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chroot. OK, I definately stand currected. But I was pretty sure I once did this from initramfs. But that was admittedly back in the 2.6.10 days, I think. Yeah, I did it too! ;- Worked great until I tried to use fbsplash/bootsplash, which did a 'mount --move' as part of it's setup. Cheers, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo on an AMD 64bit portable
On 6/16/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and usb-serial converter devices, but I have never used any of them so I need recommendations on alternative serial (rs232C) hardware. I have a USB to RS232 converter that I used to connect to a router. It works great. So I wouldn't worry about finding a laptop with a built-in serial port. If you want to know the exact make/model of my converter, I can let you know on Saturday when I get back home. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot
On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got No, /dev/initctl is a named pipe created when init runs... title Gentoo 2.6.17 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 Um, isn't /dev/sda1 your /boot filesystem? Shouldn't this be /dev/sda3? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs
On 6/21/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 6/21/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thing. I'm not going to sell the copies. Well, they really don't care about that... Yea, they just want to make us keep replacing the ones that get scratched. It's just a bonus for the security of making copies. I've seen so many of those situations, just a few examples: 1) iPod battery. You CAN buy a new one and install it yourself at your own risk, OR you can invest 100$ (that's A LOT were I live) for Apple to do that for you, while they should fix their own break stuff free of charge. 2) Console games that have copy protect. You could easily backup, keep the original safe and play with the copy, but NO, a simple fall and you loose your money. 3) Those damn mechanical stamps at work, you could simply buy ink and recharge the softpad, but NO, that will void warranty and probably damage the stamp so you must buy a new, original softpad. Just to name a few... At least with Gentoo you own only respect and admiration for the ones that provide it (and a few dollars for those wonderful shirts and mousepads *lol*) -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Hans Schou wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!!(dependency required by x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 [ebuild]) I then tried to remove setxkbmap: No, you musn't remove setxkbmap, you must unmask it: echo x11-apps/setxkbmap ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords Benno In addition to what Benno has said, I recommend that you sync your tree before continuing. The latest xorg is 7.1 ~x86. Also note that nothing is broken on your box, you just forgot you add the proper entry to /etc/portage/package.keywords. If you have no idea what I am talking about then you shouldn't be using xorg7 ;-) - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmgA2FN7pD9kMi/URAp5hAJ9HjnUIFbTmJJiAiPM0PG2pnZdsEgCdEfrR 9hhGIQsVl4C8MBGI6tFY+Do= =eJ3C -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone using Yahoo as Postfix relay? (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply)
Hi there, Has anyone here got a Postfix server set up to relay through Yahoo's SMTP service, please? Normally when I send mail, postfix on the server under the stairs connects directly to the addressee's mailserver (normal SMTP then) or uses my ISP's mailserver as a relayhost. Until recently this configuration has depended upon my mood - if I see a delivery failure I muck about with things until I get it right, but from my desktop PC I have recently started using the server-under-the-stairs more frequently, so I am having to look more closely at its configuration when things go wrong. In this case I am getting a bounce message from a mailing-list server that says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mg1.uky.edu[128.163.184.178] said: 554 5.7.1 Mail from domain yahoo.co.uk not accepted from host compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (213.152.39.90) - see http://www.uky.edu/email/ (in reply to RCPT TO command) I want to sign up to this list using my @yahoo.co.uk address, you see, so the logical thing to do is have postfix deliver everything with a from address @yahoo.co.uk using yahoo's SMTP server as relayhost. I understand that this is at least a little bit of a pain http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2004-08/0618.html so for me it's easier to send everything going to lsv.uky.edu via Yahoo. I had expected this to be easy enough. Yahoo tells me that my server settings are: Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk So: $ cat /etc/postfix/transport lsv.uky.edu :smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk $ sudo cat /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk my_yahoo_id:verysecret $ sudo postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd $ sudo postmap /etc/postfix/transport $ sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart I then send the subscription mail again look at the logs: Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/smtpd[6213]: connect from unknown [192.168.1.103] Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/smtpd[6213]: 309B31263BB: client=unknown[192.168.1.103] Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/cleanup[6216]: 309B31263BB: message- id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/qmgr[6174]: 309B31263BB: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=579, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/smtp[6217]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/smtp[6217]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk: Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/smtp[6217]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/smtp[6217]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com: Jun 22 02:56:20 compaq postfix/smtp[6217]: 309B31263BB: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=0, status=deferred (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply) $ postqueue -p -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 309B31263BB 579 Thu Jun 22 02:56:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd be very grateful for any illumination on this one. I'm actually using a somewhat dated release of Postfix but this software is mature enough that I'm inclined to blame my own configuration rather than a bug. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot
Richard Fish wrote: On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got No, /dev/initctl is a named pipe created when init runs... title Gentoo 2.6.17 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 Um, isn't /dev/sda1 your /boot filesystem? Shouldn't this be /dev/sda3? D'oh! Bangs head on desk I was seeing what I meant, I guess, rather than what was there. Thanks, Richard. I must have spent 2 hours on this. I'll go hide in my embarrassment now... Seriously, many thanks to everyone who helped! Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge --sync fails
Hi, I have and emerge --sync problem, (emerge-webrsync still works): emerge --sync Starting rsync with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage... Checking server timestamp ... building file list ... rsync: link_stat /root/300 failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync: link_stat /root/rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage/metadata/timestamp.chk failed: No such file or directory (2) done Number of files: 0 Number of files transferred: 0 Total file size: 0 bytes Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 5 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 21 Total bytes received: 20 sent 21 bytes received 20 bytes 82.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(892) [sender=2.6.8] Retrying... I did a touch /root/300 I did a emerge --metadata but emerge --sync still fail. Here is th emerge --info Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-rc4 i686) = System uname: 2.6.17-rc4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=300 PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages' PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bgpclassless bitmap-fonts chroot cli crypt cups dri dvd eds emacs emboss encode esd fastcgi fbsplash firefox fix-connected-rt flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gencertdaily gif gmail gmailtimestamps gnome gpgme gpm gstreamer gtalk gtk gtk2 gvim imap imlib ipalias iproute2 ipv6 isdnlog j2ee javascript jboss jpeg kde kdepim kdexdeltas kerberos kexi key-screen kig-scripting ldapsam ldirectord libg++ libwww lighttpd live logmail ltsp mad mailwrapper mikmod modperl motif mp3 mpeg multipath nagios-dns nagios-game nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh nautilus ncurses net netbeans netboot network nfs nls noauthcram notlsbeforeauth nptl nptlonly ntfs ogg opengl openssh openssl oracle ospfapi oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png postfix pppd python qmail qt quicktime readline realms reflection rrdcgi rrdtool sasl sdl sendmail session spamassassin spell spl ssl stream tcp-zebra tcpd tcpmd5 truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales verbose vfat virus-scan vnc voice vorbis wxgtk1 wxwindows xml xmlrpc xmms xorg xv yahoo zip zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Please help me, I do not know what happen. Thanks in advance. -- Rafael Alfaro. Omnilife Independent Distributor. People taking care of people. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list