Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:06, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 30 January 2007 15:52, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 15:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Anyway if you know how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped during reboot too (which it doesn't unless you make it so). And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Hah, so my machine isn't so bad. 4 hours 57 minutes 34 seconds with everything enabled except linguas (english only) and dev stuff. 4 hours 2 seconds with gnome, kde and all other fluff out of USE. It's enough to make a fellow wanna consider openoffice-bin... What are the specs of your box? Dell Latitude D810 2GHz Centrino 2GB Ram 80G SATA 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 But, OOo is a well known resource hog that really stresses a machine when compiling, so I don't think it makes a useful measure of anything. And KDE-meta isn't much better these days either. Yesterdays sync brought in 3.5.6 and 3 or 4 other bits and pieces, which I started at 1am this morning. It's just finished now at 1pm - 12 hours! But having said that, I've noticed that this kernel gives really slow disk IO which I haven't managed to track down. It feels less than half the speed I got on 2.6.18.*, and my three year old desktop with a similar world runs 'emerge -avuNDt world' twice as quick. I'm almost ready to give up on .19 and go back to .18 till .20 comes out. alan
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: snip And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( So when are the Openoffice people going to break it into separate packages (Write, Calc, etc.) like KDE did? This would get rid of that nonsense of 15 hrs for a single package build. haha, good joke, nice one, you just made my day. Oh wait, you mean you're serious? Erm, well, I once did have a peek into the OOo makefiles and what I saw there was scary. If no-one has had the courage so far to separate out the packages, I really wouldn't hold it against them. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging php with mysql and recode support
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: File a bug, and be prepared with a patch -- cause there's probably a good reason they are considered conflicting. There are some more useflags that are conflicting with recode. I can rember that yaz is one of them. And I thing iconv is a better solution than recode. ;) -- Eureka! -- Archimedes pgpKhJ5V4Nn7P.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging php with mysql and recode support
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:49:33 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: * USE flag 'recode' conflicts with these USE flag(s): * mysql What shall I do if I need both mysql and recode support in php? File a bug, and be prepared with a patch -- cause there's probably a good reason they are considered conflicting. It's likely your patch will have to be applied to the tarball from upstream to fix either the code or the build system to accept both options. Gentoo almost certainly won't have anything to do with such a patch unless it's applied upstream... http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27260 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60351 http://www.php.net/recode -- Bo Andresen pgpemR4KLX5hi.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a MythTV frontend running Gentoo on an AMD 64bit with an Nvidia 6600 graphics card. I have had no end of problems with the graphics card (Xid errors). It crashes with a white line across the screen regularly when 3d goom is up when I'm playing music. I've so far been putting it down to the nvidia driver but I'm beginning to think I may have a dodgy stick of RAM or something as I also get Segmentation faults when doing emerge's on occasion. When this happens it says its an OS error and retrying the emerge normally fixes it. How can I find out what the problem is? Is there a way of testing the RAM? Is it possible that it is the nvidia drivers still (I am often playing music when I run an emerge)?? Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFwIsex43ifHzpDVURAgXzAJ9gQ+Ne+k33n89kCrFMbs/ZiWCeqwCcDB11 BYBPIWGPEw5qvxxWSwe1Jf4= =o66z -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:22:36 Uwe Thiem wrote: KDE is in so far better as it doesn't forbit parallel compiling - as OO does. So I can use distcc and let all my boxes contribute. That brings the compile time of KDE down a lot. Unfortunately, that isn't possible with OO. Actually it isn't impossible with OOo. It just isn't reliable enough to be enabled by default yet. `export WANT_MP=true` will enable parallel compiling. -- Bo Andresen pgpFT3IE5cHd4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:27, Dave Oxley wrote: Hi, I have a MythTV frontend running Gentoo on an AMD 64bit with an Nvidia 6600 graphics card. I have had no end of problems with the graphics card (Xid errors). It crashes with a white line across the screen regularly when 3d goom is up when I'm playing music. I've so far been putting it down to the nvidia driver but I'm beginning to think I may have a dodgy stick of RAM or something as I also get Segmentation faults when doing emerge's on occasion. When this happens it says its an OS error and retrying the emerge normally fixes it. How can I find out what the problem is? Is there a way of testing the RAM? Is it possible that it is the nvidia drivers still (I am often playing music when I run an emerge)?? Faulty or dodgy RAM is indeed often the cause behind random segfaults. The best test of all is gcc which is why you get the error more with emerge than anything else. gcc just happens to stress the ram and disk system in ways that few other peices of software do. There is a product called memtest86 which tests ram, but you have to run it for many many hours to be sure of ewhat it's saying. And, I have read reports that what memtest86 does is predictable, whereas a big emerge is much more random. How to test: Well, you could come up with a $40k once-off rig to test memory that costs a fdraction of that. The easy way is to just swap out the memory and try again. Buy some, it's not that expensive and you *will* use it somewhere soon anyway :-) Or borrow some DIMMS from a friend for a day or three alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:22, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 31 January 2007 13:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:06, Uwe Thiem wrote: What are the specs of your box? Dell Latitude D810 2GHz Centrino 2GB Ram 80G SATA 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 Odd. My 2.8GHz Pentium 4 takes *far* longer to compile OO, something close to 10h, though I haven't really timed it. Intuition tells me that on my machine emerging OOo must do a lot of stuff my machine is fast at, and relatively little that it's slow at. I know for a fact it's got a nippy cpu and lots of ram, but disk IO is much slower than it ought to be. Also, my times come from genlop, and I may well have moved between home and office networks, and I can't guarantee that both networks have ntp servers exactly synced But, OOo is a well known resource hog that really stresses a machine when compiling, so I don't think it makes a useful measure of anything. And KDE-meta isn't much better these days either. Yesterdays sync brought in 3.5.6 and 3 or 4 other bits and pieces, which I started at 1am this morning. It's just finished now at 1pm - 12 hours! KDE is in so far better as it doesn't forbit parallel compiling - as OO does. So I can use distcc and let all my boxes contribute. That brings the compile time of KDE down a lot. Unfortunately, that isn't possible with OO. kde-meta also runs ./configure something like 300 times :-) which is very disk intensive and my machine sucks at that alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:34, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:22:36 Uwe Thiem wrote: KDE is in so far better as it doesn't forbit parallel compiling - as OO does. So I can use distcc and let all my boxes contribute. That brings the compile time of KDE down a lot. Unfortunately, that isn't possible with OO. Actually it isn't impossible with OOo. It just isn't reliable enough to be enabled by default yet. `export WANT_MP=true` will enable parallel compiling. Purely for interest's sake, is it known what exactly in OOo is causing these problems? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT Window Maker Site
Some others here must use Window Maker. Anyone able to access their site, something else going with them, do they still exist? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: snip And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( So when are the Openoffice people going to break it into separate packages (Write, Calc, etc.) like KDE did? This would get rid of that nonsense of 15 hrs for a single package build. haha, good joke, nice one, you just made my day. Oh wait, you mean you're serious? Erm, well, I once did have a peek into the OOo makefiles and what I saw there was scary. If no-one has had the courage so far to separate out the packages, I really wouldn't hold it against them. alan LOL! Hadn't realized it was that bad. Wonder who the culprit is? The original German group that wrote it or Sun when they got their hands on it. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Furthermore Pentium 4 is a joke (it performs horribly). A 2 GHz (Dothan I presume) Pentium-M should be faster than a 2,8 GHz Pentium 4. My timing is for an 1,6 GHz (Banias) Pentium-M btw. This sounds odd, but I'm not a cpu expert so can't really comment. Care to elaborate on why the P4 performs so horribly? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network scanning with gentoo / hplip / hpaio
At Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:31:51 +0100 Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The second problem is that the HP officejet 7310 at location 192.168.1.50 is not found I had the same problem with hp-setup, can you print? I can using cups. Printing works fine (via cups). (The above words are RE scanning). It seems that hp-setup use a wrong syntax to contact the device via network. Anyone installed successfully this kind of device? On linuxprinting.org says almost working... allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 livecd amd64 and rtl8111/8168B network card
Ok, i've solved all the issues installing from the small-gentoo amd64 r6 ISO cd it contains a bleeding edge 2.6.20 rc(something) kernel (useful also if one has issues with the JMicron PATA controller) cheers, m On 1/30/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:08:20 +0300 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok that's fine. however i'll have to install gentoo without the nice gentoo graphical linux installer, is it right? nice ??? ; ) I think you might be able to get a binary from realtek that supports the 2.6 kernels. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary
Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:04:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jakob Buchgraber squawked: Is there any excellent monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? What do you mean by monoligual? (English to English? or other languages?) Anycase, I have on my desktop 'sdcv' installed. The last time I checked (about 18 months ago) it is not in portage. Not quite sure if it is now. http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/ It is a commandline interface for StarDict, and so can just use stardict's dictionaries. (Speaking of which, if you are willing to have a GUI, you can just emerge stardict; you would also need to emerge the dictionaries that you need, they are all under app-dicts with a stardict- prefix. There are also additional dictionaries that you can download on http://stardict.sourceforge.net/) On my laptop, I just run a dictd server (emerge dictd). You also need to install dictionary files, again, all under app-dicts/dictd-* For English to English, I suggest the WordNet dictionary. You can also, alternatively, just emerge wordnet. Personally, if you just need an English-English dictionary, I would suggest using wordnet. Dictd is a bit fancier, but you might not find it more useful (I personally find the elements database quite useful every now and then). If you need support for other languages, I would suggest StarDict. Also, you can just look into the portage tree under app-dicts and app-text HTH, W Thanks for your reply! Yeah, I am looking for an English to English dictionary. I already tried all available dictionaries in portage however nothing really satisfied my needs ... Does anybody know something similar to the Cambridge dictionary? Because this is really a great monolingual dictionary only available for Windows, tough ... Cheers, Jakob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses
Hi there folks... I'm new to the list, so thought I'd say hello. On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote: Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? I just discovered that I have realplayer installed, which was pulled in by mplayer. Have you taken a look at GLEP 23? I for one hope that this gets implemented pretty soon. :-) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html Pete. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] System reporting information
Sorry that the subject is not very informative. I seem to remember some time back some discussion about a script or program that would examine a gentoo system and create a report on packages installed, make.conf contents, and other relevant information that might be of help to the devs. No personal info would be collected. Am I imagining this? Would this info be of help to the devs? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary
070131 Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Is there any monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? I am looking for an English to English dictionary. Firefox offers the on-line Merriam-Webster by default (under Google box): it's quite good with various senses their etymologies etc. I also have a bookmark for http://dictionary.reference.com/ , which has a search box many links to other dictionaries etc. The authoritative English dictionary is the Oxford, which you can buy on CD or DVD (I have access via U Toronto). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System reporting information
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:45, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] System reporting information': I seem to remember some time back some discussion about a script or program that would examine a gentoo system and create a report on packages installed, make.conf contents, and other relevant information that might be of help to the devs. No personal info would be collected. Am I imagining this? Would this info be of help to the devs? There was at one point a gentoo-stats package/project, but I don't think it's currently in a usable state. There's also http://www.linux-stats.org/ (and it's matching package: list) which generates some Gentoo-specific statistics. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpGjB9KyCzEw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:14, Peter Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses': On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote: Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? Have you taken a look at GLEP 23? Yeah. It had already been proposed when I installed Gentoo the first time: in 2004. Don't hold your breath. I for one hope that this gets implemented pretty soon. :-) There does appear to have been some forward progress, which is good. It languished for over two years without progress at one point. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgp3E4wXuur9c.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:58, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Furthermore Pentium 4 is a joke (it performs horribly). A 2 GHz (Dothan I presume) Pentium-M should be faster than a 2,8 GHz Pentium 4. My timing is for an 1,6 GHz (Banias) Pentium-M btw. This sounds odd, but I'm not a cpu expert so can't really comment. Care to elaborate on why the P4 performs so horribly? The instruction pipeline is very long, the CPU - RAM bandwith is quite small, and the pipeline has to be emptied any time the branch predictor is wrong. While the pipeline fills, the CPU works but no results are visible. Hz has never been a complete trump of other issues affecting CPU performance, but is always a factor to consider. (Among CPUs that are otherwise identical, higher Hz wins.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpSNP3nVPY4k.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT Window Maker Site
On 31 January 2007 16:55, Sean wrote: Some others here must use Window Maker. Anyone able to access their site, something else going with them, do they still exist? Drunk ... coffee. Horse addled. Shoes? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path
Hi, I try to install udev/hal/pmount in such a way that my usb devices are automounted. But not with a changable name in the media folder, but with a fixed name like /mnt/camera (or /media/camera.. whatever. As long as it's the same every time..) At this moment most things work, but when I add the mountpoints to fstab things go wrong. kde pops up a window and an error permission denied. The later is understandable as it seems to try to open a mount in the media dir which doesn't exists instead of the mount point as given in the fstab. Regretfully the /mnt/camera isn't mounted either. So adding a line to the fstab file just screws up the system as it seems. Removing it leaves me with changable names in the media folder (/media/disk, media/disk-1, depending on what's happening.. So I see two sollutions: - Or the mediamanager whould open the path as givien in the fstab (but where do I tell it to do so?) - Or I should be able to give the pmount a label (the second parameter) so it creates a /media/label. But again.. where can I do this. The main reason that I want a fixed name is for programs like digikam which expects such a path for importing images. Besides, on of the howtos suggested that using the fstab should work. So why doesn't it.. Anybody a suggestion? -- Ithaka photography, http://ithaka.mine.nu/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:31:03 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: So adding a line to the fstab file just screws up the system as it seems. Removing it leaves me with changable names in the media folder (/media/disk, media/disk-1, depending on what's happening.. Adding a line in fstab overrides the naming that pmount would otherwise use, but you have to add users to the options to allow it to be mounted as a normal user. Generally, fstab and HAL-driven automounting don't play well together. You need to set up udev rules to have persistent naming for your devices, then KDE will use this to name the mount point. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php -- Neil Bothwick Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 22:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:31:03 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: So adding a line to the fstab file just screws up the system as it seems. Removing it leaves me with changable names in the media folder (/media/disk, media/disk-1, depending on what's happening.. Adding a line in fstab overrides the naming that pmount would otherwise use, but you have to add users to the options to allow it to be mounted as a normal user. Generally, fstab and HAL-driven automounting don't play well together. Apparently.. the users flag was already added (noauto, user) so that's not the problem.. /dev/minolta /mnt/camera vfat noauto,user 0 0 to be precise. You need to set up udev rules to have persistent naming for your devices, then KDE will use this to name the mount point. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php Done too. udev creates a nice /dev/minolta which I would like automounted to /mnt/camera (or even /media/camera) If only pmount.allow would allow for a device label to use. But as it seems that would make life to simple eg. less interesting..;) Thanks, Gerhard -- Ithaka photography, http://ithaka.mine.nu/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm looking at setting up a Gentoo box for my mother to use. One thing I'd like some input on is the business of dialing up. The constraints are that she must be able to dial up as an unprivileged user, and it must be easy (She will be migrating from an old imac running osx, so I want to make it as painless as possible!) I'm currently favoring the method outlined in: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_Dialup_Connection#The_best_way:_Gentoo.27s_Network_Configuration specifically using Gentoo's /etc/conf.d/net with pppd configured for *on-demand* dialing, so it 'just happens' when needed. Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I find myself doing stuff like: $ ping ip of ISP nameserver or similar, because hostname access will just return host not found immediately without trying to bring the link up. So while this workaround is ok for me, I would like to get it so that the ppp interface comes up more intuitively (or am I missing something obvious?... that would be nice!). For the archives... this was happening because I had an empty /etc/resolv.conf. I needed to add some (initial) nameservers to make everything work as expected (i.e ping some-internet-hostname brings up the network). Of course once the dialup has happened, ppp can overwrite these nameservers with the ISP's ones... My mother is using the machine now, and she likes the way the connect to internet just happens when she starts Firefox or Thunderbird... and Gnome's look and feel are not too vastly different from OSX... so the level of confusion is not too high :-). Probably the biggest thing to adjust to is the 3 button mouse - after the single button apple one! Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:21:51 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: You need to set up udev rules to have persistent naming for your devices, then KDE will use this to name the mount point. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php Done too. udev creates a nice /dev/minolta which I would like automounted to /mnt/camera (or even /media/camera) If only pmount.allow would allow for a device label to use. But as it seems that would make life to simple eg. less interesting..;) pmount.allow only specifies which devices may be automounted. When mounting, pmount gets the name from either the disk's volume name or the device. Does your camera use a removable memory card? If so, try putting it in a card reader and setting the volume name with mkdosfs or mtools. My camera formats the card with a volume name of CANON_EOS, so it is mounted at /media/CANON_EOS. -- Neil Bothwick Q How many screws are there in a lesbians coffin? A None. It's all tongue and groove. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Portage Error
Hello everybody! This is my first post to the mailing list. So please forgive me if i am doing something wrong... I have a serious issue with portage because my hard disk (file system) has been damaged. Now i am unable to detect wether the problem is caused by portage or not. However if i try to emerge net-wireless/ipw3945d i get the following error: Completed installing ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4 into /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4/image/ * QA Notice: Pre-stripped files found: * /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4/image/sbin/ipw3945d Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5271, in ? retval = emerge_main() File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5266, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4733, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2980, in merge prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3674, in doebuild vartree=vartree, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3882, in merge mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7725, in merge cleanup=cleanup, mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7135, in treewalk slot_matches = self.vartree.dbapi.match( File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 5169, in match mymatch = [cpv for cpv in mymatch \ File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 5262, in aux_get for k, v in izip(aux_keys, self._aux_get(mycpv, aux_keys)): File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 5275, in _aux_get raise KeyError(mycpv) KeyError: 'net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4' And nothing has been merged. ANY help on this would be appreciated, as i am using my laptop quite often and wireless is a must have for me. I also started a thread in the gentoo forums where more information about my system and tries i have made to compensate the file system errors can be found. You may want to have a look at it here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-535125-highlight-.html Sadly no one could help me to resolve my issue until now. It would be great if you guys could. Thank you Patrick pgpaCS6slv6BC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path
pmount.allow only specifies which devices may be automounted. When mounting, pmount gets the name from either the disk's volume name or the device. Does your camera use a removable memory card? If so, try putting it in a card reader and setting the volume name with mkdosfs or mtools. My camera formats the card with a volume name of CANON_EOS, so it is mounted at /media/CANON_EOS. Well it does, but it does feel a bit of an ugly hack to have to label all my cards camera just to get hal/kded to behave. Besides, the card isn't the camera.. so even on a logical level it's wacky.. Anyhow, guess it's the best for now. Thanks! Gerhard -- Ithaka photography, http://ithaka.mine.nu/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 20:56, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 15:36 -0500, James Colby wrote: List members - I have a small home server that I have connected to the internet through a linksys router and cable modem. The linksys router is currently forwarding all ssh traffic to my gentoo box. What I would like to do is set up iptables to only allow ssh logins from a small number of internet hosts, and to reject and log all other ssh attempts. Can someone please help me out with this. All of the tutorials and documentation that I have found are setting up a fully functioning firewall / NAT / proxy, and I think that is a little overkill for my needs.s If you don't want the whole iptables suite you might want to consider good ole hosts.allow/hosts.deny as an alternative. They work fine with sshd if you have tcpwrappers enabled. It depends how secure you want your set up to be. I always suggest to disable passwd authentication and enable public key authentication, after you copy paste each client's public key in the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Any passwd cracking attacks will simply fail. I would also suggest that you move your sshd port from 22 to a higher number. All/most of these bots scanning port 22 will now leave you alone. Finally, you can set up additional layers like allow/deny users, MAC addresses, etc. While you're at it, don't forget disabling root logins. If you want to introduce diverse protection then iptables (and as previously suggested hosts.allow/hosts.deny) is an option. In your iptables script (or saved set of iptables rules) add something like: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -s client_ip_address -m tcp --dport 22 -d server_LAN_ip_address -j ACCEPT Of course, I suggest that you change port 22 in the line above to a higher number 'free' port. Your final catch-all rule at the bottom of your iptables will drop any packets (on any port) from hosts other than the clients you specified in my line above. Finally, you can repeat this in your router's firewall rules, assuming that you can specify WAN ip addresses (I know that you can in my hardware router, but don't know in yours). If any one manages to break in to the server through such a sshd setup, then they bl**dy well deserve it! HTH. -- Regards, Mick pgpABfgXYkFTf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error
Your filesystem seems to be badly fu...ehm, fscked up. In the forums people already told you the error you are having comes from a failing I/O operation on some file on your filesystem. You should have to identify what's rotten and what is not. This is probably a painful and difficult process, and you won't never, ever be sure everything is OK again. If I were in you, I'd reinstall. I know it is not the answer you were looking for but... Anyway, scary to see an ext3 filesystem crashing so badly. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:54:39 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Does your camera use a removable memory card? If so, try putting it in a card reader and setting the volume name with mkdosfs or mtools. My camera formats the card with a volume name of CANON_EOS, so it is mounted at /media/CANON_EOS. Well it does, but it does feel a bit of an ugly hack to have to label all my cards camera just to get hal/kded to behave. There is a way round this. It is possible, somewhere in the config of pmount/hal, to have devices mounted according to the /dev name only. I can't remember where this is, but Google and/or grep should find it. Personally, I prefer to use the volume name, because I may be using the card in the camera or a card reader, and the dev name varies according to which I use, whereas the volume name stays the same. It makes dealing with multiple mounted cards much easier. Besides, the card isn't the camera.. so even on a logical level it's wacky.. If your camera mounts as USB-storage, the camera is simply acting as an expensive card reader. -- Neil Bothwick Bad dog! Leave that wire [EMAIL PROTECTED] TERRIER signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:58, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Furthermore Pentium 4 is a joke (it performs horribly). A 2 GHz (Dothan I presume) Pentium-M should be faster than a 2,8 GHz Pentium 4. My timing is for an 1,6 GHz (Banias) Pentium-M btw. This sounds odd, but I'm not a cpu expert so can't really comment. Care to elaborate on why the P4 performs so horribly? The instruction pipeline is very long, the CPU - RAM bandwith is quite small, and the pipeline has to be emptied any time the branch predictor is wrong. While the pipeline fills, the CPU works but no results are visible. Hz has never been a complete trump of other issues affecting CPU performance, but is always a factor to consider. (Among CPUs that are otherwise identical, higher Hz wins.) Also Pentium-M has a lower latency L2 cache than P-4. With respect to pipeline lengths I was curious to see what they actually were: P-4 has 20 stages, P-M has.. err... 20 stages (Intel won't say exactly!). I found this an interesting read for those of you interested in this: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2342p=1 Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Apparently.. the users flag was already added (noauto, user) so that's not the problem.. /dev/minolta /mnt/camera vfat noauto,user 0 0 to be precise. I don't think it would matter in this case but for future reference, there is a difference between user and users. I learned that the hard way once. Thanks, Gerhard Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error
Patrick Holthaus wrote: KeyError: 'net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4' And nothing has been merged. ANY help on this would be appreciated, as i am using my laptop quite often and wireless is a must have for me. I also started a thread in the gentoo forums where more information about my system and tries i have made to compensate the file system errors can be found. You may want to have a look at it here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-535125-highlight-.html I notice in the forum you say you had a hard drive crash. The first thing to do is check the status of the drive itself (smartmontools or similar), and if it is ok, then poke around in dmesg and /var/log/messsages for ext3 filesystem problems. regards Mark P.s : is it hard drive crash month or something? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:27:10 +1100 Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of testing the RAM? a great way, yes, and it's provided on the gentoo boot cds, even the minimal. at the isolinux (boot:) prompt, just type memtest-86 and patiently await the completion of just one test. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:16:01 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: available. It takes around 15 hours :( distcc + crossdev = ; ) im not sure, but i bet you can maybe build G4 code on another box. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question
James Colby wrote: currently forwarding all ssh traffic to my gentoo box. What I would like to do is set up iptables to only allow ssh logins from a small number of internet hosts, iptables -A INPUT -s ip-address-of-know-host --dport 22 -j ACCEPT and to reject and log all other ssh attempts. iptables -A INPUT --dport 22 -j LOG iptables -A INPUT --dport 22 -j REJECT Regards, Norberto pgp1bYpX8fXSL.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] emerging php with mysql and recode support
Hello! I tried to re-emerge php because I need to be compiled with the 'recode' use flag, but I get this error: * USE flag 'recode' conflicts with these USE flag(s): *mysql * You must disable these conflicting flags before you can emerge this package. * You can do this by disabling these flags in /etc/portage/package.use: * =dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r8 -mysql What shall I do if I need both mysql and recode support in php? Thanks, István -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:22, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:45:26 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote: Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs out of memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. Really? Yes, tmpfs is backed by virtual memory not real memory so it will use your swap if needed. However, by default, each tmpfs mount is limited to 1/2 the physical RAM. In any case, it seems questionable to put yourself in a position where tmpfs is hitting the HD often; it's not tuned for such craziness and probably performs worse than other filesystems in that case. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpbCpI18Rgyz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 23:52, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: It doesn´t have a s-video output, just the ordinary monitor plug. What's your question? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
