Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 21:19 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start = 0 Maybe set readahead to a smaller value? Something like 8 or 16? At least that's what http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/punk.html advises. If you have specific reasons for the higher value, then please elaborate. it is a default setting I never touched? Aside from 'IO_support' everything is default. same here. Oh, and I tried different io-scheds without any success. anticipatory and deadline work better for me, but far from perfect. cfq is unusable. I believe there is a misunderstanding here. I am the one with the problem not Volker :) we have both similar problems ;) Ah! Nice to hear I am not alone! *g* googling around, I found some people having a similar problem too, all of them are using xfs as I do (eg http://www.thisishull.net/showthread.php?t=219580). What's your fs? Mounting with nobarrier didn't work for me :( Regards, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 18:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use: _syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio); _syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who); and supposedly I just #include linux/unistd.h but I'm getting these error from gcc: error: syntax error before ioprio_set warning: data definition has no type or storage class error: syntax error before ioprio_get warning: data definition has no type or storage class so I had a look in /usr/include/linux/unistd.h and it doesn't even have _syscall in there!! It's in /usr/src/linux though... That means that the kernel devs have decided that API is not userland safe. In recent kernels, there's a specific 'headers' (or somesuch) make target, that generates .h files that are appropriate to use in userland. If you need access to APIs that aren't in those headers, you should be writing a kernel module, or convincing the kernel developers to expose these APIs to userland. Your kernel module may need be only a tiny stub, just something to go between your userland and the non-userland-safe APIs. Am I doing something wrong? It's possible you just need another header. It also possible that there's a different entry point now. I seem to remember the location of the syscall table is recently changed to something like randomized per-process at some point in the 2.6.1x line. That may have changed how you need to be calling things. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW! pgp9ea0BL7sPE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking
Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 22:28 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier a écrit : What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of course, your problem might be caused by something else altogether. At the moment i use the CFQ-scheduler others are not compiled in the kernel, I will compile one and tell you if this gives any improvements. Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a lot with io-intensive background taskes. Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mysql error
Hi, After a power cut my server did not start again. I had to boot with a livecd, do a fsck in my / partion (which removed some orphan inodes) and reinstall grub in my MBR. After all, I'm able to boot, and all my services are running again, all except mysql. This is what I see in my mysqld.err log: 070208 11:26:17 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL server acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please use '--log-bin=afrodita-bin' to avoid this problem. mysqld got signal 4; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt, improperly built, or misconfigured. This error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware. We will try our best to scrape up some info that will hopefully help diagnose the problem, but since we have already crashed, something is definitely wrong and this may fail. I think I can ignore this key_buffer_size=0 read_buffer_size=258048 max_used_connections=0 max_connections=100 threads_connected=0 It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_connections = 76399 K bytes of memory Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation. thd=(nil) Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went terribly wrong... Cannot determine thread, fp=0xb690808d, backtrace may not be correct. Bogus stack limit or frame pointer, fp=0xb690808d, stack_bottom=0xbfcb, thread_stack=196608, aborting backtrace. The manual page at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Crashing.html contains information that should help you find out what is causing the crash. *WTH** I have done this: myisamchk --silent --force */*.MYI from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/crashing.html and I think tables are fine (I have copied them into a new mysql and I can browse content) I have recompiled mysql, but I think this is not enough... What else may I do to recover y mysql? Do I have to recompile all its dependencies? How? Maybe a emerge --emptytree world/system? TIA, Arnau -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?
Daniel Iliev wrote: As already mentioned in this thread the workaround is to un-keyword a concrete version, not the whole package. This is not a workaround, it's a _better way of achieving the goal. When portage just flags packages gone stable, you have to watch the pretend output yourself for these flags. When using = or ~ you can just forget about the package, portage will automatically handle an upgrade to the next stable version. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote: I start my wireless network with the script /etc/init.d/net.eth2 which is started by init in the default runlevel. I also have /etc/init.d/netmount to mount some samba shares, and which is also started my init in the default runlevel, but depends on net from the line: local myneed=net So, as I understand it, this makes sure that init starts net.eth* before starting netmount. That's good. However, eth2 is on a DHCP-enabled connection and takes a few seconds to come up after starting the script. By the time netmount is started, net.eth2 has not finished coming up, so netmount fails and the samba shares are never mounted automatically. Is there a way to make the netmount script wait for a route to exist before attempting to connect? net.eth2 shouldn't return (by default) until it has a dhcp address, which means all other scripts starting after it will wait until you have an address. Things you might have done to change the default behaviour include RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP, and RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc. You can set them to no, and yes respectively and see if the following scripts wait... Thanks for this. I just checked and I have those variables set up correctly. Yes, upon closer inspection, the problem is slightly weirder. I'm using an Intel ipw3945 wireless device, which requires a daemon to run to regulate it or something. So, I also have /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start at boot. This must start before I can access eth2. However, I've actually just noticed that I don't explicitly start net.eth2 in any runlevel. It seems that this is kicked into action by ipw3945d somewhere (though I can't see where). The /etc/init.d/net.eth2 process just seems to fork off to the background, meaning that init carries on booting, and hence fails on netmount. Anyone any experience with this? Cheers, Pete. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Completely lost regarding wifi
Henk Boom wrote: On 06/02/07, Henk Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm much closer than I have been before. Following the LEAP example, I seem to manage to connect. iwconfig tells me I have an encryption key. The only issue now seems to be that I can't get dhcp working. Nothing relevant runs automatically, and when I run dhcpcd manually it times out. Then, after I have run dhcpcd, or if I just wait a while, when I do iwconfig it tells me that I an unassociated. . . I feel close, but I'm not quite there yet .. Wow, I hibernated the laptop (after iwconfig told me I was unnasosiated), carried it out of the computer lab and onto another floor, then woke it up. I ran /etc/init.d/net.eth1 one more time for good measure (it complained that it had already been started). Then I tried to ping google, and it worked! The only explanation I can think of for this is that the computer labs where I made my last post had bad reception. Now I'm curious though, do I need to explicitly run a dhcp client, or does wpa_supplicant handle all that for me? if you run wpa_supplicant _through_ gentoo initscripts, they should run dhcp when wpa_supplicant associates with the AP (unless you define something else in config_=(...) ) yoyo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X
Hello, I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not provide this time. Thanks, Vlad -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mysql error
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:46:39 +0100 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, [...] This is what I see in my mysqld.err log: 070208 11:26:17 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL server acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please use '--log-bin=afrodita-bin' to avoid this problem. mysqld got signal 4; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt, improperly built, or misconfigured. This error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware. We will try our best to scrape up some info that will hopefully help diagnose the problem, but since we have already crashed, something is definitely wrong and this may fail. I think I can ignore this key_buffer_size=0 read_buffer_size=258048 max_used_connections=0 max_connections=100 threads_connected=0 It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_connections = 76399 K bytes of memory Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation. thd=(nil) Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went terribly wrong... Cannot determine thread, fp=0xb690808d, backtrace may not be correct. Bogus stack limit or frame pointer, fp=0xb690808d, stack_bottom=0xbfcb, thread_stack=196608, aborting backtrace. The manual page at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Crashing.html contains information that should help you find out what is causing the crash. *WTH** I had to remove all bin files from /var/lib/mysql After that, all works fine! cheers! -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Wiggum: Dispara a las ruedas Lou. Lou: eee, es un tanque jefe. Wiggum: Me tienes hartito con todas tus excusas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:08 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not provide this time. You might want to check/change your DPI settings (compare http://scanline.ca/dpi/). Jürgen -- ICQ #81510866 - http://the-gay-bar.com - MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Occam's Razor: -Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:33 +, James wrote: I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64? I think using mplayer-bin for x86 in compatibility mode should work with win32codecs. Jürgen -- ICQ #81510866 - http://the-gay-bar.com - MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Occam's Razor: -Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X
Vlad Dogaru ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hello,
I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain
and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I
apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not
provide this time.
Thanks,
Vlad
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Well, that depends on what kind of desktop/session manager you're using (Gnome,
KDE, Fvwm, ...).
If it's Gnome or KDE (or I think XFCE), there should be a font manager
somewhere in the preferences.
If you're using something like Fvwm, you can change the GTK fonts and that will
affect all the GTK applications (such as Firefox, Gaim, ...) (for the QT
applications, I have to admit I don't know how they pick a default font if
you're not under KDE).
To change the GTK font, put this as an example in your ~/.gtkrc (or
~/.gtkrc-2.0 depending on the GTK version you're using):
style default
{
fontset =
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*,-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*
}
Where you can of course change the font to suit your needs.
HTH,
Gregory
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Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd and routes
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:20:28 +1100
Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I have a Gentoo server that is running Cisco VPN software to connect
to my companies VPN. I have setup the server as a NAT for the specific
subnet required for the VPN and the rest of my traffic goes through my
router (192.168.1.1). I currently have to manually run the following
command to setup the route:
route add -net 10.4.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.200
On my Gentoo server I run dhcpd to allocate IP addresses for machines
on my LAN. The current configuration is:
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.199;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
}
So the question is how can I setup dhcpd to automatically setup the
route command for all clients using the dhcpd?
You will need a subnet declaration as such for each subnet on the
network. For example, something like
subnet 10.4.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.1.200;
}
might be appropriate. Without the range statement, you won't actually
offer DHCP addresses on the network, but the routing information should
be forwarded to the DHCP clients you are servicing on 192.168.1/24.
Good luck. DHCPd is neat ; )
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Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking
Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a lot with io-intensive background taskes. Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have util-linux installed and ionice is missing! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking
On Thursday 8 February 2007 19:34, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have util-linux installed and ionice is missing! It's explained here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] udev usb printer permissions
Hi there! Can anyone please tell me why /dev/usb/lp0 has the following onwer/group and permissions? zeus ~ # ls -l /dev/usb/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root plugdev 180, 0 Feb 8 2007 lp0 /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules says: [...] # usb devices KERNEL==hiddev*, NAME=usb/%k KERNEL==auer*,NAME=usb/%k KERNEL==legousbtower*,NAME=usb/%k, GROUP=usb KERNEL==dabusb*, NAME=usb/%k BUS==usb, KERNEL==lp[0-9]*, NAME=usb/%k, GROUP=lp [...] I would expect /dev/usb/lp0 to belong to group lp, so which other config file tells udev to put it under these onwer/group and permissions? Thanks in advance Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Corrupted Cache w/ portage
For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with portage's metadata cache after a sync. The problem is reproduceable 100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or there's actually a problem with the portage mirrors: The problem is easily fixed by removing the cache and forcing emerge to rebuild it, but the next time I sync the corruption returns: --- gentoo portage # emerge --sync [...] Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4049, in ? emerge_main() File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4006, in emerge_main action_sync(settings, trees, mtimedb, myopts, myaction) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2924, in action_sync action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3019, in action_metadata eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py, line 47, in mirror_cache if trg and not write_it: File /usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py, line 170, in __len__ return len(self.keys()) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py, line 54, in keys return list(self.__iter__()) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py, line 48, in __iter__ for k in self.orig.iterkeys(): File /usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py, line 103, in iterkeys return self.__iter__() File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py, line 83, in __iter__ return iter(self.keys()) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py, line 87, in keys self.d.update(self.pull()) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 29, in callit return args[0](*args[1:]+args2) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 47, in _pull raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 is corrupt: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required gentoo portage # rm -rf /usr/portage/metadata/cache/ gentoo portage # emerge --metadata Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2007 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' Updating Portage cache: 100% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] X application instability
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Salutations -- I have some instability in my desktop system which I've not been able to banish. What I've experienced is that some X applications, in varying degrees of frequency, crash with this sort of error: The program 'gmfsk' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'. (Details: serial 9575469 error_code 1 request_code 0 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) The applications which I've seen affected include firefox (infrequently), ardour (with some regularity), and gmfsk (very frequently). In the worst case, gmfsk, the application will only run for about 45 minutes between dumps. What I've done: - - I have tested gmfsk on a Red Hat EL4 virtual machine, and the crash does not occur. Note that this uses xorg v6. - - On the Gentoo machine, I have set -O (down from -O2) in make.conf, and have rebuilt my entire Gentoo environment using 'emerge -e world', and have resolved broken dependencies with revdep-rebuild; and - - I have removed the proprietary Matrox binary hal library, required to make dual-head work on my G400, and reverted to the xorg driver. Nothing has helped so far. This is a current (2006.1) system. I have attached the contents of make.conf and xorg.conf, and have posted below the output of lsmod and uname -a. Let me know what other information might be useful to help narrow down the possibilities, or (even better) what others might have done to quell similar gremlins! Cheers -d $ uname -a Linux sybil 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 #3 PREEMPT Sat Feb 3 21:46:35 PST 2007 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux $ lsmod Module Size Used by usbhid 28868 0 vmnet 33708 13 vmmon 103180 0 nfs 202248 3 lockd 55240 2 nfs nfs_acl 3456 1 nfs sunrpc140028 4 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl ipt_LOG 5760 1 xt_limit2560 3 xt_state2112 2 ip_conntrack 47092 1 xt_state iptable_filter 2944 1 snd_seq_midi8160 0 snd_emu10k1_synth 6720 0 snd_emux_synth 31552 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 6784 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 5888 1 snd_emux_synth snd_pcm_oss39072 0 snd_seq_oss28928 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7040 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss snd_seq45392 8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event realtime9864 0 rtc12340 0 sg 28380 0 scsi_mod 88072 1 sg snd_mixer_oss 15424 1 snd_pcm_oss ide_cd 36256 0 matroxfb_base 26720 0 matroxfb_DAC10649152 1 matroxfb_base matroxfb_accel 4288 1 matroxfb_base matroxfb_g450 6592 1 matroxfb_base cdrom 32608 1 ide_cd g450_pll5760 2 matroxfb_DAC1064,matroxfb_g450 matroxfb_misc 11428 5 matroxfb_base,matroxfb_DAC1064,matroxfb_accel,matroxfb_g450,g450_pll via_agp 9536 1 ehci_hcd 26248 0 uhci_hcd 21064 0 usbcore 113092 4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd snd_emu10k1 103232 2 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_rawmidi23136 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec 82848 1 snd_emu10k1 via_rhine 22024 0 snd_ac97_bus2240 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm69768 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_device 7692 7 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_timer 21188 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9608 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem4544 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 8900 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd47460 15 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep e1000 107200 0 soundcore 9312 1 snd - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/004B8F8B.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFy3Tu5FKhdwBLj4sRAoBQAJoCxRkGET1yl9P7NdlLxPwBUal2JgCgjSQb SF+PQF6MkFtGmy79mAbI9nw= =t3z1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted Cache w/ portage
On Thursday 08 February 2007 20:08:58 Mike Edenfield wrote: For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with portage's metadata cache after a sync. The problem is reproduceable 100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or there's actually a problem with the portage mirrors: The problem is easily fixed by removing the cache and forcing emerge to rebuild it, but the next time I sync the corruption returns: gentoo portage # emerge --sync [SNIP] File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 47, in _pull raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 is corrupt: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required gentoo portage # rm -rf /usr/portage/metadata/cache/ gentoo portage # emerge --metadata # rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep emerge --metadata http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156374 -- Bo Andresen pgpncPOhfRJ3d.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: X application instability
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Looks like my xorg.conf didn't get attached (or was stripped); inlining below. Cheers -d Section ServerLayout Identifier dualhead Screen screen1 0 0 Screen screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse1 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard1 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section ServerFlags Option Xineramaon EndSection Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/CID/ #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Speedo/ #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/TrueType/ #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/freefont/ # The module search path. The default path is shown here. FontPath/usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/TTF/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/local/ EndSection Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. #SubSection extmod # Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension #EndSubSection # This loads the font modules # This loads the GLX module #Load glx # This loads the DRI module #Load dri Load dbe # Double buffer extension Load type1 #Loadspeedo Load freetype #Loadxtt Load glx EndSection Section ServerFlags Option Rotate # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #Option NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltFn VT switch sequence # (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key # events. #Option DontVTSwitch # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #Option DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #Option Dont Zoom # Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With # it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes, # but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will # receive a protocol error. #Option DisableVidModeExtension # Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client. #Option AllowNonLocalXvidtune # Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device # (mouse and keyboard) settings. #Option DisableModInDev # Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to # change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset). #Option AllowNonLocalModInDev EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver kbd Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc101 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol PS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux EndSection Section Monitor Identifier 1905fp HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 Option dpms EndSection Section Monitor Identifier 1800fp HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 Option dpms EndSection Section Device Identifier matrox0 Driver mga # xorg Matrox driver #Driver fglrx # binary ati driver from gentoo 'ati-drivers' #Driver ati # xorg ati driver #Driver nvidia # binary nvidia driver from nvidia #Driver nv # xorg nvidia driver EndSection Section Device Identifier matrox1 Driver mga EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen0 Device matrox0 Monitor1905fp DefaultDepth24 Option dpms #VideoRam65536 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device matrox1 Monitor1800fp DefaultDepth24 Option dpms #VideoRam65536 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth
[gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch
Hello, list -- # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 20G 12G 7.5G 61% / udev 236M 2.7M 233M 2% /dev shm 236M 0 236M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 14G 13G 1.3G 91% /home/col/dump /dev/hda6 14G 12G 2.0G 86% /home/col/music lbg2 col # fdisk /dev/hda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes What did I do wrong? It looks like my 80 GB drive is more like 50 GB. How did I 'lose' the capacity? Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 497 250456+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 4982482 1000440 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda32483 4410320976984 83 Linux /dev/hda4 44104 99582279614165 Extended /dev/hda5 44104 7184313980928+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 71844 9958213980424+ 83 Linux What major clue do I lack? :( -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:34:21 -0800 Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list -- # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 20G 12G 7.5G 61% / udev 236M 2.7M 233M 2% /dev shm 236M 0 236M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 14G 13G 1.3G 91% /home/col/dump /dev/hda6 14G 12G 2.0G 86% /home/col/music so here the sizes added up are ~48.5 gigs, right? and here... Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes we can see the 80 gig drive recognized as such. 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders and you have 155,061 cylinders on the disk, but Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 497 250456+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 4982482 1000440 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda32483 4410320976984 83 Linux /dev/hda4 44104 99582279614165 Extended /dev/hda5 44104 7184313980928+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 71844 9958213980424+ 83 Linux you only fill to cylinder 99,582. So 99,582 of 155,061 leaves us only about 64% of the drive used, and your 30 'missing' gigs simply not partitioned off. Unfortunately, since you haven't any more primary partitions, you have space after /dev/hda4 and no way to use it. Hopefully you know something about nondestructive partition resizing. good luck! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:23 +, Peter Lewis wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote: [snip] Is there a way to make the netmount script wait for a route to exist before attempting to connect? net.eth2 shouldn't return (by default) until it has a dhcp address, which means all other scripts starting after it will wait until you have an address. Things you might have done to change the default behaviour include RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP, and RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc. You can set them to no, and yes respectively and see if the following scripts wait... Thanks for this. I just checked and I have those variables set up correctly. Yes, upon closer inspection, the problem is slightly weirder. I'm using an Intel ipw3945 wireless device, which requires a daemon to run to regulate it or something. So, I also have /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start at boot. This must start before I can access eth2. However, I've actually just noticed that I don't explicitly start net.eth2 in any runlevel. It seems that this is kicked into action by ipw3945d somewhere (though I can't see where). The /etc/init.d/net.eth2 process just seems to fork off to the background, meaning that init carries on booting, and hence fails on netmount. Anyone any experience with this? yeah, I have services starting without me asking for them too :) It seems to happen when the module is loaded. Supposedly, you control this behaviour with RC_PLUG_SERVICES=... Have a read in /etc/conf.d/rc again for more info on this. It doesn't work for me however, I have it set to !bluetooth, and yet /etc/init.d/bluetooth is _always_ started. What happens if you set RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth2, and then explicitly add net.eth2 to your runlevel? maybe you need to put a dep in it so it starts after ipw3945d? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au And then there was the lawyer that stepped in cow manure and thought he was melting... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 11:42 +0100, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a lot with io-intensive background taskes. I am trying to compile it to overcome some heavy-disk access performance issues (ext3), but I can't! Not compatible with recent headers or something :( See my thread on _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 if you can help!! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Style may not be the answer, but at least it's a workable alternative. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What's with the timezone data...
* sys-libs/timezone-data Available versions: 2006g 2006p ~2007a Homepage:ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump) How come the 2007 is still masked. The new DST for the USA and Australia is creeping up in a few weeks. March 11th. The changelog is fairly useless from a 'users' perspective. I have no idea which one has the required USA DST changes in it... http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/timezone -data/ChangeLog -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: What's with the timezone data...
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * sys-libs/timezone-data Available versions: 2006g 2006p ~2007a Homepage:ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump) How come the 2007 is still masked. I don't know. The new DST for the USA and Australia is creeping up in a few weeks. March 11th. The changelog is fairly useless from a 'users' perspective. I have no idea which one has the required USA DST changes in it... Looking inside tzdata2006p.tar.gz at the file for North America, the comments indicate that the new U.S rules were added to the data in 2005, so there shouldn't be any problem. After untarring, $ grep US.*2007 northamerica RuleUS 2007max - Mar Sun=8 2:001:00D RuleUS 2007max - Nov Sun=1 2:000 S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication
Hi, all, I've installed djbdns on my home network and I have stretched my competence past the breaking point in doing so. I have gotten it to supply ip addresses for all of my local machines using my own local nis domain name. But, in doing so, I've managed to screw up host based authentication for ssh, and I'd like to undo the damage. Before djbdns, I could ssh into any of my local machines w/o suppling a password. After djbdns, I get this response to an ssh: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~-- ssh tobey get_socket_address: getnameinfo 8 failed: Name or service not known userauth_hostbased: cannot get local ipaddr/name Password: man getnameinfo suggests that getnameinfo does ip address to name translation. And, sure enough, If I try an nslookup on a local ip address, djbdns can't supply me with the machine name. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~-- nslookup 192.168.1.104 Server: 192.168.1.254 Address:192.168.1.254#53 ** server can't find 104.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN I have a feeling that I should add some sort of record into the local database to make the ip to name translation possible, but I don't know enough about nameserving, ssh, or authentication to figure out what to do next. Any ideas? Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Blinka wrote: ** server can't find 104.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN That seems pretty clear ... :) As you probably know from reading the djb docs, the jobs of recursive resolving and authoritative nameserving are separate. You appear to be using 192.168.1.254 as a recursive resolver, so I presume that's the IP address where you're running dnscache. It's telling you that it doesn't know who is authoritative for 192.168.1.104. You must tell it who to ask by adding a file /etc/dnscache/root/servers/104.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa (or an appropriate subnet thereof, such as 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa). The content of that file should be the IP address of tinydns (which cannot be the same IP address as dnscache), which will then know how to find your hosts by IP address. Similarly, there needs to be a file /etc/dnscache/root/servers/yourdomain.blah, with the same contents, for forward lookups. I cheat and run tinydns on 127.0.0.1, and dnscache on the public IP address, which is incorrect because only my dnscache can reach it. Nevertheless, it works well for me internally, since my internal hosts all use the same (my) dns resolver. Ergo, I have a file /etc/dnscache/root/servers/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa which contains the line 127.0.0.1. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/004B8F8B.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFy+vw5FKhdwBLj4sRAsatAJ9qAVB17AQlp19xlIH2rSgcw1kbqQCbBnuU 22L+UtZPXoWYEgczQ3suP60= =OEFU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X
On 2/8/07, Jürgen Geuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:08 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not provide this time. You might want to check/change your DPI settings (compare http://scanline.ca/dpi/). Hi Jürgen, I switched from 75 to 96 DPI and everything is much more comfortable on the eyes now. Thanks for the tip, Vlad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: What's with the timezone data...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daevid Vincent wrote: The changelog is fairly useless from a 'users' perspective. I have no idea which one has the required USA DST changes in it... Dunno, but it's correct on my system for US/Pacific, which was synced a week or so ago: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ zdump -v /etc/localtime |grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0 Cheers -d -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFy/3M5FKhdwBLj4sRAoFDAJ9Uuup1nznCTcYyUbZ0lV5Ra5jH2gCgnA4J /aDAUEqNo9ZCiWxqBkGKcS0= =sKG5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev usb printer permissions
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! Can anyone please tell me why /dev/usb/lp0 has the following onwer/group and permissions? zeus ~ # ls -l /dev/usb/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root plugdev 180, 0 Feb 8 2007 lp0 /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules says: [...] # usb devices KERNEL==hiddev*, NAME=usb/%k KERNEL==auer*,NAME=usb/%k KERNEL==legousbtower*,NAME=usb/%k, GROUP=usb KERNEL==dabusb*, NAME=usb/%k BUS==usb, KERNEL==lp[0-9]*, NAME=usb/%k, GROUP=lp [...] I would expect /dev/usb/lp0 to belong to group lp, so which other config file tells udev to put it under these onwer/group and permissions? Thanks in advance Alex Something fishy somewhere. Here is mine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -l /dev/usb/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root lp 180, 0 Jan 9 03:59 lp0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Not sure why but I don't think I have changed anything. Maybe one of your rules was changed or not updated somehow. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Bringing kde-meta up to version 3.5.6 is going to want to upgrade ALL it's
dependencies to 3.5.6 (which includes kate).
To maintain different versions of of the various KDE packages, you'll need
to
remove the kde-meta package. To make sure 'emerge -u world' (or a
variant),
pulls in new version of other packages, you'll want to 'emerge -n' the
various direct dependencies of kde-meta (kdenetwork-meta etc).
I doubt kate is a direct dependency of kde-meta (I could be wrong). If it
isn't, one (or more) of the other kde${stuff}-meta packages will also try
to
upgrade it. Instead of 'emerge -n'-ing those packages, 'emerge -n' it's
direct dependencies (one of which should be kate).
You may actually find some packages that you don't care about, feel free to
not 'emerge -n' them. They will then not be updated by an 'emerge -u
world'
and my be removed be 'emerge --depclean' (unless they are a dependency of
some other package in world)
In fact, I recently removed all the kde${stuff}-meta packages from my
system
and only installed the KDE applications I wanted. This might result in
significant disk space savings, but YMMV. I now have ~90 packages from the
kde-base category instead of the ~350 pulled in by kde-meta.
Well, I am doing this the hard way right now. I just check for updates
and update everything but kdelibs and kate manually. So far, so good.
Maybe it will get sorted soon.
Thanks
Dale
:-) :-) :-) :-)
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