Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': All in all, the odds are tipping in favour of ext4 I don't need quite such large filesystems as my largest is just under 4TB, and my system will probably max out around 7TB, but I need a filesystem that is maintained (Namesys had basically abandoned reiserfs in favor of reiser4 well before Hans' current troubles started), and has good all-around performance characteristics (I have both large source trees, invloving a multitude of directories and small-ish files AND a video library containing very large files in my /home). I would also like to see some support for the tail packing of resiserfs -- It's not that important, but last I checked one saved over 100MB by the portage tree on reiserfs AND mini-benchmarks like emerge --sync and find '/usr/portage' /dev/null actually ran faster than ext3. In my experience that's a representative data set for a Linux geek :-) Mine's very similar and I too find that reiser3 performs better all round. Unpacking 35000 smallish files in a kernel tree is no small task... That said, I'm very encouraged about ext4, and will probably migrate some unimportant data over to that filesystem in near future and perform my own bonnie++ tests. How do you plan to get around the decidedly non-trivial task of getting a decent fsck on a filesystem where plugins handle the metadata? Don't get me wrong, I think reiser4 is a good idea, and it's well thought out. But everything comes at a price, and in this case it's fsck alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] openssl certificates generation under gentoo
Hi all! I am not familiar with openssl at all. Here I got a problem. My Windows 2003 can not (or I can not) accomplish the task of generating a private key file and a csr file. That holds up my process of going on with authentication between it and other host servers. I wonder if gentoo linux is able to help finish this step for Win? I mean, using openssl under gentoo to generate a whole set of private key and certificate and transferring them to Win host for its use. I do not know whether that is feasible. Any suggestion will be appreciated! Thank you! -- You will when you BELIEVE. Buffalo Dickens
Re: [gentoo-user] openssl certificates generation under gentoo
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:44:20 +0800 Buffalo Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I am not familiar with openssl at all. Here I got a problem. My Windows 2003 can not (or I can not) accomplish the task of generating a private key file and a csr file. That holds up my process of going on with authentication between it and other host servers. I wonder if gentoo linux is able to help finish this step for Win? I mean, using openssl under gentoo to generate a whole set of private key and certificate and transferring them to Win host for its use. I do not know whether that is feasible. Any suggestion will be appreciated! Thank you! Hi, IMO any linux can do this, you only need openssl (which is BTW also available for Windows, IIRC). Google for the concrete commands (generate a self-signed certificate). Or better try openca.org to do the work for you ;) HTH. Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: troll ZFS? /troll You say troll, I say possibility; I'll certainly consider it. Actually, I would be very interested in using ZFS for my data. The troll was more about the fact that the ZFS license was explicitly designed to be GPL-2 incompatible, hence preventing it from being included into Linux (it would require a clean-room rewrite from the specs). However, the demos that I've seen about ZFS stress how easy it is to administer, and all the LVM-style features it has. Personally, I've /very/ comfortable with LVM and am of the opinion that such features don't actually belong at the filesystem layer. I haven't made the step to LVM and am still using a plain old RAID-1 mirror. I'm not that comfortable adding one more layer to the data path, and one more difficulty in case of hard disk failure. I need to good general purpose filesystem, what matters most to be is: 1) Online growing of the filesystem, with LVM I use this a lot, I won't consider a filesystem I can't grow while it is in active use. 2) Journaling or other techniques (FFS from the *BSD world does something they don't like to call journaling) that reduce the frequency of full fscks. 3) All-round performance, and I don't mind it using extra CPU time or memory to make filesystem performance better, I have both to spare. 4) Storage savings (like tail packing or transparent compression) I completely agree with 1) and 2), and 3) and 4) are nice to haves. What I like in ZFS is the data integrity check, i.e. every block gets a checksum, and it can auto-repair in a RAID-Z configuration, something that RAID-1 cannot. So I would add: 5) Reliable data integrity checks and self-healing capability. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] openssl certificates generation under gentoo
Many thanks Rumen! Actually I came across many error notifications during self certificate generation under Windows 2003 with openssl. As this is the gentoo maillist, I will not and should not paste the detailed error messages here:) So I just want to bypass this step under Win, letting linux take this task over. I do not know whether there will be some underlying conflict in doing this. Also, I will study what you provide me carefully. Thanks a lot! -- You will when you BELIEVE. Buffalo Dickens 2007/3/29, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:44:20 +0800 Buffalo Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I am not familiar with openssl at all. Here I got a problem. My Windows 2003 can not (or I can not) accomplish the task of generating a private key file and a csr file. That holds up my process of going on with authentication between it and other host servers. I wonder if gentoo linux is able to help finish this step for Win? I mean, using openssl under gentoo to generate a whole set of private key and certificate and transferring them to Win host for its use. I do not know whether that is feasible. Any suggestion will be appreciated! Thank you! Hi, IMO any linux can do this, you only need openssl (which is BTW also available for Windows, IIRC). Google for the concrete commands (generate a self-signed certificate). Or better try openca.org to do the work for you ;) HTH. Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openssl certificates generation under gentoo
Buffalo Dickens wrote: Many thanks Rumen! Actually I came across many error notifications during self certificate generation under Windows 2003 with openssl. As this is the gentoo maillist, I will not and should not paste the detailed error messages here:) So I just want to bypass this step under Win, letting linux take this task over. I do not know whether there will be some underlying conflict in doing this. Also, I will study what you provide me carefully. Thanks a lot! -- You will when you BELIEVE. Buffalo Dickens 2007/3/29, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:44:20 +0800 Buffalo Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I am not familiar with openssl at all. Here I got a problem. My Windows 2003 can not (or I can not) accomplish the task of generating a private key file and a csr file. That holds up my process of going on with authentication between it and other host servers. I wonder if gentoo linux is able to help finish this step for Win? I mean, using openssl under gentoo to generate a whole set of private key and certificate and transferring them to Win host for its use. I do not know whether that is feasible. Any suggestion will be appreciated! Thank you! Hi, IMO any linux can do this, you only need openssl (which is BTW also available for Windows, IIRC). Google for the concrete commands (generate a self-signed certificate). Or better try openca.org http://openca.org to do the work for you ;) HTH. Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Assuming you want to enable SSL on your Windows Web Server (IIS) you might try this: 1) Generate Cert. Authority on the Gentoo Box: openssl genrsa -des3 -out CA.key 1024 (import CA.crt in all the clients in order to make them recognize the CA and accept the certificates signed by it) 2) Create Cert. Request (Windows Box): - Open the Internet Manager - Select the site you want to create a key for - Right-click Properties - Select Directory Security - Go to Server Certificate - Follow the steps and create a New CSR - Save your CSR as new.csr - Transfer it to the Gentoo box 3) Sign the CSR on the Gentoo box: openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in new.csr -CA CA.crt -CAkey CA.key -CAcreateserial -out new.crt 4) Transfer the signed cert. back to the Windows Box and install it: - Open the Internet Manager - Select the site you requested a certif. for - Right-click properties - Go to Directory Security tab - Choose Server Certificate - Choose that you want to complete the pending request - Select the .crt file that you transferred from the Gentoo box HTH -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai
Hi lugs, Sorry for the cryptic headline but wanted to keep the suspense; sorry for crossposting too but this is important! /Dell has announced it WILL be shipping preinstalled Desktop Linux on certain machines, desktop and laptop/ - more details will follow later. Happily, it seems that [s]urvey respondents indicated that improved hardware support for Linux is as important as the distribution(s) offered. So, don't expect to see your favourite distribution on a Dell Linux laptop anytime soon - unless it's Ubuntu ;-) - but hey, IT'S LINUX. Unfortunately, as stated above there are no more details as yet but they will be making more announcements in the coming weeks. UPDATE: just had to add preinstalled to Kmail's dictionary! (Oh, and Ubuntu - never mind ;-) ) does a little dance. OK, silly season over, get back to work ;-) Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Missing init script in util-vserver?
Hi, Anyone else here using Linux-VServer? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/vps/vserver-howto.xml The howto has recently been updated, and section 2.7 says after emerging util-vserver-0.30.212 (no longer in portage) two init-scripts will be present on the host: vprocunhide util-vserver I'm running util-vserver-0.30.212-r2 and only /etc/init.d/vprocunhide is present, just as it was before. (there is an /etc/init.d/vservers.default, but that's something else). util-vserver-0.30.212-r1 also doesn't provide this second script. Is this just a thinko in the docs, or something deeper? alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)
On Thursday 29 March 2007 02:19:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That said, I'm very encouraged about ext4, and will probably migrate some unimportant data over to that filesystem in near future and perform my own bonnie++ tests. How do you plan to get around the decidedly non-trivial task of getting a decent fsck on a filesystem where plugins handle the metadata? Don't get me wrong, I think reiser4 is a good idea, and it's well thought out. But everything comes at a price, and in this case it's fsck I think you misread me. I'm interested in ext4, and disappointed in NameSys' handling of reiser4. I love the *idea* of reiser4, but being able the resize the filesystem is *mandatory* for my setup, and I don't get that with reiser4. However, forward movement on a resizer (and other, currently vaporware, filesystem features/utilties) had been completely abandoned to the effort of getting reiser4 mainlined, well before Hans' legal troubles started. I feel this was/is a mistake; I have no problem running mm-sources when it has a feature I desire. But with the filesystem as it is I can't actually use it for more than testing. I've heard some (but not enough) about ext4 and it seems promising. I'm keeping my eye on it, and will probably throw some production data on it before it's mainlined. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpwBToAGoPth.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)
On Thursday 29 March 2007 03:09:33 Remy Blank wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: troll ZFS? /troll You say troll, I say possibility; I'll certainly consider it. Actually, I would be very interested in using ZFS for my data. The troll was more about the fact that the ZFS license was explicitly designed to be GPL-2 incompatible, hence preventing it from being included into Linux (it would require a clean-room rewrite from the specs). However, the demos that I've seen about ZFS stress how easy it is to administer, and all the LVM-style features it has. Personally, I've /very/ comfortable with LVM and am of the opinion that such features don't actually belong at the filesystem layer. I haven't made the step to LVM and am still using a plain old RAID-1 mirror. I'm not that comfortable adding one more layer to the data path, and one more difficulty in case of hard disk failure. I need to good general purpose filesystem, what matters most to be is: 1) Online growing of the filesystem, with LVM I use this a lot, I won't consider a filesystem I can't grow while it is in active use. 2) Journaling or other techniques (FFS from the *BSD world does something they don't like to call journaling) that reduce the frequency of full fscks. 3) All-round performance, and I don't mind it using extra CPU time or memory to make filesystem performance better, I have both to spare. 4) Storage savings (like tail packing or transparent compression) I completely agree with 1) and 2), and 3) and 4) are nice to haves. What I like in ZFS is the data integrity check, i.e. every block gets a checksum, and it can auto-repair in a RAID-Z configuration, something that RAID-1 cannot. RAID-3?/5/6 can self-repair like this, but the checksumming is done at the stripe, rather than inode level. Since I use HW RAID-6 across 10 drives, I'm not that concerned with this done at the filesystem level. Even without the extra disks, you can use SW RAID across partitions on a single (or small number of) disk(s). [(Ab)uses of SW RAID like this are not something I'd always recommend, but can provide the integrity checks you desire.] Also, EVMS provides a BBR (bad block relocatation) target, that can work around isolated disk failures. 5) Reliable data integrity checks and self-healing capability. Overall, I see this as something I'd rather see done at the block device level, instead of the filesystem level. Surely, a filesystem should not shy away from sanity checks that can be done with little overhead besides CPU time, but adding a checksum to each block might be a little overkill. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpgpksWoEzna.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai
Let me kick this off by saying sorry for top posting its my blackberry... This is good news very very good news but then again its a dell... Ill be very intererested to see how long this is going to take to roll it out! Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone -Original Message- From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:49:00 To:Tyneside LUG [EMAIL PROTECTED], gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai Hi lugs, Sorry for the cryptic headline but wanted to keep the suspense; sorry for crossposting too but this is important! /Dell has announced it WILL be shipping preinstalled Desktop Linux on certain machines, desktop and laptop/ - more details will follow later. Happily, it seems that [s]urvey respondents indicated that improved hardware support for Linux is as important as the distribution(s) offered. So, don't expect to see your favourite distribution on a Dell Linux laptop anytime soon - unless it's Ubuntu ;-) - but hey, IT'S LINUX. Unfortunately, as stated above there are no more details as yet but they will be making more announcements in the coming weeks. UPDATE: just had to add preinstalled to Kmail's dictionary! (Oh, and Ubuntu - never mind ;-) ) does a little dance. OK, silly season over, get back to work ;-) Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai
In the last episode, you wrote: HH HH In order to not get the deserved re-spammed like now, a few hints you HH probably know anyway: HH - Stop Cross-Posting. Seriously. HH - Stop redefining importance. So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why? HH - Mark OT posts OT. How is this off-topic? Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openssl certificates generation under gentoo
Daniel, such a detailed explanation! I am grateful for all of this! Yours, Buffalo 2007/3/29, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Buffalo Dickens wrote: Many thanks Rumen! Actually I came across many error notifications during self certificate generation under Windows 2003 with openssl. As this is the gentoo maillist, I will not and should not paste the detailed error messages here:) So I just want to bypass this step under Win, letting linux take this task over. I do not know whether there will be some underlying conflict in doing this. Also, I will study what you provide me carefully. Thanks a lot! -- You will when you BELIEVE. Buffalo Dickens 2007/3/29, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:44:20 +0800 Buffalo Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I am not familiar with openssl at all. Here I got a problem. My Windows 2003 can not (or I can not) accomplish the task of generating a private key file and a csr file. That holds up my process of going on with authentication between it and other host servers. I wonder if gentoo linux is able to help finish this step for Win? I mean, using openssl under gentoo to generate a whole set of private key and certificate and transferring them to Win host for its use. I do not know whether that is feasible. Any suggestion will be appreciated! Thank you! Hi, IMO any linux can do this, you only need openssl (which is BTW also available for Windows, IIRC). Google for the concrete commands (generate a self-signed certificate). Or better try openca.org http://openca.org to do the work for you ;) HTH. Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Assuming you want to enable SSL on your Windows Web Server (IIS) you might try this: 1) Generate Cert. Authority on the Gentoo Box: openssl genrsa -des3 -out CA.key 1024 (import CA.crt in all the clients in order to make them recognize the CA and accept the certificates signed by it) 2) Create Cert. Request (Windows Box): - Open the Internet Manager - Select the site you want to create a key for - Right-click Properties - Select Directory Security - Go to Server Certificate - Follow the steps and create a New CSR - Save your CSR as new.csr - Transfer it to the Gentoo box 3) Sign the CSR on the Gentoo box: openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in new.csr -CA CA.crt -CAkey CA.key -CAcreateserial -out new.crt 4) Transfer the signed cert. back to the Windows Box and install it: - Open the Internet Manager - Select the site you requested a certif. for - Right-click properties - Go to Directory Security tab - Choose Server Certificate - Choose that you want to complete the pending request - Select the .crt file that you transferred from the Gentoo box HTH -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- You will when you BELIEVE. Buffalo Dickens
[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: RAID-3?/5/6 can self-repair like this, but the checksumming is done at the stripe, rather than inode level. AFAIK, RAID-5 doesn't self-heal except for the specific case where a bad block is detected by the hardware, so the RAID driver knows which drive has the bad stripe. If the parity is just inconsistent, there is no way of knowing which drive's stripe should be reconstructed. RAID-6 OTOH should be able to do that. Surely, a filesystem should not shy away from sanity checks that can be done with little overhead besides CPU time, but adding a checksum to each block might be a little overkill. As long as performance is OK, I am willing to sacrifice the space for the per-block checksum. BTW, 10 drives? Nice setup! -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)
On Donnerstag, 29. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I think you misread me. I'm interested in ext4, and disappointed in NameSys' handling of reiser4. I love the *idea* of reiser4, but being able the resize the filesystem is *mandatory* for my setup, and I don't get that with reiser4. However, forward movement on a resizer (and other, currently vaporware, filesystem features/utilties) had been completely abandoned to the effort of getting reiser4 mainlined, well before Hans' legal troubles started. I feel this was/is a mistake; I have no problem running mm-sources when it has a feature I desire. But with the filesystem as it is I can't actually use it for more than testing. That is your point of view. For others, 'Resizing' is something that is not needed and never used. But being in mainline is mandatory! -mm Kernels are full of experimental stuff, highly unstable and very buggy. Nothing you can really trust. So as long as something does not show up in the Linus' Kernel, it is not usable. And that does not cover the testing something gets in Linus' kernel, that is simply not there with -mm kernels. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)
On Thursday 29 March 2007, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Surely, a filesystem should not shy away from sanity checks that can be done with little overhead besides CPU time, but adding a checksum to each block might be a little overkill. As long as performance is OK, I am willing to sacrifice the space for the per-block checksum. Yeah, if It's a CRC32 that's only 4 bytes out of a 4k block. .1% space overhead is paltry compared to the space cost of RAID-3/5/6. Even if it's something longer with error correction as well as detection, like a Hamming code, I imagine it could be *very* useful. Most checksums/checkdigits [e.g. CRC16/CRC32 or using any Crypo hash as a checksum] only do error detection, but the theory behind error correction has been around nearly as long, it's just more expensive. More layers of redundancy are generally a good thing. BTW, 10 drives? Nice setup! The machine's hostname is monster for a reason. 2x Dual-Core Opteron 275s, 2x NVidia 7800GTX (overclocked by BFG), 4G RAM, 10x 500G Hitachi's in 2x Chenbro 5-in-3 enclosures (in RAID6 = ~4TB usable space), 2x 74G Raptors in software RAID-0, Dell 1905FP + Dell 2407WFP, 7.1 sound, SATA DVD+/-RW drive, basically everything I could ever need. Built it myself (well, with the help of my geek friends as well) in the 1st half of 2005, although I've added some to it since then (drives and monitor). There's a pic and blog post about it on the drupal installation @ my domain, listed in my .sig. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpCUJHixJ2PH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] openssl certificates generation under gentoo
Buffalo Dickens wrote: Daniel, such a detailed explanation! I am grateful for all of this! Yours, Buffalo That's th list for, isn't it? ;-) Is the problem solved now? -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] media-plugins/audacious-plugins make error
Hi, Has anyone seen this and is there a solution: My USE flags: emerge -pv audacious-plugins [ebuild U ] media-plugins/audacious-plugins-1.2.5 [1.2.2-r1] USE=aac alsa flac modplug mp3 nls oss sndfile vorbis wma -arts -chardet -esd -jack -lirc -musepack -pulseaudio -sid -timidity -wavpack% (-libnotify%) 0 kB The error: CC configure.c LINK libscrobbler.so configure.o: In function `create_cfgdlg': configure.c:(.text+0x429): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_open' configure.c:(.text+0x455): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_get_string' configure.c:(.text+0x48e): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_close' configure.o: In function `saveconfig': configure.c:(.text+0x502): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_open' configure.c:(.text+0x523): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_set_string' configure.c:(.text+0x536): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_close' configure.c:(.text+0x874): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_set_string' gtkstuff.o: In function `errorbox_show': gtkstuff.c:(.text+0x2f): undefined reference to `xmms_show_message' gtkstuff.o: In function `about_show': gtkstuff.c:(.text+0xcf): undefined reference to `xmms_show_message' xmms_scrobbler.o: In function `cleanup': xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x6d): undefined reference to `prefswin_page_destroy' xmms_scrobbler.o: In function `init': xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x13f): undefined reference to `prefswin_page_new' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x146): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_open' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x169): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_get_string' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x184): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_get_string' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x18c): undefined reference to `bmp_cfg_db_close' xmms_scrobbler.o: In function `xs_thread': xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x374): undefined reference to `xmms_remote_get_playlist_pos' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x387): undefined reference to `xmms_remote_get_playlist_file' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x399): undefined reference to `xmms_remote_get_playlist_length' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x3aa): undefined reference to `xmms_remote_get_output_time' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x3c1): undefined reference to `xmms_remote_get_playlist_time' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x415): undefined reference to `xmms_remote_is_paused' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x432): undefined reference to `xmms_remote_is_repeat' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x7a8): undefined reference to `xmms_remote_is_playing' xmms_scrobbler.c:(.text+0x7e1): undefined reference to `playlist_get_tuple' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [libscrobbler.so] Error 1 make[2]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make: *** [build] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-plugins/audacious-plugins-1.2.5 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 3336: Called src_compile audacious-plugins-1.2.5.ebuild, line 91: Called die !!! make failed -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Thermal cpu
Hello I have a little problem on my gentoo, when I check the temperature I see that it is always about 10°C higher than when I am on debian. However, the cpu is at 0.3% used, as in debian. The problem is that with this gap, the fan is always active and I want that my gentoo be well installed Have any ideas to resolve that problem? Thank you very much Sylvain Chouleur _ Personnalisez votre Messenger avec Live.com http://www.windowslive.fr/livecom/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Text::Query
I need to use Text::Query::Advanced on my server so I guess I need to install Text::Query. Is there no ebuild for that module? If not, I remember there was a Gentoo tool for installing CPAN modules that aren't in portage. What was that tool called? I believe you're looking for g-cpan. Thanks David. g-cpan generated an ebuild for Text::Query in /usr/local/portage and then I was able to emerge it like any other overlay ebuild. Very nice. It seems like I should submit the generated ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org for inclusion in portage. Is that worthwhile? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Busybox update fail
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 23:01, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Mick wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007 07:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: you'll normally want to generate your errors in the C locale before posting them here or in bugzilla. Hmm, out of curiosity, how do you go about doing that? By preceding the relevant command with LC_ALL=C. Like so: # LC_ALL=C emerge -1 busybox Cool, thanks. -- Regards, Mick pgpEdPBTUSmhU.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] ssh escape command
How do you explain this: I am in a ssh session. I type ~. to end the session. The first time it says command not found, the second time the escape character is recognised and executed, I am logged out. = $ ~. -bash: ~.: command not found $ Connection to blah.blah.blah. closed. = -- Regards, Mick pgpUZR5CDJFnk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Text::Query
On 3/29/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use Text::Query::Advanced on my server so I guess I need to install Text::Query. Is there no ebuild for that module? If not, I remember there was a Gentoo tool for installing CPAN modules that aren't in portage. What was that tool called? I believe you're looking for g-cpan. Thanks David. g-cpan generated an ebuild for Text::Query in /usr/local/portage and then I was able to emerge it like any other overlay ebuild. Very nice. It seems like I should submit the generated ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org for inclusion in portage. Is that worthwhile? Nope. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml. -- David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Text::Query
I need to use Text::Query::Advanced on my server so I guess I need to install Text::Query. Is there no ebuild for that module? If not, I remember there was a Gentoo tool for installing CPAN modules that aren't in portage. What was that tool called? I believe you're looking for g-cpan. Thanks David. g-cpan generated an ebuild for Text::Query in /usr/local/portage and then I was able to emerge it like any other overlay ebuild. Very nice. It seems like I should submit the generated ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org for inclusion in portage. Is that worthwhile? Nope. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml. Ok, are all perl modules in CPAN being deleted from portage? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh escape command
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:10:43PM +0100, Mick wrote: How do you explain this: I am in a ssh session. I type ~. to end the session. The first time it says command not found, the second time the escape character is recognised and executed, I am logged out. = $ ~. -bash: ~.: command not found $ Connection to blah.blah.blah. closed. = Don't know about that, but I just found a peculiarity in ssh. If I ssh from a to b to c, ~. terminates the a-b session which also terminates the b-c session of course. Use ~~. instead to first terminate the b-c session while leaving a-b intact, but immediately folloing that with ~. to terminate the a-b session does not work; it gives command no found from bash. You have to give any other command in betweenm, even ENTER alone, then the ~. will properly terminate the a-b session. This might be what you were seeing, if you had just used ~~. to terminate a nested session. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh escape command
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:49:35AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you explain this: I am in a ssh session. I type ~. to end the session. The first time it says command not found, the second time the escape character is recognised and executed, I am logged out. = $ ~. -bash: ~.: command not found $ Connection to blah.blah.blah. closed. = snip This might be what you were seeing, if you had just used ~~. to terminate a nested session. You are on the right track, but not quite: From the man page: the ~ character has to be preceded by a newline to be recognized as special. The reason that ~~. followed by ~. does not terminate your initial connection is because the first layer of ssh still thinks you are typing on the same line. Basically the first layer of ssh sees this sequence ~~.~. and the first two tildes makes it think: ah, this is not an escape sequence, and sends the string ~.~. to the remote shell, the first two of which gets trapped by the second ssh layer to mean disconnect and the second two characters is just received by the shell. So, most likely the OP was typing something/anything that gave him a empty prompt without hitting a newline (hitting ^C, ^Z on a running program or just on the shell, typing something and hitting backspace to delete it...) Incidentally, you shouldn't need to hit the newline before the disconnect occurs. The minute you actually see the ~ appear on the screen you should know that it is not being interpreted as an escape character. W -- Willie W. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] File not listed in Manifest
Hi All, Any idea what this is about: == # emerge -upDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies \!!! A file is not listed in the Manifest: '/usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice-bin-2.2.0.ebuild' ... done! [ebuild UD] sys-apps/parted-1.7.1-r1 [1.8.2] USE=nls readline -debug (-device-mapper%) (-selinux%) 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB == And this is what the file/permissions looks like: # ls -la /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice-bin-2.2.0.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5560 Mar 29 13:11 /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice-bin-2.2.0.ebuild -- Regards, Mick pgpbuNmBpH7nS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Text::Query
On 3/29/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use Text::Query::Advanced on my server so I guess I need to install Text::Query. Is there no ebuild for that module? If not, I remember there was a Gentoo tool for installing CPAN modules that aren't in portage. What was that tool called? I believe you're looking for g-cpan. Thanks David. g-cpan generated an ebuild for Text::Query in /usr/local/portage and then I was able to emerge it like any other overlay ebuild. Very nice. It seems like I should submit the generated ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org for inclusion in portage. Is that worthwhile? Nope. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml. Ok, are all perl modules in CPAN being deleted from portage? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3chap=1#doc_chap2_sect2 -- David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] File not listed in Manifest
On 3/29/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Any idea what this is about: == # emerge -upDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies \!!! A file is not listed in the Manifest: '/usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice- bin-2.2.0.ebuild'... done! [ebuild UD] sys-apps/parted-1.7.1-r1 [1.8.2] USE=nls readline -debug (-device-mapper%) (-selinux%) 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB == And this is what the file/permissions looks like: # ls -la /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice- bin-2.2.0.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5560 Mar 29 13:11 /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice-bin-2.2.0.ebuild Just `emerge --sync`. May be your last sync contains errors or was make in a wrong time. -- WBR, Vladimir Rusinov aka B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Text::Query
I need to use Text::Query::Advanced on my server so I guess I need to install Text::Query. Is there no ebuild for that module? If not, I remember there was a Gentoo tool for installing CPAN modules that aren't in portage. What was that tool called? I believe you're looking for g-cpan. Thanks David. g-cpan generated an ebuild for Text::Query in /usr/local/portage and then I was able to emerge it like any other overlay ebuild. Very nice. It seems like I should submit the generated ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org for inclusion in portage. Is that worthwhile? Nope. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml. Ok, are all perl modules in CPAN being deleted from portage? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3chap=1#doc_chap2_sect2 Alright, thanks. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:27:36PM +0200, Sylvain Chouleur wrote: Hello I have a little problem on my gentoo, when I check the temperature I see that it is always about 10°C higher than when I am on debian. However, the cpu is at 0.3% used, as in debian. Check the file /etc/sensors.conf (or copy the debian file) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] File not listed in Manifest
On Thursday 29 March 2007 20:31, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: On 3/29/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Any idea what this is about: == # emerge -upDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies \!!! A file is not listed in the Manifest: '/usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice- bin-2.2.0.ebuild'... done! [ebuild UD] sys-apps/parted-1.7.1-r1 [1.8.2] USE=nls readline -debug (-device-mapper%) (-selinux%) 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB == And this is what the file/permissions looks like: # ls -la /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice- bin-2.2.0.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5560 Mar 29 13:11 /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice-bin-2.2.0.ebuild Just `emerge --sync`. May be your last sync contains errors or was make in a wrong time. Thanks, I've eix-sync'ed twice so far, with different servers. What I did yesterday which I doubt is in any way related to this, is I ran 'emerge -ufv openoffice' to download the source file. This machine is actually running openoffice-bin, but I needed the source for another machine on my lan. Anyway, resyncing did not fix it. Any more ideas? -- Regards, Mick pgpdd7thzalmr.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why? I'm not the one you asked, but preinstalled Linux isn't important to me. There are plenty of GNU/Linux users who aren't evangelists. (I would like to stop getting spam from pwned Windows boxes, but I expect spammers to find a way to pump it out even if all Windows boxes are removed from the 'net.) -- »Q« -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] File not listed in Manifest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: Anyway, resyncing did not fix it. Any more ideas? It's fixed in cvs now. The fix will trickle down to all the mirrors pretty soon. Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDB12/ejvha5XGaMRApsPAJ9mJGt9qdDruLGctBwX8g314bJp3wCfQUuR Ah+q1gNZjy/iAjWiMXdN8ZM= =cUu1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai
On Thursday 29 March 2007 12:43:22 Jeff Rollin wrote: HH In order to not get the deserved re-spammed like now, a few hints you HH probably know anyway: HH - Stop Cross-Posting. Seriously. HH - Stop redefining importance. Agreed. So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why? Because Linux is free? Either way that's besides the point. HH - Mark OT posts OT. How is this off-topic? This isn't a general Linux list. It's a Gentoo specific support list. There are others medias much more suited for that kind of information. -- Bo Andresen pgpVq9jsq4gcL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:58:20 -0500, »Q« wrote: So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why? I'm not the one you asked, but preinstalled Linux isn't important to me. There are plenty of GNU/Linux users who aren't evangelists. There are two reasons why it would be good for you, even if you intend to replace the installed Linux with something better: 1) You know that all the hardware works with Linux. If they supply driver for Ubuntu, you can get them for Gentoo (unless Dell do something horrid like using ndiswrapper) 2) You don't have to pay for a Windows licence. -- Neil Bothwick Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with return to sender stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:43:22AM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why? I'd have to say its definatly not important to me. As it is, I never use a 'generic' install, so I wouldn't want to have a preinstalled version. Just means that there are going to be a bunch of factory default root passwords out there coming off the Dell assembly line. (I guess they could randomize it or prompt for a new password on first boot, but my guess is they won't). So being that this is a Gentoo list, I'm going to go with a guess that nobody on here has the same install between them, because.. well its Gentoo :) And second have you bought a windows machine from DELL anytime recently, they load them full of their crap and you pretty much have to do a fresh install anyways to get rid of it. I'm willing to bet they'll do the same to Linux preinstall as well. Would I like to see Linux prosper, sure. This may even be a good step for it, but its not really relevent to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai
In the last episode, Richard Cox wrote: RC On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:43:22AM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: RC So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why? RC RC I'd have to say its definatly not important to me. As it is, I never use a 'generic' install, so I wouldn't want to have a preinstalled version. Just means that there are going to be a bunch of factory default root passwords out there coming off the Dell assembly line. (I guess they could randomize it or prompt for a new password on first boot, but my guess is they won't). RC RC So being that this is a Gentoo list, I'm going to go with a guess that nobody on here has the same install between them, because.. well its Gentoo :) RC True enough - however I support this because it gets rid of the Windows tax. RC And second have you bought a windows machine from DELL anytime recently, they load them full of their crap and you pretty much have to do a fresh install anyways to get rid of it. I'm willing to bet they'll do the same to Linux preinstall as well. RC Again, all true - but if we can get well-supported Linux-compatible laptops from mainstream vendors without the Windows tax, imo even if we have to install Gentoo ourselves, it's all good. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
In the last episode, »Q« wrote: »Q In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], »Q Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »Q »Q So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why? »Q »Q I'm not the one you asked, but preinstalled Linux isn't important to »Q me. There are plenty of GNU/Linux users who aren't evangelists. »Q I take it that by evangelists you mean people who want boxen which are well-supported by Linux and don't have software they don't need. Jeff pgpfnUyo2qmL7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu
But I don't have this file What program is supposed to make it? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:40:46 +0200 On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:27:36PM +0200, Sylvain Chouleur wrote: Hello I have a little problem on my gentoo, when I check the temperature I see that it is always about 10°C higher than when I am on debian. However, the cpu is at 0.3% used, as in debian. Check the file /etc/sensors.conf (or copy the debian file) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list _ Découvrez le Blog heroic Fantaisy d'Eragon! http://eragon-heroic-fantasy.spaces.live.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:28:10 +0200 Sylvain Chouleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I don't have this file What program is supposed to make it? lm_sensors How are you checking the temperatures? On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:27:36PM +0200, Sylvain Chouleur wrote: Hello I have a little problem on my gentoo, when I check the temperature I see that it is always about 10°C higher than when I am on debian. However, the cpu is at 0.3% used, as in debian. Check the file /etc/sensors.conf (or copy the debian file) -- | Jan-Hendrik Zab | +49 (0)1773392888 | http://www.v3ng34nce.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:58:20 -0500, »Q« wrote: So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why? I'm not the one you asked, but preinstalled Linux isn't important to me. There are plenty of GNU/Linux users who aren't evangelists. There are two reasons why it would be good for you, even if you intend to replace the installed Linux with something better: 1) You know that all the hardware works with Linux. If they supply driver for Ubuntu, you can get them for Gentoo (unless Dell do something horrid like using ndiswrapper) Already I know that the hardware I buy will work with Gentoo. If I got a Dell with preinstalled GNU/Linux, I could know that without engaging $searchengine, but avoiding searches isn't important to me. 2) You don't have to pay for a Windows licence. Already I don't have to pay for a Windows license. -- »Q« -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode, »Q« wrote: »Q I'm not the one you asked, but preinstalled Linux isn't important »Q to me. There are plenty of GNU/Linux users who aren't »Q evangelists. I take it that by evangelists you mean people who want boxen which are well-supported by Linux and don't have software they don't need. No. What Dell ships won't have any effect on whether or not I can get such a box. Okay, the laptop /did/ come with software I don't need, but neither is that important to me. -- »Q« -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:20:27 -0500, »Q« wrote: 1) You know that all the hardware works with Linux. If they supply driver for Ubuntu, you can get them for Gentoo (unless Dell do something horrid like using ndiswrapper) Already I know that the hardware I buy will work with Gentoo. If I got a Dell with preinstalled GNU/Linux, I could know that without engaging $searchengine, but avoiding searches isn't important to me. That's all but impossible with a laptop, unless the shop lets you boot it with a live CD before you buy, because manufacturers change chipsets without changing the model name. 2) You don't have to pay for a Windows licence. Already I don't have to pay for a Windows license. It is very difficult to buy a laptop without one. This is a non-issue for desktops, where you can build your own using known components, but it is a good step for those needing laptops, or for companies that want warrantied pre-built hardware. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 002: No Error - Yet signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu
Sylvain Chouleur wrote: But I don't have this file What program is supposed to make it? I use the lm-sensors built into the kernel and I don't have that file either. If he is using the kernel drivers that may be why he doesn't have it. Than again, I may be wrong too. Funny thing is, mine is accurate as compared to what the BIOS says. Funny it is off like that. Dale :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
On 2007-03-29, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? No. Mind explaining why? Because they won't have installed it they way I want it installed. I would be interested in a machine with no OS that's certified to be Linux compatible, but I have no interest in paying somebody to install some Linux distro I don't want just so I can wipe it and install what I do want. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I hope I at bought the right visi.comrelish... z... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
On 2007-03-29, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, all true - but if we can get well-supported Linux-compatible laptops from mainstream vendors without the Windows tax, imo even if we have to install Gentoo ourselves, it's all good. That's why I did buy a Laptop with Linux pre-installed for my first laptop. For it's replacement, I did buy one with Windows installed, but I made sure it was a model that was available with Linux pre-installed just to be confident that Linux would work well. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! QUIET!! I'm being at CREATIVE!! Is it GREAT visi.comyet? It's s'posed to SMOKEY THE BEAR... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?
I have an atheros (mad-wifi) internal mini-pci 802.11 a/b/g card in my Dell i8200 notebook running Gentoo. I also have an Engenius hostap 802.11b card/antenna in my Gentoo server. What is frustrating, is that it's a crap-shoot when my ath0 will (or won't) start properly. I have no control over what channel (either numeric like 6, or alpha such as b vs. g) to connect to my AP (MATRIX). Please tell me there is some way to tweak my /etc/conf.d/wireless (or anything for that matter), so that I can tell it, hey, when connecting to 'MATRIX', always use 802.11b and/or a certain channel range (presumably in the 'b' range). Furthermore, it would REALLY be great if I could do something whereby, if I have net.eth0 (i.e. CAT5 cable) then don't start net.ath0, else try net.ath0. Right now I have net.ath0 disabled by default because I hate when it starts up when I'm plugged in at work, as my traffic seems to go over the slower ath0 rather than the faster eth0 port. ?! I have ifplugd installed, but I don't think it can manage this kind of (seemingly obvious and intelligent) decision. locutus ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start * Starting ath0 * Configuring wireless network for ath0 * ath0 connected to ESSID MATRIX at 00:00:00:00:00:00 * in managed mode on channel 52 (WEP disabled) * Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming DHCP * Bringing up ath0 * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response [ !! ] locutus ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start * Starting ath0 * Configuring wireless network for ath0 * ath0 connected to ESSID MATRIX at 00:00:00:00:00:00 * in managed mode on channel 7 (WEP disabled) * Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming DHCP * Bringing up ath0 * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response [ !! ] locutus ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start * Starting ath0 * Configuring wireless network for ath0 * ath0 connected to ESSID MATRIX at 00:02:6F:09:B2:B4 * in managed mode on channel 6 (WEP disabled) * Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming DHCP * Bringing up ath0 * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... [ ok ] * ath0 received address 10.10.10.69/24 locutus ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] recompile in a halted OOO emerge...
hello, i terminated openoffice emerge in the middle of a compile. can i continue from where i left off? does emerge --resume resume from the middle of the compile or does it start on a clean tree? if not then can i just do a make somewhere in /var/tmp/portage/* and continue the compile from there? took so long... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eez a byootiful dai todai
In the last episode, Neil Bothwick wrote: NB On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:20:27 -0500, »Q« wrote: NB NB 1) You know that all the hardware works with Linux. If they supply NB driver for Ubuntu, you can get them for Gentoo (unless Dell do NB something horrid like using ndiswrapper) NB NB Already I know that the hardware I buy will work with Gentoo. If I got NB a Dell with preinstalled GNU/Linux, I could know that without engaging NB $searchengine, but avoiding searches isn't important to me. NB NB That's all but impossible with a laptop, unless the shop lets you boot it NB with a live CD before you buy, because manufacturers change chipsets NB without changing the model name. NB Indeed - and that's even assuming you buy from a shop (that you walk into). Here in the UK, companies that sell preloaded Linux are as rare as hen's teeth, and though I can cope with written German, there are linguistic issues which would be involved if I bought a laptop from Germany and experienced problems - aside from the legal issues which would worry me buying either from there or the States. (What happens if it gets damaged in transit? Would they be liable for not living up to the guarantee? Is there a warranty that covers international customers? If I have to take legal action, where would I file a suit? etc.) Whatever happens, there's very little chance my next laptop purchase won't be made on line, so no liveCD testing possible. Jeff -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Phillips Feynman, American physicist, 11/5/18-15/2/88 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
