Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:14:58 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote pat wrote: I've used the fdisk, but it's not enough. Could someone suggest a tool, which can help me to select bootable partition? I'm not clear on this - did you type 'a' and select the recovery partition to make it bootable? And did you set up grub to boot from that partition? You probably need to use the chainloader command and such... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. ~1 Peter 2:9-10 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hi, Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition bootable and remove all other partitions including /boot with GRUB configuration - and when the /boot is removed then there's not possible to use GRUB, because of the grub.conf, and that's why I need to set recovery partition bootable without GRUB. Thanks a lot Pat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:45:06 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote pat wrote: it's not enough. Could someone suggest a tool, which can help me to select bootable partition? What do you mean by select bootable partition? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hi, Boot from this partition without GRUB, because I need to remove /boot partition where the grub.conf is. Pat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and saving images taking so long
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2007 08:29, Dale wrote: Any ideas? Is it Seamonkey or something else? Thanks for any help. Dale :-) :-) You can check how much processor time takes kernel(top or htop) - if kernel loads cpu too much then it is probably fs io. I have used top and it appears to be Seamonkey using the CPU so much. However, it is getting slower and slower as I download pics or get them off my camera. It now takes almost 15 seconds to save a picture on this thing. Right now there is about 9.4Gbs on there and about 40,000 files and almost 900 directories all on a separate partition. I'm getting suspicious of the drive or that something is goofy with the kernel settings. I searched through /var/log/messages and I saw no errors regarding that drive at all. I do have that smart thing installed. I see where it changes temps but that is it. No errors that I can find on any drive. This is the screen for the IDE drive section of my kernel: │ │ * ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support │ │ │ │ * Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support │ │ │ │ --- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives│ │ │ │ * Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support │ │ │ │ [*] Use multi-mode by default │ │ │ │ * Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support │ │ │ │ --- IDE chipset support/bugfixes│ │ │ │ * generic/default IDE chipset support │ │ │ │ [*] PCI IDE chipset support │ │ │ │ [*] Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support│ │ │ │ * Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support │ │ │ │ * RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support │ │ │ │ [*] Generic PCI bus-master DMA support│ │ │ │ [*] Use PCI DMA by default when available │ │ │ │ * AMD and nVidia IDE support │ │ All the removed ones are disabled. This rig has a Abit NF7 ver 2.0 mobo. I am using this kernel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # uname -r 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # It would appear that my settings and that DMA is working fine. Here is the timings from hdparm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing cached reads: 936 MB in 2.00 seconds = 467.99 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 144 MB in 3.02 seconds = 47.70 MB/sec [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # I have gkrellm installed and there doesn't seem to be any major drive activity when I am doing this. I'm not copying something or even playing a CD while doing this so I wouldn't think it was busy doing something else. I'm open to ideas. If you need more info, let me know. May even try a newer kernel too. :/ Thanks for any help you all can provide. Me stumped, which is normal for me. lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On 7/4/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in
/usr/share/doc. Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but
it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed directgories and get a
browser pointing to the right thing. So I wrote a little Perl script to
create a top-level index.html, organized by package and with a bit of
rudimentary pruning. I bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a
lot faster now. I like the result, and will continue to tweak it here and
there.
Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to make
this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that?
Current script attached.
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debian have a similar and much nicer tool called dwww which merges
all html-doc, htmlized infopages, and htmlized manpages into one
uniform system. I think gentoo being better should have an equivelant.
But as of yet, no such equivelant exists, which I think is sad, as
in my experience, the documentation available to gentoo as a whole is
/much/ superior to that on competing distros I have encounted.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On 7/4/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in
which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
blatant bias
I see people leaving gentoo as some sort of self voluntary step in the
natural progression of a distro. People moving from Gentoo to
$OTHERDISTRO raises the average intelligence of both distros ;)
Is everyone still toeing that line? The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
hasn't been published in almost two months. Is Gentoo destined to be
just another distro starved for contributors and struggling to stay up
to date? If so, I really misjudged it. The meta approach of Gentoo
is superior to any other in my mind, and I think it's growth and
potential are being stunted by the we don't need them attitude which
perpetuates Gentoo's lack of usability features for beginners.
The problem is if you focus on usability for newbies, you'll focus
less on features and customization, or you'll have to find a way to
hide this customizability because customization confuses newbies, and
spending time dancing around the lesser populace is time wasted on
doing practical stuff ( While I'll admit theres got to be a half-way,
or gentoo will never get any fresh blood, but I'd prefer to entice
fresh blood from people who have some potential to improve the distro
)
And if your introducing a newbie to Linux, maybe gentoos not the right
thing to teach them. Thats why we have distros out there like linspire
( ) .
IMO, gentoo is already user-friendly enough, if you take it from the
perspective Gentoo is LFS + Userfriendlyness.
Gentoo needs as many users as possible to reach its potential. It's a
short-sighted mistake to think that non-contributing users do Gentoo
And theres no point in targeting a distro at an audience who still
don't know what a power button is, and are confused about downloading
attachments from hotmail. Some usuability is good, but you need some
boundaries of sanity, and I think gentoo is currently hitting the
perfect target audience for people who want control and customization,
and are willing to experiment with things to get things done.
( and if you really want to introduce a total noob to gentoo and don't
mind wasting some time... your best option is to set up for them, and
show them it just works, and then show them information on a strictly
'need-to-know' basis when they come asking )
no good. Non-contributing users become contributors as time passes.
Car mechanics all start as car drivers.
- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names
On 7/3/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2007 23:08, Willie Wong wrote:
from 'info sed' - Examples
#! /bin/sh
# rename files to lower/upper case...
[snip...]
(And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the
sed info page ;p )
WOW! I didn't expect so many ways to get this done, thanks guys for all your
suggestions. :)
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If you want something that should work on all linuxes in theory
without the need for changing the disk standard to something thats
potentially incompatible with a given system ( say for example for
some reason your target machine cant for some forsaken reason read
joliet enabled disks ) you may wish to look for the 'trans.tbl'
option, which to the best of my knowlege creates a file on the disk
explaining the real-full-length version of a shortened filename
without having to munge the disk standard. ( I think of it like a
meta-data-in-file-on-filesystem instead of
alter-filesystem-spec-to-handle-metadata option )
( Ok, its obsolete, but has saved my bacon once or twice )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRANS.TBL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#Extensions
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[gentoo-user] Spamassassin
how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using qmail,qmail-scanner spammassassin in gentoo.. -- Try to be a Buddhist..!!
[gentoo-user] Re: Spamassassin
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 09:19:23, Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using qmail,qmail-scanner spammassassin in gentoo.. There is a pattern[1] you can put into an email to trigger spammassassin. Regards, Xavier Parizet [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email:_A_Complete_Virtual_System_-_Installing_Amavisd_and_SpamAssassin#Some_Real_Testing -- http://www.linuxant.fr signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
Hello David Relson, Because it is hard-masked in package.mask ;-) If you really want it you can unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask At present, /etc/portage only has package.keywords. As package.mask is not present, it's not hard masked. It is masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. Unmasking it in package.unmask does the trick. I guess I had package.keywords and package.unmask confused. 'Tis time to re-read the man pages. No, the two are different. package.unmask is used to override the profile package.mask. Incidentally, 2.10.0 is out now, but not yet in portage. Instead of installing the rc, copy /usr/portage/mail-client/claws-mail to your overlay and rename the ebuild to claws-mail-2.10.0.ebuild. -- Neil Bothwick Linux users do it without paying a Bill signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition
Hello pat, Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition bootable and remove all other partitions including /boot with GRUB configuration - and when the /boot is removed then there's not possible to use GRUB, because of the grub.conf, and that's why I need to set recovery partition bootable without GRUB. Set the partition to be bootable in cfdisk, before removing the Linux partitions. -- Neil Bothwick Where the system is concerned, you're not allowed to ask `Why?' signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:07:24AM -0700, Grant wrote: In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the remaining Gentoo users in a negative way. My personal feeling is that Gentoo has dropped off the radar a bit, and is no longer being talked about that much beyond its own community, which probably means that it won't see much growth. Ubuntu is the distribution everyone is talking about at the moment, and no doubt that will suffer the same fate in a year or so. Is everyone still toeing that line? The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter hasn't been published in almost two months. The problem with that, as far as I am aware, is a lack of volunteers, although I don't remember GWNs being absent for this long before. Apparently it is coming back in July, so hopefully its absense isn't permanent. Is Gentoo destined to be just another distro starved for contributors and struggling to stay up to date? If so, I really misjudged it. The meta approach of Gentoo is superior to any other in my mind, and I think it's growth and potential are being stunted by the we don't need them attitude which perpetuates Gentoo's lack of usability features for beginners. I don't think Gentoo is starved for contributors, at least not judging by the number of developers listed on the website (I've no idea how many of those are active though). In terms of usability features, if you want a nice easy distro that does more or less everything for you, you go for Ubuntu (or perhaps Fedora 7), not Gentoo. They're not really aimed at the same type of user - even though I run both, it's for different purposes (Gentoo for development and breaking things, Ubuntu because sometimes I just want multimedia to work without having to mess around with USE flags and trying to track down which packages I should emerge to get the right codecs for a particular format). Gentoo needs as many users as possible to reach its potential. It's a short-sighted mistake to think that non-contributing users do Gentoo no good. Non-contributing users become contributors as time passes. Car mechanics all start as car drivers. To be fair, I think Gentoo has one of the better programmes for getting active users to become developers. There's plenty of documentation on the website, plus the developer manual, although I'd personally like to see a bit more emphasis on non-coding developers (e.g. website updates, press work etc.) for those people who want to get involved but don't like fiddling with bash scripts. Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:49:23PM +0530, Gentoo Voyager wrote: how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using qmail,qmail-scanner spammassassin in gentoo.. Check the headers of your incoming emails, there should be some headers there set my SpamAssassin, such as X-Spam-Score. If those aren't present, SpamAssassin isn't processing your mail. Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] qmail spamming
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:32:41AM +0530, Gentoo Voyager wrote: I'm using qmail with qmail-scanner. but i'm getting lots of mails from drug sites(drug advertiesment) to my users mail boxes. i have installed the spammassin. but still I'm getting such spam mail. please help me how I'm stop this spam mails. SpamAssassin won't 'stop' spam, that's not its job. All SA does is to analyse incoming email (assuming of course that you've set things up correctly so that incoming mail is passed through SA at some point - I'm afraid I don't know how to do this with qmail as I'm a postfix man myself) and sets some headers to say whether it thinks the mail is spam or not. Unless you do something with those headers, you won't see a reduction in spam. Personally, I'd suggest processing mail through procmail after SA and adding a rule to delete (or put in a separate folder) anything which SA marks as spam. There are hundreds of tutorials on this - Googling for 'qmail spamassassin procmail' should get you started. Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: qmail spamming
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 06:02:41, Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Dear all, I'm using qmail with qmail-scanner. but i'm getting lots of mails from drug sites(drug advertiesment) to my users mail boxes. i have installed the spammassin. but still I'm getting such spam mail. please help me how I'm stop this spam mails. Have you enabled dcc, razor pyzor ? You can also use rulesdujour ... All these mechanisms help a lot while fighting against spam. I have a postfix + spamassassin + dcc + razor + pyzor + rulesdujour configuration, and spams aren't a problem for me ! Maybe you could have a look at [1] for a good tutorial on how to use these mechanisms. Thanks regards, Regards, Xavier Parizet [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email:_A_Complete_Virtual_System_-_Installing_Amavisd_and_SpamAssassin -- http://www.linuxant.fr signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 09:07:24 Grant wrote: In December 2006 I started a thread titled Is Gentoo Healthy? in which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the remaining Gentoo users in a negative way. Is everyone still toeing that line? The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter hasn't been published in almost two months. Is Gentoo destined to be just another distro starved for contributors and struggling to stay up to date? If so, I really misjudged it. The meta approach of Gentoo is superior to any other in my mind, and I think it's growth and potential are being stunted by the we don't need them attitude which perpetuates Gentoo's lack of usability features for beginners. Gentoo needs as many users as possible to reach its potential. It's a short-sighted mistake to think that non-contributing users do Gentoo no good. Non-contributing users become contributors as time passes. Car mechanics all start as car drivers. - Grant Personally I love Gentoo, IMHO the compile aspect of it ( the part that I love most of all ) is what keeps beginners and novice GNU/Linux users away, the target audience will always be those who don't mind taking the time to build a fully customized system even if it takes a day or two. Gentoo does indeed need more users to become contributors, I have been a Non-contributing user for some time now, just promoting it when ever possible, I even got my company to switch many Windows workstations to Gentoo development stations, a few months ago my company offered to pay me to work full time on any free and open source project that might benifit them in the end, I jumped at the chance and applied to work in different areas of Gentoo (mostly C/CPP and Perl development areas), after many unanswered e-mails and one telling me to be patient I gave up and applied to work in the KDE project ( in two days I had my own SVN and started porting code to KDE4 ), I personally think Gentoo makes it hard to contribute in many areas, this might be why few Non-contributing users become contributing users. -- Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas # Free Open Source Software Advocate $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I want the latest and greatest version of claws-mail in /etc/portage/package.keywords I have: mail-client/claws-mail Should'nt that be mail-client/claws-mail ~x86 ? HTH, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:27:54 -0230, Roger Mason wrote: As I want the latest and greatest version of claws-mail in /etc/portage/package.keywords I have: mail-client/claws-mail Should'nt that be mail-client/claws-mail ~x86 Why assume that everyone runs x86? If you don't specify an arch in package.keywords, if defaults to ~whatever-arch-you-have-in-make.conf -- Neil Bothwick Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Beryl, kde and updating
Since syncing the night before last beryl is no longer diplaying properly. I get the desktop, I get the cube, and I get window decorations on programs. But most programs display absolutely nothing inside the window decorations, and a few other programs (ie kppp) show a solid box but no buttons or input visible. Anyone else having similar issues? - Noven -- -- Novensiles divi Flamen -- Miles Militis Fons -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why assume that everyone runs x86? If you don't specify an arch in package.keywords, if defaults to ~whatever-arch-you-have-in-make.conf Thanks, learned something new. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] QT dir:
Hi gentooers.
I have some trouble with the QTDIR variable of my system.
When I emerge some package that requires QT 3 , the configure scripts
ends with this error:
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0) (headers
and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
so I found the rigth directory and patch the enviroment with the next
command:
export QTDIR=/usr/qt/3
With this, everything works fine, but i think that a user with less
experience than me, will be fool this.
..pretending to qt
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elwood ~ # emerge -pvtD qt
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-4.2.3-r1 USE=dbus doc gif glib jpeg mng
mysql nas opengl png qt3support sqlite3 zlib -accessibility -cups -debug
-examples (-firebird) -nis -odbc -pch -postgres -sqlite -xinerama
INPUT_DEVICES=-wacom 0 kB
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my make.conf
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CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe
CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
USE=3dnow symlink -arts audiofile X -eds sse sse2 dbus -emboss firefox
-foomaticdb -fortran gif -gnome -idn -ipv6 -lcms samba lirc mng xml imap
-fam -clamav -ldap nsplugin sqlite3 mysql -pam -static berkdb ssl sasl
dri xface gtk nptl qt3 qt4 hal kde mp3 aac gstreamer mpeg ffmpeg dv dvdr
dvd dvdnav dvdread xine dvb win32codecs jpeg speex v4l ogg vorbis a52
acc alsa mplayer oss esd cdr png musepack musicbrainz quicktime xpm vcd
-kdehiddenvisibility kdeenablefinal usb bzip2 apache2 avahi exif gphoto2
xscreensaver multilib flac mad encode sox cddb directfb xv xvid x264 mmx
opengl nas sdl tcl tk cairo -cups gpm tiff mikmod spell truetype unicode
wifi ao pulseaudio -altivec -theora -xinerama ftp aalib acpi dts
imagemagick
INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse
#SYNC=rsync://lx-arnau.pic.es/gentoo-portage
SYNC=rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia vesa
PORT_ENOTICE_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/enotice/
#GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://linuv.uv.es/mirror/gentoo/;
GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo/
ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/
http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
#PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage/myportage
/usr/local/portage/musicbrainz-overlay
/usr/portage/local/layman/php-experimental
# /usr/portage/local/layman/kde
LINGUAS=it en
DVB_CARDS=tda1004x
LIRC_DEVICES=hauppauge hauppauge_dvb
ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m hdsp hdspm
# * LIRC_OPTS is deprecated from lirc-0.8.0-r1 on
#LIRC_OPTS=--with-driver=devinput
#LIRCD_OPTS=-d /dev/input/event4
#LIRC_OPTS=--with-driver=devinput
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
CAMERAS=sonydscf1
FEATURES=ccache
CCACHE_SIZE=4G
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Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hi gentooers. I have some trouble with the QTDIR variable of my system. When I emerge some package that requires QT 3 , the configure scripts ends with this error: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! check this: env.d/50qtdir3 should have this: QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hi gentooers. I have some trouble with the QTDIR variable of my system. When I emerge some package that requires QT 3 , the configure scripts ends with this error: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! check this: env.d/50qtdir3 should have this: QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 Yes it has: elwood env.d # grep "QTDIR=/usr/qt/3" * 50qtdir3:QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 50qtdir3-emul:QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 I don't understnd. my current patch is a echo "export QTDIR=/usr/qt/3" ~/.bashrc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
Danyelle Gragsone wrote: If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn. I second this sentiment. Since starting to use Gentoo in 2004, all other distros pale in comparison. Yes, there have been a couple of hurdles, but it was all learning. I view these, not as annoyances, but challenges. I love what I have learned about my system with Gentoo and there is *no* other distro that has a package management system that is better than portage, IMHO. So, thanks from me to all the devs! :-) Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] run-crons errors
When cron gets around to running: /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons This error is reported in cron output: which: invalid option -- 9 which: invalid option -- f which: invalid option -- 9 which: invalid option -- f I hoped someone would recognize the culprit. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] run-crons errors
On 7/4/07, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When cron gets around to running: /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons This error is reported in cron output: which: invalid option -- 9 which: invalid option -- f which: invalid option -- 9 which: invalid option -- f I hoped someone would recognize the culprit. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list No idea. Try typing grep which /etc/cron.*/* | at a prompt, and it should tell you where the problem lies. -- - Mark Shields Err, grep which /etc/cron.*/*. Or if you use crontab, check your crontab for that command. -- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:48:45 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello David Relson, Because it is hard-masked in package.mask ;-) If you really want it you can unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask At present, /etc/portage only has package.keywords. As package.mask is not present, it's not hard masked. It is masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. Unmasking it in package.unmask does the trick. I guess I had package.keywords and package.unmask confused. 'Tis time to re-read the man pages. No, the two are different. package.unmask is used to override the profile package.mask. Incidentally, 2.10.0 is out now, but not yet in portage. Instead of installing the rc, copy /usr/portage/mail-client/claws-mail to your overlay and rename the ebuild to claws-mail-2.10.0.ebuild. With the addition of emerge .../claws-mail-2.10.0.ebuild digest, I've got the 2.10.0 build running ... Thanks for the suggestion Neil. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.21 and sundance.ko problems.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dominik Żyła wrote: Hi, I have 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX NIC and running Gentoo with 2.6.21 kernel. When I load sundance.ko there is no interfaces available in my `ifconfig -a` output. Besides, all 4 interfaces are listed in `lspci` output. Have anyone had such a problem? Send the output of dmesg right after modprobind sundance. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica ¿Su empresa consume demasiado ancho de banda? ¡Consulteme! Free (as in Freedom) Punk Rock from Argentina: http://www.futurabanda.com.ar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGi53MAlpOsGhXcE0RCmUQAJ0UkXAg6PhxOBQnBnPq4YedhXQnEwCfabsi NEAXafefBEMbPkJIeOSDvOY= =Tq9i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6.21 and sundance.ko problems.
Hi, I have 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX NIC and running Gentoo with 2.6.21 kernel. When I load sundance.ko there is no interfaces available in my `ifconfig -a` output. Besides, all 4 interfaces are listed in `lspci` output. Have anyone had such a problem? Thanks for reply.
Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hi gentooers. I have some trouble with the QTDIR variable of my system. When I emerge some package that requires QT 3 , the configure scripts ends with this error: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! check this: env.d/50qtdir3 should have this: QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 Yes it has: elwood env.d # grep "QTDIR=/usr/qt/3" * 50qtdir3:QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 50qtdir3-emul:QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 I don't understnd. my current patch is a echo "export QTDIR=/usr/qt/3" ~/.bashrc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list for some reason your env.d/ files don't get sourced on login? have you checked your environment with 'export'? What happens, if you don't have a bashrc in ~/ at all? It seems like a portage enviroment issue, I don't know this is my /root/.bashrc # User specific aliases and functions alias vi='vim' alias sshf='ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ' alias root='ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -lroot ' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias ll='ls -l --color=auto' alias zombie='ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]' alias zombieoff='zombie shutdown -h now' alias jack='ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]' alias root='ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 -l root ' alias jackcoff='jack shutdown -h now' alias k1='kill -9 %1' alias z24='zombie mplayer -ao esd:elwood:9876 mms://rntlivewm.rai.it/_rn24_live_' alias r24='mplayer -cache 512 mms://rntlivewm.rai.it/_rn24_live_' export PATH="$PATH:/mysbin/scripts" if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi -- elwood ~ # export declare -x ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant-core" declare -x CLASSPATH="." declare -x CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" declare -x CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d/java/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash" declare -x CVS_RSH="ssh" declare -x EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" declare -x FLTK_DOCDIR="/usr/share/doc/fltk-1.1.7/html" declare -x FRACTDIR="/usr/share/xfractint" declare -x GCC_PATH="/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2" declare -x GCC_SPECS="" declare -x GDK_USE_XFT="1" declare -x GENERATION="2" declare -x G_BROKEN_FILENAMES="1" declare -x G_FILENAME_ENCODING="UTF-8" declare -x HOME="/root" declare -x INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.17/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/info" declare -x JAVAC="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/bin/javac" declare -x JAVA_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" declare -x JDK_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" declare -x KDEDIRS="/usr:/usr/local:/usr/kde/3.5" declare -x LADSPA_PATH="/usr/lib64/ladspa" declare -x LESS="-R -M --shift 5" declare -x LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" declare -x LOGNAME="root" declare -x LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*. doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:" declare -x MAIL="/var/mail/root" declare -x MANPATH="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.17/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/man:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/:/usr/lib64/php5/man/:/usr/kde/3.5/share/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/vmware/workstation/man" declare -x MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib64/mozilla" declare -x OLDPWD declare -x OPENGL_PROFILE="nvidia" declare -x PAGER="/usr/bin/less" declare -x
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.21 and sundance.ko problems.
2007/7/4, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dominik Żyła wrote: Hi, I have 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX NIC and running Gentoo with 2.6.21 kernel. When I load sundance.ko there is no interfaces available in my `ifconfig -a` output. Besides, all 4 interfaces are listed in `lspci` output. Have anyone had such a problem? Send the output of dmesg right after modprobind sundance. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica ¿Su empresa consume demasiado ancho de banda? ¡Consulteme! Free (as in Freedom) Punk Rock from Argentina: http://www.futurabanda.com.ar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGi53MAlpOsGhXcE0RCmUQAJ0UkXAg6PhxOBQnBnPq4YedhXQnEwCfabsi NEAXafefBEMbPkJIeOSDvOY= =Tq9i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I`ve got only this output: sundance.c:v1.2 11-Sep-2006 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:04.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 18 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:05.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:06.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:07.0[A] - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 21 This is my lspci output: 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 02:07.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15)
[gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1
Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I do to avoid this problem? Posting the command that caused the error would be a good start ;) Copy the 10 or so lines before the make aborted and send them to this list. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1
Hello! I got the following error: * Failed Running automake ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/automake-24490.out !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1615: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 752: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_unpack gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1.ebuild, line 97: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 97: Called eautomake autotools.eclass, line 194: Called autotools_run_tool 'automake' '--add-missing' '--copy' autotools.eclass, line 218: Called die !!! Failed Running automake ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/build.log'. What should I do to avoid this problem? Thanks for the help in advance, István -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:19:14 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in /usr/share/doc. Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed directgories and get a browser pointing to the right thing. So I wrote a little Perl script to create a top-level index.html, organized by package and with a bit of rudimentary pruning. I bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a lot faster now. I like the result, and will continue to tweak it here and there. Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to make this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that? Current script attached. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Hi Kevin, After saving your script to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and running chmod +x ..., I pointed firefox at http://localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and got the following: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Looking in /var/log/apache2/error_log I found [Wed Jul 04 10:22:06 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=headtitleIndex of /usr/sha: makeindex.perl Looking at other simple scripts lead me to add print Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n; All is good now! Cheers, David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1
szerda 04 július 2007 15.34 dátummal Alexander Skwar ezt írta: Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I do to avoid this problem? Posting the command that caused the error would be a good start ;) Copy the 10 or so lines before the make aborted and send them to this list. notebook1 ~ # emerge -v kuickshow gqview gimp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 USE=hal ipv6 samba ssl -avahi -debug -doc -gnutls 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/librsvg-2.16.1-r1 USE=zlib -debug -doc -gnome 414 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/icon-naming-utils-0.8.2 65 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/kuickshow-3.5.5 USE=-arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gqview-2.0.1 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libgnome-2.16.0 USE=-debug -doc -esd 988 kB [ebuild N] gnome-extra/gtkhtml-2.6.3 USE=-accessibility -debug 383 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.16.0 USE=X -debug -doc 916 kB [ebuild N] media-gfx/gimp-2.2.14 USE=gimpprint gtkhtml jpeg png python svg tiff wmf -aalib (-altivec) -debug -doc -hardened -lcms -mmx -mng -smp -sse 12,536 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.16.1 USE=jpeg -debug -doc 1,448 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.4-r5 USE=-debug 357 kB [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.16.1 USE=-debug 2,433 kB Total: 12 packages (10 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 19,537 kB Verifying ebuild Manifests... Emerging (1 of 12) gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 to / * gnome-vfs-2.16.3.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gnome-vfs-2.16.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gnome-vfs-2.16.3.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gnome-vfs-2.16.3.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gnome-vfs-2.16.3.tar.bz2 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking gnome-vfs-2.16.3.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] Unpacking source... Unpacking gnome-vfs-2.16.3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/work * Fixing OMF Makefiles ... [ ok ] * Running elibtoolize in: gnome-vfs-2.16.3 * Applying portage-1.5.10.patch ... * Applying max_cmd_len-1.5.20.patch ... * Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ... * Applying gnome-vfs-2.12.0-afs.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying gnome-vfs-2.15.2-headers-define.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying gnome-vfs-2.16.0-no-dbus-crash.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying gnome-vfs-2.16.3-empty-desktop-entry-Path.diff ... [ ok ] * Applying gnome-vfs-2.16.3-fbsd.patch ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/work/gnome-vfs-2.16.3' ... *
Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:
Please don't send html-mail. when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On 7/3/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 00:19:14 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to make this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that? See DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR in make.conf (man page I think, or .example) Thanks, I was able to track it down from that hint. For the record: Read about it in man make.conf. The description there is quite sparse, and I haven't done any emerges since I set it, so I'm not sure exactly how it works. I think it just sets version-independent symlinks, and leaves it up to you whether to bookmark them. Unless there's more going on, I'm going to prefer my little script. It builds a web page with current links, organized by package. I run it in a cron job several times a week, so it's pretty much up-to-date.These are all listed unless they are linked from another index.html higher in the directory structure. This makes most of the entries pretty clean, with a few notable exceptions: boost, java, apache, drscheme, python-docs and mplayer among the packages I have. I'll probably tweak these when I get some time. For me the main advantage is in doing a quick check to see if a given package actually has any index.html files anywhere under /usr/share/doc. Just browsing to the index file can be a pain sometimes, and my patience is usually thinner than usual when I'm desperately seeking documentation. So: am I the only one who likes this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
surely not all the gentooers. Not me, since my bookmarks are day-to-day matters but the doc. 2007/7/4, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 7/3/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] So: am I the only one who likes this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:33:35 +0200, Stefán István wrote: * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/automake-24490.out Like it says. -- Neil Bothwick This universe is sold by mass, not by volume. Some expansion may have occurred during shipment signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1
szerda 04 július 2007 17.18 dátummal Neil Bothwick ezt írta: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:33:35 +0200, Stefán István wrote: * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/automake-24490.out Like it says. -- Neil Bothwick This universe is sold by mass, not by volume. Some expansion may have occurred during shipment I found this in the mentioned file: * automake * configure.in:37: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.9.5, configure.in:37: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.in:37: comes from Automake 1.9.6. You should recreate configure.in:37: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. What does this mean? I don't know how to use aclocal. Thanks, István -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too? elwood ~ # su - portage elwood ~ # whoami root elwood ~ # su - portage -c export elwood ~ # elwood ~ # export |grep QT declare -x QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 I can't su - portage. And in root enviroment, the QTDIR is correct, but emerge always fails with qt3 programs. (if I don't set it manually) Is there a wiki that explains step by step how to check portage? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too? elwood ~ # su - portage elwood ~ # whoami root elwood ~ # su - portage -c export elwood ~ # elwood ~ # export |grep QT declare -x QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 I can't su - portage. And in root enviroment, the QTDIR is correct, but su -l -s /bin/bash portage -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
On 7/3/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I have been using KDE for a long long time.
Suddenly it's not there any more.
anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
1183499736: ::: completed emerge (4 of 12) kde-base/kdebase-pam-7 to /
That looks the most likely suspect. It's very recent (see bug 183887).
I have version 6 : try restoring that see what happens
('emerge =kde-base/kdebase-pam-6').
You should also look in /etc/pam.d/ for further clues.
That did not help, but it reminded me of another fact I forgot to mention:
The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me that
my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid or something, and would be removed.
Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session.
I'm not sure how to enable it.
What is still there:
/etc/rc.conf still contains the line XSESSION=kde-3.5
/etc/X11/Sessions no longer contained kde-3.5, but I made another based on
the leftover kde-3.4; I'm not sure this did anything, as the symptoms did
not change.
ps -axlww shows that I'm running kde 3.5 version of kdm
But I can't coax it into starting a KDE session. My only choices seem to be
fluxbox and failsafe.
My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE that
I found in the Gentoo docs. But it used to work, and I'm not sure it's safe
to try to modify it to agree -- I'm afraid I won't know what to undo of the
old way.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On 7/4/07, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:19:14 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in /usr/share/doc. Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed directgories and get a browser pointing to the right thing. So I wrote a little Perl script to create a top-level index.html, organized by package and with a bit of rudimentary pruning. I bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a lot faster now. I like the result, and will continue to tweak it here and there. Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to make this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that? Current script attached. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Hi Kevin, After saving your script to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and running chmod +x ..., I pointed firefox at http://localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and got the following: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Looking in /var/log/apache2/error_log I found [Wed Jul 04 10:22:06 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=headtitleIndex of /usr/sha: makeindex.perl Looking at other simple scripts lead me to add print Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n; All is good now! Cheers, David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hmm. I never intended to run it that way. I run a cronjob as root, with output directed to index.html. I'd worry that your way would be too slow. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:28:30AM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked: After saving your script to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and running chmod +x ..., I pointed firefox at http://localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and got the following: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Looking in /var/log/apache2/error_log I found [Wed Jul 04 10:22:06 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=headtitleIndex of /usr/sha: makeindex.perl Looking at other simple scripts lead me to add print Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n; I doubt that his script (which he mentions is to be run in cron) is meant to actually be placed in the cgi-bin directory for apache. It would certainly be annoying to need to have an apache server running just to read documentation. W -- When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 208 days, 15:01 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too? elwood ~ # su - portage elwood ~ # whoami root elwood ~ # su - portage -c export elwood ~ # elwood ~ # export |grep QT declare -x QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 I can't su - portage. And in root enviroment, the QTDIR is correct, but su -l -s /bin/bash portage elwood ~ # su -l -s /bin/bash portage -su: /var/tmp/portage/.bashrc: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ export|grep QT declare -x QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On 7/3/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I have been using KDE for a long long time.
Suddenly it's not there any more.
anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
1183499736: ::: completed emerge (4 of 12) kde-base/kdebase-pam-7 to
/
That looks the most likely suspect. It's very recent (see bug 183887).
I have version 6 : try restoring that see what happens
('emerge =kde-base/kdebase-pam-6').
You should also look in /etc/pam.d/ for further clues.
That did not help, but it reminded me of another fact I forgot to mention:
The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me that
my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid or something, and would be removed.
Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session.
I'm not sure how to enable it.
What is still there:
/etc/rc.conf still contains the line XSESSION=kde-3.5
/etc/X11/Sessions no longer contained kde-3.5, but I made another based on
the leftover kde-3.4; I'm not sure this did anything, as the symptoms did
not change.
ps -axlww shows that I'm running kde 3.5 version of kdm
But I can't coax it into starting a KDE session. My only choices seem to
be fluxbox and failsafe.
My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE that
I found in the Gentoo docs. But it used to work, and I'm not sure it's
safe to try to modify it to agree -- I'm afraid I won't know what to undo
of the old way.
please check if /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.5 exists.
If not: remeerge kdebase.
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Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too? elwood ~ # su - portage elwood ~ # whoami root elwood ~ # su - portage -c export elwood ~ # elwood ~ # export |grep QT declare -x QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 I can't su - portage. And in root enviroment, the QTDIR is correct, but su -l -s /bin/bash portage elwood ~ # su -l -s /bin/bash portage -su: /var/tmp/portage/.bashrc: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ export|grep QT declare -x QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 strange. really strange. -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wong -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 12:39:48 pm Willie Wong wrote: I doubt that his script (which he mentions is to be run in cron) is meant to actually be placed in the cgi-bin directory for apache. It would certainly be annoying to need to have an apache server running just to read documentation. There are some advantages serving the index out via httpd. Anyone you allow can read your documents... I've been working on (in my very spare time) on a similar project. Mine is in python. It scans an entire hard drive for index.html's, chm's and pdf's... then pours it's findings into a single index.html. The script is no where complete, free for the asking though wth setup tips... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
On 7/4/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On 7/3/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I have been using KDE for a long long time.
Suddenly it's not there any more.
anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
1183499736: ::: completed emerge (4 of 12) kde-base/kdebase-pam-7
to
/
That looks the most likely suspect. It's very recent (see bug
183887).
I have version 6 : try restoring that see what happens
('emerge =kde-base/kdebase-pam-6').
You should also look in /etc/pam.d/ for further clues.
That did not help, but it reminded me of another fact I forgot to
mention:
The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me
that
my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid or something, and would be
removed.
Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session.
I'm not sure how to enable it.
What is still there:
/etc/rc.conf still contains the line XSESSION=kde-3.5
/etc/X11/Sessions no longer contained kde-3.5, but I made another based
on
the leftover kde-3.4; I'm not sure this did anything, as the symptoms
did
not change.
ps -axlww shows that I'm running kde 3.5 version of kdm
But I can't coax it into starting a KDE session. My only choices seem
to
be fluxbox and failsafe.
My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE
that
I found in the Gentoo docs. But it used to work, and I'm not sure it's
safe to try to modify it to agree -- I'm afraid I won't know what to
undo
of the old way.
please check if /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.5 exists.
If not: remeerge kdebase.
It was missing, but I can't emerge kdebase because there are about 20
packages that are blocking it. Maybe that's the problem.
Here's what I see when I try:
treat doclinks # emerge -a1 kdebase
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N] x11-libs/libXfontcache-1.0.4 USE=-debug
[ebuild N] x11-apps/xset-1.0.2 USE=-debug
[ebuild N] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4 USE=arts cups hal java
kdeenablefinal ldap opengl pam ssl -debug -ieee1394 -kdehiddenvisibility
-lm_sensors -logitech-mouse -openexr -samba -xcomposite -xinerama
-xscreensaver -zeroconf
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kwin-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/konqueror-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/konsole-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kicker-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4
)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kcontrol-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdm-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdesu-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kappfinder-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kcheckpass-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kfind-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkonq-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/konsole-3.5.5,
kde-base/kscreensaver-3.5.5, kde-base/kappfinder-3.5.5, kde-base/kpager-
3.5.5, kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.5-r1, kde-base/kcheckpass-3.5.0,
kde-base/kfind-3.5.5, kde-base/kdepasswd-3.5.5, kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5.5,
kde-base/kdeprint-3.5.5, kde-base/khotkeys-3.5.5, kde-base/drkonqi-3.5.5,
kde-base/kdialog-3.5.5, kde-base/kdesu-3.5.5, kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5,
kde-base/kwin-3.5.5-r2, kde-base/kdm-3.5.5-r1, kde-base/libkonq-3.5.5,
kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5.5, kde-base/konqueror-3.5.5,
kde-base/kpersonalizer-3.5.5, kde-base/kdesktop-3.5.5-r1, kde-base/kcminit-
3.5.3, kde-base/kicker-3.5.5, kde-base/kate-3.5.5-r1)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kscreensaver-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/drkonqi-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kpager-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4
)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5* (is blocking
kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdeprint-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/khotkeys-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kcminit-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdialog-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kate-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdepasswd-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kpersonalizer-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-
3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ]
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppleMac in a Virtual Machine?
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 13:13, Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Hi Norberto, Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 3:01:15 PM, you wrote: Mick wrote: I had a look but couldn't find OSX under the OS that run within vmware . . It's not supported, but it runs. Just pick FreeBSD and you're done. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to http://www.google.com/search?hl=ruclient=operarls=enhs=E4gq=Mac+OS+VMwa rebtnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BAlr= ;) Cool! Thank you all for your helpful suggestions and the links. -- Regards, Mick pgpVPIQHRk0CN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:03, Kent Fredric wrote: If you want something that should work on all linuxes in theory without the need for changing the disk standard to something thats potentially incompatible with a given system ( say for example for some reason your target machine cant for some forsaken reason read joliet enabled disks ) you may wish to look for the 'trans.tbl' option, which to the best of my knowlege creates a file on the disk explaining the real-full-length version of a shortened filename without having to munge the disk standard. ( I think of it like a meta-data-in-file-on-filesystem instead of alter-filesystem-spec-to-handle-metadata option ) ( Ok, its obsolete, but has saved my bacon once or twice ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRANS.TBL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#Extensions Thanks Kent, how do I specify that option? Is it in k3b? -- Regards, Mick pgpr4KiKdPfLm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: so you are using split ebuilds - I don't. But since that file was removed accidentally, you should be able to locate the package which owned it, if you grep for it. grep -R kde-3.5 /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*/CONTENTS and then re-emerge the package. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
Hi ML, I need your help to find the right way. I am running a Linux sd-4421 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Sat Jun 16 19:27:48 CEST 2007 i686 VIA Esther processor 2000MHz CentaurHauls GNU/Linux remote box. This kernel was compiled on my own. It is good. But I need a xen box now. So I emerged the linux-2.6.16.49-xen sources and compiled them successfully (I made an oldconfig on the /proc/config.gz of the running 2.6.20). I followed the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo doc for dom0-Xen specific kernel config. Well, now it is time to boot up the new dom0_2.6.18... grub.conf got the changes, fall-backing to previous kernel if required ... the matter is Grub falls back to previous 2.6.20 kernel. So I have no log at all about what went wrong during the dom0_2.6.18 boot. Any idea to know what went wrong ? Many thanks for your help, Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?
Norberto Bensa ha scritto: b.n. wrote: I found the box was not off, but it had tried to reboot. But it showed no Linux login prompt; instead, BIOS told me that wanted a floppy disk... Let me guess.. Intel ICHsomething? Old asrock K7S8XE+ Exactly the same symptoms. Have you power it down completely, switching the PSU off for a few seconds? I didn't switch off the PSU but yes, I powered it down a couple of seconds... As for smart, smartctl -d ata --all /dev/sda tells me the following: http://pastebin.com/942134 m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names
On 7/5/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:03, Kent Fredric wrote:
If you want something that should work on all linuxes in theory
without the need for changing the disk standard to something thats
potentially incompatible with a given system ( say for example for
some reason your target machine cant for some forsaken reason read
joliet enabled disks ) you may wish to look for the 'trans.tbl'
option, which to the best of my knowlege creates a file on the disk
explaining the real-full-length version of a shortened filename
without having to munge the disk standard. ( I think of it like a
meta-data-in-file-on-filesystem instead of
alter-filesystem-spec-to-handle-metadata option )
( Ok, its obsolete, but has saved my bacon once or twice )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRANS.TBL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#Extensions
Thanks Kent, how do I specify that option? Is it in k3b?
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I believe its on the 'advanced settings' or something page with old k3b.
The new one its listed as 'create TRANS.TBL' files' under the
customize button on the filesystems tab of the properties dialog.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:27:20 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 7/4/07, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:19:14 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in /usr/share/doc. Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed directgories and get a browser pointing to the right thing. So I wrote a little Perl script to create a top-level index.html, organized by package and with a bit of rudimentary pruning. I bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a lot faster now. I like the result, and will continue to tweak it here and there. ...[snip]... Hmm. I never intended to run it that way. I run a cronjob as root, with output directed to index.html. I'd worry that your way would be too slow. Fair enough :- Evidently I misinterpreted wrote a little Perl script to create ... index.html ... bookmarked it in Firefox to mean bookmarked the script rather than bookmarked index.html. My mistake. David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 21:54 +0200, Galevsky wrote: ... the matter is Grub falls back to previous 2.6.20 kernel. So I have no log at all about what went wrong during the dom0_2.6.18 boot. Any idea to know what went wrong ? Fall back is usually useless in the sense that if grub finds your kernel and can boot it, but it happens to be a bad kernel, then there is no benefit. If/Since you *are* falling back leads me to believe that grub either can't find your kernel or otherwise can't load it (typo in grub.conf). Nevertheless, if you want to actually know what the error is then you should disable the fallback. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: so you are using split ebuilds - I don't. But since that file was removed accidentally, you should be able to locate the package which owned it, if you grep for it. grep -R kde-3.5 /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*/CONTENTS and then re-emerge the package. This is what mine says it belongs too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery belongs etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.5 [ Searching for file(s) etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.5 in *... ] kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.7 (/etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.5) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello pat, Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition bootable and remove all other partitions including /boot with GRUB configuration - and when the /boot is removed then there's not possible to use GRUB, because of the grub.conf, and that's why I need to set recovery partition bootable without GRUB. Set the partition to be bootable in cfdisk, before removing the Linux partitions. fdisk, cfdisk, etc. will all set the bootable flag. The question is why do you need to remove a)grub, b)the /boot partition? Is your Windows recovery partition script expecting Windows to be the first partition on the disk and you have moved it since installation? Perhaps next time you'll use partimage with Gentoo to create a back up image of your Windows partition and so you will be able to restore it within 40 minutes or so, depending on the speed of your machine. -- Regards, Mick pgp0jjsuv460b.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:44, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It was missing, but I can't emerge kdebase because there are about 20 packages that are blocking it. Maybe that's the problem. This looks odd. You haven't mixed monolithic and meta packages by any chance? I would probably remove the blockers and try to re-emerge the required meta packages, but you may want to wait for a smarter suggestion. -- Regards, Mick pgp1VPcCyTOoC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
On 7/4/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:44, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It was missing, but I can't emerge kdebase because there are about 20 packages that are blocking it. Maybe that's the problem. This looks odd. You haven't mixed monolithic and meta packages by any chance? I would probably remove the blockers and try to re-emerge the required meta packages, but you may want to wait for a smarter suggestion. I'm not sure what I did, it's so long ago. But I did try to follow directions to undo my monolithic setup using the Gentoo docs on the topic. I probably messed up, but that begs the question: why did it only show up now, a few years later. It's not as if I haven't rebooted in the meanwhile; I do it from time to time to update kernels. It may be that I'm not using metas, but just emerged things I needed, and let the dependencies do the rest. Hm. The dime just dropped, because I did my first depclean fairly recently, and dalek1967 just posted that kde-3.5 is part of kdebase-startdke on his system, and I don't have that package installed. It's just that I thought I rebooted after the depclean just to check things. (I had a fresh backup of the root partition at that point). ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
070704 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I have been using KDE for a long long time.
Suddenly it's not there any more.
anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me
that my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid and would be removed.
Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session.
My only choices seem to be fluxbox and failsafe.
My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE
that I found in the Gentoo docs.
You may have reasons for doing it this way, but I keep it much simpler.
I boot to a raw login prompt, login there, then enter 'startx'.
I have a file ~/.xinitrc ('dbus-launch' is to enable Epiphany) :
xscreensaver
dbus-launch startkde
If I want (rarely) to start Fluxbox, I have another file ~/.xinitrc-fb :
xscreensaver
fluxbox
which I copy 'cp .xinitrc-fb .xinitrc' (keeping a copy of the KDE version).
I don't use Kdm at all, thus avoiding the kind of problem you've run into
which I too ran into a few years ago.
I recommend unmerging all your existing KDE material,
then remerging the latest 3.5.7 (which I've been using since 070610)
using whatever individual packages you need. Then keep it upto-date.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
070704 Colleen Beamer wrote: Danyelle Gragsone wrote: If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn. I second this sentiment. Since starting to use Gentoo in 2004, all other distros pale in comparison. Yes, there have been a couple of hurdles, but it was all learning. I view these, not as annoyances, but challenges. I love what I have learned about my system with Gentoo and there is *no* other distro that has a package management system that is better than portage, IMHO. So, thanks from me to all the devs! :-) Thirded (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
On 7/4/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: so you are using split ebuilds - I don't. But since that file was removed accidentally, you should be able to locate the package which owned it, if you grep for it. grep -R kde-3.5 /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*/CONTENTS and then re-emerge the package. This is what mine says it belongs too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery belongs etc/X11/Sessions/kde- 3.5 [ Searching for file(s) etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.5 in *... ] kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.7 (/etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.5) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) I don't have that package. I'm emerging it now it pulls in 5 other things I don't have currently... I looked into emerge.log, and find that I lost kdebase-startkde on June 11, during my first emerge --depclean, along with about 300 other packages. I never missed any of them until now. YAYYY...After emerging kdebase-startkde, I'm logging in again with KDE. Thanks, Dale. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
In 7/4/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
070704 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I have been using KDE for a long long time.
Suddenly it's not there any more.
anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me
that my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid and would be removed.
Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session.
My only choices seem to be fluxbox and failsafe.
My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE
that I found in the Gentoo docs.
You may have reasons for doing it this way, but I keep it much simpler.
I boot to a raw login prompt, login there, then enter 'startx'.
I have a file ~/.xinitrc ('dbus-launch' is to enable Epiphany) :
xscreensaver
dbus-launch startkde
If I want (rarely) to start Fluxbox, I have another file ~/.xinitrc-fb :
xscreensaver
fluxbox
which I copy 'cp .xinitrc-fb .xinitrc' (keeping a copy of the KDE
version).
I don't use Kdm at all, thus avoiding the kind of problem you've run into
which I too ran into a few years ago.
I recommend unmerging all your existing KDE material,
then remerging the latest 3.5.7 (which I've been using since 070610)
using whatever individual packages you need. Then keep it upto-date.
Absent a strong reason, I'll stick to stable X86, which seems to be 3.5.5.
Anyway, as noted above, the problem turned out to be that my first
--depclean got rid of kdebase-startkde. Re-emerging it got me going again.
Thanks, all, for your time and attention.
++ kevin
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote: 070704 Colleen Beamer wrote: Danyelle Gragsone wrote: If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn. I second this sentiment. Since starting to use Gentoo in 2004, all other distros pale in comparison. Yes, there have been a couple of hurdles, but it was all learning. I view these, not as annoyances, but challenges. I love what I have learned about my system with Gentoo and there is *no* other distro that has a package management system that is better than portage, IMHO. So, thanks from me to all the devs! :-) Thirded (smile). Fourth one here... Gentoo has been one of the most rewarding linux experiences that I've had in years. The only thing that even comes close is LFS... but then upgrading it is a nightmare. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1
On (04/07/07 15:26) Stefán István wrote: Hello! I got the following error: * Failed Running automake ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/automake-24490.out !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1615: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 752: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_unpack gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1.ebuild, line 97: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 97: Called eautomake autotools.eclass, line 194: Called autotools_run_tool 'automake' '--add-missing' '--copy' autotools.eclass, line 218: Called die !!! Failed Running automake ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/build.log'. What should I do to avoid this problem? Thanks for the help in advance, István -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hi, Try re-emerging 'libtool' or gnome-vfs a second time (sometimes helps). Also check/search in b.g.o. HTH. Rumen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:19:14PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote
I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in
/usr/share/doc. Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but
it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed directgories and get a
browser pointing to the right thing. So I wrote a little Perl script to
create a top-level index.html, organized by package and with a bit of
rudimentary pruning. I bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a
lot faster now. I like the result, and will continue to tweak it here and
there.
Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to make
this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that?
Current script attached.
Here's mine. It uses strictly bash; no perl at all. The setup...
- following files sit in the ~/.docpointer/ directory
- docpointer (executable script)
- docpointer.css
- header
- footer
- from a console execute...
~/.docpointer/docpointer n
where n is an integer specifying the number of columns across you
want in the output. You *MUST* specify a number. I use between 1
and 3, depending on my mood. It only takes a couple of seconds on
an old 450 mhz PIII
- I point browser to file:///home/waltdnes/.docpointer/docpointer.html
and get a list of html docs. The pathname will obviously be
different om your system
The files are attached...
--
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Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security?
A. I think it would be a good idea.
#!/bin/bash
makelinktext() {
# Search for matches
find ${1} -iname ${2} workfile.000
# Generate text for link and append it and the match to workfile.001
while read
do
# Strip the prefix off the filespec
xoffset=$(( ${#1} + 1 ))
commenttext=${REPLY:${xoffset}}
# If the stripped filespec contains the string /html/, get rid of that
commenttext=`echo ${commenttext} | sed s/\/html\//\//g`
# Get rid of the string /HTML/ too
commenttext=`echo ${commenttext} | sed s/\/HTML\//\//g`
# Get rid of the string /doc/ too
commenttext=`echo ${commenttext} | sed s/\/doc\//\//g`
# Get rid of the string /DOC/ too
commenttext=`echo ${commenttext} | sed s/\/DOC\//\//g`
# Get rid of the string /doc/ too
commenttext=`echo ${commenttext} | sed s/\/docs\//\//g`
# Get rid of the string /doc/ too
commenttext=`echo ${commenttext} | sed s/\/DOCS\//\//g`
# Strip the suffix off the filespec
xlength=$(( ${#commenttext} - ${#2} - 1 ))
commenttext=${commenttext:0:${xlength}}
# Send the stripped filespec, along with the original, to workfile.001
echo ${commenttext} ${REPLY} workfile.001
done workfile.000
}
# Get parameter which specifies how many columns across
columncount=${1}
# Change to ~/.docpointer directory
cd ~/.docpointer
# Get rid of workfile.001 if it exists.
if [[ -a workfile.001 ]]; then
rm workfile.001
fi
# Get raw search results
makelinktext /usr/share/doc index.html
makelinktext /usr/share/doc index.htm
# Repeat the above lines for any additional searches you want to throw in.
# Generate a sorted workfile
sort -u workfile.001 workfile.002
# Create the beginning of the docpointer.html file
cp header docpointer.html
# Put creation date into the link page
date docpointer.html
# Open the table
echo 'table class=t1 cellspacing=4' docpointer.html
# Initialize column pointer
columnpointer=0
# Read each line in workfile.002 and generate a link
while read commenttext urltext
do
# Increment column pointer
columnpointer=$(( ${columnpointer} + 1 ))
# If this is the first cell of a row, open the row first
if [[ ${columnpointer} -eq 1 ]]; then
echo 'tr' docpointer.html
rowstatus=open
fi
# Do the cell
echo tda href=\${urltext}\ ${commenttext} '/a/td'
docpointer.html
# If this is the last cell of a row, close the row, and reset the
# column pointer to zero
if [[ ${columnpointer} -eq ${columncount} ]]; then
echo '/tr' docpointer.html
rowstatus=closed
columnpointer=0
fi
done workfile.002
# If the last row hasn't been closed, close it now
if [[ ${rowstatus} = open ]]; then
echo '/tr' docpointer.html
fi
# Close the table
echo '/table' docpointer.html
# Append the footer to docpointer.html
cat footer docpointer.html
div.nav_menu {
color: #00;
background-color: #b4dade;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: monospace;
top: 1px;
left: 1px;
border-style: groove;
padding: 0;
}
td.tab_cell {
background-color: #b4dade;
background-image: url(tabimage.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;
}
pre.listing {
font-size: larger;
}
.bluelight {
color: #00;
background-color: #c0d0ff;
}
.highlight {
color: #00;
background-color: #b4ffb4;
font-weight: bold;
text-align:
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I don't have that package. I'm emerging it now it pulls in 5 other things I don't have currently... I looked into emerge.log, and find that I lost kdebase-startkde on June 11, during my first emerge --depclean, along with about 300 other packages. I never missed any of them until now. YAYYY...After emerging kdebase-startkde, I'm logging in again with KDE. Thanks, Dale. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Kewl!! Glad to have helped. You may want to set buildpkg in make.conf and then next time you will have the binary that you built before to install. It doesn't have to compile since it was already done. I had to use that a while back. Look in make.conf example for more features too. To install that, use the -k option. Glad you got it going and I could help. I sure have had a LOT of help given to me. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
Jerry McBride wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote: 070704 Colleen Beamer wrote: Danyelle Gragsone wrote: If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn. I second this sentiment. Since starting to use Gentoo in 2004, all other distros pale in comparison. Yes, there have been a couple of hurdles, but it was all learning. I view these, not as annoyances, but challenges. I love what I have learned about my system with Gentoo and there is *no* other distro that has a package management system that is better than portage, IMHO. So, thanks from me to all the devs! :-) Thirded (smile). Fourth one here... Gentoo has been one of the most rewarding linux experiences that I've had in years. The only thing that even comes close is LFS... but then upgrading it is a nightmare. I was preparing to install LFS but was told that Gentoo is LFS with a neat little package handler on steroids. They were right too. :-) I moved here from Mandrake 9.1. I couldn't imagine surfing without Gentoo. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted
Hi group, I posted earlier on this subject but scored no hits. I've been poking around on the Web for answers but so far without luck. When I plug the player into port and $dmesg, this comes up: snip usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB FLASH DISK V2.0 2120 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 usb-storage: device scan complete usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB FLASH DISK V2.0 2120 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 usb-storage: device scan complete Why won't it assign a drive, like /dev/sda? It does on another machine with virtually the same setup. Nothing shows up in udevinfo, cat /proc/partitions. but, #lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:9826 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and $cat /proc/bus/usb/devices snip S: Manufacturer=NewTech Inc S: Product=USB Mass Storage Device 2.0 snip I tried making the node manually(assuming /dev/sda) #mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 but attempts to mount the device return /dev/sda is not a valid block device What am I missing? Maxim Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
