Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Hi Matt Matt Harrison wrote on 23/04/08 07:05: I've been running a gentoo system as my fileserver without problems for a while. Its using software raid (1+0) with lvm on top, and its been a dream until now. The other day I did an emerge world and had a message about an sqlite ebuild missing from the repository. Well I had other things to do so I thought I'd leave that for now (sqlite isn't critical). Now after a reboot I can't mount my LVM partitions, my raid is working fine, but nothing I can do will discover my lvm partitions or volumes. If i try to manually start the lvm service, I get the message about it being written for baselayout-2 and not being suitable for baselayout-1. I've managed to find some info about the OpenRC and baselayout-2 change, however nothing seems to apply to my situation, and I certainly never meant to do an upgrade that would make such a serious change. Is there some way I can recover my system without having to re-install? I've got a lot of data that I would cry if i lost, although I think the data is ok...I'm just really confused about this baselayout-2 change. Because all my partitions (except root and boot) are on LVM, I can't get to see if i accidentally installed something wrong, and I can't even try to re-emerge lvm etc. Any tips would be greately appreciated. Add lvm to your boot run level for baselayout-2: rc-update add lvm boot Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Dave Jones wrote: Hi Matt Matt Harrison wrote on 23/04/08 07:05: I've been running a gentoo system as my fileserver without problems for a while. Its using software raid (1+0) with lvm on top, and its been a dream until now. The other day I did an emerge world and had a message about an sqlite ebuild missing from the repository. Well I had other things to do so I thought I'd leave that for now (sqlite isn't critical). Now after a reboot I can't mount my LVM partitions, my raid is working fine, but nothing I can do will discover my lvm partitions or volumes. If i try to manually start the lvm service, I get the message about it being written for baselayout-2 and not being suitable for baselayout-1. I've managed to find some info about the OpenRC and baselayout-2 change, however nothing seems to apply to my situation, and I certainly never meant to do an upgrade that would make such a serious change. Is there some way I can recover my system without having to re-install? I've got a lot of data that I would cry if i lost, although I think the data is ok...I'm just really confused about this baselayout-2 change. Because all my partitions (except root and boot) are on LVM, I can't get to see if i accidentally installed something wrong, and I can't even try to re-emerge lvm etc. Any tips would be greately appreciated. Add lvm to your boot run level for baselayout-2: rc-update add lvm boot Cheers, Dave Hey Dave, Thanks for the reply. I've just tried adding lvm to my boot runlevel. Unfortunately, its exactly the same. The LVM service does now start, but I'm still told that no volumes can be found. I've verified that the raid arrays are all running ok, however LVM just seems to have lost all my partitions...which seems crazy. I really, really hope that the upgrade doesn't mean i've lost data. Thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: Thanks for the reply. I've just tried adding lvm to my boot runlevel. Unfortunately, its exactly the same. The LVM service does now start, but I'm still told that no volumes can be found. I've verified that the raid arrays are all running ok, however LVM just seems to have lost all my partitions...which seems crazy. I really, really hope that the upgrade doesn't mean i've lost data. It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes present. But first we need to find out what's going on (my machine uses baselayout-2 and openrc my lvm volumes were unaffected. What output do you get from pvscan vgscan lvscan vgchange -a y and what's in the various logs regarding lvm startup? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ext Matt Harrison schrieb: | Thanks for the reply. I've just tried adding lvm to my boot runlevel. | Unfortunately, its exactly the same. The LVM service does now start, but | I'm still told that no volumes can be found. Look into /etc/rc.conf and add the dependencies for LVM. I had to add this (using EVMS): rc_fsck_need=evms This adds evms to the dependencies of fsck, so that all volumes are available for fsck. HTH... Dirk - -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDuWA8NVtnsLkZ7sRAj68AJ92U4KBivibRLrwge87Qjqsi7EyggCgoHA5 86thLwb8Zvx5BOpObMpgkdQ= =UZvP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
# emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world
gives just a few packages with dev-java/rhino the last one (first to
be merged).
But
# emerge --oneshot --ask rhino
Gives a bunch of packages with rhino the last one (last to build).
Could someone explain?
snip
[ebuild N] dev-java/rhino-1.5.5-r4 USE=doc -source 1,506 kB
snip
[ebuild N] dev-java/rhino-1.6.5 USE=doc -examples -source
See the difference? One is v1.5 the other is v1.6. The explanation is in
the full output of what rhino is and the openoffice ebuild:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix rhino
* dev-java/rhino
Available versions:
(1.5) 1.5.5-r4
(1.6) 1.6.5
{doc elibc_FreeBSD examples source}
Homepage:http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
Description: An open-source implementation of JavaScript
written in Java.
From openoffice-2.4.0.ebuild:
COMMON_DEPEND=
java? ( =dev-java/bsh-2.0_beta4
=dev-java/xalan-2.7
=dev-java/xalan-serializer-2.7
=dev-java/xerces-2.7
=dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3*
=dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.9
=dev-java/rhino-1.5* )
There are two SLOTs for rhino - 1.5 and 1.6
OpenOffice explicitly DEPENDS on the 1.5 SLOT for rhino if you
have java in USE. You probably have that so a deep world emerge will
pull rhino-1.5* in.
You don't currently have rhino installed so when you issue emerge
rhino, portage will check for the latest one and install it. It just
so happens that in this case, the latest is not the same SLOT that OOo
wants.
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID
On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Mick wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:41:58 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: The other possible way would be to give your devices unique names, either via udev or by using LVM. Advantage over UUIDs: much easier to read. Or you could use filesystem labels. I've used filesystem labels for a long time and generally it works really well. Only problem I've had is my Dad's machine has a Maxtor 1-touch 1394 drive. It seems that often it doesn't get recognized by the 1394 subsystem fast enough to satisfy whatever requirements the Gentoo scripts have for the label being readable so it doesn't reliably get recognized every time. I have thought about using labels, but never really ventured into it (I think I tried it once on a server). Can I do it retrospectively on ext2, reiserfs and xfs, or is it going to erase the contents of the partition? No, it's safe. The various file system tools have a *label* or *tune* tool to add a label to the fs metadata. Then simply update fstab. The fun starts in finding the tool for your filesystems. ext2/3 is easy - it's e2label. ReiserFS is a little more obscure :-) Finding this amazing Reiser tool is left as an exercise for the reader (i.e. I can never remember what it is myself and am too damn lazy to go and look right now) Personally, I prefer labels over other disk id methods. I get to choose the label myself and can ensure they are unique in my world (but maybe not in the universe like UUIDs are). If I have to mkfs a volume from scratch for some reason, it's easier for me to to re-use the same label than to re-use or copy-paste those long UUID strings -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...?
-Original Message- From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Bob Young Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...? On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Bob Young wrote: I'm in the process of installing a new box, last night before going to bed I started installing xorg server. This morning, I found the 82nd build(out of 162) had failed with the following error: [snip] the best alternative is to check what went wrong, but since Seagates are known to die in the first couple of days - or almost never, this gentleman here would bet on a defective harddisk. Btw, you might want to read up on 'bathtub curve'. Stuff breaks early, or late. Just wanted to let you know, it appears you were right, it was the HD itself that was bad. I substituted in the other brand new Seagate, and reinstalled. Luckily I was able to read all config files from the semi-bad drive. At this point I'm finished installing xorg-server, and have begun installing KDE. P.S. Next time I'll post the output of dmesg...g Thanks for responding Bob Young San Jose, CA. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Alan McKinnon wrote: It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes present. But first we need to find out what's going on (my machine uses baselayout-2 and openrc my lvm volumes were unaffected. What output do you get from pvscan vgscan lvscan vgchange -a y and what's in the various logs regarding lvm startup? Ok, pvscan says: No Matching physical volumes found vgscan says: Reading all physical volumesThis make take a while No volume groups found lvscan says: No volume groups found vgchange -a y says: No volume groups found. There's not much in the way of logs, seeing as syslog can't start (/var partition is on LVM too). running dmesg doesn't output anything relevant to LVM And in reply to Dirk's email, I've added the line to my /etc/rc.conf, but it doesn't seem to have made any difference :( -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ext Matt Harrison schrieb: | And in reply to Dirk's email, I've added the line to my /etc/rc.conf, | but it doesn't seem to have made any difference :( You wrote in your first mail that you use software raid. Did you also add the dep for this, so that raid devices are setup before lvm runs? Would be something like rc_lvm_need=mdraid Bye... Dirk - -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDuqD8NVtnsLkZ7sRAiHLAJ9u49X/VnVJqznVaBSWeSsZG+gWFACfXQGF BvYJN3woLSSu7/plcDx8cgY= =JzMp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
On a side not, I'm not sure if this could the problem: I've got one disk on one of my pairs failed. There's a replacement disk arriving tomorrow, but the stripe (thats built out of 3 mirrored pairs) won't start on its own, I have to manually rebuild the array after boot. This shouldn't stop it detecting lvm partitions manually should it? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: You wrote in your first mail that you use software raid. Did you also add the dep for this, so that raid devices are setup before lvm runs? Would be something like rc_lvm_need=mdraid No actually, I don't have that line either. I take it this is all new stuff...as its been working fine so far. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ext Matt Harrison schrieb: | Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | You wrote in your first mail that you use software raid. Did you also | add the dep for this, so that raid devices are setup before lvm runs? | Would be something like | | rc_lvm_need=mdraid | | No actually, I don't have that line either. I take it this is all new | stuff...as its been working fine so far. Oh, BTW: I don't know if that script is really called mdraid, since I don't use sw raid myself. Bye... Dirk - -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDuvK8NVtnsLkZ7sRAuYhAJ9z64+BldPPjlrowQXF7j7vbv+D3wCeMXvz /8Ubf7cz2TLYwoYe8I/2TxI= =puIa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes present. But first we need to find out what's going on (my machine uses baselayout-2 and openrc my lvm volumes were unaffected. What output do you get from pvscan vgscan lvscan vgchange -a y and what's in the various logs regarding lvm startup? Ok, pvscan says: No Matching physical volumes found ouch. Looks like something is wrong with your lvm metadata. Could you confirm that your setup is lvm on top of local RAID, and that there isn't anything else involved (shared storage for example). As a test, I would boot off an LVM enabled live cd and see if the volumes are accessible. That will determine if the problem lies with lvm, your volumes, or with how your gentoo is set up. Last time I looked, the Sistina web site and redhat.com has loads of very useful info and FAQs. If you haven't already, I recommend you get onto those sites and start reading and doing non-destructive tests, as lvm errors can be varied and interesting when stuff goes wrong -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes present. But first we need to find out what's going on (my machine uses baselayout-2 and openrc my lvm volumes were unaffected. What output do you get from pvscan vgscan lvscan vgchange -a y and what's in the various logs regarding lvm startup? Ok, pvscan says: No Matching physical volumes found ouch. Looks like something is wrong with your lvm metadata. Could you confirm that your setup is lvm on top of local RAID, and that there isn't anything else involved (shared storage for example). As a test, I would boot off an LVM enabled live cd and see if the volumes are accessible. That will determine if the problem lies with lvm, your volumes, or with how your gentoo is set up. Last time I looked, the Sistina web site and redhat.com has loads of very useful info and FAQs. If you haven't already, I recommend you get onto those sites and start reading and doing non-destructive tests, as lvm errors can be varied and interesting when stuff goes wrong I can confirm its 6 local drives using md software raid, with lvm stuck on top. No shared storage is happening at all. I'll have a look at everything I can find. I just pray I haven't lost anything. I'm about to burn a live cd, and i'll see what it says about my partitions...fingers crossed -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Hello On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:05:06AM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Now after a reboot I can't mount my LVM partitions, my raid is working fine, but nothing I can do will discover my lvm partitions or volumes. If i try to manually start the lvm service, I get the message about it being written for baselayout-2 and not being suitable for baselayout-1. Do I read correctly you have new version of LVM that needs baselayout 2, but you have only baselayout 1? (If so, then probably much of the parallel thread is solving completely different problem) -- Anything is possible, unless it's not. Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgp2vXJfWuDul.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Matt Harrison wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes present. But first we need to find out what's going on (my machine uses baselayout-2 and openrc my lvm volumes were unaffected. What output do you get from pvscan vgscan lvscan vgchange -a y and what's in the various logs regarding lvm startup? Ok, pvscan says: No Matching physical volumes found ouch. Looks like something is wrong with your lvm metadata. Could you confirm that your setup is lvm on top of local RAID, and that there isn't anything else involved (shared storage for example). As a test, I would boot off an LVM enabled live cd and see if the volumes are accessible. That will determine if the problem lies with lvm, your volumes, or with how your gentoo is set up. Last time I looked, the Sistina web site and redhat.com has loads of very useful info and FAQs. If you haven't already, I recommend you get onto those sites and start reading and doing non-destructive tests, as lvm errors can be varied and interesting when stuff goes wrong I can confirm its 6 local drives using md software raid, with lvm stuck on top. No shared storage is happening at all. I'll have a look at everything I can find. I just pray I haven't lost anything. I'm about to burn a live cd, and i'll see what it says about my partitions...fingers crossed Ok, some success. I've booted up with the install livecd, and I can still access the metadata for my LVM partitions. Everything shows up fine, the sizes and usage check out and things seem ok. So it appears I've not lost my data, just the ability to access it with the on-disk install I have. Now I guess I've gotta either fix it, or re-install and then watch all my emerge's really closely to figure out what happened to get into this state. Again, all help very much welcomed and thanks for the support so far :) With a big sigh of relief, Matt Harrison -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:05:06AM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Now after a reboot I can't mount my LVM partitions, my raid is working fine, but nothing I can do will discover my lvm partitions or volumes. If i try to manually start the lvm service, I get the message about it being written for baselayout-2 and not being suitable for baselayout-1. Do I read correctly you have new version of LVM that needs baselayout 2, but you have only baselayout 1? (If so, then probably much of the parallel thread is solving completely different problem) Problem is, I wasn't watching the emerge, so I'm not sure what did happen. It would appear that some package, probably LVM, has gotten out of sync with another critical package. I'm just not sure how to get things back in sync again -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Hello On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:14:02PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Do I read correctly you have new version of LVM that needs baselayout 2, but you have only baselayout 1? (If so, then probably much of the parallel thread is solving completely different problem) Problem is, I wasn't watching the emerge, so I'm not sure what did happen. It would appear that some package, probably LVM, has gotten out of sync with another critical package. I'm just not sure how to get things back in sync again You could try booting the life CD, mount anything like it should and chroot to the installation. Then you can check out versions of baselayout and the LVM packages and the too now one downgrade (or upgrade the too old one, but it probably means getting into baselayout-2, if you want it). I hope it helps. -- Fragile. Do not turn umop ap1sdn! Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgpVLhPC8IF6x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:14:02PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Do I read correctly you have new version of LVM that needs baselayout 2, but you have only baselayout 1? (If so, then probably much of the parallel thread is solving completely different problem) Problem is, I wasn't watching the emerge, so I'm not sure what did happen. It would appear that some package, probably LVM, has gotten out of sync with another critical package. I'm just not sure how to get things back in sync again You could try booting the life CD, mount anything like it should and chroot to the installation. Then you can check out versions of baselayout and the LVM packages and the too now one downgrade (or upgrade the too old one, but it probably means getting into baselayout-2, if you want it). I hope it helps. Ok, I don't think I really want to deal with baselayout 2 unless i really have to, does anyone know what version of LVM is safe to regress to so I can get access to data again? I will upgrade to baselayout 2 eventually, but I really have to have this operational this week -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
ext Matt Harrison schrieb: Ok, I don't think I really want to deal with baselayout 2 unless i really have to, does anyone know what version of LVM is safe to regress to so I can get access to data again? I will upgrade to baselayout 2 eventually, but I really have to have this operational this week There is no eventually. You have OpenRC, you need BL2. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ext Matt Harrison schrieb: Ok, I don't think I really want to deal with baselayout 2 unless i really have to, does anyone know what version of LVM is safe to regress to so I can get access to data again? I will upgrade to baselayout 2 eventually, but I really have to have this operational this week There is no eventually. You have OpenRC, you need BL2. Bye... Dirk hmm ok. I'll mount up on livecd and emerge bl2. with any luck this will sort me out :) Thanks for the help all -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output
At Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:33:05 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
# emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world
gives just a few packages with dev-java/rhino the last one (first to
be merged).
But
# emerge --oneshot --ask rhino
Gives a bunch of packages with rhino the last one (last to build).
Could someone explain?
snip
[ebuild N] dev-java/rhino-1.5.5-r4 USE=doc -source 1,506 kB
snip
[ebuild N] dev-java/rhino-1.6.5 USE=doc -examples -source
See the difference? One is v1.5 the other is v1.6. The explanation is in
the full output of what rhino is and the openoffice ebuild:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix rhino
* dev-java/rhino
Available versions:
(1.5) 1.5.5-r4
(1.6) 1.6.5
{doc elibc_FreeBSD examples source}
Homepage:http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
Description: An open-source implementation of JavaScript
written in Java.
From openoffice-2.4.0.ebuild:
COMMON_DEPEND=
java? ( =dev-java/bsh-2.0_beta4
=dev-java/xalan-2.7
=dev-java/xalan-serializer-2.7
=dev-java/xerces-2.7
=dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3*
=dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.9
=dev-java/rhino-1.5* )
There are two SLOTs for rhino - 1.5 and 1.6
OpenOffice explicitly DEPENDS on the 1.5 SLOT for rhino if you
have java in USE. You probably have that so a deep world emerge will
pull rhino-1.5* in.
You don't currently have rhino installed so when you issue emerge
rhino, portage will check for the latest one and install it. It just
so happens that in this case, the latest is not the same SLOT that OOo
wants.
Crystal clear. Thanks for the lucid and careful explanation.
allan
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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:14:02 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Problem is, I wasn't watching the emerge, so I'm not sure what did happen. If you can access the var filesystem from the live CD, you can read emerge.log and see what you installed just before the problem hit. -- Neil Bothwick Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 22 April 2008, 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Which version of vmware? Workstation of server? I assume server in the following. Your detailed explanation about bridged verses nat has answered my questions in full. I add this information to answer your questions: Worstation 6.5 [...] What setting did you choose for guest networking when creating the virtual machine? bridged or NAT? I tried both but didn't really understand how NAT worked until I read your detailed description. My first try with bridged seems to have auto bridged to the wrong device on the host (the ethernet adaptor instead of wireless connection) and so the network I created using ifconfig and route didn't work. I see now that bridged is what I want and have insured that auto bridging connects to the right connection on the host. [...] Basically, NAT creates a private network . . . . . . . . . [...] Thank for that thorough explanation. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:22:25 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Ok, I don't think I really want to deal with baselayout 2 unless i really have to, does anyone know what version of LVM is safe to regress to so I can get access to data again? You shouldn't need to change LVM versions, baselayout has nothing to do with actually accessing the LVM data, it simply uses a slightly different method of starting LVM. I last updated LVM two months ago but no changes were needed when switching to baselayout2 recently beyond the adding of the lvm init script to the boot runlevel, which the ebuild took care of. % genlop lvm2 * sys-fs/lvm2 [snip] Thu Feb 7 19:58:40 2008 sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.33 Thu Feb 14 08:40:32 2008 sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.33-r1 % genlop baselayout * sys-apps/baselayout [snip] Thu Jan 17 16:57:44 2008 sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.11.1 Mon Mar 31 09:18:36 2008 sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.12 Wed Apr 16 22:17:52 2008 sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0 -- Neil Bothwick Stupidity is NOT a handicap. You'll have to park elsewhere. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:14:02 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Problem is, I wasn't watching the emerge, so I'm not sure what did happen. If you can access the var filesystem from the live CD, you can read emerge.log and see what you installed just before the problem hit. The only thing I can see even remotely related to this that was upgraded is mdadm. the rest for the last month is just ruby and rails related stuff. I've tried to upgrade to BL2, and found it is masked, along with openrc...so if those were masked..how did I end up with bits that rely on it, without unmasking them? strange. I tried unmasking them and upgrading...but that just brings up a whole new series of problems, such as requiring that udev be removed, and thus I don't have access to /dev/hdi or /dev/hdk, so my raid now cannot start. Looks like I've got no choice but to re-install, and never re-sync my portage ever again. This is a silly problem that just doesn't make sense. The OpenRC migration guide doesn't describe anything that solves these problems. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:20:00 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I've tried to upgrade to BL2, and found it is masked, along with openrc...so if those were masked..how did I end up with bits that rely on it, without unmasking them? strange. Very strange. Baselayout-2 and openrc are both keyword masked and shouldn't be installed on a stable system. Which bits of testing/bl2/openrc have you ended up with? I would appear that its part of lvm and/or mdadm...but I just don't know. Everything about BL2 is so hazy, its hard to tell. Basically I have a crapped up system and I have a presentation tomorrow :P So I'm in the process of a partial over the top install. Once it's settled in, using the old portage tree that I know and love, I will be very wary about any upgrades...and I may just leave it as it is. I don't see how BL2 has affected me, for as you say it's all masked. Would be nice if a portage sync alerted me to the fact that the devil is now in control of the tree, and my system is likely to die at the slightest emerge. I guess the old adage is true, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So I won't be upgrading anything on my systems until this is a bit clearer. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:54:45 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Very strange. Baselayout-2 and openrc are both keyword masked and shouldn't be installed on a stable system. Which bits of testing/bl2/openrc have you ended up with? I would appear that its part of lvm and/or mdadm...but I just don't know. Everything about BL2 is so hazy, its hard to tell. Basically I have a crapped up system and I have a presentation tomorrow :P Neither of those have anything to do with BL2 beyond init scripts that do nothing but say don't run me under BL1. It sounds more like something corrupted your LVM setup or metadata. -- Neil Bothwick Sex is better than logic. You can't prove it, but it is. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] net-setup package
HI there guys. I've already installed gentoo, and wanting to setup the ethernet , trying to use net-setup seems not to be installed, which package do I nneed to install in order to have this util? It seems I missed something. Thanks for your time and support. Greets,
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:54:45 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Very strange. Baselayout-2 and openrc are both keyword masked and shouldn't be installed on a stable system. Which bits of testing/bl2/openrc have you ended up with? I would appear that its part of lvm and/or mdadm...but I just don't know. Everything about BL2 is so hazy, its hard to tell. Basically I have a crapped up system and I have a presentation tomorrow :P Neither of those have anything to do with BL2 beyond init scripts that do nothing but say don't run me under BL1. It sounds more like something corrupted your LVM setup or metadata. Well I would agree, except with my lvm working perfectly under the livecd, I just don't know what else to do. I'm getting on well with the re-install, I've just got a kernel to compile and I hope i'll be back on track. I would just keep booting from the livecd, except that it doesn't include iptables. Unless I get it reinstalled, its either data or network, but not both :P -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package
Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI there guys. I've already installed gentoo, and wanting to setup the ethernet , trying to use net-setup seems not to be installed, which package do I nneed to install in order to have this util? It seems I missed something. Thanks for your time and support. Greets, The net-setup tool is on the install cd. Not sure if its a separate installable utility in portage.. but an `eix' search of the portage database comes up empty. The way I do is establish a network running the install image cd or iso then transfer those settings to the actual install. But if you've already moved to the fresh install you should be able to setup the ethernet by hand with `ifconfig' and `route'. Then put those setting into /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/domainname /etc/resolv.conf For manual setup: (assuming eth0 is the device you are going to use) ifconfig eth0 my.ip.address (in numeric notation like 192.168.0.2) up route add default gw my.gateway.addr (in numeric notation) (if /etc/resolv.conf does not already contain a nameserver to use) echo nameserver my.nameserver.address /etc/resolv.conf And finally, if all goes well.. complete the setup so that it starts on bootup with rc-update rc-update add net.eth0 default (to add it to the default run level) See if that gets you going... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf
I received a used laptop a week or so ago, wiped the tinker-toy OS offered with it and proceeded to do the right thing. So far, I have got a machine I can (manually) put to sleep and use on a wireless network. So far, so good. At home, I don't have a wireless AP, but a 50-ft. ethernet cable. When I connect via wireless (at the office, say), then use my machine at home, resolv.conf is toasted, where I use fixed IP and put my DNS servers in there. DHCP is used everywhere else. So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, BETTER YET, is there anyone who has a smoothly-functioning configuration to switch between wireless DHCP and connected hard-wired net setups and would like to share? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package
The handbook tells you this as well. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI there guys. I've already installed gentoo, and wanting to setup the ethernet , trying to use net-setup seems not to be installed, which package do I nneed to install in order to have this util? It seems I missed something. Thanks for your time and support. Greets, The net-setup tool is on the install cd. Not sure if its a separate installable utility in portage.. but an `eix' search of the portage database comes up empty. The way I do is establish a network running the install image cd or iso then transfer those settings to the actual install. But if you've already moved to the fresh install you should be able to setup the ethernet by hand with `ifconfig' and `route'. Then put those setting into /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/domainname /etc/resolv.conf For manual setup: (assuming eth0 is the device you are going to use) ifconfig eth0 my.ip.address (in numeric notation like 192.168.0.2) up route add default gw my.gateway.addr (in numeric notation) (if /etc/resolv.conf does not already contain a nameserver to use) echo nameserver my.nameserver.address /etc/resolv.conf And finally, if all goes well.. complete the setup so that it starts on bootup with rc-update rc-update add net.eth0 default (to add it to the default run level) See if that gets you going... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf
add this to your /etc/conf.d/net dns_servers_ESSID=( 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 ) dns_domain_ESSID=some.domain dns_search_ESSID=search.this.domain search.that.domain you can also swap-out ESSID for eth0/wlan0 respectivly if they settings differ. This way, when you start the rspective device, /etc/resolv.conf will get the right settings. C- On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received a used laptop a week or so ago, wiped the tinker-toy OS offered with it and proceeded to do the right thing. So far, I have got a machine I can (manually) put to sleep and use on a wireless network. So far, so good. At home, I don't have a wireless AP, but a 50-ft. ethernet cable. When I connect via wireless (at the office, say), then use my machine at home, resolv.conf is toasted, where I use fixed IP and put my DNS servers in there. DHCP is used everywhere else. So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, BETTER YET, is there anyone who has a smoothly-functioning configuration to switch between wireless DHCP and connected hard-wired net setups and would like to share? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package
Yes, I did it manually as stated in the handbook, I'll take a look if I can copy net-setup from the install CD. Thank you very much. 2008/4/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI there guys. I've already installed gentoo, and wanting to setup the ethernet , trying to use net-setup seems not to be installed, which package do I nneed to install in order to have this util? It seems I missed something. Thanks for your time and support. Greets, The net-setup tool is on the install cd. Not sure if its a separate installable utility in portage.. but an `eix' search of the portage database comes up empty. The way I do is establish a network running the install image cd or iso then transfer those settings to the actual install. But if you've already moved to the fresh install you should be able to setup the ethernet by hand with `ifconfig' and `route'. Then put those setting into /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/domainname /etc/resolv.conf For manual setup: (assuming eth0 is the device you are going to use) ifconfig eth0 my.ip.address (in numeric notation like 192.168.0.2) up route add default gw my.gateway.addr (in numeric notation) (if /etc/resolv.conf does not already contain a nameserver to use) echo nameserver my.nameserver.address /etc/resolv.conf And finally, if all goes well.. complete the setup so that it starts on bootup with rc-update rc-update add net.eth0 default (to add it to the default run level) See if that gets you going... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install
I'm unable to log in as root on the installer OS for 2008.1_beta iso. I see nothing telling me what the root password is but the installer prompts me for a username and password. When logging in as root fails I'm eventually logged in as user `gentoo' but can do none of the things necessary to create an install. This seem pretty ridiculous so I'm pretty sure I'm missing some note or something. Starting the install with or without framebuffer appears to make no difference in the end result. I get a sorry little xfce desktop with no way to get to a root terminal. How can I ditch the sorry little desktop and use text mode and get logged in with the necessary root premissions? There is a `help' option on the boot screen but when I select it I get a very fast scroll thru a massive file then jumps back to login screen. Absolutely useless for any help. This install is inside a vmware as guest so maybe some of this works better in a normal install... I hope so. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Non-interactive bash help?
Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help. What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware of my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the given string with $SHELL if set, otherwise /bin/sh is used. My $SHELL is set to bash so fbrun runs the command with a non-interactive bash shell (the -c option.) Checking the bash manpage, I found that bash apparently checks the environment variable $BASH_ENV for an rc file if it's run with the -c option. I sure that I should probably know this, but where should I set this variable? I considered dropping something in /etc/env.d, but that didn't work, and I don't know if that's the right way to do it. Any help appreciated, Ben Leggett -- When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install
Switch to another VTTY (Ctrl+Atl+F1 for instance), 'passwd', specify the desired password, switch to Xorg again (Ctrl+Alt+F7 if I am not wrong), 'su' and that's it. -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 23 de abril de 2008 13:50 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install I'm unable to log in as root on the installer OS for 2008.1_beta iso. I see nothing telling me what the root password is but the installer prompts me for a username and password. When logging in as root fails I'm eventually logged in as user `gentoo' but can do none of the things necessary to create an install. This seem pretty ridiculous so I'm pretty sure I'm missing some note or something. Starting the install with or without framebuffer appears to make no difference in the end result. I get a sorry little xfce desktop with no way to get to a root terminal. How can I ditch the sorry little desktop and use text mode and get logged in with the necessary root premissions? There is a `help' option on the boot screen but when I select it I get a very fast scroll thru a massive file then jumps back to login screen. Absolutely useless for any help. This install is inside a vmware as guest so maybe some of this works better in a normal install... I hope so. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install
I haven't used 2008.1b1 yet so forgive me if I am a little off. By default, 200X.X would give you a prompt whereby you type passwd and set the root password to a known value. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to log in as root on the installer OS for 2008.1_beta iso. I see nothing telling me what the root password is but the installer prompts me for a username and password. When logging in as root fails I'm eventually logged in as user `gentoo' but can do none of the things necessary to create an install. This seem pretty ridiculous so I'm pretty sure I'm missing some note or something. Starting the install with or without framebuffer appears to make no difference in the end result. I get a sorry little xfce desktop with no way to get to a root terminal. How can I ditch the sorry little desktop and use text mode and get logged in with the necessary root premissions? There is a `help' option on the boot screen but when I select it I get a very fast scroll thru a massive file then jumps back to login screen. Absolutely useless for any help. This install is inside a vmware as guest so maybe some of this works better in a normal install... I hope so. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Non-interactive bash help?
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:58 -0400, Benjamin Leggett wrote: Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help. What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware of my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the given string with $SHELL if set, otherwise /bin/sh is used. My $SHELL is set to bash so fbrun runs the command with a non-interactive bash shell (the -c option.) Checking the bash manpage, I found that bash apparently checks the environment variable $BASH_ENV for an rc file if it's run with the -c option. I sure that I should probably know this, but where should I set this variable? I considered dropping something in /etc/env.d, but that didn't work, and I don't know if that's the right way to do it. Any help appreciated, I guess my question would be why do you (think you) want to run your .bashrc? That's really designed for setting up interactive stuff. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf
Michael Higgins wrote: So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, BETTER YET, is there anyone who has a smoothly-functioning configuration to switch between wireless DHCP and connected hard-wired net setups and would like to share? It's being overwritten by your DHCP client, which is the expected behavior. As long as your setup is such that your wireless card always uses DHCP, and your wired card never uses DHCP, you can configure the Gentoo networking script to do the right thing depending on which interface you're starting up. In your /etc/conf.d/net setup, add variables for: config_eth0 = ( w.x.y.z/nn ) dns_servers_eth0 = ( w.x.y.z, w.x.y.z ) dns_domain_eth0 = my.domain This will work as long as you manually stop and start the interfaces when you switch adapters. The net.eth0 startup script will write out a new resolv.conf, etc. --Mike -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install
the root pass is scrambled. but it appears you failed to follow the instructions posted at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=install If you have network, use the minimal cd. On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to log in as root on the installer OS for 2008.1_beta iso. I see nothing telling me what the root password is but the installer prompts me for a username and password. When logging in as root fails I'm eventually logged in as user `gentoo' but can do none of the things necessary to create an install. This seem pretty ridiculous so I'm pretty sure I'm missing some note or something. Starting the install with or without framebuffer appears to make no difference in the end result. I get a sorry little xfce desktop with no way to get to a root terminal. How can I ditch the sorry little desktop and use text mode and get logged in with the necessary root premissions? There is a `help' option on the boot screen but when I select it I get a very fast scroll thru a massive file then jumps back to login screen. Absolutely useless for any help. This install is inside a vmware as guest so maybe some of this works better in a normal install... I hope so. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Non-interactive bash help?
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:01:24 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:58 -0400, Benjamin Leggett wrote: Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help. What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware of my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the given string with $SHELL if set, otherwise /bin/sh is used. My $SHELL is set to bash so fbrun runs the command with a non-interactive bash shell (the -c option.) Checking the bash manpage, I found that bash apparently checks the environment variable $BASH_ENV for an rc file if it's run with the -c option. I sure that I should probably know this, but where should I set this variable? I considered dropping something in /etc/env.d, but that didn't work, and I don't know if that's the right way to do it. Any help appreciated, I guess my question would be why do you (think you) want to run your .bashrc? That's really designed for setting up interactive stuff. Well, I'd like to have fbrun use my aliases. e.g., running foo instead of foo --bar --baz=noo signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install
Hit Send too quick. The 'installer' is frowned upon on the actual 'gentoo' scene. it lacks alot of customization that you can gain from doing it cli style. check out gentoo-install.com for a quick skinny guide. On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to log in as root on the installer OS for 2008.1_beta iso. I see nothing telling me what the root password is but the installer prompts me for a username and password. When logging in as root fails I'm eventually logged in as user `gentoo' but can do none of the things necessary to create an install. This seem pretty ridiculous so I'm pretty sure I'm missing some note or something. Starting the install with or without framebuffer appears to make no difference in the end result. I get a sorry little xfce desktop with no way to get to a root terminal. How can I ditch the sorry little desktop and use text mode and get logged in with the necessary root premissions? There is a `help' option on the boot screen but when I select it I get a very fast scroll thru a massive file then jumps back to login screen. Absolutely useless for any help. This install is inside a vmware as guest so maybe some of this works better in a normal install... I hope so. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package
Yes, I could set up my ethernet manually :), just wondering if the setup-eth0 utils was a part of a packages I missed to install, cuz after loging in to the new installed system could not find it, but, is not matter of death and life :) Gentoo seems to be ( my humble opinion withing my first 24 usage hours ) a very robust system, I come from a freebsd land, and so, in my need to use a linux distro ( tried ubuntu, a mess ) gentoo has all I have in freebsd, the portage is what I like most, the way to be up to date with ports ans system, emerge does a good job, like portsnap/pkg_tools does for freebsd. The only think I found, how can I say, weird, is the installation, the need to do all the stuff by hand, just a basic install like bsd does ( 100 MB ) and then install the rest fro the network, would be nice, I'm too lazy to do paritioning/swap/choot :) I'll needto go deeper with the FLAGS features, still do not understand some things, I have things by default by the moment, eventhough it's a powerfull feature, I know that I can screw it up the howle system. Anyway, I'm almost done, I'm still compiling my stuff, and I'm happy the way it does things, great job. Thank you for your time and support. 2008/4/23, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: did you symlink net.lo to net.YOUR_ETH_DEVICE ? did you add said new symlink to the boot/default runtime? C- On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did it manually as stated in the handbook, I'll take a look if I can copy net-setup from the install CD. Thank you very much. 2008/4/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI there guys. I've already installed gentoo, and wanting to setup the ethernet , trying to use net-setup seems not to be installed, which package do I nneed to install in order to have this util? It seems I missed something. Thanks for your time and support. Greets, The net-setup tool is on the install cd. Not sure if its a separate installable utility in portage.. but an `eix' search of the portage database comes up empty. The way I do is establish a network running the install image cd or iso then transfer those settings to the actual install. But if you've already moved to the fresh install you should be able to setup the ethernet by hand with `ifconfig' and `route'. Then put those setting into /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/domainname /etc/resolv.conf For manual setup: (assuming eth0 is the device you are going to use) ifconfig eth0 my.ip.address (in numeric notation like 192.168.0.2) up route add default gw my.gateway.addr (in numeric notation) (if /etc/resolv.conf does not already contain a nameserver to use) echo nameserver my.nameserver.address /etc/resolv.conf And finally, if all goes well.. complete the setup so that it starts on bootup with rc-update rc-update add net.eth0 default (to add it to the default run level) See if that gets you going... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package
three place to keep in mind, they will be your best friend when in doubt www.gentoo.org/doc forums.gentoo.org gentoo-wiki.com These are a good first stop :D Anyway, happy gentooing D On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I could set up my ethernet manually :), just wondering if the setup-eth0 utils was a part of a packages I missed to install, cuz after loging in to the new installed system could not find it, but, is not matter of death and life :) Gentoo seems to be ( my humble opinion withing my first 24 usage hours ) a very robust system, I come from a freebsd land, and so, in my need to use a linux distro ( tried ubuntu, a mess ) gentoo has all I have in freebsd, the portage is what I like most, the way to be up to date with ports ans system, emerge does a good job, like portsnap/pkg_tools does for freebsd. The only think I found, how can I say, weird, is the installation, the need to do all the stuff by hand, just a basic install like bsd does ( 100 MB ) and then install the rest fro the network, would be nice, I'm too lazy to do paritioning/swap/choot :) I'll needto go deeper with the FLAGS features, still do not understand some things, I have things by default by the moment, eventhough it's a powerfull feature, I know that I can screw it up the howle system. Anyway, I'm almost done, I'm still compiling my stuff, and I'm happy the way it does things, great job. Thank you for your time and support. 2008/4/23, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: did you symlink net.lo to net.YOUR_ETH_DEVICE ? did you add said new symlink to the boot/default runtime? C- On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did it manually as stated in the handbook, I'll take a look if I can copy net-setup from the install CD. Thank you very much. 2008/4/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI there guys. I've already installed gentoo, and wanting to setup the ethernet , trying to use net-setup seems not to be installed, which package do I nneed to install in order to have this util? It seems I missed something. Thanks for your time and support. Greets, The net-setup tool is on the install cd. Not sure if its a separate installable utility in portage.. but an `eix' search of the portage database comes up empty. The way I do is establish a network running the install image cd or iso then transfer those settings to the actual install. But if you've already moved to the fresh install you should be able to setup the ethernet by hand with `ifconfig' and `route'. Then put those setting into /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/domainname /etc/resolv.conf For manual setup: (assuming eth0 is the device you are going to use) ifconfig eth0 my.ip.address (in numeric notation like 192.168.0.2) up route add default gw my.gateway.addr (in numeric notation) (if /etc/resolv.conf does not already contain a nameserver to use) echo nameserver my.nameserver.address /etc/resolv.conf And finally, if all goes well.. complete the setup so that it starts on bootup with rc-update rc-update add net.eth0 default (to add it to the default run level) See if that gets you going... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kolab questions
Hello, I just found this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/ Groupware is the general category. My questions are: Has anyone installed this and if so how do you like it? Would one run a traditionally sendmail/postfix server and then serve mail/data to the this Kolab groupware server? Being able to serve mail/data to a variety of client PC would be great. I'm not too familiar with groupware, but I've been asked to build a website/system for lots of coaches, kids and others to use related to a particular sport. Maybe Kolab would be a good communications/email system for them? Comments and ideas are welcome. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package
080423 Net Warrior wrote: Gentoo seems to be (my first 24 hours) a very robust system Yes, it is very reliable this list is usually helpful. tried ubuntu, a mess That was my own reaction on the 1 occasion I tried it (smile). I come from a freebsd land and gentoo has all I have in freebsd, portage is what I like most, the way to be upto date with ports, emerge does a good job, like portsnap/pkg_tools does for freebsd. IIRC Gentoo was based on FreeBSD, though it has developed a lot since. The only thing I found weird is the installation, the need to do all the stuff by hand, just a basic install like bsd does ( 100 MB ) and then install the rest fro the network would be nice, I'm too lazy to do paritioning/swap/choot Think of it as like joining the Freemasons: the trial-by-fire of installing Gentoo keeps out the unfit (grin). I made 5 pp of notes when installing on my newly-built box 2007-10-xx , but now everything is working even better than after my 1st install 2003 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Mick wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:41:58 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: The other possible way would be to give your devices unique names, either via udev or by using LVM. Advantage over UUIDs: much easier to read. Or you could use filesystem labels. I've used filesystem labels for a long time and generally it works really well. Only problem I've had is my Dad's machine has a Maxtor 1-touch 1394 drive. It seems that often it doesn't get recognized by the 1394 subsystem fast enough to satisfy whatever requirements the Gentoo scripts have for the label being readable so it doesn't reliably get recognized every time. I have thought about using labels, but never really ventured into it (I think I tried it once on a server). Can I do it retrospectively on ext2, reiserfs and xfs, or is it going to erase the contents of the partition? No, it's safe. The various file system tools have a *label* or *tune* tool to add a label to the fs metadata. Then simply update fstab. The fun starts in finding the tool for your filesystems. ext2/3 is easy - it's e2label. ReiserFS is a little more obscure :-) Finding this amazing Reiser tool is left as an exercise for the reader (i.e. I can never remember what it is myself and am too damn lazy to go and look right now) Personally, I prefer labels over other disk id methods. I get to choose the label myself and can ensure they are unique in my world (but maybe not in the universe like UUIDs are). If I have to mkfs a volume from scratch for some reason, it's easier for me to to re-use the same label than to re-use or copy-paste those long UUID strings -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com I like labels also. I've had a couple of cases where I've taken a drive out of an old system but kept the drive around. Later I put the drive in a 1394 drive case.I checked the drive label and immediately knew it was a drive with ripped music, sessions I've recorded in Ardour, etc. Labels are human readable and I tend to make them quite descriptive. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kolab questions
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, James wrote: Hello, I just found this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/ Groupware is the general category. My questions are: Has anyone installed this and if so how do you like it? Lng time ago. ;-) Would one run a traditionally sendmail/postfix server and then serve mail/data to the this Kolab groupware server? Being able to serve mail/data to a variety of client PC would be great. Kolab is a full replacement for Outlook/Exchange based on IMAP and LDAP. Unfortunately, it can be a real bitch to set up. Once it works, it keeps working. If you want Outlook to use all features like shared calendaring and such, you need a commercial plugin for each client. :-( See also: http://www.kolab.org/ Follow the link for kolab-client. Disclaimer: My experience with it is very outdated. Things may have changed meanwhile. Another not-so-far-away path to groupware in mixed environments: KDE 4.1 (June/July 2008) will be released for Linux and other UNIX-like OSS systems *and* OSX and Windows. By the time it is released, install kmail/kontact on *all* clients regardless of the operating system, enable Groupware and voila - you have got it. Just a couple of months away. ;-) Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf
Hello On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:07:29AM -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, BETTER YET, is there anyone who has a smoothly-functioning configuration to switch between wireless DHCP and connected hard-wired net setups and would like to share? I didn't like the way Gentoo handled network (wifi OK, but ethernet with different locations was a pain somehow), so I wrote a little perl thing I use as a network manager. However, I think noone who did not read and understand its code is able to use it to anything, since it has no documentation and completely non-intuitive control. You can find it here http://vorner.pretel.cz/en/netprofile.html, if you feel brave enough. If anyone is interested, I can answer questions about it off-list (not to scare others). -- I left the ssh key under the doormat Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgpd102xAQmUD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Alan McKinnon Personally, I prefer labels over other disk id methods. I get to choose the label myself and can ensure they are unique in my world (but maybe not in the universe like UUIDs are). If I have to mkfs a volume from scratch for some reason, it's easier for me to to re-use the same label than to re-use or copy-paste those long UUID strings I like labels also. I've had a couple of cases where I've taken a drive out of an old system but kept the drive around. Later I put the drive in a 1394 drive case.I checked the drive label and immediately knew it was a drive with ripped music, sessions I've recorded in Ardour, etc. Labels are human readable and I tend to make them quite descriptive. Just to expand a bit: UUIDs are guaranteed to be unique in the whole world, that's why distro installers use them - you can issue guarantees that the installer will get it right. LABELs have no such guarantee and installers need the user to be clued up enough to pick decent ones. As we all know, average users often aren't up to that. The majority of Ubuntu's target market (just to pick a random example) certainly aren't. So the installer is between a rock and a hard place - use the method guaranteed to work today, but is not really human-readable, or use a lesser method with a few caveats (like a trained user). It's the old story all over again - use the one that works best for you as long as you know enough to be able to decide -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:03:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Higgins wrote: So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, BETTER YET, is there anyone who has a smoothly-functioning configuration to switch between wireless DHCP and connected hard-wired net setups and would like to share? Thanks to all for your replies. I think I've got it now! -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kolab questions
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, James wrote: Hello, I just found this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/ Groupware is the general category. My questions are: Has anyone installed this and if so how do you like it? It sucks. It sucks so much I dare not describe how and why for fear of falling afoul of libel laws. Impi tried to use it. Impi is a South African Ubuntu derivative owned by Canonical intended to be sold to governments and large corporates. Kolab is infested with super-secret proprietary stuff that is anything but free software, all due to the way the German government structured the Kolab tender process. Apparently it only really works with KMail. If you are really interested in Kolab, I would advise you to do a proof of concept trial run for real and make up your own mind. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install
Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't used 2008.1b1 yet so forgive me if I am a little off. By default, 200X.X would give you a prompt whereby you type passwd and set the root password to a known value. Not on the installer iso for i686 2008.1 But I think another poster has posted the answer From Renato P: Switch to another VTTY (Ctrl+Atl+F1 for instance), 'passwd', specify the desired password, switch to Xorg again (Ctrl+Alt+F7 if I am not wrong), 'su' and that's it. I haven't actually tried it, I just went to the installer for x86 2008.1 which doesn't have that problem. But let me apologize and say I see now what I did wrong. What I was calling an installer for i686-2008.1beta was actually the liveCD which is different. The installer for x86 2008.1 has not such problem and I suspect the installer for i686-2008.1 doesn't either. Far as the live cd goes: It still needs to be made clear how to get to root right in the dialog during startup not on some webpage. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: I received a used laptop a week or so ago, wiped the tinker-toy OS offered with it and proceeded to do the right thing. So far, I have got a machine I can (manually) put to sleep and use on a wireless network. So far, so good. At home, I don't have a wireless AP, but a 50-ft. ethernet cable. When I connect via wireless (at the office, say), then use my machine at home, resolv.conf is toasted, where I use fixed IP and put my DNS servers in there. DHCP is used everywhere else. So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, BETTER YET, is there anyone who has a smoothly-functioning configuration to switch between wireless DHCP and connected hard-wired net setups and would like to share? Aaaah, the old obliterate-your-resolv.conf file problem :-) It is possible to tell dhcp servers to not present a resolv.conf file to all (or specific) clients. However, I always found this to be a major pain in the arse. My solution: don't use static ip's at home, set up a dhcp server with a permanent lease for your machine, then have it download the resolv.conf that you really do want at home. Other locations might by broken but at least you know you are guaranteed to get what you want when at home -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] screen locks too frequently
Since doing emerge -D -uav system and emerge -D -uav world last Saturday, I have noticed that my x86 machine locks itself up whenever the keyboard and mouse are idle for about 10 minutes. Unlocking it is simply a matter of typing the user's password. However, the frequency with which I have to unlock the system is annoying. I would like to either deactivate the locking system or increase the period of inactivity allowed before the system locks. Unfortunately, I don't know whether the locking is done by gentoo, x11, fluxbox, or some other component of my system. My only clue is the appearance of the locked screen: In the center of the screen there is a rectangle, within which appear, from top to bottom, the user's name, the machine's name, a blank for the user's password, and finally three buttons labeled switch user, cancel, and unlock. I would be very grateful for suggestions about how to discover what program is locking the system and how to change its behavior. -- John P. Burkett Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] screen locks too frequently
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, John P. Burkett wrote: Since doing emerge -D -uav system and emerge -D -uav world last Saturday, I have noticed that my x86 machine locks itself up whenever the keyboard and mouse are idle for about 10 minutes. Unlocking it is simply a matter of typing the user's password. However, the frequency with which I have to unlock the system is annoying. I would like to either deactivate the locking system or increase the period of inactivity allowed before the system locks. Unfortunately, I don't know whether the locking is done by gentoo, x11, fluxbox, or some other component of my system. My only clue is the appearance of the locked screen: In the center of the screen there is a rectangle, within which appear, from top to bottom, the user's name, the machine's name, a blank for the user's password, and finally three buttons labeled switch user, cancel, and unlock. I would be very grateful for suggestions about how to discover what program is locking the system and how to change its behavior. I get something like this every so often with e17. Very annoying. A good start would be to find out what launched the password dialog. When it next happens, switch to a virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and log in as root. Run 'ps axf' and identify the offending process. It's likely 'gksudo' or such. The name of it's parent tells you where to start looking next -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Error while compiling python
Hi guys, does anywone know what could this be? I'm intalling xfce4 port cc1: out of memory allocating 4194304 bytes after a total of 3883008 bytes make[2]: *** [_gtk_la-gtk.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pygtk-2.12.0/work/pygtk-2.12.0/gtk' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pygtk-2.12.0/work/pygtk-2.12.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 * * ERROR: dev-python/pygtk-2.12.0 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2509: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake -j1 || die * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Thanks for your time..
Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: You don't currently have rhino installed so when you issue emerge rhino, portage will check for the latest one and install it. It just so happens that in this case, the latest is not the same SLOT that OOo wants. Crystal clear. Thanks for the lucid and careful explanation. You're very welcome - emerge output can be ... um ... less than obvious at times. I figure that the three years of blood, sweat and tears I spent figuring it out isn't worth very much if it all stays in my head and never gets out. I'm also building up karma credits for the hundreds of questions I'll be unleashing on the paludis user community one fine day very soon :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error while compiling python
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Net Warrior wrote: Hi guys, does anywone know what could this be? I'm intalling xfce4 port You cut off the useful stuff just before the error message - like what was being compiled at the time. Could you report with at least 20 lines prior to this? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error while compiling python
Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Net Warrior: Hi guys, does anywone know what could this be? I'm intalling xfce4 port cc1: out of memory allocating 4194304 bytes after a total of 3883008 bytes Doesn't this tell it all? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: On a side not, I'm not sure if this could the problem: I've got one disk on one of my pairs failed. There's a replacement disk arriving tomorrow, but the stripe (thats built out of 3 mirrored pairs) won't start on its own, I have to manually rebuild the array after boot. This shouldn't stop it detecting lvm partitions manually should it? In my experience, no. As long as raid can present a consistent block device, lvm does what it should. RAID is designed to do that in a mirror configuration. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error while compiling python
I think I found the problem, let me check it out first.. sorry for the noise. Tell you latter if I could solve it.. Thanks you very much.. 2008/4/23, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Net Warrior wrote: Hi guys, does anywone know what could this be? I'm intalling xfce4 port You cut off the useful stuff just before the error message - like what was being compiled at the time. Could you report with at least 20 lines prior to this? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error while compiling python
Hi. My laptop has not too much memory, but wat it worst I did not realize that swap was not activated ?¿. Well, the problem seems to be resolved after activating swap. Thanks, sorry for the noise, my appologies.. 2008/4/23, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Net Warrior: Hi guys, does anywone know what could this be? I'm intalling xfce4 port cc1: out of memory allocating 4194304 bytes after a total of 3883008 bytes Doesn't this tell it all? Bye... Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] Error while compiling python
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Net Warrior: Hi guys, does anywone know what could this be? I'm intalling xfce4 port cc1: out of memory allocating 4194304 bytes after a total of 3883008 bytes Doesn't this tell it all? Silly me, I read the OP's post wrong. out of somehow got parsed as error in my head Net Warrior, you can ignore my other request for more info. Seems like you need more memory or to free some used memory up -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Yep. I use e2label. Works fine with ext2 and ext3 partitions. One command to read the label, another to write it. Easy. So, mkreiserfs --label My_Home /dev/hda5 will not wipe out my partition, right? I don't want to cause unnecessary harm to my machine . . . -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net woes with baselayout2
Hi all, Does baselayout-2 use /etc/conf.d/net? It seems not from this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points * Found tania at 00:60:B3:30:8D:AB, managed, encrypted * Found belkin54g at 00:30:BD:99:D3:8B, managed * Connecting to tania in managed mode (WEP enabled - open) ... [ ok ] * wlan0 connected to SSID tania at ** * in managed mode (WEP enabled - open) * No configuration specified; defaulting to DHCP * dhcp ... * Running dhcpcd ... [ ok ] * received address 10.0.0.3/24 [ ok ] Note the no configuration specified. However: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ egrep -v '^#|^$' /etc/conf.d/net iface_eth0=dhcp iface_wlan0=dhcp dhcpcd_eth0= dhcpcd_wlan0= modules=( iwconfig ) Has the location of the net init scripts changed? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Yep. I use e2label. Works fine with ext2 and ext3 partitions. One command to read the label, another to write it. Easy. So, mkreiserfs --label My_Home /dev/hda5 will not wipe out my partition, right? I don't want to cause unnecessary harm to my machine . . . mkreiserfs will in all likely-hood wipe out the file system on that partition, as it's job is to make filesystems. The label is a nice side-effect that it can do while making an fs You want reiserfstune -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:25:11 +0100, Mick wrote: So, mkreiserfs --label My_Home /dev/hda5 will not wipe out my partition, right? I don't want to cause unnecessary harm to my machine . . . Of course it will wipe the partition, that's what mkreiserfs does. The --label option simply adds a label to your freshly wiped partition :( To alter an existing filesystem, use reiserfstune. -- Neil Bothwick Grow your own dope, plant a politician! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net woes with baselayout2
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:38:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Does baselayout-2 use /etc/conf.d/net? It seems not from this: Yes, and with no changes needed here apart from the removal of Bash arrays. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points * Found tania at 00:60:B3:30:8D:AB, managed, encrypted * Found belkin54g at 00:30:BD:99:D3:8B, managed * Connecting to tania in managed mode (WEP enabled - open) ... [ ok ] * wlan0 connected to SSID tania at ** * in managed mode (WEP enabled - open) * No configuration specified; defaulting to DHCP * dhcp ... * Running dhcpcd ... [ ok ] * received address 10.0.0.3/24 [ ok ] Note the no configuration specified. However: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ egrep -v '^#|^$' /etc/conf.d/net iface_eth0=dhcp iface_wlan0=dhcp Those should be config_xxx=dhcp modules=( iwconfig ) And this should now be modules=iwconfig, although I inadvertently left a couple of Bash arrays in mine and it still worked (and I think iwconfig is the default for wireless anyway). Has the location of the net init scripts changed? Not unless you count an earlier baselayout2 ebuild sometimes deleting /etc/conf.d/net when it shouldn't :( -- Neil Bothwick Programming just with goto's is like swatting flies with a sledgehammer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:07:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: So, mkreiserfs --label My_Home /dev/hda5 will not wipe out my partition, right? I don't want to cause unnecessary harm to my machine . . . Of course it will wipe the partition, that's what mkreiserfs does. Reading that back, it seems a little brusque (a polite word for arsey). Sorry if anyone else took it that way, it wasn't intended. -- Neil Bothwick OS/2 = Half an Operating System signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: kolab questions
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/ It sucks. OK, I think I going to wait on what Uwe suggested with KDE... thanks, James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?
Hi, is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of dmesg |grep -i drm to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep -i drm says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root
Hi, I'd like to mount an ISO image from the command line as non-root user. Here are my attempts, each failing with the only root can do that error message: $ mount -o loop image.iso /mnt/ mount: only root can do that $ mount -o user,loop image.iso /mnt/ mount: only root can do that $ mount -o users,loop image.iso /mnt/ mount: only root can do that $ mount -o user -o loop image.iso /mnt/ mount: only root can do that $ mount -o users -o loop image.iso /mnt/ mount: only root can do that I keep reading about how the mount and umount commands need the suid bit set, which it already is: $ ll /bin/mount /bin/umount -rws--x--x 1 root root 51480 2008-04-10 14:11 /bin/mount -rws--x--x 1 root root 34584 2008-04-10 14:11 /bin/umount Furthermore, adding the following line to my /etc/fstab allows me to mount the image as non-root: /path/to/image.iso /mnt/ udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0 However, this is not an option for me as I work with different images/mount points all the time. What can I do to be able to mount an arbitrary ISO image to an arbitrary mount point from the command line as non-root user? Thanks! Mike -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root
Quoting Mike Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What can I do to be able to mount an arbitrary ISO image to an arbitrary mount point from the command line as non-root user? fuse-iso ? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root
Hi Norberto, On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can I do to be able to mount an arbitrary ISO image to an arbitrary mount point from the command line as non-root user? fuse-iso ? While fuse-iso would certainly do this for me, I was hoping it's possible with the mount command directly. The reason for this is that this mounting/unmounting is also in some automated tests which will find their way onto machines of others who may not have fuse-iso configured. Currently we simply require the tests to be run as root. I won't be adding another dependency just to get around this. Thanks though, Mike -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root
Take a look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Mounting_Iso_Files HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 03:40 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of dmesg |grep -i drm to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep -i drm says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 Yep, I'm using it (and the kernel module) and I get the same output of dmesg | grep drm If I remember correctly, only =x11-base/x11-drm-20071019 worked for me (at least there was a reason for me to put it in /etc/portage/package.keywords) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root
ext Mike Mazur schrieb: While fuse-iso would certainly do this for me, I was hoping it's possible with the mount command directly. sudo mount ... HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
