Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 11:10:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: equery depends qt-gui:4 $ equery depends qt-gui:4 [ Searching for packages depending on qt-gui:4... ] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7 (qt4? x11-libs/qt-gui:4) x11-libs/qscintilla-2.1-r1 (qt4? x11-libs/qt-gui:4) $ emerge --info | grep qt4 $ grep qt /etc/portage/* $ As I said (or tried to say) on Monday, whatever was causing kopete to call in qt:4 has disappeared. Perhaps I was doing something stupid (I'm having to face that possibility more often these days). -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
Shawn Haggett schrieb: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:37:23 pm Grant wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html ? - Grant I couldn't see any videos on that page... although the one at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/videos.obama/index.html played just fine. On: Intel Core2 Duo (Running in 64-bit) www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.4-r1 net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.21.1_alpha You can try starting firefox from the command line, then when it crashes you can see if it prints any helpful messages before dying. Shawn Same for me. No video found following the first link. Second link works fine. www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5 net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.21.1_alpha Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Micro-ATX-Mainboard in einer OEM-Version von Asus mit Nvidias nForce4 (A8NE-FM/S). PEG-Grafikkarte von Leadtek mit Nvidia GeForce 6600 kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?
On Thursday 22 Jan 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
Jan 21 14:35:43 [sshd] Invalid user murray from 203.110.208.68
So, 11 attempts in the first minute of activity (and it picked up
pace, later on attempting every 2 seconds). Surely denyhosts should
have blocked it already at that point based on my settings, correct?
Your regex's might not be up to snuff. Try adding the one below to
denyhosts.conf:
USERDEF_FAILED_ENTRY_REGEX=Invalid user (?Puser.*) .*from (:::)?
(?Phost\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})
HTH
-Robin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Aborting due to QA concerns: textrels
On 21 Jan, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:47:44 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
* The specific snippet of code:
* die Aborting due to QA concerns: ${die_msg}
* The die message:
* Aborting due to QA concerns: textrels,
*
Is the just coincidence or has portage become stricter?
You can probably avoid these checks by putting -strict in FEATURES.
Thanks,
I found out the option is '-stricter'
This seems to be necessary for quite a lot of packages now.
Helmut.
--
Helmut Jarausch
Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?
2009/1/21 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: Hi list: I need some help with my memory. Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown, but the message is not echoed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log Now, I remember having entered something like that somewhere way back, when I was using the ATI drivers for my laptop (instead of the radeon drivers from Xorg). The problem is, I cannot remember where such a line would possibly go! Does anyone have any ideas where I can start searching? don't do it. Just don't do that. It should not be necessary. Instead look at the mtrr cleanup options in make menuconfig. Yes, my point exactly! That *should not* be necessary any longer, so I am trying to figure out where I might have put this thing which I remembered having manual inserted so I can undo the damage. Also, what is this MTRR cleanup option? I can't seem to find it? W are you using a recent kernel? 2.6.27 or 28? I am using both. I have a mtrr entry in my kernel boot line like this: mtrr:4 but when configuring the new kernel I came across this option: MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1) which confused me. What am I supposed to choose here, other than the default 0 value? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?
Mick schrieb: 2009/1/21 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: Hi list: I need some help with my memory. Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown, but the message is not echoed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log Now, I remember having entered something like that somewhere way back, when I was using the ATI drivers for my laptop (instead of the radeon drivers from Xorg). The problem is, I cannot remember where such a line would possibly go! Does anyone have any ideas where I can start searching? don't do it. Just don't do that. It should not be necessary. Instead look at the mtrr cleanup options in make menuconfig. Yes, my point exactly! That *should not* be necessary any longer, so I am trying to figure out where I might have put this thing which I remembered having manual inserted so I can undo the damage. Also, what is this MTRR cleanup option? I can't seem to find it? W are you using a recent kernel? 2.6.27 or 28? I am using both. I have a mtrr entry in my kernel boot line like this: mtrr:4 but when configuring the new kernel I came across this option: MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1) which confused me. What am I supposed to choose here, other than the default 0 value? choose 1 with the 28 kernel and everything is fine. That was my success: reg00: base=0xfffe (4095MB), size= 128KB: write-protect, count=1 reg01: base=0xfffc (4095MB), size= 128KB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0x2000 ( 512MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 reg04: base=0x3f80 (1016MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1 reg05: base=0x3f60 (1014MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1 reg06: base=0x3f50 (1013MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1 reg07: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 128KB: uncachable, count=1 changed to reg00: base=0x0 (0MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back reg01: base=0x03f50 ( 1013MB), size=1MB, count=1: uncachable reg02: base=0x03f60 ( 1014MB), size=2MB, count=1: uncachable reg03: base=0x03f80 ( 1016MB), size=8MB, count=1: uncachable reg04: base=0x04000 ( 1024MB), size=2MB, count=1: write-combining signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2009, 22:33, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. However, it doesn't seem to ever stop them. I'm using sshd with this setting: MaxAuthTries 3 in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config So, why does it allow unlimited failed login attempts? For example, as I write this I'm seeing this in my logs: Jan 20 14:54:38 [sshd] Invalid user ejin from 72.70.42.36 Jan 20 14:54:39 [sshd] Invalid user core from 72.70.42.36 [cut] What MaxAuthTries does is just start logging the failed attempts when they reach ( value / 2 ). MaxAuthTries Specifies the maximum number of authentication attempts permitted per connection. Once the number of failures reaches half this value, additional failures are logged. The default is 6. Hi, I use this http://www.go2linux.org/fail2ban-secure-linux-services-from-brute-forces-attacks or this http://www.go2linux.org/denyhosts-secure-your-linux-against-dictionary-attacks you may also want to read this: http://www.go2linux.org/disable-ssh-root-direct-login -- Guillermo Garron Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. (Using Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/go2linux http://www.go2linux.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I tell if: A) USB suspend is actually on or not B) powertop is doing anything when I press U I've got USB Suspend/resume support in my kernel, and according to the kernel docs the usbcore.usbsuspend default delay is 2 (powertop suggests changing it to 1). Powertop's refresh delay is 5 seconds. Thanks, Paul Check for USB_SUSPEND in /proc/config.gz I do not have a /proc/config.gz but i have this in /boot/config: CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y Are you sure you're running a kernel with that configured? Why not enable kernel .config? It's [CONFIG_IKCONFIG] General Setup - Kernel .config support. Obviously it adds more to your kernel images but it makes tracking down problems like this very easy. I too have a usb keyboard / mouse and I'm pretty sure powertop doesn't register 100% for those interfaces... Heck, unless you're 100% opposed to turning on kernel .config support (or can't reboot the server), turn it on, recompile, install, reboot and see if CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is there, and see what powertop says. I was trying to chase down a similar problem (disabling kernel options) when I was getting vmalloc() errors with xfs and I discovered that they always weren't taking affect. My guess was I rebooted before cache could be written to disk. HTH -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*
I had the same problem this morning. Adding =app-crypt/qca-2.0.0-r2 to /etc/portage/package.mask solved it for me, since kopete wanted qca and qca-2 wanted qt4. Dominic On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:09:04 + Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: After reading a post here today I decided to investigate why I have several qt-4.4.2 packages on this workstation, when I don't have kde-4. It turns out that the SSL USE flag causes kopete-3.5.9 to pull in 14 qt-4.4.2 packages. This strikes me as somewhat odd. For the moment I've specified kopete -ssl in portage.use and removed all the qt-4 packages. Does anyone here know why we have this dependency of a kde-3 package on qt-4? -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
On 22 Jan 2009, at 03:07, Grant wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html Oh, noes! I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and this is why it's crashing. The only cure is to format the hard-drive. :( Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system. Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very slowly in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X running too. WiFi speed is dismal. I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I haven't managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours to update the system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as to what the cause of the slowdown might be. Sound Familiar? Any guesses? group scheduling? get rid of it. I have been using 2.6.23 kernel for a while for the same reason. I'm going to check my config now. Dale On my laptop it is noticeably sluggish when using SLUB instead of SLAB (despite SLUB being the default, I find it to be worse every time I've tried it so far)
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html Oh, noes! I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and this is why it's crashing. The only cure is to format the hard-drive. :( While that is humorous, it doesn't make sense. That's an Obama link. Anyway, I'm getting this in the terminal: $ firefox LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE] Killed and I'm re-emerging totem, xulrunner, and firefox to see if that fixes it. - Grant
[gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? - Grant Welcome to the real world of 64-bit Linux. 1) You should really start using the Gentoo-AMD64 list as you'll probably find more of us folks using 64-bit there. 2) TTBOMK there is no complete set of solutions that cover Java and Flash in 64-bit broswers, but I've stopped paying much attention any more. That's something that just doesn't work well for me on this machine. HTH, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I tell if: A) USB suspend is actually on or not B) powertop is doing anything when I press U I've got USB Suspend/resume support in my kernel, and according to the kernel docs the usbcore.usbsuspend default delay is 2 (powertop suggests changing it to 1). Powertop's refresh delay is 5 seconds. Thanks, Paul Check for USB_SUSPEND in /proc/config.gz I do not have a /proc/config.gz but i have this in /boot/config: CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y Are you sure you're running a kernel with that configured? Why not enable kernel .config? It's [CONFIG_IKCONFIG] General Setup - Kernel .config support. Obviously it adds more to your kernel images but it makes tracking down problems like this very easy. I too have a usb keyboard / mouse and I'm pretty sure powertop doesn't register 100% for those interfaces... Heck, unless you're 100% opposed to turning on kernel .config support (or can't reboot the server), turn it on, recompile, install, reboot and see if CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is there, and see what powertop says. I was trying to chase down a similar problem (disabling kernel options) when I was getting vmalloc() errors with xfs and I discovered that they always weren't taking affect. My guess was I rebooted before cache could be written to disk. Hi, I actually had it enabled in my kernel, but as a module, and I have never used it before so I didn't even realize it was there. I had to dig a little to find out that modprobe configs is what I needed to turn it on. I have this section: # # Miscellaneous USB options # CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y # CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS is not set # CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y # CONFIG_USB_OTG is not set # CONFIG_USB_MON is not set # CONFIG_USB_WUSB is not set # CONFIG_USB_WUSB_CBAF is not set So it appears I do have it properly configured, at least. Is there any way to tell whether or not a device is suspended, or if autosuspend is kicking in? I don't know what's it's supposed to do, really. Does the fact that I'm using a desktop computer mean that there's a chance USB suspend isn't even available? Thanks, Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html Oh, noes! I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and this is why it's crashing. The only cure is to format the hard-drive. :( While that is humorous, it doesn't make sense. That's an Obama link. Anyway, I'm getting this in the terminal: $ firefox LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE] Killed and I'm re-emerging totem, xulrunner, and firefox to see if that fixes it. - Grant Humm, Firefox isn't crashing for me, but I'm also not seeing a video at this link. What am I supposed to play? - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser plug-in until very recently. http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and this is why it's crashing. AH HA HAAA!... I was drinking coffee when I read your comment. I just ruinned my LCD :( BTW: The video plays fine here. OMG! Look at how many digital cams are there! What are they going to do with all the mercury in those little screens?
[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of attempts took place? Also, what's the time interval Denyhosts checks for login attempts? The most recently denied host from this afternoon made over 200 login attempts in a span of 17 minutes before denyhosts caught it. In my denyhosts.conf I have these: DENY_THRESHOLD_INVALID = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_VALID = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_ROOT = 1 DENY_THRESHOLD_RESTRICTED = 1 What is the value of DAEMON_SLEEP?
Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I tell if: A) USB suspend is actually on or not B) powertop is doing anything when I press U snip Check for USB_SUSPEND in /proc/config.gz I do not have a /proc/config.gz but i have this in /boot/config: CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y Are you sure you're running a kernel with that configured? Why not enable kernel .config? It's [CONFIG_IKCONFIG] General Setup - Kernel .config support. Obviously it adds more to your kernel images but it makes tracking down problems like this very easy. I too have a usb keyboard / mouse and I'm pretty sure powertop doesn't register 100% for those interfaces... Heck, unless you're 100% opposed to turning on kernel .config support (or can't reboot the server), turn it on, recompile, install, reboot and see if CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is there, and see what powertop says. I was trying to chase down a similar problem (disabling kernel options) when I was getting vmalloc() errors with xfs and I discovered that they always weren't taking affect. My guess was I rebooted before cache could be written to disk. Hi, I actually had it enabled in my kernel, but as a module, and I have never used it before so I didn't even realize it was there. I had to dig a little to find out that modprobe configs is what I needed to turn it on. I have this section: # # Miscellaneous USB options # CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y # CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS is not set # CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y # CONFIG_USB_OTG is not set # CONFIG_USB_MON is not set # CONFIG_USB_WUSB is not set # CONFIG_USB_WUSB_CBAF is not set So it appears I do have it properly configured, at least. Is there any way to tell whether or not a device is suspended, or if autosuspend is kicking in? I don't know what's it's supposed to do, really. Does the fact that I'm using a desktop computer mean that there's a chance USB suspend isn't even available? Ok, now I'm confused. USB_SUSPEND can't be configured as a module, so I have no idea what you're talking about. I apparently don't have it configured on this machine (shame on me) so I'm recompiling right now, I'll reboot and let you know so I can help more. Again though, the only way I'm 100% sure *anything* is in my running kernel is by checking /proc/config.gz. Granted that's not even 100% because there are plenty of times I just add modules and don't install the new kernel. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
Grant wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html The videos play fine here. I'm on AMD64, www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5 and net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.21.1_alpha.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of attempts took place? Also, what's the time interval Denyhosts checks for login attempts? The most recently denied host from this afternoon made over 200 login attempts in a span of 17 minutes before denyhosts caught it. In my denyhosts.conf I have these: DENY_THRESHOLD_INVALID = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_VALID = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_ROOT = 1 DENY_THRESHOLD_RESTRICTED = 1 What is the value of DAEMON_SLEEP? ### # # DAEMON_SLEEP: when DenyHosts is run in daemon mode (--daemon flag) # this is the amount of time DenyHosts will sleep between polling # the SECURE_LOG. See the comments in the PURGE_DENY section (above) # for details on specifying this value or for complete details # refer to:http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html#timespec # # DAEMON_SLEEP = 30s
Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I tell if: A) USB suspend is actually on or not B) powertop is doing anything when I press U snip Check for USB_SUSPEND in /proc/config.gz I do not have a /proc/config.gz but i have this in /boot/config: CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y Are you sure you're running a kernel with that configured? Why not enable kernel .config? It's [CONFIG_IKCONFIG] General Setup - Kernel .config support. Obviously it adds more to your kernel images but it makes tracking down problems like this very easy. I too have a usb keyboard / mouse and I'm pretty sure powertop doesn't register 100% for those interfaces... Heck, unless you're 100% opposed to turning on kernel .config support (or can't reboot the server), turn it on, recompile, install, reboot and see if CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is there, and see what powertop says. I was trying to chase down a similar problem (disabling kernel options) when I was getting vmalloc() errors with xfs and I discovered that they always weren't taking affect. My guess was I rebooted before cache could be written to disk. Hi, I actually had it enabled in my kernel, but as a module, and I have never used it before so I didn't even realize it was there. I had to dig a little to find out that modprobe configs is what I needed to turn it on. I have this section: # # Miscellaneous USB options # CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y # CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS is not set # CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y # CONFIG_USB_OTG is not set # CONFIG_USB_MON is not set # CONFIG_USB_WUSB is not set # CONFIG_USB_WUSB_CBAF is not set So it appears I do have it properly configured, at least. Is there any way to tell whether or not a device is suspended, or if autosuspend is kicking in? I don't know what's it's supposed to do, really. Does the fact that I'm using a desktop computer mean that there's a chance USB suspend isn't even available? Ok, now I'm confused. USB_SUSPEND can't be configured as a module, so I have no idea what you're talking about. I apparently don't have it configured on this machine (shame on me) so I'm recompiling right now, I'll reboot and let you know so I can help more. Again though, the only way I'm 100% sure *anything* is in my running kernel is by checking /proc/config.gz. Granted that's not even 100% because there are plenty of times I just add modules and don't install the new kernel. No no no, sorry for not being clearer. I had /proc/config.gz support compiled as a module. Once I did modprobe configs it was available for me to look at.
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html Oh, noes! I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and this is why it's crashing. Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes that's funny. - Grant The only cure is to format the hard-drive. :(
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html Oh, noes! I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and this is why it's crashing. The only cure is to format the hard-drive. :( While that is humorous, it doesn't make sense. That's an Obama link. Anyway, I'm getting this in the terminal: $ firefox LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE] Killed and I'm re-emerging totem, xulrunner, and firefox to see if that fixes it. - Grant Humm, Firefox isn't crashing for me, but I'm also not seeing a video at this link. What am I supposed to play? - Mark Sorry, I blew it with that link. Any cnn.com video will work. - Grant
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: January 22, 2009 11:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts? Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of attempts took place? Also, what's the time interval Denyhosts checks for login attempts? The most recently denied host from this afternoon made over 200 login attempts in a span of 17 minutes before denyhosts caught it. In my denyhosts.conf I have these: DENY_THRESHOLD_INVALID = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_VALID = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_ROOT = 1 DENY_THRESHOLD_RESTRICTED = 1 What is the value of DAEMON_SLEEP? Denyhosts doesn't pick up on certain types of PAM auth regular expressions. If any of those appear in your logs during those 200+ attempts, Denyhosts is probably not reading them. I've already reported it (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248047) if you want to add anything to it.
Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser plug-in until very recently. http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java That sounds great. Is it set up in portage yet? If so, can you tell me a package name? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:37 AM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: January 22, 2009 11:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts? Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of attempts took place? Also, what's the time interval Denyhosts checks for login attempts? The most recently denied host from this afternoon made over 200 login attempts in a span of 17 minutes before denyhosts caught it. In my denyhosts.conf I have these: DENY_THRESHOLD_INVALID = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_VALID = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_ROOT = 1 DENY_THRESHOLD_RESTRICTED = 1 What is the value of DAEMON_SLEEP? Denyhosts doesn't pick up on certain types of PAM auth regular expressions. If any of those appear in your logs during those 200+ attempts, Denyhosts is probably not reading them. I've already reported it (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248047) if you want to add anything to it. I don't use PAM in sshd so I don't think that's my problem, but the whole regexp thing is a possiblity in general as someone else suggested. I will check into it tonight after work. Thanks, Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? This one for example: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html Oh, noes! I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and this is why it's crashing. The only cure is to format the hard-drive. :( While that is humorous, it doesn't make sense. That's an Obama link. Anyway, I'm getting this in the terminal: $ firefox LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE] Killed and I'm re-emerging totem, xulrunner, and firefox to see if that fixes it. - Grant Humm, Firefox isn't crashing for me, but I'm also not seeing a video at this link. What am I supposed to play? - Mark Sorry, I blew it with that link. Any cnn.com video will work. - Grant OK, the videos play fine for me but I'm not getting any sound. I see suspicious stuff in my terminal about sound though: m...@lightning ~ $ firefox which: no soundwrapper in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin) which: no soundwrapper in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin) Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory *** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 17 in NPN_GetValue() *** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 17 in NPN_GetValue() (npviewer.bin:7938): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style-attach_count 0' failed That's probably fixable if I took the time to check USE flags, etc. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser plug-in until very recently. http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java That sounds great. Is it set up in portage yet? If so, can you tell me a package name? Not that I know of, it hasn't been released yet (still beta). I've read on the www that you can extract just the libnpjp2.so file from the archive and drop it in on top of your current sun-jre installation, then make a symlink to it your firefox plugins directory. I haven't actually tried it as I can't remember the last time I ran into java on the web.
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set WindowlessDisable = 1 and see if that helps.
Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser plug-in until very recently. http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java That sounds great. Is it set up in portage yet? If so, can you tell me a package name? Not that I know of, it hasn't been released yet (still beta). I've read on the www that you can extract just the libnpjp2.so file from the archive and drop it in on top of your current sun-jre installation, then make a symlink to it your firefox plugins directory. I haven't actually tried it as I can't remember the last time I ran into java on the web. Thank you, I'll keep an eye on that. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set WindowlessDisable = 1 and see if that helps. +1 I was having the same problem now that I remember. The setting above fixed it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: For almost a year now I've had PAM, not by choice really, on my server. Mostly because I've been pretty much told if it came with, it's better not to remove it. But to be blunt, I'm getting more than a little irritated with its attempts to interfere with my attempts to configuring any program with an optional PAM plugin. Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM? And, if no, I assume I can just do so by specifying -pam in make.conf, and then rebuilding things as necessary? I haven't tried it, but here is a wiki article about removing PAM: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Remove_PAM good luck :) Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser plug-in until very recently. http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java That sounds great. Is it set up in portage yet? If so, can you tell me a package name? Not that I know of, it hasn't been released yet (still beta). I've read on the www that you can extract just the libnpjp2.so file from the archive and drop it in on top of your current sun-jre installation, then make a symlink to it your firefox plugins directory. I haven't actually tried it as I can't remember the last time I ran into java on the web. Thank you, I'll keep an eye on that. - Grant or just use konqueror which does not need java-plugin to displayuse java since it can use java directly.
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set WindowlessDisable = 1 and see if that helps. Unfortunately that didn't fix it. I researched my error: $ firefox LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE] Killed and it sounds like it might have to do with having epiphany and firefox installed so I removed epiphany and re-emerged firefox, xulrunner, and totem with the same result. Do you guys have xulrunner enabled for firefox? I removed it and tried to re-emerge firefox but I got: * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.5 * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js * * Package 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5' NOT merged due to file * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole * content of the above message. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:39:32AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: Also, what is this MTRR cleanup option? I can't seem to find it? are you using a recent kernel? 2.6.27 or 28? Sorry for the late reply, I was having some problems with my mail. I am using 2.6.26 right now. I guess that is the problem. Let me try a more recent one and report back. W -- Pintsize: Data packets instead of pheromones! Sortir en Pantoufles: up 776 days, 17:04
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox?
Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set WindowlessDisable = 1 and see if that
helps.
Unfortunately that didn't fix it. I researched my error:
$ firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so
[/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined
symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE]
Killed
and it sounds like it might have to do with having epiphany and
firefox installed so I removed epiphany and re-emerged firefox,
xulrunner, and totem with the same result. Do you guys have xulrunner
enabled for firefox? I removed it and tried to re-emerge firefox but
I got:
* Detected file collision(s):
*
* /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js
* /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js
*
* Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
*
* Press Ctrl-C to Stop
*
* net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.5
* /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js
* /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js
*
* Package 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5' NOT merged due to file
* collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
* content of the above message.
- Grant
I'm getting a very similar error with mozilla-firefox -xulrunner:
$ firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so
[/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined
symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE]
/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 21696 Killed
$prog ${1+$@}
- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown, but the message is not echoed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log don't do it. Just don't do that. It should not be necessary. Instead look at the mtrr cleanup options in make menuconfig. Sorry, but this does not help. I have that after I terminate X, the following line on the console: error setting MTRR (base = 0xe800, size = 0x0200, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) and the following e-nibbles wwong # dmesg | tail -n 5 pci :01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found e-nibbles wwong # zgrep -i mtrr /proc/config.gz CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER=y CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=1 CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT=1 e-nibbles wwong # uname -a Linux e-nibbles 2.6.28.1 #2 Thu Jan 22 14:28:04 EST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Is there anything I misconfigured? Any other ideas? Thanks, W -- And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? - For the sperm whale, it wasn't. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 776 days, 18:35
Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?
Willie Wong schrieb: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown, but the message is not echoed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log don't do it. Just don't do that. It should not be necessary. Instead look at the mtrr cleanup options in make menuconfig. Sorry, but this does not help. I have that after I terminate X, the following line on the console: error setting MTRR (base = 0xe800, size = 0x0200, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) and the following e-nibbles wwong # dmesg | tail -n 5 pci :01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found e-nibbles wwong # zgrep -i mtrr /proc/config.gz CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER=y CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=1 CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT=1 e-nibbles wwong # uname -a Linux e-nibbles 2.6.28.1 #2 Thu Jan 22 14:28:04 EST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Is there anything I misconfigured? Any other ideas? Thanks, W I read something about booting with mtrr_cleanup_debug debug in the command line. This will print you out what to set in mtrr_chunk_size in the commandline. Didn't test it but check that. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set WindowlessDisable = 1 and see if that helps. Unfortunately that didn't fix it. I researched my error: $ firefox LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE] Killed and it sounds like it might have to do with having epiphany and firefox installed so I removed epiphany and re-emerged firefox, xulrunner, and totem with the same result. Do you guys have xulrunner enabled for firefox? I removed it and tried to re-emerge firefox but I got: * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.5 * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js * * Package 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5' NOT merged due to file * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole * content of the above message. I use xulrunner, don't have epiphany. Here are my firefox USE flags: www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5 USE=dbus ipv6 java mozdevelop startup-notification xulrunner -bindist -custom-optimization -gnome -iceweasel -restrict-javascript And in fact I don't have any totem stuff at all. libtotem-complex-plugin.so may be completely unrelated to your flash problems.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?
On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: The most recently denied host from this afternoon made over 200 login attempts in a span of 17 minutes before denyhosts caught it. You may want to have a look at fail2ban. I recall it kicks in much faster. However, the best approach to this would probably be to use iptables and set a limit as to how many connections an unknown host could start. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system. Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very slowly in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X running too. WiFi speed is dismal. I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I haven't managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours to update the system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as to what the cause of the slowdown might be. Sound Familiar? Any guesses? group scheduling? get rid of it. I have been using 2.6.23 kernel for a while for the same reason. I'm going to check my config now. Dale On my laptop it is noticeably sluggish when using SLUB instead of SLAB (despite SLUB being the default, I find it to be worse every time I've tried it so far) Is there a howto for this sort of thing? From what I read here and other places, some laptops are really confusing but there are even desktops that have issues with some new features. How does one get a idea of what they should try? I remember a list ages ago when I first installed Gentoo that has a list of CPUs andsome of the options a person could put in make.conf. I think we need one of those, maybe on a wiki or something, that lists models and what setting really work. I think laptops would really benefit from this. I have never had a laptop but they seem to be tricky to be nice about it. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system. Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very slowly in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X running too. WiFi speed is dismal. I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I haven't managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours to update the system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as to what the cause of the slowdown might be. Sound Familiar? Any guesses? group scheduling? get rid of it. I have been using 2.6.23 kernel for a while for the same reason. I'm going to check my config now. Dale On my laptop it is noticeably sluggish when using SLUB instead of SLAB (despite SLUB being the default, I find it to be worse every time I've tried it so far) Is there a howto for this sort of thing? From what I read here and other places, some laptops are really confusing but there are even desktops that have issues with some new features. How does one get a idea of what they should try? I remember a list ages ago when I first installed Gentoo that has a list of CPUs andsome of the options a person could put in make.conf. I think we need one of those, maybe on a wiki or something, that lists models and what setting really work. I think laptops would really benefit from this. I have never had a laptop but they seem to be tricky to be nice about it. I think, other than power-saving stuff, there shouldn't really be any big difference between desktop and laptop settings... http://linuxonlaptops.com has lots of info about specific configurations for various laptops.
[gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior
Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to change this behavior? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to change this behavior? I don't remember it ever working any other way. Seamonkey and Firefox both behave the same on linux windows in my test just now.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior
On Friday 23 January 2009 02:08:25 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to change this behavior? I don't remember it ever working any other way. Seamonkey and Firefox both behave the same on linux windows in my test just now. I remember - dots are interpreting as words delimiter now also.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to change this behavior? Found it for you. Go to about:config layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior
Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to change this behavior? Found it for you. Go to about:config layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation Thank you very much. - Grant
[gentoo-user] shoutcast problem 64bit gentoo
Hi,
I've just installed 64bit gentoo on one of these machines:
http://www.ovh.pl/produkty/eg_best_of.xml
Everything is fine. I use hardened profile, Pax, firewall ect, but I've
got problem with ...running a shoutcast server.
I didn't find answer on winamp.com forum and google.
It's exactly the same problem like here:
http://forums.winamp.com/printthread.php?s=48cd69919741579a3c1e4a8b0ac3e38bthreadid=229419
At my server it goes this way:
gentoo shoutcast # pwd
/home/something/shoutcast
gentoo shoutcast # file *
logs: directory
sc_serv: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
sc_serv8002.conf: ASCII English text, with CRLF, LF line terminators
gentoo shoutcast # strace ./sc_serv
execve(./sc_serv, [./sc_serv], [/* 26 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
dup(2) = 3
fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0)
= 0x708341026000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(3, strace: exec: No such file or dir..., 40strace: exec: No such
file or directory
) = 40
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x708341026000, 4096)= 0
exit_group(1) = ?
gentoo shoutcast # /etc/init.d/shoutcast start
* Starting Shoutcast Server ...
[ ok ]
gentoo shoutcast # /sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to start
/opt/shoutcast/sc_serv: No such file or directory (No such file or
directory)
The problem is that shoutcast is 32 bit and system is 64 bit (and I
think it should be 64 @ this machine).
I've tried to follow these tips from the forum but it didn't help me.
Can you help me?
Wojtek
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:11:12 -0500, James Homuth wrote: Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM? And, if no, I assume I can just do so by specifying -pam in make.conf, and then rebuilding things as necessary? That's pretty much what I did. Nothing's blown up... yet. -- Neil Bothwick The sum of all human intelligence is constant, only the number of humans increases. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?
It seems to be appeared on 2.6.28 kernel. But not 2.6.26 kernel. I got both as on my box as the gspca driver for my web camera seems only worked on the 2.6.26 kernel. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Willie Wong schrieb: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown, but the message is not echoed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log don't do it. Just don't do that. It should not be necessary. Instead look at the mtrr cleanup options in make menuconfig. Sorry, but this does not help. I have that after I terminate X, the following line on the console: error setting MTRR (base = 0xe800, size = 0x0200, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) and the following e-nibbles wwong # dmesg | tail -n 5 pci :01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found e-nibbles wwong # zgrep -i mtrr /proc/config.gz CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER=y CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=1 CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT=1 e-nibbles wwong # uname -a Linux e-nibbles 2.6.28.1 #2 Thu Jan 22 14:28:04 EST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Is there anything I misconfigured? Any other ideas? Thanks, W I read something about booting with mtrr_cleanup_debug debug in the command line. This will print you out what to set in mtrr_chunk_size in the commandline. Didn't test it but check that.
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: I'm getting more than a little irritated with its attempts to interfere with my attempts to configuring any program with an optional PAM plugin. What's so bad/hard about pam that everyone wants to remove it? Maybe if you ask for directions you'll end up learning pam. Hiding the problem under the carpet pretending you're doing the right thing is not the best you can do.
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: I'm getting more than a little irritated with its attempts to interfere with my attempts to configuring any program with an optional PAM plugin. What's so bad/hard about pam that everyone wants to remove it? Maybe if you ask for directions you'll end up learning pam. Hiding the problem under the carpet pretending you're doing the right thing is not the best you can do. what is so good/usefull about pam that one shall keep it?
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: What's so bad/hard about pam that everyone wants to remove it? what is so good/usefull about pam that one shall keep it? Doesn't asnwer the question. This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
[gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...
I'm running a Dell D600, and I've located a number of tools for it but I am not seeing anything related to when I close the lid. Since I got Gentoo running on it, the Monitor continues running when I close the lid. I've found several sources for doing something as an ACPI event, which seems to be the right method. I can toggle the button with the lid open and cat /etc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state and see it change between 'open' and 'closed'; and I know I could write myself a little script do something like calling radeontool to turn off the backlight, but I'd like to find a more official method. I mostly run KDE 3.5 (I'll go to KDE4 when I can...once portage 2.2 comes out and all), but I didn't see anything for a 'turn off monitor on lid close' setting (preferrably root controlled so that it affects all users). The only thing I can find is a the standby/suspend/shutdown/logoff, system performance, and CPU throttling. I don't really want to do any of that - just put the monitor into stand-by, not necessarily the whole system. Any how...I'd really like to get this working. TIA, Ben
[gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
Grant: Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? - Grant yes if you had selected 'kernel .config support' when you made the kernel. that's in the 'General setup'. if you did that you'll find /proc/config.gz over there.
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
You could look for the .config files from earlier kernels, unless you've cleared out all your directories except the one with the most- recent release. On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? - Grant yes if you had selected 'kernel .config support' when you made the kernel. that's in the 'General setup'. if you did that you'll find /proc/config.gz over there. I do have /proc/config.gz, but when I move it to /usr/src/2.6.25-hardened-r13 and run 'make oldconfig' it comes up with many differences. I'm booted into 2.6.25-hardened-r11 and there shouldn't be any config differences between that and r13. Does anyone know what's going on here? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: What's so bad/hard about pam that everyone wants to remove it? what is so good/usefull about pam that one shall keep it? Doesn't asnwer the question. ok, the answer to your question is: in the past pam breakage caused login trouble, apps not working because of suddenly changed device permissions and other difficulties. Also rule one of computer security: reduce the codebase so, could you please answer mine now: why should pam be used in the first place on a usual server/desktop which has restricted access anyway?
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? - Grant ls /boot ls /boot boot config-2.6.28r4.old grubmemtest86plus System.map-2.6.28r4 System.map.old vmlinuz-2.6.28r4 vmlinuz.old config-2.6.28r4 dmesg_fsck_segfault lost+found System.map System.map-2.6.28r4.old vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.6.28r4.old config - there it is! there are good reasons to use debianutils+make install to install new kernels
Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox
Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set WindowlessDisable = 1 and see if that helps. Unfortunately that didn't fix it. I researched my error: $ firefox LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE] Killed and it sounds like it might have to do with having epiphany and firefox installed so I removed epiphany and re-emerged firefox, xulrunner, and totem with the same result. Do you guys have xulrunner enabled for firefox? I removed it and tried to re-emerge firefox but I got: * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.5 * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js * * Package 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5' NOT merged due to file * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole * content of the above message. I use xulrunner, don't have epiphany. Here are my firefox USE flags: www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5 USE=dbus ipv6 java mozdevelop startup-notification xulrunner -bindist -custom-optimization -gnome -iceweasel -restrict-javascript And in fact I don't have any totem stuff at all. libtotem-complex-plugin.so may be completely unrelated to your flash problems. This was a hardened issue. I just needed to issue 'paxctl -m /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox'. Thanks again. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: in the past pam breakage caused login trouble, In the past... Like when there's were not enough documentation or it was too cryptic? so, could you please answer mine now: why should pam be used in the first place on a usual server/desktop which has restricted access anyway? That was not your question. You redefined it, but I'll answer anyway: PAM helps you to have a stackable authentication system like: Kerberos LDAP Files If kerberos is available use it. If not, try ldap, and if that fails too, use files (passwd/shadow) Or you could combine the three methods!! (but you'll have to type up to three passwords) Or maybe you have a pendrive with a digital certificate you want to use to authenticate privileged users. What about biometrics (fingerprints, etc) combined with passwords and/or digital certificates? About security. I fail to see how removing PAM will magically make your system more secure.
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: in the past pam breakage caused login trouble, In the past... Like when there's were not enough documentation or it was too cryptic? so, could you please answer mine now: why should pam be used in the first place on a usual server/desktop which has restricted access anyway? That was not your question. You redefined it, but I'll answer anyway: PAM helps you to have a stackable authentication system like: Kerberos LDAP Files If kerberos is available use it. If not, try ldap, and if that fails too, use files (passwd/shadow) Or you could combine the three methods!! (but you'll have to type up to three passwords) Or maybe you have a pendrive with a digital certificate you want to use to authenticate privileged users. What about biometrics (fingerprints, etc) combined with passwords and/or digital certificates? so nothing 90% of all users ever use or need. About security. I fail to see how removing PAM will magically make your system more secure. if you don't use any of that 'stackable' stuff or other features and you remove pam, you don't have to worry about pam securtiy problems.
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: so nothing 90% of all users ever use or need. In a Linux only enrironmet? Yeah, perhaps. But what if you Linux box runs in a Windows domain? What if your users are stored in AD? if you don't use any of that 'stackable' stuff or other features and you remove pam, you don't have to worry about pam securtiy problems. When was the last time you've seen a SA about PAM? One of its plugins? I'm not saying PAM is absolutely secure, but removing it will not make your box more secure nor easier to configure. On the other hand, learning PAM has its benefits. Bye
[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?
On 2009-01-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote: But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up with problems such as no console during startup. IIRC thats because /dev should be populated on startup by udev so i would check that udev is installed and working properly, if you use openrc then this could be the cause as openrc now starts udev through normal scripts i think, sometimes on upgrade from baselayout 1 they may not be automatically added to the right runlevels. You still need /dev/console in the dev directory of the root partition, along with /dev/null. Try telling that to somebody in the Gentoo forum hiding behind the screen name desultory. Sheesh. I reported the issue to the forum thread as requested by the article on www.gentoo.org, and I got a very hostile reaction. Bascially I got a snide, insulting response, a complete denial that there was a problem with the tarball in question, and a denial that either /dev/console or /dev/null is needed at boot time. That's the last time I waste my time with that forum. I should have known. Web forums all suck. Web forum UIs are all completely abominable, and they seem to be inhabited almost exclusively by surly, unjustifiably arrogant junior-high kids hiding behind stupid screen names and even worse avatars. Anything else is a waste of disk space and inodes as the static /dev/devices are hidden as soon as udev starts. Yup. If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote: But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up with problems such as no console during startup. IIRC thats because /dev should be populated on startup by udev so i would check that udev is installed and working properly, if you use openrc then this could be the cause as openrc now starts udev through normal scripts i think, sometimes on upgrade from baselayout 1 they may not be automatically added to the right runlevels. You still need /dev/console in the dev directory of the root partition, along with /dev/null. Try telling that to somebody in the Gentoo forum hiding behind the screen name desultory. Sheesh. I reported the issue to the forum thread as requested by the article on www.gentoo.org, and I got a very hostile reaction. Bascially I got a snide, insulting response, a complete denial that there was a problem with the tarball in question, and a denial that either /dev/console or /dev/null is needed at boot time. That's the last time I waste my time with that forum. I should have known. Web forums all suck. Web forum UIs are all completely abominable, and they seem to be inhabited almost exclusively by surly, unjustifiably arrogant junior-high kids hiding behind stupid screen names and even worse avatars. Anything else is a waste of disk space and inodes as the static /dev/devices are hidden as soon as udev starts. Yup. If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries. I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way.
[gentoo-user] Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP
For reasons that probably aren't interesting, I needed to eliminate the Windows XP swap file from the C: NTFS parition of one of my multi-boot machines [no matter how cheap and fast disks get, partitions still seem to fill up, and backups still take too long]. That machine had a 2GB Linux swap partition. After googling for a while, I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it: http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/ Maybe others who do a lot of multi-booting all know about swapfs, but my finding it took quite a bit of searching and chasing down useless google hits. Next time I need to find it, hopefully I'll be able to find this posting... -- Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: Aborting due to QA concerns: textrels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helmut Jarausch wrote: I found out the option is '-stricter' This seems to be necessary for quite a lot of packages now. FEATURES=stricter should not be enabled by default, and is not, unless you are using one of the developer profiles - unless you *really* know what you are doing, and are an ebuild developer, you almost definitely do *not* want to be using a developer profile (unfortunately, there has been much miscommunication on this issue). To change your profile, use `eselect profile list` to see the available profiles, and `eselect profile set name-or-number` to change your profile. - -- ABCD -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl5Up8ACgkQOypDUo0oQOqjUwCgjj4HiYfRw8o22/jxvzUb9Xfs T0kAmgK+s1H1dWt+kXrft6x3OtDWLKlU =3Kgu -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?
On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries. I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way. You are still able to see the output from all the init scripts? -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? - Grant ls /boot ls /boot boot config-2.6.28r4.old grubmemtest86plus System.map-2.6.28r4 System.map.old vmlinuz-2.6.28r4 vmlinuz.old config-2.6.28r4 dmesg_fsck_segfault lost+found System.map System.map-2.6.28r4.old vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.6.28r4.old config - there it is! there are good reasons to use debianutils+make install to install new kernels Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a stable kernel. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries. I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way. You are still able to see the output from all the init scripts? yes
RE: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk] Sent: January 22, 2009 7:16 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable? On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:11:12 -0500, James Homuth wrote: Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM? And, if no, I assume I can just do so by specifying -pam in make.conf, and then rebuilding things as necessary? That's pretty much what I did. Nothing's blown up... yet. I heard there were some programs that won't be emerged or won't work properly if PAM is removed. An example given in the posted wiki article is Open Office. Is that still accurate?
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:58 AM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk] Sent: January 22, 2009 7:16 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable? On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:11:12 -0500, James Homuth wrote: Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM? And, if no, I assume I can just do so by specifying -pam in make.conf, and then rebuilding things as necessary? That's pretty much what I did. Nothing's blown up... yet. I heard there were some programs that won't be emerged or won't work properly if PAM is removed. An example given in the posted wiki article is Open Office. Is that still accurate? OOo has worked perfectly on all of my 2007 and 2008 PAM-less builds. I've always started with a stage3, added -pam to USE, adjusted cflags and such to my liking, and then followed with a full emerge -e system. I added it back on one system more recently because of something or other I was screwing with... x11-misc/slim I think it was. Looking at a quick eix openoffice ... it does have a pam use flag to get past any troubles. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
[gentoo-user] Audio on Asus M2N-MX SE Plus mobo
Hello The audio on this new system is not working. dmesg shows: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] enabled at IRQ 23 HDA Intel :00:05.0: PCI INT B - Link[LAZA] - GSI 23 (level, low) - IRQ 23 HDA Intel :00:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNEA] enabled at IRQ 19 HDA Intel :02:00.1: PCI INT B - Link[LNEA] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 HDA Intel :02:00.1: setting latency timer to 64 ALSA device list: #0: HDA NVidia at 0xdfef8000 irq 23 #1: HDA ATI HDMI at 0xdffec000 irq 19 Kmix is blank like no device driver for audio is present. Intel HDA is selected in the kernel. lspci shows: 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2 02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device aa38 Is a Nvidia mobo with an ATI video card (EAH 4350) and I have an HDMI cable running to the DVI-D connector on the monitor. Video works great. Ideas on fixin this rig? James
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm running a Dell D600, and I've located a number of tools for it but I am not seeing anything related to when I close the lid. Since I got Gentoo running on it, the Monitor continues running when I close the lid. I've found several sources for doing something as an ACPI event, which seems to be the right method. I can toggle the button with the lid open and cat /etc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state and see it change between 'open' and 'closed'; and I know I could write myself a little script do something like calling radeontool to turn off the backlight, but I'd like to find a more official method. I mostly run KDE 3.5 (I'll go to KDE4 when I can...once portage 2.2 comes out and all), but I didn't see anything for a 'turn off monitor on lid close' setting (preferrably root controlled so that it affects all users). The only thing I can find is a the standby/suspend/shutdown/logoff, system performance, and CPU throttling. I don't really want to do any of that - just put the monitor into stand-by, not necessarily the whole system. Any how...I'd really like to get this working. TIA, Ben In... /etc/acpi/default.sh there's a comment (with commented code you can use following it)... # if your laptop doesnt turn on/off the display via hardware # switch and instead just generates an acpi event, you can force # X to turn off the display via dpms. note you will have to run # 'xhost +local:0' so root can access the X DISPLAY. if radeontool or something will allow you to disable the display even when you aren't in X, or without proper access to the display (like xset requires) you might be able to even escape needing that xhost setting. No way of testing it at all myself though. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
Saphirus Sage schrieb: You could look for the .config files from earlier kernels, unless you've cleared out all your directories except the one with the most-recent release. On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? - Grant A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
Dale schrieb: Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a stable kernel. Dale :-) :-) +1 I even asked to add this to the gentoo kernel upgreat guide but devs didn't like this idea. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 08:44 +0100 schrieb ext KH: Dale schrieb: Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a stable kernel. Dale :-) :-) +1 I even asked to add this to the gentoo kernel upgreat guide but devs didn't like this idea. Maybe they would be more keen on adding a note about /proc/config support to that guide. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinri...@capgemini.com Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
KH wrote: Dale schrieb: Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a stable kernel. Dale :-) :-) +1 I even asked to add this to the gentoo kernel upgreat guide but devs didn't like this idea. kh I'll show this just in case it will give someone ides. r...@smoker / # ls -al /boot/ total 6970 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root1024 Jan 16 01:46 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 512 Dec 17 06:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 11 2008 .keep -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1204147 Dec 8 19:20 System.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 941986 Sep 11 2006 System.map-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 16 21:09 boot - . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan 2 20:13 bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2288336 Dec 30 07:49 bzImage-2.6.27-r7-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44461 Aug 12 02:07 config-2.6.23-r8-5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47940 Dec 13 04:50 config-2.6.25-gentoo-r9-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47438 Aug 5 22:43 config-2.6.25-r7-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47324 Aug 12 17:59 config-2.6.25-r7-2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root1024 Jan 16 01:43 grub drwx-- 2 root root 12288 Jul 10 2008 lost+found r...@smoker / # I generally name the config with the same info as the kernel. Also note the naming of my kernels. I may need to clean out some more but I try to keep at least two or three kernels laying around too. Never know, one may get corrupted or deleted accidentally. Edit the grub boot line and carry on. Neat huh? Dale :-) :-)
