Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 22:57:41 you wrote:
 On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:15:17 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
  ok. I didn't realize that oocalc actually executed in your first attempt.
  Out of ideas then.
 
  FWIW - a few guesses: I'd execute oocalc under strace, and try to find
  what is killing oocalc (does it decide to exit, or is it sent some
  signal). If your suspecting xterm to be the culprit (i.e., yr script
  works-as-expected w/o the xterm wrap) then maybe it'll be worthwhile
  looking into the X resources yr xterm is reading.

I'm posting this to the list on behalf of Jack, because his posts don't make 
it to the list for some reason:


You didn't see it in the list because it hasn't shown up there yet,  
despite three tries to post.

What I mean is that if I type oocalc somefile in a term (it doesn't  
seem to matter xterm, konsole, ...) I almost immediately get the next  
shell prompt, even before the oocalc (or oodraw or oowrite) window is  
fully displayed and ready to work.  It does not smell to me like  
anything to do with the terminal program, or even the shell, although  
there may well be an environment variable that OO is checking.   
oowriter --help (and any variation I have tried) seems to ignore the  
request for help.  If you look at the ooffice help on command line  
parameters, there is a note about gentoo having a custom version - but  
I haven't been able to find anything at the gentoo site either.  I have  
not yet tried launching from a script in case that behaves any  
differently.

Note that since the shell has given the next prompt - the terminal will  
certainly think everything is done, and happily close if the script is  
finished.  The trick will be to explicitly find a way to check that oo  
has finished.

If you just launch oo from a command line in a terminal, do you get the  
next shell prompt immediately, or not until you exit oo?

Jack


Thanks Jack, this is rather interesting:

On two machines including the amd64 laptop the terminal exits immediately, 
while the OOo is being launched.  Both of these have OOo compiled from 
source.  The third machine (an old x86 laptop) has the OOo binary installed.  
The binary installation behaves as I thought was the norm, i.e. the terminal 
does not exit, but remains open until I close OOo.  So this problem that 
reported I guess is due to a difference between the two types of OOo, built 
from source or binary.

I looked at the CLI help options by running 'ooffice -help'but I can't see 
anything in there that will change this behaviour on the OOo built from 
sources.

Any other ideas?
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 23:43:39 Ralph Slooten wrote:
 On 18 March 2010 09:40, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote:
  You can comment that out and then those annoying run-cron entries won't
  be logged.
 
 Yes, dropping those entries on the client side is an option, however then I
 have to do it for each client in the network. Doing it on the server means
 just once... and it's all local network, no bandwidth isn't an issue
 either.
 
 There are also some cron jobs I do want logged ~ things that run maybe
 weekly or monthly, but some run every minute and really don't need to be
 logged.

And you still have to cater for the case where some joker sends you heaps of 
unwanted stuff despite you repeatedly asking him not to.

Or, god forbid, you have to receive logs from Cisco kit.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-18 Thread Dale

stosss wrote:

On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de  wrote:
   

Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 schrieb Dale:

 

I only want plain text to the mailing lists and html for everyone else.  I
send pics and other things to other folks.
   

Ya don’t need HTML for that. ;-)

I have even seen mails that were multiparted plain-text, i.e. text, image
attachment, text, image-attachment, you get the idea. Don’t know anymore
though what program that was.
 

KMail does multi-parted


   


I try to keep it simple.  If it gets to complicated, it will mess up 
eventually and I get to keep the pieces.  lol


Dale

:-) :-)



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:57:59PM -0700, walt wrote:
 On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote:
 
 ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too
 forgiving and fuzzy!
 
 By George, I think you've got it.  From now on, all political campaign
 speeches should be written in C.  Well, okay, maybe in COBOL for the
 older ones.

If political speeches were written in C, this is what they'd look
like.
http://www.ioccc.org/

W

-- 
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
 et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton



Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes:

 In an aterm I launch top.  Then press z c and Shift+W.  I get:
 
Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc'

Cool. Didn't know about this yet.

 Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on.  Next time I fire up top,
 even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with no colour, no
 highlighting, or anything else.  Why is this?  This is what the
 contents of .toprc show:
 =
 Cfile for top with windows   # shameless braggin'
 Id:a, Mode_altscr=0, Mode_irixps=1, Delay_time=3.000, Curwin=0
 fieldscur=AEHIOQTWKNMbcdfgjplrsuvyzX
 winflags=64953, sortindx=10, maxtasks=0
 summclr=1, msgsclr=1, headclr=3, taskclr=1
 fieldscur=ABcefgjlrstuvyzMKNHIWOPQDX
 winflags=62777, sortindx=0, maxtasks=0
 summclr=6, msgsclr=6, headclr=7, taskclr=6
 fieldscur=ANOPQRSTUVbcdefgjlmyzWHIKX
 winflags=62777, sortindx=13, maxtasks=0
 summclr=5, msgsclr=5, headclr=4, taskclr=5
 fieldscur=ABDECGfhijlopqrstuvyzMKNWX
 winflags=62777, sortindx=4, maxtasks=0
 summclr=3, msgsclr=3, headclr=2, taskclr=3
 =
 
 Same thing happens in xterm and konsole.

Works here, in konsole and xterm.

My .toprc looks similar, but it has additional keywords Def, Job, Mem and 
Usr. Are they missing in your .toprc, or did they get lost during 
copypaste? If I remove them, my top also looks like without .toprc.

=
RCfile for top with windows   # shameless braggin'
Id:a, Mode_altscr=0, Mode_irixps=1, Delay_time=3.000, Curwin=0
Def fieldscur=AEHIOQTWKNMbcdfgjplrsuvyzX
winflags=64953, sortindx=10, maxtasks=0
summclr=1, msgsclr=1, headclr=3, taskclr=1
Job fieldscur=ABcefgjlrstuvyzMKNHIWOPQDX
winflags=62777, sortindx=0, maxtasks=0
summclr=6, msgsclr=6, headclr=7, taskclr=6
Mem fieldscur=ANOPQRSTUVbcdefgjlmyzWHIKX
winflags=62777, sortindx=13, maxtasks=0
summclr=5, msgsclr=5, headclr=4, taskclr=5
Usr fieldscur=ABDECGfhijlopqrstuvyzMKNWX
winflags=62777, sortindx=4, maxtasks=0
summclr=3, msgsclr=3, headclr=2, taskclr=3
=

Wonko



[gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all,

I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a
receipt).

I run something like:

mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o 
video_final.avi

but I get the error:

[...]
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==
Cannot find codec 'xvid' in libavcodec...
Couldn't open video filter 'lavc'.
Failed to open the encoder.


I though that building mplayer with xvid support should be enough:

$ eix media-video/mplayer
[I] media-video/mplayer
 Available versions:  1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1 ~1.0_rc4_p20100213-r1 ** 
{3dnow 3dnowext +X +a52 +aac aalib +alsa altivec +ass bidi bindist bl bs2b 
+cddb +cdio cdparanoia cpudetection custom-cpuopts debug dga +dirac directfb 
doc +dts +dv dvb +dvd +dvdnav dxr3 +enca +encode esd external-ffmpeg +faac 
+faad fbcon ftp ggi gif -gmplayer +iconv ipv6 jack joystick jpeg jpeg2k 
kernel_linux ladspa libcaca lirc +live lzo mad md5sum +mmx mmxext mng +mp3 nas 
+network nut openal opencore-amr +opengl +osdmenu oss png pnm pulseaudio pvr 
+quicktime radio +rar +real +rtc samba +schroedinger sdl +shm +speex sse sse2 
ssse3 svga teletext tga +theora +toolame +tremor +truetype +twolame +unicode 
v4l v4l2 vdpau video_cards_mga video_cards_nvidia video_cards_s3virge 
video_cards_tdfx video_cards_vesa vidix +vorbis win32codecs +x264 xanim 
xinerama +xscreensaver +xv +xvid xvmc zoran}
 Installed versions:  1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1(11:58:13 AM 02/23/2010)(X a52 
aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dts dv dvd dvdnav enca encode faac faad iconv jpeg 
kernel_linux live mad mmx mp3 network opengl osdmenu png rar real rtc 
schroedinger sdl shm speex theora toolame tremor truetype twolame unicode 
vorbis win32codecs x264 xscreensaver xv xvid -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib -altivec 
-bidi -bindist -bl -bs2b -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga 
-directfb -doc -dvb -dxr3 -esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gif -gmplayer -ipv6 -jack 
-joystick -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -lzo -md5sum -mmxext -mng -nas -nut -openal 
-opencore-amr -oss -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -quicktime -radio -samba -sse -sse2 
-ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau -video_cards_mga 
-video_cards_nvidia -video_cards_s3virge -video_cards_tdfx -vidix -xanim 
-xinerama -xvmc -zoran)

but seems that not it isn't.

and don't know what lavc is...

anyone could tell me what package/s are missing in my system?

TIA

-- 
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http://blog.emergetux.net
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Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread o0o . atlantis . o0o
Le Thursday 18 Mar 2010 à 12:06:12 (+0100), Alex Schuster a écrit :
 Mick writes:
 
  In an aterm I launch top.  Then press z c and Shift+W.  I get:
  
 Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc'
 
 Cool. Didn't know about this yet.
 
  Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on.  Next time I fire up top,
  even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with no colour, no
  highlighting, or anything else.  Why is this?  This is what the
  contents of .toprc show:
  =
  Cfile for top with windows   # shameless braggin'
  Id:a, Mode_altscr=0, Mode_irixps=1, Delay_time=3.000, Curwin=0
  fieldscur=AEHIOQTWKNMbcdfgjplrsuvyzX
  winflags=64953, sortindx=10, maxtasks=0
  summclr=1, msgsclr=1, headclr=3, taskclr=1
  fieldscur=ABcefgjlrstuvyzMKNHIWOPQDX
  winflags=62777, sortindx=0, maxtasks=0
  summclr=6, msgsclr=6, headclr=7, taskclr=6
  fieldscur=ANOPQRSTUVbcdefgjlmyzWHIKX
  winflags=62777, sortindx=13, maxtasks=0
  summclr=5, msgsclr=5, headclr=4, taskclr=5
  fieldscur=ABDECGfhijlopqrstuvyzMKNWX
  winflags=62777, sortindx=4, maxtasks=0
  summclr=3, msgsclr=3, headclr=2, taskclr=3
  =
  
  Same thing happens in xterm and konsole.
 
Same  thing here, nothing was highlighted and my .toprc looked like yours
I added Def, Job, Mem and usr in the file and it's fine now.
The question is why is the file not having the right syntax?
here:
top: procps version 3.2.8 on amd64



 Works here, in konsole and xterm.
 
 My .toprc looks similar, but it has additional keywords Def, Job, Mem and 
 Usr. Are they missing in your .toprc, or did they get lost during 
 copypaste? If I remove them, my top also looks like without .toprc.
 
 =
 RCfile for top with windows   # shameless braggin'
 Id:a, Mode_altscr=0, Mode_irixps=1, Delay_time=3.000, Curwin=0
 Def fieldscur=AEHIOQTWKNMbcdfgjplrsuvyzX
 winflags=64953, sortindx=10, maxtasks=0
 summclr=1, msgsclr=1, headclr=3, taskclr=1
 Job fieldscur=ABcefgjlrstuvyzMKNHIWOPQDX
 winflags=62777, sortindx=0, maxtasks=0
 summclr=6, msgsclr=6, headclr=7, taskclr=6
 Mem fieldscur=ANOPQRSTUVbcdefgjlmyzWHIKX
 winflags=62777, sortindx=13, maxtasks=0
 summclr=5, msgsclr=5, headclr=4, taskclr=5
 Usr fieldscur=ABDECGfhijlopqrstuvyzMKNWX
 winflags=62777, sortindx=4, maxtasks=0
 summclr=3, msgsclr=3, headclr=2, taskclr=3
 =
 
   Wonko
 


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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Norman Rieß

Am 03/18/10 12:20, schrieb Arnau Bria:

Hi all,

I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a
receipt).

I run something like:

mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o 
video_final.avi

but I get the error:

[...]
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==
Cannot find codec 'xvid' in libavcodec...
Couldn't open video filter 'lavc'.
Failed to open the encoder.


I though that building mplayer with xvid support should be enough:

$ eix media-video/mplayer
[I] media-video/mplayer (...)
   
but seems that not it isn't.


and don't know what lavc is...

anyone could tell me what package/s are missing in my system?

TIA

   


Hello,
i allways had problems with lavc so i used xvid in mplayer directly:
mencoder sourcefile -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=vbitrate -oac mp3lame 
-lameopts abr:br=abitrate  -o result_path


Regards
Norman



Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
o0o.atlantis@gmail.com writes:

 Same  thing here, nothing was highlighted and my .toprc looked like
 yours I added Def, Job, Mem and usr in the file and it's fine now.
 The question is why is the file not having the right syntax?
 here:
 top: procps version 3.2.8 on amd64

I tried with sys-process/procps-3.2.7, sys-process/procps-3.2.8 and sys-
process/procps-3.2.8-r1 (all x86), all without the problem.

Wonko



Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:38:01 +0100
Norman Rieß wrote:


 Hello,
Hi Norman,

 i allways had problems with lavc so i used xvid in mplayer directly:
 mencoder sourcefile -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=vbitrate -oac
 mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=abitrate  -o result_path

I don't get it  source file is avi file, but where is sub file?
 
 Regards
 Norman
Thanks for your reply,
Cheers
-- 
Arnau Bria
http://blog.emergetux.net
Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity



Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:20 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:

 I tried with sys-process/procps-3.2.7, sys-process/procps-3.2.8 and sys-
 process/procps-3.2.8-r1 (all x86), all without the problem.

I had a similar problem in that I could save changes as a user but not
when logged in as root. In that case, I just copied the user's .toprc
to /root.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

When you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic Voices...
that's nothing - when you play it forward it installs Windows


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[gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Hello,


I've successfully set up many printers, using cups and HPLIP
before. I prefer to use CUPS.


So I cannot find an explicit listing for this new model HP printer:
OfficeJet Pro 8500; so I'm using this driver:
HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C.

Everything works, admin from localhost:631 for CUPS;
HP printer admin from the embedded web server (very cool). It 
has a multitude of settings, but no duplex setting. I'm trying
to avoid using the HP disc on an XP system for admin...


The HP literature clearly states this is a duplex printer.
I can copy both sides of a letter size document to a single
page, just using the menu on the printer. So I can see that
it duplexes. So I'm concluding (for now) that the problem
is the CUPS (best/closest I could choose) driver does not
support Duplex printing. 


Does anyone know of an HP OfficeJet driver that supports 
duplex printing? I have not been successful in finding a 
CUPS drivers specifically for this printer:
HP OfficeJet Pro (A909g) and I really do not want to use HPLIP.


CUPS-1.4.2-r1 is installed.
Any suggestions are most welcome.

James




Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Dale

James wrote:

Hello,


I've successfully set up many printers, using cups and HPLIP
before. I prefer to use CUPS.


So I cannot find an explicit listing for this new model HP printer:
OfficeJet Pro 8500; so I'm using this driver:
HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C.

Everything works, admin from localhost:631 for CUPS;
HP printer admin from the embedded web server (very cool). It
has a multitude of settings, but no duplex setting. I'm trying
to avoid using the HP disc on an XP system for admin...


The HP literature clearly states this is a duplex printer.
I can copy both sides of a letter size document to a single
page, just using the menu on the printer. So I can see that
it duplexes. So I'm concluding (for now) that the problem
is the CUPS (best/closest I could choose) driver does not
support Duplex printing.


Does anyone know of an HP OfficeJet driver that supports
duplex printing? I have not been successful in finding a
CUPS drivers specifically for this printer:
HP OfficeJet Pro (A909g) and I really do not want to use HPLIP.


CUPS-1.4.2-r1 is installed.
Any suggestions are most welcome.

James

   


http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=400875#400875

About the third one down.  Maybe that will help.

Dale

:-)  :-)



Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Norman Rieß

Am 03/18/10 13:14, schrieb Arnau Bria:

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:38:01 +0100
Norman Rieß wrote:


   

Hello,
 

Hi Norman,

   

i allways had problems with lavc so i used xvid in mplayer directly:
mencoder sourcefile -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=vbitrate -oac
mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=abitrate  -o result_path
 

I don't get it  source file is avi file, but where is sub file?

   

Regards
Norman
 

Thanks for your reply,
Cheers
   


Um...it is not the exact command you should use in your case with the 
subs, it is an example on how to bypass the lavc problem.

Producing a working command, that suits _your_ needs is still your job ;-).





Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi!

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:19:34 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com
wrote:
 In an aterm I launch top.  Then press z c and Shift+W.  I get:
 
Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' 

 Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on.  Next time I fire up top,
 even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with no colour,
 no highlighting, or anything else.  Why is this?

Maybe it will help if you quit from top gracefully by pressing 'q'
instead of killing it by sending a SIGTERM. I suppose top doesn't flush
the write buffer if you just kill it.


Cheers,
Renat

-- 
Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen,
durch die sie entstanden sind.
  (Einstein)


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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:54:12 +0100
Norman Rieß wrote:


 Um...it is not the exact command you should use in your case with the 
 subs, it is an example on how to bypass the lavc problem.
 Producing a working command, that suits _your_ needs is still your
 job ;-).
Oh! thanks, going to see into it!


-- 
Arnau Bria
http://blog.emergetux.net
Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity



[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes:


 http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=400875#400875


I tried those drivers:
6450 and the clj2605 and it made matters worse.
  
Any other ideas?

Maybe I need to start hacking the /etc/cups/printers.conf
file?

thanks,

James




[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes:


 http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=400875#400875 
 About the third one down.  Maybe that will help.

The best driver I have found, is the 
HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C Foomatic/cdj550 (color).

It works fine except no duplex printing.

Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just
edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly


I've done this before, but, it's very difficult,
for me, and I'd rather avoid it


 For the averturest:


DefaultPrinter hpop8500
Info hpop8500
Location Lab-7
MakeModel HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C Foomatic/cdj850
DeviceURI socket://192.168.2.7
State Idle
StateTime 1268923376
Type 8400908
Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
Attribute marker-colors none,none,none,none
Attribute marker-levels 25,58,62,63
Attribute marker-names black ink C4902S,yellow ink C4905S,magenta ink
C4904S,cyan ink C4903S
Attribute marker-types ink,ink,ink,ink
Attribute marker-change-time 1268923376
/Printer
Printer LaserJet
Info LaserJet
MakeModel HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1
DeviceURI socket://192.168.2.3
State Idle
StateTime 1225714496
Type 12372
Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertohp
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer




James









[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes:


 Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just
 edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly


Well, I hate to keep answering my own posts
surely one of the more astute admins will jump in?
(and keep me from looking.foolish?)

So continuing to research this I find some new-2-me flags
on gentoo:

eix hplip
* net-print/hplip
 Available versions:  2.8.6b ~3.9.8-r3 3.9.12-r1 ~3.10.2 {cupsddk dbus doc
fax gtk +hpcups hpijs libnotify minimal -new-hpcups parport policykit ppds qt4
scanner snmp static-ppds -udev-acl}

eix -e cups
[I] net-print/cups
 Available versions:  1.3.11-r1!t (~)1.3.11-r2!t (~)1.4.2-r1!t {X acl avahi
dbus debug gnutls java (+)jpeg kerberos ldap linguas_da linguas_de linguas_en
linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_he linguas_id
linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_ko linguas_nl linguas_no linguas_pl linguas_pt
linguas_pt_BR linguas_ru linguas_sv linguas_zh linguas_zh_TW pam perl php (+)png
ppds python samba slp (+)ssl static (+)tiff xinetd zeroconf}

ef (explain flag) is a little script from Ciaran...

ef cupsddk
Add support for net-print/cupsddk which enables dynamic PPD files (recommended)

ef hpcups
Build the hpcups driver for cups (by HP)

ef new-hpcups
Build the new hpcups driver for cups which is no longer based on APDK (by HP)


So, my question is has anyone any knowledge of these flags
and  with cups (/etc/cups/ppd/*driver*)

???


James




Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 18 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria:
 Hi all,
 
 I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a
 receipt).
 
 I run something like:
 
 mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts
 vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3
 -o video_final.avi

Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially support srt 
subs.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Dale

James wrote:

Jameswirelessat  tampabay.rr.com  writes:


   

Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just
edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly
 


Well, I hate to keep answering my own posts
surely one of the more astute admins will jump in?
(and keep me from looking.foolish?)

So continuing to research this I find some new-2-me flags
on gentoo:

  snip


So, my question is has anyone any knowledge of these flags
and  with cups (/etc/cups/ppd/*driver*)

???


James

   


This is what I have for use FLAGS:

r...@smoker ~ # emerge -pv hplip cups

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1  USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls 
java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php 
-samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja 
-pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1  USE=gtk hpcups libnotify 
parport qt4 -doc -fax -hpijs -minimal -new-hpcups -policykit -scanner 
-snmp -static-ppds -udev-acl 0 kB


Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB

 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.

r...@smoker ~ #

I have a HP printer too.  I went into cups and looked for your printer, 
your model is in there.  So, if you duplicate my USE flags, you should 
be able to find your printer in that LONG list of printers.


I think ppds and hpcups is the key ones.  I would at least start with 
those.


Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.03.2010 22:00, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
 On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
 
 Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken disk
 for this to work?
 If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also
 work? Isn't grub's hd0 always the disk on which grub resides (e.g. the
 disk from which grub managed to boot)?
 
 I suspect that may be dependent on the nature of the failure. For
 example, if /boot is corrupted, the BIOS will still boot from the broken
 disk's MBR before failing later.
 
 Most BIOSes now enable you to disable individual SATA ports, so you could
 disappear the disk without unplugging it, although I'm not sure why you'd
 want to leave a broken disk in the box.
 
 

Just in case I ever face high demands on uptime. It's good to know
whether I can still (remote) reboot a machine and it will come up
although one of its drives is broken.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 18 März 2010 schrieb walt:
 On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote:
  ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too
  forgiving and fuzzy!
 
 By George, I think you've got it.  From now on, all political campaign
 speeches should be written in C.  Well, okay, maybe in COBOL for the
 older ones.

So say we all. ;-)
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[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes:


 I think ppds and hpcups is the key ones.  I would at least start with 
 those.


So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one
or the other?


You use the hpcups flag and not the new-hpcups flag?


James






[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes:



 [ebuild   R   ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1  USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls 
 java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php 
 -samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja 
 -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB


I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not 
see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
flags?


Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?



curiously,
James






Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:50:14 + (UTC), James wrote:

 So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one
 or the other?

hplip is a set of drivers, for use by CUPS and other programs.


-- 
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Programmer (n): A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing
with inanimate objects.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 March 2010 03:29:00 Dan Wallis wrote:
 On 16 March 2010 12:41, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

  On a x86 system, oocalc launches, I use the file and when I close it
  shred removes it.  On the amd64 system, the file is shredded as soon as
  it is opened.  This is what happens:
 
 I get something similar with firefox: if it's the first instance, it
 will block until I terminate firefox; but if there's already a firefox
 running, it'll send a open this URL command to the other instance,
 and close this new one.
 
 I'm not sure if OOo is the same, but I'd recommend giving it a try.

Hi Dan, my problem is not exactly the same.  It occurs on the first instance 
that I launch OOo from the terminal.

Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from source, 
to keep the terminal open until I close OOo?
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Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Dale

Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:50:14 + (UTC), James wrote:

   

So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one
or the other?
 

hplip is a set of drivers, for use by CUPS and other programs.


   


I think Neil is correct.  I have both.  I don't know if it will work 
without cups, never tried it, but I know it doesn't work without hplip.


I put those USE flags in my make.conf.  I think cups and hplip is the 
only ones that use them anyway.  I hope that changing that and 
re-emerging will get your printer working fully.


Dale

:-)  :-)



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Dale

James wrote:

Dalerdalek1967at  gmail.com  writes:



   

[ebuild   R   ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1  USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls
java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php
-samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja
-pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB
 


I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
flags?


Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?



curiously,
James

   


I think avahi is a KDE thing.  I don't really know what zeroconf is.  If 
I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it 
on.  No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse.  
May as well be Greek.  ;-)


Dale

:-)  :-)



Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 March 2010 14:07:37 Renat Golubchyk wrote:
 Hi!
 
 On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:19:34 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com
 
 wrote:
  In an aterm I launch top.  Then press z c and Shift+W.  I get:
 
 Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc'
 
  Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on.  Next time I fire up top,
  even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with no colour,
  no highlighting, or anything else.  Why is this?
 
 Maybe it will help if you quit from top gracefully by pressing 'q'
 instead of killing it by sending a SIGTERM. I suppose top doesn't flush
 the write buffer if you just kill it.

Thank you all for your responses.  Since I installed this amd64 system I have 
found a couple of 'unexplained' behaviours compared to my x86 systems.  This 
must be one of them.  However, some of you also run amd64 and you do not seem 
to experience the same.  This particular problem is rather weird.  Why on 
earth do these four missing keywords are not in my .toprc files?  Neither in 
my root or my plain user accounts.  Even more weird is that I added these in 
both .toprc files and as if by magic my changes in colour etc. showed up when 
I relaunched top! Now, as soon as I made some more changes and pressed 
Shift+W the Def, Job, Mem, Usr keywords disappeared again and all changes 
were no longer visible.

What can be causing this?  Should I report it as a bug?
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 18 March 2010 21:55:14 Dale wrote:
 James wrote:
  Dalerdalek1967at  gmail.com  writes:
  [ebuild   R   ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1  USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls
  java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php
  -samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja
  -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB
  
  I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
  see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
  flags?
  
  
  Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?
  
  
  
  curiously,
  James
 
 I think avahi is a KDE thing.  I don't really know what zeroconf is.  If
 I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it
 on.  No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse.
 May as well be Greek.  ;-)


Avahi, mDNSResponder and bonjour are all apps implementing zeroconf - allowing 
network discovery. Say you want to find a printer on the network, then you can 
ask out loud and your app will discover them using DNS technologies without 
the printer admin having to tell you the name. Normally, you have to know the 
printer is there and either know it's name or IP to find it. These apps remove 
that limitation. It is also completely unlike Windows broadcasts.

avahi is the Gnome app
mDNSResponder was a KDE-3.5 thing built into kdelibs, with KDE-4 they have 
switched to using either avahi (with mDNSResponder support enabled) or 
mDNSResponder itself
bonjour is a MacOs app

zeroconf is not an app, it is a USE flag telling kde-libs to build support for 
this auto-discovery. It will use avahi or MDNSResponder depending on what it 
finds.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 March 2010 19:55:14 Dale wrote:
 James wrote:
  Dalerdalek1967at  gmail.com  writes:
  [ebuild   R   ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1  USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls
  java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php
  -samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja
  -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB
 
  I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
  see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
  flags?
 
 
  Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?
 
 
 
  curiously,
  James
 
 I think avahi is a KDE thing.  I don't really know what zeroconf is.  If
 I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it
 on.  No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse.
 May as well be Greek.  ;-)

Hmm ... they're not.  Avahi is daemon utilising multicast DNS and DNS Service 
Discovery for devices and services which are advertising themselves on your 
network.  Zeroconf is the standard used for this purpose.  Unless you expect 
to plug and play I am not sure you need them on your machine.  I think that 
for a typical setup where you tell your PCs where the printer is there isn't 
much benefit to justifying installing their dependencies and running a 
daemon.

-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
James schrieb am 18.03.2010 14:37:

 So I cannot find an explicit listing for this new model HP printer:
 OfficeJet Pro 8500; so I'm using this driver:
 HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C.

According to http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html
your printer is supported sine hplip 3.9.2, so there should be a driver.

New versions of hplip do not install ppd files for every printer they support
anymore. The ppd file is generated at run time by using hp-setup.

 eix hplip
 * net-print/hplip
  Available versions:  2.8.6b ~3.9.8-r3 3.9.12-r1 ~3.10.2 {cupsddk dbus doc
 fax gtk +hpcups hpijs libnotify minimal -new-hpcups parport policykit ppds qt4
 scanner snmp static-ppds -udev-acl}

About the hplip use flags

 cupsddk

Not relevant as it has been removed in recent versions of hplip. With newer
versions of cups you wont need cupsddk as it has been integrated into cups.

 hpcups

Is the new printer driver which replaces the hpijs driver.

 hpijs

See above.

 new-hpcups

You don't need it.

 static-ppds

It seems for some printers the new method of creating the ppd file is not
available. So if you have problems with installing your printer by using
hp-setup you should try installing hplip with the static-ppds flag and try
hp-setup again.

 So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one
 or the other?


 You use the hpcups flag and not the new-hpcups flag?

Hplip needs cups!

 I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
 see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
 flags?

 Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?

You don't need avahi or zeroconf for hplip, which does not work for current
versions of hplip due to bugs in cups anyway. This is only needed if you have a
networked printer. You can still detect the printer without the mDNS
(avahi,zeroconf) method through SLP. You should be able to select the detection
method at run time with hp-setup.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/18/2010 3:55 PM, Dale wrote:

 I think avahi is a KDE thing.  I don't really know what zeroconf is.  If
 I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it
 on.  No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse. 
 May as well be Greek.  ;-)

Zeroconf is a set of technologies that are supposed to generate a fully
working IP network with no user or operator intervention.  It includes
three basic parts: link-local network config (e.g. IPv4LL), distribution
hostname resolution (multicast DNS), and automatic service and device
discovery (DNS service discovery).

Used in the context of applications or services, you're usually talking
specifically about the autodiscovery portion, which allows applications
to find services and network devices automatically.  It was primarily
invented at Apple, who developed mDNS and DNS-SD, and is built into OS X
as Bonjour.

Avahi is just a free-software implementation of Bonjour (which was
originally under the not-entirely-free Apple Public License), and from
what I've read has practically overtaken Bonjour in terms of performance
and features.

Back onto the topic at hand: emerging cups with +zeroconf allows it to
respond to service discovery requests.  By default CUPS uses
mDNSResponder, which is Apple's implementation; with +avahi is uses
avahi instead.  This means any Mac on your network will automatically
see CUPS printers, as will any Linux client with avahi properly
installed.  Windows machines with iTunes or Safari installed probably
have Bonjour as well, so they'd also benefit.

On a side-note: CUPS 1.4 stopped supporting Avahi and only supports
Apple's implementation, so the Gentoo devs have disabled zeroconf
support completely until CUPS 1.5 (or whatever) brings back native Avahi
support.

--Mike



Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:

 If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors
 with smartmontools.  Other than that the only thing I can think of is
 something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata
 controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on host.  If the host system
 is bogged before starting vmware instances I would suspect the former
 (host controller or mdadm).
 
 The disks look good so far ...

Just to bump this one up again ...

Hard disks OK, ran long smart-tests, completely ok.

Still that high io-load from kdmflush.

Stefan



[gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-18 Thread Carlos Hendson
Hello,

I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5 hard drives setup
using software RAID1.  I've had this computer for about a year and half
and all's been working well.

I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in
the softraid-fail.txt attachment.

Initially I suspected a kernel bug because it started around the same
time I'd upgraded the kernel (around the 2.6.30 upgrade) but subsequent
kernel upgrades haven't improved the situation.

I've run smartctl --all and bablocks on both disks, but nothing is
reported as faulty.

I don't understand what is causing RAID to report these faults and would
like some ideas as to how I can further diagnose the problem.

Thanks in advance,
Carlos
Feb 28 15:14:16 pheonix kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 
0x1 action 0xe frozen
Feb 28 15:14:16 pheonix kernel: ata3.00: irq_stat 0x0040, PHY RDY changed
Feb 28 15:14:16 pheonix kernel: ata3: SError: { PHYRdyChg }
Feb 28 15:14:16 pheonix kernel: ata3.00: cmd 
ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
Feb 28 15:14:16 pheonix kernel: res 40/00:0c:97:74:25/00:00:0c:00:00/40 Emask 
0x10 (ATA bus error)
Feb 28 15:14:16 pheonix kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
Feb 28 15:14:16 pheonix kernel: ata3: hard resetting link
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 
SControl 300)
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: ata3: EH complete
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 
178062452
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: raid1: Disk failure on sdb1, disabling device.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: raid1: Operation continuing on 1 devices.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: recovery of RAID array md0
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: minimum _guaranteed_  speed: 1000 
KB/sec/disk.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth 
(but not more than 20 KB/sec) for recovery.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: using 128k window, over a total of 
178024192 blocks.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: resuming recovery of md0 from checkpoint.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: md0: recovery done.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: RAID1 conf printout:
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda8
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: disk 1, wo:1, o:0, dev:sdb1
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: recovery of RAID array md0
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: minimum _guaranteed_  speed: 1000 
KB/sec/disk.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth 
(but not more than 20 KB/sec) for recovery.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: using 128k window, over a total of 
178024192 blocks.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: resuming recovery of md0 from checkpoint.
Feb 28 15:14:19 pheonix kernel: md: md0: recovery done.
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: RAID1 conf printout:
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda8
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: disk 1, wo:1, o:0, dev:sdb1
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: RAID1 conf printout:
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda8
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: disk 1, wo:1, o:0, dev:sdb1
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: RAID1 conf printout:
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2
Feb 28 15:14:20 pheonix kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda8


Mar 12 19:38:06 pheonix kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 
0x1 action 0xe frozen
Mar 12 19:38:06 pheonix kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x0040, PHY RDY changed
Mar 12 19:38:06 pheonix kernel: ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg }
Mar 12 19:38:06 pheonix kernel: ata1.00: cmd 
ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
Mar 12 19:38:06 pheonix kernel: res 40/00:24:b6:fa:df/00:00:17:00:00/40 Emask 
0x10 (ATA bus error)
Mar 12 19:38:06 pheonix kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Mar 12 19:38:06 pheonix kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 
SControl 300)
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: ata1: EH complete
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 
305244964
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: raid1: Disk failure on sda8, disabling device.
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: raid1: Operation continuing on 1 devices.
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: md: recovery of RAID array md0
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: md: minimum _guaranteed_  speed: 1000 
KB/sec/disk.
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth 
(but not more than 20 KB/sec) for recovery.
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: md: using 128k window, over a total of 
178024192 blocks.
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: md: resuming recovery of md0 from checkpoint.
Mar 12 19:38:09 pheonix kernel: md: md0: 

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote:
 Hello,

 I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5 hard drives setup
 using software RAID1.  I've had this computer for about a year and half
 and all's been working well.

 I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in
 the softraid-fail.txt attachment.

 Initially I suspected a kernel bug because it started around the same
 time I'd upgraded the kernel (around the 2.6.30 upgrade) but subsequent
 kernel upgrades haven't improved the situation.

 I've run smartctl --all and bablocks on both disks, but nothing is
 reported as faulty.

 I don't understand what is causing RAID to report these faults and would
 like some ideas as to how I can further diagnose the problem.

 Thanks in advance,
 Carlos


Kernel upgrades might not tell you much. Kernel downgrades might.

- Mark



[gentoo-user] Setting up WLAN and VPN the right way

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Schulte
Hi at all,

I'm trying to setup VPN on my Laptop but I'm stuck. When I'm at the
university I have to connect to their WLAN and then setting up a
VPN-Connection. All packets should take the VPN-tunnel. Here's what I've
got so far:

1) W-LAN connection works and I get an ip, default route and DNS-Servers
via dhcp

- eth1 is my WLAN-Device
- ppp0 is my VPN-Device
- vpn.bg.bib.de is the disired VPN-Server
snippet of /etc/conf.d/net:

modules=iproute2
modules_eth1=!iwconfig wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant_eth1=-Dwext
dhcp_eth1=nosendhost nonis nontp
config_eth1=dhcp

pppd_ppp0=
defaultroute
noauth
persist
call fhdw
holdoff 10
mru 1460
mtu 1460
idle 600
link_ppp0=pty 'pptp vpn.bg.bib.de --nolaunchpppd'

2) VPN Connection does work
- pptpclient is installed
- /etc/ppp/peers/fhdw with options usepeerdns and defaultroute
- »/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start« does start the vpn connection

BUT:
1)
After the tunnel is up, /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh is supposed to
replace the dhcp-nameservers with dns-servers behind the VPN-server
stored in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. Unfortunately
the resolv.conf is immediatly altered a second time by baselayout or
whatever is writing these »Generated by net-scripts for interface«
lines and then I've no nameserver at all. I have to do a
cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf  /etc/resolv.conf
every time after the tunnel is up.

2)
After the tunnel is up I have two default routes. One for eth1 and one
for ppp0. So I manually set up a hostroute for the vpn-server with the
eth1 gateway and then delete the default route for eth1. After that the
VPN-Server is reached through eth1 and all the rest through ppp0
Unfortunately the default route for eth1 appears again after a few
minutes (I guess dhcpcd is to blame) and every connection breaks down
until I delete the route again.

So how do you set up a VPN correctly? Or is there is any documentation
I've missed?

BTW: I'm using fluxbox and no networkmanager or stuff like that.

-Stefan


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Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-18 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: ===
 I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in
 the softraid-fail.txt attachment.

===

That's most likely your disk starting to fail.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Dan Wallis
On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from source,
 to keep the terminal open until I close OOo?

I guess something like this might do the trick:
while pgrep ooffice /dev/null; do sleep 1; done
Although I'm not at my Gentoo box at the moment to test. The version
of pgrep on this Debian box doesn't have a -q option, hence the
redirect to devnull.



Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
100318 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
 hpcups
 Is the new printer driver which replaces the hpijs driver.
 hpijs
 See above.

Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups'  my printer wouldn't work,
so I restored 'hpijs'  dropped 'hpcups'  all was ok.
It's an ancient Deskjet 500C with the b+w '500' driver.
Installed versions: Cups-1.3.11-r1 Hplip-3.9.12-r1 (both stable).

Any comments or helpful suggestions ?

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