Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:09:04 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I've got hal and dbus masked out (pam too), so wicd and networkmanager are out of the question. Wicd doesn't need hal, but dbus is so useful you are crippling your system by blocking it. On a multitasking system, programs need a way of talking to one another, dbus is currently it. -- Neil Bothwick But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. -- Jerome K. Jerome signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It is a different prob;em than before. First time I got this error. I'm going to install the version of cdrtools that was working and see if it works. Will post the result later today. I got to drive a tractor for a little while. If I did understand you correctly, you now have a problem caused by a filesystem capacity overflow. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup
On 04/12/10 18:17, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=yes), things get done about 9 seconds faster that with RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=no. Boot time is still at 45 seconds. Can boot be sped up even more? The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use Suspend2Disk or SuspendToRam. Take a look at TuxOnIce and hibernate-script. Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. I've tried TuxOnIce and I like it! Hibernating to swap works fine for me. It 'boots' in ~10 seconds now :D Thanx! Best regards, Hinko -- Hinko Kocevar Technical support software engineer Instrumentation Technologies Velika pot 22, SI-5250 Solkan - Slovenia T:+386 5 3352600, F:+386 5 3352601 mailto: hinko.koce...@i-tech.si http://www.i-tech.si - When your users demand stability The information transmitted is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any review, retention, disclosure or other use by persons other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please notify the sender and delete all copies.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I tried a older version of k3b and different versions of cdrtools with no change. Also tkdvd doesn't work either. Slightly different error but still doesn't burn. Posted on kde mailing list to see if this is some known issues with k3b. Maybe hardware? Maybe I am not holding my mouth right when I click burn? From one of your former posts, it seems that you have problems with the free space on your disk and the fact that k3b doesn't realise that there is not enough free space. P. S. Also headed to newegg to see what a new burner costs. Jörg, do you have any recommendations on a really good burner that has few issues with software? I hear that some have software issues and figure I may as well avoid that if I need a new one. Since NEC/Sony - Optiarc is fully owned by Sony conce more than a year and since Sony fired people because made wrong assumptions on their market share, I hae no longer any contact to the manufacturing industry. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] xine problem
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 16:53:45 James wrote: Hello, Xine has worked for me in the past. It has been a few months since I used it. Now it give these popup error messages: - xine engine error There is no input plugin available to handle dvd:/ Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist second popup error The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g. not disc in drive). (/dev/dvd) Well other players work just fine.? Permissions look fine on /dev/dvd: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvd1 - hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvdrw1 - hda I didnot see anything at bugs.gentoo.org ideas? James Looking at the files you listed I guess /dev/dvd doesn't exist on your system. You should probably try /dev/dvd1 or /dev/hda...
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to unstable
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 16:49:44 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 13 Apr, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 12 April 2010 16:55:38 Paul Hartman wrote: I've been using portage unmasked for a very long time and don't remember having any portage-related problems. I'm sure there must be some (or else why is it still RC?) but for me the new features are worth the potential risk of using less-tested code. There was a problem with its preserved-rebuild feature for a while; several people reported here that they were running it and being told they still needed to run it again. As far as I know, that's the only thing preventing release of v2, and I think it's been fixed anyway. No, I don't think so. Just recently, I had to unmerge then emerge wxpython since emerge @preserved-rebuild couldn't solve it itself. One more buglet. When doing emerge -j no of simultaneous processes - which is a very useful feature on a multicore machine - sometime a package just stops to build (which is reported as failing package). Just emerge it again. So, I'd say some new features are not ready, yet, but still very useful as they are. Helmut. Those sound like ebuild and build system bugs, not something with portage itself. Especially the -j bug - sounds like a race condition caused by a pathetic Makefile -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:57 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i followed the instructions on http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM_with_VDE to configure my system. the kvm and tun modules loaded fine. but when i run vde_switch --numports 4 --hub --mod 777 --group users --tap tap0, it will not return until i press ctrl+d, and after that, the tap0 interface is not created. there's no error messages. I read this document, and it seems to be doing basically what you get with libvirt, except libvirt does all that for you (but uses brctl instead of vde (I'm not sure what the differences are)). Anyway it seems like libvirt may be another alternative for you. It takes care of the bridging/dnsmasq/masquerading stuff for you and also has some nice management features (and a gui). -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I tried a older version of k3b and different versions of cdrtools with no change. Also tkdvd doesn't work either. Slightly different error but still doesn't burn. Posted on kde mailing list to see if this is some known issues with k3b. Maybe hardware? Maybe I am not holding my mouth right when I click burn? From one of your former posts, it seems that you have problems with the free space on your disk and the fact that k3b doesn't realise that there is not enough free space. Well whether k3b knows it or not, there is 320Gbs of space left. I did some more testing and the drive really doesn't do anything now. Even hdparm can't read all the info so I ordered a drive about 12 hours ago. I have had this brand before so maybe it will be OK. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136144 I should have it in a couple days. I only live about a 3 hour drive from the newegg warehouse. ;-) P. S. Also headed to newegg to see what a new burner costs. Jörg, do you have any recommendations on a really good burner that has few issues with software? I hear that some have software issues and figure I may as well avoid that if I need a new one. Since NEC/Sony - Optiarc is fully owned by Sony conce more than a year and since Sony fired people because made wrong assumptions on their market share, I hae no longer any contact to the manufacturing industry. Jörg I thought it worth asking at least. Maybe the one I got will work. I got to check and see if my old one is under warranty too. I haven't had it that long I don't think. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well whether k3b knows it or not, there is 320Gbs of space left. I did some more testing and the drive really doesn't do anything now. Even hdparm can't read all the info so I ordered a drive about 12 hours ago. I have had this brand before so maybe it will be OK. Well, since a while, Linux did follow Solaris and offers tmpfs on /tmp. tmpfs usually has the size of the RAM + sizeof Swap - something. Many programs still don't know about this limitation and try to put temporary files of any size into /tmp. Try to reconfigure k3b Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
[gentoo-user] Bug
I run KDE on my system and my clock is wrong. I corrected several times from KDE, which sets the time to next boot, when it reverts to the old setting. This looks like slight bug. --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 8:40 AM Joerg Schilling wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I tried a older version of k3b and different versions of cdrtools with no change. Also tkdvd doesn't work either. Slightly different error but still doesn't burn. Posted on kde mailing list to see if this is some known issues with k3b. Maybe hardware? Maybe I am not holding my mouth right when I click burn? From one of your former posts, it seems that you have problems with the free space on your disk and the fact that k3b doesn't realise that there is not enough free space. Well whether k3b knows it or not, there is 320Gbs of space left. I did some more testing and the drive really doesn't do anything now. Even hdparm can't read all the info so I ordered a drive about 12 hours ago. I have had this brand before so maybe it will be OK. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136144 I should have it in a couple days. I only live about a 3 hour drive from the newegg warehouse. ;-) P. S. Also headed to newegg to see what a new burner costs. Jörg, do you have any recommendations on a really good burner that has few issues with software? I hear that some have software issues and figure I may as well avoid that if I need a new one. Since NEC/Sony - Optiarc is fully owned by Sony conce more than a year and since Sony fired people because made wrong assumptions on their market share, I hae no longer any contact to the manufacturing industry. Jörg I thought it worth asking at least. Maybe the one I got will work. I got to check and see if my old one is under warranty too. I haven't had it that long I don't think. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Bug
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:46 AM, dan blum dan_...@yahoo.com wrote: I run KDE on my system and my clock is wrong. I corrected several times from KDE, which sets the time to next boot, when it reverts to the old setting. This looks like slight bug. Check this option in your file /etc/conf.d/hwclock # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time # (software clock) during shutdown, then say YES here. # You normally don't need to do this if you run a ntp daemon. clock_systohc=YES
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well whether k3b knows it or not, there is 320Gbs of space left. I did some more testing and the drive really doesn't do anything now. Even hdparm can't read all the info so I ordered a drive about 12 hours ago. I have had this brand before so maybe it will be OK. Well, since a while, Linux did follow Solaris and offers tmpfs on /tmp. tmpfs usually has the size of the RAM + sizeof Swap - something. Many programs still don't know about this limitation and try to put temporary files of any size into /tmp. Try to reconfigure k3b Jörg That what I did. I have /tmp on the root partition which has over 8Gbs free space but just in case I set k3b to use one of my really large data drives which has over 300Gbs of free space. I figure if 300Gbs of free space is not enough to burn a 4Gb file, well, there is not much need to back anything up anyway. ;-) This drive is no longer reading a drive either so I think the drive has blown a fuse so to speak. While it was working, then stopped working, then started working again and has pretty much stopped working now, I think the new drive is a good idea. If the new drive doesn't work, I'm at a loss on what to think. Maybe there is a issue with the controller which means a new mobo. I really don't want to go there right now. Crosses fingers that the new drive will work. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Bug
dan blum wrote: I run KDE on my system and my clock is wrong. I corrected several times from KDE, which sets the time to next boot, when it reverts to the old setting. This looks like slight bug. Since mailing list users generally use threaded messages, please start a new message instead of replying to a old one. This may not be a bug. It depends on how you set your clock. You need to check the settings in /etc/conf.d/clock and make sure you have it set up correctly. Also, if you are dual booting with windoze, that makes you have to have additional settings from what I have read in the past. Windoze sets the BIOS clock differently than Linux. I don't have windoze so someone else will have to help with that. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some good ideas :) thanks in advance Matt
[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some good ideas :) thanks in advance Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some good ideas :) thanks in advance Matt It did arrive here the first time Matt. Just responding so you know it's getting through. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: I read this document, and it seems to be doing basically what you get with libvirt, except libvirt does all that for you (but uses brctl instead of vde (I'm not sure what the differences are)). Anyway it seems like libvirt may be another alternative for you. It takes care of the bridging/dnsmasq/masquerading stuff for you and also has some nice management features (and a gui). bridge allow your vm to connect to the internet directly. the vm will connect to the dhcp server as your host machine do. vde creates a vlan on your host, and your vms connect to that vlan. and your host machine will act like a gateway to your vm. people say vde is easier to config if you have many vms. i actually never tried bridge. maybe i should try it some time. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap
BTW, the issue i had have been resolved. the document did not mention that i should add '-d' option to let the vde_switch run in daemon mode. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
[gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful. I have www-plugins/adobe-flash version 10.0.45.2 installed. -- -Tony
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Miller mcfiredr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful. I have www-plugins/adobe-flash version 10.0.45.2 installed. Works for me using 64-bit adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r1 in every browser I tried. I see things like: • Clefs assign individual notes to certain lines or spaces. • Two clefs are normally used: The Treble and Bass clefs. • The first clef we will discuss is the Treble Clef (also called the G Clef). • The staff line which the clef wraps around (shown above in red) is known as G. Any note placed on this line becomes G. • The note on the space above G is A. (Remember, there is not an H note). and so on. Maybe it uses fonts you don't have installed? I would specifically check for media-fonts/corefonts first... that has the standard Microsoft web fonts.
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Millermcfiredr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful. I have www-plugins/adobe-flash version 10.0.45.2 installed. Works for me using 64-bit adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r1 in every browser I tried. I see things like: • Clefs assign individual notes to certain lines or spaces. • Two clefs are normally used: The Treble and Bass clefs. • The first clef we will discuss is the Treble Clef (also called the G Clef). • The staff line which the clef wraps around (shown above in red) is known as G. Any note placed on this line becomes G. • The note on the space above G is A. (Remember, there is not an H note). and so on. Maybe it uses fonts you don't have installed? I would specifically check for media-fonts/corefonts first... that has the standard Microsoft web fonts. Since you know more about music than me, I may be seeing the same thing you described. I couldn't remember what some of the things were called. I only took piano lessons when I was a kid. Based on you description, it may be working the same here. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:00:41PM -0500, Dale wrote: I see the music bars in almost all the slides. I see the little keyboard on the right in a couple of them. I didn't ever see any text except for the letters that correspond to the notes. I'm assuming that the text would be almost to the bottom of the page tho. If that is correct then I can confirm it is not there with Seamonkey 2, Firefox and Konqueror. Those are the browsers I have installed. There is definitely supposed to be text on the bottom of the page. Glad its not just me. I'm probably just going to find a music theory program that isnt a webpage. -- -Tony
