[gentoo-user] Re: konsole refresh laggardly
Xi Shen wrote: my system is gentoo amd64, kd 4.3, compiz. i just updated the world. in konsole, no matter if the system is busy or not, the screen do not refresh sometimes. i will have to move the window, or select some content in the konsole to force it refresh. my graphic card is nvidia. i did not have this problem before. FWIW, I have a similar issue here since I updated to xorg-server-1.7.6 yesterday. x86, KDE 3.5, no compiz and Intel GMA. Konsole sometimes doesn't refresh parts of the window immediately, but with a 1-2 second lag. This is most noticeable if I enter some text in bash, then move to the beginning of the line, and insert some text. The text after the cursor disappears, and only reappears after 1-2 seconds. Of course, this could be completely unrelated. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.
I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work, so after reading alot of how to's and manuals I have got 99.9% of the way. On attempting to authenticate a user it denies the user access with a error from auth.log May 4 02:21:08 nemo sshd[1271]: error: PAM: authentication error for william from 172.20.0.1 I can succesfully search the ldap with this user binding to the ldap ldapsearch -x -D uid=william,ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan -W '(uid=william)' Enter LDAP Password: # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base dc=chocolate,dc=lan (default) with scope subtree # filter: (uid=william) # requesting: ALL # # william, Admin, chocolate.lan dn: uid=william,ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan uid: william cn: william objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: shadowAccount objectClass: top loginShell: /bin/bash uidNumber: 1 gidNumber: 1 homeDirectory: /home/william userPassword:: e1NTSEF9Z3BQd05Lc3JUMWwxSVNhOVQvN1dPb3ZOcnVBSXJwVTE= gecos: William Brown description: William Brown shadowLastChange: 1 shadowMax: 0 shadowExpire: 0 # search result search: 2 result: 0 Success # numResponses: 2 # numEntries: 1 Slapd when trying to authenticate shows this. /usr/local/libexec/slapd -4 -d 256 slapd starting conn=0 fd=10 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:28629 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=0 op=0 BIND dn= method=128 conn=0 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=0 deferring operation: binding conn=0 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Nemo,ou=Group,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixGroup)) conn=0 op=1 SRCH attr=cn userPassword memberUid uniqueMember gidNumber conn=0 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=0 op=2 SRCH base=ou=Marvin,ou=Group,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixGroup)) conn=0 op=2 SRCH attr=cn userPassword memberUid uniqueMember gidNumber conn=0 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= conn=0 fd=10 closed (connection lost) conn=1 fd=10 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:43475 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=1 op=0 BIND dn= method=128 conn=1 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=1 deferring operation: binding conn=1 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=1 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=1 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=2 fd=12 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:15318 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=2 op=0 BIND dn= method=128 conn=2 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=2 deferring operation: binding conn=2 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=2 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=2 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=2 op=2 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=2 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=2 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=2 fd=12 closed (connection lost) conn=3 fd=12 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:63485 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=3 op=0 BIND dn= method=128 conn=3 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=3 deferring operation: binding conn=3 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=3 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=3 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=3 op=2 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=3 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=3 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=3 fd=12 closed (connection lost) conn=1 fd=10 closed (connection lost) Here is my /etc/ldap.conf base dc=chocolate,dc=lan suffix dc=chocolate,dc=lan uri ldap://ldap.srv.chocolate.lan ldap_version 3 rootbinddn cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope one timelimit 3 bind_timelimit 3 bind_policy soft pam_filter objectclass=posixAccount pam_login_attribute uid pam_check_host_attr no pam_member_attribute memberuid pam_password exop nss_reconnect_tries 4 # number
[gentoo-user] RFC ebuild for a non-standard Python package
Hi,
I'd like to install the new package expy on sourceforge
http://expy.sourceforge.net/
Unfortunately, the contents of it are a bit non-standard.
First, the tarball has the unusual name expy.6.6.tgz.
Second, it untars in to the current directory (no subdirectory
expy-6.6)
Third, it has setup.py and some helper modules in a subdirectory
'src'.
My current (working) ebuild is a litte bit brute force.
I'd appreciate any comments on streamlining and standardizing it.
Many thanks,
Helmut.
# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=2
SUPPORT_PYTHON_ABIS=1
inherit distutils flag-o-matic
DESCRIPTION=USB support for Python.
HOMEPAGE=http://expy.sourceforge.net/;
MY_P=${P/-/.}
SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${MY_P}.tgz
S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
LICENSE=BSD
SLOT=0
KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~ppc ~x86
IUSE=examples
RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS=3*
src_unpack() {
mkdir -p ${S}
cd ${S}
unpack ${A}
ln src/* .
}
src_install() {
distutils_src_install
if use examples; then
insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}
fi
}
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance
Am 30.04.2010 18:55, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: It's not THAT bad here, but the XP-guest takes a while to boot, yes. Right now I simply don't shutdown the guest and hibernate-to-ram the whole linux-box. I moved the VM from a LV formatted with XFS to another LV formatted with ext4 (both mounted with noatime). It seems to help a bit, the VM boots faster and also works smoother. iotop shows less load for kdmflush as well. Just for the records ... Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use
On Monday 03 May 2010 03:21:29 Dale wrote: I rarely put a USE flag in anything but make.conf. Usually, if I need support for something, it is more than one package or that one package will want the support enabled for other packages it builds on as well. One exception I suggest is mysql. If you put that USE flag in make.conf, every application you install that can use a database back-end will be built with it, adding unneeded complexity. I have disabled a USE flag in package.use before tho. That seems to work OK almost all the time. -doc and -hal come to mind without even looking at the file. And I have this in package.use: www-client/links-X -jpeg -png -tiff -directfb -fbcon -sdl That's most useful during system installation, but as I only use links at a VT I don't bother to change its flags later. -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use
On Mon, 03 May 2010 03:30:02 +0200, Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use: qt3support on a per-package basis. If you want qt3support put it in /etc/make.conf. Despite the fact that portage will tell you to enable qt3support for package XYZ, doing just that won't work. The qt3support USE flag only applies to the Qt packages, not to those packages that might require Qt 3.x support. Specifically, it applies to: x11-libs/qt-core x11-libs/qt-gui x11-libs/qt-opengl x11-libs/qt-sql Enable it for all 4 and you will have Qt 3.x support for all Qt app's that are satisfied by the backwards compatibility support in Qt 4.x. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.
On 05/03/2010 09:41 AM, Indexer wrote: I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work, so after reading alot of how to's and manuals I have got 99.9% of the way. On attempting to authenticate a user it denies the user access with a error from auth.log May 4 02:21:08 nemo sshd[1271]: error: PAM: authentication error for william from 172.20.0.1 I can succesfully search the ldap with this user binding to the ldap ldapsearch -x -D uid=william,ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan -W '(uid=william)' Enter LDAP Password: # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base dc=chocolate,dc=lan (default) with scope subtree # filter: (uid=william) # requesting: ALL # # william, Admin, chocolate.lan dn: uid=william,ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan uid: william cn: william objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: shadowAccount objectClass: top loginShell: /bin/bash uidNumber: 1 gidNumber: 1 homeDirectory: /home/william userPassword:: e1NTSEF9Z3BQd05Lc3JUMWwxSVNhOVQvN1dPb3ZOcnVBSXJwVTE= gecos: William Brown description: William Brown shadowLastChange: 1 shadowMax: 0 shadowExpire: 0 # search result search: 2 result: 0 Success # numResponses: 2 # numEntries: 1 Slapd when trying to authenticate shows this. /usr/local/libexec/slapd -4 -d 256 slapd starting conn=0 fd=10 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:28629 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=0 op=0 BIND dn= method=128 conn=0 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=0 deferring operation: binding conn=0 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Nemo,ou=Group,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixGroup)) conn=0 op=1 SRCH attr=cn userPassword memberUid uniqueMember gidNumber conn=0 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=0 op=2 SRCH base=ou=Marvin,ou=Group,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixGroup)) conn=0 op=2 SRCH attr=cn userPassword memberUid uniqueMember gidNumber conn=0 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= conn=0 fd=10 closed (connection lost) conn=1 fd=10 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:43475 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=1 op=0 BIND dn= method=128 conn=1 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=1 deferring operation: binding conn=1 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=1 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=1 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=2 fd=12 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:15318 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=2 op=0 BIND dn= method=128 conn=2 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=2 deferring operation: binding conn=2 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=2 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=2 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=2 op=2 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=2 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=2 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=2 fd=12 closed (connection lost) conn=3 fd=12 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:63485 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=3 op=0 BIND dn= method=128 conn=3 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=3 deferring operation: binding conn=3 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=3 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=3 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=3 op=2 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=3 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire = bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed conn=3 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=3 fd=12 closed (connection lost) conn=1 fd=10 closed (connection lost) Here is my /etc/ldap.conf base dc=chocolate,dc=lan suffix dc=chocolate,dc=lan uri ldap://ldap.srv.chocolate.lan ldap_version 3 rootbinddn cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope one timelimit 3 bind_timelimit 3 bind_policy soft
Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:41, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work, so after reading alot of how to's and manuals I have got 99.9% of the way. On attempting to authenticate a user it denies the user access with a error from auth.log May 4 02:21:08 nemo sshd[1271]: error: PAM: authentication error for william from 172.20.0.1 What does you ssh file in /etc/pam.d look like? Ward
Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: [snip] All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I make a LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while the backup is still in progress. hmm, never got into LVM. Sounds interesting though... [snip] I wrote a shell script to do this, so I do not have to issue a lot of commands every time I want to do the backup. I don't use too many commands, something like this in /etc/cron.daily/custom-backup: sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file --delete-delay --delete-excluded --partial --human-readable / /unique-mount-of-external-drive || echo external backup failed! As there are now some others using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script itself is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email. interested! So is it on sourceforge yet ;) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au BOFH Excuse #418: Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.
On 03/05/2010, at 9:16 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: I haven't set this up on gentoo, only on debian-server with ubuntu-clients... Does NSS work already? Do you see the LDAP users/group after the passwd-users when you run $ getent passwd $ getent group Both show the correct user and group as defined in the ldap attributes passwd william:*:1:1:William Brown:/home/william:/bin/bash and group login:*:2:william Assuming you have configured /etc/nsswitch.conf: passwd: compat ldap group: compat ldap shadow: compat ldap (files ldap is OK too.) As long as that does not work, it doesn't make sense to continue to PAM. Is the password in /etc/ldap.secret OK? Mode should be 400. Try to see if the password for cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan in there does have possibly problematic characters. The password is in there, and it does bind successfully (I accidentally posted the wrong output from slapd, I have been documenting my success / failures to try and piece this together) slapd starting conn=0 fd=10 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:39936 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=0 op=0 BIND dn=cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan method=128 conn=0 op=0 BIND dn=cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 conn=0 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=0 deferring operation: binding conn=0 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=0 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire conn=0 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=1 fd=13 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:23394 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=1 op=0 BIND dn=cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan method=128 conn=1 op=0 BIND dn=cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 conn=1 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=1 deferring operation: binding conn=1 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=1 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire conn=1 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=1 op=2 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=1 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire conn=1 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=1 fd=13 closed (connection lost) conn=2 fd=13 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:38351 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) conn=2 op=0 BIND dn=cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan method=128 conn=2 op=0 BIND dn=cn=Manager,dc=chocolate,dc=lan mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 conn=2 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= connection_input: conn=2 deferring operation: binding conn=2 op=1 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=2 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire conn=2 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=2 op=2 SRCH base=ou=Admin,dc=chocolate,dc=lan scope=1 deref=0 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=william)) conn=2 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowExpire conn=2 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= I need to use nscd on the clients. BTW: I use MDS/MMC (http://mds.mandriva.org/) on all debian servers for User/Samba/DNS/DHCP/Mail management with LDAP. It's really good. Ill take a look at it, thank you for the hint. The most trickiest part of setting up LDAP-clients is always PAM :( Fortunately for debian/ubuntu there are good guides. If you find out how to do it with gentoo, that info would be appreciated (gentoo-wiki?). I agree, and i most likely will do a write up if i get it to work happily Good luck, Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887 William
Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.
On 03/05/2010, at 9:41 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:41, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work, so after reading alot of how to's and manuals I have got 99.9% of the way. On attempting to authenticate a user it denies the user access with a error from auth.log May 4 02:21:08 nemo sshd[1271]: error: PAM: authentication error for william from 172.20.0.1 What does you ssh file in /etc/pam.d look like? # auth authsufficient pam_opie.so no_warn no_fake_prompts authrequisite pam_opieaccess.so no_warn allow_local #auth sufficient pam_krb5.so no_warn try_first_pass #auth sufficient pam_ssh.so no_warn try_first_pass #auth sufficient /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so no_warn use_first_pass authrequiredpam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass # account account requiredpam_nologin.so #accountrequiredpam_krb5.so account requiredpam_login_access.so account requiredpam_unix.so #accountrequired/usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so no_warn ignore_authinfo_unavail ignore_unknown_user # session #sessionoptionalpam_ssh.so session requiredpam_permit.so # password #password sufficient pam_krb5.so no_warn try_first_pass passwordrequiredpam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass Ward I was under the impression that SSH was able to use pam from the system module? I will try this out now uncommenting the ldap settings.
Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 29.04.2010 02:38, schrieb Iain Buchanan: Hi thanks, On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: [...] If you can live with just one big partition as a backup (probably with separate /boot), you should replace fstab and grub.conf on the backup medium and blacklist them from the files which you want to back up. why wouldn't I backup fstab and grub.conf as well? If my internal disk dies, I assume I'll swap them over, meaning grub and fstab will have to be the same. I think you misunderstood me or I didn't explain it correctly. I try it again: [snip] ah, NOW I get it :) [snip] Ah, I see what you mean. I've never worked with the file alteration monitor (FAM) but once evaluated inotify for some administrative purposes. AFAIK they are not scalable good enough to work on a system wide basis. For example, I think the default limit of observable files with inotify is 8192. hm, there goes that idea! Is there any kernel based watch on all file based I/O that I could queue up somehow? Just thinking aloud here. I know everything is a file, but no doubt I could watch all write operations; filter out /dev and put the rest into a file; and then use it like an rsync file-list... thanks for the tips :) rsync will at least get me going quickly. Yesterday I tried iotop to with dd - some slowness but otherwise quite nice. To reduce the performance impact, you can also use the ionice command. whoops, that's what I meant. Even with ionice, there was some noticeable delay when switching screens, opening programs, etc. More so when my RAM had been swapped from the large amount of I/O (I assume). I didn't try ionice with nice. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.
[gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall?
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Disable your xdm login script; Regards, Hazen. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. William
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On 5/3/10, Hazen Valliant-Saunders haze...@gmail.com wrote: Disable your xdm login script; I can't disable my xdm login script. My computer boots to the login screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session. Regards, Hazen. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
[gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade
Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On 5/3/10, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't. The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login. Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled. William
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
100503 Colleen Beamer wrote: I can't disable my xdm login script. My computer boots to the login screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session. Yes, it happened to me long ago, after which I decided always to boot to a raw terminal, then do 'startx'. You need to use System Rescue or similar to get into the box, then change your boot procedure to boot to a raw terminal. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On 03/05/2010, at 11:17 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: On 5/3/10, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't. The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login. Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled. How do you mean mounting is disabled? Open a terminal and type sudo mount /dev/sdblah ??? From there you can either chroot in, or you can manually stop xdm by removing the file /etc/runlevels/default/xdm (instead of using rc-update) William
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade
On 5/3/10, Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. -- Remy How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X?
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Colleen Beamer wrote: On 5/3/10, Indexerinde...@internode.on.net wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't. The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login. Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled. William Try this: Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken When I had this issue, I would get a console when I got to the E or I. This is what each keystroke does tho: e sends TERM to all processes (except init) i kills all processes (except init) s syncs partitions u remounts everything ro b boots a box o turns off a box k saks a box - kills all processes on that vt r unraws the keyboard - takes it away from X. I hope that will get you back to a console at least. Then you can start doing the things others have suggested you try. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 5/3/10, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't. The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login. Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled. You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too? If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new /lib/modules/. So: - reboot to single user maintenance mode. - disable /etc/init.d/xdm - remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the new kernel that is to be configured - reboot - enable /etc/init.d/xdm - start xdm -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Philip Webb wrote: 100503 Colleen Beamer wrote: I can't disable my xdm login script. My computer boots to the login screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session. Yes, it happened to me long ago, after which I decided always to boot to a raw terminal, then do 'startx'. You need to use System Rescue or similar to get into the box, then change your boot procedure to boot to a raw terminal. Or add softlevel=single to the boot line in grub. That would be, edit the grub line before booting. I think there is a interactive mode or something too. It is done by hitting the I key during the first part of the boot up. Just say No to xdm or whatever starts your GUI. Lots of options here. lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On 5/3/10, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 100503 Colleen Beamer wrote: I can't disable my xdm login script. My computer boots to the login screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session. Yes, it happened to me long ago, after which I decided always to boot to a raw terminal, then do 'startx'. You need to use System Rescue or similar to get into the box, then change your boot procedure to boot to a raw terminal. How do I do that? Regards, Colleen
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On 5/3/10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 5/3/10, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't. The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login. Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled. You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too? If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new /lib/modules/. So: - reboot to single user maintenance mode. - disable /etc/init.d/xdm - remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the new kernel that is to be configured - reboot - enable /etc/init.d/xdm - start xdm New kernel was downloaded, but I did not upgrade the kernel. If that was the situation, I wouldn't be able to load to my login screen - I would be booted back to the command line. I get to the login screen, but then, everything is frozen - keyboard and mouse. I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? Colleen
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Singe User (is from the kernel) you select the boot option via grub People refer to this as Maintenance Mode although to be frank every gentoo system is always in maintenence mode (kinda like perpetual beta) http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html It's the same idea just a diffrent distro; Once you are in single user mode verify all mounted partitions: #mount Then navigate to your xorg.conf; (under /etc/) and edit it to fix your issues or Navigate to your home directory /home/~username# and change the way you login by editing the approriate files (depending on your x display manager) Or conversly, if you are using a live cd: 1. mount your partitions a 2. ch root into your Gentoo install (you are now in single user mode) 3. Make the appropriate edits as always your milage may vary; HTH On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.comwrote: On 5/3/10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 5/3/10, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver. I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured. Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get into the system to write this. Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse. This would be good if I could get to a terminal seesion, but I can't. The keyboard doesn't work and I can't login. Right now, I am using a Kubuntu live CD and mounting is disabled. You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too? If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new /lib/modules/. So: - reboot to single user maintenance mode. - disable /etc/init.d/xdm - remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the new kernel that is to be configured - reboot - enable /etc/init.d/xdm - start xdm New kernel was downloaded, but I did not upgrade the kernel. If that was the situation, I wouldn't be able to load to my login screen - I would be booted back to the command line. I get to the login screen, but then, everything is frozen - keyboard and mouse. I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? Colleen -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On Monday 03 May 2010 16:30:53 Colleen Beamer wrote: You said you did a system upgrade. Did this involve a kernel upgrade too? If so, you are likely running into missing nvidia drivers in your new /lib/modules/. So: - reboot to single user maintenance mode. - disable /etc/init.d/xdm - remerge nvidia-drivers, making sure that /usr/src/linux point s to the new kernel that is to be configured - reboot - enable /etc/init.d/xdm - start xdm New kernel was downloaded, but I did not upgrade the kernel. If that was the situation, I wouldn't be able to load to my login screen - I would be booted back to the command line. I get to the login screen, but then, everything is frozen - keyboard and mouse. Oh yes, of course. Obvious in retrospect I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. Press e Move cursor to the kernel line Press e Move cursor to the end of the line. Append 1 or single Press enter Press b This will load the kernel and run a modified start-up sequence (not the regular init command). You get a root shell which is quite limited but usually adequate for repairing broken system. In a way, it's very similar to booting into a LiveCD without having to go and find the CD first -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade
Am Montag, 3. Mai 2010 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 5/3/10, Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. -- Remy How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X? Dale already told you a way I also do it if my laptop hangs at X: during the boot process it tells you hit I to enter interactive mode. Then, just say no when it asks you whether to start xdm/kdm/whatever. Also, you can chroot into your system from your kubuntu cd just like it's done in the installation handbook. Start your live cd, open a konsole, mount your system and chroot into it. env-update source /etc/profile and you're goot to go for emerging stuff. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Windows: reboot. Linux: be root. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade
Colleen Beamer wrote: How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X? Boot from a live CD, then perform a chroot into your system as described in the Gentoo handbook[1] or on the Gentoo wiki[2], then you should be able to emerge as if you were running your system normally. -- Remy [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Chroot_from_a_livecd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade
On Monday 03 May 2010 14:49:24 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 5/3/10, Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. -- Remy How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X? I sense your frustration! We've all been in a tight spot like this. Here's my suggestion: Don't allow X to start at boot time. When you see the grub boot menu, select the kernel you want to boot and press e for Edit. Then select the kernel command line and press e again to edit it. Add softlevel=nonetwork to the end of the line, press Enter and then B. You will then start up with a full set of six VTs (consoles), at which you can do the remerging that's been suggested. Personally, I'd do this: emerge -av1 `qlist -I -C x11-drivers` With any luck you'll then be able to reboot and run as usual. HTH -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On Monday 03 May 2010 17:06:19 KH wrote: Am 03.05.2010 16:56, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Monday 03 May 2010 16:30:53 Colleen Beamer wrote: [...] I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. Press e Move cursor to the kernel line Press e Move cursor to the end of the line. Append 1 or single Pressenter Press b This will load the kernel and run a modified start-up sequence (not the regular init command). You get a root shell which is quite limited but usually adequate for repairing broken system. In a way, it's very similar to booting into a LiveCD without having to go and find the CD first Hi, and again I learnd something I didn't know, jet. Anyway I also would try to follow Dales advise with pressing i during boot. There's all kinds of neat tricks you can do when booting or starting up. grub passes parameters and options to the kernel just like your shell passes parameters and options to a program you start. There's docs about it in /usr/src/linux/Documentation but be warned - they are written by kernel devs and most of them seem to assume the reader also knows as much as a kernel dev. So it can be hard going sometimes. A neat trick I use often is to append init=/bin/bash to the grub line. This runs bash after the kernel is loaded, not the usual init. You can't logout as normal though - try it and see :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Am 03.05.2010 16:56, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Monday 03 May 2010 16:30:53 Colleen Beamer wrote: [...] I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. Press e Move cursor to the kernel line Press e Move cursor to the end of the line. Append 1 or single Pressenter Press b This will load the kernel and run a modified start-up sequence (not the regular init command). You get a root shell which is quite limited but usually adequate for repairing broken system. In a way, it's very similar to booting into a LiveCD without having to go and find the CD first Hi, and again I learnd something I didn't know, jet. Anyway I also would try to follow Dales advise with pressing i during boot. Also some time ago I had a problem after an upgrade with my keyboard. Changing to usb was the workaround for me (the keyboard has usb and the ps2?). Anyway I never fixed the problem. Regards kh
[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use
On 2010-05-03, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2010 03:30:02 +0200, Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use: qt3support on a per-package basis. If you want qt3support put it in /etc/make.conf. Despite the fact that portage will tell you to enable qt3support for package XYZ, doing just that won't work. The qt3support USE flag only applies to the Qt packages, not to those packages that might require Qt 3.x support. I know. Specifically, it applies to: x11-libs/qt-core x11-libs/qt-gui x11-libs/qt-opengl x11-libs/qt-sql Enable it for all 4 and you will have Qt 3.x support for all Qt app's that are satisfied by the backwards compatibility support in Qt 4.x. The problem is that if you don't have qt3 support, Portage tells you to enable qt3support for _one_ of those packages. If you do exactly what portage tells you (enable it for that one package), then portage will complain and tell you to disable it for that package. At least that's what always seemed to happen for me. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm in direct contact at with many advanced fun gmail.comCONCEPTS.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use
On Mon, 03 May 2010 17:30:02 +0200, Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use: On 2010-05-03, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] Specifically, it applies to: x11-libs/qt-core x11-libs/qt-gui x11-libs/qt-opengl x11-libs/qt-sql Enable it for all 4 and you will have Qt 3.x support for all Qt app's that are satisfied by the backwards compatibility support in Qt 4.x. The problem is that if you don't have qt3 support, Portage tells you to enable qt3support for _one_ of those packages. If you do exactly what portage tells you (enable it for that one package), then portage will complain and tell you to disable it for that package. At least that's what always seemed to happen for me. I think you need to install the euses command, if you have not already done so; its package name is the same as its command name. If you then run: euses qt3support it will tell you exactly which packages are candidates for the USE flag. It sorts out lots of Portage's vagaries in this area. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. Press e Move cursor to the kernel line Press e Move cursor to the end of the line. Append 1 or single Uh, I thought that, per discussions a few weeks ago, we've concluded that in Gentoo that will still land you in the default runlevel. Instead you should append softlevel=single to the end of the line, and continue from hereon. Press enter Press b Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user maintenance mode. How do I do that? At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. Press e Move cursor to the kernel line Press e Move cursor to the end of the line. Append 1 or single Uh, I thought that, per discussions a few weeks ago, we've concluded that in Gentoo that will still land you in the default runlevel. Instead you should append softlevel=single to the end of the line, and continue from hereon. Pressenter Press b Cheers, W I had trouble with that a while back to but I think it was fixed. Of course, this may only be true if you updated whatever it is that fixed it. ;-) I am up to date here as of last night and softlevel=single worked a couple weeks ago and has worked for several months. I guess you could always just try it and see which one works. If one of them doesn't work, it needs to be reported I guess. I would be willing to bet that Alan's way will work. Adding init=/bin/bash always works from my experience. Just keep in mind that you have to reboot when done and make sure you are mounted rw instead of ro. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.
I have an encrypted block device, `/dev/sda2', which is mounted as my root filesystem. I recently installed this system -- I've been away from Gentoo for awhile -- and used gentoo sources 2.6.31-r6. When the kernel upgrade rolled around, to 2.6.32-r7, I installed and rebooted and then my passphrase didn't work anymore. The error message: Command failed: No key available with this passphrase. However, rebooting with my old kernel works fine so I'm not sure what the problem is. Could it be a different version of `cryptsetup'? When the device can't be opened on boot, I have the option to drop to a shell. I try to run `cryptsetup' and I get the same error -- so maybe that's my problem? Would different versions of `cryptsetup' be incompatible with devices encrypted by older versions? That seems brittle and dangerous to me. -- Jason Dusek
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.
Am 03.05.2010 18:56, schrieb Jason Dusek: I have an encrypted block device, `/dev/sda2', which is mounted as my root filesystem. I recently installed this system -- I've been away from Gentoo for awhile -- and used gentoo sources 2.6.31-r6. When the kernel upgrade rolled around, to 2.6.32-r7, I installed and rebooted and then my passphrase didn't work anymore. The error message: Command failed: No key available with this passphrase. However, rebooting with my old kernel works fine so I'm not sure what the problem is. Could it be a different version of `cryptsetup'? When the device can't be opened on boot, I have the option to drop to a shell. I try to run `cryptsetup' and I get the same error -- so maybe that's my problem? Would different versions of `cryptsetup' be incompatible with devices encrypted by older versions? That seems brittle and dangerous to me. -- Jason Dusek Some rough guesses to get you started: 1. Keyboard layout specific passphrase? Do you use a non-american keyboard layout? Maybe it has not been loaded at the time you enter the passphrase. 2. Check that all necessary components (hash algorithm, block cipher, encryption algorithm) are compiled into the new kernel. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On 05/03/10 10:10, Dale wrote: I think there is a interactive mode or something too. It is done by hitting the I key during the first part of the boot up. Just say No to xdm or whatever starts your GUI. Lots of options here. lol Dale Thanks, Dale, for the figurative whack in the head! I knew about interactive mode, but never even thought of it. Doing this, I was able to boot to a command line. Then, I took Remy's advise and re-emerged xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-keyboard-mouse. Turns out that they both needed updating. This fixed everything. Sorry, if I was a little terse. I panicked. I keep all responses to problems I've posted in case I run into the same thing again. So thanks guys for coming though for me as always! Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
CJoeB wrote: On 05/03/10 10:10, Dale wrote: I think there is a interactive mode or something too. It is done by hitting the I key during the first part of the boot up. Just say No to xdm or whatever starts your GUI. Lots of options here. lol Dale Thanks, Dale, for the figurative whack in the head! I knew about interactive mode, but never even thought of it. Doing this, I was able to boot to a command line. Then, I took Remy's advise and re-emerged xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-keyboard-mouse. Turns out that they both needed updating. This fixed everything. Sorry, if I was a little terse. I panicked. I keep all responses to problems I've posted in case I run into the same thing again. So thanks guys for coming though for me as always! Regards, Colleen Oh trust me, I knew where you were. I been there. Anyone want me to start talking about the xorg-server upgrade with hal enabled? I think most people missed the point that your keyboard would not allow you to do anything. I noticed that and knew exactly what position you were in. You also need to make a note about the alt sysrq key sequence as well. That can be a HUGE life saver. It will at least keep you from having to do a hard shutdown. I have had a couple times that I was stuck at the login screen and nothing else would get me back to a console. If you use the alt sysrq sequence, it will at least give you a sane shutdown, even if it is done blindly. Glad you got it working. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] USE flag semantic-desktop
Hi, I have been doing a bit of cleaning on my system - namely, removing kde 3.5 packages according to directions given via Gentoo documentation. After doing this, I ran revdep-rebuild (with --pretend) and found that there were a lot of broken packages. One of the problem packages was krecipes. I haven't updated this in quite a while. When I tried to reinstall it, I got the message that it wanted to downgrade kde-libs from 4.3.5 to 4.3.3-r1 and I noticed that a use flag called semantic-desktop was enabled. I didn't do the install because I didn't know if I should downgrade kde-libs. Does anyone know what this use flag is about and should I enable it in my make.conf? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] libdb no longer slotted?
It seems that sys-libs/db used to be slotted (I previously had 3 or 4 versions installed). But todays update is failing becuase Python wants libdb-4.7 and Perl wants libdb-4.3. They won't both install because of file collisions. Is libdb no longer slotted? How does one deal with applications that require different versions of libdb? Neither google nor bugzilla have been helpful... Failed to install sys-libs/db-4.3.29_p1-r1, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.3.29_p1-r1/temp/build.log' * Messages for package sys-libs/db-4.3.29_p1-r1: * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq * owners / filename` to identify the installed package that owns a * file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do * NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at * least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s). * If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from * then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough * information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file * a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which * two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file * a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message. * * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/bin/db_archive * /usr/bin/db_checkpoint * /usr/bin/db_deadlock * /usr/bin/db_dump * /usr/bin/db_load * /usr/bin/db_printlog * /usr/bin/db_recover * /usr/bin/db_stat * /usr/bin/db_upgrade * /usr/bin/db_verify * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * sys-libs/db-4.7.25_p4 * /usr/bin/db_archive * /usr/bin/db_checkpoint * /usr/bin/db_deadlock * /usr/bin/db_dump * /usr/bin/db_load * /usr/bin/db_printlog * /usr/bin/db_recover * /usr/bin/db_stat * /usr/bin/db_upgrade * /usr/bin/db_verify * * Package 'sys-libs/db-4.3.29_p1-r1' NOT merged due to file collisions. * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message.
