Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:03:54 Dale wrote:
 Neil Bothwick wrote:
  On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote:
  Did you mean press e ?
 
  No.
 
  I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key.  What
  does that do?  I've used e, b and such but never heard of c.
 
  It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB menu
  screen itself, just after it tells you about e.
 
 Oh OK.  I didn't reboot and read that part.  lol  I learned something
 today.  Just hope I will remember it when I need it.;-)

'c' is good as long as the error is only with the GRUB entry.  I usually find 
that on new installs the causes of failure to boot may be deeper and I will 
need to chroot back into the installation to fix things; e.g. reconfigure the 
kernel, add drivers and what not.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Andrea Conti
 Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this
 .config?
 Also the drivers for the EIDE / SATA controller.

Missing FS and/or controller drivers will result in a regular kernel
boot with a panic at the end, when it's time to mount root and load init.

In this case grubs seems to load the kernel image, but the kernel hangs
before printing anything.

I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be
P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer
drivers and using a plain VGA console.

Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults.

And no, EM64T just means it *can* run amd64 -- i686 is fine and IMO a
lot better for that kind of hardware if you do not absolutely need to
run 64-bit code for some reason.

andrea



Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 May 2010 07:28:00 +0100, Mick wrote:

   It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB
   menu screen itself, just after it tells you about e.  
  
  Oh OK.  I didn't reboot and read that part.  lol  I learned something
  today.  Just hope I will remember it when I need it.;-)  
 
 'c' is good as long as the error is only with the GRUB entry.  I
 usually find that on new installs the causes of failure to boot may be
 deeper and I will need to chroot back into the installation to fix
 things; e.g. reconfigure the kernel, add drivers and what not.

Indeed, but in this case the question was about getting to a grub
proompt, and pressing c is a lot simpler than digging out a live CD,
rebooting and setting up a chroot.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.


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Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:52:55 Mick wrote:

 When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and
 then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees:
 
 root (hd  --tab
 
 it will list all partitions and hopefully help you find your boot
 partition.
 
 Then search for the kernel image:  kernel /boot/   --tab
 
 If you have chosen the correct grub root partition you should find
 your kernel image in there.

The problem with that is that grub in a running system may detect the 
disks in a different order from the booting grub. Better would be to 
interrupt the boot with e or (as Neil suggested) c. Either will allow 
you to use the Tab key to find disks, partitions and images.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.05.2010 20:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:

 The main question is still unanswered: Why does pam_mount not work
 anymore with the given device/key ?

additional digging:

I found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528366

where the poster tries the underlying mount.crypt call.

I did that as well and get:

# mount.crypt -v -o
fsk_cipher=aes-256-cbc,fsk_hash=md5,keyfile=/etc/security/verysekrit.key
/dev/VG01/crypthome /mnt/gschwind
command: 'readlink' '-fn' '/dev/VG01/crypthome'
command: 'readlink' '-fn' '/mnt/gschwind'
Password:
mount.crypt(crypto-dmc.c:144): Using _dev_dm_0 as dmdevice name
crypt_activate_by_passphrase: Operation not permitted


which is in fact the error pam_mount throws up :

pam_mount(mount.c:64): Errors from underlying mount program:
pam_mount(mount.c:68): crypt_activate_by_passphrase: Operation not permitted

Downgrade pam_mount from 2.1 to 2.0 ... same error.

But it works with pam_mount 1.33 !

I don't know which old bugs I reintroduce to my system by doing this ;-)

I think I am gonna file a bug for this now.

Stefan



Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Andrea,

Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net writes:

 I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be
 P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer
 drivers and using a plain VGA console.

 Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults.

 And no, EM64T just means it *can* run amd64 -- i686 is fine and IMO a
 lot better for that kind of hardware if you do not absolutely need to
 run 64-bit code for some reason.

That is what I thought.

I looked into the BIOS: no AHCI support.  I edited the genkernel .config
and set the various SATA drivers as built-in.  There seemed to be
nothing wrong with grub or its configuration (I rebuilt it anyway, just
in case).  In the end I gave up and installed the machine as an amd64.
I may know today how that turned out: my install script shuts the
machine down at the end and I'll need to get someone to re-boot it for
me as I'm not in the office.

I'll let you know what happened.

Thanks Andrea and everyone else for your help.

Roger



Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-07 Thread Adam
On 05/06/10 03:35, Zhou Rui wrote:
 Hi folks,
 I setup a network interface to switch in two different network with
 different gateways using config_eth0=( arping ), and I can get gateway mac
 when use arping2 command directly.
 But the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start always fails, can you help me to find the
 issue out?

I cant understand what you're trying to achieve. IP will always do the
arp for you so just set up the IP level stuff and whatever you're trying
to do should work.

 dns_domain=vm
 config_eth0=( arping )

AFAICT This means you want to try to find a free address in the
169.254.x.x auto self configuration range - is that what you want?

 gateways_eth0=( 192.168.1.254,,192.168.1.114 192.168.1.1,,192.168.1.114 )

As none of those addresses are local, they cant be used as a gateway for
a 169.254 address.



Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On  7 May, Roger Mason wrote:
 Hello Andrea,
 
 Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net writes:
 
 I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be
 P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer
 drivers and using a plain VGA console.

 Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults.

 And no, EM64T just means it *can* run amd64 -- i686 is fine and IMO a
 lot better for that kind of hardware if you do not absolutely need to
 run 64-bit code for some reason.
 
 That is what I thought.
 
 I looked into the BIOS: no AHCI support.  I edited the genkernel .config
 and set the various SATA drivers as built-in.  There seemed to be
 nothing wrong with grub or its configuration (I rebuilt it anyway, just
 in case).  In the end I gave up and installed the machine as an amd64.
 I may know today how that turned out: my install script shuts the
 machine down at the end and I'll need to get someone to re-boot it for
 me as I'm not in the office.
 
 I'll let you know what happened.
 
 Thanks Andrea and everyone else for your help.
 

One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list)

Boot from a rescue CD  (preferably
http://www.sysresccd.org/
)

then execute
lspci -k

it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot.

Good luck,
Helmut.


-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany



Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes:

 One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list)

 Boot from a rescue CD  (preferably
 http://www.sysresccd.org/
 )

 then execute
 lspci -k

 it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot.

Many thanks fir the information.

Cheers,
Roger



[gentoo-user] Re: Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 evdev?

Right, I was trying to avoid that. But you were probably right. I have
upgraded to xorg-server-1.8 and switched to evdev for the keyboard and
mouse, with udev autodetection. This seems to have solved the issue.

Of course, now we'll never know if switching to evdev solved it, or if
it was xorg-server-1.8. But I didn't feel like learning the hal-style
configuration, only to restart from scratch with udev.

Anyway, thanks for the hint.

-- Remy



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:

 I think I am gonna file a bug for this now.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865



[gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread Roman Naumann
Hi,

when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, when 
I close my laptop lid.

When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill the 
login screen appears. During this time, I just see a black screen and a mouse 
pointer (somewhere), but I cannot move it.

If no X server is started, i.e. I'm on the shell, the computer always responds 
after a second or so when the laptop lid is opened again.

Any ideas what causes this or how to fix it?

Regards,
Roman



snackup (was: Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive)

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Iain Buchanan writes:

 On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:

  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 ;)

Sorry, it took a little longer. I was ill, and then these scripts tend to 
grow and grow until I am satisfied with them. It's still not perfect, but 
I think at the moment it does what it should do.

Still not on sourceforge, but here: http://www.wonkology.org/utils/snackup
The name is silly, but I kinda like it now. A backup utilizing LVM 
snapshots... snapshot backup... snackup!

It needs a config file that is looked up in some default locations, or can 
be specified with the -c option. Use option -T to generate a template that 
has information on the syntax and some examples. In short:

The config file defines targets you give as arguments to snackup. So 
'snackup home' backs up your /home partition, 'snackup etc' creates a .tgz 
file of your /etc. The config file is sourced, so you can put any bash 
stuff you want into there, like some shell functions you want to have 
executed. For example, I want my /var/log/portage/*.log files to be 
compressed before I backup my /var partition.

A target is started by a colon, followed by name, type, source and 
destination (and optionally more), separated by one or more tab 
characters. Type can be 'cp', 'dd', 'tar', 'rsync' or 'rdiff'. I only 
tested dd, tar and rdiff so far, though. The source directory may be 
prefixed by the volume group and LVM of that partition in order to create 
an lvm snapshot first. You may add a LUKS key if the partition is 
encrypted. The source may contain wildcards. In that case, all matching 
files are backed up to the destination. If the type has a * appended, all 
matching files are backed up individually. Some examples:

:   tar kde .kde*   /backup/kde.%s

Target 'kde' will backup all your .kde* directories to /backup/kde.tar 
(the %s is replaced by a suffix, usually tar). You need to be in your home 
directory, otherwise the path will not be found. This is not necessary if
you use ~//.kde* instead.

:   kernels tar*/usr/src//linux-*   /backup/src/%f.%s   
-j  -   lsf

Target 'kernels' will backup your /usr/src/linux-* directories 
individually - one tar file for each (note the * appendended to the tar 
target type). The -z option will be passed to the tar command, and the 
suffix is changed to tgz accordingly.
The // denotes that the backup should be done locally from the directory 
left to the //. Otherwise, the full path would be included in the tar 
file.

:   tar etc /etc/backup/etc_%d.%s   
-j

Target 'etc' will tar your /etc directory, compressed with bzip2. The %d 
will be replaced by the current date. You can change the date format by 
re-defining a date() shell function.
You will get a message about tar removing the leading /, you can avoid it 
by replacing /etc by ///etc, meaning that your local directroy will be /.

:   bootdd  /dev/sda5   /dev/sdb5   
bs=32M

Target 'boot' will backup a boot partition with dd. Options like the 
bs=32M are added directly to the dd command.

:   homersync   system/home::.  /backup/home/

Target 'home' will create a LVM snapshot of the /dev/system/home logical 
volume, mount it and back it up with rdiff-backup. The '.' could also be a 
/ or left off.

:   var rsync   system/var::/   /backup/var/-   ziplog

Similar, but the command ziplog will be executed before the backup, 
compressing some log files. It must be defined in the config file.

The script has some options:

  -c file location of config file
  -C  clear destination first
  -d  dummy mode, just show what would be done
  -f  force backup (the initial rdiff-backup may need this)
  -h  show this help
  -l  output to log file, too
  -L  log file (default:/home/wonko/log/snackup.log); may be a
  directory (add a trailing slash) to create target-specific logs
  -n luse nice level l (default:10, 0 to turn off)
  -N luse ionice level l (default:3, 0 to turn off)
  -o  extra options that will added to the actual backup command
  -s size size of LVM snapshot (default:2G)
  -S char replace tab as delimiter for targets in config file
  -T  output config file template
  -v  verbose output; may be given multiple times
  1: some extra output; 2: add -v to commands; 3: set -xv
  -V  output version information and exit

Most important are:
  -c to specify the location of the config file
  -d to output what would be done, you will see the final tar / rdiff-
backup / whatever command with all its options.
  -T to see a template. Save it with snackup 

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread András Csányi
On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann roman_naum...@fastmail.fm wrote:
 Hi,

 when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, when
 I close my laptop lid.

 When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill the
 login screen appears. During this time, I just see a black screen and a mouse
 pointer (somewhere), but I cannot move it.

 If no X server is started, i.e. I'm on the shell, the computer always responds
 after a second or so when the laptop lid is opened again.

 Any ideas what causes this or how to fix it?

Suspend is that when the computer isn't off just the things stays in
memory, isn't? When the contents of the memory is writed to the disk
and the machine is get off that is the hibernate function, isn't?

It is possible that when you close the lid the contents of memory
writed to the disk and reading this few hundred Mbyte - on my laptop
KDE is eating ~800 Mbyte memory, the hungry Beast! :) -  takes that
long time what you mentioned?
I'm not a big hacker just I'm thinking over it. :$

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Re: snackup (was: Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive)

2010-05-07 Thread covici
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:

 Iain Buchanan writes:
 
  On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
 
   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 ;)
 
 Sorry, it took a little longer. I was ill, and then these scripts tend to 
 grow and grow until I am satisfied with them. It's still not perfect, but 
 I think at the moment it does what it should do.
 
 Still not on sourceforge, but here: http://www.wonkology.org/utils/snackup
 The name is silly, but I kinda like it now. A backup utilizing LVM 
 snapshots... snapshot backup... snackup!
 
 It needs a config file that is looked up in some default locations, or can 
 be specified with the -c option. Use option -T to generate a template that 
 has information on the syntax and some examples. In short:
 
 The config file defines targets you give as arguments to snackup. So 
 'snackup home' backs up your /home partition, 'snackup etc' creates a .tgz 
 file of your /etc. The config file is sourced, so you can put any bash 
 stuff you want into there, like some shell functions you want to have 
 executed. For example, I want my /var/log/portage/*.log files to be 
 compressed before I backup my /var partition.
 
 A target is started by a colon, followed by name, type, source and 
 destination (and optionally more), separated by one or more tab 
 characters. Type can be 'cp', 'dd', 'tar', 'rsync' or 'rdiff'. I only 
 tested dd, tar and rdiff so far, though. The source directory may be 
 prefixed by the volume group and LVM of that partition in order to create 
 an lvm snapshot first. You may add a LUKS key if the partition is 
 encrypted. The source may contain wildcards. In that case, all matching 
 files are backed up to the destination. If the type has a * appended, all 
 matching files are backed up individually. Some examples:
 
 : tar kde .kde*   /backup/kde.%s
 
 Target 'kde' will backup all your .kde* directories to /backup/kde.tar 
 (the %s is replaced by a suffix, usually tar). You need to be in your home 
 directory, otherwise the path will not be found. This is not necessary if
 you use ~//.kde* instead.
 
 : kernels tar*/usr/src//linux-*   /backup/src/%f.%s   
 -j  -   lsf
 
 Target 'kernels' will backup your /usr/src/linux-* directories 
 individually - one tar file for each (note the * appendended to the tar 
 target type). The -z option will be passed to the tar command, and the 
 suffix is changed to tgz accordingly.
 The // denotes that the backup should be done locally from the directory 
 left to the //. Otherwise, the full path would be included in the tar 
 file.
 
 : tar etc /etc/backup/etc_%d.%s   
 -j
 
 Target 'etc' will tar your /etc directory, compressed with bzip2. The %d 
 will be replaced by the current date. You can change the date format by 
 re-defining a date() shell function.
 You will get a message about tar removing the leading /, you can avoid it 
 by replacing /etc by ///etc, meaning that your local directroy will be /.
 
 : bootdd  /dev/sda5   /dev/sdb5   
 bs=32M
 
 Target 'boot' will backup a boot partition with dd. Options like the 
 bs=32M are added directly to the dd command.
 
 : homersync   system/home::.  /backup/home/
 
 Target 'home' will create a LVM snapshot of the /dev/system/home logical 
 volume, mount it and back it up with rdiff-backup. The '.' could also be a 
 / or left off.
 
 : var rsync   system/var::/   /backup/var/-   ziplog
 
 Similar, but the command ziplog will be executed before the backup, 
 compressing some log files. It must be defined in the config file.
 
 The script has some options:
 
   -c file location of config file
   -C  clear destination first
   -d  dummy mode, just show what would be done
   -f  force backup (the initial rdiff-backup may need this)
   -h  show this help
   -l  output to log file, too
   -L  log file (default:/home/wonko/log/snackup.log); may be a
   directory (add a trailing slash) to create target-specific logs
   -n luse nice level l (default:10, 0 to turn off)
   -N luse ionice level l (default:3, 0 to turn off)
   -o  extra options that will added to the actual backup command
   -s size size of LVM snapshot (default:2G)
   -S char replace tab as delimiter for targets in config file
   -T  output config file template
   -v  verbose output; may be given multiple times
   1: some extra output; 2: add -v to commands; 3: set -xv
   -V  output version information and exit
 
 Most important are:
   -c to specify the location of the config file
   -d to output what would be 

[gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:

 I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I
 pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup.  I have an lvm which is
 taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space --
 or would it.  Would I need some free pes to put the snapshot?

An LVM snapshot has to be in the same volume group as the LVM. If all your 
physical extends are full, this will not work I'm afraid.
But you can reduce the size of one LVM with lvreduce. Of course you have 
to resize the file system inside first. This is a little more complicated 
than extending the size, because you have to specify the size when 
reducing the file system and the LVM. And the file system has to be 
unmounted :(

Let's say you want to reduce your data partition of 15G to 10G:

  umount /dev/myvg/data
  fsck -f /dev/myvg/data
  resize2fs /dev/myvg/data 9G
  lvresize -L 10G /dev/myvg/data
  resize2fs /dev/myvg/data
  mount /dev/myvg/data
 
The 2nd resize2fs maximizes the size of the fs inside the LVM. I do not 
know (does anyone else?) if you could skip this and reduce it to 10G in 
the first resize2fs step. Just to be on the safe side I reduce it a little 
more, and let it adapt do the reduced LVM size afterwards.

The snapshot itself takes nearly no space at all - it only keeps the 
changes that occur in the LVM while the snapshot is in place. So it grows 
when you modify the LVM you snapshotted. When you do not much 
modifications, 15-20% is enough according to the lvcreate man page. And I 
think I had it much lower without problems. I would expect that it can be 
really small when you do not change the original LVm much. snackup uses 2G 
as default, change this with option -s. Of course, when you do large 
modifications, like creating larger files, this may be too small.

Excludes can be given with the -x option (multiple times). And have a look 
at the config template that snackup -T gives you. Near the bottom, the 
variable oXclude is defined. It is an array, just change it to your needs. 
it already excludes things like ccache, kdecache-* directories, 
*/tmp/portage, and the dreaded nepomuk directory fo KDE4 because this 
sometimes gets really REALLY large here.

snackup -x dip -x dap would exclude the stuff already pre-defined and dip 
and dap. If you want to exclude dip and dap only, call snackup -x  -x 
dip -x dap. But I find it easier to adapt the oXclude array.

Wonko



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-07 Thread covici
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:

 cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:
 
  I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I
  pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup.  I have an lvm which is
  taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space --
  or would it.  Would I need some free pes to put the snapshot?
 
 An LVM snapshot has to be in the same volume group as the LVM. If all your 
 physical extends are full, this will not work I'm afraid.
 But you can reduce the size of one LVM with lvreduce. Of course you have 
 to resize the file system inside first. This is a little more complicated 
 than extending the size, because you have to specify the size when 
 reducing the file system and the LVM. And the file system has to be 
 unmounted :(
 
 Let's say you want to reduce your data partition of 15G to 10G:
 
   umount /dev/myvg/data
   fsck -f /dev/myvg/data
   resize2fs /dev/myvg/data 9G
   lvresize -L 10G /dev/myvg/data
   resize2fs /dev/myvg/data
   mount /dev/myvg/data
  
 The 2nd resize2fs maximizes the size of the fs inside the LVM. I do not 
 know (does anyone else?) if you could skip this and reduce it to 10G in 
 the first resize2fs step. Just to be on the safe side I reduce it a little 
 more, and let it adapt do the reduced LVM size afterwards.
 
 The snapshot itself takes nearly no space at all - it only keeps the 
 changes that occur in the LVM while the snapshot is in place. So it grows 
 when you modify the LVM you snapshotted. When you do not much 
 modifications, 15-20% is enough according to the lvcreate man page. And I 
 think I had it much lower without problems. I would expect that it can be 
 really small when you do not change the original LVm much. snackup uses 2G 
 as default, change this with option -s. Of course, when you do large 
 modifications, like creating larger files, this may be too small.
 
 Excludes can be given with the -x option (multiple times). And have a look 
 at the config template that snackup -T gives you. Near the bottom, the 
 variable oXclude is defined. It is an array, just change it to your needs. 
 it already excludes things like ccache, kdecache-* directories, 
 */tmp/portage, and the dreaded nepomuk directory fo KDE4 because this 
 sometimes gets really REALLY large here.
 
 snackup -x dip -x dap would exclude the stuff already pre-defined and dip 
 and dap. If you want to exclude dip and dap only, call snackup -x  -x 
 dip -x dap. But I find it easier to adapt the oXclude array.

Thanks, very interesting and I will have a look.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.05.2010 16:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
 Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
 
 I think I am gonna file a bug for this now.
 
 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865

Aside from the potential bug:

As I store the verysekrit.key on the same hdd as the encrypted device
and use the rather simple shadowed password to decrypt that key ...
isn't that just plain stupid?

The overall security is just as good as my password.
Cracking it with john opens the key to decrypting the LUKS-volume ...

Yes, if I would store the key on another volume (stick or something) as
mentioned in that howto it would make sense but in my case ...

*scratches head* ;-)

Stefan



Re: [gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 May 2010 19:26:46 András Csányi wrote:
 On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann roman_naum...@fastmail.fm wrote:
  Hi,
 
  when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens,
  when I close my laptop lid.
 
  When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill
  the login screen appears. During this time, I just see a black screen and
  a mouse pointer (somewhere), but I cannot move it.
 
  If no X server is started, i.e. I'm on the shell, the computer always
  responds after a second or so when the laptop lid is opened again.
 
  Any ideas what causes this or how to fix it?
 
 Suspend is that when the computer isn't off just the things stays in
 memory, isn't? When the contents of the memory is writed to the disk
 and the machine is get off that is the hibernate function, isn't?
 
 It is possible that when you close the lid the contents of memory
 writed to the disk and reading this few hundred Mbyte - on my laptop
 KDE is eating ~800 Mbyte memory, the hungry Beast! :) -  takes that
 long time what you mentioned?
 I'm not a big hacker just I'm thinking over it. :$

I haven't got the answer I'm afraid, but it happens the same here with a 
desktop machine - no lid.  It takes up to 45 seconds for the screen to wake 
up!  The PC starts up immediately, but the screen stays blank.

In MSWindows, the screen becomes alive within seconds.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge 
update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails.  I now have just 
the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 [4.6.2] USE=dbus%* exceptions kde 
(-aqua) -debug -pch 0 kB
[ebuild U ] kde-base/ksplash-4.4.2-r1 [4.4.2] USE=mmx sse sse2 -3dnow (-
altivec) (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -xinerama 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/libplasmagenericshell-4.4.2  USE=(-aqua) -debug (-
kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -test% 0 kB   

[ebuild U ] kde-base/systemsettings-4.4.2-r1 [4.4.2] USE=handbook opengl 
usb (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -xinerama 0 kB   
  
[ebuild U ] app-cdr/k3b-1.91.0_rc2 [1.70.0_beta1] USE=dvd encode flac 
handbook%* mad vorbis wav (-aqua) -debug -emovix -ffmpeg (-kdeenablefinal) -
lame -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -sox -taglib -vcd LINGUAS=fr%* -ast% -
be% -bg% -ca% -...@valencia% -cs% -csb% -da% -de% -el% -en_GB% -eo% -es% -et% -
eu% -fi% -ga% -gl% -he% -hi% -hne% -hr% -hu% -is% -it% -ja% -km% -ko% -ku% -
lt% -mai% -nb% -nds% -nl% -nn% -oc% -pa% -pl% -pt% -pt_BR% -ro% -ru% -se% -sk% 
-sl% -sv% -th% -tr% -uk% -zh_CN% -zh_TW% 0 kB

Total: 5 packages (4 upgrades, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Near the end of the emerge, the following error occurs:

compiling .rcc/release-shared/qrc_WebKit.cpp
rm -f libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2 libQtWebKit.so libQtWebKit.so.4 libQtWebKit.so.4.6
linking ../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-
gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o: file format not recognized; treating as 
linker script
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-
gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o:1: syntax error
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2] Error 1
 * ERROR: x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 failed:
 *   emake failed

There was a thread on gentoo forums with this very error listed as solved 
(https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6262495), but the ccache solution 
suggested there has no effect on my experience of the problem.  Anyone have a 
suggestion on how to proceed?

Thanks,
-- 
Jim


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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread William Kenworthy
FEATURES='-distcc -ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j1' emerge ...

Worked for me on multiple systems

BillK

- Original message -
 For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge
 update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails.  I now have just
 the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit:

 Calculating dependencies... done!
 [ebuild        U ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 [4.6.2] USE=dbus%* exceptions 
 kde
 (-aqua) -debug -pch 0 kB
 [ebuild        U ] kde-base/ksplash-4.4.2-r1 [4.4.2] USE=mmx sse sse2 -3dnow 
 (-
 altivec) (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -xinerama 0 kB
 [ebuild    R    ] kde-base/libplasmagenericshell-4.4.2  USE=(-aqua) -debug (-
 kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -test% 0 kB                                     
                                       
                                                                               
         [ebuild        U ]
 kde-base/systemsettings-4.4.2-r1 [4.4.2] USE=handbook opengl  usb (-aqua)
 -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -xinerama 0 kB                         
                           
                                                            [ebuild        U ] 
app-cdr/k3b-1.91.0_rc2
 [1.70.0_beta1] USE=dvd encode flac  handbook%* mad vorbis wav (-aqua) -debug
 -emovix -ffmpeg (-kdeenablefinal) - lame -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -sox
 -taglib -vcd LINGUAS=fr%* -ast% - be% -bg% -ca% -...@valencia% -cs% -csb% 
 -da%
 -de% -el% -en_GB% -eo% -es% -et% - eu% -fi% -ga% -gl% -he% -hi% -hne% -hr% 
 -hu%
 -is% -it% -ja% -km% -ko% -ku% - lt% -mai% -nb% -nds% -nl% -nn% -oc% -pa% -pl%
 -pt% -pt_BR% -ro% -ru% -se% -sk%  -sl% -sv% -th% -tr% -uk% -zh_CN% -zh_TW% 0 
 kB

 Total: 5 packages (4 upgrades, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

 Near the end of the emerge, the following error occurs:

 compiling .rcc/release-shared/qrc_WebKit.cpp
 rm -f libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2 libQtWebKit.so libQtWebKit.so.4 libQtWebKit.so.4.6
 linking ../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-
 gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o: file format not recognized; treating as
 linker script
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-
 gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o:1: syntax error
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 make: *** [../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2] Error 1
  * ERROR: x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 failed:
  *    emake failed

 There was a thread on gentoo forums with this very error listed as solved
 (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6262495), but the ccache solution
 suggested there has no effect on my experience of the problem.  Anyone have a
 suggestion on how to proceed?

 Thanks,
 --
 Jim



Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-07 Thread Zhou Rui
What I want is finding a gateway out with ARP, and then assign the correct
gateway/route table, stuff in the configuration can be found in
/etc/conf.d/net.example.
BTW, what's IP level stuff meaning? thanks.

2010/5/7 Adam a...@jaftan.com.au

 On 05/06/10 03:35, Zhou Rui wrote:
  Hi folks,
  I setup a network interface to switch in two different network with
  different gateways using config_eth0=( arping ), and I can get gateway
 mac
  when use arping2 command directly.
  But the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start always fails, can you help me to find
 the
  issue out?

 I cant understand what you're trying to achieve. IP will always do the
 arp for you so just set up the IP level stuff and whatever you're trying
 to do should work.

  dns_domain=vm
  config_eth0=( arping )

 AFAICT This means you want to try to find a free address in the
 169.254.x.x auto self configuration range - is that what you want?

  gateways_eth0=( 192.168.1.254,,192.168.1.114 192.168.1.1,,192.168.1.114
 )

 As none of those addresses are local, they cant be used as a gateway for
 a 169.254 address.




-- 
BR,
Zhou Rui