Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-04, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 100704 Dale wrote: My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start. Sort of have to have one to get to the other. I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either. That's why I stopped using a GUI login many years ago (smile). I login to a raw terminal, then 'startx': avoids lots of troubles. Wouldn't help if KDE wouldn't load tho. The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. The reason it wouldn't load is that a LOT of packages, including KDE, needed to be recompiled after the libpng upgrade. I already knew that. Text or GUI login would not matter. Recompiling the packages was fixing the problem already so having a text login wouldn't help on that either. When I run into a problem with the GUi loading, I just do a ctrl alt F1, log in and fix it. That is my text login trick. I can also check the X logs that way too. It seems to me that the way you are doing is the hard way. I just type in my password to log in and it appears you have to log in on a console, type a command then let it load. I'll keep my way. I like it easy when possible then do it the hard way if I run into a problem that requires it. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it. If you don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the subject. Now after you get the answer, Google is great. :-) Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
Hmmm... I don't think so,because what question u have ==what to tell Google to find 2010/7/5 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it. If you don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the subject. Now after you get the answer, Google is great. :-) Dale :-) :-) -- 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
Blackdream W wrote: Hmmm... I don't think so,because what question u have ==what to tell Google to find If you know what you are looking for is called. Sometimes when I am looking for something, I don't know what the thing I am looking for is called. You can't Google for a 'thing em a jig' and expect results. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
T_T I just want 2 say: . 2010/7/5 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Blackdream W wrote: Hmmm... I don't think so,because what question u have ==what to tell Google to find If you know what you are looking for is called. Sometimes when I am looking for something, I don't know what the thing I am looking for is called. You can't Google for a 'thing em a jig' and expect results. Dale :-) :-) -- 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it. If you don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the subject. Now after you get the answer, Google is great. :-) N, you don't get it. You must google the question to get the search terms Then you must google the search terms to get the answer Two-step process! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Any recent LVM changes?
I have two backup drives which use LVM partitions and groups. I also have LVM partitions and groups on my main system. When I try even vgscan on the backup disks, I get weird errors. Read errors, can't find the vg groups, can't write ... sort of works for reading, but I wasn't interested in exploring a bad mount, and I am not about to actually try backing up to it and possibly trash what is there, or potentially used to be :-O What makes me nervous is that gentoo ~amd64 has twice before botched an LVM upgrade and caused some tense times while I got it back in shape. When the system won't even boot properly without a proper LVM, it can raise my pulse ... I would rather keep this working system running even tho it won't let me mount my backup drives. My current LVM version is sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.67-r2, merged on 16 June. I rebooted on 26 June (2.6.34-gentoo-r1) and backed up last weekend no problems. Seems like something else must have changed since them. These are the only sys-*/ ones which seem likely ... sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.12 sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.12 I see that sys-apps/util-linux-2.18 has failed: Failed Patch: util-linux-ng-2.17.1-20100308.diff Does anyone have a clue for me? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 43: Genuine imitation signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. Your question was How to capture a screen videom Googling for linux How to capture a screen video gives several answers :) -- Neil Bothwick When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space. -- Murphy's Computer Laws n°3 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
Aha,I think u r a funny guys[?] 2010/7/5 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it. If you don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the subject. Now after you get the answer, Google is great. :-) N, you don't get it. You must google the question to get the search terms Then you must google the search terms to get the answer Two-step process! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开 330.gif
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? And what about this security risk: 1. lock screen 2. go away somewhere 3. ivan the russian spammer walks by, presses ctrl-alt-f1 4. ivan the russian spammer presses ctrl-c 5. ivan the russian spammer is now *you* 6. god help you if you ran sudo in the last 5 minutes -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer
Hi, I've discovered balsa , a great mail client, btw. How can I configure the application which is called for a pdf attachment. I cannot see any configuration item for balsa itself, so I suppose it must be a Gnome setting. Currently it's set to acroread, but I'd like to set it evince. I've checked ~/.mime.types and several files in /usr/share/mime* The only file I've found is /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys Is that the right place? How should I edit it (with a standard text editor?) Many thanks for your help, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:47:44PM +0800, Blackdream W wrote: 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开 For someone whose signature asks all posts to be in txt, what are you doing sending so many GIFs to the mailing list? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
100705 Grant Edwards wrote: I had to uninstall a several dozen pkgs before revep-rebuild would work. After libpng updated, revdep-rebuild choked because emerge was unable to determine the order to rebuild packages. After 2-3 hours of unstalling, revdep rebuild finally ran and then there were several more hours of reinstalling XFCE, gtk etc. I finally got things going again, but it wasn't fun. I always run 'r-r --pretend', make a list of what it wants to do, then emerge them individually in some hopefully sensible order; 'r-r' is not fully accurate or efficient: eg this time with Libpng 1.4.3 it wanted to rebuild Xulrunner Openoffice, neither of which was needed. You avoid a lot of hassle when you avoid automating too much. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
100705 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? And what about this security risk: 1. lock screen 2. go away somewhere 3. ivan the russian spammer walks by, presses ctrl-alt-f1 4. ivan the russian spammer presses ctrl-c 5. ivan the russian spammer is now *you* 6. god help you if you ran sudo in the last 5 minutes Only if you're in a cubicle: in your own lockable office or at home, no. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it. If you don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the subject. Now after you get the answer, Google is great. :-) N, you don't get it. You must google the question to get the search terms Then you must google the search terms to get the answer Two-step process! That doesn't usually work for me in even a three or four step process. lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. Your question was How to capture a screen videom Googling for linux How to capture a screen video gives several answers :) Yes, I googled trying not to be clever and asked: How to record my desktop using Linux but this brought up the recordmydesktop application. I thought there must be more ways, knowing of xvidcap but not remembering ffmpeg. At which point I thought, better ask the 'oracle' of all knowledge and posted in this M/L. A good keyword for a google search would have been capture, but after a long day of bashing the keyboard I was pretty brain dead to come up with it! O_O Ditto for screencast. All I could think at the time was I want to make a video of screenshots, or I want to record desktop events, none of which gave me a satisfactory answer. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 07:40 -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it. If you don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the subject. Now after you get the answer, Google is great. :-) N, you don't get it. You must google the question to get the search terms Then you must google the search terms to get the answer Two-step process! That doesn't usually work for me in even a three or four step process. lol Dale There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Its obvious, the answers 24. :) BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:43 +0100, Mick wrote: On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. Your question was How to capture a screen videom Googling for linux How to capture a screen video gives several answers :) Yes, I googled trying not to be clever and asked: How to record my desktop using Linux but this brought up the recordmydesktop application. I thought there must be more ways, knowing of xvidcap but not remembering ffmpeg. At which point I thought, better ask the 'oracle' of all knowledge and posted in this M/L. A good keyword for a google search would have been capture, but after a long day of bashing the keyboard I was pretty brain dead to come up with it! O_O Ditto for screencast. All I could think at the time was I want to make a video of screenshots, or I want to record desktop events, none of which gave me a satisfactory answer. Ive used recordmydesktop and it does a good job - however the windows camtasia app has a better end product due to propriety codecs. I tried many combinations on a recorded file to compress a recordmydesktop file but never got near camtasias size/quality. It was acceptable though for download. There were also the usual problems of syncing audio, some formats playing ok on some platforms and not on others etc that also make getting a winning combination difficult. Needs some kind of linux expert on the subject to produce a usable guide to the many settings to get the best out of it. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
2010/7/5 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Its obvious, the answers 24. 24? I always thought The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything was 42. Did I miss something? :) -- Daniel Pielmeier
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 15:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Its obvious, the answers 24. 24? I always thought The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything was 42. Did I miss something? :) uh? - check 2 + 2 = 5, rats, my brain is malfunctioning :( or its a typo and I should NEVER try and send a witty reply after 9pm :( BillK -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
[gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine
Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image// usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' is not a directory: No such file or directory Has anybody an idea where this strange install path might come from? Many thanks, Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: If you know what you are looking for is called. Sometimes when I am looking for something, I don't know what the thing I am looking for is called. You can't Google for a 'thing em a jig' and expect results. I concur with Dale (Mick). He would not ask if he did not need help. Sometimes folks forget (especially older guys like myself). This thread jogs a memory for me, that I had found (stumble across) a really cool package that does exactly what Mick is looking for Do you think I can remember the name from 6-12 months ago? Hell, I might even have it installed on one of my workstations.. As we age, some of us loose the sharpness and recall of our memories.. If you've seen the person on the list before and they ask for help, unless you know they are a *NOOB*/*BOOB* then why be so condescending? Either help, or leave the thread alone, would be an excellent display of good manners imho. ps mick, I'll go trove my bookmarks and see if I can find the name of that really cool package hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine
On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image// usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' is not a directory: No such file or directory Has anybody an idea where this strange install path might come from? Can you be more specific on the 'strangeness'? Which part looks odd? For a quick glimpse it would seem to be a regular temporary 'image' directory which is part of every package's install phase. Only once files have been successfully installed under this temporary 'image' (directory) will portage merge that directory's contents to respective real directories. As for the error itself, it could be a parallel make problem (goes temporarily away with MAKE_OPTS=-j1, but should still be reported at bugs.gentoo.org) or a lazy installer script which isn't properly creating the directories to which it will try to install files (which should also be reported at b.g.o, as it might be a gentoo-only problem). -- Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: What application can I use to capture a video sequence of events on my desktop? I'd like to do stuff on an application and create a video of my mouse clicks and responses from the application. Is there anything other than xvidcap which seems to be hard masked? Hello Mick, After troving around a while, I cannot find the app I stumpled across previously mentioned. Here is what I did find: vncrec/vns2swf : http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/38221 istanbul : http://linuxappfinder.com/graphics/screencapture (et. al.) PS overlook the attitudes of others, and if in doubt put OT in the subject line, so those 'hi strung folks' skip over your needs. hth, James
[gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?
I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the depth of what's captured by dmesg so that I can get all the way back to the beginning? Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine
On 07/05/10 17:39:36, Arttu V. wrote: On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/ image// usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' is not a directory: No such file or directory Has anybody an idea where this strange install path might come from? Can you be more specific on the 'strangeness'? Which part looks odd? For a quick glimpse it would seem to be a regular temporary 'image' directory which is part of every package's install phase. Only once files have been successfully installed under this temporary 'image' (directory) will portage merge that directory's contents to respective real directories. As for the error itself, it could be a parallel make problem (goes temporarily away with MAKE_OPTS=-j1, but should still be reported at bugs.gentoo.org) or a lazy installer script which isn't properly creating the directories to which it will try to install files (which should also be reported at b.g.o, as it might be a gentoo-only problem). -- Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors Thanks! MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't help instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages note lib not lib64 python2.5 not python2.6 eselect python list gives Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.6 * [2] python3.1 So, where does this come from? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.
[gentoo-user] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM
Hi folks,
here's an ebuild for zlib, which takes a fixed source from the
oss-qm project. it contains several fixes and cleans up ugly
hacks in the current ebuild (eg. directly sed'ing sources ;-o).
please refer my recent postings on details what the oss-qm
project is all about. just a few words: the main idea is to
solve problems at the source, provide generic downstream
branches (which get rebased onto upstream) instead of single
(often unncessarily distro-bound) patches.
cu
--
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Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
http://patches.metux.de/
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# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/zlib/zlib-1.2.5.ebuild,v 1.2
2010/04/20 20:34:54 vapier Exp $
inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
DESCRIPTION=Standard (de)compression library
HOMEPAGE=http://www.zlib.net/;
SRC_URI=http://pubgit.metux.de/download/oss-qm/zlib/METUX.zlib-${PV}.tar.bz2;
LICENSE=ZLIB
SLOT=0
KEYWORDS=~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh
~sparc ~x86 ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd
IUSE=
RDEPEND=!dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.7 #309623
src_compile() {
cd `find -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name .` || die
case ${CHOST} in
*-mingw*|mingw*)
cp zconf.h.in zconf.h
emake -f win32/Makefile.gcc prefix=/usr STRIP=true
PREFIX=${CHOST}- || die
;;
*) # not an autoconf script, so cant use econf
./configure --shared --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/$(get_libdir)
|| die
emake || die
;;
esac
}
src_install() {
cd `find -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name .` || die
case ${CHOST} in
*-mingw*|mingw*)
emake -f win32/Makefile.gcc prefix=/usr install DESTDIR=${D}
|| die
dodoc FAQ README ChangeLog doc/*.txt
dobin zlib1.dll || die
dolib libz.dll.a || die
;;
*)
emake install DESTDIR=${D} || die
dodoc FAQ README ChangeLog doc/*.txt
gen_usr_ldscript -a z
;;
esac
}
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Its obvious, the answers 24. 24? I always thought The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything was 42. Did I miss something? :) Obviously William Kenworthy is actually from a planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and has three arms, 2 of which with 6 fingers, and 1 with 7. Else I cannot fathom why he would want to try to count in base 19. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the depth of what's captured by dmesg so that I can get all the way back to the beginning? pass the following parameter to the kernel on GRUB/LILO: log_buf_len=n where n is a power of two. By default it is 16384. You can change it to 131072 (= 2^17) to get a much larger kernel log ring buffer. If you put in something that is not a power of two, the kernel will ignore the option. You may also have to pass an additional parameter to dmesg to read the early messages: look at 'man dmesg' and the -s flag. 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] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:22:42 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: and I should NEVER try and send a witty reply after 9pm :( It's always after 9pm somewhere... -- Neil Bothwick A computer scientist is someone who, when told to Go to Hell, sees the go to, rather than the destination, as harmful. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:35:41 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages note lib not lib64 /lib is usually symlinked to /lib64 on amd6 systems. python2.5 not python2.6 Have you tried running python-updater? -- Neil Bothwick Become a gynaecologist, look up a friend today. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine
On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't help instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages note lib not lib64 python2.5 not python2.6 eselect python list gives Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.6 * [2] python3.1 So, where does this come from? Unfortunately I have no more theories, short of broken python on Gentoo (not just on your box). I can reproduce the problem in a test environment I keep using, so it's probably not something due to, e.g., a need for revdep-rebuild or python-updater (although running them rarely hurts). But could tell us a bit more about the system on which this does *not* happen? How is it different? Is it an x86 or amd64? multilib? Is it a more recent install than the other one (so that there should be no left-over cruft from, e.g., old python versions)? -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?
On Monday 05 July 2010 16:43:24 James wrote: Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: What application can I use to capture a video sequence of events on my desktop? I'd like to do stuff on an application and create a video of my mouse clicks and responses from the application. Is there anything other than xvidcap which seems to be hard masked? Hello Mick, After troving around a while, I cannot find the app I stumpled across previously mentioned. Here is what I did find: vncrec/vns2swf : http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/38221 istanbul : http://linuxappfinder.com/graphics/screencapture (et. al.) PS overlook the attitudes of others, and if in doubt put OT in the subject line, so those 'hi strung folks' skip over your needs. WOW! There are more screencapture apps there that I can shake a stick at! Thanks James, I was also thinking of creating a flash movie for a demo and the vnc2swf will come handy too. Thanks again for your help. I better bookmark this linuxappfinder.com before I lose it. ;-) It seems like a good place to start looking for apps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the depth of what's captured by dmesg so that I can get all the way back to the beginning? pass the following parameter to the kernel on GRUB/LILO: log_buf_len=n where n is a power of two. By default it is 16384. You can change it to 131072 (= 2^17) to get a much larger kernel log ring buffer. If you put in something that is not a power of two, the kernel will ignore the option. You may also have to pass an additional parameter to dmesg to read the early messages: look at 'man dmesg' and the -s flag. Cheers, W -- Hi Willie, Thanks for the ideas. I've been trying them but so far no luck. In my normal booting kernel (on the system hard drive) I did push the length up to 18. With that setting dmesg prints all the way back to the beginning. However booting the Live CD I hit F1, it shows the kernels, so I type gentoo log_buf_len=18 and then boot, but dmesg never goes back to the beginning. I've also tried dmesg -s 30 but still the results are cut off somewhere down in the stack and I never see the first part of the buffer. I'm looking at this page for some info: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/lkn/lkn_pdf/ch09.pdf Reading about log_buf_len I also see earlyprintk and time options. I tried them at the Live CD command line but it didn't change what I'm getting in dmesg like it did on my regular kernel. I'll continue to study. Thanks, Mark
[gentoo-user] looking for old gcc dist file
could people take a look in their distdir and see if they could send me (offlist) the file: gcc-4.0.1-patches-1.0.tar.bz2 i dont know if infra keeps around retired dev's homes, but i'd like ~eradicator/public_html/gcc/ and ~lv/GCC/ ... -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]
Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? - Forwarded message from bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org - From: bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org Subject: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???) To: weig...@metux.de Reply-To: DO NOT REPLY devn...@localhost.invalid Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 19:39:48 + (UTC) DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Also, do not reply via email to the person whose email is mentioned below. To comment on this bug, please visit: Clear-Text: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326991 Secure: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326991 --- Comment #4 from vap...@gentoo.org 2010-07-05 19:39 --- lemme clarify further: dont bother submitting ebuilds for any package in OSS-QM. we arent interested. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.gentoo.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ -
Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 01:29 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? huh?
[gentoo-user] 2.6.34 kernel compile error: DRM problem?
I tried to update my laptop and desktop to 2.6.34 but compilation fails with this error: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c: In function 'i915_switcheroo_can_switch': drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c:1419: error: invalid operands to binary == (have 'atomic_t' and 'int') or: drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_state.c: In function 'nouveau_switcheroo_can_switch': drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_state.c:394: error: invalid operands to binary == (have 'atomic_t' and 'int') They compile if I disable DRM. I've tried with and without CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO with the same result. Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm trying to use hardened-sources-2.6.34 from the anarchy overlay on both systems. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 01:29 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? huh? This was sent to -dev too. It referenced this bug on that list. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326991 Still not sure what is going on with this yet. It's a head scratcher. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
On 05/07/10 17:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? And what about this security risk: 1. lock screen 2. go away somewhere 3. ivan the russian spammer walks by, presses ctrl-alt-f1 4. ivan the russian spammer presses ctrl-c 5. ivan the russian spammer is now *you* 6. god help you if you ran sudo in the last 5 minutes Holy crap, thanks for that info, Alan. I never heard of that before when looking into console vs. GUI login. I'll have to re-think my reasons for sticking with a console login now... Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine
On 07/05/10 21:55:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:35:41 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages note lib not lib64 /lib is usually symlinked to /lib64 on amd6 systems. Yes, /lib is symlinked to /lib64 but /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image/usr/lib is not a symlink. Thus, cd /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image/usr/lib64/ just fails. python2.5 not python2.6 Have you tried running python-updater? Yes, and I have run just once more but it doesn't help. Furthermore I've run lafilefixer and symlinks -dr /usr/lib64 /usr/include Many thanks, Neil, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine
On 07/05/10 22:09:09, Arttu V. wrote: On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't help instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages note lib not lib64 python2.5 not python2.6 eselect python list gives Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.6 * [2] python3.1 So, where does this come from? Unfortunately I have no more theories, short of broken python on Gentoo (not just on your box). I can reproduce the problem in a test environment I keep using, so it's probably not something due to, e.g., a need for revdep-rebuild or python-updater (although running them rarely hurts). But could tell us a bit more about the system on which this does *not* happen? How is it different? Is it an x86 or amd64? multilib? Is it a more recent install than the other one (so that there should be no left-over cruft from, e.g., old python versions)? Sorry to say, but I don't know the difference. Both have nearly identical hardware (AMD Phenom II, same chipset) Both are updated each day (~amd64) and both have nearly the same set of packages installed. This raises the question on how to compare two different Gentoo installations? Many thanks Arttu, I'm glad you see the problem, as well. I have many, many packages of dev-python/ installed. Up to now media-gfx/exact-image is the only one which causes trouble. So, I'm lost right now. (though exact-image is not an essential package for me at the moment) Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Two openvpn tunnels... and /etc/init.d et al.
I already have one openvpn tunnel - and I need another. I've established configuration launching the second tunnel (tun1, while tun0 is launched at boot) using the command line to explicitly start openvpn. I'd really like both tunnels to start at boot time. In case it is relevant, tun0 (currently launched automatically at boot time) acts in 'server mode' (i.e. clients connect to it over TCP establishing a new tunnel) - whereas tun1 acts in 'client mode' - well, as much as that makes sense for UDP, establishing a single tunnel to a remote server. What's the recommended gentoo way to launch two openvpn instances? (I assume that's what's required...)
Re: [gentoo-user] Two openvpn tunnels... and /etc/init.d et al.
On 06.07.2010 08:17, Steve wrote: What's the recommended gentoo way to launch two openvpn instances? (I assume that's what's required...) $ ls -l /etc/init.d/openvpn* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4198 Feb 17 08:31 /etc/init.d/openvpn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root7 Mar 1 12:28 /etc/init.d/openvpn-interoffice - openvpn $ ls -l /etc/openvpn/*.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10356 Mar 1 15:32 /etc/openvpn/openvpn-interoffice.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10351 Mar 4 23:10 /etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf i.e. make a soft link to openvpn init script and make a seperate conf file with the same name as the new init script in your config directory (usually /etc/openvpn). Init script starts openvpn with the correct config file. -- Eray
[gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
On 2010-07-05, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. The reason it wouldn't load is that a LOT of packages, including KDE, needed to be recompiled after the libpng upgrade. I already knew that. Text or GUI login would not matter. Recompiling the packages was fixing the problem already so having a text login wouldn't help on that either. When I run into a problem with the GUi loading, I just do a ctrl alt F1, log in and fix it. That is my text login trick. As long as ctrl-alt-F1 works, that's cool. It hasn't happened to me for a while, but it didn't used to be at all difficult to get X broken enough that ctrl-alt-F1 wouldn't work. I can also check the X logs that way too. It seems to me that the way you are doing is the hard way. I just type in my password to log in and it appears you have to log in on a console, type a command then let it load. I type my username, my passowrd and then I type x and hit enter. I'll keep my way. I like it easy when possible then do it the hard way if I run into a problem that requires it. No worries. -- Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
On 2010-07-05, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra steps each you boot up. It's not nearly as bad as it used to be. :) What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? Nothing, as long as it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Then it helps to be able to log in to a console prompt and do something like this: $ startxfce4 (sleep 20; killall X) -- Grant
