Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage
On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The problem is that its videos are MP4s, which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing about transcoding. My previous camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks browsers. The MP4s are huge and in a weakly supported format. MP4 is a much better container format than .avi. I previously discussed this a little in July's viewing .m4v files with totem thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg103363.html Use the `mplayer -identify` command given there to determine the codec of your video. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
Thanks all. Installing portage 2 and uninstalling some other package now I'm able to update the system. I've uninstalled xfce, firefox (??!) and kde. Now the update seems to proceed. Then I'll reinstall everything. However, I tried emerge belong on my system, but it gave me no output: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la in *... ] # On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/13/10 23:50, Alex Schuster wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. That tends to be more problematic than regular updates. I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. portage 2.2 may ease these things, it does some automatic blocker resolution (does not work always for me, but most of the times). It is still masked, but people use it for far over a year now, and I did not read about big problems. When it tries to emerge xfce4-panel it always gives this error during the build process: /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la: No such file or directory I tried to re-emerge the libxfce4util package, but with no luck : that file do not exists!!! Any idea? Maybe give 'lafilefixer --justfixit' a try? Emerge lafilefixer if you do not have it already. Have you read all he elog messages? They sometimes tell about additional manual steps that have to be done. Wonko Well, on my system, that file does belong to libxfce4util: j...@aus8617 ~ $ equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la in *... ] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.6.2 (/usr/lib/libxfce4util.la) What does the screen say when it gets to the install phase of emerge? Any errors there, especially with that file? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Thanks all. Installing portage 2 and uninstalling some other package now I'm able to update the system. I've uninstalled xfce, firefox (??!) and kde. Now the update seems to proceed. Then I'll reinstall everything. However, I tried emerge belong on my system, but it gave me no output: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la in *... ] # Equery doesn't give any results because it is not installed. When you need to know what package gives you a file or command, try this: http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2?file=%2Fusr%2Flib%2Flibxfce4util.lasearchfile=lookuplookup=file#result That also shows what package that file belongs to. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.21.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21, I want to do it by first extracting the huge tar userA-2010.08.07.tgz and then the tiny backup userA-diff-2010-08-21.tgz. backup2l can do exactly what you want: http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ HTH! -- Marco
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la in *... ] # Equery doesn't give any results because it is not installed. If it weren't installed it wouldn't be able to announce what it was searching for and where :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't know. Well, I'm not very expert about gentoo... I though it would query some kind of database to ask what package contains a certain file Now I know it works differently... It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could. ;-) I think querying an online database could be a nice solution. Thanks! On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.lahttp://libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la in *... ] # Equery doesn't give any results because it is not installed. If it weren't installed it wouldn't be able to announce what it was searching for and where :-) Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't know. Then I posted a way to find out even if a package is not installed. I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me many ages ago. It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
On Monday 16 August 2010 11:38:17 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.lahttp://libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la in *... ] # Equery doesn't give any results because it is not installed. If it weren't installed it wouldn't be able to announce what it was searching for and where :-) Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't know. Then I posted a way to find out even if a package is not installed. I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me many ages ago. It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could. ;-) It would have to consult a database of file-package mappings. For already installed packages, it simply looks in /var/ locally - an excellent high- quality database of such already exists there :-) For not already installed packages, it would have to look out on the intartubes for the site you mentioned or something similar. A portage dev would have to be batshit insane to even try that as the results are fuzzy. There are filename collisions to deal with, plus the fact that you don't know what a package installs till someone builds it. And then there's the carnage caused by USE flags - my list of installed files for a package is likely different to yours. A hallmark of portage is that it deals in definitive data - results are always exact, unambiguous and deterministic - especially deterministic. Google for instance, is none of these things. Google results are good enough. Mixing portage's view of data with google's view of data will break portage is many many horrible ways and make your life (as someone who helps others on this list) miserable - users *will* trust such a lookup tool to be definitive. Which all goes to say you should resist the creation of any such lookup tool with every fibre of your being :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
On Monday 16 August 2010 10:38:17 Dale wrote: I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me many ages ago. I didn't either until you mentioned it, for which thanks. :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
On 16 August 2010 03:15, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com nganon%2bgen...@gmail.com writes: Hello all, My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I started to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most efficiently. 1. Apart from users' home directories and the followings, what should be backed up on a gentoo machine? /etc/portage/ /root /var/lib/portage ...? Wouldn't it be easier to just backup the whole / directory? Excluding /home, /usr/portage and /var/tmp/portage? Yes but that would not solve my huge backup file problem, would it? 2. Erm..okay, I am gonna say, what magic I want and then ask your way. I first started making gzipped tar balls as follows: tar czpf /media/backups/userA-`date +%Y.%m.%d`.tgz -X userA-excludelist /etc But these can get huge especially for home dirs. I also want safe dvd copies. Though I can find enough space on the external drives, I don't trust them any more. See above..sigh..(No I recovered about one third of it with testdisk/photorec which names them as file01 file2.. and half them are zero sized.. which quite justifies my agony) Okay, but I don't trust DVDs. Although DVD-RAM is quite safe I heard. But external disks are flexible, offer more space, and if you want more security, just use yet another drive, so you are safe even if your main drive and a backup drive fails. I did not give a thought to DVD-RAM before. Will give it a try. Thanks. I suggest you have a look at rdiff-backup. It gives you a 1:1 copy of the source directory, but also does incremental backups, which are stored (in compressed form) in an additional folder in the destination directory. I would use this at least for things like /etc, where I sometimes might want to retrieve an old version of a file. Similar to your approach with big tar files and small ones containing the increments. I just emerged and tried it. Seems like incremental backups was what I was looking for. But from what I see, it is mirroring the src to dist and storing the metadata/stats of increments as archived. Maybe there is an option to archive increments along side their metadata as well. I will keep playing with it. I use a script for my backups, which I mentioned here on 2010-05-07, subject 'Snackup'. It optionally creates LVM snapshots so I can make backups from the running system, even if the source directory is altered during the backup. This works on LVM only, though, and also allows the volume to be LUKS-encrypted. It does backups by rdiff-backup, rsync, cp, tar or dd. It may be overkill when not using the LVM features, but still I suggest to use some script for backups, so one does not always have to remember the backup commands. When I want to update my backup, I enter something like 'snackup boot root home src', and the script backs up my boot, root and home partition in the background, and creates tar files each directory in /usr/src. I found the thread and script. I am gonna take a look at it. Once I decide on how to backup, I am gonna cron a script for it. By the way, since I want dvd backups as well, and I want to use +rw dvds so I can overwrite old backup after a while, what is best way of ensuring the integrity and safety of them. Is it a good idea to use truecrypt containers? Or nothing tops signing and encrypting with gpg? I'd use DVD-RAM. The media is a little more expensive, but AFAIK they were made with long-time backups in mind. And access is much easier, you just copy the files as to an external drive, no need to burn ISOs. Wonko Thanks for the advises.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.comnganon%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.21.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21, I want to do it by first extracting the huge tar userA-2010.08.07.tgz and then the tiny backup userA-diff-2010-08-21.tgz. backup2l can do exactly what you want: http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ Nice one indeed. Exactly does what I want. It is also good that the backups can be use without the program itself. It does not seem to be updated since 2009 but I will give it a try. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs
Roman Dobosz gry...@op.pl wrote: Also, cdrecord doesn't work: # cdrecord -v -dev=4,0,0 /mnt/data/t.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode. cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '4,0,0' scsibus: 4 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'PIONEER ' Identifikation : 'DVD-RW DVR-216D' Revision : '1.08' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-R sequential recording (current) Profile: DVD-ROM (current) Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP Drive buf size : 1605632 = 1568 KB cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 1313 MB Total size: 1313 MB = 672399 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 Total power on hours: 75040 WARNING: Phys disk size 16 differs from rzone size 0! Prerecorded disk? WARNING: Phys start: 196608 Phys end 196623 WARNING: Drive returns zero media size. Using media size from ADIP. Blocks total: 16 Blocks current: -93936 Blocks remaining: -766335 cdrecord: Data does not fit on current disk. It seems that the workaround for the Pioneer firmware bug does not handle the multi-border case. Please, note, that ISO image have 1.2 GB so it should fit on DVD-R I'm using Verbatim discs, which is recognized by cdrecord as: # cdrecord -v -minfo Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. SCSI buffer size: 32768 No target specified, trying to find one... Using dev=4,0,0. atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'PIONEER ' Identifikation : 'DVD-RW DVR-216D' Revision : '1.08' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-R sequential recording (current) Profile: DVD-ROM (current) Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP Drive buf size : 1605632 = 1568 KB cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. Current Secsize: 2048 Total power on hours: 75040 book type: DVD-R, Version 2.0x - 2.1 (2.5) disc size: 120mm (0) maximum rate:Not specified (15) number of layers:1 track path: Parallel Track Path (0) layer type: Rewritable Area (2) linear density: 0.267 µm/bit (0) track density: 0.74 µm/track (0) phys start: 196608 (0x3) phys end:196623 end layer 0: 0 bca: 0 phys size:...16 copyr prot type: 0 region mgt info: 0 cpm: 0 cgms:0 last rma sector: 0 application code:64 physical code: 193 last rec address:16621272 part v./ext code:5/2 ind wr. power: 133 wavelength code: 13 write str. code: 0E 88 9A 80 Manufacturer: 'MCC 03RG20 ' rzone size: 36 rzone number: 1 border number: 1 ljrs: 0 track mode: 4 copy: 0 damage: 0 reserved track: 0 blank: 0 incremental: 1 fp: 0 data mode: 1 lra valid: 1 nwa valid: 0 rzone start:0 next wr addr: 0 free blocks:0 blocking factor:16 rzone size: 65264 last recorded addr: 15 Capacity Blklen/Sparesz. Format-type Type 65264 2048 0x00 Formatted Media WARNING: Phys disk size 16 differs from rzone size 0! Prerecorded disk? WARNING: Phys start: 196608 Phys end 196623 WARNING: Drive returns zero media size. Using media size from ADIP. Mounted media class: DVD Mounted media type: DVD-R sequential recording Disk Is not
Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]
On 08/14/2010 12:32 PM, Jarry wrote: On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. well, these solutions are way bigger (iow: more resource intensive), since they run a complete operation system instance within the virtual machine. That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests share the same kernel. This brings certain security implications, but on the other side, I can run dozens of guest on a moderate machine, with 4-cores and 8GB memory (i.e. a guest running bind takes just about 20MB of memory)... This looks rather interesting, Jarry. Is it simply a matter of compiling the vserver-sources and util-vserver? Did it take much time to set up the kernel for your box? Or is it pretty much a typical kernel setup? Any good tools in the util-vserver package? The only service running on my host (main system) is sshd, which I secured as much as I could. Everything else (web, mail, dns, ftp, syslog, X, and plenty of users' services) runs on its own guest-system, chrooted in addition (where it was possible). Sounds very efficient. TIA, Bill
Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check
On 08/15/2010 01:11 AM, Adam Carter wrote: why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore of the mbr. And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the new harddisk has a different size? Just tar up everything. Ok, so is this correct? Backup with tar; 1. boot from cd 2. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot 3. cd /mnt/boot 4. tar czf /otherdisk/boot.tar.gz * No, you do not want to use *, you want to use . Remember that the shell expands * and you will be at the mercy of whatever happens to exist in that directory. Using * you will miss all dot files. Here's the command you want: tar czf /otherdisk/boot.tar.gz . 5. mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/root 6. cd /mnt/root 7. tar czf /otherdisk/root.tar.gz * Same as above, use . not *. Restore; 1. Boot from cd 2. fdisk /dev/sda 3. mkfs.ext /dev/sda1 4. mkswap /dev/sda2 5. mkreiserfs /dev/sda3 6. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot 7. cd /mnt/boot 8. tar xzf /otherdisk/boot.tar.gz 9. mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/root 10. cd /mnt/root 11. tar xzf /otherdisk/root.tar.gz (should i exclude anything? /proc /sys?) Yeah, probably, but most times it's just as easy to just delete them after you've restored them. You're still booted from the CD after all 12. chroot /mnt/boot 13. grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda 14. reboot In the perfect world, you'll be running fine from here. Let us know how reality compares, though!
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig
On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 schrieb Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org: Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig command? I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file. It may be that I'm just missing it but man pages and Google have not provided a solution. Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option: # Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel? OLDCONFIG=no HTH It did indeed help. I was looking for a command line argument. Didn't even think of the config file. Thank you! I've never seen this before, either. Thanks for the tip, Marc. Daniel, how do you use genkernel? I've found that I need to run make oldconfig or, my preference, make silentoldconfig by hand before I ever use genkernel. I copy my old .config to the new kernel directory, run silentoldconfig, then I run genkernel. Is that the problem you're facing or do you see changes between invocations of genkernel?
Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage
On 08/15/2010 08:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The problem is that its videos are MP4s, which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing about transcoding. My previous camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks browsers. The MP4s are huge and in a weakly supported format. I'm somewhere on the learning curve, obviously, but having trouble getting coherent advice. I know several big-brained video geeks and most of them just use mplayer's mencoder app to do their transcoding. Or they write their own code. Your choice.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed
On 08/15/2010 09:07 PM, James wrote: Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sr0 I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/filesystems Trying msdos mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom/ does not exist So, there are two problems but the most serious one right now is that you don't have the /mnt/cdrom directory. Make it. That will solve the first problem. The second is that you need to tell mount that the disk in your CD drive has an iso9660 filesystem on it so it doesn't get all confused. Use this command, then, to mount the disk: mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom Make sure you really do have a disk with stuff on it in the drive.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
On 08/16/2010 02:57 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: lots of good stuff snipped Which all goes to say you should resist the creation of any such lookup tool with every fibre of your being :-) Alan, if I ever get near your part of your continent, I'm going to buy you a beer
Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/14/2010 12:32 PM, Jarry wrote: On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. well, these solutions are way bigger (iow: more resource intensive), since they run a complete operation system instance within the virtual machine. That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests share the same kernel. This brings certain security implications, but on the other side, I can run dozens of guest on a moderate machine, with 4-cores and 8GB memory (i.e. a guest running bind takes just about 20MB of memory)... This looks rather interesting, Jarry. Is it simply a matter of compiling the vserver-sources and util-vserver? Did it take much time to set up the kernel for your box? Or is it pretty much a typical kernel setup? Any good tools in the util-vserver package? The only service running on my host (main system) is sshd, which I secured as much as I could. Everything else (web, mail, dns, ftp, syslog, X, and plenty of users' services) runs on its own guest-system, chrooted in addition (where it was possible). Sounds very efficient. TIA, Bill Certainly looks interesting. I guess the baselayout-vserver packages is somehow for setting up each of the guests? QUESTION: Where does X run? In the host or separate copies in each guest? For a long time I've wanted to set up a single piece of hardware for my parents, but with two screens, two keyboards, two mice. Each user would have what they expect in front of them physically but it's really a single computer. Can that be done using this software? Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]
On 16. 8. 2010 17:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com: That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests share the same kernel. This brings certain security implications, but on the other side, I can run dozens of guest on a moderate machine, with 4-cores and 8GB memory (i.e. a guest running bind takes just about 20MB of memory)... This looks rather interesting, Jarry. Is it simply a matter of compiling the vserver-sources and util-vserver? Did it take much time to set up the kernel for your box? Or is it pretty much a typical kernel setup? Any good tools in the util-vserver package? vserver-sources and util-vserver was all I needed. Kernel is pretty much like common, with ~10 additional options. util-vserver contains handy tools, like v* (* being emerge, esync, kill, limit, mount, ps, sched, etc.). Updating all gentoo-guests can be done with one command executed in host... Sounds very efficient. Really is. Now I'm running 27 guests, mostly gentoo but also some ubuntu and opensuse. Actually, it is possible to run any linux-based system (as I said all systems share the same kernel). There is also pretty good control over resources allocated to individual guests (disk, memory, cpu). Administration is very comfortable. Tasks like clonning, backup/restore, moving, migration, etc, are very easy to... I guess the baselayout-vserver packages is somehow for setting up each of the guests? Guests are installed using customised stage3 (baselayout2-based). After that, you work with them as with normal gentoo-system. QUESTION: Where does X run? In the host or separate copies in each guest? If you need X, you can create a special guest for it, and run X there. The only thing which must run in host are kernel-modules (i.e. nvidia driver). I tested this only as an experiment, but it works. I've heard of someone running X+Wine in vserver-guest. It is also possible to run X+VMware+Windows in vserver-guest... For a long time I've wanted to set up a single piece of hardware for my parents, but with two screens, two keyboards, two mice. Each user would have what they expect in front of them physically but it's really a single computer. Can that be done using this software? Frankly, I do not know. But for each guest you can setup different tty and IP, so maybe it would be possible. Though I think maybe some kind of terminal server would be more suitable... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]
On 08/16/2010 09:07 AM, Jarry wrote: On 16. 8. 2010 17:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com: That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests share the same kernel. This brings certain security implications, but on the other side, I can run dozens of guest on a moderate machine, with 4-cores and 8GB memory (i.e. a guest running bind takes just about 20MB of memory)... This looks rather interesting, Jarry. Is it simply a matter of compiling the vserver-sources and util-vserver? Did it take much time to set up the kernel for your box? Or is it pretty much a typical kernel setup? Any good tools in the util-vserver package? vserver-sources and util-vserver was all I needed. Kernel is pretty much like common, with ~10 additional options. util-vserver contains handy tools, like v* (* being emerge, esync, kill, limit, mount, ps, sched, etc.). Updating all gentoo-guests can be done with one command executed in host... Sounds very efficient. Really is. Now I'm running 27 guests, mostly gentoo but also some ubuntu and opensuse. Actually, it is possible to run any linux-based system (as I said all systems share the same kernel). There is also pretty good control over resources allocated to individual guests (disk, memory, cpu). Administration is very comfortable. Tasks like clonning, backup/restore, moving, migration, etc, are very easy to... I guess the baselayout-vserver packages is somehow for setting up each of the guests? Guests are installed using customised stage3 (baselayout2-based). After that, you work with them as with normal gentoo-system. The Gentoo version of Solaris Zones! w00t!
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. And this website will prove me right: http://www.thinkwiki.org/ You gotta love it~ I suggest Thinkpad too. My T61 works very fine. -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy Thanks for pointing this out. It seems the X series is what I need. Regards, -- Valmor Good choice , mine is X61 :) Good luck -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
[gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform
I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can I emerge ? Thanks ! -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:29:45 +0200 joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: It seems that the workaround for the Pioneer firmware bug does not handle the multi-border case. So, it means, that this is hardware failure? Track Sess Type Start Addr End Addr Size == 1 1 Data 0 65263 65264 -1 2 2 Blank 93952 22978872203936 28688 Last session start address: 0 Last session leadout start address: 65264 Next writable address: 93952 Remaining writable size:2203936 The media was written before and seems to be appendable. Is this what you intend to do? Uuups :) it seems that I have tried this on already damaged DVD-R. Here is output from blank disk: # cdrecord -v -minfo Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. SCSI buffer size: 32768 No target specified, trying to find one... Using dev=4,0,0. atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'PIONEER ' Identifikation : 'DVD-RW DVR-216D' Revision : '1.08' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-R sequential recording (current) Profile: DVD-ROM Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP Drive buf size : 1605632 = 1568 KB cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. Current Secsize: 2048 Total power on hours: 75040 book type: DVD-R, Version 2.0x - 2.1 (2.5) disc size: 120mm (0) maximum rate:Not specified (15) number of layers:1 track path: Parallel Track Path (0) layer type: Rewritable Area (2) linear density: 0.267 µm/bit (0) track density: 0.74 µm/track (0) phys start: 196608 (0x3) phys end:0 end layer 0: 0 bca: 0 phys size:...-196607 copyr prot type: 0 region mgt info: 0 last rma sector: 0 application code:64 physical code: 193 last rec address:16621272 part v./ext code:5/2 ind wr. power: 133 wavelength code: 13 write str. code: 0E 88 9A 80 Manufacturer: 'MCC 03RG20 ' rzone size: 36 rzone number: 1 border number: 1 ljrs: 0 track mode: 4 copy: 0 damage: 0 reserved track: 0 blank: 1 incremental: 0 fp: 0 data mode: 1 lra valid: 0 nwa valid: 1 rzone start:0 next wr addr: 0 free blocks:2298496 blocking factor:16 rzone size: 2298496 last recorded addr: 0 Capacity Blklen/Sparesz. Format-type Type 4101552 2048 0x00 No Media Present or Unknown Capacity Mounted media class: DVD Mounted media type: DVD-R sequential recording Disk Is not erasable data type:standard disk status: empty session status: empty BG format status: none first track: 1 number of sessions: 1 first track in last sess: 1 last track in last sess: 1 Disk Is unrestricted Disk type: DVD, HD-DVD or BD Track Sess Type Start Addr End Addr Size == 1 1 Blank 0 22984952298496 -1 Next writable address: 0 Remaining writable size:2298496 -- -^- _coś tam w tle sobie gra, np: _ /O)_\//Blindead - Phaze I: Abyss (_(|__(_(_) grf.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform
On 08/16/2010 08:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can I emerge ? Thanks ! Not exactly. You can use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper to use 32bit plugins in a 64bit browser. But yes, you can emerge www-client/firefox-bin. This is a precompiled 32bit firefox, that runs the flashplugin without nspluginwrapper. That should at least answer one question :) Greetings Johannes Kimmel
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform
Le Monday 16 August 2010 21:39:13, Johannes Kimmel a écrit : On 08/16/2010 08:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can I emerge ? Thanks ! Not exactly. You can use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper to use 32bit plugins in a 64bit browser. But yes, you can emerge www-client/firefox-bin. This is a precompiled 32bit firefox, that runs the flashplugin without nspluginwrapper. That should at least answer one question :) Greetings Johannes Kimmel nspluginwrapper currently doesn't allow flash player to work, don't know why... -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:54:02 +0200 Roman Dobosz gry...@op.pl wrote: Vendor_info: 'PIONEER ' Identifikation : 'DVD-RW DVR-216D' Revision : '1.08' Damn. So this was really Pioneer (and partially my) fault. After firmware upgrading, cdrecord is working just fine. Unfortunately growisofs doesn't work :/ Seems that I'll stick with cdrecord instead. Thanks for your help, Jörg - after all you've directed my thoughts about firmware :) -- -^- _coś tam w tle sobie gra, np: _ /O)_\//Blindead - Phaze III: Blood Bond (_(|__(_(_) grf.
Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The problem is that its videos are MP4s, which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing about transcoding. My previous camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks browsers. The MP4s are huge and in a weakly supported format. MP4 is a much better container format than .avi. I previously discussed this a little in July's viewing .m4v files with totem thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg103363.html Use the `mplayer -identify` command given there to determine the codec of your video. Stroller. The codec is H.264, which most of my readers don't have. They are non-technical which makes it a major pain, and I want out of it. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I'm a newb in video, but it was suggested to me by someone who uses it, so I wanted to try. Mplayer comes with a program called mencoder, which will do your video encoding. Its a bit more hands on but it is excellent once you learn it. My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The problem is that its videos are MP4s, which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing about transcoding. My previous camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks browsers. The MP4s are huge and in a weakly supported format. IIRC, isnt MP4 just a container? what are the video codecs and audio codecs in the file? If they are 264 and mp3, you should be able to use HTML5 for them natively. MP4 is actually gaining alot of support in many OSes due to it being part of the HTML5 spec. [major snippage] Well, there you go. Among the things I've just learned: 1) There are containers 2) Codec != container 3) Video and Audio are encoded one from column A and one from column B. I hope this gives you an idea of what a newb I am. Please calibrate responses accordingly. My friend is pretty sure my problem is the video H.264 codec. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The problem is that its videos are MP4s, which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing about transcoding. My previous camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks browsers. The MP4s are huge and in a weakly supported format. You might want to check out kdenlive which is a full-featured video editor (using mlt as backend) but includes a simple transcoding function and several presets for many different formats (with the added bonus that you'll be able to edit your raw video should you so desire).
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform
On 08/16/2010 12:47 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: nspluginwrapper currently doesn't allow flash player to work, don't know why... You could look at swfdec-gnome too.
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig
Am Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:00:49 -0700 schrieb Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com: On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 schrieb Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org: Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig command? I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file. It may be that I'm just missing it but man pages and Google have not provided a solution. Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option: # Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel? OLDCONFIG=no HTH It did indeed help. I was looking for a command line argument. Didn't even think of the config file. Thank you! I've never seen this before, either. Thanks for the tip, Marc. You're welcome :) . I only remembered it because I was in exactly the same situation, trying to get genkernel to not overwrite my kernel config. I remember being annoyed that genkernel didn't have a --no-oldconfig command line option. I'm surprised it still doesn't. After all, several other options have corresponding --no-* variants, like --[no-]mrproper. Oh, well. [snip] Happy to help (hey, that acronymises to HTH, too!) -- Marc Joliet signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?
Hi all, I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend server is an old PowerPC which takes literally days (2? 3? 4?) to do the same thing with only fluxbox on the system. While this was OK a few years ago it's not something I'm enjoying much anymore. (Did I then?) So, the question is can I somehow set up an environment on my AMD64 machine where I build PowerPC binary packages using emerge, ssh them over to the Mac and then emerge them there to get the machine up to date quickly? What do I read to understand how to do this? Note that it's fine to build the kernel, ymboot and machine specific stuff on the Mac as that's very minimal. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote: On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.comnganon%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.21.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21, I want to do it by first extracting the huge tar userA-2010.08.07.tgz and then the tiny backup userA-diff-2010-08-21.tgz. backup2l can do exactly what you want: http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ Nice one indeed. Exactly does what I want. It is also good that the backups can be use without the program itself. It does not seem to be updated since 2009 but I will give it a try. Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. I have been using tar, star and rsync. They all work and they can all make incremental back ups. You'll find that a lot of the other 'smart' back up applications are based on these anyway. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?
On 08/16/2010 02:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend server is an old PowerPC which takes literally days (2? 3? 4?) to do the same thing with only fluxbox on the system. While this was OK a few years ago it's not something I'm enjoying much anymore. (Did I then?) So, the question is can I somehow set up an environment on my AMD64 machine where I build PowerPC binary packages using emerge, ssh them over to the Mac and then emerge them there to get the machine up to date quickly? What do I read to understand how to do this? Note that it's fine to build the kernel, ymboot and machine specific stuff on the Mac as that's very minimal. You want to get your hands on the crossdev package. There's LOTS of stuff to know to get this to work right. But people use cross compilers every day all day.
Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?
Mark Knecht writes: Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend Oh my, this is fast. server is an old PowerPC which takes literally days (2? 3? 4?) to do the same thing with only fluxbox on the system. While this was OK a few years ago it's not something I'm enjoying much anymore. (Did I then?) So, the question is can I somehow set up an environment on my AMD64 machine where I build PowerPC binary packages using emerge, ssh them over to the Mac and then emerge them there to get the machine up to date quickly? What do I read to understand how to do this? I don't think this is possible. Maybe with an emulator, but that would probably also be slow handling instructions for a different CPU. I would give distcc a try. The configure and linking stuff is still done on the local machine, but at least (most) of the compiles are done by the fast machine, so this should safe some time. See the DistCC Cross- compiling Guide guide [*] for information on how to set this up. It works fine for me when I use my amd64 machine to create i686 binaries. Wonko [*] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml
Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/16/2010 02:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend server is an old PowerPC which takes literally days (2? 3? 4?) to do the same thing with only fluxbox on the system. While this was OK a few years ago it's not something I'm enjoying much anymore. (Did I then?) So, the question is can I somehow set up an environment on my AMD64 machine where I build PowerPC binary packages using emerge, ssh them over to the Mac and then emerge them there to get the machine up to date quickly? What do I read to understand how to do this? Note that it's fine to build the kernel, ymboot and machine specific stuff on the Mac as that's very minimal. You want to get your hands on the crossdev package. There's LOTS of stuff to know to get this to work right. But people use cross compilers every day all day. Thanks Bill. First try points to a depreciated page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml which in turn points to something more recent: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ A quick read looks promising, other than a statement that says some combination of tools might not work and no way to tell until you try. None the less I should be able to play some games and maybe just compile something very small and see if it runs, etc. Thanks for the pointer. Cheers, Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed
On 08/15/2010 04:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running 64-bit Gentoo on an Intel 4-core i3 with an Intel integrated graphics controller. An excerpt from dmesg follows, with the video- related stuff. Note the two lines that I've split off. They mention the mtrr type mismatch and the allocation failure. Is this a problem and if so, what do I do about it? [0.519939] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [0.520016] agpgart-intel :00:00.0: Intel HD Graphics Chipset [0.520842] agpgart-intel :00:00.0: detected 131068K stolen memory [0.580462] agpgart-intel :00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd000 Does your BIOS let you set the AGP aperture manually? Couldn't hurt to make it bigger if you're able. The comment about 'stolen memory' sounds a bit evil ;) [0.608643] mtrr: type mismatch for d000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining [0.608725] [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer. Do you have MTRR support in your linux kernel? It was selected automatically in my SMP kernel config, so I didn't have a choice. [0.946741] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75 [0.952156] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device I'm wondering if console framebuffer support is really necessary for Intel graphics chips, I dunno. You could try disabling it in your kernel config to see if it make any difference. I'm assuming that all of the dmesg stuff came from boot time, right? Does your /var/cache/Xorg.0.log have any suspicious messages? I'm assuming your X works correctly? Or not.
Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm running 64-bit Gentoo on an Intel 4-core i3 with an Intel integrated graphics controller. An excerpt from dmesg follows, with the video- related stuff. Note the two lines that I've split off. They mention the mtrr type mismatch and the allocation failure. Is this a problem and if so, what do I do about it? ... [ 0.608643] mtrr: type mismatch for d000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining [ 0.608725] [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer. I had a similar message, it was there because of the fact that i specified the wrong (or failed to specify?) mtrr method in my kernel boot parameters for the framebuffer. I'm using uvesafb and in kernel documentation (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt) it explains the values and even gives an example of this error and what to do about it: cut mtrr:n Setup memory type range registers for the framebuffer where n: 0 - disabled (equivalent to nomtrr) (default) 1 - uncachable 2 - write-back 3 - write-combining 4 - write-through If you see the following in dmesg, choose the type that matches the old one. In this example, use mtrr:2. ... mtrr: type mismatch for e000,800 old: write-back new: write-combining ... /cut After I changed my mtrr setting in grub's config rebooted, the error message went away. HTH :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2010 22:55:23 Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with Yahoo at these addresses: cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com I thought it was Kopete getting some info, profile pics maybe, from the server. Thing is, it does this for a really long time. It is also SENDING data as well. I have no idea why it is doing this or what it is sending. I closed the Kopete app but the data still carries on. This transfer has been going for a while now and the only way I can stop it is to stop the network, wait a minute or two for it to time out and then restart the network. Anybody have any idea what the heck this is? Is Yahoo up to something? Some new security issue that I haven't heard of? I think it's normal. The first address is one of their pool of messaging servers and the second is a web server, probably like you said for retrieving additional info. The sending of data could be the http request, or updating your status/picture/whatever kopete may be doing. You could try blocking it and see what breaks. :) Dale, It could also be a weather map, or any number of widgets that get data from the intartubes. netstat with -p can help track down the app that has the connection open OK. It finally started doing it again. Here is the short version of netstat -p. It looks like kopete but what in the heck is it sending and receiving? r...@smoker / # netstat -p Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43577 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43438 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:52423 cs204p1.msg.sp1.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43490 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:43586 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http SYN_SENT18971/kopeteFc9968. tcp0 0 localhost:60971 localhost:nut ESTABLISHED 9578/upsmon tcp1 1 192.168.1.2:43584 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http CLOSING - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43558 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:48301 cs201p1.msg.sp1.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43523 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 localhost:nut localhost:60971 ESTABLISHED 9640/upsd tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:42517 cs215p2.msg.ac4.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43462 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43516 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43479 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43405 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43483 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43563 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43487 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43483 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43563 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43487 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - One other question, if this is kopete, how does it keep sending/receiving after I have closed the kopete app? This is weird. Kopete and Yahoo have not done this before. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.
r...@smoker / # netstat -p Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43577 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43438 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:52423 cs204p1.msg.sp1.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43490 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:43586 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http SYN_SENT18971/kopeteFc9968. tcp0 0 localhost:60971 localhost:nut ESTABLISHED 9578/upsmon tcp1 1 192.168.1.2:43584 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http CLOSING - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43558 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:48301 cs201p1.msg.sp1.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43523 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 localhost:nut localhost:60971 ESTABLISHED 9640/upsd tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:42517 cs215p2.msg.ac4.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43462 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43516 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43479 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43405 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43483 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43563 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43487 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43483 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43563 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43487 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - One other question, if this is kopete, how does it keep sending/receiving after I have closed the kopete app? Since you're closing Kopete gracefully its probably decided to let those threads complete what they're doing before shutting them down. If you kill -9'd them instead (that is send them the KILL signal instead of the TERM signal) they'd go away immediately.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. I have been using tar, star and rsync. They all work and they can all make incremental back ups. You'll find that a lot of the other 'smart' back up applications are based on these anyway. A disk archive utility called dar is a great staff to backup dir trees and files -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed
Bill Longman bill.longman at gmail.com writes:
So, there are two problems but the most serious one right now is that
you don't have the /mnt/cdrom directory. Make it. That will solve the
first problem.
Ok /mnt/cdrom built.
The second is that you need to tell mount that the disk in your CD
drive has an iso9660 filesystem on it so it doesn't get all confused.
Use this command, then, to mount the disk:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
Ok it says:
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
#ls -lag /dev/sr0 returns
brw-rw+ 1 cdrom 11, 0 Aug 16 15:59 /dev/sr0
Make sure you really do have a disk with stuff on it in the drive.
Yep,
Kaffeine croaks with ///dev/hda error
Dragonplayer does not show the contents of any dvd
despite a dvd being in the drive
dmesg snippets:
ide-cd: hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATAPI: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A, 1.04, max UDMA/66
ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/66
scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROMPLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A 1.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
udev: starting version 151
hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 8556800
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Info fld=0x3b3a10
Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 512
UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume 'DELTA_FORCE', timestamp 2001/01/11 16:54
(1f10)
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Info fld=0x3b3a10
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Read of scrambled sector without authentication
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 3e 3a 1c 00 00 02 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 16312432
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2039054
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Info fld=0x3b3a10
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Read of scrambled sector without authentication
sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 3e 3a 1c 00 00 02 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 16312432
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2039054
UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume 'TRANSFORMERS2_IMAX_DISC1', timestamp
2009/09/11 04:19 (1f10)
[drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[drm] Loading R500 Microcode
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: using built-in firmware radeon/R520_cp.bin
[drm] Num pipes: 4
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
snip
Ok there are 2 dvd drives that use to work with sysfs and a .30 kernel
now the 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 kernel is not working, and sysfs was removed
as was suggested in the old console logs upon booting.
Of the many Gentoo systems I manage, most have 2 dvd drives. Very few
are working since I removed sysfs and built 2.6.34-r1 kernels.?
James
[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge
Last week I got a message the my /var partition was almost full. Since it was 10G and I am using lvm2 I added 5G more to it. This evening I got the same message, now I had to investigate. When I did I found that /var/log/messages is huge. # ls -lh /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 12G Aug 16 20:15 /var/log/messages It seem to be constantly written to and growing. # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 11986603021 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 11986687279 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 11986759997 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 11986783403 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 11986830215 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages When I tail it I get the following. # tail /var/log/messages Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 13 bytes Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Status code 0; transferred 13/13 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk status result = 0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk Status S 0x53425355 T 0x5c33 R 0 Stat 0x0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: *** thread sleeping. What's going on here? Why all these usb-storage messages? I don't know exactly when this started, but I'm guessing it has to do with a recent upgrade. I also thought there's suppose to be some sort of log rotation going on to prevent this. Any ideas? Right now I'm going to cat /dev/null /var/log/messages so I can boot up in the morning. Now my /var dropped to 16%. Thanks, dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge
Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 13 bytes Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Status code 0; transferred 13/13 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk status result = 0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk Status S 0x53425355 T 0x5c33 R 0 Stat 0x0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: *** thread sleeping. What's going on here? Why all these usb-storage messages? You've probably turned on CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG when you configured the kernel
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.
Adam Carter wrote: r...@smoker / # netstat -p Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43577 http://192.168.1.2:43577 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43438 http://192.168.1.2:43438 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:52423 http://192.168.1.2:52423 cs204p1.msg.sp1.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43490 http://192.168.1.2:43490 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:43586 http://192.168.1.2:43586 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http SYN_SENT18971/kopeteFc9968. tcp0 0 localhost:60971 localhost:nut ESTABLISHED 9578/upsmon tcp1 1 192.168.1.2:43584 http://192.168.1.2:43584 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http CLOSING - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43558 http://192.168.1.2:43558 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:48301 http://192.168.1.2:48301 cs201p1.msg.sp1.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43523 http://192.168.1.2:43523 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 localhost:nut localhost:60971 ESTABLISHED 9640/upsd tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:42517 http://192.168.1.2:42517 cs215p2.msg.ac4.ya:5050 ESTABLISHED 9968/kopete tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43462 http://192.168.1.2:43462 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43516 http://192.168.1.2:43516 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43479 http://192.168.1.2:43479 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43405 http://192.168.1.2:43405 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43483 http://192.168.1.2:43483 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43563 http://192.168.1.2:43563 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43487 http://192.168.1.2:43487 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43483 http://192.168.1.2:43483 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43563 http://192.168.1.2:43563 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:43487 http://192.168.1.2:43487 rdis.msg.vip.sp1.y:http TIME_WAIT - One other question, if this is kopete, how does it keep sending/receiving after I have closed the kopete app? Since you're closing Kopete gracefully its probably decided to let those threads complete what they're doing before shutting them down. If you kill -9'd them instead (that is send them the KILL signal instead of the TERM signal) they'd go away immediately. That may be true. Thing is, it is still sending and receiving traffic even after all this time. I'm wondering what it is or if it is a bug or something. I just did a killall kopete and it did stop. Is there a way to see what it is sending/receiving? I'm talking like is it a jpeg, some other file or something else? Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] =www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264
I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and later than 6.0.472.33 no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg, and seem to lose support for h264 videos (test any non-webm, html5 video at youtube; it will never load). I've tried doctoring the ebuild to use the system-provided ffmpeg, which does not fix h264 video and causes crashes on webm videos: probably why we went back to the bundled ffmpeg. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a straightforward work-around beyond going back to 6.0.472.14ish? Thanks, -Andy
Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage
On 16 Aug 2010, at 20:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The problem is that its videos are MP4s, ... MP4 is a much better container format than .avi. I previously discussed this a little in July's viewing .m4v files with totem thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg103363.html Use the `mplayer -identify` command given there to determine the codec of your video. The codec is H.264, which most of my readers don't have. They are non-technical which makes it a major pain, and I want out of it. H264 is excellent - it's the best codec available today, and I would have expected it to be widely supported. As far as browsers are concerned, it's supported by about half of them, I think, natively via HTML5. The reasons the others don't support it are patent related - Mozilla won't incorporate h264 playback into Firefox, for instance, because h264 is only free as in beer, not as in speech. I would have thought H264 would be easy to remux into an .flv container and host using an open-source YouTube-style player on your own site. Alternatively, just open a free YouTube or Vimeo account and upload your original .mp4 video files there. I appreciate that this latter is not an optimal answer, however... I stated that I'm not convinced Handbrake is actually that good - to be fair, I don't know what *is* that good, short of an intimate knowledge of video standards (interlacing, frame-rates c c) and mplayer / ffmpeg / MP4box / other tools. The reason the MP4 files out of your camera are so large is that they're high-def and this very high video quality. Stuff recorded in good light should look awesome, even on a huge great 42 TV. So you will need to resize them smaller for the web (so, in fact, my previous suggestion about remuxing h264 into an .flv container is useless for you, until you've done that). Try installing Handbrake and see if you get along with it - I have a bias against it because I tried to rip studio-produced DVDs using it, and had playback issues on the PS3. Maybe I'm being unfair. You might also try media-video/h264enc - I think that is a wrapper script for ffmpeg / mplayer, written by one of the mplayer devs. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.
I just did a killall kopete and it did stop. Is there a way to see what it is sending/receiving? I'm talking like is it a jpeg, some other file or something else? rix portage # nmap -p 5050 -sV cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-17 11:27 EST Nmap scan report for cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com (98.136.48.110) Host is up (0.20s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 5050/tcp open mmcc? 1 service unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprint at http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/servicefp-submit.cgi : SF-Port5050-TCP:V=5.21%I=7%D=8/17%Time=4C69E58D%P=i686-pc-linux-gnu%r(GetR SF:equest,195,HTTP/1\.1\x20404\x20Not\x20Found\r\nContent-Type:\x20text/h SF:tml\r\nCache-Control:\x20max-age=0,\x20must-revalidate\r\nExpires:\x20S SF:un,\x2010\x20Jun\x202007\x2012:01:01\x20GMT\r\n\r\nhtmlhead\r\nmet SF:a\x20http-equiv=\content-type\\x20content=\text/html;charset=utf-8\ SF:\r\ntitle404\x20Not\x20Found/title\r\n/head\r\nbody\x20text=#00 SF:\x20bgcolor=#ff\r\nhrcenter\r\nH1Not\x20Found/H1\r\nTh SF:e\x20requested\x20URL\x20was\x20not\x20found\x20on\x20this\x20server\.\ SF:r\n/centerp\r\n/body/html\r\n)%r(FourOhFourRequest,195,HTTP/1 SF:\.1\x20404\x20Not\x20Found\r\nContent-Type:\x20text/html\r\nCache-Contr SF:ol:\x20max-age=0,\x20must-revalidate\r\nExpires:\x20Sun,\x2010\x20Jun\x SF:202007\x2012:01:01\x20GMT\r\n\r\nhtmlhead\r\nmeta\x20http-equiv=\ SF:content-type\\x20content=\text/html;charset=utf-8\\r\ntitle404\x2 SF:0Not\x20Found/title\r\n/head\r\nbody\x20text=#00\x20bgcolor=#f SF:f\r\nhrcenter\r\nH1Not\x20Found/H1\r\nThe\x20requested\x20 SF:URL\x20was\x20not\x20found\x20on\x20this\x20server\.\r\n/centerp\r\ SF:n/body/html\r\n); Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ . Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 112.82 seconds rix portage # Well its obviously HTTP, NFI why NMAP cant see that. So you could capture in wireshark, then docode port 5050 as HTTP.
[gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. Things were so much easier when I could just use the ipw3945 driver. However, I can't build that because it requires TKIP and CCMP, neither of which I can find settings for in my active kernel, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1. In one of the responses to my previous posts someone told me about the / trick while in the kernel configuration to bring up a search menu. I did this and the only reference I could find for TKIP was one related to debugging. So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I got to the point where I was told to type the following: ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer) iwlist wlan0 scan iwconfig wlan0 essid network name (where the network name is the essid that has been set) When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes, I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the kernel was rebuilt. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Help would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. Things were so much easier when I could just use the ipw3945 driver. However, I can't build that because it requires TKIP and CCMP, neither of which I can find settings for in my active kernel, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1. In one of the responses to my previous posts someone told me about the / trick while in the kernel configuration to bring up a search menu. I did this and the only reference I could find for TKIP was one related to debugging. I use wpa_supplicant to provide the wifi crypto. So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I got to the point where I was told to type the following: ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer) iwlist wlan0 scan iwconfig wlan0 essid network name (where the network name is the essid that has been set) When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes, I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the kernel was rebuilt. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Forgetting to post up your configs :) eg /etc/conf.d/net etc
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD
A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it will provide. Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage I see that /usr/portage and /var/tmp are using approximately 10GB, which is well over the 7.5GB I have on the SSD. So, I'm wondering what suggestions the list has for squeezing Gentoo onto an SSD. I have another Gentoo box I could put /usr/portage on to save myself some room on the SSD. Aside from NFS mounting the package source and build directories, is there anything else I can do to minimize the space needed? I'm not running anything terribly fancy. I have DR17/enlightenment and XFCE installed as window managers; along with some productivity applications. Thanks for your feedback, Hal Martin
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:28:21PM -0700, walt wrote Does your BIOS let you set the AGP aperture manually? Couldn't hurt to make it bigger if you're able. The comment about 'stolen memory' sounds a bit evil ;) The BIOS only has options for 32/64/128 megabytes. Intel cheaped out with the on-board graphics, and used system ram, instead of its own ram. I have 8 gigs on the machine, so 256 megs wouldn't hurt. I'm wondering if console framebuffer support is really necessary for Intel graphics chips, I dunno. You could try disabling it in your kernel config to see if it make any difference. Selecting the i915 driver, or VESA, automatically forces framebuffer. Any other selection, and X won't work. Framebuffer is right down there with hal and dbus in my list of unfavourite drivers. Unfortunately, the only other option is some form of VESA, which also requires framebuffer. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion
I own a samsung and I don't recommend anyone to buy one. Nothing in particular wrong (brightness control not working by default), but I don't like it. Regards Petri Rosenström On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Fernando Antunes fs.antu...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. And this website will prove me right: http://www.thinkwiki.org/ You gotta love it~ I suggest Thinkpad too. My T61 works very fine. -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy Thanks for pointing this out. It seems the X series is what I need. Regards, -- Valmor Good choice , mine is X61 :) Good luck -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
