Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 04:35:09 Pandu Poluan wrote: On 2011-04-19, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything yourself. I think anything in the middle, like Debian, just leads to confusion and uncertainty. I don't know where Fedora and SuSE fit into all this. Jumping into the asbestos drawers... the sterling things about Debian are that it is more oldschool than ubuntu and its good for when you get sick of compiling everything from scratch over and over. For some things, I don't care if I'm accepting someone elses' defaults. I've stuck with Gentoo for several yrs now for my main desktop and would be very unwilling to switch for that usage, however, I prefer Debian for virtual guests on windows. It just installs right off, when you need a full linux OS in a bit of a hurry. I still think Debian installed too many things I don't use. When I need a Linux VM in a hurry, I'd go Arch. Some people worry about its unsigned packages, but as long as I stick to well-known mirrors, I should be okay. The beauty of Arch is that its installation is very granular; I can truly pick components I want to have, and leave out those I won't ever use. But if I *do* have the time, I'll always take the Gentoo-route :) Perhaps I'll try Debian next time I'm in a rush. In the past I've run CentOS and it was a relatively quick exercise to get it installed and running as a webserver. However, I still ended up spending some time I hadn't budgeted for shutting down (unnecessary) processes, uninstalling apps and what not. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] gentoo guest vm - vlan support kills eth0
If i enable 802.1q kernel support in a gentoo vmware guest and reboot (even as a module which is not loaded), eth0 is no longer available. (ifconfig -a shows nothing). Is this expected?
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 04:31:38 Harry Putnam wrote: So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? Have you gone through the documentation to see if there isn't a more verbose option for the logs? Do you get the same condensed format when you capture the logs in your LAN syslog server? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin
Hi, I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - sounds interesting... Since there is no News after 2003 I did not try to install... (need a vm first...) Does anyone know about the project? Is it dead? Nils
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
On Monday 18 April 2011 22:31:38 Harry Putnam wrote: snipped - Not familiar with CISCO specifics So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? Not familiar with specific types, but I've had best results with the routers from Zyxel. The one I used to use (ADSL) would provide a lot of information via SNMP and other logging-options. Also, this one had no problem with multiple (1000+) simultaneous connections. Which is something other brands suffer from regularly. ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing. I understand the sentiment. I've since stopped using pre-made routers as I had the machine running anyway as a home-server and moving the router/firewall/... onto the server wasn't too much of a change and did mean I could switch off a small device. -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 08:34:06 Thanasis wrote: on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script? My guess is that the script would be something like the following: = #!/bin/sh # emerge --sync emerge -uDNf world = -- Joost
[gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed
Hi, gentoo. I'm trying # emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta. It fails at glib-perl-1.223, since it can't find ExtUtils::Depends and ExtUtils::PkgConfig. Here is the relevant section from the build log: * Package:dev-perl/glib-perl-1.223 * USE:amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib userland_GNU * FEATURES: sandbox Unpacking source... Unpacking Glib-1.223.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/glib-perl-1.223/work Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/glib-perl-1.223/work Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/glib-perl-1.223/work/Glib-1.223 ... Source prepared. Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/glib-perl-1.223/work/Glib-1.223 ... * Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker * perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLMAN3DIR=none DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/glib-perl-1.223/image/ Can't locate ExtUtils/Depends.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2 /usr/lib64/perl5/5.12.2/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/5.12.2 /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 6) line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 6) line 1. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found. ExtUtils::Depends not installed ExtUtils::PkgConfig not installed However, I do have extutils-depends and extutils-pkgconfig installed at the latest version. Would somebody help me fix this, please. I don't have a working X windows at the moment. :-( -- Alan Mackenize (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500, Dale wrote: I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the problem. You'd need to emerge -p world for that, and setting USE flags on the command line for that is even worse. I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes. But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, because it doesn't attempt to emerge the package that failed. As a test it fails. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 5: Twelve-ounce pound cake signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Hi, Alan. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:11:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:21 on Monday 18 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE flag set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse packages will change the dependency requirements. Sometimes it's just something new that the maintainer added since a previous version. OK. I was getting confused by dependency required, which sounds tautological. What it seems to mean is package required. It really does mean exactly what it says. Look at it again: (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) It's saying there is a dependency, and the package that requires it is cryptsetup. Read it like this:: OK, I think I've got it now. What was confusing me is that in ordinary English, a dependency is a relationship, but in emerge it's a thing. Thanks for the help, it's appreciated. (dependency, required by . ) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script? My guess is that the script would be something like the following: = #!/bin/sh # emerge --sync emerge -uDNf world = That's the gist of it, although it also emails the output from emerge -pvDN world, so I can see what needs to be done. It runs a few other bits, like glsa-check. -- Neil Bothwick Windows Error #05: Nonexisent error. This cannot really be happening signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin
Nils Andresen writes: I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - sounds interesting... Since there is no News after 2003 I did not try to install... (need a vm first...) Does anyone know about the project? Is it dead? Probably. But have a look at: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 04:31:38 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing. I'm gazing at an Atom box sitting on my window-sill that would be ideal. It's silent and it has gigabit LAN connections. It's 8 square by 1 3/8. Have a look at www.aleutia.com. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed
On 19/4/2011, at 8:23am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... I'm trying # emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta. If you're installing this for the first time then there's no need for the --update. I don't know that --deep is good practice, either. What are you trying to achieve? It fails at glib-perl-1.223, since it can't find ExtUtils::Depends and ExtUtils::PkgConfig. Here is the relevant section from the build log: ... Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found. ExtUtils::Depends not installed ExtUtils::PkgConfig not installed Google search for this error message: http://tinyurl.com/6b5hbp7 3rd hit: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344557 Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:31, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: This is way OT, but this list is such a great resource I suspect the advice gotten here will be more to the point. ( I have posted to a network hardware group as well) I've bumped my home lan router to a gigabit from the old 10/100 (NETGEAR FVS318). I made the move for the gigabit lan ports mainly. That is, I was happy with other aspects of the old router. I ended up with a cisco RVS4000 v2. The cisco solved the gigabit problem with 4 lan ports and even a gigabit on the Internet port... (which is probably not really doing any thing on a cable connection). And it wasn't hideously expensive ($112.91). I could have solved the problem with gigabit switches behind the router for lan usage, just as well, and may go to that yet, and move back to the old NETGEAR router. But somehow I expected the cisco to be something that was `excitingly' new and fun to play with. I'm disappointed in the cisco so far as logging is concerned. The logs give only bare information like this: Mar 10 10:24:21 - [Firewall Log-PORT SCAN] TCP Packet - 60.173.11.56 -- 98.217.231.32 Mar 10 10:24:21 - [Firewall Log-PORT SCAN] TCP Packet - 60.173.11.56 -- 98.217.231.32 [...] No mention of which port is involved. Not only on port scans but ports are never reported. And of course if you wanted to pursue any of it by way of google, you'd need the port number. The Old Netgear sent logs like this (wrapped for mail): Sat, 2007-07-28 12:00:11 - TCP packet - Source: 161.170.244.20 - Destination: 70.131.83.195 - [Invalid sequence number received with Reset, dropping packet Src 443 Dst 1385 from WAN] --- - ---=--- - I went for the cisco instead of a newer `gigabit' NETGEAR after seeing several bad reviews about them. And I just assumed the cisco would have as good or better other features. Another little problem is that the Cicso had reached its end of life and was reported as such by cisco, well before I bought it. But of course, retailers (not cisco) don't bother to give that kind of info, but the result is that a kind of blackball list that was part of the deal is no longer kept up to date. So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing. Have you checked out Mikrotik's RB750G? 5 GbE ports: http://routerboard.com/pricelist/download_file.php?file_id=256 Mikrotik OS is Linux-based, the firewall is Netfilter-based, and it's Lua-scriptable. Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: ... So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing. Consider OpenWRT. You can run it on something like the Netgear WNR2000, the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, or something even cheaper if you don't need wifi. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
on 04/19/2011 11:04 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script? My guess is that the script would be something like the following: = #!/bin/sh # emerge --sync emerge -uDNf world = That's the gist of it, although it also emails the output from emerge -pvDN world, so I can see what needs to be done. It runs a few other bits, like glsa-check. Neil, do you mind posting it (after changing any private bits to generic)?
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:04:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script? My guess is that the script would be something like the following: = #!/bin/sh # emerge --sync emerge -uDNf world = That's the gist of it, although it also emails the output from emerge -pvDN world, so I can see what needs to be done. It runs a few other bits, like glsa-check. Like the following? = #!/bin/sh # /bin/mkdir /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync /usr/bin/layman -S /usr/bin/eix-sync /usr/bin/glsa-check -d $(/usr/bin/glsa-check -t all) /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_glsa.log /bin/mail -e -s Portage Sync [GLSA-log] memyselfa...@example.org /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_glsa.log /bin/rm /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_glsa.log /usr/bin/emerge -pvauD --newuse world /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_emerge.log /bin/mail -e -s Portage Sync [EMERGE-list] memyselfa...@example.org /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_emerge.log /bin/rm /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_emerge.log /bin/rmdir /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync = In the above script, I put an empty line between each command for readability. This is what I run on my system. -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glib-perl-1.223. PkgConfig and Depends not installed
Hi, Stroller. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 19/4/2011, at 8:23am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... I'm trying # emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta. If you're installing this for the first time then there's no need for the --update. I don't know that --deep is good practice, either. What are you trying to achieve? To update my first installation of xfce from ~February 2010. Maybe it would have been better to omit the --deep to begin with. It fails at glib-perl-1.223, since it can't find ExtUtils::Depends and ExtUtils::PkgConfig. Here is the relevant section from the build log: ... Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found. ExtUtils::Depends not installed ExtUtils::PkgConfig not installed Google search for this error message: http://tinyurl.com/6b5hbp7 3rd hit: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344557 Thanks. perl-cleaner did the job on this bug. :-) Stroller. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: ... So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing. Consider OpenWRT. You can run it on something like the Netgear WNR2000, the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, or something even cheaper if you don't need wifi. I have WZR-HP-G300NH (running DD-WRT), if you don't plan on using wifi it would be great. The wifi is really unstable and I couldn't recommend this device if you're a heavy wifi user, but the wired portion works great, the device itself is by far the fastest I've ever owned, and it has a USB port so you can attach external storage in case you want to use it as a server, too. If your wifi users are limited to web browsing/email it would probably be okay for that, but if you do anything with persistent open connections (ssh, gaming, streaming movies) then you'll quickly pull your hair out in frustration at the constant wifi stalls and disconnects. The good news about the bad wifi is that the constant negative reviews and dissatisfied customers have forced the price down really low, I got mine for about $50. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500, Dale wrote: I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the problem. You'd need to emerge -p world for that, and setting USE flags on the command line for that is even worse. I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes. But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, because it doesn't attempt to emerge the package that failed. As a test it fails. Then I guess your mileage may vary then. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:06:29 Alex Schuster wrote: Nils Andresen writes: I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - sounds interesting... Since there is no News after 2003 I did not try to install... (need a vm first...) Does anyone know about the project? Is it dead? Probably. But have a look at: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin Wonko I also recall this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/234159 Not sure how far that guy got with it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin
Mick writes: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:06:29 Alex Schuster wrote: Nils Andresen writes: I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - sounds interesting... Since there is no News after 2003 I did not try to install... (need a vm first...) Does anyone know about the project? Is it dead? Probably. But have a look at: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin I also recall this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/234159 Not sure how far that guy got with it. He was somewhat successful in emerging @system, then he wrote the wiki article :) Wonko
[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed
On 04/17/2011 05:32 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: On 17 April 2011 16:14, walt w41...@gmail.com mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/2011 11:38 AM, Carlos Sura wrote: But, trying as a normal user, isn't working and I dont have any clue about what is making this problem, there is no log or error to trace. So, I've unistalled libreoffice, and installed again, but... Isn't working yet... I'm not really sure what's this problem, since I don't have any clue or any idea to trace this error. Try strace this way (as normal user): $strace -f -o outputfile /usr/bin/libreoffice The -f flag allows strace to follow as the shell-script starts the real binary executable. Look through 'outputfile' for messages that look fatal :) Hello Walt, thank you for your answer This is the paste: http://tinypaste.com/dde0e1 The trace clearly shows a segfault, which is what you would expect given how the program behaves -- but I can't tell what's causing it. Maybe someone else can tell us. I can suggest a few things to check, though. I'd try moving or deleting your ~/.libreoffice directory to see if something in there is corrupted. If LO wants to import old settings from OO try saying no. I notice you're using iced-tea for java. Have you used java-config-2 to make sure it's all set up correctly? Note that the java settings in LO need to be edited by hand if you change java versions :(Dumb, but doesn't cause a segfault for me.) Are you running python-3 instead of python-2? Do you get the same segfault by running /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin directly? Good idea to create a new (ordinary) user account so you can try failing programs with a completely fresh environment -- not at all the same as running something as root, of course, and very safe if you use a strong password for the new user. Out of ideas for the moment.
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes. But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, because it doesn't attempt to emerge the package that failed. As a test it fails. Then I guess your mileage may vary then. Oh no. Emerging one package to see how another package emerges will give exactly the same result every time, not an inch of variation :( -- Neil Bothwick He who laughs last thinks slowest! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:59 on Tuesday 19 April 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes. But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, because it doesn't attempt to emerge the package that failed. As a test it fails. Then I guess your mileage may vary then. Oh no. Emerging one package to see how another package emerges will give exactly the same result every time, not an inch of variation :( You're forgetting about what the cosmic rays, solar flares and quarks clear across the universe can do -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:15:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Oh no. Emerging one package to see how another package emerges will give exactly the same result every time, not an inch of variation :( You're forgetting about what the cosmic rays, solar flares and quarks clear across the universe can do I'm not that daft, those are all in package.mask! -- Neil Bothwick Approx. 1 in 36000 people will break a leg within 3 weeks of reading this post signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:59 on Tuesday 19 April 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes. But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, because it doesn't attempt to emerge the package that failed. As a test it fails. Then I guess your mileage may vary then. Oh no. Emerging one package to see how another package emerges will give exactly the same result every time, not an inch of variation :( You're forgetting about what the cosmic rays, solar flares and quarks clear across the universe can do Yep. It's not like we haven't seen portage do some odd things before either. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Auto-Rebuild md RAID Arrays?
Hello All, I am in the research phase of building a Gentoo-based backup/NAS target using md software RAID or (maybe) btrfs or zfs. One thing that I am not finding much info about is any facility for automatically rebuilding an array when a new, matching drive is inserted. At this stage, the plan is to use four identical drives in a RAID10-style setup. Is any here aware of the right way to configure this? Thanks, -Andy
Re: [gentoo-user] win key takes me from X to VT
2011/4/18 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com El día 18 de abril de 2011 00:01, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com escribió: Try to reset all shortcuts with: setxkbmap -option It doesn't change anything. The problem starts in kdm, before loging in, so it's nothing specific to a given user account. Oh, I forgot, it is nothing specific to kdm either. What I meant above is that it happens since I enter X. Or rather, since this is the default behavior in the console, we could more correctly say that it *continues* happening when I enter X, where it should not happen. I tested the lxde login manager and it has the same problem. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella What X drivers you have in your make.conf? Kfir
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!
things like that. I also need to find a decent PDF viewer, and a decent jpeg viewer. I use evince for PDFs and Gqview for photos. Kfir
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo guest vm - vlan support kills eth0
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: If i enable 802.1q kernel support in a gentoo vmware guest and reboot (even as a module which is not loaded), eth0 is no longer available. (ifconfig -a shows nothing). Is this expected? What is the driver you use for eth0? Kfir
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c Currently merging 321 out of 368 * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 seconds. ETA: any time now. This is my Atom N270 LAN server box. I remember compiling LFS on P100. It took a week to compile X ;) at the end I had Xinerama working ;-P I got a very old Compaq rig with quad 200Mhz CPUs and 128Mbs of ram. I have always wondered how long it would take to compile OOo on that thing. 12 hours to compile a browser does take patience. I hope you don't have a power failure right at the end. o_O How long does it take to open it when it gets done? Seconds? Minutes? Dale :-) :-) Assuming a reasonable 1GB ram on the box (pretty well standard to low with an Atom), and considering what my netbook does (the same single core 1.6GHz with HT turned on for responsiveness in my case), about 2-3 seconds... but then I'm on a little SSD too. I should admit my netbook's running Debian at the moment, though. Didn't want to abuse the SSD too much with writes, and it's tedious to install things through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server development system lately) I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy I got 16Gbs in my rig and I mounted portages work directory on tmpfs, it was actually slower. That is likely a good idea to keep from wearing out the SSD but it doesn't seem to make anything compile faster. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:30:00 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: I use evince for PDFs and Gqview for photos. Gqview is no longer in development. Try Geeqie, an active fork of Gqview. -- Neil Bothwick The word 'Windows' is a word out of an old dialect of the Apaches. It means: 'White man staring through glass-screen onto an hourglass...') signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:50 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: ... So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing. Consider OpenWRT. You can run it on something like the Netgear WNR2000, the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, or something even cheaper if you don't need wifi. I have WZR-HP-G300NH (running DD-WRT), if you don't plan on using wifi it would be great. The wifi is really unstable and I couldn't recommend this device if you're a heavy wifi user, but the wired portion works great, the device itself is by far the fastest I've ever owned, and it has a USB port so you can attach external storage in case you want to use it as a server, too. If your wifi users are limited to web browsing/email it would probably be okay for that, but if you do anything with persistent open connections (ssh, gaming, streaming movies) then you'll quickly pull your hair out in frustration at the constant wifi stalls and disconnects. The good news about the bad wifi is that the constant negative reviews and dissatisfied customers have forced the price down really low, I got mine for about $50. :) I have this device and am using Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std - its been totally stable since I dumped the buffalo firmware. My son plays windoze online games and I often move large files around as well as stream mythtv across it - no problems at all. Until I started powering the systems down at night (power charges went up :) it would stay up for over a month at a time and it was never a crash as to why it was restarted - usually power, or reconfiguration. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-Rebuild md RAID Arrays?
On 04/19/11 17:05, Andrew Wilkinson wrote: Hello All, I am in the research phase of building a Gentoo-based backup/NAS target using md software RAID or (maybe) btrfs or zfs. One thing that I am not finding much info about is any facility for automatically rebuilding an array when a new, matching drive is inserted. At this stage, the plan is to use four identical drives in a RAID10-style setup. Is any here aware of the right way to configure this? mdadm expects you to know the drive name (e.g. /dev/sdX) of the drive you'd like to operate on. If you are real confident, a) in your scripting abilities b) that the new drive will have the same name as the replaced drive then you could write a script that removes all failed drives on startup (there's an mdadm --manage command that does that) and adds the new ones in their place. I probably wouldn't risk it unless you're going to mail the box to Alaska and it would be a great inconvenience to do manually. If someone accidentally switches two SATA cables your script could wind up doing some damage. Btrfs and ZFS I can't speak to.
[gentoo-user] kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1 fails to install
I just installed python 7 on an x86 box. I switched to it and now
running revdep-rebuild which is asking for a number of packages to be
reinstalled. It fails on kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1:
===
-- Gentoo configuration
Build type Gentoo
Install path/usr
Compiler flags:
C -O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mmmx
-pipe -Wno-long-long -std=iso9899:1990 -Wundef -Wcast-align
-Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W
-Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wformat-security
-Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-common
C++ -O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mmmx
-pipe -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -ansi -Wundef -Wcast-align
-Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wformat-security
-fno-exceptions -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -fno-check-new -fno-common
-Woverloaded-virtual -fno-threadsafe-statics -fvisibility=hidden
-fvisibility-inlines-hidden
Linker flags:
Executable -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
Module -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--fatal-warnings
-Wl,--no-undefined -lc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
Shared -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--fatal-warnings
-Wl,--no-undefined -lc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to:
/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1/work/pykde4-4.4.5_build
Source configured.
Compiling source in
/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1/work/pykde4-4.4.5 ...
Working in BUILD_DIR:
/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1/work/pykde4-4.4.5_build
make -j1
Source compiled.
Test phase [not enabled]: kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1
Install pykde4-4.4.5-r1 into
/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1/image/ category kde-base
Working in BUILD_DIR:
/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1/work/pykde4-4.4.5_build
make -j1 DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1/image/ install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
emake failed
* ERROR: kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1 failed (install phase):
* died running make install, base_src_install
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_install
* environment, line 6807: Called kde4-meta_src_install
* environment, line 4240: Called kde4-base_src_install
* environment, line 3845: Called cmake-utils_src_install
* environment, line 1912: Called _execute_optionaly 'src_install'
* environment, line 861: Called enable_cmake-utils_src_install
* environment, line 2236: Called base_src_install
* environment, line 1563: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake DESTDIR=${D} $@ install || die died running make
install, $FUNCNAME;
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Why is this happening?
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Regards,
Mick
