[gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.
Dear all, I'd really like to switch to or at least test Gnome 3, but not the fallback version. But that's everything I get. Running /usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper gives me the clue: gnome-session-is-accelerated: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small. Searching for it in the internet is not very helpful, just some Spanish Debian mailing list entries. The Gentoo Gnome upgrade guide is not helpful as well and I did everything according to this guide, i.e. (1) I'm using open source xserver driver x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel with VIDEO_CARDS=intel and mesa with use of video_cards_intel. (2) Mesa is built with gallium and it is enables using eselect. (3) direct rendering is enabled: # glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes You can find my emerge --info here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/514796/ BTW, VGA controller is according to lspci just VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) and the processor is Intel(R) Core(TM) i3. My question is, whether it is possible to increase this GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE or not and if so, how. Thank you very much in advance for your help. Kind regards, der Max
Re: [gentoo-user] binutils failed to compile
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi, Hello, after update binutil receives a patch from gentoo. The following compilations failes: ... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: yes: No such file or directory ...J It seems, that yes is missed. Whatever this means... Best regards, mcc It turned out to be a bug in the ebuild scripts. If you re-sync now all should be well. What impressed me was that Gentoo devs had confirmed, generalised and fixed it, all within 40 minutes of it being reported. Not bad eh? :-/ Ted.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2011, 10:11:04 schrieb Maximilian Bräutigam: My question is, whether it is possible to increase this GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE or not and if so, how. GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is limited by your video-card. Afaik, there's no way to increase it as it's given by the HW. What does glxinfo -l | grep MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE give? Thank you very much in advance for your help. Kind regards, der Max Best, Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:11 +0100, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: (2) Mesa is built with gallium and it is enables using eselect. AFAIK intel drivers didn't work (well) with gallium, at least I checked[1]. Anyway you might want to try the classic. Works for me. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=ODE0OQ
[gentoo-user] [OT] max size of bash variable value
Hi all, Sorry for this off topic post, but I've been asked how/where to find maximum size of bash variable value. I've search and found 4M, 1k, 4k ... . But didn't found how/where this limit is set. I know, that for C it's e.g. sizeof(int), but for bash? Thanks for help Pat Freehosting PIPNI - http://www.pipni.cz/
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] max size of bash variable value
Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2011, 13:19:56 schrieb pat: Hi all, Sorry for this off topic post, but I've been asked how/where to find maximum size of bash variable value. I've search and found 4M, 1k, 4k ... . But didn't found how/where this limit is set. I know, that for C it's e.g. sizeof(int), but for bash? afaik you can query that value with getconf ARG_MAX How to set it, I have no idea. Thanks for help Pat Best, Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard activity in gnome
Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2011, 21:03 -0500 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: I can't get startx to work at all, here is what I get when I try it. xauth: file /home/covici/.serverauth.21638 does not exist X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-11-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linux ccs.covici.com 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 #3 SMP Sat Apr 9 23:17:27 EDT 2011 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.32-gentoo ro root=100 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root udev video=uvesafb:1280x1024 speakup.synth=spkout vmalloc=256M dolvm Build Date: 27 November 2011 05:14:42PM Current version of pixman: 0.24.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Nov 29 21:00:16 2011 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [dix] Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! which: no keychain in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/covici/bin) /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 59: twm: command not found /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 63: exec: xterm: not found xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. I am not sure why this is happening. You don't have twm and xterm installed. But that's just the default to start for X11. Edit ~/.xinitrc and put only the following in it: exec gnome-session Make sure that you have dbus started.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] max size of bash variable value
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:18:35 +0100, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2011, 13:19:56 schrieb pat: Hi all, Sorry for this off topic post, but I've been asked how/where to find maximum size of bash variable value. I've search and found 4M, 1k, 4k ... . But didn't found how/where this limit is set. I know, that for C it's e.g. sizeof(int), but for bash? afaik you can query that value with getconf ARG_MAX How to set it, I have no idea. Thanks for help Pat Best, Michael Thanks a lot that's exactly they looking for ... I hope :-) Thanks Pat Freehosting PIPNI - http://www.pipni.cz/
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 2
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 17:47, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: - 8 snip 3) In the bootloader append line, include init=/sbin/linuxrc where the file /sbin/linuxrc consists of *AT LEAST*... #!/sbin/busybox ash mount -t proc proc /proc mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys exec /sbin/init This should be enough for most users. If you have an unusual setup, you may need additional stuff in there. If you're using lilo remember to re-run lilo to implement the changes. - 8 snip BTW, which busybox returns /bin/busybox instead of /sbin/busybox In other words, all this time /sbin/linuxrc *didn't* run on my boxen, but the kernel is smart enough to run with the defaults, whatever that is (I forgot to write down the exact error message in dmesg). After fixing the hashbang line, I can now insert the line mount -o remount,rw / at the 2nd line... ... and I no longer have the two red asterisks! Yay!! Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ • LOPSA Member #15248 • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard activity in gnome
Aljosha Papsch papsch...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2011, 21:03 -0500 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: I can't get startx to work at all, here is what I get when I try it. xauth: file /home/covici/.serverauth.21638 does not exist X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-11-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linux ccs.covici.com 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 #3 SMP Sat Apr 9 23:17:27 EDT 2011 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.32-gentoo ro root=100 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root udev video=uvesafb:1280x1024 speakup.synth=spkout vmalloc=256M dolvm Build Date: 27 November 2011 05:14:42PM Current version of pixman: 0.24.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Nov 29 21:00:16 2011 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [dix] Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! which: no keychain in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/covici/bin) /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 59: twm: command not found /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 63: exec: xterm: not found xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. I am not sure why this is happening. You don't have twm and xterm installed. But that's just the default to start for X11. Edit ~/.xinitrc and put only the following in it: exec gnome-session Make sure that you have dbus started. OK, it did seem to start, but sound is disabled and it started orca several times -- and orca is my screen reader, so I could not tell much from that. Here is what came through the terminal: xauth: file /home/covici/.serverauth.28940 does not exist X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-11-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linux ccs.covici.com 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 #3 SMP Sat Apr 9 23:17:27 EDT 2011 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.32-gentoo ro root=100 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root udev video=uvesafb:1280x1024 speakup.synth=spkout vmalloc=256M dolvm Build Date: 27 November 2011 05:14:42PM Current version of pixman: 0.24.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Wed Nov 30 09:56:27 2011 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [dix] Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj/gpg:0:1 GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj/gpg:0:1 GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj/gpg:0:1 GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj/gpg:0:1 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-5SzLWj/ssh ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject) Window manager warning: Failed to load theme Clearlooks: Failed to find a valid file for theme Clearlooks Unable to open desktop file epiphany.desktop for panel launcher Unable to open desktop file evolution.desktop for panel launcher Failed to play sound: Sound disabled Initializing nautilus-gdu extension (nautilus:29042): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Full disk encryption
Hello! I would like to set up an encrypted partition for my /home directories on Gentoo Hardened. Which approach do you recommend? Thanks, Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:19:18 +0100, czernitko wrote: I would like to set up an encrypted partition for my /home directories on Gentoo Hardened. Which approach do you recommend? Do you want a single encrypted filesystem, or separately encrypted home directories for each user. for the former, emerge cryptsetup, use it to create the encrypted block device and set it up in /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt. For individually encrypted home directories, using ecryptfs on top of a standard filesystem, as used by Ubuntu, is probably the best way. -- Neil Bothwick You want us to do WHAT? - Ancient Chinese wall engineer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption
Hello, thanks for your response, Neil! As for dmcrypt usage, what do you think about truecrypt or pgp whole disk encryption as alternatives to dmcrypt? I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it, and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I would like to keep it that way if possible. Peter 2011/11/30 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:19:18 +0100, czernitko wrote: I would like to set up an encrypted partition for my /home directories on Gentoo Hardened. Which approach do you recommend? Do you want a single encrypted filesystem, or separately encrypted home directories for each user. for the former, emerge cryptsetup, use it to create the encrypted block device and set it up in /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt. For individually encrypted home directories, using ecryptfs on top of a standard filesystem, as used by Ubuntu, is probably the best way. -- Neil Bothwick You want us to do WHAT? - Ancient Chinese wall engineer.
Re: [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption
Hello Peter, dmcrypt works perfectly without initrd as long as you do not encrypt the root filesystem. So for encrypted home directories, you can just create and use a LUKS volume with dmcrypt (AFAIK the fastest and easy-to-use way). Regarding other techniques like gpg or truecrypt, you should keep in mind, that dmcrypt works directly in the kernelspace, so it may be a lot faster with the same encryption strength (but it don't know any benchmark about that). Regards, Felix Am 30.11.2011 16:40, schrieb czernitko: Hello, thanks for your response, Neil! As for dmcrypt usage, what do you think about truecrypt or pgp whole disk encryption as alternatives to dmcrypt? I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it, and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I would like to keep it that way if possible. Peter 2011/11/30 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:19:18 +0100, czernitko wrote: I would like to set up an encrypted partition for my /home directories on Gentoo Hardened. Which approach do you recommend? Do you want a single encrypted filesystem, or separately encrypted home directories for each user. for the former, emerge cryptsetup, use it to create the encrypted block device and set it up in /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt. For individually encrypted home directories, using ecryptfs on top of a standard filesystem, as used by Ubuntu, is probably the best way. -- Neil Bothwick You want us to do WHAT? - Ancient Chinese wall engineer.
Re: [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption
Ok, it seems I'll stick with dmcrypt using http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/DM-Crypt. Thanks for your responses guys! Peter 2011/11/30 Felix Kuperjans fe...@desaster-games.com Hello Peter, dmcrypt works perfectly without initrd as long as you do not encrypt the root filesystem. So for encrypted home directories, you can just create and use a LUKS volume with dmcrypt (AFAIK the fastest and easy-to-use way). Regarding other techniques like gpg or truecrypt, you should keep in mind, that dmcrypt works directly in the kernelspace, so it may be a lot faster with the same encryption strength (but it don't know any benchmark about that). Regards, Felix . Am 30.11.2011 16:40, schrieb czernitko: Hello, thanks for your response, Neil! As for dmcrypt usage, what do you think about truecrypt or pgp whole disk encryption as alternatives to dmcrypt? I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it, and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I would like to keep it that way if possible. Peter 2011/11/30 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:19:18 +0100, czernitko wrote: I would like to set up an encrypted partition for my /home directories on Gentoo Hardened. Which approach do you recommend? Do you want a single encrypted filesystem, or separately encrypted home directories for each user. for the former, emerge cryptsetup, use it to create the encrypted block device and set it up in /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt. For individually encrypted home directories, using ecryptfs on top of a standard filesystem, as used by Ubuntu, is probably the best way. -- Neil Bothwick You want us to do WHAT? - Ancient Chinese wall engineer.
[gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
czernitko wrote: I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it, and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I would like to keep it that way if possible. You don't need an initramfs but you might want to reconsider not using one at some point. I avoided them for a long time but when I wanted to do whole disk encrypted I learned how to make my own (not particularly difficult) and later started using dracut which basically just works.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Jack Byer wrote: czernitko wrote: I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it, and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I would like to keep it that way if possible. You don't need an initramfs but you might want to reconsider not using one at some point. I avoided them for a long time but when I wanted to do whole disk encrypted I learned how to make my own (not particularly difficult) and later started using dracut which basically just works. Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think. The unofficial wiki. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Yup, establishing encrypted partition for /home was easy as a pie using cryptsetup. I was considering using truecrypt as it offers multiplatform support, so I could access encrypted partition even from my dualbooted windoze, but I didn't want to put effort into something not as well documented (how-toed) as dmcrypt. As for initrd, I believe it has a lot of advantages, but as long as I can avoid it, I don't see any reason why to spend time learning that stuff and making my kernel deployment more complicated. I know that one day I will have to learn that stuff. But as far as it is not today, it makes my day even better :) Thanks for all your responses! Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:31:00 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think. That worked for me (dracut didn't). If it fails, make sure you have set ity to drop you into a rescue shell as described on the wiki. Adding a few echo and ls commands to the init script helps too. -- Neil Bothwick Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Am Mittwoch, den 30.11.2011, 19:32 +0100 schrieb czernitko: Yup, establishing encrypted partition for /home was easy as a pie using cryptsetup. I was considering using truecrypt as it offers multiplatform support, so I could access encrypted partition even from my dualbooted windoze, but I didn't want to put effort into something not as well documented (how-toed) as dmcrypt. You can use FreeOTFE[0] for that. I don't use Windows, so I can't tell whether you need to install the filesystem driver for Windows. [0] http://www.freeotfe.org/
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Full disk encryption
Dale wrote: Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think. The unofficial wiki. I had some difficulties because the way I was doing things before with my homebrew solution was... non-standard. The problem areas that I remember from the transition were: setting the USE flags correctly to build the modules I needed, initially confusing dracutmodules and add_dracutmodules in dracut.conf (actually you probably don't even need to edit that file at all), making sure to have a sane /etc/fstab line for the root file system and passing the right root= kernel command line. root=UUID=... works the best in my experience.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:31:00 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think. That worked for me (dracut didn't). If it fails, make sure you have set ity to drop you into a rescue shell as described on the wiki. Adding a few echo and ls commands to the init script helps too. I did. It failed so badly even the rescue didn't work. I did get some flashing lights and introduced to the reset button tho. We all know what happened the last time I had to hit the reset button. :/ Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
I wonder whether it is posible to simply resize the dm-crypt encrypted partition? Or do I have to create new, bigger partition with required size and move the data? Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:31:00 -0600, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: [snip] I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think. The unofficial wiki. I posted a couple of months ago that you should watch this space for a small and simple initramfs solution. That still applies. I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large (32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc. This sucks, so I need to patch the Makefile(s) to build a more sensible set of executables for an initramfs. All of the code I have written myself compiles and links statically, typically using klibc, so my finished code is tiny. I haven't been working on this for a couple of months now, because the need for it is not really pressing. The assertion that udev would require /usr and /var (plus the kitchen sink) really soon is unfounded, at least for those of us who run more elderly hardware. Anyhow, when I'm finished there will be a zsh script that will build an initramfs image, and even install it to /boot, with a single command. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:19:51 +0100, czernitko wrote: I wonder whether it is posible to simply resize the dm-crypt encrypted partition? Or do I have to create new, bigger partition with required size and move the data? Enlarge the partition then use cryptsetup resize to enlarge the encrypted device (man cryptsetup has the details). Then resize the filesystem to fit. -- Neil Bothwick Keyboard: (n.) a device used by programmers to write software for a mouse or joystick and by operators for playing games such as 'word processing.' signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:28:28 +, David W Noon wrote: I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large (32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc. Why do you need e2fsprogs on an initramfs? -- Neil Bothwick mpeg@11.. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:47:33 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:28:28 +, David W Noon wrote: I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large (32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc. Why do you need e2fsprogs on an initramfs? One needs e2fsck to do a preen prior to mounting the required volume(s). -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:07:35 +, David W Noon wrote: Why do you need e2fsprogs on an initramfs? One needs e2fsck to do a preen prior to mounting the required volume(s). Why not mount root read-only, just like in a non-initramfs system? Any e2fsck commands will be run during the boot runlevel, before remounting root rw. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 21: Now, then ... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount
On 11/27/2011 04:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have something like 10 USB drives here at home. 9 of those drives works perfectly in 5 machines in the house. 1 drive works when attached to 4 of the machines but produces a similar error when attached to my most expensive i7-980x machine. I've never determined what causes it and have sort of decided it's just some weird incompatibility... - Mark Mark, I swapped to a very short USB cable to connect the drives to my system. It cured the problem here. Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On 11/27/2011 04:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have something like 10 USB drives here at home. 9 of those drives works perfectly in 5 machines in the house. 1 drive works when attached to 4 of the machines but produces a similar error when attached to my most expensive i7-980x machine. I've never determined what causes it and have sort of decided it's just some weird incompatibility... - Mark Mark, I swapped to a very short USB cable to connect the drives to my system. It cured the problem here. Sean That's good news. Is that the external USB cable or something inside a drive case? I'd suspect something like a slightly suspect USB controller somewhere. Changing the cable probably shifted the electrical parameters on the cable just enough that it started working. I should give that a try here and see if I get so lucky! Cheers, Mark
[gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?
I've got 1 DVD that for some reason fails to rip using Handbrake. I then tried it in dvd::rip and it said it couldn't read the table of contents. However after all of that the DVD plays fine in xine as well as on my DVD player so I doubt there is anything truly wrong with the DVD itself. I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the command line? All the things I'm finding in Google point to dvd::rip or other GUI apps. I tried a simple dd copy, ala dd if=/dev/dvd of=Movie.iso but that fails also. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:26:56 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:07:35 +, David W Noon wrote: Why do you need e2fsprogs on an initramfs? One needs e2fsck to do a preen prior to mounting the required volume(s). Why not mount root read-only, just like in a non-initramfs system? Any e2fsck commands will be run during the boot runlevel, before remounting root rw. Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running inside an initramfs, one cannot load executable content from mount points -- only from within the initramfs. So, while it is perfectly possible to do ls /mnt/root/sbin/e2fsck (assuming the root partition has been mounted ro as /mnt/root), it is not possible to load and execute that program. [And, yes, I have adjusted the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH shell variables to address the program and library directories on the mounted root partition.] After performing a switch_root to the actual root partition, this restriction is lifted. When running without (or with the default) initramfs, the root partition itself becomes the active filesystem, so loading programs from /sbin or /bin and libraries from /lib works as expected. This might be one of Dale's problems, if he was trying to use commands from the root filesystem within the initramfs. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
David W Noon wrote: This might be one of Dale's problems, if he was trying to use commands from the root filesystem within the initramfs. I don't think that was the issue. I had nano, busybox and that was it. Basically, I just wanted it to be able to load enough that it could boot even if /usr and /var was on a separate partition. Nothing real fancy, just the basics. I was going to save the fancy stuff for later. Still, it didn't work. I fixed one error only to have another. The last error, I couldn't find a fix for. I don't even recall what it was now. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've got 1 DVD that for some reason fails to rip using Handbrake. I then tried it in dvd::rip and it said it couldn't read the table of contents. However after all of that the DVD plays fine in xine as well as on my DVD player so I doubt there is anything truly wrong with the DVD itself. I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the command line? All the things I'm finding in Google point to dvd::rip or other GUI apps. I tried a simple dd copy, ala dd if=/dev/dvd of=Movie.iso but that fails also. dvdunauthor /dev/dvd (from media-video/dvdauthor) or vobcopy -m /dev/dvd (from media-video/vobcopy) one of those should do the trick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Stupid question...Would using LZMA and a tarball reduce the size of your initeamfs? ZZ On Nov 30, 2011 7:30 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:26:56 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:07:35 +, David W Noon wrote: Why do you need e2fsprogs on an initramfs? One needs e2fsck to do a preen prior to mounting the required volume(s). Why not mount root read-only, just like in a non-initramfs system? Any e2fsck commands will be run during the boot runlevel, before remounting root rw. Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running inside an initramfs, one cannot load executable content from mount points -- only from within the initramfs. So, while it is perfectly possible to do ls /mnt/root/sbin/e2fsck (assuming the root partition has been mounted ro as /mnt/root), it is not possible to load and execute that program. [And, yes, I have adjusted the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH shell variables to address the program and library directories on the mounted root partition.] After performing a switch_root to the actual root partition, this restriction is lifted. When running without (or with the default) initramfs, the root partition itself becomes the active filesystem, so loading programs from /sbin or /bin and libraries from /lib works as expected. This might be one of Dale's problems, if he was trying to use commands from the root filesystem within the initramfs. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:53:10PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the command line? All the things I'm finding in Google point to dvd::rip or other GUI apps. I tried a simple dd copy, ala dd if=/dev/dvd of=Movie.iso vobcopy comes to mind. And if that fails also, you could try ddrescue and then perhaps vobcopy on the created copy. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. I’m not bothered by dreaming in English. What pisses me off are the subtitles.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:11 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: [snip] Stupid question...Would using LZMA and a tarball reduce the size of your initeamfs? Not really. I am already using gzip -9, and binaries don't compress especially well. Moreover, the archiver *must* be cpio, not tar. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
Greets, I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This is what I need it to be: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes up, I got the originals at least. Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-) Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 07:49:26PM -0600, Dale wrote: I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This is what I need it to be: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes up, I got the originals at least. Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-) Thoughts? I can’t remember right now what graphical environment you use, but for KDE there is KRename. But if you want it quick and efficient, I suggest renameutils. You give it a list of files and it opens $EDITOR containing two columns with the list. The first is the old name, and in the second you can enter the new name. It’s basically a mass renamer for the console, powered by your favorite features of your favorite editor. With the recursive flag -R you can even do what you want for many dirs at once and then insert the Series name using search and replace with regular expressions. But your particular example could be done simply with: cd /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest for i in *.mp4; do mv -n $i Person of Interest - $i; done -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. The advantage of smartness is that one can pretend to be stupid. The opposite is far more difficult. pgpWw8AuFv2mi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
I use the following script to remove parts of downloaded videos, I guess it wont't be hard to figure out how to change it to your needs. It also creates a text file with the name of the file and, expecting it to be a video file, it uses midentify, part of the mplayer package, to read the duration of the video in a form that LibreOffice is able to import directly. #! /bin/bash for i in *unwantedString.??? # it can be a MP4 or a FLV do if [ $i != *unwantedString.??? ] # this checks if the list is empty then j=`echo $i | sed s/\ \-\ unwantedString//` # echo $j mv $i $j fi done for i in *.mp4 *.flv # this removes duplicated file extension do if [ $i != *.mp4 ] [ $i != *.flv ] then j=`echo $i | sed -e s/\.mp4\.mp4/\.mp4/ -e s/\.flv\.flv/\.flv/` # echo $j if [ $i != $j ] then mv $i $j fi fi done if [ -e contents.txt ] then rm contents.txt fi for i in *.mp4 *.flv do if [ $i != *.mp4 ] [ $i != *.flv ] then j=`midentify $i | grep ID_LENGTH | cut -d\= -f 2` k=`echo $i | sed -e s/\.mp4//g -e s/\.flv//g` echo -e $k \\t 00:00:`echo $j | cut -d\. -f1`,`echo $j | cut -d \. -f2` contents.txt fi done Hope it helps Francisco On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Greets, I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This is what I need it to be: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes up, I got the originals at least. Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-) Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
[gentoo-user] Re: CLI DVD copy?
On 2011-11-30, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the command line? All the things I'm finding in Google point to dvd::rip or other GUI apps. I tried a simple dd copy, ala dd if=/dev/dvd of=Movie.iso but that fails also. That will only work with unencrypted DVDs. I use dvdbackup, and it hasn't failed me yet. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
Take a look at rename, Dale.Its usage syntax wasn't obvious to me at first but after using it a few times I got the hang of it.Bill-- Sent from my HP TouchPad which is really braindead when trying not to toppost.On Nov 30, 2011 5:50 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Greets, I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This is what I need it to be: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes up, I got the originals at least. Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-) Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
On Dec 1, 2011 8:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Greets,
I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to
put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the
full path:
/data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4
This is what I need it to be:
/data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1,
Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4
Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file.
They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all
contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \.
Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another directory
if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes
up, I got the originals at least.
Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect
those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-)
Thoughts?
'find' and 'mv' should do the job. With some help from 'dirname' and
'basename'. E. g.
find $PATHTOMOVIES -name *. mp4 -exec mv {} \$(dirname {})/$(basename
$(dirname {})) - $(basename {})
Not tested, though. So you'd better use 'echo' instead of 'mv' for a dry
run.
Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
Sorry, did not read your message to the end. So the sixth line on that script, on your case, instead of: j=`echo $i | sed s/\ \-\ unwantedString//` should be: j=Person of Interest - $i I guess that's it. You will have to open a console at the directory where your movies are in. Francisco On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: I use the following script to remove parts of downloaded videos, I guess it wont't be hard to figure out how to change it to your needs. It also creates a text file with the name of the file and, expecting it to be a video file, it uses midentify, part of the mplayer package, to read the duration of the video in a form that LibreOffice is able to import directly. #! /bin/bash for i in *unwantedString.??? # it can be a MP4 or a FLV do if [ $i != *unwantedString.??? ] # this checks if the list is empty then j=`echo $i | sed s/\ \-\ unwantedString//` # echo $j mv $i $j fi done for i in *.mp4 *.flv # this removes duplicated file extension do if [ $i != *.mp4 ] [ $i != *.flv ] then j=`echo $i | sed -e s/\.mp4\.mp4/\.mp4/ -e s/\.flv\.flv/\.flv/` # echo $j if [ $i != $j ] then mv $i $j fi fi done if [ -e contents.txt ] then rm contents.txt fi for i in *.mp4 *.flv do if [ $i != *.mp4 ] [ $i != *.flv ] then j=`midentify $i | grep ID_LENGTH | cut -d\= -f 2` k=`echo $i | sed -e s/\.mp4//g -e s/\.flv//g` echo -e $k \\t 00:00:`echo $j | cut -d\. -f1`,`echo $j | cut -d \. -f2` contents.txt fi done Hope it helps Francisco On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Greets, I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This is what I need it to be: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes up, I got the originals at least. Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-) Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
On Dec 1, 2011 9:22 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Dec 1, 2011 8:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Greets,
I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot
to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the
full path:
/data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 -
Pilot.mp4
This is what I need it to be:
/data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season
1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4
Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file.
They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all
contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \.
Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another
directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if
it messes up, I got the originals at least.
Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect
those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-)
Thoughts?
'find' and 'mv' should do the job. With some help from 'dirname' and
'basename'. E. g.
find $PATHTOMOVIES -name *. mp4 -exec mv {} \$(dirname
{})/$(basename $(dirname {})) - $(basename {})
Not tested, though. So you'd better use 'echo' instead of 'mv' for a dry
run.
Whoopsies. I certainly must've made some mistakes with the escaping
there...
Oh well, just write a short script containing this:
mv $1 $(dirname $1)/$(basename $(dirname $1)) - $(basename $1)
and feed that script (after chmod +x, of course) to the -exec part of
find, e.g.
find ... -exec scriptname.sh {} \;
Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 07:49:26PM -0600, Dale wrote: I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This is what I need it to be: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes up, I got the originals at least. Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-) Thoughts? I can’t remember right now what graphical environment you use, but for KDE there is KRename. But if you want it quick and efficient, I suggest renameutils. You give it a list of files and it opens $EDITOR containing two columns with the list. The first is the old name, and in the second you can enter the new name. It’s basically a mass renamer for the console, powered by your favorite features of your favorite editor. With the recursive flag -R you can even do what you want for many dirs at once and then insert the Series name using search and replace with regular expressions. But your particular example could be done simply with: cd /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest for i in *.mp4; do mv -n $i Person of Interest - $i; done Oh heck yea. Krename did a wonderful job. It renamed them in place. I tested it on a small directory with just a few files at first. This is cool. I didn't know KDE had this and it wasn't installed either. No grep, gawk or sed in the command line for this? Wow. I thought there would be at least a couple of those in there. lol Thanks for the info. I didn't even think there would be a GUI for this. o_O Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Full disk encryption
David W Noon wrote:
I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large
(32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as
it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc.
This sucks, so I need to patch the Makefile(s) to build a more sensible
set of executables for an initramfs.
All of the code I have written myself compiles and links statically,
typically using klibc, so my finished code is tiny.
I haven't been working on this for a couple of months now, because the
need for it is not really pressing. The assertion that udev would
require /usr and /var (plus the kitchen sink) really soon is unfounded,
at least for those of us who run more elderly hardware.
Anyhow, when I'm finished there will be a zsh script that will build an
initramfs image, and even install it to /boot, with a single command.
When I made my own initramfs I was operating under the RAM and disk space
are cheap assumption and did it the easiest way possible:
I included the *entirety* of /etc, /bin, /lib{32,64} and /sbin
Then I wrote a small bash script for /init
Throw the kernel and initramfs on a USB stick, install GRUB on said USB
stick and call it a day. If anything breaks, well I've got all the command
like repair tools included so it's no big deal to fix as long as the bash
script sends me to a command line if it has any problems.
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CLI DVD copy?
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-11-30, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the command line? All the things I'm finding in Google point to dvd::rip or other GUI apps. I tried a simple dd copy, ala dd if=/dev/dvd of=Movie.iso but that fails also. That will only work with unencrypted DVDs. I use dvdbackup, and it hasn't failed me yet. -- Grant Thanks to all three of you for your answers. Seeing them I remember Neil suggesting vobcopy when I was first looking into ripping DVDs to play on my Kindle. I need to study all the suggestions. If it wasn't clear, being that this problem with handbrake crashing occurs when it attempts to rip a physical CD I'll also want to determine how to recreate a new physical CD that causes the same problem so that I can evaluate fixes to handbrake whenever they come along. Again, thanks for your inputs. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
Dale wrote: Greets, I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This is what I need it to be: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes up, I got the originals at least. Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-) Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) I got them all changed, about 250 or so of them. Thanks to *all* for the replies. I got to save and review some of the command line ones too. May learn something. Sort of reminds me of my old Vic-20. O_O Thanks much. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Full disk encryption
Jack Byer wrote: Dale wrote: Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think. The unofficial wiki. I had some difficulties because the way I was doing things before with my homebrew solution was... non-standard. The problem areas that I remember from the transition were: setting the USE flags correctly to build the modules I needed, initially confusing dracutmodules and add_dracutmodules in dracut.conf (actually you probably don't even need to edit that file at all), making sure to have a sane /etc/fstab line for the root file system and passing the right root= kernel command line. root=UUID=... works the best in my experience. I did change the USE flags for the packages it said to. I think some things have changed or something, maybe openrc?, and the script I was copying and working with just didn't work. Maybe it needs updating or something. I'm hoping to see a up-to-date howto or someone will post a good up-to-date howto for dracut. Something even a idiot could follow. I think it will work for me then. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Full disk encryption
Dale wrote: Jack Byer wrote: Dale wrote: Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think. The unofficial wiki. I had some difficulties because the way I was doing things before with my homebrew solution was... non-standard. The problem areas that I remember from the transition were: setting the USE flags correctly to build the modules I needed, initially confusing dracutmodules and add_dracutmodules in dracut.conf (actually you probably don't even need to edit that file at all), making sure to have a sane /etc/fstab line for the root file system and passing the right root= kernel command line. root=UUID=... works the best in my experience. I did change the USE flags for the packages it said to. I think some things have changed or something, maybe openrc?, and the script I was copying and working with just didn't work. Maybe it needs updating or something. I'm hoping to see a up-to-date howto or someone will post a good up-to-date howto for dracut. Something even a idiot could follow. I think it will work for me then. lol Dale :-) :-) I can tell you how mine is set up. emerge -v dracut These are the packages that would be merged, in order: [ebuild R ~] sys-kernel/dracut-013-r2 USE=-debug (-selinux) DRACUT_MODULES=btrfs crypt lvm -biosdevname -caps -crypt-gpg -dmraid - dmsquash-live -gensplash -iscsi -livenet -mdraid -multipath -nbd -nfs - plymouth -syslog -xen 0 kB I don't use any of the other modules so all I enable are btrfs, crypt and lvm. /etc/dracut.conf has no changes from the default except for the line: add_dracutmodules+=crypt dm lvm but I'm about 80% sure even that isn't necessary and you could just leave the default values alone. One of these days I'll get around to testing that. I make an initramfs with the following command: dracut --lzma hostname.dracut.lzma kernel version (obviously change --lzma to whatever type of compression your kernel expects to use and name the file whatever you want. Make sure to include the kernel version just like it appears in your /lib/modules/ directory so that dracut includes the correct kernel modules) Then I make grub.conf look something like this: root (hd0,0) kernel /hostname root=UUID=08b00d7f-b633-4c03-98fe-dd5942a8fb7e initrd /hostname.dracut.lzma I like to name my kernels and initramfs files by the hostname of the computer since I have three that I manage but use whatever you want and just make sure you put the right filenames in grub.conf. You can obtain the UUID of your root filesystem by a number of methods, but the easiest is to use ls -l /dev/disks/by-uuid/ That's really all there is to it. Dracut will boot up and load the modules it is compiled with and search through the disks, logical volumes, and dmcrypt containers until it finds a filesystem with the UUID you specify. Once it finds the root filesystem it mounts it with whatever options you've specified in /etc/fstab and then hands control over to OpenRC. If it has the necessary modules (kernel and dracut) and you pass the right root= option then it Just Works.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Full disk encryption
Jack Byer wrote: I can tell you how mine is set up. emerge -v dracut These are the packages that would be merged, in order: [ebuild R ~] sys-kernel/dracut-013-r2 USE=-debug (-selinux) DRACUT_MODULES=btrfs crypt lvm -biosdevname -caps -crypt-gpg -dmraid - dmsquash-live -gensplash -iscsi -livenet -mdraid -multipath -nbd -nfs - plymouth -syslog -xen 0 kB I don't use any of the other modules so all I enable are btrfs, crypt and lvm. /etc/dracut.conf has no changes from the default except for the line: add_dracutmodules+=crypt dm lvm but I'm about 80% sure even that isn't necessary and you could just leave the default values alone. One of these days I'll get around to testing that. I make an initramfs with the following command: dracut --lzmahostname.dracut.lzmakernel version (obviously change --lzma to whatever type of compression your kernel expects to use and name the file whatever you want. Make sure to include the kernel version just like it appears in your /lib/modules/ directory so that dracut includes the correct kernel modules) Then I make grub.conf look something like this: root (hd0,0) kernel /hostname root=UUID=08b00d7f-b633-4c03-98fe-dd5942a8fb7e initrd /hostname.dracut.lzma I like to name my kernels and initramfs files by the hostname of the computer since I have three that I manage but use whatever you want and just make sure you put the right filenames in grub.conf. You can obtain the UUID of your root filesystem by a number of methods, but the easiest is to use ls -l /dev/disks/by-uuid/ That's really all there is to it. Dracut will boot up and load the modules it is compiled with and search through the disks, logical volumes, and dmcrypt containers until it finds a filesystem with the UUID you specify. Once it finds the root filesystem it mounts it with whatever options you've specified in /etc/fstab and then hands control over to OpenRC. If it has the necessary modules (kernel and dracut) and you pass the right root= option then it Just Works. Dale copies to his Important folder I'm going to give this way a shot next time. I'm downloading a lot of TV shows right now so can't reboot very often. Thanks much for posting this tho. This helps me a LOT. With all the time I have on my hands, I really need to learn how to add things to all these wiki sites. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] installing gentoo (multiple OS)
Hello, I need some advise here as I am trying to install gentoo along with different other OS'es including windows. As I am new to this field I would need some guidance as to ho to go about and to know the subtleties between LILO and GRUB. Can anyone help me about this. TIA --SR--
