Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
I know this thread is a few weeks old but it is still highly related. I found this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-google%27s-privacy-policy Maybe it ain't so bad after all. Someone posted it wasn't tho. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined... Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the reason why my company decided to change our webhosting company: Its spidering brought our previous webhosting to its knees... Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:05:20 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My usual routine for doing a global update is emerge -avuND world conf-update emerge -av @preserved-rebuild revdep-rebuild -p -i (then without -p if something is found) emerge -a --depclean view portage logs and do what they say often followed by doing one or more steps again to ensure all is clean Shouldn't revdep-rebuild be ran *after* emerge --depclean? Strictly speaking, yes I suppose it should -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering MySQL Database from EXT4 Formatted Hard Disk ...
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to recover MySQL databases (which were properly shut down) from an EXT4 formatted hard disk. What happened to require the recovery? Which parts of the database server shut down properly, and which didn't? I loaded the SystemRescueCD distro that you can get online and when running TestDisk I can see the partitions but I cannot recover said partitions because it tells me the structure is bad (any options here, by the way?) What kind of partition table was it? With PhotoRec, I can recover parts of the MySQL Database but I cannot get the important *.MYD files because I guess PhotoRec doesn't have the signatures for that type of file. So, any options I have at this point? Probably. Thank you for your time. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-9.0 won't compile
Looks your variable MAKEOPT in make.conf. Decrease the -jX flag for -j1 can solve the problem but your problem it's still strange. It is possible that this comes from a lack of ram. regards, On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'using CFLAGS=-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1 Firefox builds with success for me. gcc is 4.5.3 for me. It's strange. I had a similar problem but it had a bad kernel configuration. When I have this problem it's gcc receive SIGSEV signal. I don't think that you have the same problem like me. I test in a virtual machine and firefox compile with success: CFLAGS are -march=native -pipe -O2 I've not really idea for your problem :/ Thanks everyone for the help with this. I was able to compile gcc-4.5.3-r1 and now it looks like firefox-9.0 will compile if I can keep it from running out of memory. I'm going to compile without -pipe soon and if that doesn't work I've got more RAM on the way. - Grant At first glance firefox uses the arithmetic pointer and Wno-pointer-arith lifts warnings or errors when used. This is what gcc says : error: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic What it gives without this flag and Is there a particular reason for using this one ? I'm having trouble following. I'm using: CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe Should I try with different flags? - Grant Does anyone have any ideas on this? I just completed an emerge -e world so I don't think anything needs to be re-emerged. Everything compiles fine except for gcc-4.5.3-r1 (I'm on gcc-4.3.4) and firefox-9.0: /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-9.0/work/mozilla-release/js/src/jsgcchunk.cpp: In function 'void* MapAlignedPages(size_t, size_t)': /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-9.0/work/mozilla-release/js/src/jsgcchunk.cpp:243: error: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-9.0/work/mozilla-release/js/src/jsgcchunk.cpp:243: error: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic That looks like a change in how the compiler treats bad code, or the introduction of bad code in an updated version of Firefox. The compiler can't sanely do pointer arithmetic without knowing the pointer type. Looks like the version you're compiling with throws an error on that. Are using anything like -Werror and/or -Wall in your CFLAGS? Yes, enabling --Wno-pointer-arith should help.
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering MySQL Database from EXT4 Formatted Hard Disk ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.02.2012 12:02, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to recover MySQL databases (which were properly shut down) from an EXT4 formatted hard disk. What happened to require the recovery? Which parts of the database server shut down properly, and which didn't? I loaded the SystemRescueCD distro that you can get online and when running TestDisk I can see the partitions but I cannot recover said partitions because it tells me the structure is bad (any options here, by the way?) What kind of partition table was it? With PhotoRec, I can recover parts of the MySQL Database but I cannot get the important *.MYD files because I guess PhotoRec doesn't have the signatures for that type of file. So, any options I have at this point? Probably. Thank you for your time. You could try Autopsy sleuthkit[1]. Before you do anything to the drive it would be wise to copy it via dd so that no accidental write makes anythoing worse... [1] http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/desc.php -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPMl2WAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYcOx8IALYF9e7/HkxpZtbMzpZUkb7x UNMDkTcZdcQi0mlJqL6Al97nHpgPkm2tZyInFgNdWVEu1qIafxtLEcIrbzFgP4yX iuxsFRFHIY10NcU/3PcHvgtUBdyOoHQqztzwxW1nJ8zpqqyc9U3p/xAam72kHrb0 90ip0sQnj+wdxnpzLbBdws4AMUYV3IUAo0vaOOMCdqPKQL7NE+HUCMUBgfXXCYX4 fVBukukMBKnKgECKI7BlZRvfuINJ19d3RG75bIzm3xIspwfIy3OxvO64nSco/Dkl yswGa/258cNC/Q6RaypDaWBRVh1R928/2qSJl6hOaxa/UQDXen1SKLJ46VZ8ZmE= =vIdQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering MySQL Database from EXT4 Formatted Hard Disk ...
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:28:50 -0500, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: With PhotoRec, I can recover parts of the MySQL Database but I cannot get the important *.MYD files because I guess PhotoRec doesn't have the signatures for that type of file. AFAIR Photorec will recover any type of file ans it just follows block pointers. However, files it does not recognise are given meaningless names, so you would have to trawl through all the files it recovered looking for some indication that they are the files you need. -- Neil Bothwick If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati- drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x) Third, smplayer does show the video (without a segment fault) but doesn't play audio. How can I isolate the problem? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati- drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x) Third, smplayer does show the video (without a segment fault) but doesn't play audio. How can I isolate the problem? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste it here. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati- drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x) Third, smplayer does show the video (without a segment fault) but doesn't play audio. How can I isolate the problem? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste it here. Unfortunately, that's impossible. mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and forces me to reboot the machine. Xorg.0.log.old shows Backtrace: [ 1669.886] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x564f86] [ 1669.886] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x168bc9) [0x568bc9] [ 1669.886] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fa7aa5f4000+0x10ff0) [0x7fa7aa604ff0] [ 1669.887] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xs111LookupPrivate+0x22) [0x7fa7a778c372] [ 1669.887] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xclLookupPrivate+0xd) [0x7fa7a7167cdd] [ 1669.887] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so (X740XvPutImage +0x12e) [0x7fa7a441f81e] [ 1669.887] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x8a84e) [0x48a84e] [ 1669.888] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (0x7fa7a83f8000+0xf53e) [0x7fa7a840753e] [ 1669.888] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x36979) [0x436979] [ 1669.888] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x2613a) [0x42613a] [ 1669.888] 10: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7fa7a952b3cd] [ 1669.888] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x2645d) [0x42645d] [ 1669.888] Segmentation fault at address 0x20 Thanks, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati- drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x) Third, smplayer does show the video (without a segment fault) but doesn't play audio. How can I isolate the problem? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste it here. Unfortunately, that's impossible. mplayer $somefile 21 mplayerlog.txt mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and forces me to reboot the machine. Xorg.0.log.old shows Backtrace: [ 1669.886] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x564f86] [ 1669.886] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x168bc9) [0x568bc9] [ 1669.886] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fa7aa5f4000+0x10ff0) [0x7fa7aa604ff0] [ 1669.887] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xs111LookupPrivate+0x22) [0x7fa7a778c372] [ 1669.887] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xclLookupPrivate+0xd) [0x7fa7a7167cdd] [ 1669.887] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so (X740XvPutImage +0x12e) [0x7fa7a441f81e] [ 1669.887] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x8a84e) [0x48a84e] [ 1669.888] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (0x7fa7a83f8000+0xf53e) [0x7fa7a840753e] [ 1669.888] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x36979) [0x436979] [ 1669.888] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x2613a) [0x42613a] [ 1669.888] 10: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7fa7a952b3cd] [ 1669.888] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x2645d) [0x42645d] [ 1669.888] Segmentation fault at address 0x20 Thanks, Helmut. Does rebuilding mplayer fix it? -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati- drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x) Third, smplayer does show the video (without a segment fault) but doesn't play audio. How can I isolate the problem? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste it here. Unfortunately, that's impossible. mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and forces me to reboot the machine. Xorg.0.log.old shows Backtrace: [ 1669.886] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x564f86] [ 1669.886] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x168bc9) [0x568bc9] [ 1669.886] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fa7aa5f4000+0x10ff0) [0x7fa7aa604ff0] [ 1669.887] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xs111LookupPrivate+0x22) [0x7fa7a778c372] [ 1669.887] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xclLookupPrivate+0xd) [0x7fa7a7167cdd] [ 1669.887] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so (X740XvPutImage +0x12e) [0x7fa7a441f81e] [ 1669.887] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x8a84e) [0x48a84e] [ 1669.888] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (0x7fa7a83f8000+0xf53e) [0x7fa7a840753e] [ 1669.888] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x36979) [0x436979] [ 1669.888] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x2613a) [0x42613a] [ 1669.888] 10: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7fa7a952b3cd] [ 1669.888] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x2645d) [0x42645d] [ 1669.888] Segmentation fault at address 0x20 Thanks, Helmut. Did you read this and follow the advice to work around Xv as mentioned in the elog? This release of ati-drivers has a crashing bug when using Xv video. To avoid this problem, configure your video playback software for OpenGL output. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391193
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: SeAndroid build on a Gentoo System?
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruinehsen at fu-berlin.de writes: Has anyone built or installed SE-android onto a Sumsung Nexus (or similar) cell phone, using a Gentoo development environment? I don't know, why it shouldn't work. At the moment I'm syncing the repo, then I'll try it myself. Ah, Great news. Which phone will you be writing to? My small company is due some new cell phones, so this looked interesting. thanks, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: SeAndroid build on a Gentoo System?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.02.2012 15:22, James wrote: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruinehsen at fu-berlin.de writes: Has anyone built or installed SE-android onto a Sumsung Nexus (or similar) cell phone, using a Gentoo development environment? I don't know, why it shouldn't work. At the moment I'm syncing the repo, then I'll try it myself. Ah, Great news. Which phone will you be writing to? My small company is due some new cell phones, so this looked interesting. thanks, James I own a Galaxy Nexus - up to now I encountered a bug in finding the tools.jar of JDK (Google helped here) and a problem due to the fact that I use hardened for building (TEXTREL, I think). I'll try a stage 3 non hardened chroot later... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPMojBAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYcvrEIAIKnpXPN7NRO48/hAw9ahvOu JuNJLaJ+S31aO0fp9SrG1zHJhslvQU5q25/sE5dtlLSWUze/c9fbbp+HMLdNPqCP ZpFj1ZrNnoJUHX9rT5DtqwlgM2W09MvsSUEXf32VewCRtcrkhQteTrERvvQ47h+k geUmvFfMd14tgy8tIOYZjRfpRFkidU/0kMjZKYMnKsLYoiFG3tOqDcOXOZSSH1nU /V3jex5q2pcRRNSwG4zqktDP+ihmJXbWZJ7e+yF4rpSMWabfqlEA1cmZ8g7MM/r8 gMZ7iE+1Q7w74iA/rM0P3dZf/tbLIyQfQpecECImnPaYQ2UL7qVaFMmquLvZkK8= =bQBn -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] Re: hwclock -- sysclock and the ntp-client
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: PS: I need a correct hwclock since I want to wake the system via the hwclock. Hello Meino, date, reads the software clock hwclock -rreads the hardware clock hwclock -r ; date so I use this to manually check if they are syncd. If not use this to set the hwclock hwclock --systohc if the hw clock is correct otherwise hwclcok --set (to use the date as the setting for the hwclock. Note: on different hardware from different vendors, occasionally you run into a hardware clock that does not cooperate. Somethings booking from window to set the hwclock will work. Other times you are SHOOL (shi out of luck). Now look at man hwclock and use those optinos to correct what your issue is. As other have pointed out NTP has it's own nuances that must additionally be considered. As well as any kernel issues, which I did not address. Good Hunting! hth, James
[gentoo-user] caldav calendar
I want to set up a single, simple calendar server using caldav to share between evolution, ipads, iphones and thunderbird at home - light use/duty. Ive just tried radicale which is in an overlay but its not working for me. Is there a simple caldav server that is easy to set up and is known to work? BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On 8 February 2012, at 13:40, Helmut Jarausch wrote: ... Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste it here. Unfortunately, that's impossible. mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and forces me to reboot the machine. Just to be clear: does it segfault when you use -ao null? What about the framebuffer? Stroller.
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: SeAndroid build on a Gentoo System?
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruinehsen at fu-berlin.de writes: I own a Galaxy Nexus - up to now I encountered a bug in finding the tools.jar of JDK (Google helped here) and a problem due to the fact that I use hardened for building (TEXTREL, I think). I'll try a stage 3 non hardened chroot later... How do you like the G. Nexus so far? Who is your (cell) service provider? I'm not sure I posted this link: http://marc.info/?l=selinuxr=1b=201201w=4 Note. Russell Coker (dev for SElinux and SEandroid) is very cool and has his up and running on Debian (Wheezy). If you get stuck, you can search him out for help. In my experiences with Russell, he is very friendly and helpful, particularly on the last thingy he is focused on, like SEandroid. thanks for keeping me posted, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined... Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the reason why my company decided to change our webhosting company: Its spidering brought our previous webhosting to its knees... Rgds, I wonder if Baidu crawler honors the Crawl-delay directive in robots.txt? Or I wonder if Baidu cralwer IPs need to be covered by firewall tarpit rules. ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined... Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the reason why my company decided to change our webhosting company: Its spidering brought our previous webhosting to its knees... Rgds, I wonder if Baidu crawler honors the Crawl-delay directive in robots.txt? Or I wonder if Baidu cralwer IPs need to be covered by firewall tarpit rules. ;) I don't remember if it respects Crawl-Delay, but it respects forbidden paths, etc. I've never been DDOS'd by Baidu crawlers, but I did get DDOS'd by Yahoo a number of times. Turned out the solution was to disallow access to expensive-to-render pages. If you're using MediaWiki with prettified URLs, this works great: User-agent: * Allow: /mw/images/ Allow: /mw/skins/ Allow: /mw/title.png Disallow: /w/ Disallow: /mw/ Disallow: /wiki/Special: -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On 02/08/2012 03:04:50 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I need some advice. Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati- drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x) Third, smplayer does show the video (without a segment fault) but doesn't play audio. How can I isolate the problem? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste it here. Unfortunately, that's impossible. mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and forces me to reboot the machine. Xorg.0.log.old shows Backtrace: [ 1669.886] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x564f86] [ 1669.886] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x168bc9) [0x568bc9] [ 1669.886] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fa7aa5f4000+0x10ff0) [0x7fa7aa604ff0] [ 1669.887] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xs111LookupPrivate+0x22) [0x7fa7a778c372] [ 1669.887] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xclLookupPrivate+0xd) [0x7fa7a7167cdd] [ 1669.887] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so (X740XvPutImage +0x12e) [0x7fa7a441f81e] [ 1669.887] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x8a84e) [0x48a84e] [ 1669.888] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (0x7fa7a83f8000+0xf53e) [0x7fa7a840753e] [ 1669.888] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x36979) [0x436979] [ 1669.888] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x2613a) [0x42613a] [ 1669.888] 10: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7fa7a952b3cd] [ 1669.888] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x2645d) [0x42645d] [ 1669.888] Segmentation fault at address 0x20 Thanks, Helmut. Did you read this and follow the advice to work around Xv as mentioned in the elog? This release of ati-drivers has a crashing bug when using Xv video. To avoid this problem, configure your video playback software for OpenGL output. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391193 Yes, thanks. I disabled XVideo in my xorg.conf and now mplayer doesn't segfault anymore. (It looks like all ati-drivers up to and including 12.1-r1 are broken). Still, I have no sound. I have re-emerged ffmpeg but still mplayer displays Xlib: extension NV-GLX missing on display :0. [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 Xlib: extension XVideo missing on display :0. [VO_XV] Sorry, Xv not supported by this X11 version/driver [VO_XV] Try with -vo x11 or -vo sdl * [gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails. == Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family libavcodec version 53.60.100 (external) Unsupported PixelFormat 61 Unsupported PixelFormat 53 Unsupported PixelFormat 81 [wmv3 @ 0x7fbbb162cc00]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0 Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9) == == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders [NULL @ 0x7fbbb162cc00]Value 165600.00 for parameter 'drc_scale' out of range [NULL @ 0x7fbbb162cc00]Error setting option drc_scale to value 165600. Could not open codec. ADecoder init failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Requested audio codec family [wmadmo] (afm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=acm) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec for audio format 0x161. Audio: no sound
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined... Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the reason why my company decided to change our webhosting company: Its spidering brought our previous webhosting to its knees... Rgds, I wonder if Baidu crawler honors the Crawl-delay directive in robots.txt? Or I wonder if Baidu cralwer IPs need to be covered by firewall tarpit rules. ;) I don't remember if it respects Crawl-Delay, but it respects forbidden paths, etc. I've never been DDOS'd by Baidu crawlers, but I did get DDOS'd by Yahoo a number of times. Turned out the solution was to disallow access to expensive-to-render pages. If you're using MediaWiki with prettified URLs, this works great: User-agent: * Allow: /mw/images/ Allow: /mw/skins/ Allow: /mw/title.png Disallow: /w/ Disallow: /mw/ Disallow: /wiki/Special: *slaps forehead* Now why didn't I think of that before?! Thanks for reminding me! Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] caldav calendar
On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 22:54:47 William Kenworthy wrote: I want to set up a single, simple calendar server using caldav to share between evolution, ipads, iphones and thunderbird at home - light use/duty. Ive just tried radicale which is in an overlay but its not working for me. Is there a simple caldav server that is easy to set up and is known to work? I setup radicale recently, it works perfectly with korginizer. I installed the one from the sunrise overlay version 0.6.2.Dont even remeber touching the config file (but i probably did). -- - Yohan Pereira
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On 8 February 2012, at 15:01, Stroller wrote: On 8 February 2012, at 13:40, Helmut Jarausch wrote: ... Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste it here. Unfortunately, that's impossible. mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and forces me to reboot the machine. Just to be clear: does it segfault when you use -ao null? Ooops. For the record, that should have been -vo null. ao = audio out vo = video out Stroller.
[gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link
I can not seem to open any link in Google search engine. I'm using firefox-9.0 Google search display the result but when I try to open it it doesn't work. I don't have any plugin's installed Proxy is set to no-proxy By 2nd. backup computer as the same problem. Trying open any link from Google search doesn't work. Bing work OK My 3rd. backup computer works but when I change Cookies accept: ask every time I can not open any link form Google search. I try to change the same setting on my main server and cookies setting make no difference. I've downgraded 2nd. backup computer to firefox-bin-8.0 and opening link is working OK in Google. I just notice this strange behavior yesterday and have not clue why is it behaving this way. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
Still, I have no sound. I have re-emerged ffmpeg but still mplayer displays Xlib: extension NV-GLX missing on display :0. [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 Xlib: extension XVideo missing on display :0. [VO_XV] Sorry, Xv not supported by this X11 version/driver [VO_XV] Try with -vo x11 or -vo sdl * [gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails. == Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family libavcodec version 53.60.100 (external) Unsupported PixelFormat 61 Unsupported PixelFormat 53 Unsupported PixelFormat 81 [wmv3 @ 0x7fbbb162cc00]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0 Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9) == == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders [NULL @ 0x7fbbb162cc00]Value 165600.00 for parameter 'drc_scale' out of range [NULL @ 0x7fbbb162cc00]Error setting option drc_scale to value 165600. Could not open codec. ADecoder init failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Requested audio codec family [wmadmo] (afm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=acm) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec for audio format 0x161. Audio: no sound Have you tried another video file? Or maybe just try a plain and simple mp3 file. At first glance I would say, the video you are trying to play uses an dio codec which mplayer does not understand (Enable it at compilation./Cannot find codec for audio format 0x161.)
Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link
Am 08.02.2012 19:24, schrieb Joseph: I can not seem to open any link in Google search engine. I'm using firefox-9.0 Google search display the result but when I try to open it it doesn't work. I don't have any plugin's installed Proxy is set to no-proxy By 2nd. backup computer as the same problem. Trying open any link from Google search doesn't work. Bing work OK My 3rd. backup computer works but when I change Cookies accept: ask every time I can not open any link form Google search. I try to change the same setting on my main server and cookies setting make no difference. I've downgraded 2nd. backup computer to firefox-bin-8.0 and opening link is working OK in Google. I just notice this strange behavior yesterday and have not clue why is it behaving this way. Maybe some crazy JavaScript foo of google. I have no problem here, I do not allow google to set cookies nor to execute any kind of scripts including javascript.
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined... Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the reason why my company decided to change our webhosting company: Its spidering brought our previous webhosting to its knees... Rgds, I wonder if Baidu crawler honors the Crawl-delay directive in robots.txt? Or I wonder if Baidu cralwer IPs need to be covered by firewall tarpit rules. ;) I don't remember if it respects Crawl-Delay, but it respects forbidden paths, etc. I've never been DDOS'd by Baidu crawlers, but I did get DDOS'd by Yahoo a number of times. Turned out the solution was to disallow access to expensive-to-render pages. If you're using MediaWiki with prettified URLs, this works great: User-agent: * Allow: /mw/images/ Allow: /mw/skins/ Allow: /mw/title.png Disallow: /w/ Disallow: /mw/ Disallow: /wiki/Special: *slaps forehead* Now why didn't I think of that before?! Thanks for reminding me! I didn't think of it until I watched the logs live and saw it crawling through page histories during one of the events. MediaWiki stores page histories as a series of diffs from the current version, so it has to assemble old versions by reverse-applying the diffs of all the made to the page between the current version and the version you're asking for. if you have a bot retrieve ten versions of a page that has ten revisions, that's 210 reverse diff operations. Grabbing all versions of a page with 20 revisions would result in over 1500 reverse diffs. My 'hello world' page has over five hundred revisions. So the page history crawling was pretty quickly obvious... -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link
On 02/08/12 19:28, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 08.02.2012 19:24, schrieb Joseph: I can not seem to open any link in Google search engine. I'm using firefox-9.0 Google search display the result but when I try to open it it doesn't work. I don't have any plugin's installed Proxy is set to no-proxy By 2nd. backup computer as the same problem. Trying open any link from Google search doesn't work. Bing work OK My 3rd. backup computer works but when I change Cookies accept: ask every time I can not open any link form Google search. I try to change the same setting on my main server and cookies setting make no difference. I've downgraded 2nd. backup computer to firefox-bin-8.0 and opening link is working OK in Google. I just notice this strange behavior yesterday and have not clue why is it behaving this way. Maybe some crazy JavaScript foo of google. I have no problem here, I do not allow google to set cookies nor to execute any kind of scripts including javascript. You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in google search. This is getting strange. One day it is working and next day it stops (I did not even installed anything). Though, I do accept cookies selectively. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Feb 9, 2012 1:35 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info
wrote:
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
wrote:
8 snippage
BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others
combined...
Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu
was
the
reason why my company decided to change our webhosting company: Its
spidering brought our previous webhosting to its knees...
Rgds,
I wonder if Baidu crawler honors the Crawl-delay directive in
robots.txt?
Or I wonder if Baidu cralwer IPs need to be covered by firewall
tarpit
rules. ;)
I don't remember if it respects Crawl-Delay, but it respects forbidden
paths, etc. I've never been DDOS'd by Baidu crawlers, but I did get
DDOS'd by Yahoo a number of times. Turned out the solution was to
disallow access to expensive-to-render pages. If you're using
MediaWiki with prettified URLs, this works great:
User-agent: *
Allow: /mw/images/
Allow: /mw/skins/
Allow: /mw/title.png
Disallow: /w/
Disallow: /mw/
Disallow: /wiki/Special:
*slaps forehead*
Now why didn't I think of that before?!
Thanks for reminding me!
I didn't think of it until I watched the logs live and saw it crawling
through page histories during one of the events. MediaWiki stores page
histories as a series of diffs from the current version, so it has to
assemble old versions by reverse-applying the diffs of all the made to
the page between the current version and the version you're asking
for. if you have a bot retrieve ten versions of a page that has ten
revisions, that's 210 reverse diff operations. Grabbing all versions
of a page with 20 revisions would result in over 1500 reverse diffs.
My 'hello world' page has over five hundred revisions.
So the page history crawling was pretty quickly obvious...
Although my website is not a wiki, I can already guess which part of the
site brought the server to its knees...
My company's research division everyday selects important economic and
financial news to be republished in the corporate website. We have news
from 3-4 years ago. To make visitors easier to find any news, the website
designer provided a nice calendar interface.
The problems:
- The calendar interface is dynamically generated; days without interesting
news have no hyperlinks, only days with news have hyperlinks.
- Every page in the website has a sidebar that provides a summary of the
stock market for the day (5-minute delay). The sidebar is pre-generated
by server-side PHP, before being handed over to the AJAX framework.
- Someone had a flash of 'brilliance' to do a URL rewrite, thus hiding the
telltale '?' query indicator, thus misleading spiders (they probably
thought that the hundreds of news pages are static pages that got magically
updated by unicorns every 10-20 seconds)
I'm going to disallow spidering fit the news pages. I'm almost certain that
this will result in a much lighter load on the poor webserver.
Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering MySQL Database from EXT4 Formatted Hard Disk ...
On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 11:33:42 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 08.02.2012 12:02, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to recover MySQL databases (which were properly shut down) from an EXT4 formatted hard disk. What happened to require the recovery? Which parts of the database server shut down properly, and which didn't? I loaded the SystemRescueCD distro that you can get online and when running TestDisk I can see the partitions but I cannot recover said partitions because it tells me the structure is bad (any options here, by the way?) You could try Autopsy sleuthkit[1]. Before you do anything to the drive it would be wise to copy it via dd so that no accidental write makes anythoing worse... [1] http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/desc.php Definitely create an image of the partition first, rather than keep accessing the real thing. At this moment you don't know what caused the corruption - it could well be a warning of worse things to come as far as this drive is concerned ... ;-) It is much better if you create the image with dd-rescue/ddrescue (can't recall which of the two packages is claimed to be better). You may also want to make a backup copy of the image in case you embark on any destructive operations on it. Multiple passes with ddrescue may recover more bits/bytes so hopefully you'll have a more complete set of data to work with. With PhotoRec, I can recover parts of the MySQL Database but I cannot get the important *.MYD files because I guess PhotoRec doesn't have the signatures for that type of file. So, any options I have at this point? You can use dd or hexdump to pick up some blocks at the start of a known good *.MYD file, create a signature for PhotoRec and add it on the list of files to check for. See the instruction of how to go about this here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Add_your_own_extension_to_PhotoRec -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package
On Tuesday 07 Feb 2012 17:53:59 walt wrote: On 02/07/2012 09:16 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote: Now that Pandu has mentioned it, I can edit the google-chrome ebuild to do what I want :) The part where I install the obsolete libpng12 in the /opt/google/chrome directory instead of /usr/lib is the part I'm not sure about. I think you can peek into libpng12's ebuild, and transfer the relevant parts (e.g. those retrieving the source and doing the compile), and adapt the installation parts. Don't forget to put your custom ebuild in your local overlay, lest emerge --sync will happily 'revert' your ebuild to what it was :-) Thanks. I've learned something from this thread in spite of myself :p Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Feb 2012 17:53:59 walt wrote: On 02/07/2012 09:16 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote: Now that Pandu has mentioned it, I can edit the google-chrome ebuild to do what I want :) The part where I install the obsolete libpng12 in the /opt/google/chrome directory instead of /usr/lib is the part I'm not sure about. I think you can peek into libpng12's ebuild, and transfer the relevant parts (e.g. those retrieving the source and doing the compile), and adapt the installation parts. Don't forget to put your custom ebuild in your local overlay, lest emerge --sync will happily 'revert' your ebuild to what it was :-) Thanks. I've learned something from this thread in spite of myself :p Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? Chrome is a binary blob Chromium is built from source There used to be a chromium-bin a while ago but the maintainer got fed up with the hassles of building the damn thing for multiple arches and gave up. The OP *did* say in his opening post that he was fed up with the multi-hour emerge when building chromium, hence his desire to tweak the chrome ebuild -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package
On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 + Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? Chrome is a binary blob Chromium is built from source There used to be a chromium-bin a while ago but the maintainer got fed up with the hassles of building the damn thing for multiple arches and gave up. The OP *did* say in his opening post that he was fed up with the multi-hour emerge when building chromium, hence his desire to tweak the chrome ebuild Heh. I'm often guilty of posting to long threads without reading the whole involved thing first. I just learned that 'chromium' still exists, and the reason that chromium-bin disappeared from portage. Not bad work for one thread :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:47:01 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 + Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? Chrome is a binary blob Chromium is built from source There used to be a chromium-bin a while ago but the maintainer got fed up with the hassles of building the damn thing for multiple arches and gave up. The OP *did* say in his opening post that he was fed up with the multi-hour emerge when building chromium, hence his desire to tweak the chrome ebuild Heh. I'm often guilty of posting to long threads without reading the whole involved thing first. You're in good company :-) Done that too - more than once! I just learned that 'chromium' still exists, and the reason that chromium-bin disappeared from portage. Not bad work for one thread :) -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package
On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 22:47:01 walt wrote: On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 + Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? Chrome is a binary blob Chromium is built from source There used to be a chromium-bin a while ago but the maintainer got fed up with the hassles of building the damn thing for multiple arches and gave up. The OP *did* say in his opening post that he was fed up with the multi-hour emerge when building chromium, hence his desire to tweak the chrome ebuild Nope. Walt said: I tried and liked google chrome for a few months until I got tired of the multi-hour compile every week or so. The chrome-binary ebuild was removed a while ago, I'm guessing because of library version conflicts, but I dunno for sure. Since chrome != chromium I probably got confused as to which binary the OP actually wanted to use. Heh. I'm often guilty of posting to long threads without reading the whole involved thing first. I just learned that 'chromium' still exists, and the reason that chromium-bin disappeared from portage. Not bad work for one thread :) Yes, I didn't know that and was also getting annoyed on how long Chromium takes to build from source on older boxen. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters layout, etc. It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are running either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I guess I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all important info, and reboot into the hypervisor. Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:58:26AM -0700, Joseph wrote You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in google search. This is getting strange. One day it is working and next day it stops (I did not even installed anything). Though, I do accept cookies selectively. That's ***JAVASCRIPT***. I'm not being nitpicky. Those are 2 totally different items. I ran into the same problem as you. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link
On 02/08/12 23:24, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:58:26AM -0700, Joseph wrote You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in google search. This is getting strange. One day it is working and next day it stops (I did not even installed anything). Though, I do accept cookies selectively. That's ***JAVASCRIPT***. I'm not being nitpicky. Those are 2 totally different items. I ran into the same problem as you. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org If I disable Java under: Preference -- Content: JavaScript I can open the link but I need JavaScript to be enabled as some of my internal program depend on it. What is causing it? I downgraded to Firefox-8 same thing. I can not open any Google links if JavaScript is enabled. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters layout, etc. It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are running either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I guess I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all important info, and reboot into the hypervisor. Rgds, Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv, /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably, dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
I use SystemRescueCD and a tool called AIDA. It shows hardware information in more friendly way by using ncurses. And also there is no need to boot LiveCD itself - it stars form grub. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters layout, etc. It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are running either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I guess I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all important info, and reboot into the hypervisor. Rgds, Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv, /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably, dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy -- С уважением, Черноиванов Андрей
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
On Feb 9, 2012 12:58 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters layout, etc. It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are running either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I guess I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all important info, and reboot into the hypervisor. Rgds, Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv, /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably, dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information. Well, I need that kind of information, so I guess I'll have to go non-standard :-) Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
On Feb 9, 2012 1:50 PM, Andrew Tchernoivanov tchernoiva...@gmail.com wrote: I use SystemRescueCD and a tool called AIDA. It shows hardware information in more friendly way by using ncurses. And also there is no need to boot LiveCD itself - it stars form grub. Ah, thank you! I'll still burn a CD, though. Much easier to reboot from a CD than having to edit grub in 10+ boxes. Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Ah, thank you! I'll still burn a CD, though. Much easier to reboot from a CD than having to edit grub in 10+ boxes. Rgds, You could also use unetbootin to make bootable USB-stick. -- С уважением, Черноиванов Андрей
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
On Feb 9, 2012 2:29 PM, Andrew Tchernoivanov tchernoiva...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Ah, thank you! I'll still burn a CD, though. Much easier to reboot from a CD than having to edit grub in 10+ boxes. Rgds, You could also use unetbootin to make bootable USB-stick. Some of my boxes for strange reasons refuse to boot from USB. Rather than troubleshooting, I chose the easy way out ;-) Rgds,
