[gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices
Hi, I've managed to make one of my systems next to unusable since I cannot start an xterm anymore. In the logs I get opentty failed out of pty devices This occurred after a reboot today. It must have something to do with a recent update to udev. I remember a similar problem a few days or weeks ago on a machine which is rebooted each day. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the fix (probably something connected to starting some processes at boot time) Does anybody remember what the fix was? Many thanks, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:53:57 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've managed to make one of my systems next to unusable since I cannot start an xterm anymore. In the logs I get opentty failed out of pty devices Add udev-mount to the sysinit runlevel, like the emerge message told you. This is why I set portage to email me all ewarn messages, so I don't miss important information like this. How long will it be before portage tweets ewarns instead?... -- Neil Bothwick We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices
Many thanks Neil for the quick help. Probably I should stop using openrc and switch to systemd. I haven't followed the thread(s) on this list on systemd, I just wonder why GenToo still sticks to openrc while other distributions have switched to systemd. Helmut. On 10/29/2012 11:02:58 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:53:57 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've managed to make one of my systems next to unusable since I cannot start an xterm anymore. In the logs I get opentty failed out of pty devices Add udev-mount to the sysinit runlevel, like the emerge message told you. This is why I set portage to email me all ewarn messages, so I don't miss important information like this.
Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug
On 10/24/2012 03:54:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: It looks as if Eric Sandeen has found the culprit and Theodore Ts'o has suggested this patch yesterday https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/28/309 Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Many thanks Neil for the quick help. Probably I should stop using openrc and switch to systemd. I haven't followed the thread(s) on this list on systemd, I just wonder why GenToo still sticks to openrc while other distributions have switched to systemd. Nobody stops you from using systemd in Gentoo. The ebuild is there so feel free to use it. Gentoo is all about choice. -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
[gentoo-user] Re: [urgent] openpty out of pty devices
On 10/29/2012 03:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I just wonder why GenToo still sticks to openrc while other distributions have switched to systemd. Not all gentoo packages have been updated with systemd *.service files, which live in /usr/lib/systemd/system/. I installed a live-CD virtual install of cinnarch, which does use systemd, just so I can copy the scripts from /usr/lib/systemd/system over to my gentoo machines. Unfortunately I've been distracted by my shiny new Nexus 7 tablet and I've neglected systemd most shamefully ;)
[gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd
Hi List. I've heard here that systemd is faster the openrc, so I decided to try it. And indeed, it is :). I've spent many hours to make my system totaly functional again, but it totally worth it. There is just one little problem remaining: NetworkManager starts, I can connect the internet, but my kde applet cant see it is started, so I can't manage my connections. It seems some people had similar problem, and were able to solve it, but the topics weren't clear enough for me. I also seems that there is something to to with pam or polkit. The topics I'm talking about: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144763 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-924004-start-0.html Since we're talking about systemd, is it possible to it display something during de boot, as openrc did? I just got a black screen until kdm starts. I'll work on plymout, but I still think the informations r important. Thank you, -- João de Matos Linux User #461527
Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:43 AM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List. I've heard here that systemd is faster the openrc, so I decided to try it. And indeed, it is :). I've spent many hours to make my system totaly functional again, but it totally worth it. Kudos. There is just one little problem remaining: NetworkManager starts, I can connect the internet, but my kde applet cant see it is started, so I can't manage my connections. It seems some people had similar problem, and were able to solve it, but the topics weren't clear enough for me. I also seems that there is something to to with pam or polkit. You need to move everything to use systemd. If an ebuild has optional dependencies on both systemd and consolekit, you need to set systemd, and disable consolekit. At least that's the way it works now with GNOME, and even some networkmanager versions needed to pick only one between consolekit and systemd. For good measure, you should be able to uninstall consolekit; it's deprecated, nobody is maintaining it, and it relies on hacks to work. systemd's session tracking is much more reliable and nicer. In particular, the following packages should be using the systemd USE flag, and not the consolekit one: net-misc/networkmanager sys-apps/accountsservice (don't know if KDE uses this) sys-auth/pambase ( CRITICAL) sys-auth/polkit ( CRITICAL) sys-fs/udisks (optional, I think) sys-power/upower (optional, I think) It used to be that you could install systemd, check it out, and if you didn't like it you just didn't used it (there was not even the need to uninstall it). However, consolekit is for all practical purposes dead, and systemd does that job better and with more features. So now you need to decide at compile time which one you wanna use; you cannot mix them. The topics I'm talking about: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144763 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-924004-start-0.html Since we're talking about systemd, is it possible to it display something during de boot, as openrc did? I just got a black screen until kdm starts. I'll work on plymout, but I still think the informations r important. Plymouth will just hide even more information; it looks really pretty, though. I don't think you need to checkout anything at boot (I'm pretty sure the problems are the ones I mentioned it), but to debug systemd put this on your kernel command line: systemd.log_level=debug. All the boot output gets logged into /var/log/boot.log; also, using journalctl -b will give you all the output from the system from the last time you rebooted. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd
I found the solution a few hours ago here http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd#PAM_support:_su.2C_sudo.2C_screen... . Now everything is fine :) About the packages you mentioned, you've ran 'equery uses pambase polkit udisks upower', and none of them has the userflag systemd. Anyway, systemd is globally set on my system, and it is good to know I can disable consolekit. I'll try it right now. Thank you, -- João de Matos Linux User #461527
Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: I found the solution a few hours ago here http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd#PAM_support:_su.2C_sudo.2C_screen... . Now everything is fine :) About the packages you mentioned, you've ran 'equery uses pambase polkit udisks upower', and none of them has the userflag systemd. # equery uses pambase polkit udisks upower [: I - package is installed with flag ] * Found these USE flags for sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r1: [snip] + + systemd : Use pam_systemd module to register user sessions in the systemd control group hierarchy. * Found these USE flags for sys-auth/polkit-0.107-r1: [snip] + + systemd : Use sys-apps/systemd instead of sys-auth/consolekit for session tracking * Found these USE flags for sys-fs/udisks-2.0.0: [snip] + + systemd : Support sys-apps/systemd's logind * Found these USE flags for sys-power/upower-0.9.18: [snip] + + systemd : Use sys-apps/systemd for hibernate and suspend Depends on the versions ;) Anyway, systemd is globally set on my system, and it is good to know I can disable consolekit. I'll try it right now. The problem with ck is that it will make some things fail subtlety. I did uninstall it, and everything has been working great (including the awesome app-admin/system-config-printer-gnome). Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
[gentoo-user] mount and exfat
Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' bunyip ~ # mount.exfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp FUSE exfat 0.9.8 bunyip ~ # BillK
[gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat
On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' bunyip ~ # mount.exfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp FUSE exfat 0.9.8 bunyip ~ # BillK http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30t=85873 Never used exfat myself, but I think you should include exfat-fuse in fstab HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 3.6.2-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP Sat Oct 20 09:46:59 CEST 2012 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 8GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
