Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts

2014-12-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 20 December 2014 02:03:41 GMT+00:00, Sid S r03...@gmail.com wrote:
  I still use GRUB to boot ISO images, and have a sysrescd image in
 /boot
  for this. With UEFI, you can have more than one bootloader
 installed. I
  hadn't considered the possibility of UEFI booting to an ISO
 directly, I'd
  be interested to know if it is possible.
 
 Typically one takes the contents of the iso, places that on a
 partition,
 and then makes it bootable with grub. I'm not sure you can boot the
 iso
 directly.
 
  Finally, what's your opinion on 'secure boot'?
 
  That the main security is is aimed at is job security for MS
 employees. I
  turn it off straight away.
 
 It is not a completely stupid idea. When it is adequately supported it
 is
 something I intend to use. It is possible (unless I misunderstood
 something) to provide your own keys and sign your own OS partition.
 
 
 Anyway, I am kind of surprised people are still having problems with
 UEFI.
 It's necessary to turn SecureBoot off, but otherwise I just got
 everything to
 work.

You can boot an ISO directly with GRUB2, no need to unpack anything  I've been 
doing it for years. I would be interested to know if is is possible with UEFI 
but without GRUB
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 19 December 2014 19:23:36 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

 backup done!
 
 now...
 
 gcc-4.8.3 is installed, gcc-config points to the new compiler, the
 environment is updated (I logged out and in again) and I checked
 /etc/env.d/04gcc-armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi for using the new
 compiler. So everything is fine...except...

You don't mention env-update. You should do that explicitly - logging out 
and in won't do it.

 If I [removed] the old compiler now, my system would again be
 broken.

---8

 How to proceed now?

I'd start again from just after emerging the new version of GCC.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.




Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 19 December 2014 17:20:17 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

 I will keep you informed, what happens to my little embedded system...

Ah. I have a couple of chroots on my workstation for compiling packages for 
small boxes. I suggest you do the same. As long as you know all the right 
USE flags, etc., it should be much quicker to build the system in the 
chroot, then rsync /usr/portage to the target box and install from packages.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 05:28:49 Tomas Mozes wrote:
 On 2014-12-20 00:57, German wrote:
  Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on
  /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made
  /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been
  install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it
  matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications
  
  German gentger...@gmail.com wrote:
  Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't
  installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to
  bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system
  installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and
  ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do?
 
 If you have your /dev/sda only for Gentoo, you would install grub into
 /dev/sda and have /dev/sda1 for /boot, for example:
 /dev/sda1: /boot
 /dev/sda2: /
 
 The bios will load grub from mbr of /dev/sda and since you specify that
 grub can find it's stuff on /dev/sda1 (root), it can continue to find
 the kernel, etc.. Once found, it can load the kernel and mount root,
 because it's the kernel parameter.
 
 For example:
 root(hd0,0)
 setup (hd0)
 
 Check out
 http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-na
 tively
 
 Or for grub2:
 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2
 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Bootloader
 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB
 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
 
 You can also have your /boot and / on the same partition.

All of this is good advice, but ONLY IF the MoBo has been configured to boot 
in CMS/Legacy_BIOS mode.  Otherwise, UEFI will bail out at boot time because 
it does neither read, nor use the MBR bootloader.

Depending on the boot options provided by the motherboard, the hard drive can 
be configured to boot in legacy-BIOS using an MBR, in UEFI mode using an ESP 
partition, or both depending on the BIOS selection at boot time.

-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-20 02:47]:
 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
  Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-19 17:08]:
  Mick wrote:
  Meino, to avoid misunderstandings: 1. Emerge the new gcc package. 2.
  Use gcc-config to change to the new gcc version. 3. Run 'env-update 
  source /etc/profile'. 4. Run fix_libtool_files.sh, although I would
  think that this is redundant these days. 5. Unmerge the old gcc version. 
  I don't recall ever running fix_libtool_files.sh after switching gcc
  versions.  Usually when I see a gcc upgrade, I emerge it, switch to it
  and the usual profile thing, run emerge -e world JUST to be safe, then
  unmerge the old gcc.  That's all I usually do here.  I have skipped the
  emerge -e world a time or two.
 
  Am I just lucky, not likely as some may know, or does emerge -e world
  catch it or what?  Now I'm curious.
 
  Dale
 
  :-)  :-)
 
 
  Hi Dale,
 
  I started compiling the new gcc this morning about ~7:00 AM...just a
  few minutes ago stage3 finishes. Now ... before doing anything else...
  I am makeing a backup of all that, so...if anything fails...I am able
  to reinstall the status quo.
 
  I will keep you informed, what happens to my little embedded system...
 
  Best 
  Meino
 
 
 
 That's the thing about slow systems, you want to do it right the first
 time because it takes to much time to repeat something.  Heck, I have a
 4 core AMD CPU with 16GBs of ram here and I still would rather do it
 right the first time.  If you have something slow that takes days to do
 something, you really want plan A to work. 
 
 I'm also wondering if there have been changes to emerge that could make
 a difference.  I run the latest unstable non * version.  I sorta
 like having all the new improvements.  I'm just not sure if that affects
 the issue here is all.
 
 Dale
 
 :-)  :-) 
 

Hi,

after a few more non-booting-systems and backup-reinstalls I think
I know whats the reason is...but by I dont know how to get out of it:

The system becomes inaccessible if I do an env-update and reboot.

Reason for that are binaries, in which the path to the old gcc is
hardcoded. With the sdcard mounted I checked that with my PC:
I did a 

grep -r '\/usr\/lib\/gcc\/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi\/4.7.3'

on ALL files of the sdcard and found thousands of hardcoded links
to the old gcc inside binaries...

The new gcc installed but not doing env-update implies that any
further compilation will link to the old gcc.

Doing env-update implies a system which will not survive the next
reboot.

What now?

Best regards,
Meino





Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread German
That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen 
too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer 
look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and 
clear uefi installation documentation

Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 05:28:49 Tomas Mozes wrote:
 On 2014-12-20 00:57, German wrote:
  Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on
  /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made
  /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been
  install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it
  matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications
  
  German gentger...@gmail.com wrote:
  Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't
  installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to
  bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system
  installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and
  ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do?
 
 If you have your /dev/sda only for Gentoo, you would install grub into
 /dev/sda and have /dev/sda1 for /boot, for example:
 /dev/sda1: /boot
 /dev/sda2: /
 
 The bios will load grub from mbr of /dev/sda and since you specify that
 grub can find it's stuff on /dev/sda1 (root), it can continue to find
 the kernel, etc.. Once found, it can load the kernel and mount root,
 because it's the kernel parameter.
 
 For example:
 root(hd0,0)
 setup (hd0)
 
 Check out
 http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-na
 tively
 
 Or for grub2:
 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2
 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Bootloader
 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB
 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
 
 You can also have your /boot and / on the same partition.

All of this is good advice, but ONLY IF the MoBo has been configured to boot 
in CMS/Legacy_BIOS mode.  Otherwise, UEFI will bail out at boot time because 
it does neither read, nor use the MBR bootloader.

Depending on the boot options provided by the motherboard, the hard drive can 
be configured to boot in legacy-BIOS using an MBR, in UEFI mode using an ESP 
partition, or both depending on the BIOS selection at boot time.

-- 
Regards,
Mick


Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts

2014-12-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/19/2014 07:22 AM, Mick wrote:
 I'll be taking my time to google, read and make appropriate selections, so 
 please bear with me while I start relevant threads as necessary to complement 
 my sparse knowledge in these topics.  Starting from the top, with this thread 
 I am trying to find out what is considered good practice as far as UEFI/MBR 
 and boot management goes.

I got myself an Intel NUC some months ago and ran into this problem. I
wound up using UEFI+GPT with grub2 and had no issues, other than
learning new grub2 syntax. I didn't like the idea of it scanning
automatically and adding new entries.

 The MoBo is capable of booting in CMS mode, but I am not sure if there are 
 any 
 benefits in creating a 2MB partition for a conventional MBR bootloader, or I 
 should forego MBR altogether and go directly with a GPT FAT32 EFI System 
 Partition (ESP).

Keep in mind that your motherboard may have to boot in UEFI to get
access to features. For example, my NUC's hdmi audio will not work
booted in CMS mode.

 If the latter is the way to go and I forget all things I ever learned about 
 MBR, does the 550MB FAT32 ESP partition have to be at the beginning of the 
 drive?
 
 Is it beneficial to install a Linux boot loader/manager like GRUB2, or 
 rEFInd, 
 etc., or should I just use the kernel EFI Boot Stub to boot gentoo with?  The 
 PC will single boot in Gentoo, although I may drop in a sysrescuecd image for 
 recovery purposes and would be nice to be able to boot this straight off the 
 disk, without having to burn it on a CDROM.  Is it simply a matter of adding 
 the LiveCD iso in the ESP with a .efi suffix, or will I need to use 
 efibootmgr 
 to inform the UEFI about *any* kernel images in the ESP other than the 
 default 
 EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi?

I found it useful to have grub2 for testing new kernels. I set up this
box mostly as an appliance (mythtv frontend) but sometimes booting to
recovery etc is useful. Especially since you can boot a Mint ISO with
UEFI support when something barfs.

 Finally, what's your opinion on 'secure boot'?  I'm mostly thinking of its 
 benefit as a pre-boot malware protection utility, but I don't want to 
 introduce too much complexity which may make recovery of my data difficult in 
 the future.  I've heard some horror stories resulting from NVRAM corruption, 
 or flashing with new UEFI firmware rendering the PC unbootable, etc. but 
 don't 
 know if this is due to user error.  If you have experience using secure boot 
 what is your preferred method?

I didn't bother with it.

 
 Any other pointers and gotchas I should be careful with?

Only thing I screwed up with when messing around with my new NUC was I
set the grub platform incorrectly. I used pc-x86_64 instead of efi-64 (I
think, it's been a while.) Once I had the grub platform set properly the
install went well.

Dan




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread Poison BL.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote:
 That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that 
 gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a 
 closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation 
 CD and clear uefi installation documentation

Well, while it's not covered in the official side of the install docs,
this wiki page was how I handled my system when I first ended up with
a UEFI laptop here (Win8 didn't even make it 12hrs for me ;) --

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Gentoo_Quick_Install_Guide

It only has one minor issue, and that's the lack of mentioning first
and foremost that, to configure UEFI, you have to be UEFI booted
already (it does get around to noting it about the halfway mark). Any
UEFI compatible linux livecd/usb will work, though.

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread Dale
German wrote:
 That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that 
 gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a 
 closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation 
 CD and clear uefi installation documentation



Does this help:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?search=uefititle=Special%3ASearchgo=Go

I see a couple links there about it.  I'm pretty sure that the docs are
moving to the wiki.  Don't forget to search there for docs too. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 



Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts

2014-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

 Old dogs and new tricks springs to mind. I am building a new PC and what with
 UEFI, APUs and SSDs, it feels like that the world has moved a long way since
 the last time I had to install gentoo.

 I'll be taking my time to google, read and make appropriate selections, so
 please bear with me while I start relevant threads as necessary to complement
 my sparse knowledge in these topics. Starting from the top, with this thread
 I am trying to find out what is considered good practice as far as UEFI/MBR
 and boot management goes.

 The MoBo is capable of booting in CMS mode, but I am not sure if there are any
 benefits in creating a 2MB partition for a conventional MBR bootloader, or I
 should forego MBR altogether and go directly with a GPT FAT32 EFI System
 Partition (ESP).

 If the latter is the way to go and I forget all things I ever learned about
 MBR, does the 550MB FAT32 ESP partition have to be at the beginning of the
 drive?

 Is it beneficial to install a Linux boot loader/manager like GRUB2, or rEFInd,
 etc., or should I just use the kernel EFI Boot Stub to boot gentoo with? The
 PC will single boot in Gentoo, although I may drop in a sysrescuecd image for
 recovery purposes and would be nice to be able to boot this straight off the
 disk, without having to burn it on a CDROM. Is it simply a matter of adding
 the LiveCD iso in the ESP with a .efi suffix, or will I need to use efibootmgr
 to inform the UEFI about *any* kernel images in the ESP other than the default
 EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi?

For refind and gummiboot, you have to enable the efi boot stub because
they're boot managers, rather than boot loaders like grub.

If you want to use the efi boot stub, whether directly or via
gummiboot or refind, you have to have the kernel (and initramfs if it
exists) on a fat partition. Unlike with bios firmware, you can have
them all co-exist.

AFAIK only grub can boot from an iso file. You have to have a
loopback loop path_to_iso_file line (which I think of as a mount -o
loop ...) in that iso's menuentry stanza. And its linux ... line
will be dependent on the iso from which you're booting. The
systemrescue iso needs either findiso=... or isoloop=..., I've
forgotten.



Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts

2014-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Friday 19 Dec 2014 15:46:43 Todd Goodman wrote:
 * Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [141219 10:22]:

 I am trying to find out what is considered good practice as far as
 UEFI/MBR and boot management goes.

 FWIW, I've built recent machines with UEFI/GPT but I mostly build recent
 machines using BIOS-mode/GPT or MBR.  It usually depends on how well the
 mobo I'm using works with either.

 Some of the mobos I've used have some seriously crummy UEFI
 implementations that look like they installed Windows and that worked so
 didn't bother testing any further.

 I don't dual-boot windows so BIOS/GPT works OK (I believe windows still
 assumes UEFI == GPT and BIOS == MBR but I don't know.)

 Are you saying that there is no benefit in moving to UEFI for Linux usage, if
 the MoBo can boot in conventional BIOS mode?

The advantage of efi over bios is that the boot loader doesn't have to
embed anything in the mbr, the post mbr gap, or the bios boot
partition.



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote:

 That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that
 gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a 
 closer
 look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and
 clear uefi installation documentation

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Gentoo_Quick_Install_Guide



[gentoo-user] Re: Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-20 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2014-12-18, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 12/18/14 19:10, J.  Roeleveld wrote:
On 18 December 2014 18:50:09 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
I've used Imagination to make VOB and set in preferences resolution
1920 x 1080 HD
made VOB.  How do I check the VOB frame size settings?

When I tried to made HD video using DVD Styler the max frame rate I can
set to make DVD ISO is 720x480.
How to make DVD with higher resolution?

You can't.

The DVD spec doesn't support HD video.

 So what format do I have to burn the disk in, in order to have lets say 1920 
 x 1080 HD


Anything that is not DVD-Video. The DVD-Video standard is very strict
about which frame sizes and frame rates are allowed, as well as which
codecs can be used and their parameters.

You can try to save the 1920x1080 video in a normal file using some
container and generate an ISO9660 filesystem containing that file
(mkisofs can do that), and then you can burn it (cdrecord from
cdrtools). Some table DVD-Video players may or may not be able to play
a video file in a DVD prepared in this way.

But if you want to stick to the DVD-Video standard, you must use
the frame sizes and frame rates specified in the standard.

-- 
Nuno Silva
Helsinki, Finland




[gentoo-user] ssh -X problem [no help sofar on ssh group]

2014-12-20 Thread Harry Putnam
This properly belongs on the ssh group, but posting there has not gotten
any responses... and the list is quite slow to boot.

I like using ssh -X to other lan remotes but with new versions of openssh
or perhaps the configs, it only works 1 way.

I can `ssh  -X' to the gentoo host from a debian host but not the other
way round.

Two different versions of openssh appear to be involved.  But not sure
how different they are.

RHOST=a debian HOST
LHOST= Gentoo HOST

ssh -vN $RHOST 21|grep remote software version

  [...] OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-3

ssh -vN $LHOST 21|grep remote software version

  [...] OpenSSH_6.7p1-hpn14v5


One thing I tried to do was to copy the RHOST sshd_config and ssh_config to
LHOST.  Restart and try again... there were a few incompatible bits in
the files so after commenting a few out until no config errors.

However ssh -X still displayed the error and would NOT work when:
  ssh -X RHOST from LHOST
({Note that plain ssh LHOST or RHOST works in any direction}

Error outut with ssh -X $RHOST xterm

,
| Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated
| Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
| Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxterm: Xt error: Can't open display: 
localhost:10.0
`

[Full Error output with ssh -vv -X is very lengthy so is attached at the end]

I'm not seeing how to debug this further.  So going back to the stock
version of sshd_config ssh_config on gentoo with two changes:

commented out this line:
 PasswordAuthentication no

added this:
 X11Forwarding yes

---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Full sshd_config on LHOST: sudo grep ^[^#] /etc/ssh/sshd_config
---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
  UsePAM yes
  X11Forwarding yes
  PrintMotd no
  PrintLastLog no
  UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox# Default for new installations.
  Subsystem sftp/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server
  AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

---  Config END---


---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Full ssh_config on LHOST:  sudo grep ^[^#] /etc/ssh/ssh_config
---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 

 ForwardX11 yes
 SendEnv LANG LC_*

---  Config END---

###

Now the same info for RHOST

---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Full sshd_config on RHOST: ssh root@RHOST grep ^[^#] /etc/ssh/sshd_config
---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 

HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
IgnoreRhosts yes
HostbasedAuthentication no
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
LogLevel INFO
LoginGraceTime 120
PermitEmptyPasswords no
PermitRootLogin yes
Port 22
PrintLastLog yes
PrintMotd no
Protocol 2
PubkeyAuthentication yes
RSAAuthentication yes
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
ServerKeyBits 1024
SyslogFacility AUTH
StrictModes yes
Subsystem   sftp/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server
TCPKeepAlive yes
UsePAM yes
UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox
X11Forwarding yes

---  Config END---


---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Full ssh_config on RHOST: ssh root@RHOST grep ^[^#] /etc/ssh/ssh_config
---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Host *
   ForwardX11 yes
SendEnv LANG LC_*
HashKnownHosts yes

---  Config END---




The only thing more I can think to include is the full lengthy output of
ssh -vv -X

HOST:gv ~
harry  ssh -vv -X harry@dv 'xterm'
OpenSSH_6.7p1-hpn14v5, OpenSSL 1.0.1j 15 Oct 2014
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to dv [192.168.0.5] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/harry/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/harry/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/harry/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/harry/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/harry/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/harry/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/harry/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/harry/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread German
Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can install 
gen too from it? I have heard good things about it

Poison BL. poiso...@gmail.com wrote:

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote:
 That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that 
 gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a 
 closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation 
 CD and clear uefi installation documentation

Well, while it's not covered in the official side of the install docs,
this wiki page was how I handled my system when I first ended up with
a UEFI laptop here (Win8 didn't even make it 12hrs for me ;) --

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Gentoo_Quick_Install_Guide

It only has one minor issue, and that's the lack of mentioning first
and foremost that, to configure UEFI, you have to be UEFI booted
already (it does get around to noting it about the halfway mark). Any
UEFI compatible linux livecd/usb will work, though.

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 17:07:47 German wrote:
 Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can
 install gen too from it? I have heard good things about it

Yes, this is what I am going to use to attempt to install Gentoo in UEFI.

I have used it for years now to install Gentoo with a conventional BIOS.

PS. Can you please avoid top-posting in this mailing list.  It breaks the 
logical question  answer of the thread.

-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread German
Sorry Mick. I am on android tablet and have no clue how to modify message body

Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 17:07:47 German wrote:
 Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can
 install gen too from it? I have heard good things about it

Yes, this is what I am going to use to attempt to install Gentoo in UEFI.

I have used it for years now to install Gentoo with a conventional BIOS.

PS. Can you please avoid top-posting in this mailing list.  It breaks the 
logical question  answer of the thread.

-- 
Regards,
Mick


Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread Matti Nykyri
 On Dec 20, 2014, at 17:56, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 
 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-20 02:47]:
 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-19 17:08]:
 Mick wrote:
 Meino, to avoid misunderstandings: 1. Emerge the new gcc package. 2.
 Use gcc-config to change to the new gcc version. 3. Run 'env-update 
 source /etc/profile'. 4. Run fix_libtool_files.sh, although I would
 think that this is redundant these days. 5. Unmerge the old gcc version.
 I don't recall ever running fix_libtool_files.sh after switching gcc
 versions.  Usually when I see a gcc upgrade, I emerge it, switch to it
 and the usual profile thing, run emerge -e world JUST to be safe, then
 unmerge the old gcc.  That's all I usually do here.  I have skipped the
 emerge -e world a time or two.
 
 Am I just lucky, not likely as some may know, or does emerge -e world
 catch it or what?  Now I'm curious.
 
 Dale
 
 :-)  :-)
 Hi Dale,
 
 I started compiling the new gcc this morning about ~7:00 AM...just a
 few minutes ago stage3 finishes. Now ... before doing anything else...
 I am makeing a backup of all that, so...if anything fails...I am able
 to reinstall the status quo.
 
 I will keep you informed, what happens to my little embedded system...
 
 Best 
 Meino
 
 That's the thing about slow systems, you want to do it right the first
 time because it takes to much time to repeat something.  Heck, I have a
 4 core AMD CPU with 16GBs of ram here and I still would rather do it
 right the first time.  If you have something slow that takes days to do
 something, you really want plan A to work. 
 
 I'm also wondering if there have been changes to emerge that could make
 a difference.  I run the latest unstable non * version.  I sorta
 like having all the new improvements.  I'm just not sure if that affects
 the issue here is all.
 
 Dale
 
 :-)  :-)
 
 Hi,
 
 after a few more non-booting-systems and backup-reinstalls I think
 I know whats the reason is...but by I dont know how to get out of it:
 
 The system becomes inaccessible if I do an env-update and reboot.
 
 Reason for that are binaries, in which the path to the old gcc is
 hardcoded. With the sdcard mounted I checked that with my PC:
 I did a 
 
grep -r '\/usr\/lib\/gcc\/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi\/4.7.3'
 
 on ALL files of the sdcard and found thousands of hardcoded links
 to the old gcc inside binaries...
 
 The new gcc installed but not doing env-update implies that any
 further compilation will link to the old gcc.
 
 Doing env-update implies a system which will not survive the next
 reboot.
 
 What now?

If i understand your situation correctly, do:

gcc-config to set the new version
env-update
logout
login
emerge --deep --update world
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild

This will take a long time but will get your system working again. If you don't 
wan't to do that you can of course tweak the libraries with binary tools. That 
is easy if you know what you are doing.

To prevent this in the future always before world update, update gcc and glibc 
first if tere is a new version available. Gcc-config is crusial after you have 
installed a bew version of gcc.

-- 
-Matti


Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread meino . cramer
Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi [14-12-20 19:48]:
  On Dec 20, 2014, at 17:56, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
  
  Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-20 02:47]:
  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
  Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-19 17:08]:
  Mick wrote:
  Meino, to avoid misunderstandings: 1. Emerge the new gcc package. 2.
  Use gcc-config to change to the new gcc version. 3. Run 'env-update 
  source /etc/profile'. 4. Run fix_libtool_files.sh, although I would
  think that this is redundant these days. 5. Unmerge the old gcc version.
  I don't recall ever running fix_libtool_files.sh after switching gcc
  versions.  Usually when I see a gcc upgrade, I emerge it, switch to it
  and the usual profile thing, run emerge -e world JUST to be safe, then
  unmerge the old gcc.  That's all I usually do here.  I have skipped the
  emerge -e world a time or two.
  
  Am I just lucky, not likely as some may know, or does emerge -e world
  catch it or what?  Now I'm curious.
  
  Dale
  
  :-)  :-)
  Hi Dale,
  
  I started compiling the new gcc this morning about ~7:00 AM...just a
  few minutes ago stage3 finishes. Now ... before doing anything else...
  I am makeing a backup of all that, so...if anything fails...I am able
  to reinstall the status quo.
  
  I will keep you informed, what happens to my little embedded system...
  
  Best 
  Meino
  
  That's the thing about slow systems, you want to do it right the first
  time because it takes to much time to repeat something.  Heck, I have a
  4 core AMD CPU with 16GBs of ram here and I still would rather do it
  right the first time.  If you have something slow that takes days to do
  something, you really want plan A to work. 
  
  I'm also wondering if there have been changes to emerge that could make
  a difference.  I run the latest unstable non * version.  I sorta
  like having all the new improvements.  I'm just not sure if that affects
  the issue here is all.
  
  Dale
  
  :-)  :-)
  
  Hi,
  
  after a few more non-booting-systems and backup-reinstalls I think
  I know whats the reason is...but by I dont know how to get out of it:
  
  The system becomes inaccessible if I do an env-update and reboot.
  
  Reason for that are binaries, in which the path to the old gcc is
  hardcoded. With the sdcard mounted I checked that with my PC:
  I did a 
  
 grep -r '\/usr\/lib\/gcc\/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi\/4.7.3'
  
  on ALL files of the sdcard and found thousands of hardcoded links
  to the old gcc inside binaries...
  
  The new gcc installed but not doing env-update implies that any
  further compilation will link to the old gcc.
  
  Doing env-update implies a system which will not survive the next
  reboot.
  
  What now?
 
 If i understand your situation correctly, do:
 
 gcc-config to set the new version
 env-update
 logout
 login
 emerge --deep --update world
 emerge --depclean
 revdep-rebuild
 
 This will take a long time but will get your system working again. If you 
 don't wan't to do that you can of course tweak the libraries with binary 
 tools. That is easy if you know what you are doing.
 
 To prevent this in the future always before world update, update gcc and 
 glibc first if tere is a new version available. Gcc-config is crusial after 
 you have installed a bew version of gcc.
 
 -- 
 -Matti


Hi Matti,

not exactly...
The sequence you show looks like this in my case:
 gcc-config to set the new version
 env-update
 reboot
 logina attempt: impossible...system does not respond anymore

 The reason is, that env-update updates to the new compiler, 
 while some [CENSORED] system tools/application are hardcoded
 to use the old compiler libraries...

 If I do a 

env-update --no-ldconfig

 then I am able to reboot successfully...but compilation
 will be done against the old compiler a fear...

 I am installing the backup the fourth time today and I am
 curious, when the first bad sectors of my sdcard will hit me...



 Best regards,
 Meino





Re: [gentoo-user] ssh -X problem [no help sofar on ssh group]

2014-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 20 December 2014 18:17:57 CET, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
This properly belongs on the ssh group, but posting there has not
gotten
any responses... and the list is quite slow to boot.

I like using ssh -X to other lan remotes but with new versions of
openssh
or perhaps the configs, it only works 1 way.

I can `ssh  -X' to the gentoo host from a debian host but not the other
way round.

Two different versions of openssh appear to be involved.  But not sure
how different they are.

RHOST=a debian HOST
LHOST= Gentoo HOST

ssh -vN $RHOST 21|grep remote software version

  [...] OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-3

ssh -vN $LHOST 21|grep remote software version

  [...] OpenSSH_6.7p1-hpn14v5


One thing I tried to do was to copy the RHOST sshd_config and
ssh_config to
LHOST.  Restart and try again... there were a few incompatible bits in
the files so after commenting a few out until no config errors.

However ssh -X still displayed the error and would NOT work when:
  ssh -X RHOST from LHOST
({Note that plain ssh LHOST or RHOST works in any direction}

Error outut with ssh -X $RHOST xterm

,
| Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not
generated
| Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
forwarding.
| Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
localhost:10.0
`

[Full Error output with ssh -vv -X is very lengthy so is attached at
the end]

I'm not seeing how to debug this further.  So going back to the stock
version of sshd_config ssh_config on gentoo with two changes:

commented out this line:
 PasswordAuthentication no

added this:
 X11Forwarding yes

---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Full sshd_config on LHOST: sudo grep ^[^#] /etc/ssh/sshd_config
---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
  UsePAM yes
  X11Forwarding yes
  PrintMotd no
  PrintLastLog no
  UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox   # Default for new installations.
  Subsystemsftp/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server
  AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

---  Config END---


---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Full ssh_config on LHOST:  sudo grep ^[^#] /etc/ssh/ssh_config
---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 

 ForwardX11 yes
 SendEnv LANG LC_*

---  Config END---

###

Now the same info for RHOST

---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Full sshd_config on RHOST: ssh root@RHOST grep ^[^#]
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 

HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
IgnoreRhosts yes
HostbasedAuthentication no
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
LogLevel INFO
LoginGraceTime 120
PermitEmptyPasswords no
PermitRootLogin yes
Port 22
PrintLastLog yes
PrintMotd no
Protocol 2
PubkeyAuthentication yes
RSAAuthentication yes
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
ServerKeyBits 1024
SyslogFacility AUTH
StrictModes yes
Subsystem   sftp/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server
TCPKeepAlive yes
UsePAM yes
UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox
X11Forwarding yes

---  Config END---


---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Full ssh_config on RHOST: ssh root@RHOST grep ^[^#]
/etc/ssh/ssh_config
---   ---   ---=---   ---   --- 
Host *
   ForwardX11 yes
SendEnv LANG LC_*
HashKnownHosts yes

---  Config END---




The only thing more I can think to include is the full lengthy output
of
ssh -vv -X

Try ssh -Y .
It's what I have been using for a long time now.
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Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts

2014-12-20 Thread behrouz khosravi


 The advantage of efi over bios is that the boot loader doesn't have to
 embed anything in the mbr, the post mbr gap, or the bios boot
 partition.


I just wanted to say that there is another advantage too!
MS WIndows7 support booting from GPT partition tables,
only if you are using the UEFI. (I dont know about Windows8)
I wanted to use GPT on a dual boot system, so I enabled UEFI on my laptop,
and I am using GRUB2 as bootloader.
Everything is working great.


Re: [gentoo-user] ssh -X problem [no help sofar on ssh group]

2014-12-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:05 PM, J.  Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 Try ssh -Y .
 It's what I have been using for a long time now.

Correct - ssh -X hasn't worked on Gentoo for ages.  It has been a
while since I looked up the details but I seem to recall it being an
upstream issue and that it is actually broken on many (but not all)
distros.

--
Rich



Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread Matti Nykyri
 On Dec 20, 2014, at 21:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 
 Hi Matti,
 
 not exactly...
 The sequence you show looks like this in my case:
 gcc-config to set the new version
 env-update
 reboot
 logina attempt: impossible...system does not respond anymore
 
Did I miss something or why do you reboot in that phase?

-- 
-Matti




[gentoo-user]

2014-12-20 Thread German
Could register at systemrescuecd forums for now, so I thought to ask here. 
Trying to get systemrescuecd iso on USB stick. There is shell script on to 
accomplish just that. When I try to run it, it identifies my thumb drive, 
however reports that it is 0 mb. When disk is mounted, the volume in megabytes 
just right,  about 2 GB. Log file says that is not enough memory to install. 
Any ideas what might be a problem? And yes, I am about to try to install gen 
too from rescued USB drive in efi mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 21/12/14 03:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi [14-12-20 19:48]:
 On Dec 20, 2014, at 17:56, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-20 02:47]:
 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-19 17:08]:
 Mick wrote:
 Meino, to avoid misunderstandings: 1. Emerge the new gcc package. 2.
 Use gcc-config to change to the new gcc version. 3. Run 'env-update 
 source /etc/profile'. 4. Run fix_libtool_files.sh, although I would
 think that this is redundant these days. 5. Unmerge the old gcc version.
 I don't recall ever running fix_libtool_files.sh after switching gcc
 versions.  Usually when I see a gcc upgrade, I emerge it, switch to it
 and the usual profile thing, run emerge -e world JUST to be safe, then
 unmerge the old gcc.  That's all I usually do here.  I have skipped the
 emerge -e world a time or two.

 Am I just lucky, not likely as some may know, or does emerge -e world
 catch it or what?  Now I'm curious.

 Dale

 :-)  :-)
 Hi Dale,

 I started compiling the new gcc this morning about ~7:00 AM...just a
 few minutes ago stage3 finishes. Now ... before doing anything else...
 I am makeing a backup of all that, so...if anything fails...I am able
 to reinstall the status quo.

 I will keep you informed, what happens to my little embedded system...

 Best 
 Meino

 That's the thing about slow systems, you want to do it right the first
 time because it takes to much time to repeat something.  Heck, I have a
 4 core AMD CPU with 16GBs of ram here and I still would rather do it
 right the first time.  If you have something slow that takes days to do
 something, you really want plan A to work. 

 I'm also wondering if there have been changes to emerge that could make
 a difference.  I run the latest unstable non * version.  I sorta
 like having all the new improvements.  I'm just not sure if that affects
 the issue here is all.

 Dale

 :-)  :-)

 Hi,

 after a few more non-booting-systems and backup-reinstalls I think
 I know whats the reason is...but by I dont know how to get out of it:

 The system becomes inaccessible if I do an env-update and reboot.

 Reason for that are binaries, in which the path to the old gcc is
 hardcoded. With the sdcard mounted I checked that with my PC:
 I did a 

grep -r '\/usr\/lib\/gcc\/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi\/4.7.3'

 on ALL files of the sdcard and found thousands of hardcoded links
 to the old gcc inside binaries...

 The new gcc installed but not doing env-update implies that any
 further compilation will link to the old gcc.

 Doing env-update implies a system which will not survive the next
 reboot.

 What now?

 If i understand your situation correctly, do:

 gcc-config to set the new version
 env-update
 logout
 login
 emerge --deep --update world
 emerge --depclean
 revdep-rebuild

 This will take a long time but will get your system working again. If you 
 don't wan't to do that you can of course tweak the libraries with binary 
 tools. That is easy if you know what you are doing.

 To prevent this in the future always before world update, update gcc and 
 glibc first if tere is a new version available. Gcc-config is crusial after 
 you have installed a bew version of gcc.

 -- 
 -Matti
 
 
 Hi Matti,
 
 not exactly...
 The sequence you show looks like this in my case:
  gcc-config to set the new version
  env-update
  reboot
  logina attempt: impossible...system does not respond anymore
 
  The reason is, that env-update updates to the new compiler, 
  while some [CENSORED] system tools/application are hardcoded
  to use the old compiler libraries...
 
  If I do a 
 
 env-update --no-ldconfig
 
  then I am able to reboot successfully...but compilation
  will be done against the old compiler a fear...
 
  I am installing the backup the fourth time today and I am
  curious, when the first bad sectors of my sdcard will hit me...
 
 
 
  Best regards,
  Meino
 
 
 

Nowhere do you say you run the fix utility - even if its run
automatically you will need to run it EACH TIME you run  gcc-config.
Sometimes you wont get a hit, but often it will.  You will also need to
run it at least ONCE against EVERY version of gcc ever installed in that
OS (as it only looks for the old version number you give it.)

gcc-config sets the symlinks to point to the version of gcc you want to
use.  The fix utility changes the library internal gcc libraries to
point to the proper gcc lib.

There have been non-gcc cases where you have to trawl the lib
directories replacing the errant entries where neccessary (libpng anyone :)

BillK





Re: [gentoo-user]

2014-12-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.12.2014 um 23:08 schrieb German:
 Could register at systemrescuecd forums for now, so I thought to ask here. 
 Trying to get systemrescuecd iso on USB stick. There is shell script on to 
 accomplish just that. When I try to run it, it identifies my thumb drive, 
 however reports that it is 0 mb. When disk is mounted, the volume in 
 megabytes just right,  about 2 GB. Log file says that is not enough memory to 
 install. Any ideas what might be a problem? And yes, I am about to try to 
 install gen too from rescued USB drive in efi mode

don't use any scripts. Never gave me a bootable solution. Either burn to
cd or do it manually.



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 09:40:26PM +0400, German wrote:
 Sorry Mick. I am on android tablet and have no clue how to modify message body

By using a proper e-mail client¹. *SCNR* Though I’d like to believe that even
the standard Android client should be able to not break message threads.

PS.: Our distro is called “Gentoo”, not “gen too”. It’s a cute kind of penguin.²

¹ K-9 comes to mind. Even though it displays the reply below when replying, it
  sends the mail with the reply below the quote if the relevant option is set.
² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_penguin

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Re: [gentoo-user]

2014-12-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 Am 20.12.2014 um 23:08 schrieb German:
  Trying to get systemrescuecd iso on USB stick. There is shell
  script on to accomplish just that. When I try to run it, it identifies
  my thumb drive, however reports that it is 0 mb.

 don't use any scripts. Never gave me a bootable solution. Either burn to
 cd or do it manually.

For me, the script that comes on sysresccd always worked (though I’ve never
used EFI yet). The script determines the size of the device with blockdev
--getsz /path/to/device

What does that return if called manually and what size is reported in other
programs (fdisk, dmesg after plugging it in)?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Size usb stick with fdisk

2014-12-20 Thread German
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 03:37:29 +0100
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:

 On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
  Am 20.12.2014 um 23:08 schrieb German:
   Trying to get systemrescuecd iso on USB stick. There is shell
   script on to accomplish just that. When I try to run it, it identifies
   my thumb drive, however reports that it is 0 mb.
 
  don't use any scripts. Never gave me a bootable solution. Either burn to
  cd or do it manually.
 
 For me, the script that comes on sysresccd always worked (though I’ve never
 used EFI yet). The script determines the size of the device with blockdev
 --getsz /path/to/device
 
 What does that return if called manually and what size is reported in other
 programs (fdisk, dmesg after plugging it in)?


Hi. I would tell you if I knew how to do it in fdisk for instance. Can you 
provide me with
instructions please?

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Re: [gentoo-user]

2014-12-20 Thread German
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 03:37:29 +0100
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:

 On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
  Am 20.12.2014 um 23:08 schrieb German:
   Trying to get systemrescuecd iso on USB stick. There is shell
   script on to accomplish just that. When I try to run it, it identifies
   my thumb drive, however reports that it is 0 mb.
 
  don't use any scripts. Never gave me a bootable solution. Either burn to
  cd or do it manually.
 
 For me, the script that comes on sysresccd always worked (though I’ve never
 used EFI yet). The script determines the size of the device with blockdev
 --getsz /path/to/device
 
 What does that return if called manually and what size is reported in other
 programs (fdisk, dmesg after plugging it in)?

That's what it reports when /dev/sdd is mounted:

sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sdd
2031091712

When not mounted it reports that no medium found. The same log from usb_inst.sh:

Installation on /dev/sdd at 2014-12-20_16:47
blockdev: cannot open /dev/sdd: No medium found
usb_inst.sh: error: The device [/dev/sdd] is only 0 MB. It is too small to copy 
all the files, an USB-stick of at least 512MB is recommended


But shell script should be run unmounted. Confused.

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Re: [gentoo-user]

2014-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 21 December 2014 06:27:41 CET, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 03:37:29 +0100
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:

 On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
  Am 20.12.2014 um 23:08 schrieb German:
   Trying to get systemrescuecd iso on USB stick. There is shell
   script on to accomplish just that. When I try to run it, it
identifies
   my thumb drive, however reports that it is 0 mb.
 
  don't use any scripts. Never gave me a bootable solution. Either
burn to
  cd or do it manually.
 
 For me, the script that comes on sysresccd always worked (though I’ve
never
 used EFI yet). The script determines the size of the device with
blockdev
 --getsz /path/to/device
 
 What does that return if called manually and what size is reported in
other
 programs (fdisk, dmesg after plugging it in)?

That's what it reports when /dev/sdd is mounted:

sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sdd
2031091712

When not mounted it reports that no medium found. The same log from
usb_inst.sh:

Installation on /dev/sdd at 2014-12-20_16:47
blockdev: cannot open /dev/sdd: No medium found
usb_inst.sh: error: The device [/dev/sdd] is only 0 MB. It is too small
to copy all the files, an USB-stick of at least 512MB is recommended


But shell script should be run unmounted. Confused.

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Do you try 'umounted' right after inserting the USB before any mount commands 
are run?

Some automounters send an 'eject' command which makes some USB sticks disappear 
until they are unplugged and plugged back in.

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Re: [gentoo-user]

2014-12-20 Thread German
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:20:16 +
J.  Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 On 21 December 2014 06:27:41 CET, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 03:37:29 +0100
 Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
 
  On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
   Am 20.12.2014 um 23:08 schrieb German:
Trying to get systemrescuecd iso on USB stick. There is shell
script on to accomplish just that. When I try to run it, it
 identifies
my thumb drive, however reports that it is 0 mb.
  
   don't use any scripts. Never gave me a bootable solution. Either
 burn to
   cd or do it manually.
  
  For me, the script that comes on sysresccd always worked (though I’ve
 never
  used EFI yet). The script determines the size of the device with
 blockdev
  --getsz /path/to/device
  
  What does that return if called manually and what size is reported in
 other
  programs (fdisk, dmesg after plugging it in)?
 
 That's what it reports when /dev/sdd is mounted:
 
 sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sdd
 2031091712
 
 When not mounted it reports that no medium found. The same log from
 usb_inst.sh:
 
 Installation on /dev/sdd at 2014-12-20_16:47
 blockdev: cannot open /dev/sdd: No medium found
 usb_inst.sh: error: The device [/dev/sdd] is only 0 MB. It is too small
 to copy all the files, an USB-stick of at least 512MB is recommended
 
 
 But shell script should be run unmounted. Confused.
 
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 Do you try 'umounted' right after inserting the USB before any mount commands 
 are run?

The thing here is that my usb stick is automaunted by the system. I am running 
Lubuntu. I unmount it simply by clicking on it in a LXDE.
 
 Some automounters send an 'eject' command which makes some USB sticks 
 disappear until they are unplugged and plugged back in.

Do you think it would  make sense to mount stick manually and then unmount it? 
Thanks


 
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Re: [gentoo-user]

2014-12-20 Thread German
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:20:16 +
J.  Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 On 21 December 2014 06:27:41 CET, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 03:37:29 +0100
 Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
 
  On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
   Am 20.12.2014 um 23:08 schrieb German:
Trying to get systemrescuecd iso on USB stick. There is shell
script on to accomplish just that. When I try to run it, it
 identifies
my thumb drive, however reports that it is 0 mb.
  
   don't use any scripts. Never gave me a bootable solution. Either
 burn to
   cd or do it manually.
  
  For me, the script that comes on sysresccd always worked (though I’ve
 never
  used EFI yet). The script determines the size of the device with
 blockdev
  --getsz /path/to/device
  
  What does that return if called manually and what size is reported in
 other
  programs (fdisk, dmesg after plugging it in)?
 
 That's what it reports when /dev/sdd is mounted:
 
 sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sdd
 2031091712
 
 When not mounted it reports that no medium found. The same log from
 usb_inst.sh:
 
 Installation on /dev/sdd at 2014-12-20_16:47
 blockdev: cannot open /dev/sdd: No medium found
 usb_inst.sh: error: The device [/dev/sdd] is only 0 MB. It is too small
 to copy all the files, an USB-stick of at least 512MB is recommended
 
 
 But shell script should be run unmounted. Confused.
 
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 Do you try 'umounted' right after inserting the USB before any mount commands 
 are run?
 
 Some automounters send an 'eject' command which makes some USB sticks 
 disappear until they are unplugged and plugged back in.

Thanks Joost. I wrote to usb stick just fine after I umount /dev/sdd1 manually. 
Those damn automounters.

 
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