Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:12:53PM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 10.01.2012 19:46, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, I did something really dumb... I changed the root passwd for a system I manage last week, but neglected to write it down, and now what I *thought* I had changed it to isn't working... I know, I know, really *really* dumb, but that's where I am... I know I can boot into Single User mode, remount the root partition read/write, and edit /etc/shadow (removing the encrypted passwd), then rest it using passwd, but... Some of the accounts in /etc/shadow have a '*' where the encrypted passwd would be, and some have a '!'... (ie, one is sshd:!:... and another is halt:*:...) Does it matter what I change it to? Should I use a *, !, or nothing at all (so that there is *nothing* between the two :: that would normally contain the encrypted passwd)? Thanks... The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user whose password is know to you. Afterwards you can log in an change the password again. And for the future: http://xkcd.com/936/ ;) Or boot from a Live CD, chroot and set the password from there.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:00:11PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote: I guess you're going to need to provide some debug info. Maybe try a complete power down and not just a warm boot. Not finding the device at all is problematic. What's in lspci, etc.? Power cycle complete - no difference. Switching back to kernel 3.0.6 I now have no sound there either! Lspci shows the device ok. Output of alsa-info attached. Your ALSA stuff looks fine, by my eye. What happens when you run alsamixer? alsamixer -c0? Peter, according to your amixer output 'Master Front' is set to 0%. Maybe this is your problem? --
Re: [gentoo-user] Audio Problem
Am Mittwoch, den 28.12.2011, 11:12 + schrieb Vishnupradeep: unmerged pulseaudio. Now the sound works when system is restarted. but after some time it stops working. juk player is unable to output any audio. VLC works What do the logs say? What gets printed on the console when you start juk or vlc? Just seeing the message doesn't help. There are numerous reasons for a device to not work. Regards, signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Audio Problem
Am Mittwoch, den 28.12.2011, 18:27 + schrieb Vishnupradeep: output of emerge -vpe world http://pastebin.com/wG3fSYLr I hope this will be useful. On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Vishnupradeep intermedia.vis...@gmail.com wrote: The video plays but the first few seconds of audio is looping. The Flash player in browser has also problems. The Youtube video plays only 3 seconds and stops. Then if used the slider. then plays 3 seconds from new position and stops. The video was fully buffered. still have this problem. On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Vishnupradeep intermedia.vis...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Aljosha Papsch papsch...@googlemail.com wrote: What gets printed on the console when you start juk or vlc? vishnu@localhost ~ $ vlc VLC media player 1.1.13 The Luggage (revision exported) Blocked: call to unsetenv(DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS) Blocked: call to unsetenv(DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE) [0x604150] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. Blocked: call to setlocale(6, ) Blocked: call to setlocale(6, ) [0x6d9de0] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module You said in your second message that VLC works fine. Maybe your problem is related to Xine (KDE applications use that usually)? What happens if you switch the sound backend in KDE's configuration to VLC (that should be the other there IIRC)? In either case, what do the logs like /var/log/messages say? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Audio Problem
Am Dienstag, den 27.12.2011, 23:37 +0100 schrieb Stéphane Guedon: On Tuesday 27 December 2011 20:41:12 Vishnupradeep wrote: I have M2A-MX motherboard with AMD Phenom II X4 prcessor. Installed gentoo 11.2 with kde and now the audio is not working. Installed pulseaudio and ALSA. i am little confused, fo audio to work both ALSA and pulseaudio needed ? I would like to play some music. How to correct the audio. Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/ Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ First, pulseaudio is not needed. It is not recommanded if you don't know what to do with it. Did you check you turn on your audio system ? (quite often, it's basically set to mute). Does your kernel recognize your audio system ? Does kde recognize your audio system (there is a config panel about it) ? Check that, and get back, you will help us to help you. I am not the guy who will help you, I am not skilled in audio and alsa. But I know what others will ask for. Additionally, have you added yourself to the audio group? The ALSA guide is a good source for how to do these things: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm
Am Freitag, den 23.12.2011, 18:17 +0100 schrieb Michael Hampicke: Hey there, I've been having some problems with GDM recently (freeze after reboot, freeze after suspend) so I thought I'd give lightdm a shot. So far everything works great, but I cannot set a language for a lightdm session. My system locale is set to en_US.utf8 because when working with command line tools I prefere if they talk english to me. But I like my Desktop (everything running under X) to be in german. With GDM that was no problem: just set the system locale to english and create a .dmrc file in the home directory where you set 'Language=de_DE.UTF-8' Lightdm ignores that file. After some google foo I found that if you edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf and set 'show-language-selector=true' you can choose a language before logging in (like with GDM) - however, I can choose what i wan't, my Desktop is still in english. So far it seems that nothing works, except setting the system's default locale to german in /etc/env.d/02locale - but that's not what I want. Do you have any thoughts? As a temporary solution you may set your locale to de_DE.UTF-8 but export LC_ALL=en_US in the shell's rc file. Regards,
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?
Am Mittwoch, den 21.12.2011, 21:57 +0200 schrieb v...@ukr.net: Hello! So how can I install LibreOffice 3.5 to test it? Portage does not suggest me an update to 3.5 version any more. Thanks. Vladimir If you want to go deeper into testing, you may be interested to join the bughunting session on 28th and 29th December. See http://wp.me/p1byPE-cX for the details. Regards, signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?
Am Sonntag, den 11.12.2011, 00:13 +0100 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:36:32AM -0200, luis jure wrote: As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend? i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links interface was much better, although lynx seems to be better known or more widely used. I like elinks for its tabs capability and easy configurability through its GUI (the latter isn’t a killer feature in console land, but it makes it easy for example to find every keyboard-assignable feature it has). I like elinks and lynx for their proxy support. lynx simply uses *_proxy environment variables, elinks must be configured in it's menu. links doesn't support https over proxy. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off
Am Samstag, den 10.12.2011, 17:25 +0100 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, sorry for the nebelous subject... The following happened to me. I have installed/configured pulseaudio according to this for a one-person desktop gentoo-system: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio When starting gwc (which is not in portage) and playing sounds, it works...once... After a while I here the same clicking sound, which happens while booting the system and alsa takes over...and thats it. I have to kill gwc. On the console gwc prints: Current stack limit: 8388608 bytes libsndfile Version: libsndfile-1.0.25 1 0 25 socket(): Address family not supported by protocol Closing the Pulse audio device The last line appears when I press stop audio playback, the clicking happes a few seconds later. After that...no go. I have appended /etc/pulse/default.pa at the end of this posting. Interestingly it is possible to successfully restart gwc. What can I do to fix this? Best regards, mcc Guessing wildly from your message in the other thread, I suggest you try compiling with alsa disabled. Maybe the alsa and pulseaudio interfaces don't work well together in gwc on modern systems (you said gwc is quite old)? I'm not familiar with gwc though. Regards signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] zeitgeist in Gnome 3
Am Dienstag, den 06.12.2011, 17:16 +0100 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone using that? I see three pkgs in portage: dev-libs/libzeitgeist gnome-extra/zeitgeist gnome-extra/zeitgeist-datahub This allows me to use this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/33/jump-lists/ but afai see it only works with libreoffice right now, but not with other applications like thunderbird. I wonder if I need gnome-activity-journal for that (not in portage or the gnome-overlay)? Or is that so far not yet available in gnome-3.2? Stefan Applications need to support zeitgeist. If an application do not support it (Thunderbird most certainly doesn't), files and activities simply don't get recorded. For example, opening files in Nautilus will track opened files but doing something on the shell will not. Regards signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] zeitgeist in Gnome 3
Am Dienstag, den 06.12.2011, 19:22 +0100 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2011-12-06 17:59, schrieb Aljosha Papsch: Applications need to support zeitgeist. If an application do not support it (Thunderbird most certainly doesn't), files and activities simply don't get recorded. For example, opening files in Nautilus will track opened files but doing something on the shell will not. That's where zeitgeist-datasources come in? https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-datasources for example for firefox etc S I wasn't aware of that project, thanks for the hint! :) Yes, they seem to provide data providers for certain applications. A look in the trunk reveals which applications: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~zeitgeist-dataproviders/zeitgeist-datasources/trunk/files signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard activity in gnome
Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2011, 21:03 -0500 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: I can't get startx to work at all, here is what I get when I try it. xauth: file /home/covici/.serverauth.21638 does not exist X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-11-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linux ccs.covici.com 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 #3 SMP Sat Apr 9 23:17:27 EDT 2011 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.32-gentoo ro root=100 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root udev video=uvesafb:1280x1024 speakup.synth=spkout vmalloc=256M dolvm Build Date: 27 November 2011 05:14:42PM Current version of pixman: 0.24.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Nov 29 21:00:16 2011 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [dix] Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! which: no keychain in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/covici/bin) /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 59: twm: command not found /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 63: exec: xterm: not found xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. I am not sure why this is happening. You don't have twm and xterm installed. But that's just the default to start for X11. Edit ~/.xinitrc and put only the following in it: exec gnome-session Make sure that you have dbus started.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Am Mittwoch, den 30.11.2011, 19:32 +0100 schrieb czernitko: Yup, establishing encrypted partition for /home was easy as a pie using cryptsetup. I was considering using truecrypt as it offers multiplatform support, so I could access encrypted partition even from my dualbooted windoze, but I didn't want to put effort into something not as well documented (how-toed) as dmcrypt. You can use FreeOTFE[0] for that. I don't use Windows, so I can't tell whether you need to install the filesystem driver for Windows. [0] http://www.freeotfe.org/
Re: [gentoo-user] kde overlay is missing manifests
2011/11/9 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: What's happening with the kde overlay? All Manifest files are gone and I can't emerge anything because of that. The overlay uses new Manifest format. Read the blog entry: http://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2011/11/gentoo-kde-stabilization-and-kde.html
Re: [gentoo-user] TUSB3410 on 3.0.6 kernel
2011/11/6 Érico Porto ericoporto2...@gmail.com: Hello, I would like to ask about the kernel 3.0.6. I can't load the ti_usb_3410_5052.ko. I mean, when I select it in the kernel menu, it makes fine, but when I type make modules_install, I get an error: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/lib/firmware/./', needed by `/lib/firmware/ti_3410.fw'. Stop. make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 2 Has anyone tried it in the 3.0.6 kernel? My uname -a output is: Linux localhost 3.0.6-gentoo #13 SMP Wed Nov 2 21:05:47 BRST 2011 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux My kernel was loaded using emerge. Regards Érico V. Porto I solved this by not building firmware into kernel. It's somewhere in Linux config General Options.
Re: [gentoo-user] TUSB3410 on 3.0.6 kernel
2011/11/6 Érico Porto ericoporto2...@gmail.com: Ok I will try it. I used: make make modules_install make install Doesn't the modules get made in the make part? Érico V. Porto On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Aljosha Papsch papsch...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/11/6 Érico Porto ericoporto2...@gmail.com: Hello, I would like to ask about the kernel 3.0.6. I can't load the ti_usb_3410_5052.ko. I mean, when I select it in the kernel menu, it makes fine, but when I type make modules_install, I get an error: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/lib/firmware/./', needed by `/lib/firmware/ti_3410.fw'. Stop. make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 2 Has anyone tried it in the 3.0.6 kernel? My uname -a output is: Linux localhost 3.0.6-gentoo #13 SMP Wed Nov 2 21:05:47 BRST 2011 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux My kernel was loaded using emerge. Regards Érico V. Porto I solved this by not building firmware into kernel. It's somewhere in Linux config General Options. Yes it's just make. Then I tried compiling the kernel, I got the same error with installing firmware. But I lied in the other message ;) The location of the option is: Symbol: FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL [=n] | Type : boolean │ Prompt: Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary │ Defined at drivers/base/Kconfig:80 │ Depends on: FW_LOADER [=y] │ Location: │ - Device Drivers │ - Generic Driver Options │ - Userspace firmware loading support (FW_LOADER [=y])
Re: [gentoo-user] TUSB3410 on 3.0.6 kernel
2011/11/7 Érico Porto ericoporto2...@gmail.com: Yeah, seem udev is the problem. I'm reading http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/how-to-write-udev-rules/ It seems once this is done right, thing will work Thanks! (right now, it sees it as generic usb something...) Érico V. Porto On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Érico Porto wrote: so now the module is loadable through modprobe, it all makes with no errors. It's probably out of this topic, but shouldn't I see a ttyUSB or something like that in my /dev/ ? I tried using modprobe ti_usb_3410_5052 product=0451 vendor f432 I just wanted to read the virtual usb serial out of a Texas launchpad board. This board uses the TUSB3410 chip. I'm asking about this in the texas forums too, just was surprised to see so many fast answers. Érico V. Porto I would think udev would create the device when it is connected or you boot up, whichever comes first. I have no knowledge on the device you are using but do on the kernel part. If you load the module, udev should then see the device and create the file in /dev. That's the theory anyway. You can use udevadm monitor to see if udev sees it as it should. You can also tail -f /var/log/messages to see what happens when you connect it or look in dmesg. One or more of those should tell you what is not working. Dale :-) :-) I'm also not familiar with your device, but some devices need to be mode switched manually if they show up as something different. You can use usb-modeswitch for that or some more convenient tool like sakis3g: http://www.sakis3g.org/ Btw: I'll report a bug in Gentoo's Bugzilla regarding your (and mine) problem. Maybe others are affected too and this option can be switched off at least for genkernel users.
Re: [gentoo-user] TUSB3410 on 3.0.6 kernel
2011/11/7 Érico Porto ericoporto2...@gmail.com: oh no, I don't think it is a bug. I mean, this is suposed to be open using some tool named mspdebug of some sorta: http://hackaday.com/2010/08/11/how-to-launchpad-programming-with-linux/ But I know this chip is a usb to serial adapter, only the product Id is exchanged to be a Development Tool. To change the vendor and product id, I found a how-to here : http://www.brimson.com/downloads/ti_usb_multitech_release_notes-1.1.txt It doesn't seem to do nothing, but maybe I have to write some code on the msp before. I haven't used this board much, but it is the only thing I have to test now - I need to interface with a gps chip, but I have no serials available, so later I plan to use this chip. I know I have loaded this as a serial long before... Érico V. Porto On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Aljosha Papsch papsch...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/11/7 Érico Porto ericoporto2...@gmail.com: Yeah, seem udev is the problem. I'm reading http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/how-to-write-udev-rules/ It seems once this is done right, thing will work Thanks! (right now, it sees it as generic usb something...) Érico V. Porto On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Érico Porto wrote: so now the module is loadable through modprobe, it all makes with no errors. It's probably out of this topic, but shouldn't I see a ttyUSB or something like that in my /dev/ ? I tried using modprobe ti_usb_3410_5052 product=0451 vendor f432 I just wanted to read the virtual usb serial out of a Texas launchpad board. This board uses the TUSB3410 chip. I'm asking about this in the texas forums too, just was surprised to see so many fast answers. Érico V. Porto I would think udev would create the device when it is connected or you boot up, whichever comes first. I have no knowledge on the device you are using but do on the kernel part. If you load the module, udev should then see the device and create the file in /dev. That's the theory anyway. You can use udevadm monitor to see if udev sees it as it should. You can also tail -f /var/log/messages to see what happens when you connect it or look in dmesg. One or more of those should tell you what is not working. Dale :-) :-) I'm also not familiar with your device, but some devices need to be mode switched manually if they show up as something different. You can use usb-modeswitch for that or some more convenient tool like sakis3g: http://www.sakis3g.org/ Btw: I'll report a bug in Gentoo's Bugzilla regarding your (and mine) problem. Maybe others are affected too and this option can be switched off at least for genkernel users. Sorry, I wasn't clear enough: I reported the bug, that installation of the kernel will fail if FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is enabled. You can add you to the list, if you want: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389775
