[gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring
I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded disk. It mostly works, but the VIA graphics chips means no compositing, no beryl, and anything OpenGL is slow. I'm looking to upgrade and while I'm aware of the vendors specializing in Linux laptops. I also keep seeing some comparably equipped machines at the local office super store for sub $1000 prices. Does anyone know of a bootable CD intended for testing laptop (or desktop) functionality? I'm hoping someone out there has built something on top of Knoppix or Gentoo's LiveCD that will examine the hardware and report what's good and what's bad. Anyone familiar with such a disc? dcm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] kernel install fails, update-grub not found [solved]
Ugh what a mess. I'm posting what happened and why in case anyone else stumbles into this. I sync'd portage on Saturday. Then on yesterday I tweaked a kernel config setting and grub.conf. When I tried to 'make install' I got an error that update-grub was not found and would I like to make a boot disk. After much digging I tracked it down to debianutils-2.18. The /sbin/mkboot it installs wants to use update-grub to modify grub.conf, but debianutils-2.18 does not install update-grub. It appears that for a brief period Saturday debianutils-2.18 was released unmasked. It's fixed now, but i spent a large chunk of yesterday tearing my hair out trying to figure how I screwed up the kernel (suspend2-sources) and/or grub. Another sync will set things right with debianutils-2.18 arch masked. dcm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster
Check that you have CONFIG_UNIX=y in your .config. The udev daemon (udevd) listens on a unix domain socket. When udevd doesn't run your hda3 device is not created in /dev which explains the later messages. I'm not sure why udevstart would crash your system though. Do you get a kernel oops or does it just reboot? dcm On 4/11/07, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII, re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel it's time to call on the authorities. Don't even have gpm so I can't scroll the choice bits of the boot messages. It all starts to fall apart on the following line in the boot console * Starting udev... then udevd[367]: init_udevd socket: error getting socket: Address family not supported by protocol error initializing udevd socket udevd[367]: main: error initializing udevd socket [!!] ... * Checking root filesystem... Failed to open the device '/dev/hda3': No such file or directory * Filesystem couldn't be fe fixed :( [!!] Give root password for maintenance /dev/hda3 is reiserfs and reiserfs support is configured into the kernel as is ATA and IDE support. /etc/fstab is the same one(modified for different partitioning systems, of course) I've been using for years. /etc/fstab is not the problem. Yes, I did this: File systems --- Pseudo filesystems --- [*] /proc file system support [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs) And have baselayout-1.12.9. When I chroot from the livecd(2005.1) everything seems to work; the modules all load, the software works etc. So, I'm at a complete loss. FWIW, when I do boot the maintenance console and run udevstart the system crashes forcing a reset. -mw Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo
On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:24:57 -0600, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 06:34 -0600, Roberto Martinez wrote: this sort of thing is often due to inconsistent/missing libraries 1. run revdep-rebuild 2. `ldd /usr/bin/firefox` and look for inconsistent/missing libraries 3. `strace /usr/bin/firefox` and see if where it dies gives a clue BillK revdep-rebuild came up with some libraries, but I think I might have an issue with Portage as I've noticed that /etc/portage does not point anywhere... Any ideas where its supposed to symlink ? #gentoo is not very helpful ( at least the peers ) /etc/portage should be a directory, not a symlink. This is where you create package.keywords to enable ~ARCH builds, package.unmask to enable explicitly masked packages, package.use to set per-package USE flags, etc. The symlink you're thinking of is /etc/make.profile and it should point to something like /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop. Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.2. As a general rule, I always run revdep-rebuild with -p and ignore any gripes about openoffice-bin. Openoffice-bin comes with a lot of private libraries the supercede those in /usr/lib and reddep-rebuild doesn't know how to resolve those correctly. There's no ebuild for openoffice-bin-2.0.2 because that release is no longer in portage. Running emerge -u openoffice-bin will upgrade you to 2.1.0 which is currently the only open office binary release in portage. Running ldd on /usr/bin/firefox won't give any useful information since that is just a script that runs mozilla-launcher with the real binary. Instead, run ldd on /usr/lib/mozilla-firefor/firefox-bin which is the actual binary. You should not get any 'not found' messages. If anything is 'not found' then you need to move on to which package needs to be rebuilt. dcm dcm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...
On 1/3/07, Strong Cypher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you try to mount device with sync option ? It's strange, your lspci show you have uhci usb controller and lspci -v said you have ohci controller ... They're from 2 different machines. The lspci was from the freezing laptop, but the lsusb was from another system (Debian) where the usb drive works. I wanted to confirm the USB version (2.0) and that the drive was self powered and not trying to pull too much power from the laptop. dcm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel
try grepping for need in /etc/runlevels/boot/* and /etc/runlevels/offline/* to see if any of your boot or offline services has a dependency on networking..If there is something that requires net, see if setting RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING=lo in /etc/conf.d/rc will do the trick. If that doesn;t work, then you may need to remove the service from that softlevel. Also check for PROGRAM keys in your /etc/udev/rules.d/* to make sure it's not udev trying to start the device. However, I don't believe there's anything like that in the default rule sets.And, I'll second Richard, emerge ifplugd dcmOn 11/15/06, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flophouse Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible that there are still some services set to start in the boot runlevel that would be more appropriate in the default or offline runlevel? JoeWell, the only script in boot that looks promising is net.lo : I hadconsidered removing it from boot but decided to ask before (possibly) making abig problem from a small one.Thanks,Roger--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VMware legal question
If you don't mond ~x86, you may also want to take a look at app-emulation/vmware-server it's not a trial version and it will let you create images.dcmOn 11/10/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: I apologize for the offtopic, but I think my question and especially its answer would be of interest to other list members. I'm concerned about this because I'll have to do something similar in the near future and I don't want to break any laws. Is it legal to do the following: 1) emerge vmware-workstation 2) build some images (within the 30 day trial period) 3) emerge -C vmware-workstation (within the 30 day trial period) 4) emerge vmware-player and use it to play the images created by vmware-workstationThanks for your answers, guys!Bo, you are right (as usual) - I should have searched before asking, but since it's an OT it never crossed my mind that someone had alreadyposted this question here.Raymond, thank you very much for pointing this site out. I think itcould come very useful.Novensiles, thanks for the straight confirmation! Everyone, have a nice weekend! :)--Best regards,Daniel--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: how thorough is #emerge --sync?
You both seem to be arguing about what constitutes stable. And there are 2 different definitions: stable as defined by the upstream source and stable as defined in portage.In this case, the upstream stable is 0.9.3 and the portage stable os 0.8.Not appreciating the distinction, Maxim was asking why he's not getting the latest stable (expecting the upstream stable).Alexander's comments reflect the portage stable, but don't take in to account that portage does not always keep up. In fact, in this case it's languished rather badly. 0.9.1 was added to bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87626) in Apr-05It looks like it was added to portage in Nov-05 It's been in portage for 11 months, with no bugs filed against it, and it's still ~x86.0.9.2 was added to bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id= ) in Dec-05It l was added to portage in Feb-06It's been in portage for 8 months, with no bugs filed against it, and it's still ~x86. Now, Darren has added a bug for 0.9.3 and a month later, it's still waiting to get added to portage.His issue is 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 should have been stable by now.So, while Alexander is technically correct, (emerge is doing exactly what it should) this not a good thing, because portage is still delivering older, buggy code. Unfortunately, getting ebuilds marked stable requires the intervention of a Gentoo developer and while the documentation says what *should* happen, it does not say what to do when something falls through the cracks. I would suggest Darren look through the develoiper list (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml) for developers handling media-sound. Add them to the cc list on the 0.9.2 ebuild and add a comment asking that it be marked stable. And ask for the 0.9.3 to be added as ~x86dcmOn 10/19/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Darren Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoth the Alexander Skwar Darren, on the other hand, seems to have some misunderstanding about how portage works. Stop being so bloody obtuse and read my response to Willie. I know perfectly well how portage works. I am taking issues with your vague responses which are open to several interpretations.No, they are not. I said, that it is unreasonable to expect, thatemerge should offer a version other than 0.8 of dir2ogg, as that'sthe latest stable. Or rather, I asked maxim why he thinks, thata version, other than the latest stable (ie. 0.8), should beoffered. You would be well served by writing a clear and concise response I did. If you try to interprete it somehow and you get it wrong,than I'm terribly sorry for that, but that's just not my problem. rather than another open-ended question if you want to get your point accross. My point is, that emerge offers, by default, to install the lateststable version. I wanted to make maxim think about why he expectsa different version. Just because there's a newer version of some program out there in the wild, doesn't mean, that it'll be available to emerge/portage through some sort of magic. That's certainly not what I think,I didn't say so, did I?Alexander Skwar--rcw those apparently-bacteria-like multicolor worms coming out of microsoft's backorificercw that's the backoffice logo--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xorg crashing on logout
I logged out today and Xorg crashed with this trace:Backtrace:0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c33c1]1: [0xe420]2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so(xf86SetCursor+0x109) [0xaf98f6e9] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so [0xaf98ed46]4: /usr/bin/X(miPointerUpdate+0x165) [0x8110e15]5: /usr/bin/X [0x8110f39]6: /usr/bin/X [0x812700e]7: /usr/bin/X [0x814c8e7]8: /usr/bin/X(DefineInitialRootWindow+0x128) [0x808f468] 9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x448) [0x806e5c8]10: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7c8187c]11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xad) [0x806d931]Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server abortingUnfortunately, I do not know when the last time was that I logged out (as opposed to rebooting), so I'm not sure what changed.Any ideas where I should start looking? FWIW, this is completely reproducible. The annoying bit is X crashes, but kdm does not, so when I switched to VT7 (thinking I had somehow switched to VT1) I was stuck there. I take it X needs to be running for ctrl-alt-F1 to be processed? dcm
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Sansa e260 MicroSD
Thanks! That was it. I now have another gig of /dev/sdb1 goodness.dcmOn 10/3/06, Steve McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 22:41 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: I'm trying to get my Sansae260 to work under Gentoo. I can mount the flash via /dev/sda1, but I can't find the microSD card under linux. I expected it would show up as /dev/sdb or something like that, but no dice.I think this might be the same problem I had with my USB 5-in-1cardreader. It would only recognize one of the slots until I recompiledthe kernel kernel with Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device. It's under Device Drivers-SCSI device support.HTH,-Steve--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?
emerge app-admin/sudo Edit /etc/sudoers and add: username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 Where username is his login. To run it: sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart dcmOn 10/2/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have a machine here, my son's, which runs Gentoo and uses (Ithink) a D-Link 802.11abg NIC:03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G802.11abg NIC (rev 01) The setup uses ndiswrapper to load the Windows driver. For some reason this NIC seems to go off line quite a bit - maybe once a day.I'm assuming that this is caused by the Windows driver ndiswrapperhaving some sort of problem that is probably light years beyond my ability to debug. However running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart alwaysseems to get it going again. How can I set up the system to allow my son to run this commandhimself as a user? It appears that the script itself is runnable by a user, but when we try it I get a message that only root can run initscripts.Sector9 ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/net.*lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 16 10:14 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 - net.lo-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30341 Sep 16 10:27 /etc/init.d/net.lo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 29 11:31 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 - net.loSector9 ~ # Is there an easy way to make this one script runnable by my son sothat when I'm not around he can get things going again? On the other hand if there is an Open Source Linux driver for thiscard I'd love to install thatbut I don't know of one.Thanks,Mark--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Sansa e260 MicroSD
I'm trying to get my Sansa e260 to work under Gentoo.I can mount the flash via /dev/sda1, but I can't find the microSD card under linux.I expected it would show up as /dev/sdb or something like that, but no dice. lsusb gives me:Bus 001 Device 014: ID 0781:7421 SanDisk Corp.When it's plugged in, this is what dmesg reports:usb-storage: device found at 14 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: SanDisk Model: Sansa e260 Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00SCSI device sda: 7854080 512-byte hdwr sectors (4021 MB) sda: Write Protect is offsda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00sda: assuming drive cache: write throughSCSI device sda: 7854080 512-byte hdwr sectors (4021 MB)sda: Write Protect is offsda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write throughsda: sda1 sda2sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdausb-storage: device scan completeSyslog reports basically the same information with this additional line: [scsi.agent] disk at /devices/pci:00/:00:11.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:128.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0The only nodes udev creates is sda, sda1, and sda2. The sda1 is the accessible built-in flash and sda2 is the firmware image. Am I missing a kernel module? Any ideas? Even if it's just a pointer to a better place to ask this questiondcm.
Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?
The % means the USE flag is new sine you installed dvdrip. The parenthesis mean the flag he either been subsequently deleted, or is masked by your profile. In this case, the three flags shown (cdr, gnome, minimal, and rar) are not supported by dvdrip-0.98.1.dcmOn 9/3/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:12:18AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 060903 Alexander Skwar wrote: I ran emerge -vp dvdrip and got: [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] \USE=(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) \ -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid 0 kB Why are some of those USE flags, like cdr or gnome, set in brackets? Not here : [ebuildN ] media-video/dvdrip-0.52.7-r1 \USE=cdr -gnome -mplayer -ogg -rar -subtitles -xvid 513 kB -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___,Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---'University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listOf course there not... you are using STABLE (+) while Alexander isusing UNSTABLE (~). So your ebuilds are different.But here aren't those either. And what I can tell you is that I've seen them somewhere (and '%') symbol that I don't know exactly whatmeans.I haven't found any documentation about it. Gentoo is the bestdocumented GNU/Linux distribution, but here I think that is a little trick that hasn't been documented as it should.Bye,Rafael Fernandez Lopez.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] high packet loss
I had something like this a while back, it turned out it was the dsl modem was picking up RF interference from a dimmer switch.If the light was full on or full off it was fine, but anywhere in between and it dropped packets like crazy. I added a choke on the lamp's power line and it's been fine since. YMMV. dcmOn 7/27/06, Eray Aslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,I wanted to change the router/firewall at a small office lan to hardenedgentoo.The machine in question sits between a consumer grade adsl modemand 3 different networks (so a total of 4 eth cards on the server). However, there is a high packet loss (25-50%) between server and adslmodem.cat /proc/net/dev reveals high error count on the receive side ofthe eth card connected to modem (transmit side has no errors).I changed the eth card and the network cable but the problem stays the same.The same eth card and cable works without any errors with a FC3 server.Iam beginning to think that the errors are because of a faulty (on my part) sofware config.I am out of ideas to try.Any pointers to possible causes of high packetloss are highly appreciated.Thank you--Eray--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Identical machines - dissimilar results - trying to fix
In reverse order...The % means it's a new use flag added to the ebuild. It did not exist when the package was originally emerged.dDo not remove the old gcc (3.3.4) until you've got everything rebuilt with 3.4.6 .Here's everything you need to know on upgrading the compiler version:http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xmldcm On 7/27/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two 15-month old Pundit-R machines that I've been updating.One machine (myth12) I rebuilt from scratch. It works. On the secondmachine (myth14) I went the update path since it also servers as a NFS server and was hard to take off-line. It is not working. Theoverriding problem right now is that the ati-driver does not loadcorrectly on Myth14. ati-drivers is required as I use the TV output,not the VGA to drive the TV inputs. I've been going through the machines with a fine tooth comb lookingfor differences and they are now very close except for a couple ofthings that I would very much like to get some info on. Thanks in advance1) Myth12, which works, only uses gcc-3.4.6-r1. Myth14, which wasupdated, has both gcc-3.4.6-r1 as well as gcc-3.3.6.2) Myth12, which works, has libstdc++ installed while Myth14 does not. myth12 ~ # eix -I libstdc* sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 Available versions:~3.3.3-r1 3.3.4 ~3.3.6 Installed: 3.3.4 Homepage:http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/ Description: Compatibility package for running binarieslinked against a pre gcc 3.4 libstdc++myth14 ~ # eix -I libstdcFound 0 matchesmyth14 ~ #3) Myth14 seems to use the older compiler: myth14 ~ # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 * [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopiessp [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednossp [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [8] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [9] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [10] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednosspmyth14 ~ # myth12 ~ # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 * [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednossp myth12 ~ #4) If I diff all the packages that would be installed by emerge -DuN--emptytree world on both machines I see some differences with '%' inthe way the results are reported. What would cause this? myth14 ~ # diff myth12-test-build-list myth14-test-build-list38,39c38,39 [ebuildN] sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4USE=nls nptl -build 22,784 kB [ebuildN] sys-kernel/linux- headers-2.6.11-r2USE=-gcc64% 36,470 kB--- [ebuildN] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6USE=fortran gtk nls -bootstrap -boundschecking -build -doc -gcj -hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -vanilla 23,522 kB [ebuildN] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r2USE=-gcc64 36,470 kB52c52 [ebuildN] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05USE=perl% -minimal% 7 kB--- [ebuildN] dev-perl/Locale- gettext-1.05USE=perl -minimal 7 kB219a220,221 [ebuildN] net-nds/portmap-5b-r9USE=tcpd 18 kB [ebuildN] net-fs/nfs-utils-1.0.6-r6USE=tcpd 259 kB285c287 Total size of downloads: 429,413 kB--- Total size of downloads: 430,429 kBmyth14 ~ #QUESTION: How would I make Myth14 work like Myth12?1) Can I safely emerge libstdc++ on Myth14, use gcc-config to twitch to the new compiler, and then emerge -C gcc-3.3.4? Will Myth14 stillfunction?2) What is causing the differences in the output of emerge with the'%' on someuse flags? How can I make those identical? What else might I need to do?Thanks,Mark--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces
=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14)The trick here is to unmerge pam-login, then merge shadow with USE=pam.The functionality of pam-login has been folded into shadow, so using pam-login is deprecated. dcmOn 7/6/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/06, Molle Bestefich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snip ... Any other suggestions?Dont snip.The relevant part comes *after* the blocks lines. Also, you are mis-interpreting the blocks lines.The correctreading of X (is blocking Y) is that you have (or should have) Xinstalled, and now portage wants to install Y instead.Usually this is because Y supercedes the functionality that used to be provided byX, andin almost all cases, the right thing to do is to unmerge X andmerge Y.The exceptions on your system are pam-login/shadow, and seamonkey/mozilla.For some reason portage wants to install/keepboth.This is where you need to look at the *full* --tree output tosee what is trying to pull those packages in.-Richard-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved
On 7/9/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WouldPORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pass_with_:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mailserver:port work? For clarification:user= user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]pass=pass_with_:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailserver=mailserverport=port Well, ymmv, but assuming the mailer parses the uri the same way HTTP does, You would have to percent encode the character with special meanings: So, it would be more like this: user=user%3Aname%40bsp.invalidpass=pass_with_%3A_colon%40domainmailserver=mailserverport=portYeilding: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] user%3Aname%40bsp.invalid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port (Line break added to discourage wrapping)dcm
Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual
An option for ports that don't need to be open constantly (like 80 443) is to use net-misc/knockd.Portknocking allows a port to be opened on demand in response to a series of attempted port opens.There's a wiki page on it here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Port_Knocking.Note, if he is on the same LAN as you or the machine you're trying to secure, this will only slow him down, not stop him. (he can sniff packets and determine the knock sequence.) dcmOn 7/6/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Susbauer wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or something and then totally block that off.That's send him away right quickly.I don't know enough to know if that'd be totally possible, but if the guy isn't terribly intelligent, that'll send him packing. net-analyzer/macchanger ;) What's this? Portage on Windows? More just to mention that there is such a thing out there.And if it exists for us, chances are he has a similar tool available. However, if you block his mac without an error message, then he can't know how you're identifying him to block him.He probably won't know what to do, and just might give up then.Worth a try, if nothing else.Yeah, that's pretty much true. For a LAN. Doying it at the Internetwould most probably blacklist a entire subnet that's routed to you with that MAC. So, not worth a try, it would be something more toconfigure, and get you no benefit at all, while risking making yourmachine invisible for people who could use the services you are tryingto securely provide. --Daniel da VeigaComputer Operator - RS - Brazil-BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-Version: 3.1GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V-PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCKgentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't
#1 USE=pam emerge shadow#2 Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add/uncommenth this line: session optional pam_xauth.sodcmOn 6/20/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michaelaccount, root can't use GUI apps.It used to be able to before theinstall, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enableit.How would I go about doing that? --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] does anyone here speak japanese? please help in translaton
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild madness.
You need USE=-gcjOn 6/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] write [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using revdep-rebuild it finds: Hi, Bug-125728, *or* disable java USE flag for GCC. Rumen Thanks... and I'm probably mis-understanding something here but Idon't see `java' as a USE flag that gcc knows anything about: emerge -vp gccThese are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done![ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1USE=fortran gcj gtk nls objc \ -bootstrap -build -doc -hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -mudflap -multislot-nocxx -objc++ -objc-gc -vanilla 0 kB -java shows the same thing:root # USE=-java emerge -vp gccThese are the packages that would be merged, in order:Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1USE=fortran gcj gtk nls objc \ -bootstrap -build -doc -hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -mudflap \ -multislot -nocxx -objc++ -objc-gc -vanilla 0 kB-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X11: Authenticating user on su
Emerge shadow with USE=pam, then in /etc/pam.d/su add the line:session optional pam_xauth.soYes, it really is that easy. Of course it took me a couple of days to find it the first time.dcm On 6/15/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks,I'd like to authenticate an user to the Xserver on su(MIT cookie auth). How can I do this ?thx--- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481- -- DSL ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- Webshops --- --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?
KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image generation. It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then set it as the background. dcm On 6/14/06, 张 �|武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. Star moves in the sky all the time: 1) the star map in 20:00 is different from 21:00 2) the star map in today 20:00 is different from what it was yesterday 20:00 3) the star map in one city is different from in another city at the same time I am looking for an application dynamically change the backgroup of my gnome desktop, showing the correct starmap of the very city I am in, of the very day and correct moment. That might require the desktop image being replaced once 15 miniutes, that doesn't matter, that's what I need. Just U am too stupid to find it on the google, have anyone heard of such application before? The cloeset I could find is nightfall http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Wichmann/Nightfall.html But still, that is too complicated and very accurite, what I really want is some fancy desktop decoration, and it's so much of a waste not having such a tool in an office that can see part of the sky. -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department):0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼 邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005） -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice not
OpenOffice is the one package I have decided I can do without building. I don't know what the build does (honestly, I didn't bother too look), but after 18 hours and 3GB of disk it still wasn't finished. This is on an Athlon XP 1500 with 512GB Ram. I haven't build Gnome in a while, but building all of KDE was about 7 hours. I decided that other than for the satisfaction of saying I built it or getting involved with developing OOo itself, I just could not justify the cpu cycles. dcm On 6/8/06, Leonardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi emerge -pu openoffice These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r1 [1.1.4] I can go on emerging it (and I already started), but I was wondering if it's possible that other packages are not updated as this one and what the reason for it could be. By the way, trying emerging it, it compiled other 7 packages before, and than goes on to compile openoffice, but stops with an error, I'll try to look if some USE flags are incompatible: echo XML2MK_FILES += mcnttype ../../unxlngi4.pro/misc/mcnttype.mk dmake: Executing shell macro: xml2cmp -types stdout $(MISC)$/$(COMP1TYPELIST)$($(WINVERSIONNAMES)_MAJOR).xml cppumaker @/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.2-r1/temp/mk08iD95 touch ../../unxlngi4.pro/inc/mcnttype_headergen.done rdbmaker -BUCR -O../../unxlngi4.pro/bin/mcnttype.rdb @/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.2-r1/temp/mkO1IlOu rdbmaker ERROR: cannot dump Type 'com/sun/star/container/NoSuchElementException' dmake: Error code 99, while making '../../unxlngi4.pro/bin/mcnttype.rdb' '---* tg_merge.mk *---' ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.2-r1/work/ooo-build-2.0.2.9/build/OOO_2_0_2/dtrans/source/cnttype make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1 Ciao, Leo --- Norman Rie� [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm... and what does emerge -pu openoffice show? If there is no update to 2.x shown, then perhaps you could simply try to unmerge and remerge openoffice. Or perhaps someone has a better idea ;-). Norman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice not
Umm, yeah, that should have been an M, not a G. On 6/8/06, Ralph Thaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wtf? 512 GB ram? ^^ 2006/6/8, Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OpenOffice is the one package I have decided I can do without building. I don't know what the build does (honestly, I didn't bother too look), but after 18 hours and 3GB of disk it still wasn't finished. This is on an Athlon XP 1500 with 512GB Ram. I haven't build Gnome in a while, but building all of KDE was about 7 hours. I decided that other than for the satisfaction of saying I built it or getting involved with developing OOo itself, I just could not justify the cpu cycles. dcm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] x-modular + unichrome - anyone have an ebuild?
I'm looking for an ebuild for xf86-video-unichrome (http://unichrome.sf.net) for modular-x. Can anyone help me out? dcm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
This message is being issued by /sbin/module-update. It is called from /etc/init.d/modules to update /etc/modules.conf. It's complaining because /boot has not been mounted yet. As far as I can tell, /boot is treated no differently than any other non-root filesystem. Ultimately, I think, the fault lies in /sbin/rc which should be checking for /boot being a filesystem and mounting it up front.dcmOn 5/10/06, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Glenn Enright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:58 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to checksymbols System.map not found - unable to check symbols. which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). I did a manual kernel compilation To do this, I always do: make all modules_install install This will do all the necessary steps. I tried the make all option and it added a /boot - . Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside/boot/grubthat points to grub.conf. Other than that there nochanges/additionswe made. 'make all' is supposed to compile the kernel, 'makemodules_install' will compile the kernel modules, 'make install' will install the kernel and 'make all modules_install install' will do all three of those things. I tried multiple times, different ways installing the kernel(vanilla sources) and reinstalling grub. Still the same message ofSystem.map not found during booting. I rebooted and had the same problem occurring: System.map not found -- unable to check symbols Could you provide the output of: # df -h | grep boot # ls -l /boot Nothing from the previous commands since /boot is not mounted (it isno in fstab as suggested by the install handbook) # uname -r 2.6.15.1 Where is the message comming from? do you get it during kernel load or once the initscripts with the green stars beside them start doing their thing?Yes after the green starts. The actual message scrolls up tagged with ayellow asterisk I'm guessing from the OP that you have x86 hardware?Yes I have x86 1) If its the kernel load (easier to check) I suggest the following. As root user... - make sure the boot partition is mounted run 'mount /boot' - make sure the /usr/src/linux link is pointing to the kernel you wantto boot from - cd /usr/src/linux - run 'make clean' (this will essentially deletes all the compiledstuff except for your config file, in other words cleans up the tree :) - run 'make all modules_install install' - have a look in /boot to make sure the installer created the appropriate link 'System.map' to the version it just installed. use 'ls -l' to see this - now try a reboot making sure you use the same kernel you justbuilt do you still get the message? If so you may need to alter the kernel config and see if that makes any difference, or you might like to try adifferent kernel version. 2) If its happening while the initscripts load, or at some other time after kernel boot, then its a gentoo specific issue and you need to workthrough those scripts somehow to isolate the cause. -- Thus spake the master programmer: After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless. -- Geoffrey James, The Tao of ProgrammingThanks,--Valmor--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
On 5/10/06, Paul B. Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless it has changed recently, the system I just installed last monthactually looks for it in /usr/src/linux, not /boot. It still complainsduring boot even though I actually have one there, presumably it is looking before filesystems are mounted.Ugh, then it's a duet between /sbin/module-update and /sbin/rc. Looking in /usr/src/linux is just plain wrong. If for any reason I build a kernel, but don't install it, then it's not just looking for data from an unmounted filesystem (/boot or /usr) but it's also looking for the *wrong* System.map. I'm going to file a bug on this. I can imagine cases where this might leave a system hosed.dcm
Re: [gentoo-user] can't configure java
Setting the system JVM is different from setting the user JVM. The system JVM defines what emerge will use to compile *.java source files. As such, the system vm must be a JDK, not a JRE.You really don't want to set 1.5 as your system JVM unless you're trying to fix ebuilds to work with 1.5. Jave 5 introduces new keywords (enum) and constructs (foreach loop, generics) that are not source compatible with previous releases and many packages will not compile with 1.5.If you still really want to run 1.5 as the system JVM (or if you just want 1.5 for use by regular users), then this will tell you all you need to install the 1.5 JDK. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Java_Installation_Help#Java_1.5dcmOn 5/8/06, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:14 Robert Persson was like: When I try to use java-config, the following happens: THIS SYSTEM VM IS NOT SUFFICIENT, REQUIRED BINARIES WERE NOT FOUND System Virtual Machine set You may want to update your enviroment by running: /usr/sbin/env-update source /etc/profile The same thing happens if I try to choose blackdown-jre instead of sun-jre. What do I need to do to get java working properly?For some reason the blackdown and sun jre installs are missing some files that java-setup expects to find. However I have found that sun-jdk does have thosefiles and therefore can be configured properly. I think the same may apply tothe blackdown jdk.Robert--Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears:Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears...--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download
Are you sure it's not a dependency? Try emerge -pD libXext to get a list of everything that is needed to build and install that library.dcmOn 4/4/06, go moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi, all I've no internet connexion on my Gentoo machine, so Idownload first all the files and put them in/usr/portage/distfiles. After that, I can make anemerge package.But for some packages, like libXext, emerge still try to download the files from internet, even if the fileis present in DISTDIR and good.
Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg
It's not enough to just have the libraries, the program that you're using to play the file must know about the file type.Eg: for mplayer you need the vorbis use flag.dcm On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody.I think gentoo is driving me crazy.Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day Iinstalled libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools.But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file. Byeemilio--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD
Just taking a shot in the dark here...Are you sure the CD is actually blank? I know I have made the mistake of replacing a burned disk on my spindle of blanks. Programs vary in their ability to handle an already-written writable disk. On 3/20/06, Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends:I have been trying to burn the Gentoo 2006 ISO image to a Memorex 700 MBCD using Nero 5.5. I first tried to use other CD burning programs. Theyall gave the same error message: No media in the drive or Drive is empty. Please insert CD. Of course, the CD is in the drive. So, when
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp won't synchronize
Make sure you have told you firewall to allow port 123 for both TCP UDP.I had the same behavior until I did that.dcmOn 1/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been struggling with ntp for some time now.I've followed thegentoo wiki HOWTO for ntp:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#NTP As well as many other sources over the months.Basically, ntpqshows that I am not synchronized to any peers:# ntpq -p remote refidst t when poll reach delay offsetjitter== Time4.Stupi.SE.PPS.1 u 37 64377124.516-11202. 1225.91 thesimonet.org.TRUE. 1 u 38 64377109.329-11213. 1232.51 fin.rshell.net192.114.62.249 3 u 32 64377205.910-9569.1 1521.31 titan.cais.rnp. 32.233.177.224 2 u 44 64377165.240-11991. 1915.26That first space in the peers list is a tally mark that, according tothe ntpq documentation at: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpq.htmlMeans that those peers are all rejected: The peer is discarded asunreachable, synchronized to this server (synch loop) or outrageoussynchronization distance. Likewise:# ntpq -c rv | grep stratumprocessor=i686, system=Linux/2.6.14-gentoo-r5, leap=11, stratum=16,I should be at stratum 3, not 16 (which means I'm not synchronized to anything).My /etc/ntp.conf:tinker panic 0minpoll 4maxpoll 10server pool.ntp.orgserver 0.pool.ntp.orgserver 1.pool.ntp.orgserver 2.pool.ntp.orgdriftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.driftlogfile /var/log/ntp.logrestrict default nomodify nopeerrestrict 127.0.0.1Nothing special there!To further clarify, I actually have thisproblem on *two* machines.FWIW, I've also tried the OpenBSDOpenNTP package, but haven't had any luck with that either (except on my OpenBSD machine!).Using OpenNTP on these two machines*seemed* to work fine, but the computers still gained time tooquickly.I've been fighting this for what seems like forever.If anyone has any insight or thoughts, I'm happy to hear it!Thanks,Matt--Matt Garmanemail at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
I ran into this a few days ago. Ah ha, I thought, I just need to update openmotif.Nope, openmotif depended on openmotif-config which was blocked by openmotif.I tried unmasking one, the other, then both all to noavail.
Finally, in frustation I did emerge unmerge openmotif, emerge openmotifand it just worked (pulling in openmotif-config in the process)I for one would like to see portage be a bit smarter about this. It already calculates a dependancy list.
Would it be possible to detect the case where the blocker is part of the dependancy list (ie, will be installed anyway) and automatically offer to unmerge the conflicting package?Or, is this a situation that should be handled with slots? Eg, slot 1 hols openmotif, slot 2 holds openmotif-config newer openmotif.
I can't wait to see the hoop jumping xorg-x11-7.0 will require.-dcm-On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:10:38 +, Tom Martin wrote:
To the portage developers, how could this be handled?Perhaps emerge could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then automatically unmerge the original package?
Not really a question to the portage developers -- just unmerge openmotif (the blocker) and continue as normal.I realise it is not possible to handle all conflicts, butwith some instances, like this one, the conflict is expected. even if
there were just a means to print a message if a package hits a block,something likeif_blocked_by('openmotif')ewarn You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding--Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Incorrect information from /proc/cpuinfo
After a reboot, cpuinfo returned normal values... for a while.My best guess so far is it some how relates to the cpufreq governer.As of 2.6.14, changing between performance and userspace seems to hose up the clock values in cpuinfo. At the moment it is using the userspace governor (powernowd) and returning between 7 and 14 GHz and 15-28k bogomips. So, I'm inclined to think this is a kernel bug. The available clock speeds should be between 500MHz and 1.5GHz.I'm going to reboot again and experiment a bit to see if I can nail down what triggers the abberation.dcmOn 12/13/05, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Devon Miller: If only it were so... Anyone have an idea as to what I've hosed up here? (I'm running 2.6.14-suspend2-r7) dcm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family: 6 model : 8 model name: mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ stepping: 0 cpu MHz : 10676.718 cache size: 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp: yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips: 21376.31Wow, that's pretty fast...Can you think of _anything_ you may have changed since before it was hosed? Ifnot then perhaps you have found a kernel bug.-d--darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue
Do you have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ defined in your kernel config?I have an HP laptop where I have seen similar behavior. After dealing with it for some time, I tracked it down to a problem with changing the cpu's frequency. For a very small period after the clock is changed, the thermal sensor reads back nonsense. I've seen readings like 69... 69... 95... 70... and that's with
0.5 second sampling. I've found 2 workarounds:1) The quick and easy way: /etc/init.d/powernowd stop Now, build x.org /etc/init.d/powernowd start Of course you'll need to replace powernowd with what ever power management daemon you have emerged.
2) The uglier, but potentially more useful fix: Save this as thermal.diff: orig/drivers/acpi/thermal.c 2005-07-07 22:37:
42.0 -0400+++ new/drivers/acpi/thermal.c 2005-06-15 18:30:43.0 -0400@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@#define ACPI_THERMAL_MODE_ACTIVE 0x00#define ACPI_THERMAL_MODE_PASSIVE 0x01#define ACPI_THERMAL_MODE_CRITICAL 0xff
-#define ACPI_THERMAL_PATH_POWEROFF /sbin/poweroff+//#define ACPI_THERMAL_PATH_POWEROFF /sbin/poweroff+#define ACPI_THERMAL_PATH_POWEROFF /sbin/overheat#define ACPI_THERMAL_MAX_ACTIVE 10
#define ACPI_THERMAL_MAX_LIMIT_STR_LEN 65- Patch the kernel by cd'ing to /usr/src/linux and typing:patch -p1 path-to/thermal.diff
This will cause the kernel to call /sbin/overheat instead of /sbin/powerdown if your laptop hits a critical temperature. Save this as /sbin/overheat:-
#!/bin/bashPOWER_MGT_COMMAND=/etc/init.d/powernowdif ${POWER_MGT_COMMAND} status /dev/null ; then ${POWER_MGT_COMMAND} stop cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq \
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed echo -n 0 /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/cooling_mode ( echo System switched to low power mode for cooling cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
) | wallfi- Make /sbin/overheat executable by typing: chmod 755 /sbin/overheat Now, when the thermal sensor reports crazy values, my laptop just slows way down instead of completely stopping.
On my todo list: o After the temperature comes down, reenable power management o If the temperature does not come down in a reasonable period, then shut it down. o A better patch that takes into account cpufreq changes and disable the thermal faults for a few ms after a frequency change. I need to get a better idea of how long the sensor gives erroneous readings.
dcmOn 12/12/05, Mariusz Pękala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
El Domingo, 11 de Diciembre de 2005 11:42, C. Beamer escribió: My issue is this:The computer powered off in the middle of the install of xorg-x11.This has happened a couple of times.I haven't been
having problems with the laptop, so I'm pretty sure the issue has something to do with power management since I built power management into the kernel, but didn't emerge acpid.Anyway, since the emerge of
xorg-x11 has bombed a couple of times, is there anything that I should do in the way of clean up before trying to emerge it again? Colleen On 2005-12-11 17:32:46 +0100 (Sun, Dec), Rafael Fernández López wrote:
I can't find any sense at that issue: I can't understand what's the reason that make your computer turn off in a compilation. Well... I'm afraid of temperature. I hope that's not the reason, but is the
first thing that came to my mind. Maybe in your laptop (I've an Amilo Fujitsu Siemens, and when compiling OO or KDE it is really hot), when it reachs some temperature it turns off because of security reasons.
I cannot find any other reason.I vote for temperature issues too. That is my experience with someAristo laptop - it get very hot very easily and powers off whentemperature exceeds 85 C.
You may try to run something like this while emerging:# while sleep 5 ; do cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature /tmp/temper ; done and hope that part of that file will survive the poweroff - you will see
whether temperature was raising before end.Or you may put something like: ... do cat /proc/acp. | tee -a /tmp/temper ; done in background in the session in which emerge runs and observe the
temperature between compilation lines.The exact path to temperature file may differ, it will be something like/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature - and it will exist only if yourkernel has necessary drivers compiled (or modules inserted).
The /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperture file has about 30 bytes,35 thousands of copies makes 1MB file, so you loop may run for 9hours if storing one copy every second or 48 hours if appending one copy
every 5 seconds.HTH.--No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by 'grep -i virus $MESSAGE'Trust me.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?
On 11/28/05, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that managesconnection/disconnection from the network.I think it was for laptops. But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in portage.I wonder if it would work? Rob. That would be ifplugd. It listens for a variety of state changes such as insertion of a pcmcia/cardbus/usb NIC or presense/absence of carrier on the ethernet device. When a device becomes available, it runs /etc/init.d/net.device start and when the device goes away/loses carrier, it runs /etc/init.d/net.device stop. That should address the first of Michael's issues. I've not used monodevelop, but as I recall from using VS.Net, it wants to talk to the local webserver. Check what /usr/bin/hostname returns when your connected and when you're offline. Make sure when you go offline it isn't still returning something like foo.cablecompany.net. I have my machine's hostname set in /etc/conf.d/hostname and hostname is in my boot run level. -dcm-
[gentoo-user] busybox
I just did an 'emerge sync' and now 'emerge -pDuv world' wants to install busybox. I've only seen busybox used in small/embedded systems, of which this machine is neither. Nothing installed depends on it. So, why does portage insist I need it? dcm
Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag
Brix has been maintaining a suspend2_sources ebuild that handles the patching. http://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/files/overlay/sys-kernel/suspend2-sources/ dcm Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-17 04:40]: - is it possible to patch the gentoo-sources kernel with the suspend2patch? Or will it only apply cleanly to a vanilla kernel?
[gentoo-user] Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu/etc
All of these are built on the same set of libraries and each one downloads and builds its own copy. Is anyone investigating making the common code into a mozilla-core package? I'd really like a way to cut down the time spent building these apps. dcm
