Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root
2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock kevinhadd...@yahoo.com: I'm trying to do distributed compile with a remote machine that I don't have root password to. I have a local account with sudo permissions and an account of the same name on the remote machine. I have set up ssh so I can shell across without entering passwords nor pass phrases. I have even added my user to the group 'wheel' and given it that group permission to execute all commands. I even went so far as to change all the emerge program files in /usr/lib/portage/bin to have g+x and belong to the group wheel, but it still tells me: $ emerge -kuDN world emerge: superuser access is required. Is there any way to do this? Yep: as a member of wheel, you should be able to run emerge 'as root' when sudoing: sudo emerge whatyouwant Gal'
Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root
2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock kevinhadd...@yahoo.com: hmmm... ok, I can see that, but if I use sudo, will distcc try to distribute the compile jobs logging in as my unprivileged user, or will it try doing it as root (on the other machine)? You want to share your compilation tasks with others good. Do you have enough rights to launch emerge localy ? So you have to launch emerge with feature distcc on. What about the other hosts that may help you compiling ? They have to run the distcc daemon, with your IP on the authorized list. Do you have enough privileges to manage/configure the distccd daemon on other machines ? That is the question. You have to ask for it to the admin if you cannot do it in your own. I just want to let you know that shared compilation faces some issues depending on packages: I failed to upgrade gcc using distcc, but disabling it was a fix for my gcc-4.3.2 emerge process. Galevsky
[gentoo-user] Re: Mysql and utf8: Can't initialize character set utf-8
2009/4/30 Galevsky galev...@gmail.com: Hi, I have a problem with mysql 5.0.71-r1 and utf8 charset. snip and now my web sites can't connect to the DBs and I face the following error: Can't initialize character set utf-8 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/) Well can someone tell me if a utf-8 gentoo box shoud have the file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/utf-8.xml ? I could be sure that the matter comes from Portage/flags/whatever else during the installation stage Thank you Galevsky
[gentoo-user] Mysql and utf8: Can't initialize character set utf-8
Hi, I have a problem with mysql 5.0.71-r1 and utf8 charset. I have a lighttpd v1.4.20 web server using php v5.2.9-r2 that provides several websites. I set up the DB server default charset to utf-8 into file /etc/my.cnf [mysqld] character-set-server= utf8 default-character-set = utf8 since I want a utf8 box: ~$ locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_NAME=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_ALL= but I changed the previous en_GB language to fr_FR.UTF-8 a few days ago, and now my web sites can't connect to the DBs and I face the following error: Can't initialize character set utf-8 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/) I have 'unicode' in my USE flags, try to emerge -uDN my whole world but I cannot get any /usr/share/mysql/charsets/utf-8.xml file ! What can I do ? Any support is welcome.. Hereafter my box settings: ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.24.5-grsec--grs-ipv4-32 i686) = System uname: linux-2.6.24.5-grsec--grs-ipv4-32-i686-intel-r-_pentium-r-_dual_cpu_e21...@_2.00ghz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:00:01 + distcc 3.0 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6, 2.5.4-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox:1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /var/bind CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/; LANG=fr_fr.u...@euro LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 LINGUAS=fr en MAKEOPTS=-j3 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage/local/layman/ovh-overlay SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=acl berkdb bzip2 cgi cli cracklib crypt cups dri fastcgi fortran gd gdbm gif gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg midi mmx mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xml xorg zlib ALSA_CARDS=ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text LINGUAS=fr en USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Galevsky
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations
2008/11/25 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could he not share /boot? He may want to have a different set of kernels for some reason but couldn't he even share those? I ask cause I shared when I dual booted Mandrake and Gentoo. Naturally Mandrake didn't last long. LOL It did have different kernels tho. Mandrake used modules like a mad man. Look at the kernel definition line: kernel (hd1,1)/boot/kernel-2.6.27-r4 root=/dev/hdb2 You have to specify a file as a kernel and a / partition. Wherever they are. If you want to share -or not- a unique /boot, feel free. Galevsky
[gentoo-user] Problem with lighttpd web serveur
Hi all, I am facing a weird issue: I have an image stored in a public directory that can be reached by its url with any browser. No problem to display it (from everywhere). But when I try to access it from my post on any forum (with BBCode [img] tag), the image is not displayed. Any idea ? a problem with the authentification module ? Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I haven't had any difficulties with the nVidia drivers. I'm running a GeForce 7900GTX, which uses the same linux driver as the Quadro does. Same here with nvidia driver on a 8800GTS GC. A former ATI addict who left for performance issues. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Video cards is the big sticking point For sure. But I guess that he wants to satellite his GC with the last Windows games, so I would recommend a 8800. And his NVIDIA wont hurt for a common desktop usage. As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard
Tank you. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS driver. You can try the nouveau* drivers but they're still experimental. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would doubt that this is possible. I once feature-requested on the slim-dev mailing list [1] for the root password to be removed [2], but dunno if the devels took this into account. Since recently SLiM got back to active development, it might be worth asking there again. Thanks for you reply Liviu. I am going to ask to the dev team :) Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown
Hi, I am running the display manager slim and I would like to know if it is possible to get a reboot/shutdown button instead of typing 'halt' as the login and the root password. Perhaps with a custom theme ? Thks, Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amar Cosic skrev: emerge kde-misc/krename and see if it is useful to you. emerging extra stuff just for a very simple mv or rename ? Oh my God . Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 14, 2008 1:19 AM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me explain. You began complaining because the Gentoo live cd *exists*, but it is out of date and didn't support your hardware. It's a reasonable complain in the assumption you need the Gentoo cd (and you can't do with anything else): you of course want your hardware to be supported by the medium installation. Now, imagine the official Gentoo live cd *never existed*. You probably just would have picked up some cd you knew supported your system (say, latest Ubuntu) and installed using that. No complaining, no discussions, everyone happy. You are right. See? Having the Gentoo live cd *was wrong from the beginning*. It put another fairly complex piece of software to support on developer shoulders, offered vanishingly little benefit, and when it fails it immediately puts blame on Gentoo: hey this cd doesn't support my hardware, wtf that can offset potential users. Still right. The reason other distro have complex live cds for installing is that they *need that*. Gentoo does not need this additional complexity. Nevertheless a live cd there was, but as you experienced, it's more the trouble it causes than that it solves. I disagree. Gentoo needs it too. Because *THE* point that made me love Gentoo *in the FIRST second*, was: GOD !!! look at this wonderful handbook look at that so didactic installation way !!! Let's boot the minimal CD and burn a full LiveCD ! And I was so happy to get my minimal/live CD's that I think Yeah, a very nice distro, taking your hand from the beginning to bring knowledge step-by-step, providing all that you need... software and amazing doc. And not having a live cd on which Gentoo is obliged to depend is not a bug: sir, it's a feature! The live cd didn't support my Macbook Pro networking. Well, fine: Kubuntu did. I had a Kubuntu 7.10 cd around, booted from that, no hassle at all. Other distros have to support their own live cd, and if it fails, installation is impossible. With Gentoo, we have the full monty of live cds to choose within. It's like a distro with infinite installers. Yes. It is a feature. As well as the possibility to use minimal/live CD. Look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/ and read the first task requiring staff: 1 accessibilityRequested on November 19, 2006 by William Hubbs: Gentoo's accessibility project is in need of help with things such as ebuild maintenance, kernel hacking, and *LiveCD creation*. We're also in need of someone to assist with bug solving. also at the so wonderful handbook, step 2. Choosing the Right Installation Medium... The feature is *you can* start from any booted linux to setup your Gentoo kernel. Right. But not there is no Gentoo liveCD and it is what we want. You are free to create a live cd for Gentoo install, but you're doing nothing new nor particularly useful. You'll just add one to the list. Why? Because I want. It is sufficient for me. Further details ? I would like to bring the excitation to burn a Gentoo CD to noobs and people that are pleased to get their CD from Gentoo world. And I want a liveCD to make live demo in my linux promotional association, to show how easy emerge is, how very nicely the rc are handled (not based on naming as debian does) and so on... Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 14, 2008 10:17 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:27:30 +0100, b.n. wrote: If I can give you an advice: don't create a new livecd from scratch. Take an Ubuntu, Knoppix or similar live cd, just add these three files in a /gentoo directory, and re-release it xerox, with just the three files added and a Gentoo logo somewhere. Or simply rebuild the existing CD with a newer kernel. Almost all of the complaints about it being out of date can be traced back to the users' hardware not being supported in the kernel used a year ago. +1, at least for the minimal CD ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 14, 2008 10:39 AM, Cocoy Dayao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah. i agree. In fact, imho the most perfect gentoo installer is the mini live cd! what more can anybody need? would it take much effort to maintain/refresh a mini live cd installer? Couldn't that be refreshed every couple of months? Having an installer gets newbies to like gentoo, reduces the barrier of entry and gets new blood for the community and introduces users to a whole new world and still give newbies the general idea of what gentoo is. not to mention give old hats a quick way to just get gentoo up and running as quickly as possible. if newbies find the mini live cd too difficult, then gentoo is probably not for them is it? Anything greater than a mini install cd i think, the community has the right to expect contributors to help develop. just my two cents worth. Agreed. IMHO, the noob should start with the handbook on his legs and the minimal CD this is the best way to start for a beginner. But liveCD are also interesting for networkless people... gimme one reason not to provide good liveCD to these people that will re-build -with custom USE flags- the embedded packages ? I can't find Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?
What looks strange -from an external point of view- is that there is lots of high-skilled people here... with huge Gentoo experience. How did these people not manage to build some plan ? With all the engineers, team leaders, project chiefs, and so on... involved in Gentoo project ? It looks like you have the abilities to analyse the situation, you are the ones who can tell we need that to go ahead, you know how to plan, you used to live in an open community -that implies that you have very good notions about smart productive attitudes in a not-lucrative environment- and you have the skills to implement and deploy the solutions. I don't know Daniel Robbins's previous work so I just have the right to shut up (and do it with respect). But when I read this thread, I understand that this man' plans should/will/must? be validated before by Trustees, but also by the whole committed community (devs mostly included) because they could not accept major changes without their agreement (risks of fork). So -from an external point of view, again- it comes to me that the devs and really involved people will estimate/evaluate the proposals... and it sounds good since they are the core of current Gentoo maintenance and development. But what about having work plans directly from devs ? I know that you are very busy... but I am sure that Gentoo future could benefit from experienced people, like Alan, as an example. Is it possible to get some public report, written by devs that have something to tell, explaining the current main issues, what Gentoo should do starting from now, and the plans for near future ? Maybe with several propositions Because what is sure is that non-devs face difficulties to get a clear view of Gentoo status... Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild that installs partprobe
On 1/14/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a wonderful new tool available for questions like this!! http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery?dir=package=full_file=file=partprobeversion=pflquery=submitted Many tanks, it is a good URL to know :) Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 14, 2008 5:54 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're excited by different things :) No doubt :) Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 13, 2008 7:03 PM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008. 01. 13, vasárnap keltezéssel 17.46-kor Ken Gypen ezt írta: I agree that Gentoo shouldn't become an Ubuntu like distro, but the minimal install cd is, at least for me, a requirement. ... Regards, Ken After reading lot of posts regarding install cd, I decided, I will create livecd for install purposes, with: - handbook - fresh stage3 for i686 - portage snapshot I will try to keep it up-to-date. Anyway, I'm not a dev member, just a user with motivation to do this. Are anybody interesting in this kind of release? Cheers, István I can't help you immediately, but be sure I am going to help you if you'll still need it in a few months. For me, the key is to keep the handbook up-to-date. IMHO, it is a must. Having a 2. Choosing the Right Installation Medium section not able to provide good information for new users is really painful. Gentoo is known as one of the best documented distro and I am sure that it is a crucial point to mind. Gal'
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 13, 2008 8:03 PM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will prepare a project page on my website and I try to create the first release in some weeks. Probably less, than one, depends on my free time. I will send a mail to this list to inform you about the progress :) Sounds good :) But as a very-soon action to undertake, I think that the official handbook on gentoo.org should be modified as follow: -add an important note on top of step 2 saying that the current minimal/live CDs of Gentoo are outdated and people requiring lastest kernel should use another liveCD (GRML/knoppix or others) then download the stage3 tarball to keep on the installation. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 13, 2008 8:24 PM, Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'd rather say, that it would be better, if there were no install CD at all. But it can be done. It's not worth the effort, though, as far as I'm concerned. Since your are not concerned about releasing them, you should find no issue to let others do it. It is the community spirit, when folks add a new way to do something, just enlarging the panel of possibilities without negative impact on existing solutions, even if it doesn't suit your own needs, since you still have the possibility to setup your system by the older way, there is no reason to prevent motivated people from implementing their alternative solution. For PXE, GRML as well as gentoo minimal cd installations, what is mostly important is freedom to choose :) Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?
On Jan 11, 2008 11:19 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008, Galevsky wrote: You can say that devs have no time to make it, but please, don't tell that Gentoo doesn't need any installCD (outdated means no CD at all for many computers nowaday). Please tell me where I said any such thing. As I said, outdated means no CD at all for many computers nowaday. And I tought you told us that the current Gentoo installCD has no need to be upgraded. I'll give you a clue - I didn't. I asked you why you think the install CD needs updated. I misunderstood your question... Apparently your answer to that is that you have a ICH9 machine. That's fine, it's reasonable to need that supported on the BootCD. Was it really necessary to take out your frustrations/whatever with the installer on me on a public mailing list? Hmmm? Sorry if I were rude with you Alan, it was not my intentions, plus I mixed up you question with the affirmation no need to update. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?
On Jan 11, 2008 10:38 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Shaochun Wang: Currently, Gentoo has not updated its installation CD for a long time! They don't need to. One week ago I used a GRML cd to install a new Gentoo system. On Jan 11, 2008 10:22 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you think gentoo *needs* to update it's install CD? Because Gentoo is a distro, and as a distro, it should have a way to be installed on a computer... I upgraded my hardware recently and my previous gentoo distro was not able to boot (ICH9 + JMicron controller) because no SATA HD was recognized with my old 2.6.18 kernel the only way to boot was livecd with right kernel/modules. But Gentoo was not able to provide a *so basic feature*, the one that let me boot on my computer and you see no needs with that ? Well, if Gentoo is not able to make my computer booting, it is sure that I have no need to get maintained portage nor any one of the ebuilds... To fix my problem, I had a look at other distro LiveCD, but had a too old kernel inside, then fell back to a custom-made Gentoo LiveCD found on the gentoo forums. Maybe *YOU* don't have the need to spend hours looking for an installCD/LiveCD, but it is a true one for lots of people that faced this problem. What Gentoo have to tell to these people ? Let's get to hell since Gentoo installCD is outdated ? You can say that devs have no time to make it, but please, don't tell that Gentoo doesn't need any installCD (outdated means no CD at all for many computers nowaday). Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 11, 2008 11:02 AM, Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, actually, I never used a Gentoo install CD to install Gentoo. I also don't quite understand, why anyone would need such a beast. To install Gentoo, I'd boot my favorite rescue system (GRMl nowadays, Knoppix back then, but IMO Knoppix is too fat for *this* *task*) and install from there. No need for an install CD. As far as I'm concerned, the Gentoo install CD could easily be dropped without a loss. Michael I'll try to make you understand it. GRML ? Knoppix ? other LiveCD ? What for, man ? Using extra rescue systems is a liberty, of course, but why should it be a must ? I always installed my gentoo from the current gentoo installCD since I see no gain in downloading and burning one more system... when I have a portage-inside one at disposal ! I don't want to take care about versions and news about other distros/rescue systems, since I am using Gentoo which provides me all I need to setup. So, of course, as far as one of linux distro at least will provide a way to boot up an up-to-date kernel, all the other distros won't have to maintain their own releases, but in the end, I am not sure that the whole community wants to launch the Windows Ubuntu installer, download the required packages manager from the web and update the system from the good repository. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?
On Jan 11, 2008 11:30 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 2007.1 release has been canceled by the release-engineering-team because of multiple-problems, maybe there will be a 2008.0 release with fresh install-media. Again i recommend join gentoo-dev and you will see what is going on! Be sure: I am currently working for that and I 'll do all my possibilities to invest me in Gentoo. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 11, 2008 2:25 PM, Eddie Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You are missing the point of Gentoo then. We are NOT a binary distro (to repeat ad nauseum). If you want that kind of install, please change distros. I do find these other methods of install to be interesting though. Has anyone on this list ever used a PXE boot image to install? With just sources, you can't do anything. Even when you built your LFS you have to download first you toolchain as binaries, before re-compilation. To compile a compiler. you need a compiler. Good. But what is the problem ? No issue here. You just know that without a working PC and toolchain binaries, there is nothing to do. Should we consider that LFS is not a true custom-made system and loads the dice ? Of course not, since in the end, you get the expected result. Same thing here. You are telling me that my not-bootable linux system -possibly out of any network- won't face any issue since there is a repository containing Gentoo sources somewhere and that PXE are not for dogs. Okay... tel me how to install Gentoo in that case. On the contrary, I think installCD is a response to an existing need, and it worth bringing solutions to existing needs. Gentoo is not for me since I can't boot on PXE ? I don't want to give one cent to each Gentoo user that can't boot on PXE but needs an installCD/liveCD first. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?
On Jan 11, 2008 8:08 PM, Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GRML ? Knoppix ? other LiveCD ? What for, man ? Oh, quite easy - to install Gentoo. That way, the knowledge of experts in creating live CDs is leveraged. NIH is not a good point of view, if you ask me. Using extra rescue systems is a liberty, of course, but why should it be a must ? I Easy - to make use of expert knowledge. To save resources, as that's obviously a scarcity in Gentoo. Not sure that in the whole Gentoo community we cannot find someone not interested in dev stuff but okay to build CD releases... I can understand the understaffed argument, but in that case don't tell me that install CD is bad, tell me Gentoo has no resource for, but the debate is does Gentoo need install CD or not ?. see no gain in downloading and burning one more system... Uhm? That doesn't make sense. Downloading GRML is no worse than downloading a Gentoo Live CD. Yes it is. Portage is not included, you depend on other systems that don't mind about Gentoo needs and could go on different way, and I find very strange to have a 2.6.23 stable in Gentoo, but not necessary on other liveCD at the same time, plus networkless installations... I think it is very good -for any distro- to have an installCD that brings a good system to not-connected machines. Just for them. [...] I don't want to take care about versions Me neither, but that's a dream. I mean dealing with Gentoo components versions sounds sensible watching GRML/Knoppix/whatever website for a Gentoo install...surely less. So, of course, as far as one of linux distro at least will provide a way to boot up an up-to-date kernel, all the other distros won't have to maintain their own releases, but in the end, I am not sure that the whole community wants to launch the Windows Ubuntu installer, download the required packages manager from the web and update the system from the good repository. I don't get, what you were trying to say here. I mean that one particular aspect of linux world that I love is choice. I am very pleased to show different live CD to newbies and I hope that all other distros won't have the same reasoning. Okay, GRML does a nice job. But if a Gentoo user wants to spend time to build liveCD, I see no reason not to let him release official iso ... and propose a Gentoo alternative. Certainly not because guys are experts in rescue systems at grml.org. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?
To boot my linux, I faced a JMicron eSata/Pata controller problem, that prevented my SATA disk from being recognized. = I had to use a 2.6.23 kernel, founded on the gentoo forum. (the knoppix latest released I used were 2.6.19 !!!) Do you also have a JMicron controller ? Is there any other solution for this or is the only Linux support going to require AHCI? It is unfortunately not reasonable or practical to switch BIOS options when choosing which OS to boot. snip Of course it is not. You will be able to run linux without any problem with a recent kernel and all the required modules without AHCI. But you may be able to run AHCI in both linux and windows too. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface Quotes for Windows issue: Enabling AHCI in a system BIOS will cause a 0x7B Blue Screen of Death STOP error (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE) on installations of Windows XP where AHCI/RAID drivers for that system's chipset are not installed. Switching to AHCI mode requires installing new drivers before changing the BIOS settings. and for linux side: AHCI is fully supported out of the box for Microsoft Windows Vista and the Linux operating system from kernel 2.6.19. Older operating systems require drivers written by the host bus adapter vendor in order to support AHCI. Common problems switching to AHCI under Linux: * AHCI controller does not work on AMD/ATI RS400-200 and RS480 HBA when MSI is enabled due to a hardware error. In order for AHCI to work users must provide the pci=nomsi kernel boot parameter. With MSI disabled in this way, the PCIe bus can only act as a faster PCI bus with hotplug capabilities. This is also true of the Nvidia nForce 560 chipset. * AHCI controller on AMD/ATI SB600 HBA can't do 64bit DMA transfers. 64-bit addressing is optional in AHCI 1.1 and the chip claims it can do them, but in reality it can't, so it is disabled. After that it will be forced to do 32bit DMA transfers. Thus DMA transfers will occur at the lower 4GB region of the memory, and bounce buffers must be used sometimes if there is more than 4GB of RAM. Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?
On Jan 7, 2008 1:23 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Windows install that I mentioned having problems with AHCI is Vista. Good to know I just faced problem with AHCI on XP, and thought that there were no matter on Vista... so install drivers first for the whole M$ family... Gal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...
On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for all ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient, especially on a growing fs. A server that is not expected to change much in size, probably does not need it. On the other hand some servers (file, mail, news servers) are bound to continue to accumulate data and their fs will increase in time. I would argue that the former type of server can happily live in a few primary partitions + 1 extended with a number of logical partitions, if you are going for a multi-partitioned scheme, while the latter type of server will greatly benefit from LVM. Of course, if hard drive redundancy is necessary, then I can't see how you could live without LVM + RAID. I understand you on LVM is not a must for very stable servers, but since I can't see any good reason not to use LVM, I see no reason to limit your abilities to extended partitions. We have the opportunity to be more flexible with LVM, why should we not get it ? To loose the ability to extend a partition by adding a new HD without any pain ? I mean, if you don't know how to use it, I understand that you may skip installing a LVM system, but when you did it once, I see no reason to install your new systems without. So, I am interested in your advice about LVM is not the universal solution for partitions management, since I am sure I have something to learn from you experience. Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...
I won't answer you with a size since its mainly depends on your own needs, but don't you know that solutions like lvm or evms provide lots of flexibility to manage your HD resources ? I advise you to look at lvm howto. It allows you to add/remove/move/enlarge your partitions as you need in a truly painless way. To avoid major mounting problems (can be done but with caution), let /boot and / outside lvm, and put the others in logical volumes. Gal' On Dec 20, 2007 10:50 AM, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that was a different distro in the past) and moved over /usr/portage to it. It's a 47 GB partition (as reported by df -h) and the system works fine. I do realize that if the mount command got screwed up, I'd probably have issues recovering the system, but that is that system. I am now thinking of converting my desktop over to Gentoo as well, and was wondering whether what I did above on the server was wise or not. I will be using the server as the portage provider for my desktop too. Otherwise, what is the recommended space to have available for the portage tree in /usr/portage so I can have root as an appropriately sized partition? TIA, Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules
On Dec 16, 2007 2:09 AM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a list of significant improvements you want implemented? There were gaping holes in linux's abilities in the past. These problems have been fixed. Change simply for the sake of change is a relic of the Windows era. Ya, but let me remind you that Gentoo did not reach the perfect stage of nothing more can be done to improve it. IMHO, there is one major project that Gentoo should start. Gentoo is a distro -I don't remember who told us Gentoo is not a distro, but it is- because there is something called portage tree. It is not just an LFS with a package manager (to do that, please read http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ and install a portage tarball), because Gentoo provides thousands of packages that are maintained by gentoo devs. No more confusion, Gentoo IS a distro. Well, Grant -among others- is wondering about Gentoo future, and some difficulties that Gentoo currently faces. I love the efforts of some gentooers to claim that everything is okay in Gentoo world, they may skip the goodbye posts of all the leaving developers on the dev list, or may ignore the understaffed teams, but well, Grant, you are not stupid to wonder about future and your questions are not silly. Some improvement that can be done ? Someone reports difficulties for non-dev to become official dev or contribute. I think about something that EVERY linux distro lacks today. I am dreaming about a clear package tree representation. I mean, there is http://packages.gentoo.org/ for users to know which package are at disposal on which architectures, and so on. Let's imagine what a distro web site should provide... (not only on the web site but also integrated into the pkg management software) the categorized packages list, with search features of course, with ALL the information attached to each package, like the needs for maintainers as an example. There is neither announcements about the future ebuild releases, nor the Gentoo policy about this package... I think that this kind of information can be a good interface between official devs and the community to encourage new people to become devs, or to simply provide a better view on the current status of the portage tree and the near future. The package maintenance is a really hard task that requires lots of resources. OK. But there is a lack of resources. Is there actually nothing to do ? Is the automation of the package built with all USE flags combination and tests already done ? Are you sure that there is no process improvement possible (about the non-regression tests delivered with ebuilds) ? There is just one point on which I am sure it is hard for non-dev to know how things turn on. Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X
There is a softlevel option to add in your grub entry to switch to a different RC. have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_run_level Gal' On Dec 18, 2007 5:16 PM, Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the 'nox' kernel parameter is passed. I poked around the CD a bit to figure out how that's done but failed. Does the kernel have to be modified to do this? Thanks for any pointers. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless help?
Hello Grant, Let's check first your kernel config: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/KernelConfig If you still face trouble, I advise you to have a look at the website doc which looks pretty good.. Gal' On Dec 1, 2007 7:32 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up a new laptop's wireless interface. lspci says it has an Atheros AR5006EG which should mean the madwifi drivers. I emerged madwifi-ng and madwifi-ng-tools, created net.ath0 as a link to net.lo, and set the ath_pci module to autoload (which it does without errors) but I get: network interface ath0 does not exist Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) when trying to start net.ath0. Does this sound like a driver support problem or did I miss something? ifconfig only shows eth0 and lo. iwconfig shows, eth0, lo, and sit0. I don't know what sit0 is. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
It mainly depends on your own feelings. I think that a debian stable is a very good choice for a prod' server, but I really dislike the way Debian manages daemon and prefer the Gentoo approach. Updates are not painless...for sure, but you have to consider your needs first (what tools do you need ? typical web services ? extra lib from different languages ? any time reserved for maintenance or the server cannot be off ?). Then, updating is not a must. Believe me, an up-to-date machine is nice when you want brand new lib/features/softwares. Do your server need to be so.. up-to-date ? Finally, if you take time to estimate what should be updated prior to emerge the whole world, you can plan your updates and organize the way to go back if required and updates are not nightmares. (But have a look at the handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2). You also need tools like dispatch-conf to undo easily your conf files changes. Gal' On Nov 29, 2007 2:10 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have special care with updates. Ricardo, i find really encouraging the fact that your lab uses Gentoo for their servers. Nevertheless it would be great if you could tell us a little about your lab's experience with updates, which seems to be the only issue when using Gentoo on a server. Another thing i noticed is that some of you recommend to have a secondary server to perform tests, i totally agree with this. Unfortunately i do not think that having such thing will be possible since the server will be charged to a client and i do not think they will agree to buy a second server (even if its the right thing to do, which i believe so), in such case, would you still recommend Gentoo?. Again, thanks to everybody for the information. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current =gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? Many thanks for your support, Gal' 2007/7/4, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 21:54 +0200, Galevsky wrote: ... the matter is Grub falls back to previous 2.6.20 kernel. So I have no log at all about what went wrong during the dom0_2.6.18 boot. Any idea to know what went wrong ? Nevertheless, if you want to actually know what the error is then you should disable the fallback. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current =gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? I guess I (still) don't understand what your issue is. So I went back and read your original post. Maybe I misunderstood it. * What do you mean by remote host? I rent a dedicated host. Thus, I have no physical access to the machine. And the reason why I used the fall-back feature into grub is to avoid the use of a boring rescue system (via a web interface) to take back the control of a not-responding box. * If your box does not boot how would you expect to see a boot.log or dmesg ? They don't exist if the system has not booted. In fact does not boot implies that you can't even log in to check for dmesg or boot logs. Perhaps you can explain what it is exactly you mean by does not boot. When I try to boot on the new kernel, I set it as the default one in grub.conf and reboot the box. And I wait for a few minutes. Then I try to log on, praying to find the box responding. First, with grub fall-back activated, the boot had fallen back and I was able to read the logs that contained the running kernel logs, but no info about the kernel boot that failed. That was the matter of my first mail: how to read the reasons of the first kernel-boot-attempt failure. Secondly, you advised me to turn fall back off. I do. The box is no more responding after reboot, and I have to launch the rescue system to log on my box, and read the /var/log/*. I thought previously that some pb happened -I didn't know when exactly-... and was waiting for more info in log files. But files were empty. So, I conclude that the boot procedure failed (and you too ;o)). Finally, I have to find out why my kernel is not booting. I tuned up well my previous kernel, a gentoo-sources-2.6.20 -this kernel runs currently my box very well- and the kernel I want to boot now is a xen-sources-2.6.16. I made an oldconfig on /proc/config.gz of the 2.6.20 running kernel, and fill in xen-dom0 specific options as indicated on the wiki tutorial [1]. So, I guess I did something wrong with the dom0 xen config, and asked for advice on xen specific options with my second post. * Usually there is an error message on the console if there is a boot loader/kernel issue with booting. * Also you never posted your grub.conf. So hopefully you can come up with a specific explanation of does not boot as well as your config and any console messages you get. Else this becomes a blind leading the blind issue. I have no console message to provide you, I just know that my remote box is not responding when I try to boot another kernel (If you know the way to get logs, I'll be grateful :o)). And I checked the /var/log/* to be sure that the kernel was not running but just missing any network feature so that I could not log on the box despite the kernel was actually running. As for my grub.conf + 'ls -l /boot' , I will provide you in a while (I need to go home before), but I am not sure it is relevant. (just to check for typo I guess). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Many thanks to take care of my problem :o) Gal' [1]: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
2007/7/5, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:40:20 +0200 Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current =gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? I guess I (still) don't understand what your issue is. So I went back and read your original post. Maybe I misunderstood it. * What do you mean by remote host? I rent a dedicated host. Thus, I have no physical access to the machine. And the reason why I used the fall-back feature into grub is to avoid the use of a boring rescue system (via a web interface) to take back the control of a not-responding box. * If your box does not boot how would you expect to see a boot.log or dmesg ? They don't exist if the system has not booted. In fact does not boot implies that you can't even log in to check for dmesg or boot logs. Perhaps you can explain what it is exactly you mean by does not boot. When I try to boot on the new kernel, I set it as the default one in grub.conf and reboot the box. And I wait for a few minutes. Then I try to log on, praying to find the box responding. First, with grub fall-back activated, the boot had fallen back and I was able to read the logs that contained the running kernel logs, but no info about the kernel boot that failed. That was the matter of my first mail: how to read the reasons of the first kernel-boot-attempt failure. Secondly, you advised me to turn fall back off. I do. The box is no more responding after reboot, and I have to launch the rescue system to log on my box, and read the /var/log/*. I thought previously that some pb happened -I didn't know when exactly-... and was waiting for more info in log files. But files were empty. So, I conclude that the boot procedure failed (and you too ;o)). Finally, I have to find out why my kernel is not booting. I tuned up well my previous kernel, a gentoo-sources-2.6.20 -this kernel runs currently my box very well- and the kernel I want to boot now is a xen-sources-2.6.16. I made an oldconfig on /proc/config.gz of the 2.6.20 running kernel, and fill in xen-dom0 specific options as indicated on the wiki tutorial [1]. So, I guess I did something wrong with the dom0 xen config, and asked for advice on xen specific options with my second post. * Usually there is an error message on the console if there is a boot loader/kernel issue with booting. * Also you never posted your grub.conf. So hopefully you can come up with a specific explanation of does not boot as well as your config and any console messages you get. Else this becomes a blind leading the blind issue. I have no console message to provide you, I just know that my remote box is not responding when I try to boot another kernel (If you know the way to get logs, I'll be grateful :o)). And I checked the /var/log/* to be sure that the kernel was not running but just missing any network feature so that I could not log on the box despite the kernel was actually running. As for my grub.conf + 'ls -l /boot' , I will provide you in a while (I need to go home before), but I am not sure it is relevant. (just to check for typo I guess). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Many thanks to take care of my problem :o) Gal' [1]: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo from /etc/conf.d/rc: # RC_BOOTLOG will generate a log of the boot messages shown on the console. # Useful for headless machines or debugging. You need to emerge the # app-admin/showconsole package for this to work. Note that this probably # won't work correctly with boot splash. RC_BOOTLOG=no I recommend you install showconsole and set RC_BOOTLOG to yes, that might help you. It is possible that maybe something as mundane as networking is failing for a stupid reason, and therefore you cant get to the computer because it cant finish booting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you Dan, but I did it before, and boot.log remains empty. In fact, the new kernel boot turns on like grub couldn't find the kernel image Hereafter my /boot content: sd-4421 boot # ll /boot total 13M -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 767k Jul 6 00:02 System.map-2.6.16.49-xendedibox_r6_final -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 929k Jun 16 19:29 System.map-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root1 Apr 30 19:40 boot - ./ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 31k Jul 6 00:02 config-2.6.16.49-xendedibox_r6_final -rw
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
Sorry, I was building again my kernel image to confirm that It was not a stupid mistake. 2007/7/6, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I recently discovered 'savefallback' in grub which I did not know about. I'll assume you're using that but again, I haven't seen your grub.conf. Dan Farrell made an intresting point about boot log and showconsole, but I assumed you were already using that. Ya, I did it. No boot.log created when booting the xen-kernel, but reporting good status when I boot up the good 2.6.20 one. So, feature is on. But I still don't that will help you because your problem appears to be one of the following: * Grub is not loading your kernel and is falling back (same as my original theory) Ya, you should be right... * Your kernel/hypervisor is loading but is crashing immediately. If the Xen hypervisor is crashing you really need the console. AFAIK there's no option to log. The only option you really have is whether or not to immediately reboot when it crashes. If Xen is loading successfully then it loads your dom0. If that's crashing it's probably crashing immediately (i.e. not even mounting root). If it is the dom0 then that seems to be the case since you can't find any record of it having booted. If you crash before you mount root read/write then showconsole and bootlog are useless. All things said, I'm still guessing that it's either a grub problem or Xen doesn't like your hardware. Xen is picky about hardware and sometimes you have to turn on/off things in the BIOS or as a parameter to Xen (like the ACPI controller) but it's going to be hard to guess without an error message and I'm betting that error message appears before bootlog/showconsole take effect. Okay, thanks a lot, I am looking for such information since I am new to xen. I will google for people running xen solutions on the same kind of boxes. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Many thanks for your support guys ;o) Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
surely not all the gentooers. Not me, since my bookmarks are day-to-day matters but the doc. 2007/7/4, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 7/3/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] So: am I the only one who likes this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
Hi ML, I need your help to find the right way. I am running a Linux sd-4421 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Sat Jun 16 19:27:48 CEST 2007 i686 VIA Esther processor 2000MHz CentaurHauls GNU/Linux remote box. This kernel was compiled on my own. It is good. But I need a xen box now. So I emerged the linux-2.6.16.49-xen sources and compiled them successfully (I made an oldconfig on the /proc/config.gz of the running 2.6.20). I followed the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo doc for dom0-Xen specific kernel config. Well, now it is time to boot up the new dom0_2.6.18... grub.conf got the changes, fall-backing to previous kernel if required ... the matter is Grub falls back to previous 2.6.20 kernel. So I have no log at all about what went wrong during the dom0_2.6.18 boot. Any idea to know what went wrong ? Many thanks for your help, Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hacking an ebuild
I advise you to read the dev howto at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoodev Gal' 2007/6/19, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, The devs seems to be busy. Also, I should have learn this some time ago anyway. There is a existing ebuild for JFFNMS, but, it is masked for amd64. Is there a guide I can follow to use an x86 ebuild and create an amd64 derivative ebuild? Since it uses php and other high level software, I would not think that this is a terrible difficult process? If not, can somebody briefly itemized what needs to be done, in very general terms, to hack together an ebuild for amd64 when one exist for x86? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] make oldconfig behaviour
Hi all, I faced an ethernet driver miss during my kernel configuration, because I had a wrong idea of what 'make oldconfig' did. I thought the oldconfig target build up a new .config file starting from the /proc/config.gz one then asking for new options. But It was not the case here: sd-4421 linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 # gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep VIA CONFIG_MVIAC3_2=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y # CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO is not set # CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_NAPI is not set CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y CONFIG_I2C_VIA=m CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m # CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A is not set sd-4421 linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 # make mrproper oldconfig [snip] sd-4421 linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 # grep VIA .config # CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is not set CONFIG_SATA_VIA=y # CONFIG_PATA_VIA is not set # CONFIG_VIA_RHINE is not set # CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY is not set CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y # CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX is not set So, I did not build up the VIA RHINE and VELOCITY drivers. Now I have to build my conf again since the whole configuration may not suit what I was looking for. Anyone to tell me what oldconfig target does ? Many thanks for your support, Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig behaviour
Many thanks Alexander, I misunderstood what oldconfig means. just any existing .config file into ... into the src dir. LOL. Thanks again. Gal' 2007/6/16, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: · Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I have to build my conf again since the whole configuration may not suit what I was looking for. Take your old .config as a base. Anyone to tell me what oldconfig target does ? It takes the .config it finds in the source directory and builds the config from there. If there are new selections in the new kernel, you'll be asked for the value they should get. In short: Before running make oldconfig, copy the .config from your old kernel to your new kernel tree and then run make oldconfig. Alexander Skwar -- Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus. -- Mark A. Horton KA4YBR, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list z� ��(��j)b� b�
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Date and time reset randomly.
Surely not. As for the dual bout with an other OS (let's call it MS-Win ;o)), people can easily face a wrong time due to a bad configuration in linux side: the hardware time should be set as local time instead of UTC to avoid a time difference between both the OSes. But no time reset symptom (unless possible MS-Win virus). As said earlier, bios battery must be going out. Gal' 2007/6/12, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:01:51 +0200 Xavier Parizet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello gentoo peoples ;) I have a little problem on my laptop. Everything is fine, except the fact that sometimes, the date and time reset to the 01/01/2000 . do you check that isn't your bios ? Maybe your bios battery is out and cause the bios settings to reset randomly... That is only going to work if the computer has been turned off. The bios should be able to remember everything without an external battery if the computer is running. Consequently, on reboot, the boot process warn me that there are many files wich have modification dates in the future That happens randomly, in something like every 15 reboots ... I have then to reconfigure my dates So, does anyone knows where is that problem coming from ? It is of course not very important , but I would be happy to fix it .. Perhaps NTP could help you... Thanks. Regards. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] xen-sources compilation error: net/ipv4/netfilter
Hi all, I recently emerged xen-sources and launched a dom0 kernel compilation. Compil' gave up on : net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c: In function 'send_reset': net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c:162: error: 'struct skb_shared_info' has no member named 'tso_size' net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c:163: error: 'struct skb_shared_info' has no member named 'tso_segs' make[3]: *** [net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [net/ipv4/netfilter] Error 2 make[1]: *** [net/ipv4] Error 2 make: *** [net] Error 2 I tried to search on https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/bugzilla/index.cgi but the search feature was down. Google gave me other errors, but this wrong struct usage. Any idea to put me on the right way ? Many thanks for your support, Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: xen-sources compilation error: net/ipv4/netfilter
Solution here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177142 Sorry. Gal' 2007/6/8, Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I recently emerged xen-sources and launched a dom0 kernel compilation. Compil' gave up on : net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c: In function 'send_reset': net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c:162: error: 'struct skb_shared_info' has no member named 'tso_size' net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c:163: error: 'struct skb_shared_info' has no member named 'tso_segs' make[3]: *** [net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [net/ipv4/netfilter] Error 2 make[1]: *** [net/ipv4] Error 2 make: *** [net] Error 2 I tried to search on https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/bugzilla/index.cgi but the search feature was down. Google gave me other errors, but this wrong struct usage. Any idea to put me on the right way ? Many thanks for your support, Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?
Ya there is. Have a look at GParted, and burn this useful live-cd. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php Gal 2007/6/5, Platoali [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard. I want to move this partition to the end or begining of hard, so I can create bigger partitions. How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know that softwares like Partition magick can do this without any problem. Is there any opensource competitor in linux world? Thank you very much for you answeres -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xen Doc compilation failed = latex2html pb
Hi all, I am still facing the problem. I run my box with -doc flag for a while, but had re-emerged system and world with doc flag then disappointed to see that doc compiling for app-emulation/xen-tools still failed. Is there anybody for who xen doc compilation succeeds ? I tried to update latex2html dev-tex/latex2html-2002.2.1_pre20041025-r1 correctly set up. My previous log is still relevant and suits the current behavior. No one to show me the way ? Thanks for your support, Gal' 2007/4/15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I emerged app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 on my gentoo box but the compilation failed with the DOC use flag : [...] make: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs' latex src/user.tex /dev/null latex src/interface.tex /dev/null make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs' install -d -m0755 html/user latex2html -split 0 -show_section_numbers -toc_depth 3 -nonavigation \ -numbered_footnotes -local_icons -noinfo -math -dir html/user \ src/user.tex 1/dev/null 2/dev/null if [ -e user.toc ] ; then latex src/user.tex /dev/null ; fi if [ -e interface.toc ] ; then latex src/interface.tex /dev/null ; fi make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs' install -d -m0755 man1 install -d -m0755 ps dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o ps/user.ps.new user.dvi pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man1/xm.1 | sed 's/^man1.//'| \ sed 's/.1//'` -s 1 -c Xen man/xm.pod.1 man1/xm.1 This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2007.04.15:1612' - ps/user.ps.new tex.proalt-rule.pro8r.enctexps.prospecial.pro. cmsy8.pfb cmsy10.pfbcmmi10.pfb[1figs/xenlogo.eps] [2] [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] mv ps/user.ps.new ps/user.ps install -d -m0755 ps dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o ps/interface.ps.new interface.dvi This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2007.04.15:1612' - ps/interface.ps.new tex.proalt-rule.pro8r.enctexps.prospecial.pro. cmmi10.pfb cmsy10.pfb[1figs/xenlogo.eps] [2] [1] [2] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] mv ps/interface.ps.new ps/interface.ps install -d -m0755 pdf ps2pdf ps/user.ps pdf/user.pdf.new install -d -m0755 man5 pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man5/xend-config.sxp.5 | sed 's/^man5.//'| \ sed 's/.5//'` -s 5 -c Xen man/xend-config.sxp.pod.5 man5/xend-config.sxp.5 install -d -m0755 man5 pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man5/xmdomain.cfg.5 | sed 's/^man5.//'| \ sed 's/.5//'` -s 5 -c Xen man/xmdomain.cfg.pod.5 man5/xmdomain.cfg.5 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs' install -d -m0755 pdf ps2pdf ps/interface.ps pdf/interface.pdf.new mv pdf/user.pdf.new pdf/user.pdf install -d -m0755 html/interface latex2html -split 0 -show_section_numbers -toc_depth 3 -nonavigation \ -numbered_footnotes -local_icons -noinfo -math -dir html/interface \ src/interface.tex 1/dev/null 2/dev/null mv pdf/interface.pdf.new pdf/interface.pdf make[1]: *** [html/user/index.html] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[1]: *** [html/interface/index.html] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs' make: *** [html] Error 2 rm user.dvi interface.dvi make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs' !!! ERROR: app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 3633: Called src_compile xen-tools-3.0.2-r4.ebuild, line 147: Called die !!! compiling docs failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/root/ebuild-logs/app-emulation:xen-tools-3.0.2-r4:20070415-141126.log'. So I did a manual make html without 1 and 2 /dev/nul: Everything was fine until the build of images: [...] 94/95:section:...B.2 Installing vnet support for user.html ;.,.,..,,.,.;. 95/95:chapter:..C. Glossary of Terms for user.html ;.,; . Doing footnotes ... Writing image file ... Fatal (syswait): exec ./images.tex failed: Permission denied at /usr/lib/latex2html/latex2html.pl line 3760 Cannot read
Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test
Just my two cents: don't forget to use temporary email boxes like yopmail.com, these boxes can be very helpful for the kind of tests you may run. Gal' 2007/6/1, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and see if something happens, but how do I test if postfix actual sends my mail? Well, you set up a web server to deliver web content. I'm assuming you're setting up a mail server to deliver mail. So the test is to see that it delivers mail. Not that I've ever used postfix, but testing a mail server should be pretty similar for any platform. 1. Create a mailbox (or use a remote one) 2. Using a MUA, for example, connect to mail server. 3. Send message to be delivered to mailbox 4. Verify message delivered to mailbox. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Syslog-ng Is that kind of conf (described in Quick Start section) far away from what you are looking for ? Gal' 2007/5/30, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons? Last sysklogd version if from 2001. And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me. And on the other hand, other distributions don't use sysklogd anymore. Instead they use syslog-ng, for example. But i guess, they have a more suitable default setting. Everything going to /var/log/messes is just to simple, i think. Actually i don't want the layout to be like sysklogd. But i would like a little more complicated default setting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: An XML Question
Hi, you can learn the xml concepts at http://www.w3schools.com/. Then, depending on the language you choose, there is lots of libs to deal with xml in many languages. Though you always have two different ways of parsing your xml file: a SAX parser approach, that runs on an element-by-element process, retrieving each element with no view on the next ones. The second way is a DOM object builder, parsing the xml file as a whole, then giving you back the whole tree as an object that can browse later with a set of methods. The later is faster to get all the information of the xml, but takes more memory since the whole xml tree must be built first. You have to look for the libs of your language now for further details, but the choice between the two is crucial. I remind a Xmlchecker java tool I wrote to run no-diff tests I implemented first with jdom, and it was good. until I had to deal with 300 Mb files ... and rewrite the whole browsing engine with SAX. Gal' 2007/5/29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any really good XML tutorials on the web, or perhaps a book that is actually useful? Also, which libs do people preffer for dealing with XML? I am contemplating messing arround with XML for data files for a project I want to mess with. The project would involve loading objects into a dynamic list. I do not think I want to deal with the XML file in real time, as I am not sure how fast that would be, but rather load the data into memory, then save it to the XML file at save points. :-) My views may change as time goes by, but for now I am learning, and starting to do research. ^_^ Kenneth M. Burling Jr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: An XML Question
Well, a man libxml2 gives you all that you need: Documentation for libxml is available on-line at http://www.xmlsoft.org/ ;o) Gal' 2007/5/29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Galevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: An XML Question Hi, you can learn the xml concepts at http://www.w3schools.com/. Then, depending on the language you choose, there is lots of libs to deal with xml in many languages. Though you always have two different ways of parsing your xml file: a SAX parser approach, that runs on an element-by-element process, retrieving each element with no view on the next ones. The second way is a DOM object builder, parsing the xml file as a whole, then giving you back the whole tree as an object that can browse later with a set of methods. The later is faster to get all the information of the xml, but takes more memory since the whole xml tree must be built first. You have to look for the libs of your language now for further details, but the choice between the two is crucial. I remind a Xmlchecker java tool I wrote to run no-diff tests I implemented first with jdom, and it was good. until I had to deal with 300 Mb files ... and rewrite the whole browsing engine with SAX. Gal' 2007/5/29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any really good XML tutorials on the web, or perhaps a book that is actually useful? snip Thanks for the info! I think I may look into the DOM approach. ^_^ Does(do?) libxml or libxml2 have a DOM interface? I know that libxml2 is already on the system (part of the base install), so it may be a good place to look. :) Does anyone know of a good tutorial site with a .org or .edu web address? The firewall I am stuck behind at the moment has some funky restrictions. :P ^_^ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown
Another question: Which options are appropriate to mount my backup partition while executing the script: noexec,async,dev,rw ? Hi, default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. match your needs, but nouser : you have to know before if the users would launch your script on behalf of themselves, or if the script would have sticky-bit, or the users would have to sudo and run it as root. As for exec and auto, you can disable them depending on how you manage your back-up space. Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xen Doc compilation failed = latex2html pb
No one can advise me to open a bug or consider my own configuration ? Am I alone facing pb with Xen doc compilation ? Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xen Doc compilation failed = latex2html pb
Hi,
I emerged app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 on my gentoo box but the
compilation failed with the DOC use flag :
[...]
make: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
latex src/user.tex /dev/null
latex src/interface.tex /dev/null
make[1]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
install -d -m0755 html/user
latex2html -split 0 -show_section_numbers -toc_depth 3 -nonavigation \
-numbered_footnotes -local_icons -noinfo -math -dir html/user \
src/user.tex 1/dev/null 2/dev/null
if [ -e user.toc ] ; then latex src/user.tex /dev/null ; fi
if [ -e interface.toc ] ; then latex src/interface.tex /dev/null ; fi
make[1]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
install -d -m0755 man1
install -d -m0755 ps
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o ps/user.ps.new user.dvi
pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man1/xm.1 | sed 's/^man1.//'| \
sed 's/.1//'` -s 1 -c Xen man/xm.pod.1 man1/xm.1
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2007.04.15:1612' - ps/user.ps.new
tex.proalt-rule.pro8r.enctexps.prospecial.pro. cmsy8.pfb
cmsy10.pfbcmmi10.pfb[1figs/xenlogo.eps] [2] [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] [2] [3]
[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]
[35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49]
[50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62]
mv ps/user.ps.new ps/user.ps
install -d -m0755 ps
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o ps/interface.ps.new interface.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2007.04.15:1612' - ps/interface.ps.new
tex.proalt-rule.pro8r.enctexps.prospecial.pro. cmmi10.pfb
cmsy10.pfb[1figs/xenlogo.eps] [2] [1] [2] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]
[39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47]
mv ps/interface.ps.new ps/interface.ps
install -d -m0755 pdf
ps2pdf ps/user.ps pdf/user.pdf.new
install -d -m0755 man5
pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man5/xend-config.sxp.5 |
sed 's/^man5.//'| \
sed 's/.5//'` -s 5 -c Xen man/xend-config.sxp.pod.5
man5/xend-config.sxp.5
install -d -m0755 man5
pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man5/xmdomain.cfg.5 | sed
's/^man5.//'| \
sed 's/.5//'` -s 5 -c Xen man/xmdomain.cfg.pod.5
man5/xmdomain.cfg.5
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
install -d -m0755 pdf
ps2pdf ps/interface.ps pdf/interface.pdf.new
mv pdf/user.pdf.new pdf/user.pdf
install -d -m0755 html/interface
latex2html -split 0 -show_section_numbers -toc_depth 3 -nonavigation \
-numbered_footnotes -local_icons -noinfo -math -dir html/interface \
src/interface.tex 1/dev/null 2/dev/null
mv pdf/interface.pdf.new pdf/interface.pdf
make[1]: *** [html/user/index.html] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make[1]: *** [html/interface/index.html] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
make: *** [html] Error 2
rm user.dvi interface.dvi
make: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
!!! ERROR: app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
environment, line 3633: Called src_compile
xen-tools-3.0.2-r4.ebuild, line 147: Called die
!!! compiling docs failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at
'/root/ebuild-logs/app-emulation:xen-tools-3.0.2-r4:20070415-141126.log'.
So I did a manual make html without 1 and 2 /dev/nul:
Everything was fine until the build of images:
[...]
94/95:section:...B.2 Installing vnet support for user.html
;.,.,..,,.,.;.
95/95:chapter:..C. Glossary of Terms for user.html
;.,;
.
Doing footnotes ...
Writing image file ...
Fatal (syswait): exec ./images.tex failed: Permission denied
at /usr/lib/latex2html/latex2html.pl line 3760
Cannot read logfile './images.log': No such file or directory
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/latex2html line 39.
make[1]: *** [html/user/index.html] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
make: *** [html] Error 2
Here is the line 3760:
sub make_latex_images{
close_dbm_database if $DJGPP;
local($dd) = $dd; $dd = '/' if ($dd eq \\);
local($latex_call) = $LATEX .$dd${PREFIX}images.tex;
print $latex_call\n if (($DEBUG)||($VERBOSITY 1));
L2hos-syswait($latex_call);
= 3760
[gentoo-user] Xen Doc compilation failed = latex2html pb
Hi,
I emerged app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 on my gentoo box but the
compilation failed with the DOC use flag :
[...]
make: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
latex src/user.tex /dev/null
latex src/interface.tex /dev/null
make[1]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
install -d -m0755 html/user
latex2html -split 0 -show_section_numbers -toc_depth 3 -nonavigation \
-numbered_footnotes -local_icons -noinfo -math -dir html/user \
src/user.tex 1/dev/null 2/dev/null
if [ -e user.toc ] ; then latex src/user.tex /dev/null ; fi
if [ -e interface.toc ] ; then latex src/interface.tex /dev/null ; fi
make[1]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
install -d -m0755 man1
install -d -m0755 ps
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o ps/user.ps.new user.dvi
pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man1/xm.1 | sed 's/^man1.//'| \
sed 's/.1//'` -s 1 -c Xen man/xm.pod.1 man1/xm.1
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2007.04.15:1612' - ps/user.ps.new
tex.proalt-rule.pro8r.enctexps.prospecial.pro. cmsy8.pfb
cmsy10.pfbcmmi10.pfb[1figs/xenlogo.eps] [2] [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] [2] [3]
[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]
[35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49]
[50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62]
mv ps/user.ps.new ps/user.ps
install -d -m0755 ps
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o ps/interface.ps.new interface.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2007.04.15:1612' - ps/interface.ps.new
tex.proalt-rule.pro8r.enctexps.prospecial.pro. cmmi10.pfb
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mv ps/interface.ps.new ps/interface.ps
install -d -m0755 pdf
ps2pdf ps/user.ps pdf/user.pdf.new
install -d -m0755 man5
pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man5/xend-config.sxp.5 |
sed 's/^man5.//'| \
sed 's/.5//'` -s 5 -c Xen man/xend-config.sxp.pod.5
man5/xend-config.sxp.5
install -d -m0755 man5
pod2man --release=xen-unstable --name=`echo man5/xmdomain.cfg.5 | sed
's/^man5.//'| \
sed 's/.5//'` -s 5 -c Xen man/xmdomain.cfg.pod.5
man5/xmdomain.cfg.5
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
install -d -m0755 pdf
ps2pdf ps/interface.ps pdf/interface.pdf.new
mv pdf/user.pdf.new pdf/user.pdf
install -d -m0755 html/interface
latex2html -split 0 -show_section_numbers -toc_depth 3 -nonavigation \
-numbered_footnotes -local_icons -noinfo -math -dir html/interface \
src/interface.tex 1/dev/null 2/dev/null
mv pdf/interface.pdf.new pdf/interface.pdf
make[1]: *** [html/user/index.html] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make[1]: *** [html/interface/index.html] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
make: *** [html] Error 2
rm user.dvi interface.dvi
make: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
!!! ERROR: app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
environment, line 3633: Called src_compile
xen-tools-3.0.2-r4.ebuild, line 147: Called die
!!! compiling docs failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at
'/root/ebuild-logs/app-emulation:xen-tools-3.0.2-r4:20070415-141126.log'.
So I did a manual make html without 1 and 2 /dev/nul:
Everything was fine until the build of images:
[...]
94/95:section:...B.2 Installing vnet support for user.html
;.,.,..,,.,.;.
95/95:chapter:..C. Glossary of Terms for user.html
;.,;
.
Doing footnotes ...
Writing image file ...
Fatal (syswait): exec ./images.tex failed: Permission denied
at /usr/lib/latex2html/latex2html.pl line 3760
Cannot read logfile './images.log': No such file or directory
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/latex2html line 39.
make[1]: *** [html/user/index.html] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
make: *** [html] Error 2
Here is the line 3760:
sub make_latex_images{
close_dbm_database if $DJGPP;
local($dd) = $dd; $dd = '/' if ($dd eq \\);
local($latex_call) = $LATEX .$dd${PREFIX}images.tex;
print $latex_call\n if (($DEBUG)||($VERBOSITY 1));
L2hos-syswait($latex_call);
= 3760
[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?
/etc, /var, /usr, /bin and so on I can see the (potential) problems. But just /root ? It is a must to have it does not contain important tuned up files, does it ? It is just an account that root use for admin task, so is there a known problem to share it ? I used to mount /root aside from /. Gal' 2007/4/2, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?': And what's about sharing /root ? is there any problem or not ? I never did it but was wondering about. No, different distros will require slightly different layouts in /etc (which is normally part of the same mount as /) and, in particular, will install (and confuse each other with) distro-specific scripts in /etc/init.d. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge human readable format.
Is there a way to have human readable format with emerge ? It could be much more convenient to have this kind of information more readable : Number of files: 122567 Number of files transferred: 675 Total file size: 159275947 bytes Total transferred file size: 3030220 bytes Literal data: 3030220 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 2969859 File list generation time: 2.042 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 18837 Total bytes received: 4035665 sent 18837 bytes received 4035665 bytes 901000.44 bytes/sec total size is 159275947 speedup is 39.28 but I see no human readable formatting option. Any trick ? Gal' -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge human readable format.
Great !!
Thanks guys,
I was out of business since I am launching emerge --sync and emerge
helper does not provide -h option. I need more readings on Portage I
think.
Gal'
2007/4/3, Heinz Hombergs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Am Dienstag, 3. April 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
emerge --sync makes a call to rsync program ? I did not take the time
yet to learn more about Gentoo specific softwares, but I will do that
soon. Look at the sizes format in bytes. Today it often happens -well,
most of the time- several Mo of download, so the byte unit is not very
useful but Kb/Mb/Gb units could be a more human readable format. I
used to deal with --si or -H when using df as an example. By default,
size unit is byte, but when you want to understand the numbers with no
mental extra operation, It is quite good to print the more suitable
unit.
Maybe it is possible.
man rsync with rsync version 2.6.9-r2 {~ Keyword} installed:
-h, --human-readable
Output numbers in a more human-readable format. This makes big
numbers output using larger units, with a K, M, or G suffix. If this option
was specified once, these
units are K (1000), M (1000*1000), and G (1000*1000*1000); if
the option is repeated, the units are powers of 1024 instead of 1000.
So you can add PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=-h or
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=-h -h in your /etc/make.conf to do that.
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