Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting my parents' connection
On 11/22/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm at my parents' home for Thanksgiving and connected wirelessly to the family Netgear router via WPA. Page requests sometimes fail in Firefox immediately, without spending any time trying to load the page. I suspect a problem connecting to the ISP's DNS server. How would you troubleshoot this? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Some basic things to look at: 1) Can you successfully ping the ISPs DNS? 2) What's in your system's '/etc/resolv.conf'? (Some DSL/Cable modem routers set themselves up as the DNS server/proxy. It's probably to help speed things up, but I've noticed that my system really doesn't like it and needs to have the ISPs DNS servers listed instead). 3) Is the system/Firefox set up to use IPv6? (There's a setting in Firefox that allows you to prevent it from trying IPv6 lookups: http://en.opensuse.org/Disable_IPv6_for_Firefox - yes, it's a SUSE site, but the directions should work for all systems) HTH, -Hani -- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow https browsing.
On 9/14/06, A. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I have been experiencing very slow https communication in both of my~amd64 home Gentoo systems. No matter what browser I use (Opera,firefox, firefox-bin, nautilus, konqueror) attempting to access asecure site takes a very, very long time. I do have ssl in my USE flags, maybe there is another flag that I need to add?Windoze works just fine with firefox in the same boxen (they are dual-boot).Could somebody please help? Much appreciated.- ARHave you disabled the IPv6 protocol?I've read reports indicating that this can interfere with basic web browsing.Just a thought.-Hani -- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question
On 6/27/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy,I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask.Let me give todays example.Running ~x86.gimp-2.3.9 is installed.gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2* So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1.What would be nice is to be able to mask:=gimp-2.3 if =gimp-perl-2.2_pre1That would then downgrade gimp to 2.2 and leave it there until the next version of gimp-perl is available.As it is, all I can see to do to prevent upgrade/downgradecycling of gimp is to package mask =gimp-2.3 and hopefullyremember to unmask it when the next release of gimp-perl is available.It just feels like there ought to be a better way...Have you tried the suggestion outlined at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3===The package.mask file When you don't want Portage to take a certain package or a specific version of a package into account you can mask it yourself by adding an appropriate line to /etc/portage/package.mask. For instance, if you don't want Portage to install newer kernel sources than gentoo-sources-2.6.8.1, you add the following line to package.mask: Code Listing5: /etc/portage/package.mask example sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.8.1Just wondering...-Hani-- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie Ripping Issues
On 6/22/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have decided to centralize all information regarding my issues.Basically I am looking for help with problems I am having ripping DVD moviesI own.If you are interested, please have a look at this. If it does not exist anymore, then I removed it, and I thank you for your interest. Be sure torefresh the page if you are going to reply.Thanks!http://fire-eyes.org/temp/dvd-ripping-issues.txt --When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then fromall the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks oftheir soul come out and cling to you. And then they are purified, and become a holy fire in you. -- Ancient Hasidic Saying--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listHave you tried k9copy? http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/HTH,-Hani-- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot
On 6/20/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there ingentoo land.Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generallyunhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a mkfs /dev/sda1 (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel stuff back on /boot.I wasconfident this would do it, but no go.Just to be sure nothing was leftout, I even went through the grub set up process again as Daniel recommended in another post in this thread.Still no change.The boot process continues just prior to the INIT 2.86 line when theinit.d stuff is kicked off.While booted with the livecd, I checked and /sbin/init really is there (mine, not the livecd one).But when I triedto pass init=/sbin/init as a kernel arg in grub.conf, I got the samepanic along with a message that /sbin/init couldn't be executed (or something similar - I forgot to write it down).But since I only hosed/boot and then reinstalled grub and kernel, I'm not sure why I'm not inbusiness yet.What's the 'ls -al' of your /boot partition look like? Does it have the following link? lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root1 Dec 8 2005 boot - .Just wondering?-Hani-- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging mythtv-0.19
On 5/6/06, Marc Redmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge mythtv but keep running into a problem with sandbox. Whenever I try to emerge, the compiling seems to work fine, but the installation fails and I get several 'Access Violations'.It seems that instead of installinginto '/usr/xxx', mythtv is trying to go straight to '/' (ie: /bin ... /lib ... /share).if sandbox is your only problem while istalling mythtv tryFEATURES=-sandbox emerge mythtv to work around your problem (actually sandbox is switched of with the abovecommand).In the past, I've gotten mythtv to install by disabling sandbox. However, the result is that all the mythtv binaries, libraries and docs get installed into '/bin', '/lib', '/share' (respectively) which is a problem when it thinks everything should be in '/usr/bin', '/usr/lib', '/usr/share'. What I'm confused about is that it doesn't seem like anyone else is having this problem and I'm wondering if there is something I'm doing wrong.TIA,-Hani-- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?
On 5/4/06, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed a strange problem on our server that's just been switchedto Gentoo:It's running dhcpd, which init starts right after bringing up thenetwork interface. But dhcpd quits, complaining it couldn't listen on eth0 because it had address 0.0.0.0. So it seems the interface isn'tfully up yet when the init script returns---probably because theBroadcom Tigon driver seems to be on the slow side when changing parameters, while the CPU is plenty fast. I've now tried to fix it witha postup() function that simply does a sleep 3, but that's prettyhacky IMHO. Isn't thatere a way to do it properly? I think the script should ensure its jobs are finished before it returns in any case.Have you looked through the '/etc/conf.d/net.example' file? I'm not too familiar with DHCP, but the net.example file has this entry: # For passing custom options to dhcpcd use something like the following. This # example reduces the timeout for retrieving an address from 60 seconds (the # default) to 10 seconds. #dhcpcd_eth0=-t 10 =Not sure if it will help, but maybe increasing the wait time might work.-Hani-- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD
Not sure if you've come up with a solution yet, but if you have a floppy or usb drive, you could do an 'emerge -pv ipw2200' to find out what files it needs, grab them from another system and just place them in '/usr/portage/distfiles'. This should let you install support for ipw2200.HTH,-Hani
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH not responding for a few seconds
On 2/6/06, Martin Tedjawardhana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone,One quick question. I have a Linux box that is networked peer-to-peer with a Windows computer, I use SSH to administer the the linux box and run X applications. It runs fine, but occasionally SSH terminal stops responding for a few seconds then it works fine again. Both systems have low CPU utilization. The problem started when I reinstalled Gentoo about a month ago. Any idea of what the problem might be? Have you looked at any of the following options: Turning off DNS lookups. Adjusting the Keepalive value. Setting the ClientAliveInterval ClientAliveCountMax values Just some thoughts. If that doesn't help, you might want to check your network connections (make sure both systems are at 100/full or the equivalent). HTH, -Hani -- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos
On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes.Aside from speeding things up, what effect does increasing the block size have (does it in any way alter the resulting ISO?)? Just wondering... -Hani-- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
[gentoo-user] genkernel on sparc won't unmount initrd
I've installed gentoo on an old Ultra 10. I installed the standard 'sparc-sources' kernel (2.4.31) and tried to manually configure it, but the kernel kept crashing on boot. So I installed genkernel and copied the config file from the livecd. FYI: The Ultra 10 uses IDE harddrives, so the root/boot partition is at /dev/hda1. When I reboot, ramdisk kernel loads up but can't find /dev/hda ... instead, I can point it to '/dev/discs/disc0/part1' and it will continue booting (mounting everything as /dev/hdax .., including root). However, during the 'hand-off' (for lack of a better word) to the real kernel, the system complains that it can't umount '/tmp/.initrd/dev' and, instead, leaves it mounted even after the system comes up. To further complicate things, I can't even umount it (the /tmp/.initrd/xx mounts) even after the system is up and running. So far, it doesn't seem to be interferring with the function of the system, but I don't get the impression that this is a good thing and would like to know what I've done wrong. I'm not sure if this is an issue with genkernel, silo (the sparc version of lilo), bad choices on my end in configuring the kernel or a mixture of all three. Does anyone know why the tmp kernel (the ramdisk kernel) could not see '/dev/hda' but rather '/dev/discs/disc0/xxx' until after the real kernel is loaded? TIA, -Hani PS: I'll eventually go back to a manually created kernel, but I'd still like to know what I missed in regards to the genkernel setup.
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with Virtual Channels
On 8/30/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:28:37 +0200Christoph Eckert wrote: Recent ALSA versions do softwaremixing using the DMIX plugin per default. Older versions can do it by creating an soundrc file. Unfortunately this does not help with legacy applications which still use OSS or the ALSA OSS emulation - like Skype or Realplayer do :( .does that mean that OSS emulation does not use dmix? If you're using alsa and dmix, you can try to install 'alsa-oss' ... It'll install an app called 'aoss' which should be able to redirect any standard OSS requests to alsa/dmix. HTH, -Hani
Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home
I'm not sure if anyone has covered this, but the following pdf was very useful for me to encrypt my home dir: www.flyn.org/docs/ehd.pdf The interesting part was using openssl to encrypt the key and then using your account's linux password to encrypt the openssl file. This way, you can change your account password and without having to change the encrypted filesystem password/key (in the example, they create a very random key for the encrypted filesystem and then use pam_mount to automatically decrypt and mount the filesystems during login). HTH, -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not yet quite right on iMac
On 6/26/05, Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/26/05, Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --2-- Regarding the console, my problem is that I cannot get at it: pressing ctl-cmd-F1 (on this keyboard, cmd replaces alt) produces only a red screen that seems to remain for ever; however, I can get out of it by cmd-F7. Caan you get to a console with Cmd+F1, then? Another fishy thing is that changing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab has no effect: I put it to 3 and the system booted at level 5 all the same. I haven't installed Gentoo on an iMac, but if it's like Gentoo on an x86, you don't modify the '/etc/inittab' file to boot into console mode. You should only need to remove the 'xdm' or 'gdm' startup script from your runlevel (usually 'default'). Try something like: # rc-update del xdm (or gdm) HTH, -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Iomega Rev Drive on Linux
I know this isn't specifically a Gentoo issue, but it's what I use and if any patches/changes are necessary, I'd like to know the Gentoo specific ones. I'm interested in using Iomega's Rev Drive (probably the USB 2.0 version) to backup some large files/directories on my system. However, before I purchase the drive, I want to know if anyone has used/is using this drive successfully on Gentoo without any third party software. Specifically, is anyone able to simply connect the drive, insert a disk, mount it and create a filesystem? I understand that the Rev Drive uses a UDF-like filesystem. If it is possible to mount the disk and create a udf filesystem, can the same drive/disk be mounted on other OSs (ie: Windows or Mac OS X)? TIA, -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Day with Gentoo
On 5/11/05, cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen: I am working with the universal livecd. I untarred the stage3 tarball and had just gotten to section 6 where I chroot. After that, name resolution on the network ceased to work. I can ping by address. There is a valid /etc/resolv.conf. I rebooted from the cd, mounted the newly setup partition with its stage3 tarball as /mnt/gentoo. At that point, I can still ping by name. After the chroot, I only get an unknown host response from ping. Would someone be willing to give me a few clues what might be going on so I can understand? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Did you copy the /etc/resolv.conf file from the liveCD boot to the chroot directory structure. I believe the instruction is something like: cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf HTH, -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
